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Ex Wife Went On Podcast Claiming Extensive Psychological Abuse And Used My Name

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Location: MI. Hey all, my ex and I separated and got divorced over 4 years ago. It was a uncontested divorce that went smoothly all things considered. During that whole process, I was told through friends and family that my ex was claiming that I abused her throughout the whole relationship. You know how that goes, a few people believed me and a few people believed her, but that's all in the past right - or so I thought. I was recently made aware of a podcast that my ex was on (~1 month ago) that goes on for 30 minutes about how I psychologically tortured her leading to her fearing for her own life. Then she explains how the guy she was cheating on me with saved her from me?? I'm painted as an angry narcissist when in reality 90% of the events she's talking about never even happened and the ones that did are heavily twisted to make her seem like the victim. She also talked about how she hid a ton of money from me during our marriage?? I understand that most of this is hearsay and she can say whatever she wants, but there are quite a few things I can disprove as lies through texts, financial records, etc. The most concerning part and the reason that I'm even posting here is that my name was used in the podcast and I'm concerned with how this will damage my future employment options if someone were to find this in a background check or something. All I'm hoping for is some guidance for at least getting my name removed from the podcast. I really don't want to dig this crap up from the past as I've moved on from it. I also definitely do not want to get back in contact with my ex as that would be a complete mess. Not sure if I should just ask the podcast owner to remove my name or what? This is all pretty confusing so sorry about all the text!

EDIT: Thanks for all the advice! After some time to process and think about it, I think that u/monkeyman80 is right so I'll probably just try my best to forget about it and deal with it if it comes up in the future. It's really not worth it to me to make a big deal out of this since it's all in the past and life has been great to me for the past couple years :) Thank you!

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