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#296 Meg Appelgate - Why Parents Are Being Lied To About Teen “Treatment”
April 16, 2026·2h 23mconversationaltrue crime
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Meg Applegate, a survivor of the Troubled Teen Industry (TTI), shares her harrowing experience of being abducted from her home at 15 and held in abusive facilities for over three years. She discusses the systemic abuse, lack of oversight, and psychological manipulation within these progra
Meg Applegate, a survivor of the Troubled Teen Industry (TTI), shares her harrowing experience of being abducted from her home at 15 and held in abusive facilities for over three years. She discusses the systemic abuse, lack of oversight, and psychological manipulation within these progra
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Meg Applegate
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Meg ApplegateParis HiltonElizabeth PhillipsKennyMary
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Becoming Unsilencedby Meg Applegate
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Unsilenced
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AdoptionCriminal Justice ReformFamily FinanceInvestigative JournalismMental HealthPersonal FinanceTrue Crime
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