When Your Mother Tries to Kill You

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I sit down with Kenna Renee Harper, an incredibly brave survivor who lived through a nightmare no child should ever endure. On Christmas Day in 2006, when Kenna was just 10 years old, her mother, who had been her best friend and a seemingly perfect soccer mom, crushed up 50 to 100 prescription pills into a drink and forced her to consume it as part of a horrific, premeditated murder-suicide plot. Kenna walks us through the terrifying reality of waking up in a hospital coma, the absolute culture shock of being placed in foster care, and the chilling experience of facing her own mother in a courtroom at just 12 years old to testify against her. We dive deep into her mother’s severe…