The Creep Next Door
“I’ve had a lot of opportunities to tell my story, and I keep telling it over and over again because I want to help people see it before it’s too late,” says Jan Broberg, an actor, activist, and producer of the new Peacock series A Friend of the Family. Her story is an engrossing one: As an adolescent, Broberg was repeatedly sexually assaulted and kidnapped—twice!—by a neighbor, Robert Berchtold. The new series is a fictionalized take on her saga, previously told in the documentary Abducted in Plain Sight. It’s a show with a mission, as Broberg tells David Canfield in a first look at the project: “This is the most common kind of abuse. It’s not a scary stranger. It’s someone you know, someone you often love and usually trust. We don’t talk about it enough.”
Elsewhere in HWD, Chris Murphy pays tribute to Olivia Newton-John, who died Monday after a long battle with cancer; Mike Hogan recaps the penultimate episode of Better Call Saul; Derek Lawrence catches up with Tyler James Williams, Emmy-nominated star of Abbott Elementary; and Anne Heche’s life hangs in the balance following a fiery car crash.
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