Behind the Scenes of HULU’s Betrayal: Dirty Secrets | BONUS | Karoline's Story

[gentle music] Caroline was living an idyllic life in Colorado with her police officer husband of more than 20 years.

If you've heard the podcast, you know their two kids revered their father, especially for serving the community, until one day, a text from him changed everything.

"I fucked up the worst I've ever fucked up in my life.

I've ruined our lives.

You're going to want to divorce me."

We met Caroline after she discovered her husband was living a secret life.

That life included multiple affairs that took place while he was on duty.

When I went to Colorado Springs to meet Caroline, we toured her beautiful home.

It was filled with reminders of her family.

But something caught my eye.

Many of the picture frames no longer held family photos.

Instead, they displayed the stock images that come with the frames.

Caroline had done her best to remove pictures of her ex-husband from her home.

When it came time to start production of the TV docuseries, it was something director Jon Hirsch was thinking about.

We put such a premium on family archival on these shows because we think it's one of the key elements to really connecting the audience to the story and to the characters, and really understanding, you know, how their lives were impacted.

The day before the shoot was gonna begin, I was sitting in her living room and was chatting with Nicole, her daughter, and Caroline excused herself and walked upstairs.

And when she came back down the stairs, I saw that she was holding a large, kind of like legal box.

She drops the box down on, like, the ottoman in front of the sofa that I was sitting on, and I see photo albums.

She had photo albums that she had buried in a closet that she had, I think, to some extent, forgotten she had or wanted to forget that she had.

And it included her wedding photo album, photos of the kids when they were born, a lot more than I ever expected to see.

It was a treasure trove of photos and memories, and it really helps you understand the love story that started when Caroline and Joel first met.

I had a real reaction when I saw the contents of this box, especially seeing the wedding photos.

Because what I saw was, you know, a young couple that was so obviously in love with each other.

And seeing the smiles on their faces that day, it really did look like something out of a modern-day fairy tale.

And it drove things home for me, because seeing those photos juxtaposed to the emotion that we hear from Caroline and, and her family in the podcast, you really kinda can see and feel, to some extent, the impact that this experience has had on her and her family.