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My HoneyDew this week is comedian Beth Stelling! Check out Beth’s latest special, The Landlord Special, out on her YouTube today! Beth joins me to Highlight the Lowlights of her complicated relationship with her father, growing up around his mental illness, and the trauma that came with it. She opens up about the time he tried to kill her mom, attempted to kidnap the kids, and was still later granted visitation rights. Beth shares the raw truth about her parents’ struggles, the long road toward forgiveness, and how humor helps her carry the heavy with grace and laughter.
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3:35 Intro to Beth Stelling, promoting her newest special, The Landlord Special
6:50 Court ordered visitations after Beth’s parents divorce
9:40 Father’s struggle with mental illness growing up
15:11 Turmoil between Beth mom and dad while she was growing up
17:54 Beth’s father’s dark plan to take the kids
19:42 Why Beth believes her grandfather is evil
25:00 Dad remarries an alcoholic, no accountability, and visitations to Florida start
33:20 The strength of Beth’s mom co-parenting after DV
35:30 Family members exhibit different coping mechanisms and relationship patterns as a result of their shared traumatic history.
38:15 All sisters have found their way back to old court ordered therapist
39:13 Stepmother's behavior was reckless, and some of Beth’s first stories in stand up
42:10 Sarah Silverman meets Beth’s wild father and he gives a sign spinning business card to her
46:00 Beth decides to go to dinner with her father and stepmom for first time in years
50:30 Stepmoms trend of plastic surgery during childhood visitations
52:55 Indian dinner starts to go horribly wrong as stepmom gets inappropriate
58:48 Stepmom sends an email that Beth reads
01:01:32 Beth no longer feels obligation to maintain contact due to past hurtful behavior from her father
01:06:01 Beth’s contemplation on whether to re-establish contact with her father reflects deeper emotional struggles
01:09:04 The challenge of finding humor in dark familial issues while managing personal feelings and care for others