![]() There were times I really tried, but I don’t think he ever forgave himself. You know, boys do what boys do,’ Or whatever! I tried. He carried that through his whole life, and I tried many times to say, ‘Dad, Berchtold could make you feel like a 15-year-old. ![]() “That he carried that shame from being psychologically led down that road… it’s like if anybody’s ever been conned into just buying something that they really realized later they didn’t want they couldn’t say no, it’s like that sort of thing. He was just an extraordinarily happy, positive, spiritual, really good person,” she says. My dad is the best person I’ve ever known in my entire life, for real, and I bet the majority of all of my cousins, family members and friends would say the same thing. It was also incredibly challenging for Jan to watch the scene between her father and Berchtold, during which Berchtold convinces Bob to perform a sexual act on him. Jake Lacy as Robert “B” Berchtold and Hendrix Yancey as Young Jan Broberg I was shooting that with Lauren Wolkstein who’s directing the finale, and even though there’s nothing shown on screen, Lauren and I both stepped out and I was shaking.” It’s not explicit at all, but it’s just an out of focus, unnerving just a hint of a suggestion. We shot it without the kid actor present but there’s just a hint of a memory, a POV flashback. It’s all implied, but there’s just a moment. The closest that we come to a moment like that is in a flashback. “The other really intense moment was early on, from the very genesis of this project, we had known that we weren’t going to depict sexual abuse on screen, because this series is about what people didn’t see, how they didn’t see and how it happened despite everybody who is there. So I was very scared by getting that right, giving her what she needed to do her best work but protecting her,” he says. “You’re asking a very young actress to go to a really intense emotional place. That scene was also difficult for Antosca to create, making sure that, first and foremost, Yancey, 11, was safe and comfortable. ![]() ![]() We had such wonderful times together until that moment changed everything.” I was so loved unconditionally, and I have such wonderful memories, even of our time as friends with the Berchtolds. “At that moment, they both kind of put their hands over on my arms because it’s the hardest part for me to watch because I had the most beautiful childhood. Recently, at a group screening, she watched it in full while sitting between showrunner Nick Antosca and her son. That said, it was still traumatic to relive it all for the new show one of the most difficult parts to watch was seeing the moment Jan ( played by Hendrix Yancey and later, Mckenna Grace) woke up after Berchtold abducted and drugged her - “the day that my entire childhood changed when I woke up in the back of that motorhome with my wrists and ankles strapped to a bed,” Jan recalls, becoming emotional.Įach time she’d screened the episodes, she had to stop it at that point. I want them to talk because, to me, that moves the needle closer to prevention, closer to awareness and closer to what I hope to stand for, which is hope that you can heal from trauma.” Whether they’re talking about, ‘That dumb Jan Broberg, how stupid could she be to think she was kidnapped by aliens?’ I don’t care anymore. So whether they are talking smack about my parents, they’re talking. “We know if people start talking about things that actually matter like this, it will make a difference. “I’m definitely more prepared this time, because I was completely blindsided at that point,” Jan tells Variety. While she wasn’t expecting the public’s criticism of her family that came after the documentary, now, she feels ready. Now, at 60, Jan serves as a producer on Peacock’s “ A Friend of the Family,” a nine-episode drama based on her experiences. 'Monarch' and 'The Cleaning Lady' Audiences Double After A Week of Multiplatform Viewing While '9-1-1' is Fox's Most-Streamed Show (EXCLUSIVE) How Jesse Lee Soffer's Character Jay Halstead Was Written Off 'Chicago P.D.'Ī 'Grey's Anatomy' Without Meredith Grey? 'She Will Always Be in the Fabric of Our Show,' Says Showrunner Krista Vernoff (For clarity, Variety will refer to the Brobergs by their first names.) Her parents, Bob and Mary Ann Broberg, also had sexual experiences with “B,” as they were both groomed as well. At the time, he brought her to Mexico and brainwashed her into believing that she had been kidnapped by aliens and had to have sex with him in order to save her family. In 2017, she was the subject of Netflix’s documentary “Abducted In Plain Sight,” which told the story of how she was abducted twice in the 70s - first at age 12, and again at 14 - by Bob “B” Berchtold, a close family friend. Jan Broberg is telling her story again, with hope that this time, she’ll be able to help others.
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