Shortcut: 2,500 Ways to Survive
6/14/20268 min
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Dr Jeni Haynes made legal history in 2019 when she became the first person in the world permitted to give evidence in court through multiple personalities, helping secure the conviction of her father for years of childhood sexual abuse.
Living with dissociative identity disorder and more than 2,500 alters, Jeni joins us to discuss her extraordinary life.
We Are Jeni is available to stream now on SBS On Demand.
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Host: Meshel Laurie
Guest: Dr Jeni Haynes
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First 90 secondsMeshel Laurie· Host0:00
The following podcast contains accounts of child sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised. [gentle music] This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Lawrie. In 2019, Dr Jenny Haynes gave evidence in court against her father, who was charged with various sex crimes committed against Jenny throughout her childhood. In the history-making trial, Dr Jenny was the first person in the world allowed to present evidence on the stand from several of her personalities. Dr Jenny lives with a condition known as dissociative identity disorder, or multiple personality disorder. She has over 2,000 personalities, whom she refers to as alters. She's the subject of a new documentary streaming on SBS called We Are Jenny, and she joins us to talk about life as she lives it today. This is Australian True Crime. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. When you popped up on the screen, like who, who's in the, you know, waiting to come into the call, it was Symphony.
Dr Jeni Haynes· Guest1:09
That's right, yes.
Meshel Laurie· Host1:10
Is that your most common alter? Or is that- Yeah.
Dr Jeni Haynes· Guest1:14
Yeah, she's the one that created all of us.
Meshel Laurie· Host1:16
Wow.
Dr Jeni Haynes· Guest1:17
So it's us honors- honoring the little girl that made everybody else. For the lived experience of, of having DID, my experience is we have a doorway,