Broken Harts , Episode 7: Full Transcript
Drew, who spent a lot of time, with Jen, in the online gaming world, and also chatted with her outside of the game, had some unique insights into the family.
To read now that she was reportedly depriving them of food, it is infuriating, not just to me but to all of us who spent so much time online with her, because we can't help but think that the hours that she was devoting to us and to our clan and to our game, the money that she was devoting to the game, it should've gone to the children. When I realized that she was a homeschool mom, I'm like, There's no way in hell those kids are learning. I mean, really. It's impossible with the amount of time she’s spending on this game and with the gaming community; it's impossible that six kids could be learning.
Drew describes Jen as highly competitive. Another gamer we spoke to called her a stone-cold narcissist because she kept her clan members on such a tight leash, bossing them around at all hours of the day. It was common for Jen to sit near the top of the rankings, not just the clan rankings but the individual ones, which is a bigger deal. Team members teased her about how she was the first to crack a really complex part of the game. Drew told her she must have developed a diagram to figure it out. In fact, she had. Sometime in the summer of 2017, Jen abruptly left the game, claiming she wanted to spend more time with her kids. Drew believes her hasty departure was because of a conflict with a fellow gamer who she believed was cheating. Jen refused to continue on if he stayed in the clan, and when he didn't leave, she signed off the chat with a picture of her kids at the beach.
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