Something Was Wrong - S2 E3: Wanted to Die Pretty

Episode Date: August 21, 2019

Tee gets a call from Jason that changes her forever. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Talking about wanting to die or wanting to kill themselves. Talking about feeling empty, hopeless, or having no reason to live. Making a plan or looking for ways to kill themselves. Talking about feeling empty, hopeless, or having no reason to live. Making a plan or looking for ways to kill themselves. Talking about great guilt or shame. Talking about feeling trapped or feeling that there are no solutions. Feeling unbearable pain, both emotional and physical. Talking about being a burden to others, using alcohol or drugs more often, acting anxious or agitated, withdrawing from family and friends, changing, eating and or sleeping habits, showing rage or talking about seeking revenge,

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She did suspect that her husband was having an inappropriate relationship. They started becoming volatile and arguing. Can you recall how long after the wedding it shifted from? We're married, too. He could be cheating on me. He's not a cop. It was within six months. Now it's Christmas time. and I get a telephone call. It's Jason. He says, I'm at work. Sylvia called me. I think she took a bunch of pills. I need

you to go check on her. I said, okay, I had a very important function to me. It was at my church and I was getting dressed up. At this point I'm starting to be having emotionally and physically exhausted from this stuff, all of this stuff, all of these calls, all of this going over there, everything. I'm starting to get tired now, and it's not my proudest moment, and I certainly regret my timing of it, but I did not rush to go over there. Why not take it that seriously, to be honest with you, and I did not rush to go over there. Why not take it that seriously to be honest with you? And I still feel guilt to stay for it. And right as I'm walking out the door my phone rings again and it's him. And he's like, are

you there yet? And I was like, no, I'm on my way. You know, and he goes, well I've called the police. And I was like, oh shit. Like he really thinks that like then it became real to me. The reason he was calling me and not going himself is he was on patrol or whatever the heck it was he did for a living. And like I want to say he was like an hour away in a suburb. So I literally threw my fashers on in my car and I was running red lights driving like a bat out of the hell to get there. Like literally like honking my horn, telling people to move over because at the end now I panicked. Pick up my phone, I call my husband, I'm absolutely hysterical, I'm gasping for air, that hyperbent and lady. I tell him where I'm at, he has to come right now, just come. Police were there but she had

these two big, mean massive dogs there and the police were going to go in. She knows the dogs well, and I'm just, she could go in and get the dogs off in two different rooms and let the police in. So I go inside, and I let the dog, I put the dog one dog. I was able to chase out the biggest dog, chase outside, and then the old English bulldog, then I pull the shove in the bathroom,

and then they ran to the bedroom. It was a horrific scene. She is there, she has a dress up, she has a skirt on, she has high heels on, she has makeup on and there are pictures of her children all over the bed and I had hand painted her wooden box and then lined it with velvet and my box was out there and like any think you know it's or any notes that I had written her of encouragement they were all on the bed. Did you think it was weird that she was dressed up? At the time no I thought she wanted to die pretty and it was scary and I felt that instant guilt. I felt horrifically guilty that I did not get there sooner.

I felt sick to my stomach. I thought I was gonna vomit. But the scene that was set up was like a movie scene, you know what I mean? And so I instantly ran to let the police officers in at this point. And but I remember the police officers like once they got her that first, they, like, backed off. Like they weren't trying to help her. I found that on. I did.

We're waiting for the ambulance to come. They are doing a sternal rub, which is where you take your knuckles on someone's chest and it wakes them up. She did come out of it a little bit and she said, I just can't do this anymore. I can't do this anymore. At the time, I thought she might live with the cancer. Now looking back, I think she couldn't continue with the lies any longer. Jason Moxon and he sees the scene and I remember him going oh my god oh my god and just like being that gut wrench so as the ambulance is there and they're putting her on a stretcher and they're rolling her out and they're taking their time I there was no rush I don't I don't believe

that she was really trying to kill herself or she wouldn't have called her husband. I believe that she was doing it for attention, but I also believe that after she took the medication that she did have those thoughts of I'm exhausted and I can't do this anymore. The ammo and striever told me I see that she has children. They were both with their respective fathers this weekend, so the children were not there at this time. But he said, I can see that she has children. When she comes out of this, I want you to tell her that the statistics are if a parent kills themselves, the children are likely to kill themselves.

And I said, what? And he said, yeah, so that's a good deterrent for her to never do this again. To tell her that she does this, that her children need to do this to themselves. That's a big statistic. I have no idea. I don't know if that statistic is true, but that's what the ambulance driver told me at the time. They take her away. I'm like ill. Hands are shaking. I'm crying. And I can remember standing in the kitchen talking with my husband. And then I looked over and I saw Jason and I did see him get on his phone. He was talking to somebody and I remember thinking it was odd.

I remember thinking, I think he's talking to a woman and I remember getting a really bad feeling. And I was like, that piece of shit, he is cheating. And he is calling whoever he's cheating with right now as his wife is being driven in the ambulance. And I remember getting to the hospital, talking to the nurse outside the room first, and they said that, so she's gonna have charcoal

all over her face and down our front. And we leave it on them. We want them to know what they did and see the ugly repercussion of it. I go in there, here's this frail-looking, pasty white, very short hair, charcoal all over her face and then down the front of her hospital gown. And there's my broken friend of her hospital gown and there's my broken friend that I thought was dead when I saw her and that emotion and then her saying I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry too now because I will never get over that. I will never forget that. She said yeah, I'm sorry I just couldn't do it anymore. I'm tired of being sick. I'm tired of having cancer. My husband's been an asshole.

I just wanted out. And I go, well, unfortunately, you don't have that option. You have children, and you cannot do that to them. And I remember going, did you find me? Yeah, I found you. Did you have any awareness of what she had taken, how much she had taken, or anything like that?

There was six empty bottles on the bed. The time we're all thinking she's just so tired of fighting the cancer. And it's been different treatments through this just so you know, like there was some radiation and then like she had a radiation burn on her back. She had, you know, she would show me where the radiation had like, you know, made her skin really pink.

She had a procedure. She had several procedures where I would see the marks of the procedures. You know, the fighting with her and her husband was creasing and then she was telling all of us at the veterinary hospital how her husband had become abusive. We were like, oh, we are all feeling bad for her. All of a sudden, the house that was next door to them had went up for sale. Her dad was gonna give her the money to buy the house and that the people that were the only house were gonna let her start doing the work on the house

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kitchen at this house. I believe Jason does this, takes out the kitchen. She tells all of us at the veterinary hospital that she has to get out. Like she can't live with him anymore and that he's cheating on her and of course we're all a pulled like what an asshole. He's not being, he's not helping her, he's not being kind to her, he's not helping with the children, etc. So we all pull together because it's a tight group of people and the practice manager who lives an hour away, she got her two sons, her husband, they all came from an hour away, drove down, my husband, people that worked at the hospital.

We had to get her out on this day because Jason was working, so all the people that were off went over and she had nothing packed. And we moved all of her stuff from one house to the next door. She got there to the new house at like 4.30 in the afternoon and we had been moving all day. And she was like, thank you so much. You know, but because she's not strong enough to move anything, right? She's with me. It's like 6 or 7 at night. And we're all exhausted. We've moved all day long.

And then Jason pulls up. And I remember the look on his face was like going on here like what's happening and then I saw him so I walk over. Hey and he's like hey things for help and move and I was like that's odd. Oh okay and uh what is happening? Like, why is he here? One, why is he here? Why does he look surprised? And why did he thank me? The practice manager, what's going on? Why is he here? I'm like, I don't know.

This is so odd. What's going on? I remember we're all a little kind of agitated by it. You know what I mean? Like, dude, we just spent our whole day off doing this. I think I go over like two days later or something like that and Jason's in the new house. And I'm like, what the holy hell is going on here?

Well, he said he's really sorry and I, you know, I don't wanna be alone and and I was like what the hell is going on like we just moved you out of that like what the heck you know you tried to kill yourself over this guy like what is going on and I remember being angry and hurt and confused and it wasn't a big giant thing. It was very just scratching of, hmm, what the heck is happening. You know, she had to answer for everything. She had to answer to everybody, for everything. She had an explanation for everything always. And they're washing their dishes and the bathroom sink. So they're eating out. There's no kitchen. So there's no cooking

going on. So there's lots of it. That was very odd situation and the whole thing. Her living there with him, her being in that house, the house not having a kitchen, but it was all very odd, very strange and um look like the marriage was going down the toilet. Pretty rapidly. Can remember her calling me and saying, I went through Jason's phone last night and I found some text from a girl. So I took all of his shoes and I put them in the swimming pool. Okay, that was odd.

Somehow I talked to Jason and he said, Sylvia has lost her mind. I'm gonna have to move out. That's probably a good idea. So we're moving in. I'm gonna rent a house and Jason's going to move back in here and take over the mortgage payment because I can't do it. So he had moved out and was in his own, I don't know where he was staying, but he had moved out. I talked to him. He said that

Sylvia had broken into his house when he was at work and poured a paint all over his sofa and his floors. And I was like, what? And he goes, she broke into my house. She took my dog and she poured paint all over my floors and my sofa. She said, he said, I got my dog back, back, my shit's all ruined. And I was like, are you sure? So I called her and she goes, yep, I sure did. She goes, I broke into his house and I took a dog and I drove it to the hospital and I put it in the kennels there and I went back and I poured paint all over his shed. I wanted him to hurt the way I hurt.

Wow. That was some crazy town. Like I knew something was off-kilter then. I was like, you can't do that. That's like crazy. You can't, that's go to jail. That's crazy behavior. You don't take someone's pet.

Why gave it back? That's great, but that's crazy pants. You can't do that again. Like, you're my best friend. I got your back even when you're wrong, but you are wrong and I will tell you you were wrong. Yeah, that was odd, and I did think that's crazy. That's like irrational behavior.

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