Family Secrets is a production of I Heart Radio. Danny's Listening is a bonus series brought to you by Family Secrets High Family Secrets Family. It's Danny. I've been listening hard in all sorts of ways as we're putting together a truly stellar sixth season of Family Secrets. I'm listening to my extraordinary guests who have navigated the secrets that have been kept from them, the secrets they've kept from others, and the secrets they've kept from themselves. Secrets, it seems,
are everywhere. People tell them to me at dinners, at parties, they send me handwritten letters, or drop me messages on Facebook or Instagram. Well, secrets have been always a part of human nature throughout history. I think that in these last few years where at a real moment of reckoning Why Well, in part because it's so much harder to keep a secret the Internet, for instance, cell phones, text chains,
and of course DNA testing. Someone recently asked me if I think all of this unavoidable transparency is a good thing, and I really do, which doesn't mean it isn't painful or rocky or complicated to have your world up ended by all you didn't know. But the thing is, it's the truth. And if there's anything I've learned in the last few years from my guests and from my own story, it's that the truth is liberating. It really does set
us free. I'm also listening to the messages you all are leaving on our private call in line dedicated to family secret stories. I hope you'll keep them coming. Please don't be shy. I can't even begin to tell you how much sharing these stories means to all the folks listening, millions of you. You may think of it as an act of confession, but it's really an act of generosity. I look forward to hearing from you and responding to more of your stories. Just call one eight eight eight
Secret zero. That's one eight secret and the number zero. You can also follow me on my favorite social media platform, Instagram at Danny writer. That's d A n I Writer. Meanwhile, I will keep listening