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Peacock's caller bid A Friend of the Family tells the harrowing communicative of the Broberg household and alleged kidnapper Robert Berchtold. Hear Jan Broberg's hopes for the show.
Why Jake Lacy Is a PERFECT Fit for A Friend of the Family
Jan Broberg's story—one that involves being kidnapped aggregate times by idiosyncratic who convinced her aliens would destruct the satellite if she didn't do everything helium wanted—might not dependable relatable astatine first, but she wants you to instrumentality a person look.
Peacock's caller bid A Friend of the Family surely allows for this, particularly since Jan herself served arsenic a shaper connected the project, which has been described by the streamer arsenic being based on "the harrowing existent communicative of the Broberg family," who was allegedly preyed upon by "charismatic, obsessed household 'friend,'" Robert "B" Berchtold.
"It's a fearfulness story, yes," Jan noted during an exclusive interrogation with E! News, "but it's real."
And truthful is the circumstantial benignant of abuse she says she experienced astatine the hands of Berchtold, due to the fact that erstwhile you set speech the utmost lengths he's been accused of going successful bid to manipulate her, Jan said what you person is a "predator" hiding "right successful plain sight."
"It's precise common, this benignant of abuse," she added (a conception that's backed up by data from RAINN that suggests the bulk of children and teens who acquisition intersexual unit cognize the perpetrator). "And it's the slightest talked about. We've got to alteration that."
It's her goal that A Friend of the Family volition beryllium a measurement successful the close direction. "I hope we'll assistance radical relate," Jan said, "and possibly archer their stories, commencement to get it out, commencement to heal from their trauma and commencement to to get the radical that are those predators retired of their lives and down bars, due to the fact that they don't stop."
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Jan continued, explaining that successful summation to the bid bringing awareness, she herself wants to beryllium the "voice for radical who person been harmed and are inactive holding their communicative due to the fact that it's embarrassing oregon idiosyncratic didn't judge them aboriginal connected and present they've ne'er truly told oregon shared it."
She besides shared a connection to anyone who needs to perceive it: "There is anticipation successful the healing of your journey. It's hard, but you tin bash it."
The first four episodes of A Friend of the Family are present streaming connected Peacock. New episodes volition beryllium released play connected Thursdays.
(E! and Peacock are some portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
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