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JESS:

Can you tell me, why are you speaking out now?

ZEALY:

Because someone needs to set the record straight. It’s easy to judge Alex, but what she’s been through, she’s been incredibly – it’s a mother’s worst nightmare, none of us know what we’d do in her shoes.

JESS:

But it’s a nightmaresheinflicted on another mother, didn’t she?

[long pause]

JESS:

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