NARRATOR: When Sean Scott meets Wendi Ellis in high school,
it's love at first sight.
SEAN: She was a cheerleader.
She was very pretty, especially those amazing blue eyes.
NARRATOR: With Wendi by his side,
Sean strives for an elite military career.
SEAN: I had been accepted by West Point.
DANIEL: West Point is the country's most prestigious
military academy.
Very few people actually make it
all the way through and graduate.
NARRATOR: But Wendi's demands put Sean on the defensive.
WINIK: You're talking about a guy that won two bronze stars,
and he's thinking everything's okay on the home front.
She could very much damage his entire career.
He could be court martialed.
I was terrified of what was going to come next.
NARRATOR: And the final assault is devastating.
DANIEL: You never think that a person
could be capable of something like that.
The enemy was not abroad.
The enemy was in his own household.
[theme music playing]
I was born in Toccoa, which is
also a Cherokee word for "the beautiful."
It's a small town.
So you see everybody, especially from middle school
through high school, almost every day.
NARRATOR: Sean Scott grows up as a devout Southern Baptist in
the small town in Georgia where his parents meet in 1973.
SEAN: My mom got pregnant, and they got married out
of a sense of obligation to their Christian faith.
They got divorced, and my mom met Don the next summer.
The gentleman that I call my dad,
Don Scott, adopted me in 1981,
and I always felt like
he dearly loved me.
Dad never made me feel any different
from the rest of the Scott family.
NARRATOR: Don marries Sean's mother, and eight years later,
Sean's half-brother, Daniel, is born.
When I was very little, Sean and I were very close.
He was my childhood hero.
Sean was this rock star.
Everyone knew who he was. Everyone liked him.
Everyone was always wanting to talk to him.
He was on the football team
that was the number-one football team
in the state for many years.
I wanted to do nothing more than to be Sean.
NARRATOR: As he nears his junior year,
Sean starts thinking about his future.
He has huge aspirations for college,
but his mom is an artist,
and his stepdad is retired from the Navy.
SEAN: And both my mom and dad sat me down and said, "Look,
"son, we're concerned that if you're gonna go to college,
"you're gonna have to figure out how to finance it yourself,
because we don't have the means to help you."
So I started looking for all
the schools that had cheap tuition.
And then I landed on the United States Military Academy
at West Point, and tuition per semester was $0.
I'm like, wow,
that's gonna be easy to afford.
NARRATOR: But West Point is the most prestigious
military academy in the country
and extremely difficult to get into.
So I spent a lot of time from
10th grade on in the guidance counselor's office.
That's how I came into Trish Ellis's circle of awareness.
NARRATOR: Trish Ellis, a bookkeeper at the school inside the guidance
department, is the wife of a prominent pharmacist in town
and the mother of Wendi Ellis.
SEAN: Wendi was very outgoing and friendly,
smiling all the time.
She was a cheerleader.
I do remember Trish Ellis, Wendi's mother, being very,
very much supportive of Sean.
I believe that she saw that that
would be very promising for her daughter.
[school bell rings]
SEAN: Trish stops me one day and says, "Hey,
"Sean, Wendi is struggling in Algebra.
"Do you mind tutoring her?
And we'll be happy to pay you."
I'm like, "I'll do that for free.
I'll pay you to do that."
Wendi pretended to be struggling to learn
and not be able to understand it.
She would bat her eyes at me, which, like, really excited me.
I was just mesmerized by the radiant blue eyes
that she had.
I really enjoyed the interaction with Wendi.
NARRATOR: During the last semester of his senior year,
Sean notices that Wendi is absent from school.
I passed Trish's office, and I said, "Hey, Trish,
"I haven't seen Wendi in school in like two weeks.
Is she all right?"
And she says, "Oh, well, it's pretty sad,
"but she's in the hospital down
"near Atlanta for a eating disorder --
bulimia and anorexia."
NARRATOR: Sean decides to show support for Wendi and visits her.
When I came in, she looked pitiful.
When she saw me, she just lit up.
Her eyes got wide, she was like, "Sean! You came to see me."
And that just got me, right --
right there.
It's probably the initial seed that made me
ask her to go with me to our senior prom.
NARRATOR: Sean is delighted when Wendi recovers
and agrees to go to the prom with him.
SEAN: The night before my prom,
I got home, and there was all this paperwork laid out.
There's a set of orders with my name on it,
and there's instructions to coordinate travel to
West Point.
I was so relieved.
The next afternoon, I picked up Wendi.
We took pictures,
and then we were off to dinner
and then to the high school gymnasium.
NARRATOR: The news of Sean's acceptance into
West Point spreads throughout the dance.
SEAN: Herb and Trish Ellis were chaperones,
and they looked like they were overjoyed.
Wendi said, "Oh, everyone is so proud
of you, and I love you so much."
You know, that night, I probably said
"I love you" so that she would kiss me again.
NARRATOR: Sean and Wendi grow closer,
but once he's at West Point for his freshman year,
Sean's schedule is regimented from sunup to sundown.
SEAN: We were busy.
Every time we went to the pay phones
for the privilege of a very brief phone call,
my number one priority was to call Wendi.
My second priority was to call my parents.
NARRATOR: Wendi tells Sean she is still struggling
with her eating disorder,
but being in New York makes it hard for him to help her back
home in Georgia.
SEAN: When I was home on leave,
Wendi asked me if I would go to one of
her psych appointments.
I was wholly and consciously aware that
Wendi had long-term mental health challenges.
I believe that the protective nature of Sean would
draw him to try to help someone like her.
She's beautiful. She's well known.
The family is well known.
She has a problem.
So naturally, a protective person like that would want
to try to shelter that person and help fix them.
At West Point, the years in the calendar seem to fly by,
but every day seems like it's an eternity.
So in order to help make the experience tolerable,
there are a series of milestone events that include a speech,
a ball, a dinner, and one of those is called 500th Night.
NARRATOR: The event takes place during Sean's junior year, and Wendi's
parents drive her from Georgia to New York to celebrate.
SEAN: They allowed Wendi and I to have some private time alone.
Wendi and I enjoyed a wonderful night, and I was
really excited and proud to show off my girlfriend
from my hometown.
It was just like a night of joy and excitement.
NARRATOR: With only one more year till Sean's graduation,
the future looks bright, if they can
get a handle on Wendi's health issues.
SEAN: One day, we were out shopping together,
and she just fainted right there in the store.
She refused to have an ambulance called.
She said that she had diabetes.
[distant groaning noise]
I had no clue she had diabetes.
Wendi Scott is a very manipulative woman,
and she's very dangerous.
She craved attention and affection from others,
and she went to any length to get that.
Now I don't know what to believe.
NARRATOR: Sean Scott is at West Point when he finds out
that his girlfriend, Wendi,
has another serious health complaint.
When I found out that Wendi had diabetes,
I was very concerned for her health.
She told me that the insulin that she had,
she did not get from a doctor.
Her father got it from his pharmacy that
he worked at and gave it to her.
Only once did I actually see her inject herself
with insulin.
I loved her, and I wanted to be a support to her
and to help her in any way that I can.
DANIEL: Sean seemed happy with Wendi,
but there was always something about her that made me
feel uncomfortable.
It was just always that --
that little feeling in me that just made me feel...
unsure about her.
NARRATOR: By Sean's third year at West Point,
his relationship with Wendi has evolved -- however,
he suffers a devastating loss in his family in April 1996
when his stepdad becomes seriously ill.
SEAN: I made it home on emergency leave from West Point
just in time.
DANIEL: I remember Sean opening the door to the ICU in
his uniform from West Point
and running through the ICU to my father's side.
And then I was taken out of the room.
But I remember looking back
and seeing Sean sitting there, holding his hand.
SEAN: I was holding his hand when he took his last breath,
and I held onto it until, uh,
I felt, you know, the warmth leave.
[flat line beeping]
NARRATOR: The next year,
Sean's stepdad's absence is felt
at his graduation from West Point.
But Sean is able to celebrate with Wendi and family.
SEAN: My mom, my brother,
Herb, Trish, Wendi's grandparents, came and attended.
I was full of pride and exuberance.
I had people in my hometown that were there.
I was gonna get to shake hands
with the President of the United States.
It was just a great day all around.
NARRATOR: A few days later, Sean and Wendi drive from
New York to Georgia to elope, without family present.
SEAN: Wendi and I got married in
a tiny little chapel on June 3rd, 1997.
My best friend, Joe, was my best man,
and he brought along his wife.
Wendi was over the top.
She acted as if she was about to faint.
She did not focus on me.
She had a hard time getting through her vows.
So that part was kind of bizarre.
We had made plans for a honeymoon,
and we drove straight through the night to Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina.
Wendi was not interested in any physical intimacy,
and she said that she was feeling physically ill,
and that was a great disappointment.
But, to me, that was not as important as abiding by
my vow to love, cherish, and care for her
in sickness and in health.
I was okay with that, because there
are higher priorities than my own carnal satisfaction.
["Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by Bach playing on organ]
Ready! Front!
NARRATOR: A year later, in 1998,
after taking the U.S. Army Engineer
officers course,
Wendi and Sean moved to Columbia, Georgia,
just a few hours from home.
My first permanent duty station in
the Army was Fort Benning in Georgia,
and we went and did fun things by ourselves
and with other people,
my West Point classmates included.
NARRATOR: Later that year,
Hurricane Mitch devastates Central America, and Sean is
deployed as part of the Army Corps of Engineers.
When Sean returns to Fort Benning,
he finds Wendi in a health crisis.
SEAN: Wendi had gotten a referral to an oncologist,
because there were some irregularities
in her bloodwork.
She told me, "Oh, my God, Sean, what if I have cancer?"
And then the oncologist broke the news to me
that he felt, in his professional opinion,
Wendi had leukemia.
[quiet sobbing]
I couldn't believe it.
It was just...
another shock.
I never shaved my own head, but I helped her shave hers.
I rarely cried.
I definitely cried tears that dripped on her head
while I was helping her shave it.
She was so grateful, and we had intimate contact
that we hadn't had in months or maybe even in years
at that point.
NARRATOR: Wendi tells Sean that she wants
to do the treatments on her own
so as not to distract him from his work.
She said, "I've found a specialist that
"can treat me right here at the hospital.
"You can just drop me off in the morning, and then
I'll find a ride home."
While she was going to chemotherapy,
there was less strange behavior,
and all the other antics faded away.
NARRATOR: Wendi starts her treatment, and Sean
believes that all is going well until one day,
he is summoned to a meeting with some other
Army spouses at Fort Benning.
SEAN: It was a historic home of a colonel,
and Wendi was sitting there, and, uh,
she looked up at me, had a very nervous look on her face,
and was very fidgety.
You could have heard a pin drop.
One of the spouses said, "We have
"discovered that Wendi does not really have cancer.
"She's been lying to us,
and we've all been deeply hurt by this."
I couldn't say anything.
I was filled with rage.
NARRATOR: Second Lieutenant Sean Scott has been told
by a group of Army spouses
that his wife, Wendi, is faking having cancer.
SEAN: I was just devastated, embarrassed.
I felt sick to my stomach.
I couldn't say anything except, "Thank you
"for bringing this to my attention.
I am so sorry that this happened."
I learned that one of
the church community saw her at the hospital.
She just walked around like a normal person, and she wasn't
behaving like she would behave at church, where
she would present as if she was deathly ill and unable to
perform activities of daily living on her own and need help.
NARRATOR: But how did Wendi trick
her oncologist into a leukemia diagnosis?
SEAN: I was finally coming to grips
with an escalating pattern of behavior.
I believe Wendi figured out how to manipulate her body
so that her bloodwork came back
such that more than one medical provider was
convinced that she had leukemia.
DANIEL: He had worked very hard to get to where he was,
and he had a very promising career ahead of him.
The situation that she put them in
could very much damage his entire career.
SEAN: I was committed to her, because I considered marriage
my bond with Wendi and with God,
and I wasn't going to give up on that,
and I was determined not to get a divorce.
I decided that I was gonna monitor
and control her behavior as best I could.
NARRATOR: For the next two years, Sean focuses on the demands
of his career and spends less and less time with Wendi.
In April of 2002, he is notified
that Wendi is in the ER
because of a complication related to her diabetes.
SEAN: The physician on call was present.
After the whole cancer thing, I knew from then on
that she was faking.
She found some new docs who didn't know her back story.
I said, "Look doc, I respect what you do, and I just want you
"to know that I know without a shadow of a doubt
that my wife does not have diabetes, never has."
He paused, looked at me in the eyes for a second,
and said, "Okay,
would you like for me to put her on a 72-hour hold?"
I came in and told her that she was
going to a psych ward, and she was livid.
She was throwing objects at me.
She was yelling at me.
NARRATOR: And Wendi has one more bomb to drop.
SEAN: A nurse came in and said, "We got your blood results."
Wendi was pregnant.
NARRATOR: On December 13th, 2002,
Sean and Wendi's daughter is born with hydrocephalus,
a condition that will require multiple surgeries.
SEAN: When our daughter was born,
Wendi's behaviors regarding her own health
just disappeared.
It was like magic.
I found out that I was deploying.
I was amped and energized and excited to
exercise my leadership in the role of company commander.
NARRATOR: Sean is deployed to Kuwait but gets emergency
medical leave to return to the U.S.
in March 2004.
I was back in the States in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for
the first of a series of brain surgeries
for our daughter at UNC Medical Center.
My personal belief is that the hydrocephalus condition,
which was diagnosed as Chiari malformation, was congenital.
In 2004, my daughter began developing symptoms from
vomiting to abnormal eating behavior to constant diarrhea.
NARRATOR: Sean is now stationed at Fort Detrick, Maryland,
so that the family can be close to
Walter Reed Medical Center, where their daughter
is a frequent visitor.
The doctors were unsure as to what exactly was wrong.
They were pursuing the option of leukemia, and they were doing
everything that they could to help her.
NARRATOR: Over the next three years,
Sean and Wendi pull closer together.
Wendi is no longer faking health issues and gives birth
to a son who is underweight but otherwise healthy.
At Walter Reed,
the doctors cannot determine the cause of Sean's daughter's
ongoing symptoms.
SEAN: My daughter underwent hundreds of diagnostic procedures.
The spinal tap, that's an extremely painful procedure,
and it was gut-wrenching,
heartbreaking, to be present and in the room with her.
NARRATOR: In June of 2007, Sean gets a call from Wendi.
There's gonna be a multidisciplinary team meeting,
so all the specialists along with the primary care manager
meet in a room with the parents,
and one of the lead GI physicians laid a bombshell.
"There are levels of magnesium
"in your daughter's system that I cannot account for.
So that tells me that either you," pointing at me, "or you,"
pointing at Wendi,
"or both of you have been giving your daughter
magnesium of some form."
And Wendi confessed on the spot.
"I did it."
And I looked at her in front of all these people.
All I could say was, "How could you?"
DANIEL: The place that you have to be mentally
to do something like that
to an innocent little child...
you would have to be evil.
NARRATOR: Sean Scott's four-year-old daughter has undergone dozens of
medical procedures for various health issues since her birth.
His wife, Wendi, has now admitted to poisoning her.
The state takes custody of the Scott children.
SEAN: Anger doesn't even come close.
It's more like rage.
I was shocked, stunned, sickened, saddened.
I drove Wendi home, and she cried, and she blabbered on to
me about how we still have to stick together as a family.
And I just looked at her, and I was like,
"Will you shut the [bleep] up?"
Or I was gonna wreck the car and kill both of us.
AGENT SMITH: In June 2007,
I received a call from Fort Detrick
advising me that they had just received a call from
Walter Reed, and they believe they had a child abuse case.
They advised that the mother of the child had been
confronted by the doctor and actually admitted
that she had been poisoning her child and that she was
withdrawing blood from the child, as well.
I knew about Munchausen by proxy,
what they call today factitious disorder by proxy.
And immediately, it triggered into my mind
that I may have one of those cases.
In a Munchausen by proxy case,
the person themself is Munchausen,
and they cause their own illnesses
or injuries to gain attention.
And normally, it's when they can't get attention for
themselves anymore that they move on to a child.
NARRATOR: Agent Smith calls FBI headquarters
to talk to a profiler.
AGENT SMITH: I knew that I was gonna
have to approach this interview differently.
The behavioral analysis profiler told me to make the interview
completely about her, to not talk about her children
and the things that she did to the child,
but to talk about how it affected her
and how it made her feel.
Just focus the entire interview on Wendi.
I walked in -- the chaplain was there,
and Wendi Scott was there.
You're expecting a monster.
But, in fact, she actually looks like a little
child herself.
She comes across very innocent, very naive,
someone that you wanna protect.
Wendi showed absolutely no remorse
during the interview.
I realized that I did, in fact, have a Munchausen by proxy case,
that she was truly injuring her child to gain
attention for herself.
And so my goal at that point was
to get as much evidence as I could.
I was able to get consent from Wendi to search the house.
The home that the Scotts lived in was in a very nice area.
The house was very organized and clean, similarly,
so was the victim child's bedroom.
It was a beautiful bedroom.
It looked like she cared very deeply for this child
by the way that the room was presented.
I spoke to the team leader of our evidence
response team that went directly to the kitchen
trash can, and sure enough, at the top of the trash can
was a large bottle of milk and magnesia.
And I saw a red HAZMAT box,
the type you find in a doctor's office where you put
expended syringes in,
and inside were five syringes with blood in them.
I actually took the photo books to
see if they told any type of story.
I was able to see things such as the child had straight hair,
and I saw that Wendi had taken pictures of
this victim child when she was putting curlers in her hair.
I later interviewed the doctors at Walter Reed.
They all described her as looking
like Shirley Temple, who had curly hair.
She wanted her daughter to look adorable
and all the doctors to fall in love with her
to be the cutest kid on the floor, if you will.
Wendi would do the child's hair in advance
the night before, and then she would
do something to the child to induce the symptoms that
resulted in her bringing the child to the hospital.
So it showed premeditation.
I did learn through my investigation that Wendi
herself had feigned illness at a previous base.
She claims she had leukemia. She was in a wheelchair.
She'd shaved her head, she even shaved her eyebrows.
Literally had everyone absolutely convinced
that she had it.
She figured out a way to cause those type of symptoms
in herself, and she was trying to do
the same thing to her daughter.
NARRATOR: Sean must now prove he is
a fit parent to regain custody of his children.
SEAN: I had a court date immediately.
I had to hire my own attorney.
WINIK: It was really devastating to him,
but he picked himself up and began to make
sure the children had a stable, safe place to be.
NARRATOR: The evidence, timing, and Sean's record of
conduct eventually exonerate him from suspicion.
ANGEL: Sean Scott had been serving his country,
only to find that the enemy was not abroad.
The enemy was in his own household
nearly killing his child.
When the victim and the younger sibling
were in Sean Scott's custody,
they immediately started improving -- the symptoms that
the child presented with at Walter Reed Medical Center
never, ever recurred.
after convincing a judge that I was a fit parent,
I got legal custody of my children.
NARRATOR: The case goes from FBI jurisdiction during
the investigation
to Maryland state prosecutors as they prepare for
an indictment.
ANGEL: Agent Smith reviewed with me
the information she received from Dr. Delormier,
the attending physician at Walter Reed Medical Center.
This woman was causing her child
a near death medical condition.
The symptoms progressed to dramatic blood loss to
the point where, on three different occasions,
that the child had to be transfused.
Dr. Delormier testified that the child could very well
have died with the amount of blood
that was taken from her system.
It was dangerous enough that, as a prosecutor,
I had to make sure that she never had contact with that
child again, with her younger child, or with any child.
That was my focus.
NARRATOR: On November 16th, 2007, Wendi Scott is indicted
on 15 charges.
She was charged with at least two counts
of first-degree child abuse,
second-degree child abuse, first-degree assault,
second-degree assault, and reckless endangerment.
NARRATOR: On March 13th, 2008, Wendi Scott
pleads guilty to first-degree child abuse.
ANGEL: In exchange for dismissing
the remaining counts,
the defense agreed that, at sentencing,
the parties would be free to argue as to what
the appropriate sentence would be.
NARRATOR: Wendi's sentencing hearing takes place
two months later.
When she first came into court, she was just fluttering
around, smiling,
you know, talking to people.
It was clear she wanted to be the center of attention,
but she did not testify during the sentencing hearing.
When the state presented testimony,
principally from Dr. Delormier,
he was so incensed by this whole incident
and what that child had suffered
because of the blood loss levels,
the myriad of tests that she had had to undergo,
the radiology she was subjected to.
His testimony
went to the permanency of the injury to that young victim.
The defense, they were arguing that
she didn't intend to hurt the child
and the only reason she was doing it
was because of her own mental disorder.
She had been diagnosed with a borderline
personality disorder.
One of the manifestations of that was
the fictitious disorder and fictitious disorder by proxy.
But she knew that the blood she was withdrawing was
causing the child to be transfused at least
three times.
And for her to say that she didn't know that
what she was doing was causing harm is just not defensible.
NARRATOR: Concerned that Wendi will present
a further risk to her daughter
if she gets a light sentence,
the prosecution presents surprising evidence
that her disorder is deeply rooted.
Even while on bail, Wendi had
been exhibiting classic factitious disorder behaviors.
She decided to get a job, and while she was there,
I discovered that she was faking cancer and diabetes.
She would go on her lunch break and sit
in her car on a 90-plus degree day,
and then passing out and that the ambulance would be called.
She submits a request to this employer requesting time off,
saying that she had lymphoma
and that she needed to go for chemo on a weekly basis.
She was engaging in this very type of behavior even at a time
where she was participating in counseling and under
the supervision of a psychiatric professional.
She was doing this again.
NARRATOR: This revelation seals Wendi's fate with the judge.
ANGEL: The judge sentenced her to 15 years
of active incarceration
and five years of supervised probation.
I had finally come to the realization that
she was never gonna stop doing this.
NARRATOR: Sean takes off his wedding ring,
files for divorce, and visits Wendi in jail one last time.
Within a couple of seconds of visiting her,
and she looked down, and she held my hand, and she said,
"Why did you take off your ring?
"Someone will fall in love with you.
You can't do that."
So I was just like, "I'm sorry."
And she was like, "I think you need to go."
NARRATOR: After 11 years of trauma,
Sean is free to find love with a new partner and discovers
there is light at the end of the tunnel.
My brother and Sean worked together at Walter Reed.
We were both going through divorces about
the same time, and we were friends.
I wanted to help Sean
primarily because I knew what a wonderful man he was.
As a mother, it's an overwhelming story to hear.
It still hurts to this day.
I felt terrible for him, because it was a lot.
And as a mom, like, our kids are close in age.
So it really, um, hit home.
Our friendship grew more and more.
Once his divorce was final, it was
an instant connection.
Sean's children needed a lot of healing and love and support
due to
the damage that was caused by Wendi Scott.
NARRATOR: In 2010, Sean and Rachel marry
and blend their families.
Rachel becomes the loving and protective mother
Sean's kids have never known.
RACHEL: While Sean was deployed to Afghanistan,
Wendi submitted a request for reconsideration.
She wanted to reduce her prison time, and we feel that
she coordinated that request in knowing that Sean was
in Afghanistan,
and so I attended that request.
It was probably the most terrifying day of my life,
because I really didn't want to see Wendi in person.
But I was also proud to speak on the kids' behalf,
because he was obviously not able to be there.
NARRATOR: For the first time since her arrest,
Wendi takes the stand.
ANGEL: She obviously presented a very positive
picture of her accomplishments.
Not one mention was made about the child.
She knew that her counseling would not be
successful if she was not able to be honest.
So I asked her, "Tell me what you did to your daughter."
ANGEL: And she was very taken aback by that.
The defense, of course, objected to it,
and the judge wanted to hear the answer, too.
She hemmed, and she hawed.
And I don't think she ever really did answer my question.
I just said, "I have nothing more.
I don't have any more questions."
RACHEL: And then I read a victim impact statement.
And part of that was I had said
that his daughter had her feeding tube removed,
and as I was saying that, there was a cheer from...
Wendi like, "Yay!"
Thank goodness I had the DA and the FBI agent on
both sides of me, because I think I would have done
something mean.
She did this to her daughter, and I'm the one that,
along with Sean,
we got rid of it and reached that milestone together.
The damage and the harm that she did
to an innocent little girl is just baffling.
I think it's evil.
NARRATOR: Wendi loses the appeal for
a shortened sentence and serves her full term.
RACHEL: Sean and the kids are in a much better place.
We all had to do the hard work together as a family.
One of my proudest moments was to be by his side
when he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel,
because his career was almost destroyed because of Wendi.
All four kids were at the ceremony, and, of course,
I cried, [laughs]
but it was just a very special day.
NARRATOR: Sean is a proud and intensely private man,
but he tells his story to warn others.
SEAN: I'm at peace with it now. I'm okay.
I cherish and I appreciate the love
and support that my wife and my children
and my extended family and all my friends have
given me to be able to get to the point.
My purpose and mission will be to help somebody out there
who's doubting themselves -- take action.
Don't hesitate, seek help -- if you got doubts or questions,
talk to somebody.
NARRATOR: Sean is joyful in his new life
and has high hopes for the future of his children.
They're strong, resilient children.
I'm very proud of them.
They're gonna go on to do great
things in their own right out there.