Speaker
Paul C. Brunson
Appearances over time
5 episodes
Episodes
5
Olivia Bowen: I Lost Myself After Giving Birth & What Love Island Never Showed
Jo Frost: “I Was Bullied!” Her Breaking Point, and the Parenting Emergency
Who Is The REAL Rose McGowan? I Was Raised In A Cult
Jake Hall’s Ex On Sudden Death: “I Wish He Called Me” | Missé Beqiri
Born With No Limbs: I Didn't Want To Be Their Poster Child! Briel Adams-Wheatley
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Quotes & moments
Missé came on the show just weeks after Jake Hall's sudden death, with the funeral having taken place only a week prior.
In the US, 160,000 students miss school every day due to fear of being bullied.
Between the mid-1930s and the 1990s, only 30 incidents of Hanhart syndrome were recorded, illustrating how extraordinarily rare the condition is.
40% of young people in the UK were bullied in the last 12 months, meaning nearly half experienced bullying recently.
By 2019, 79% of children aged 11 and over in the UK already had their own smartphone — a figure that has risen since.
Hours before he died, Jake Hall posted on Instagram: 'Remember the good things.'
Sudden infant death in England and Wales fell by 81% since the 'back to sleep' campaign launched in 1991, placing babies on their backs.
Almost one third of 17 to 24 year olds have self-harmed or attempted to, according to Young Minds statistics cited in the episode.
Almost 70% of young people with a probable mental health condition have self-harmed or attempted to, according to data cited in the episode.
The man who killed Missé's brother had been plotting the murder for 6 months before carrying it out.
A 2021 survey found that 62% of adults in the UK had physically punished their child at least once.
Approximately 1 in 29 school-age children have lost a parent or sibling, and children who lose a parent are at increased risk of depression, anxiety, or PTSD.
Incidents of self-harm in the UK increased from 3.8% in 2000 to 10% today, reflecting a dramatic rise over two decades.
A 2021 survey found that 42% of adults in the US used physical punishment with their children at least once a month.
An NHS survey found 83% of people who had self-harmed reported doing so to relieve feelings of anger, tension, anxiety or depression.
Missé doesn't just grieve Jake Hall's death — she's haunted by the question of whether a single phone call could have changed everything. Knowing she was in the same city that night makes the silence unbearable.
Missé says the love between Jake Hall and their daughter River was 'insanity' — a word she uses almost with awe. Whatever friction existed between her and Jake, it dissolved the moment he was with River. That bond is what makes the loss most devastating.
Hours before Jake Hall died, he posted 'Remember the good things' on Instagram. Missé believes he wanted to be remembered for his love, his creativity, and how hard he fought the internal voice that tormented him.
It took Missé Beqiri 38 years to connect her lifelong pattern of seeking male validation to a childhood where her father never met her emotional needs. Every relationship she chased was the little girl trying to get the hug she never received.
Behind every glamorous shoot, models learn to numb their pain and perform joy on demand. Missé describes arriving to set after the worst morning of her life and simply switching on — a skill that costs you something deep inside.
Missé's brother was shot dead in broad daylight in London while his wife and children were with him. The perpetrator had flown from Sweden after planning the killing for 6 months. He is now serving a life sentence.
Jake Hall was one of the most intelligent people Missé had ever known, but his frustration at being unable to articulate his ideas became a defining — and ultimately tragic — struggle. He had so many ideas they got too loud inside his head.
Both Missé and Paul had been furious at the people they lost. Missé explains that the anger isn't resentment — it's love that has no outlet. When someone is gone, the love doesn't disappear, it just has nowhere to go.
Before Instagram, before DMs, a footballer saw Missé in a magazine and tracked her down on Facebook with a single opening line: 'I'm going to end up marrying you.' He then referenced it in his wedding speech — because he did.
Missé was approached by agents while working a weekend job in a Copenhagen clothing store. Within months she was shooting in Milan, South Africa, and New York. The mole that some told her to remove became her signature.
Missé joined The Real Housewives of Cheshire hoping it would bring her and Anders closer during a time when she felt like a single mother. Instead, the show accelerated the unravelling of their marriage — something she is admitting publicly for the first time.
Missé Beqiri was stranded in Mallorca after losing her passport — not knowing that Jake Hall was also there and dying that very night. She only found out when she woke to 10 missed calls the next morning, and her first thought was that something had happened to her daughter River.
Adam's letter to Briel, read on camera by Paul, describes watching the world fall in love with her and feeling lucky to have the whole her. He credits her with teaching him authenticity, louder laughter, and what real strength looks like: not the loud kind, but the everyday kind — the strength to be vulnerable.
Hanhart syndrome is a birth defect affecting 1 in 1 million people, impacting limbs, fingers, toes, or sometimes the jaw. For Briel, it affected all four limbs and caused a cleft palate. Between the 1930s and 1990s, only 30 cases were ever recorded.
Missé chose to grieve openly in front of her daughter River rather than pretend to be strong. Crying together, talking about Jake, singing his favourite songs — she believes burying grief is the most dangerous thing you can do, because she did it once before with her brother.
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