Episode 5: Why is There a Helicopter?

Believable: The Coco Berthmann Story

Dear Media

True Crime

4.4 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As Coco’s popularity grows, so do her lies. One of Coco’s videos captures the attention of conspiracy theorists, who spread it all across the globe. And Coco learns, the more outrageous her content, the more attention she gets. Behind closed doors, child sex trafficking organizations in Utah are beginning to question Coco’s story. But they’re still supporting her in public … and profiting from her celebrity.

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0:00.0	A note before we get started. We are using an AI generated clone cocoa to create
0:07.7	audio of Coco Birthman's social media posts and text messages. But as always, Coco's words are 100% real. And a warning. This
0:17.2	episode includes mention of sexual violence against children. Listen with care.
0:29.6	In the fall of 2019, Coco Birthman threw a party to celebrate the 10th anniversary of her escape from human trafficking.
0:32.0	What was it exactly?
0:33.2	Her anniversary for what?
0:34.7	That's Somi Ali.
0:38.2	I apologize.
0:39.4	I am sorry that was brutal and cruel and not nice and ill-mannered but in hindsight it's apropos.
0:48.8	So me you'll remember is the former Bollywood actress who runs the organization No More Tears.
0:55.0	Coco spoke in a No More Tears event in Miami just a month before her anniversary party.
1:00.0	And that event was a big success for Coco. She met people who helped her
1:04.0	grow her career as an advocate and so me says everyone in the room really loved her
1:09.3	speech. Well almost everyone. There was only one person in that entire crowd and it was my ex-boyfriend,
1:17.0	he's a lawyer for no more tears.
1:19.0	His name is Josh.
1:20.0	Josh was the only one.
1:22.0	He was like, so me, if someone has their stomach cut up at 14 and they have a child taken out of them, he was like, what are you thinking? I was like,
1:37.4	stop victim blaming. He was like, I'm telling you there's something off with her
1:42.0	and I said, I know there's something off with her and I said I know there's something off with her. We're
1:45.0	survivors and there's inevitably things going to be off with her.
1:50.2	But Josh's concerns stuck with So me.
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