Being a “victim” is so trendy right now, she had to conceal her privileged upbringing and exaggerated her father’s absence for victim points.

This terrible father of hers paid for the lease on her apartment, bought her a car and gave her $5k cash to start her life after she graduated. Then she lost her job during the writers strike and he paid her rent up until after it ended. She made her first TikTok shortly after he stopped financially supporting her. She strikes me as someone who is very entitled.

you know who actually got abandoned, the dad

It's sad that as a male even when you do everything right you still get vilified.

He’s been very kind about it, but the daughter is blinded by hate. It’s a shame. The mother is absolutely horrible

This woman would rather be famous than have a loving father. What a horrible person.

when I was 12 my mother held me down with a knife in her hand and told me she had to castrate me to love me, she would have mutilated me if I hadn't managed to wrestle free and run. some of us had really bad things happen to us. This girl should be ashamed of herself. I have been in group therapy for childhood ptsd, and my childhood was easy compared to a lot of people I've met. Some of us just didn't want to be abused, she wants vacations and 5 mil what a garbage little princess.

she keeps bringing up "hes a republican hes a bit coiner" that has nothing to do with the relationship between father and daughter.

Respect to the son for not falling for his mothers lies.

The dad can say "brainwashing" all he wants, but the fact of the matter is. If his GROWN ADULT daughter seriously think they lived an upper-class childhood with a stay-at-home single mother, and 3 siblings, without the dad contributing, she is beyond delusional, no brainwashing can be used to excuse such absolute lack of logic or critical thinking. I get it's his daughter, and he doesn't want to think she's a bad person, but she is either beyond stupid and entitled, not to mention completely out of touch, or she is being malicious on purpose.

Dude, my dad left like actually left us and never came back or paid us anything. I wish this dude was my dad...

He needs to sue for emotional duress, Financials for losing the clients, defamation for going online and tv to smear him, and then sue the judge for her unlawfulness. That's if the judge doesn't have "judicial immunity." I would never say to do this but this is fuckin hell. The lies, the smearing, the brainwashing, the abuse of power, bringing the man's business clients into this. This is so bad it's literally unbelievable.

That wife is vile, she even stole his name and plastered it over her book "From the Hart".

The ex wife and her daughters are clowns. They should be ashamed of themselves.

If my dad peaced out and left $5 million I wouldn’t be complaining. My father is a monster, too. I’d give anything to have someone as gracious as this man. Is he taking adoption applications?

This is a warning to all, keep your receipts. This dude would have been crushed by the weight of the internet with out them.

This absolutely INFURIATES me. After my parents divorced, my mother isolated us from our dad and convinced us he had abandoned us. We genuinely hated him for the longest time even though he showed up, albeit irregularly. He never missed important events like graduations, school plays or events, or Christmas. And yet, my mother had us convinced that he was coming around less and less because he didn't care about us. She told the church and her work friends that he was a deadbeat and we believed her. It wasn't until I moved out to Vegas to live with him that I was shown the truth. He had a vision board on his wall that was mostly pictures of us, all the ones he could get from our grandmother, his mom. He was living in a 1-bedroom apartment and had lost his drivers license because he had fallen behind on the outrageously high child support payments. When I moved there, I was incredibly hostile and I'll never forget our first conversation there. I asked him "Why did you abandon us?" And he just started crying. This very large, very stoic man started crying. He told me about how he couldn't afford to even leave the state anymore because it was getting too expensive. The child support had gotten too high and he could barely afford food. His fridge and cabinet were full of just potpies and instant ramen. He had taken a second job just to pay child support AND afford to live. He tried to call us, but our mother never gave the phone to us so he had no way of getting a hold of us. It broke my heart to hear all of this and to know that all the "extra work" our mother was doing to put food on the table was just squeezing our dad for more child support while pushing him away to make him seem like a deadbeat. He had kept all the documents from him trying to fight the unfair child support, but it was a self-fulfilling cycle. Child support increases, he can't afford to visit as often, mother reports the lack of appearance to the courts, and the cycle begins anew. And it made me hate that woman. So to see someone lying and faking something so tragic and channeling such vitriol toward a father just trying to do right by his kids is PERSONAL to me. I HATE this girl and every thing she's trying to put him through and everything she's saying to him. This is not some game. You are trying to RUIN your father's reputation. You are spreading lies about him when he's just trying to be a good dad. EDIT: Everything the ex-wife said in the CBN interview sounded EXACTLY like my mother.

He's shutting her down in the nicest, most loving way I've ever seen

This guy is the perfect example of being a victim of modern day feminism and court gender bias. Should get this guy on more podcast. He genuinely seems like a good person that completely got screwed over. Judge also needs to investigate and deep dived, shady af.

Pete needs to sue Maddie and his ex for defamation asking for $1each. That will allow him to do discovery to find out what his ex was telling the kids and clients in phone records, text messages and emails. It would also let him enter his documentation into the public record.

Ungrateful and disgusting. Most kids would kill to have a dad like this His son knows exactly whats up and good on him for using his own mind and not blindly listening to one side

My dad beat the shit out of the entire family for years and then left mysteriously one day for a new family. This caused my mom to become a drug fueled psycho who eventually suffered a stroke. I'm still suffering from this and I'm 40. I truly hope this guy gets his reputation cleared, this is not what a bad dad looks like.

"I'm writing a screenplay" is just a Hollywood D&D campaign that might make you some money.

Growing up, my father raised me solo after divorcing my mom because all she did was party, leaving me alone as a baby. He did as much as he could for me and even held out on his own demons from ptsd from the military to be there for me until it literally got to the point where his memory was starting to go just to make sure I was provided for. Scew this lady a good father will sacrifice everything for their child.

I'm so livid right now. This kind father tried his best to make a broken marriage work, did everything he could to stay in his children's lives, gave literally ALL of the assets he should have gotten for himself during the divorce to the family, paid millions to a horrible spouse, lost custody of his kids, lost his business due to his spouse, and was forced into court with a feministic judge. And for all of his hard work, for all this trouble, he gets 365 days in the slammer and all but ONE of his beloved family members hate him. Life is unbelievably unfair.

Disgusting how she is willing to destroy her relationship with her OWN FATHER, just for clout for a single video.

The only thing his ex-wife had in mind was to absolutely ruin him, take his money, and run to the hills hoping that he would never be able to recover enough from the disaster to actually contribute anything of serious significance. That way he could be painted as the deadbeat dad that didn't care and no one would question it. What she didn't count on was him keeping evidence of all the proceedings, because had she tried to use the evidence herself, the narrative that she had spun would very quickly unravel and fall apart with even the smallest amount of scrutiny. Knowing this, she essentially brainwashed her kids into seeing him as a careless father who abandoned his family in pursuit of fame and fortune, again not realizing he kept evidence of all goings on. I would say that his son is the only one that his ex-wife couldn't manipulate, based on currently presented evidence.

I wonder if this counts as a case of affluenza. They lived with so much money all their lives they can’t comprehend the idea that they sound absolutely insane

With judges like this, who needs criminals.

I hate liars so much. I’m glad you are exposing her

This guy definitely has a heart of gold,why do bad things happen to good people like him 😢 the girl should be ashamed of her self 😔

My dad stole my social security number and put me in debt. But she wants to complain about getting everything handed to her. She got what I earned in a year in three months for doing nothing. I’m feel soooooo bad for her. She’s jealous her dad has a larger subscriber count than her. So she made her video hoping to tear him down and bolster her own. She’s sick and selfish.

This girl is the narcissistic product of Parental Alienation. She's loving all of the attention. She's been weaponised by the breakdown of the family.

This dude literally gave away his entire life for his family, got fucked even further by his wife and the courts, got thrown in jail, got his kids taken away from him, and while he was at rock bottom said "nah, I'd win." And proceeded to rebuild his fortune all while fighting to see his kids. This dude is the epitome of the indomitable human spirit.

This sounds like a rage bait Reddit story but it’s actually real😂

I think her mom manipulated her from childhood made her convince that dad was wrong so she doesn’t blame mom for divorce

"My dad abandoned us!" Interpretation "Daddy told me no one time" She was so unaware of what the real world is like. She didn't realize how many people actually have no fathers and would turn on her. This poor guy. Im glad the truth came out and he didn't just roll over and take it

Most divorces are NOT 50/50, most of the time they’re heavily favored towards the woman for no apparent reason

Judge Leslie Alden should have been removed from her position if she has a rep for being a "Man Hater". A judge is supposed to be impartial and uphold the law fairly, from the sound of it this guy had no lawyer appointed to him by the court system which is also 100% unfair. Every person in the US has a right to fair trial by a jury of their peers and to be represented with a stalwart legal defense, otherwise it's anarchy

i really hope this guy gives everything to his son

The ex wife is a classic vindictive narcissist. She didn't just want to make him pay for the divorce, she wanted to RUIN him by any means possible. Absolutly vile behaviour. And the Daughter having th gall to call out his dad when literally her entire luxurious life has been paid for with his money... The son is the only decent human in this story

I'm only 19 minutes in, but I am already left devastated... Imagine being a father, making fat stacks to support your family, and when you divorce you give 97 out of 100 to your family just so they can stay afloat, knowing that you will handle yourself just fine. And then your evil ex wife comes and ruins your business, leading you to a year in prison because you were unable to pay. It's absolutely horrible, and I am beyond shocked that this guy seems so calm despite being betrayed so hard like this. He has a pure heart of gold, and I hate to see how people can't appreciate it. Pretty much any other man in his place would've went mad.

Wow ! The mother is really evil. A wolf in sheep's skin claiming to be a real Christian and filling her children's head trashing their father after taking everything from him and putting him in jail tarnished his reputation. This makes me admire him even more for coming out onto through adversity.

To all the men watching this be careful who u decide to have kids with because trust me her mom villainised the father because she was jealous about the life she missed

Three minutes in and I already don't believe her. Just look at her. That's not the face of someone who has been targeted or cyberbullied by 'cultists'.

“Republican hate circles”…. Mom worked for Regan 😂

Starting off the story with "I'm literally not famous unfortunately" kinda tells you all about her motivations for putting her father through this. Really disgusting. It seems like she desperately wants to be an internet celebrity and is mad that her father is successful.

In 2010 I was divorced. Didn't want it, but my ex wife did a 180 from the woman I knew, for absolutely no reason. I was a stay at home dad, no job and my wife was awarded custody of our kids immediately with no hearing and i was ordered to pay child support. Then she went on to garnish my wages, when I had no job and was struggling to find one because I was a stay at home dad for years. I struggled to even get by with the garnishing and they refused to lower it. It's just amazing how much they hate fathers. Edit: Bro got an absolute upgrade in the wife department. Looks and personality.

Good thing the dad is the kind of person who loves to take pictures and videos just imagine if the dad was not a picture/video type of person.

this is enough for someones literal villain arc but this man is so nice hes trying to resolve it all while everything is stacked against him. tons of respect to him.

This guy is so wholesome that he literally doesn't deserve such slander and treatment

Imagine sitting in prison for 1 year knowing your wife planned it all out. And yet the dude gave 100% unconditional love to his kids. Props

"From what I understood, even in the worst cases, divorce is 50/50” Oh, my Sweet Summer Child

shout out to Peter for still keeping communication with the dad because he at least has someone in his family that still cares about keeping a bond with him

Ex-wife treated this man like absolute garbage and somehow his daughters don't see it

They should end this argument in a dance battle

How can you do this to your own fucking father? Absolutely mortifying.

This woman (the mom) had it relatively so easy -she was just lying and omitting on tv.

Man if i had a dad like him, i'd be loyal to him my whole life what the fuck is going on.

We need to get justice for this guy. That Judge is a monster.

They're blaming the Dad for making his video because the narcissists can't accept that they made a video that revealed how disgusting they've been moving. They're uncomfortable with the reality they are not good people and they've been actively ruining someone's life who is taking it all in stride. It's probably driving them insane.

How is this woman not in jail the legal system needs a serious rework if a good man like this has to go to jail for giving his ex-wife millions of dollars. She deserves life in prison.

Saw some of this and what a depressing story. That guy has been through the wringer and is still standing. What a man!

The soul it takes to not cry in his situation if this all is true.

What I hate most about her video is how she brushes it off as being tongue-in-cheek. "My dad is a complete deadbeat who left his wife and kids to marry a younger woman rawr XD so #random amirite guyzz 🤪🤪🤪"

You know the judge is bad when you explain the ridiculous things she did and say your judge’s name and both the cop and the warden is like “well that explains it, she is a real man hater”

My heart breaks for ben

Shes just like her mum by the looks of it. Im not saying dads an angel but the daughter is the typical victim mentality, liar, maniulator. Probably learned from the mum who i believe detroyed the family then hated dad and turned the girls against him over the years. The fact shea defending herself not with facts or atories but by saying all the buzz words, cult following etc she said a few but i forget, leads me to believe the fathers story way above hers.

When she says she let the children see her being broken, that is messed up. First most parents try to protect their children from stuff, second, most likely, that is how she made the children dislike their father.

He gave PROOF. Legal documentation of the whole ordeal making this backfire on her so hard.

How is my guy still sane? He's a saint

Wtf is wrong with the justice system overthere. I am dissapointed and i dont even live there like how is this even possible😢

“From the hart, love, loss and marriage” - a book by the woman that got 5mil in divorce settlements Just let that sink in

That judge shouldn't have a job, and that wife should be ashamed of herself. Clearly she isn't. The fact that the Judge failed to leave biases out of court is wild to me. I hate everything about modern day.

this is incredibly sad, I'm so glad at least the son still talks to hid dad, my dad has a lot of flaws but he loves me and i fucking love him back, and I can only hope I'll get to see him for many years to come :(

Hope he's doing good rn

The mom subpoenaing his clients so he couldn’t pay the money and went to jail is just sinister

that mother is a demon.

Something that stuck out to me on the litigation list which documented the allotments required for each of his kids, the amount that had to be allotted for his son in child support was drastically less than his daughters, which were fairly even amounts between each of those girls. Judges like this should be sentenced to serve time in the jailhouses they prosecuted for.

I can tell this guy really did care about his kids. This shit reminds me a lot of what my family was like. Thankfully it was easy to see for my siblings and I to see what my mother was like and that she sees people as a way to get what she wants through manipulation and she's just mentally not well. This stuff damages kids. Parents need to put their children before themselves, which it seems to me is what the dad was all about. Big respect this this guy, hope he's doing alright.

It’s “tongue in cheek” funny to her but to the Dad your stepping on his pride and work he put in to be a father despite everything he went through.

I have a feeling Betsy and judge Alden are about to feel the wrath of the internet.

I want to give this guy a hug

This video pissed me off so bad i thank i just lost like 50% of my brain cells. This dad absolutely deserves nothing but the best and i kinda feel bad for hes brainwashed kids because its really not there fault they were lied to for so long, i just hope those kids see the real picture soon and leaves that toxic mom behind.

Her mother talked about God. Let that sink in. The most godless person talked about God on TV.

My ex-wife did the same. Spent years turning my daughters and all her friends against me with outrageous lies and constant badmouthing me. I still have good contact with my oldest daughter, because she sees through the lies, but my youngest daughter won't even talk to me. Family court completely shat on me, didn't bother trying to listen to anything of what I said, and blindly believed everything my ex wife has been saying, even when I had proof -in texts, emails and even audio tape. They didn't care. They just don't care about men, and will side with the women no matter what.

Love this dude. Bro sounds like a comic strip.

Those women all deserve to be in jail

not just 100k, also 48k of his wife's lawyers fees. imagine having to pay for your own destruction.

She torpedoes her career for literally nothing... She has 0 debt, He bought her car for her, He put her through school, and the crazy thing even showed up in person. Why the fuck would she even do this?

Watching all those videos of his kids growing up and doing kid things is so heartbreaking man, What I would've done for a father like him would be insurmountable. And here, Maddie is using her father to piggyback off him for an once of clout is genuinely saddening, this man deserves a better do-over at life, better kids and a better wife.

give this man a fucking break , i feel tired just hearing what he went and still going through..

Maddie: "My dad was absent for all of my life," Dad: *Process to show 3 minutes of footage of the dad with her

The judge is criminal and has no business being in the judicial system. She's retired now, but that shouldn't prevent her from consequences from her actions. She is INCAPABLE of being impartial, which is what a judge is supposed to be. Of course no DA would ever pursue someone from the gov't, but it IS what should happen, a horrible miscarriage of justice deserves charges of some kind and if she has this reputation, guaranteed this is a pattern and has done it to other men.

The son is also the oldest, so he knows more of the reality of the situation from that time than the other siblings, and would know what to ignore from the mothers 'stories'.

That judge was the final boss, and break dancing dad's ex wife was her 5 star general.

dude can we talk for 1 minute about how much this dad has gone through and yet he doesn't even look sad about it (good for him), god bless this man i wish him all the best.

I have a divorced brother that had kids about the same age as his kids when it happened. The younger ones were brainwashed pretty bad and took years to get out over it. The older kids his x wasn't able to brainwash as well and were able to let things go a lot faster. Divorce sucks but it sucks when one of the parents is absolutely nuts and uses kids to hurt their other parent. I feel sorry for Madi because I know her brain is broken by her Mom. She'll get over it but it might be until she has her own kids.

This is why you need prenup before marriage lol

This is messed up on so many levels that it’s too much to type. And it’s even more sad seeing that ppl are still taking the daughter’s side…and what’s worse is that this guy still paid out millions even after another guy married the ex wife and started screwing her and he still provided for her. And she still bad mouthed him to the kids…she must hate him to death