The fact that he cheated on her and admits that he could develop feelings for a teenager, yet says"OUR marital problems"and acts like it's her fault when she started crying, says a lot about him.If someone said"show me an abusive, manipulative and unloving husband" I'd point right at Danny
yeah he was definitely trying to pressurize her making her feel like she was to blame so she shuts her mouth abt how he cheated on her with a 18 y/o and the new girl never finds out abt it
He also puts the pressure on HER to tell the girl about HIS infidelity! He's so patronizing about it too, like if I didn't know the situation I would have guessed that she was the one who cheated by the tone of his voice.
The fact that he says he sees her as his "daughter" and then proceeds to constantly make sexual jokes about her and jokes about cheating on his wife is genuinely the most disgusting thing and the fact that he's being enabled by the show producers grosses me out to no end.
I think part of the reason Christy is so teary all the time is through relief that she *didn't* have a daughter with this guy! Could you imagine what he'd be capable of?? 🤮🤮🤮🤮
You say it "grosses me out" but it's more morally appropriate imo to be angry, not merely disgusted, here. I'm angry at the television industry that would rather chase "cringe content" with a camera, rather follow around exploitation and watch it passively, than pay for actual stories to be written.
@@naomistarlight6178 I thought my anger was pretty obvious? I'm allowed to be disgusted too and really I don't see how that's not as appropriate as being angry?? The two typically go hand in hand? Weird thing to point out but okay go off I guess. And the issue isn't just that they chase cringe content, they actively enable harmful people for entertainment, which is obviously, extremely harmful.
@@naomistarlight6178 hey person, I think you should do some self reflection. It's not okay to imply someone's expression is not "morally up to par". You're reacting, not responding. I promise, questioning your need to moralise others to the exact words they use will not make you a monster yourself.
I'm mortified for both Christy and the "daughter". Imagine being pregnant, probably financially vulnerable, and feeling forced to tolerate this disgusting man.
@@bdp8102 I really hope so too! Being pregnant and seeing your adoptive mom being put in a sensible position barely even 24 hours since you came to your new home can be very uncomfortable.
and we all expect everyone's sanity at some point.... BUT HEY THIS IS REAL LIFE AND PEOPLE CAN HAVE HORRIBLE ISSUES LIKE THIS... Could be anyone around you...
The fact that his wife is openly crying, red from crying or teary eyed on EVERY scene...says a lot...He doesn't even notice! He doesn't even care! He just wants to do his own thing and string that poor woman along... He wants to hurt her!
@@AnnaVictrix Yup! He's also making her pay for leaving him the first time. He's looking for supply and making his bed to discard and/ or torture her emotionally.
Let’s not forget that Ileana even publicly stated in one of the episodes that she only is doing this because she is pregnant and was facing homelessness in her native country. So Danny isn’t just taking advantage of a young woman and creating a dangerous power dynamic - he’s also purposely exploiting someone who is doing what she can to just survive and raise her baby in a safe environment.
I just really hope the baby isn't gonna be affected by all this and she can get out by the time her baby is there, i don't trust danny around anyone but especially not a baby
@@tidepodpadthai2633 yeah, and based off of the clearly sick things he said so far, I’m scared for the baby to face those things when they are born and grow up, especially if they would happen to be female.
Ideally, she uses him and gets out of there ASAP. It could end up being that the creepy guy really just got a potentially homeless pregnant girl off the street for a little while and no damage is done. Of course that’s ridiculously optimistic, but I hope they were just playing this up for ratings (which all reality tv does)
Funny thing is tho, in Austria it is almost impossible to be homeless unless you choose to be, we have an amazing support system ESPECIALLY for single mums, so idk why she would leave a country with free healthcare and a great support net to go to the US!!! to live with a creepy guy. Just doesn’t make sense 🥴
"My interest in adult adoption came to me when this 18 year old girl came to adopt a puppy from us" Amazing that it only took one sentence for him to immediately look like a creeper.
So, he's an only child and infertile? Somehow the universe, his parents, and even his own body predicted that he'd be a creep because who knows what he would've done with any child in his life. Oh my God, He's the King from Berserk!
Videos like this spread awareness of issues that has become somewhat (disgustingly) normalised, and reach an audience that some campaigns can't reach! Thank you for raising awareness on such serious topics.
Poor Christy is a classic case of low self esteem and believing that she'll never find anyone else. YOU DESERVE BETTER!! THERE'S BETTER MEN OUT THERE CHRISTY!
Actually she deserves a wake up call. It doesn't really matter what her emotional state is, she's still complicit in this very obvious illegal grooming of a vulnerable pregnant woman because he has very clear intentions to become sexual with this girl and the wife does NOTHING. Being in an emotionally abusive relationship isn't an excuse either. She was already a grown adult when she married him so she should really know better. "I have self esteem issues" won't hold up well in court when she's named as complicit in this.
That isn't cringey anymore, but straight up disgusting. Danny's anticipation of something happening sexually or physically between him and his potential adoptive daughter (!) makes me want to vomit. Whoever thought that it's a good idea to make a show with someone who's obviously a stone's throw away from being a predator should not be in charge of any show. Glad it got cancelled. I hope Christy finds a way to get out of this clearly abusive marital relationship.
my heart dropped when christie came onto the screen talking about her husbands past infidelity. she was desperately trying so hard to hide how upset she was by the fact that he was doing it _again._ she deserves way better, oh my god.
@Tatianna rpdr is my queen Unfortunately she may be financially trapped. It’s common in the US- I’m lucky my wife and I are in a healthy relationship but if something were to happen I wouldn’t be able to afford food or a place to live on my own income
If Danny ever shows up dead just know Christy was with me, we were in my house alone, I was showing her my cat, she was with me from the crack of dawn all the way until hours after whatever the time he got murd-- i mean, died..
That would honestly be the best way this could end. I’m sure there’s potential for a truly deep, familial relationship for Christy and Ileana, so long as they kick Danny to the curb.
I am genuinely sad that the show didn't end with Iliana and Christy becoming friends and kicking Danny out and adopting 7 more cats. I would have watched that show.
He literally thinks he’s gonna get to live a real life porn fantasy and is so unashamed about it, this is all completely normal to him. I’ve never heard someone call somebody a “freak show” in the nicest most non-threatening way possible. His poor wife really needs to gather the courage to tell him he’s f*cking disgusting and hit the road
This is the realest take. I feel bad for his wife and obviously she needs to leave, but she's also allowing this to happen to a young girl. She's checked out to the point where her husband is actively harming other people instead of her.
@@nataliee5236 Wow... You're right. I was just feeling sorry for the wife. But she's watching her husband groom a young woman. She's been tricked, now she's sort of trapped, and it's almost guaranteed that he's going to sexually harass her. He pulled the exact same scam before. While the wife is a victim, she's also somewhat complicit in victimising ileana.
This guy is going to assault her. He's bringing a young, naive woman to a place where she is isolated and dependent on them. This is abuser 101. And most people don't know that pregnancy is another variable that abusers use against their victims most of the time.
I appreciate you pointing out that there are normal reasons for adopting an adult child; people always look at me weird and ask a lot of uncomfortable questions when they find out my older sister was adopted at 19 like “she was an adult at that point why did she NEED adopted?” Like bc you don’t only have a family til you hit 18, and they play a pretty important role in your adult life. My sister lost her dad as a baby, was taken from her mothers custody at 8 when she tried to trade her for drugs, and spent the whole rest of her childhood functionally as an orphan getting tossed from one bad situation to another. She and I met in high school and eventually got a starter place together. We bonded like you would with a natural born sister, platonic but very close, and when my dad and stepmom found out about her snd agreed they’d like a bigger family they decided to adopt both her and her little brother who was around 12 to give them a loving family. My family always treated them like they were natural born members and it was a really good situation she wouldn’t have had it we’d been too put off my adopting an adult.
Adults adopting adults is very common over here in a lot of European countries where aristocracy is still a thing. Especially celebrities with a lot of money get adopted from aristocrats who actually don't have a lot of money and sell their titles via the adoption.
I watched it the first time, I just... I just don't know if I can do it a second time. This felt less than watching something cringey, and more being complicit in watching a crime.
I didn't watch it a second time for this reason - I "watched" the video for the algorithm, but my phone emitted no sound and was face down on the counter while I was elsewhere.
Men like this are so normalized that I will indeed watch chad tear them apart again bc I’m so used to that level of creep. When I was a teenager working in retail a old man asked me when I was gonna start having babies 😩 I need to hear someone sane roast them
The scary thing is how willing he was to sleep with her, and even asked his wife what she’d do if they slept together. But he never made it clear with the girl he adopted that he wanted that. She wants a family but he wants a young bride and she’s not even aware of that. What the actual fuck.
I worked as a PA for this show and it was such a strange experience. They asked a lot of the crew to wait outside for the interview scenes, and Danny had a TON of huskies in his backyard (he said he ran a husky rescue). Christy also kept making jokes about adopting members of the crew, which just made the experience pretty uncomfortable. They were more or less pleasant in the limited interaction I had with them, but seeing the show afterward was BIG YIKES.
Did he like... work the huskies at all? Keeping huskies outside in a kennel-type environment isn't uncommon due to their destructive nature and ability to escape out of Anything. I don't like it personally, but it isn't necessarily abusive itself. But it's *highly* concerning if he isn't working them nearly every day- those dogs can and will lose their minds without being able to work. And rescues tend to try and keep dogs sane and healthy. I really hope those dogs aren't being used as a puppy mill operation. That's my immediate concern, especially with him stating that he met the first girl he tried to adopt while selling her a puppy. Edit: Plus husky puppies are extremely cute and are one of those "fad" breeds. I can only imagine that part of his game might be to lure younger women in with puppies...
Nah big ed seems different.. dare i say he actually might be better than this guy. Bc yknow hes not going after BERELY legal adults... but thats besides the point both of them are different in way of expressing themselves. Like this guy says it in a very creepy way idk
@@loverboy6149 True, I think this guy might actually be creepier then Ed...although he IS marrying Liz, a girl his daughter's age, and dated Rose, who was even younger than his daughter.
Yep - i get that big time. More than sad. As an observer to America (UK resident), there seems to be a OK to anything that brings you tv time or money. Lack of ethics and morals in how you relate to others. Car crash TV, with idiots at the wheel, and watch the victims bleed. Fubar.
I would say "why dont they just adopt an actual child in need?", but I got not 2 minutes into this thing and said "No way, this guy does not need to be around kids like that under any circumstances".
let me get this straight... Christy knows Dan has cheated, she knows he took interest in a teenager, and she hears all the sexual references toward Ileana that Dan makes... Christy needs to leave. And by leave I mean kick Dan out
9:50 he's absolutely emotionally abusing her. "Their" marital problems was him falling in love with the last 18 year old. Yet he wants to her to explain to an audience as if she's also to blame despite her distress. This man has probably gaslit her into being dependant on him
@@a_person4742 I mean I understand that , but she is a grown woman. And Dan may be emotionaly abusing her but now christy has the inluence of every veiwer who is telling her to leave. If she decides to stay that's on her.
@@a.j.9566 it was aired on tv amd streaming sites, they dont usually have comments. The liklihood she watches these specific youtube commentators is slim
@@a.j.9566 the entire point of emotional absue and manipulation is it takes advantage of people and males them vulnerable and often dependant. It makes them feel like they cant leave, that they're stuck. Have some empathy
christy was literally like "Oh my god my husband is going to cheat on me with the woman he wants to adopt again" and then danny just goes "yeah I'm scared I'm gonna wanna cheat on my wife with the woman i'm trying to adopt. you know, again." as if there needed to be more proof that this is completely fucked up
honestly chad chad didnt even touch on the fact that this dude made a huge point to let eliana know that they lived in a very isolated, wooded area, with lots of security cameras. and that they "didnt trust outsiders." that girl looked SO scared when he started to explain that, but she clearly has nowhere else to go, and just told the camera that (paraphrasing) "i'll just have to adapt and deal with it." he made sure she was financially reliant on him, brought her to a forgein country, and then told her she was monitored at all times and in the middle of nowhere and they didnt trust "strangers" on the property. i'm 100% worried for that girl.
Wowwwwwww. I didn’t watch the show, but that is extremely abusive behavior. Between that and the obvious incest fetish that POS Danny has, it’s no wonder the show was canceled. I understand the importance of adult adoption in certain cases, but I hope there are laws in place to protect the adoptees in cases like this one. I hope the young girl and wife are ok.
@@thejaimebush my kids are about grown and I was thinking I'd foster/adopt specifically older kids 16-24 Cause that's where the need is. Everyone deserves a family . A mom or dad... until they pull some shit like this guy. This feels so nefarious
@@ashtonisvibing4763 I swear I remember watching that show on the regular. But I was a kid, so I feel like I shouldn't watch it again, because it looks..... Ridiculous
@@avaracicot5063 from what i remember the parts where billy went to deal with the animals and stuff were pretty alright, just standard exterminating and such!... but of course it's a&e so obviously it had drama crap- the drama crap was horrible, just a ton of useless family drama-
Y'know when I first heard there was a show coming out called "Adult Adoption" I thought it might be good, because I've always thought it was sweet how step parents and foster parents want to adopt their step/foster kids even when they're adults. I thought it was gonna be a heartwarming cute show about families but NO WE GET THIS SHIT INSTEAD
Exactly. Like, how on Earth can they film all this, not tell the girl being adopted anything about it even though they can, and still feel like they are good people at the end of the day. Whoever was in charge, do they have no morals at all?
I feel so bad for Christy, she’s so obviously unhappy with this and right in front of her face, Danny talks of their marital issues to another person and she is told he finds other (younger) women attractive TO HER FACE. That is ridiculous, he should be telling her he finds her attractive, not other women. She looks so sad and I fully believe that, in the airport, her crying is not out of happiness but out of sadness and dread and knowing; knowing that this is really happening and she cannot do anything about it.
@@z3ngz based on the way he was trying to isolate that girl, I would not be surprised to find he has already done that to his wife and she feels she has no choice but to stay. among other reasons.
@@fatlizard_ Also, I'm afraid to say it, but the truth is she's really unattractive and she most likely believes she'll be alone for the rest of her life if she leaves. And because of Danny's emotional abuse, she won't have the self esteem to be able to be happy by herself. So she stays with him rather than upending her whole life, moving to a new home, going through the whole legal process of divorce, and ending up alone for the rest of her life
how do you feel sorry for her? i genuinely cant. she's an adult. she has options. she CAN divorce him or leave or not deal with him. they got no kids. all she has is the cats that he doesnt like and the deodorant in the fridge. why doesn't she just get a pair of balls, some fucking self respect, and tell dude to go fuck himself? honestly i have no clue how people feel sorry for her, she honestly brought that upon herself. "fool me once..."
not tryna be rude, but why doesn't Christie divorce him?! especially the first time he cheated, she should've divorced him then, or at least signed up for couples therapy.
i feel bad for that poor little girl getting dragged into some random couple's marital issues. all iliana wanted was a safe, financially stable place for her and her baby.
Lol! I know! And I'm not laughing because what he is doing is funny. I'm laughing because it is so absurd that he doesn't see the absurdity of it!! Poor woman! Poor women, both of them, having to face an absurd man and this absurd situation.
@makaithreads2261 that's hilarious. You're right, she is, but the sentiment is the same. She is in need of a support system that she is clearly lacking and she just wants security for herself and her unborn child, which they both deserve.
I'm fairly sure she was fully aware that she was exploiting a deluded old man's sexual desire. If she wanted financial stability for her baby, she'd have gotten a job.
The fact that he has sexual fantasies and feelings for an 18-year-old girl whom he is trying to adopt is already disgusting, and the fact that he acts as if it's normal is even more disturbing. His wife does not deserve anything like this, she should file for divorce and get tf out of this mess.
He only brought up marital problems in front of her so he could plant seeds in his victims mind that the marriage is rocky ..therefore opening a door for him to easily take advantage of her without guilt
I think it's quite simple, actually. Ratings. An innocent show about adult adoption wouldn't get as many ratings as this fucking sickening show. To the producers it probably doesn't matter how much harm this might do to the appearance of legit adult adoption, it just needs to make a good return on investment.
if only the person on the show was a normal person with childhood trauma who decided o adopt an 18 yr old with similar trauma and they became like family but nah
This is so gross and annoying...it gives a BAD REP to actual adult adopting adults... Like you said, there is no issue at all doing so with step kids, adopted kids, etc., but...what really get on my nerves is that, in a LOT of countries where homosexual marriage aren't allowed, people adopt each other to be a real family on paper...and now, people like these give the impression that adults doing that are creeps...when in reality, adult adoption can be a beautiful loving thing.
When I was ~25 I asked my step-dad to legally adopt me and he said, "yes." Part of the process was going to court, standing in front of a judge, and affirming that in the past/present/future there is no romantic and/or sexual relationship. You affirm this under oath. With this video being the only knowledge I have of Danny, he's a trash person.
Really? A part of legal adult adoption is to affirm that you have never been, aren’t in, and will never be in a sexual relationship? I didn’t expect them to be mindful of that.
Okay but, legitimately, has anyone performed a welfare check on Ileana since this show? Specifically, the show's staff? Don't they feel any moral obligation towards what is essentially s*x trafficking???
So, apparently, Ileana was "rescued" by Danny's cousin. Christy wouldn't allow her to stay in the house, and the trailer Ileana and her baby were living in didn't have any heat during the winter. Sidenote: a long series of tweets made by a woman many months before the show aired revealed Danny was openly telling people he was attracted to Ileana and saying very creepy things about the situation.
@@markbaker4425 here's the problem. I'm from chillicothe and I've seen them in public before..... they really are creeps. I know you can't take my word for it, because that's biased. But I can testify that dudes always given me the creeps, but ya know the wife isn't innocent either! Everyone's got a choice. Leave his ass 🤷
I can’t remember the last time I’ve felt so compelled to call the police on some looney tune in a reality TV show, but here comes Danny waltzing in with all of his creepy glory, making my fingers itch to dial 9-1-1. Seriously, somebody stop this man. ASAP.
Dude is a psychopath, he'll never love anyone but himself. Imagine if Christy leaves him and he's left alone with Leanna. What if she rejects his advances? He'd probably fly into a rage and hurt her or worse. I hope those women are safe now...
He's practically smirking when he's looking at Christy when she doesn't want to talk to Ileana about "their marital problems" like he's thinking "heh, I knew it, she'll never tell".
A sad part of history was that before gay marriage was legal in the US, the older partner in a gay couple would often adult adopt the younger one as a way to ensure legal recognition as a family and get the benefits that come with that, like inheritance, hospital visitation, and insurance coverage. And the tragic irony was, once gay marriage was legalized, many of these couples could still not get married due to state incest laws. So that's a really messed up part of history involving adult adoption, as opposed to this, which is just a creepy guy trying to fuck a younger woman.
I got EMOTIONAL when Danny just watched his wife break down in front of him, doing nothing but stand there with his eyebrows raised in disappointment in HER. Dude is a failure.
I actually found that scary af. That man is dangerous, and clearly has a temper, because his face was not just one of disappointment, but he also looked angry. Like he could snap at any given moment. Almost like he was looking for an excuse to go off on Christy in front of this girl. He was trying play the 2 against each other by singling Christy out and making her seem like the problem.
@@michelleh.5225 While obviously it's terrible for people to act this way, please don't make comments like that on people who have NPD. There's enough people who automatically link people having it with being horrible, abusive people when there are plenty of people who do have it who are genuinely good people. If a person's abusive while having NPD, then they're abusive, it has nothing to do with the disorder itself. Sorry for ranting, it just frustrates me because a lot of people demonize people with NPD as a whole./gen I'm sorry your family had to go through that and I hope you're doing well these days.
the constant smile on danny's face is what makes this particularly disturbing to me. i've known people like him before and they're so uncomfortable to be around
I have an uncle that reminds me EXACTLY of Danny. The only difference is my aunt is (or acts) completely clueless to what he's about. This woman breaks my heart. That look on her face says it all- she knows. She even called him a freakshow. She looks so tired and sad. I hope she gets out okay.
My ex was a covert narcissist who was just like Danny seems to be. He's a sexual abuser who talked about how he'd love to hire a teenage girl to clean up and do sexual "favours" for him.
This guy needs to be on a list, this is straight out of the book “grooming”. Pretty much illegal everywhere. The fact our social services has been and continues to fail children and adults is heartbreaking. Don’t get it twisted they do a lot of good but are heavily under staffed and funded. So there is way to many gaps where things like this can happen and go unreported, or if reported straight ignored. 😢
every major group of individuals but especially government entities/ non profit groups also have bad apples so while it's definitely not most people there is times when these groups do more harm than good I experienced it growing up (it might not even have been done in a malicious way just in a very unhelpful and aggressive way) though generally speaking they are needed and it's far more necessary to improve and continue their existence
@@wiredvibe1678 She’s 18. I really wish we would quit it with this whole mentality of “once you’re 18 you are completely different and suddenly an adult in all ways.” He’s in his 40s and she’s an 18 year old woman who plans to live with him because she needs support. He’s being sexually manipulative and demonstrating grooming methods.
@@wiredvibe1678 she's not a full adult yet, being 18 doesn't make you a full adult, she'll live with them bcs needs support for her child, not bcs she wants a creepy middle aged man who has some sort of daddy/daughter kink to groom her.
And how he looks at her when she cries, like “You’re embarrassing me in front of this teenager I’m trying to fuck”. Fuck this guy to the moon and back.
DUDE he's expressing his concerns about becoming ATTRACTED TO HIS ADOPTIVE DAUGHTER RIGHT INFRONT OF HIS WIFE, WHICH HE HAS CHEATED ON BEFORE. LIKE WHAT???????
@Aybüke Tonbul the book suggestion is good, but wtf does "academically capable" mean, lmao? It's a book, I started reading it and english isn't even my first language and I learned it at 16 years old, maybe I'm wrong but you sounded extremely condescending
@Aybüke Tonbul Its not incest.I can bring some young adult girls and treat them like my daughters for years and i will still be attracted to them.Because they are not my daughters in first place neither i raised them from childhood.So its nothing to be surprised about
@@Returntonature145 u see, in people who don't sexually objectify women to a worrisome degree like you and danny do, certain relationship dynamics DO in fact make you unable to feel sexual attraction to the person. like, if you're a decent person, that it. just blew ya mind, yer welcome 😎😎😎
I don’t think words could could express how this man’s interactions, responses, body language, and demeanour made me physically hurt. I’ve never felt like I was getting docked in the gut before.
You can see when they saw Ileana at the airport how afraid Christy was. She was obviously afraid for Ileana, and I think that’s definitely a large factor into why she didn’t want to do this. I hope that both women and Ileana’s child got away from Danny.
I love how he talks abt being in love with young women, say the most freaky-ish stuff, acts like it’s jst his “child” and cheat on her right in front of his wife and she’s jet sitting there like nothing happened and she is just has to be happy for her husband and the girl.Thats jst sad for her she deserves better tbh
@@Google_remote that doesn’t matter it’s still men Danny age becoming dads his wife might not can’t have any but I guarantee if he mess with illiana she will most likely get pregnant
I've avoided watching other reactions to this particular show because it makes me so sad to see this guy's wife. You can tell that she has a broken sense of self-worth, and it's really gut-wrenching.
Im rlly numb rn i feel like i cant process things bec ive gone through like alot latly but i understand this is bad im still trying to fully process just how bad of a situation that is its literally like s2x traffiking, like some other ppl said its weird this guys got a f5tish or something ((sorry if thats upsetting
Openly being a creep is a whole other level, how is this even televised? Is this not a crime in the US? Love your sense of humour double chad, even tho this is not a funny situation.
I live in america, and yes, this is a crime. The producers probably didn’t care at all and just needed better ratings. Good thing the show was cancelled, as it should be.
I am an American and I don’t even fucking know to be honest with you I’m disgusted with most of our policies here I literally wanna leave but can’t to poor. I mean it isnt legal but it probably wont get investigated.
The problem is people like him are perfectly fine talking about being a creep because you can’t be arrested just for just talking about these gross things. Nothing is usually done unless he acts on it
A supposed, older "friend" I had during my teenage time acted *exactly* like Danny did before he SA'ed and r0ped me. The close contact, the constant "cute" compliments even though I was 15, the weird questions, even going as far as to say if he could he'd adopt me. By dear God do I hope Ileana and her baby are okay.
I hope your okay now and understand nothing of this was your fault (wanted to write this, because many people think it’s there fault after they were SA). Also i really hope that asshole is behind bars and you can live your life more safe. I also agree with you about Ileana and her baby. I still kinda worried about her and the child
@@emimew he sadly isn't as far as I know since I didn't have the courage to report what happened, and it's been years now so it's not provable anymore in court unfortunately. Thank you for your kind words and same, I hope they are safe 🙏
So on top of being an entire creep, he’s also racist😅 why does this not surprise me! Hope Christy leaves this guy and finds peace with her cats. Love your editing as always✨
For me a big red flag is someone taking a regular thing and adding "on you" to the end of it. The way he says "I like hugging on you" just gives me the heebie jeebies.
I never realized it, but thinking about what you said, I only say "on you" to my partner. Like "lemme love on ya" when I want cuddles kind of thing. I can't think of a single circumstance where I'd use that phrase with another person. I'd think maybe it's just the way the guy talks, but given all his other red flags, it weirds me out. Like bruh why you wanna be "on" a pregnant 18 year old in any context? Ew.
I said this before but it’s important! Adult adoption was a big deal in Texas especially for LGBT couples who wanted to inherit from one another in case of intestacy. Adoptive kids and parents would be same sex spouses who would do this in case of emergency so they could inherit from one another if a will wasn’t possible. This was one of the most interesting and important historical things i learned in my Texas wills class. Of course, the Texas legislature later made this much more difficult to prevent LGBT marriages or marriage-like relationships.
I CANNOT imagine how anyone at A&E thought this would be a good thing to put on air… Like, that shows a shockingly dysfunctional moral compass. The fact that this went through production at all is an astounding feat of sliminess.
Yeah... I wish that slime would be slick enough that they just sort of... y'know... fall off the face of the earth and into the sun. We'd all be better off.
The fact that no one during filming was like “maybe it’s okay to let that legacy end here?” ESPECIALLY AFTER ADMITTING TO FINDING ATTRACTION IN AN 18 YEAR OLD WHO SOUGHT HIM OUT FOR PARENTSHIP!!!! What?!?!
the girl: just wanting a family to help her raise her baby in a loving home ( kinda like the movie 'Where The Heart Is' pretty much ) the wife: just wants her cats and a husband who loves her and wont cheat or be a creep. the guy: being a total creep about it, way too obviously wanting "something" to happen with the girl, and is putting everything wrong he did with the last girl on his wife ( whose done nothing wrong ). Plus he still sounds like Big Ed, so nope. all around creep.
The fact that he cheated on her and admits that he could develop feelings for a teenager, yet says"OUR marital problems"and acts like it's her fault when she started crying, says a lot about him.If someone said"show me an abusive, manipulative and unloving husband" I'd point right at Danny
he genuinely believes it's a marital problem that she won't let him do whatever he wants. he's a narcisisst
"Our marital problems" other known as, "i did something horrible and fairly unforgivable and my wife reacted appropriately. Also I dont like her cats"
yeah he was definitely trying to pressurize her making her feel like she was to blame so she shuts her mouth abt how he cheated on her with a 18 y/o and the new girl never finds out abt it
@@randominternetperson1568 the “also I don’t like her cats” got me . ITS SO TRUE
He also puts the pressure on HER to tell the girl about HIS infidelity! He's so patronizing about it too, like if I didn't know the situation I would have guessed that she was the one who cheated by the tone of his voice.
The fact that he says he sees her as his "daughter" and then proceeds to constantly make sexual jokes about her and jokes about cheating on his wife is genuinely the most disgusting thing and the fact that he's being enabled by the show producers grosses me out to no end.
I think part of the reason Christy is so teary all the time is through relief that she *didn't* have a daughter with this guy! Could you imagine what he'd be capable of?? 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Yeah thank god he isn’t able to reproduce
You say it "grosses me out" but it's more morally appropriate imo to be angry, not merely disgusted, here. I'm angry at the television industry that would rather chase "cringe content" with a camera, rather follow around exploitation and watch it passively, than pay for actual stories to be written.
@@naomistarlight6178 I thought my anger was pretty obvious? I'm allowed to be disgusted too and really I don't see how that's not as appropriate as being angry?? The two typically go hand in hand? Weird thing to point out but okay go off I guess. And the issue isn't just that they chase cringe content, they actively enable harmful people for entertainment, which is obviously, extremely harmful.
@@naomistarlight6178 hey person, I think you should do some self reflection. It's not okay to imply someone's expression is not "morally up to par". You're reacting, not responding.
I promise, questioning your need to moralise others to the exact words they use will not make you a monster yourself.
I'm mortified for both Christy and the "daughter". Imagine being pregnant, probably financially vulnerable, and feeling forced to tolerate this disgusting man.
It made me sad when Ileana said she was worried about taking advantage of them. Danny is taking advantage of HER.
does anybody know how the story ended??? I hope the two women teamed up and revolted against him
Now imagine filming all that and making money on it instead of calling the police
@@kaniyaru117 ikr.
@@bdp8102 I really hope so too! Being pregnant and seeing your adoptive mom being put in a sensible position barely even 24 hours since you came to your new home can be very uncomfortable.
He doesn’t just want to be a father figure, he wants her to call him daddy.
I mean look at his wife 😂
@@PatrickArcato ?
@@PatrickArcato if he doesn't like his wife that much, he's free to leave her
Weird, my dad never worried about being attracted to me for some reason. It's almost like normal father figures don't have that issue
and we all expect everyone's sanity at some point.... BUT HEY THIS IS REAL LIFE AND PEOPLE CAN HAVE HORRIBLE ISSUES LIKE THIS... Could be anyone around you...
my dad was everything but an incestual pedophile
strange..my dad was also never worried about being attracted to me🤨
Many people who don't even have good father figures don't need to worry about that
this ,this is the problem with society ,father have to touch their children and if that doesnt happen ,well .god have mercy
The fact that his wife is openly crying, red from crying or teary eyed on EVERY scene...says a lot...He doesn't even notice! He doesn't even care! He just wants to do his own thing and string that poor woman along... He wants to hurt her!
she needs to divorce him
@@mitzara25 agreed!!!
Yup, he’s gotta keep her trauma bond to him firmly in hand; he needs her as part of his disguise to seem harmless to these young women he’s targeting.
@@AnnaVictrix Yup! He's also making her pay for leaving him the first time. He's looking for supply and making his bed to discard and/ or torture her emotionally.
I really hope she can escape him 🖤
Let’s not forget that Ileana even publicly stated in one of the episodes that she only is doing this because she is pregnant and was facing homelessness in her native country. So Danny isn’t just taking advantage of a young woman and creating a dangerous power dynamic - he’s also purposely exploiting someone who is doing what she can to just survive and raise her baby in a safe environment.
Yep, he’s grooming her.
I just really hope the baby isn't gonna be affected by all this and she can get out by the time her baby is there, i don't trust danny around anyone but especially not a baby
@@tidepodpadthai2633 yeah, and based off of the clearly sick things he said so far, I’m scared for the baby to face those things when they are born and grow up, especially if they would happen to be female.
Ideally, she uses him and gets out of there ASAP.
It could end up being that the creepy guy really just got a potentially homeless pregnant girl off the street for a little while and no damage is done. Of course that’s ridiculously optimistic, but I hope they were just playing this up for ratings (which all reality tv does)
Funny thing is tho, in Austria it is almost impossible to be homeless unless you choose to be, we have an amazing support system ESPECIALLY for single mums, so idk why she would leave a country with free healthcare and a great support net to go to the US!!! to live with a creepy guy. Just doesn’t make sense 🥴
Danny was seeing the "Step-dad I'm stuck help!" Father, daughter relationships
"My interest in adult adoption came to me when this 18 year old girl came to adopt a puppy from us" Amazing that it only took one sentence for him to immediately look like a creeper.
EY-
that's an insult to minecraft creepers, they'll never say a thing like this
He actually responded to your comment a few days ago, here's what he said:
"Pshhhhhhhhhhh. 💥"
Don't ofend the creepers like that! They just explode near people because they don't want to die alone :(
@@ainelorray6138 That's so sad wtf 😭
bro is green and explosive
So, he's an only child and infertile?
Somehow the universe, his parents, and even his own body predicted that he'd be a creep because who knows what he would've done with any child in his life.
Oh my God, He's the King from Berserk!
Nice reference ☠
Even the king was less or a Creep , he's Donovan 💀💀
being infertile helps him being a creep. Im diving in but most of the time you realise theres something wrong when a 14 year old is pregnant...
Yeah he fits in that world alright
Alright I'll just make sure this bloodline ends here. OH HOW THE FUCK
He makes it seem like accidentally becoming romantically attracted to your child is a normal thing parents have to deal with. This man is not okay
we already know what his search history is like
It’s more sexual than romantic but yeah.
def makes it even worse holy jeez
Sickmind Fraud rattling his bones in the grave rn... But yeah this is repulsive
Oh my. Oh my. OH MY GOODNESS. I’M CALLING THE POLICE
Okay, not really. But really, man, why does show this exist?
Videos like this spread awareness of issues that has become somewhat (disgustingly) normalised, and reach an audience that some campaigns can't reach! Thank you for raising awareness on such serious topics.
Is the issue ‘Reality TV execs are amoral enablers who would film their own granny dying of rabies if it made them a quid’?
Poor Christy is a classic case of low self esteem and believing that she'll never find anyone else. YOU DESERVE BETTER!! THERE'S BETTER MEN OUT THERE CHRISTY!
Or women! Or other gender minorities!
Or women or nb ppl
Being alone with cute cats is an option too. I’d rather be alone than be with someone who is clearly emotionally abusive.
Actually she deserves a wake up call. It doesn't really matter what her emotional state is, she's still complicit in this very obvious illegal grooming of a vulnerable pregnant woman because he has very clear intentions to become sexual with this girl and the wife does NOTHING.
Being in an emotionally abusive relationship isn't an excuse either. She was already a grown adult when she married him so she should really know better. "I have self esteem issues" won't hold up well in court when she's named as complicit in this.
@@rosiepark9607 I feel this so bad
As an ace and enby person I want to live alone with a cat army
That isn't cringey anymore, but straight up disgusting. Danny's anticipation of something happening sexually or physically between him and his potential adoptive daughter (!) makes me want to vomit. Whoever thought that it's a good idea to make a show with someone who's obviously a stone's throw away from being a predator should not be in charge of any show. Glad it got cancelled. I hope Christy finds a way to get out of this clearly abusive marital relationship.
Him “adopting” an adult woman from another country with sexual intent seems kind of like trafficking to me…
Yeah this was.. legitimately creepy to watch
Not to mention she is EXPECTING. Like how sick can you be
It got cancelled? THANK GOD.
@@kyle570 After only three episodes.
my heart dropped when christie came onto the screen talking about her husbands past infidelity. she was desperately trying so hard to hide how upset she was by the fact that he was doing it _again._ she deserves way better, oh my god.
@Tatianna rpdr is my queen Unfortunately she may be financially trapped. It’s common in the US- I’m lucky my wife and I are in a healthy relationship but if something were to happen I wouldn’t be able to afford food or a place to live on my own income
Ok off topic but I love your pfp so much
She’s getting exactly what she deserves but ok lol
@@GustaferrEJ2 what did she do
@@GustaferrEJ2 wait what did she do
If Danny ever shows up dead just know Christy was with me, we were in my house alone, I was showing her my cat, she was with me from the crack of dawn all the way until hours after whatever the time he got murd-- i mean, died..
I was there too!!! All three of us were just having a nice conversation that lasted DAYS before and after his death
i hope christy and ileana are able to cultivate a loving mother daughter relationship and then they ruin danny’s life, together, as a family💞
That would honestly be the best way this could end. I’m sure there’s potential for a truly deep, familial relationship for Christy and Ileana, so long as they kick Danny to the curb.
For some reason, I don't know why, the song Goodbye Earl by the Dixie Chicks comes to mind...
Social Distancing On YES
omg yes please
The good ending. Dump his ass and both of them can actually become a healthy family
I am genuinely sad that the show didn't end with Iliana and Christy becoming friends and kicking Danny out and adopting 7 more cats. I would have watched that show.
Yes, that would have been something. Both of them finding a family in each other, surrounded by fur babies.
@@woodanemone9758 so like does anybody actually know what happened to them?? I hope the situation got better
@@alienstar9038 I don't know sadly.
@@woodanemone9758 aww that’s sad ☹️
@@alienstar9038 I'm not fully sure what happened but iliana was living with someone else in America for a bit but then was sent back to Austria
He literally thinks he’s gonna get to live a real life porn fantasy and is so unashamed about it, this is all completely normal to him. I’ve never heard someone call somebody a “freak show” in the nicest most non-threatening way possible. His poor wife really needs to gather the courage to tell him he’s f*cking disgusting and hit the road
This is the realest take. I feel bad for his wife and obviously she needs to leave, but she's also allowing this to happen to a young girl. She's checked out to the point where her husband is actively harming other people instead of her.
@@nataliee5236 Wow... You're right. I was just feeling sorry for the wife. But she's watching her husband groom a young woman. She's been tricked, now she's sort of trapped, and it's almost guaranteed that he's going to sexually harass her. He pulled the exact same scam before. While the wife is a victim, she's also somewhat complicit in victimising ileana.
@@gracecamaxtli7090 can you groom someone who is +18?
@@felissylvestris6557 because women are children?
@@wiredvibe1678 yes absolutely , also an 18+ poor , pregnant , away from her country , and with no way to escape makes it more plausible
This guy is going to assault her. He's bringing a young, naive woman to a place where she is isolated and dependent on them. This is abuser 101. And most people don't know that pregnancy is another variable that abusers use against their victims most of the time.
You know too much, creepo😅
@@PatrickArcato actually, I was forced to have a baby at age 21 and then I chose to dedicate my career to women like me.
@@u4f-x7bI am sorry you went through that
@@u4f-x7b i come from a similar background I'm proud of you. I hope that you help Eastern women too btw they go through it the most and worst
I appreciate you pointing out that there are normal reasons for adopting an adult child; people always look at me weird and ask a lot of uncomfortable questions when they find out my older sister was adopted at 19 like “she was an adult at that point why did she NEED adopted?”
Like bc you don’t only have a family til you hit 18, and they play a pretty important role in your adult life. My sister lost her dad as a baby, was taken from her mothers custody at 8 when she tried to trade her for drugs, and spent the whole rest of her childhood functionally as an orphan getting tossed from one bad situation to another. She and I met in high school and eventually got a starter place together. We bonded like you would with a natural born sister, platonic but very close, and when my dad and stepmom found out about her snd agreed they’d like a bigger family they decided to adopt both her and her little brother who was around 12 to give them a loving family. My family always treated them like they were natural born members and it was a really good situation she wouldn’t have had it we’d been too put off my adopting an adult.
So your sister is basically a good friend that became a family member?
That's rad af.
That’s a beautiful story
This is so sweet ❤
Thank you for talking about this ❤
Adults adopting adults is very common over here in a lot of European countries where aristocracy is still a thing. Especially celebrities with a lot of money get adopted from aristocrats who actually don't have a lot of money and sell their titles via the adoption.
I watched it the first time, I just... I just don't know if I can do it a second time. This felt less than watching something cringey, and more being complicit in watching a crime.
I didn't watch it a second time for this reason - I "watched" the video for the algorithm, but my phone emitted no sound and was face down on the counter while I was elsewhere.
This is gonna get grapy real fast and I hate this for her
@@goldfishaddict6368 wait omitted meaning 'left out no sound', or emitted meaning 'let out no sound'?
@@jordanwardan7588 Used the wrong word, you're totally right.
Men like this are so normalized that I will indeed watch chad tear them apart again bc I’m so used to that level of creep. When I was a teenager working in retail a old man asked me when I was gonna start having babies 😩 I need to hear someone sane roast them
"Share OUR marrital problems" my guy, you are the marrital problem
Lol he knows he's been caught in deep and is proud to say so but he still cant bare to shoulder all the blame. Little weasel.
Lmao
I want to like this comment but it’s at 420 likes- ☠️✋
I genuinely laughed out loud at this
Maybe that was the point. He was hoping for a threesome.
Getting this recommended 2 years later
The scary thing is how willing he was to sleep with her, and even asked his wife what she’d do if they slept together. But he never made it clear with the girl he adopted that he wanted that. She wants a family but he wants a young bride and she’s not even aware of that. What the actual fuck.
Horrifying
@@JasmineTea127 i hope ur username is a joke
@@jennifrsbody It’s a meme
The young woman wanted money and green card
@@randomina465 she wanted out of her financial issues.
Christy needs someone who appreciates her feelings and her felines.
There's her dating app profile right there!
@@FiddlebirdBlue so?
guys dont like cats
@@ptralx3122 I’m a guy. I like cats.
feelings and felines
I worked as a PA for this show and it was such a strange experience. They asked a lot of the crew to wait outside for the interview scenes, and Danny had a TON of huskies in his backyard (he said he ran a husky rescue). Christy also kept making jokes about adopting members of the crew, which just made the experience pretty uncomfortable. They were more or less pleasant in the limited interaction I had with them, but seeing the show afterward was BIG YIKES.
Did he like... work the huskies at all? Keeping huskies outside in a kennel-type environment isn't uncommon due to their destructive nature and ability to escape out of Anything. I don't like it personally, but it isn't necessarily abusive itself. But it's *highly* concerning if he isn't working them nearly every day- those dogs can and will lose their minds without being able to work. And rescues tend to try and keep dogs sane and healthy.
I really hope those dogs aren't being used as a puppy mill operation. That's my immediate concern, especially with him stating that he met the first girl he tried to adopt while selling her a puppy.
Edit: Plus husky puppies are extremely cute and are one of those "fad" breeds. I can only imagine that part of his game might be to lure younger women in with puppies...
I feel like some things went down in the interview…
I have so many questions
Weird..
LOL so he keeps a bunch of dogs in his back yard and gets up Christy's ass about her having cats?!
Dude you're absolutely hilarious. I'm crying cause your commentary is perfect.
Honestly, I expect no less from a man who talks and sounds EXACTLY like Big Ed. You can't sound exactly like a Big Ed and just NOT be a creep.
holy fukkkkk i thought he sounded eerily familiar
im glad someone pointed this out, he really does sound like big ed
I fucking knew his voice was familiar
Nah big ed seems different.. dare i say he actually might be better than this guy. Bc yknow hes not going after BERELY legal adults... but thats besides the point both of them are different in way of expressing themselves. Like this guy says it in a very creepy way idk
@@loverboy6149 True, I think this guy might actually be creepier then Ed...although he IS marrying Liz, a girl his daughter's age, and dated Rose, who was even younger than his daughter.
i feel like him being racist is just the cherry on top. predator and racist. dude really said "this isn't even my final form"
Underrated comment
dude can’t pick a struggle
What did he say that was racist?
@@colt9836 he has a track record of saying racist things on his, now removed and deleted, socials. He’s said some crazy stuff on tiktok 😨
@@chilichinashop Oh, I know. I just want to know how much of a yikes his takes are.
I don't think I've ever felt worse for a woman in my entire life. Every second Christy is on screen she looks like she's about to die of loneliness
I know. :( Loneliness and deeply, deeply repressed rage.
Then her dumbass should leave him. Is she a baby or a grown ass woman?
It makes me pretty furious myself, she deserves so much better.
Yep - i get that big time. More than sad. As an observer to America (UK resident), there seems to be a OK to anything that brings you tv time or money. Lack of ethics and morals in how you relate to others. Car crash TV, with idiots at the wheel, and watch the victims bleed. Fubar.
You can't die of loneliness. Some would even argue it's not a real thing.
1:51 im sorry, HOW CAN YOU NOT BE EXCITED TO MENTION THIS ADORABLE TUXEDO?
YESSSS THAT CAT IS ADORABLEEE
I would say "why dont they just adopt an actual child in need?", but I got not 2 minutes into this thing and said "No way, this guy does not need to be around kids like that under any circumstances".
Literally like I hope this entire show is used against him if even ATTEMPTS to adopt in the future
Well, technically they are adopting someone in need, but I feel like those reasons are secondary to Danny boy's motivations.
An adult can still be someone in need of a family, but like you said, his motivations are WAY off.
He's already trying to adopt someone in order to sleep with his daughter. He needs to be nowhere near children.
let me get this straight... Christy knows Dan has cheated, she knows he took interest in a teenager, and she hears all the sexual references toward Ileana that Dan makes... Christy needs to leave. And by leave I mean kick Dan out
9:50 he's absolutely emotionally abusing her. "Their" marital problems was him falling in love with the last 18 year old. Yet he wants to her to explain to an audience as if she's also to blame despite her distress. This man has probably gaslit her into being dependant on him
@@a_person4742 I mean I understand that , but she is a grown woman. And Dan may be emotionaly abusing her but now christy has the inluence of every veiwer who is telling her to leave. If she decides to stay that's on her.
@@a.j.9566 it was aired on tv amd streaming sites, they dont usually have comments. The liklihood she watches these specific youtube commentators is slim
@@a_person4742 even if she doesnt see peoples opinion Christy is her own person and should be making her own choices.
@@a.j.9566 the entire point of emotional absue and manipulation is it takes advantage of people and males them vulnerable and often dependant. It makes them feel like they cant leave, that they're stuck. Have some empathy
christy was literally like "Oh my god my husband is going to cheat on me with the woman he wants to adopt again" and then danny just goes "yeah I'm scared I'm gonna wanna cheat on my wife with the woman i'm trying to adopt. you know, again." as if there needed to be more proof that this is completely fucked up
And And And SHE'S PREGNANT 🤰
@@lorettascott5477 Yeah, like, WTF?! What is WRONG with you?!
I feel like he wants a young girl to call him daddy rather than a daughter to call him dad.
honestly chad chad didnt even touch on the fact that this dude made a huge point to let eliana know that they lived in a very isolated, wooded area, with lots of security cameras. and that they "didnt trust outsiders." that girl looked SO scared when he started to explain that, but she clearly has nowhere else to go, and just told the camera that (paraphrasing) "i'll just have to adapt and deal with it."
he made sure she was financially reliant on him, brought her to a forgein country, and then told her she was monitored at all times and in the middle of nowhere and they didnt trust "strangers" on the property. i'm 100% worried for that girl.
Wowwwwwww. I didn’t watch the show, but that is extremely abusive behavior. Between that and the obvious incest fetish that POS Danny has, it’s no wonder the show was canceled. I understand the importance of adult adoption in certain cases, but I hope there are laws in place to protect the adoptees in cases like this one. I hope the young girl and wife are ok.
Damn
Ive seen on other channels that she was rescued by a cousin so she should be ok
@@thejaimebush my kids are about grown and I was thinking I'd foster/adopt specifically older kids 16-24 Cause that's where the need is. Everyone deserves a family . A mom or dad... until they pull some shit like this guy. This feels so nefarious
i heard elsewhere that she's back in her home country or something now. at the very least it's confirmed that she is away from him.
i came into this video expecting a funny little time. i did not expect this
Yep. We just got the creepier version of big ed
when the youtubers i watch watch each other
@@jordanne.anemone that moment when
I hope you make a video on this cause I want to hear your take on it.
@@jordanne.anemone 😀
Billy climbing over that ramp with the piano music in the background was...just amazing
billy the exterminator, probably a fever dream to all... who didn't own the dvds of the seasons (totally am not one of those people-)
And he did it so slow too 💀💀
@@ashtonisvibing4763 I swear I remember watching that show on the regular. But I was a kid, so I feel like I shouldn't watch it again, because it looks..... Ridiculous
@@avaracicot5063 from what i remember the parts where billy went to deal with the animals and stuff were pretty alright, just standard exterminating and such!... but of course it's a&e so obviously it had drama crap- the drama crap was horrible, just a ton of useless family drama-
I will be replying this take in my head for the rest of the week.
5:46 ok but can we talk abt how danny just “childtrapped” christy* 🤢
Adult trapped 💀 i cant tell if its worst or not
i think he’s confusing “father figure” and “sugar daddy”
PLS I-
He pulled an Amber: he's using the word sugar daddy and father figure synonymously.
@@nani8907 AGSKGAISHAIJA
yeah
My thought EXACTLY
Y'know when I first heard there was a show coming out called "Adult Adoption" I thought it might be good, because I've always thought it was sweet how step parents and foster parents want to adopt their step/foster kids even when they're adults. I thought it was gonna be a heartwarming cute show about families but NO WE GET THIS SHIT INSTEAD
I feel your pain...
that is how media manipulate us for choosing "randomly" i mean voting, por new laws,
I knooww that's what I thought and when I heard people hated it, I had no idea why they would, until I saw this video and now I'm just astounded
I wish I had this type of hopeful faith in people.... I've seen too much
Never have high expectations for reality TV.
I want to give Christy a hug. Or a cat, whichever she prefers
Definitely a cat
I’d like to give her a presidential pardon for the murder of her husband Danny
@@mikebakster2540 this, this is the one right here
both. Both is good.
I think a restraining order might be appropriate
That last one was scary, the way he asked her, it wasnt even a question it was a humiliation
I feel so bad for the girl like they don't even tell her how creepy dannys being
Exactly. Like, how on Earth can they film all this, not tell the girl being adopted anything about it even though they can, and still feel like they are good people at the end of the day. Whoever was in charge, do they have no morals at all?
I feel even more bad for Christy, girlie doesn’t deserve that peace of sh!t
I feel so bad for Christy, she’s so obviously unhappy with this and right in front of her face, Danny talks of their marital issues to another person and she is told he finds other (younger) women attractive TO HER FACE. That is ridiculous, he should be telling her he finds her attractive, not other women.
She looks so sad and I fully believe that, in the airport, her crying is not out of happiness but out of sadness and dread and knowing; knowing that this is really happening and she cannot do anything about it.
She just get a divorce.. what the fuck else does he have to do for her to file it😭
@@z3ngz based on the way he was trying to isolate that girl, I would not be surprised to find he has already done that to his wife and she feels she has no choice but to stay. among other reasons.
@@fatlizard_ Also, I'm afraid to say it, but the truth is she's really unattractive and she most likely believes she'll be alone for the rest of her life if she leaves. And because of Danny's emotional abuse, she won't have the self esteem to be able to be happy by herself. So she stays with him rather than upending her whole life, moving to a new home, going through the whole legal process of divorce, and ending up alone for the rest of her life
how do you feel sorry for her?
i genuinely cant. she's an adult. she has options. she CAN divorce him or leave or not deal with him. they got no kids. all she has is the cats that he doesnt like and the deodorant in the fridge.
why doesn't she just get a pair of balls, some fucking self respect, and tell dude to go fuck himself?
honestly i have no clue how people feel sorry for her, she honestly brought that upon herself.
"fool me once..."
@@z3ngz i read that as she got a divorce and got happy for a sec
I wanna give the wife a hug because she looks so much in pain.
Same!
She looks like she may have suffered some abuse when she was young. Now as adult she found another man to repeat the cycle with.
not tryna be rude, but why doesn't Christie divorce him?! especially the first time he cheated, she should've divorced him then, or at least signed up for couples therapy.
@@familyfun6995something the abuser convinces the victim that they're sorry and the victim ends up stay8ng hoping they get better
3:08 America right now be like:
Reeaaalll
Cry, pussy
Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I hope it’s exactly the same
If Christy made a gofundme for her divorce I would gladly donate. Get her away from that man asap
Wouldn't he be entitled to 50% tho?
@baby venusian I didnt know infidelity meant a legal nullification of the 50/50 asset division including income or finances accured during marriage
@@Foul_Deformity depends if they signed a prenup or not
i feel bad for that poor little girl getting dragged into some random couple's marital issues. all iliana wanted was a safe, financially stable place for her and her baby.
Lol! I know! And I'm not laughing because what he is doing is funny. I'm laughing because it is so absurd that he doesn't see the absurdity of it!! Poor woman! Poor women, both of them, having to face an absurd man and this absurd situation.
“Poor little girl” bruh
@makaithreads2261 that's hilarious. You're right, she is, but the sentiment is the same. She is in need of a support system that she is clearly lacking and she just wants security for herself and her unborn child, which they both deserve.
Marital issues. His issues
I'm fairly sure she was fully aware that she was exploiting a deluded old man's sexual desire.
If she wanted financial stability for her baby, she'd have gotten a job.
Seeing Chad Chad's visible anger radiate through the screen was cathartic. Just unashamedly tearing this creep a new one. Perfection.
facts.
The producers saw this and just thought .. yes. Let’s enable this , continue to record, and watch this happen
The fact that he has sexual fantasies and feelings for an 18-year-old girl whom he is trying to adopt is already disgusting, and the fact that he acts as if it's normal is even more disturbing. His wife does not deserve anything like this, she should file for divorce and get tf out of this mess.
she's an adult
@@Al-xz9zs She's a teenager and he's a middle aged man
I don't think Christy can, he seems abusive and forceful on her
And pls help and take the girl too
@@ANDPEGGY-1 yeahh
He only brought up marital problems in front of her so he could plant seeds in his victims mind that the marriage is rocky ..therefore opening a door for him to easily take advantage of her without guilt
Exactly. We can see right through him.
Or like-
“Oh you’re the only one who can help me! My wife can’t and neither can a therapist!”
This show could have been so heartwarming how did they mess it up so bad lmao
I heard they want to boot the person who gave them the green light as well
you could put that guy in absolutely any show and he will make it disgusting
I think it's quite simple, actually. Ratings. An innocent show about adult adoption wouldn't get as many ratings as this fucking sickening show. To the producers it probably doesn't matter how much harm this might do to the appearance of legit adult adoption, it just needs to make a good return on investment.
if only the person on the show was a normal person with childhood trauma who decided o adopt an 18 yr old with similar trauma and they became like family but nah
It's reality TV. What did you expect
This is so gross and annoying...it gives a BAD REP to actual adult adopting adults...
Like you said, there is no issue at all doing so with step kids, adopted kids, etc., but...what really get on my nerves is that, in a LOT of countries where homosexual marriage aren't allowed, people adopt each other to be a real family on paper...and now, people like these give the impression that adults doing that are creeps...when in reality, adult adoption can be a beautiful loving thing.
When I was ~25 I asked my step-dad to legally adopt me and he said, "yes." Part of the process was going to court, standing in front of a judge, and affirming that in the past/present/future there is no romantic and/or sexual relationship. You affirm this under oath.
With this video being the only knowledge I have of Danny, he's a trash person.
I hope to god someone gets this recording to the judge who can end this madness.
Really? A part of legal adult adoption is to affirm that you have never been, aren’t in, and will never be in a sexual relationship? I didn’t expect them to be mindful of that.
If Danny is so worried about being attracted to his adopted daughter then WHY IS HE ADOPTING A GROWN WOMAN??? like.. wtf
cuz he isnt worried - he wants to
Even tho he adopted a child, he'd probably sexualize her as she hit puberty tbh.
@@GabrielleJinn bruh even before 💀
@@mlady95 🤢
Im also concerned why he took in a pregnant woman, and he is attracted to borderline adults..... Im actually scared rn about what could happen.
I love every video Chad Chad makes
@don't be surprised thanks for the motivation video. I really needed to hear this
Love your vids!
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@@takedown9425 as much as i dont like self promotion this the only time ill accept it cuz this song goes
@@takedown9425 Ok this is cool! i clicked the link and i expected some scam or a dumb thing. But this looks nice!
4:36 I I had to stop watching go outside walk around my backyard and then come back before I fully processed what he said
Dan gives me serious groomer vibes though. Eliana is pregnant and it makes me honestly worry for the baby.
Yeah... Eliana needs to GTFO as fast as possible, and Christy should go with her.
He gives the vibe of a creep everyone would defend cause "he doesn't look like a creep"
dude legit reminds me of my dad- hes creepy like this. with how my childhood up to this point went cuz of him someones gotta call CPS for that baby.
@@ihateithere6432 bro there aint no part of him that dont look like a creep
@@Ghoulicshifter yeah, don't judge a book by its cover and all that but sometimes the cover is extremely telling lmao
Okay but, legitimately, has anyone performed a welfare check on Ileana since this show? Specifically, the show's staff? Don't they feel any moral obligation towards what is essentially s*x trafficking???
the s*x trafficking of a PREGNANT. TEENAGER.
Assume all reality tv is bullshit tbh. Wouldnt be surprised if it was scripted.
If its not tho jeeez. Dude should be kept away from vulnerable people
@@markbaker4425 Is not really that I think this scripted it's more like my brain cannot process this man being real, but he pretty much is
So, apparently, Ileana was "rescued" by Danny's cousin. Christy wouldn't allow her to stay in the house, and the trailer Ileana and her baby were living in didn't have any heat during the winter. Sidenote: a long series of tweets made by a woman many months before the show aired revealed Danny was openly telling people he was attracted to Ileana and saying very creepy things about the situation.
@@markbaker4425 here's the problem. I'm from chillicothe and I've seen them in public before..... they really are creeps. I know you can't take my word for it, because that's biased. But I can testify that dudes always given me the creeps, but ya know the wife isn't innocent either! Everyone's got a choice. Leave his ass 🤷
I can’t remember the last time I’ve felt so compelled to call the police on some looney tune in a reality TV show, but here comes Danny waltzing in with all of his creepy glory, making my fingers itch to dial 9-1-1. Seriously, somebody stop this man. ASAP.
Amen girl
You're not alone
Fr! Hes attracted to borderline adults, and he wants do adopt a woman whos pregnant. That is a HUGE red flag.
Dude is a psychopath, he'll never love anyone but himself. Imagine if Christy leaves him and he's left alone with Leanna. What if she rejects his advances? He'd probably fly into a rage and hurt her or worse. I hope those women are safe now...
He's practically smirking when he's looking at Christy when she doesn't want to talk to Ileana about "their marital problems" like he's thinking "heh, I knew it, she'll never tell".
i felt like it was more of a “ tell her i’ve cheated on you before to plant the seed that if ileana wants to i’ll do it again “
A sad part of history was that before gay marriage was legal in the US, the older partner in a gay couple would often adult adopt the younger one as a way to ensure legal recognition as a family and get the benefits that come with that, like inheritance, hospital visitation, and insurance coverage. And the tragic irony was, once gay marriage was legalized, many of these couples could still not get married due to state incest laws. So that's a really messed up part of history involving adult adoption, as opposed to this, which is just a creepy guy trying to fuck a younger woman.
never knew this… how unspeakably depressing :(
As far as I know it's still happening today in Japan at least, possibly in other countries as well :/
Adoption marriage is still common in places like Japan
Could the adoptee not emancipate themselves?... I mean it's super sad to hear ab this...
The fact that marrying the person u love is not only illegal but also punishable TO THIS DAY in most parts of the world is just insane
I got EMOTIONAL when Danny just watched his wife break down in front of him, doing nothing but stand there with his eyebrows raised in disappointment in HER. Dude is a failure.
That's how my dad was. He has narcissistic personality disorder. They are unable to feel empathy.
I actually found that scary af. That man is dangerous, and clearly has a temper, because his face was not just one of disappointment, but he also looked angry. Like he could snap at any given moment. Almost like he was looking for an excuse to go off on Christy in front of this girl. He was trying play the 2 against each other by singling Christy out and making her seem like the problem.
@@michelleh.5225 While obviously it's terrible for people to act this way, please don't make comments like that on people who have NPD. There's enough people who automatically link people having it with being horrible, abusive people when there are plenty of people who do have it who are genuinely good people. If a person's abusive while having NPD, then they're abusive, it has nothing to do with the disorder itself.
Sorry for ranting, it just frustrates me because a lot of people demonize people with NPD as a whole./gen I'm sorry your family had to go through that and I hope you're doing well these days.
In every way.
7:33 Is that an actual Korn song? Haha, you crack me up!
Song is called "Twist" lol
@kittymadd13 Thank you so much!
the constant smile on danny's face is what makes this particularly disturbing to me. i've known people like him before and they're so uncomfortable to be around
It's giving my math teacher
its giving my dad lol
@@hazelnutchocopie Make it a step dad and u got a video 💀 (btw this is a joke. iykyk)
It’s giving my neighbor 🤢
Not “people.” MEN.
I have an uncle that reminds me EXACTLY of Danny. The only difference is my aunt is (or acts) completely clueless to what he's about.
This woman breaks my heart. That look on her face says it all- she knows. She even called him a freakshow. She looks so tired and sad. I hope she gets out okay.
And the poor girl he adopted...
My ex was a covert narcissist who was just like Danny seems to be. He's a sexual abuser who talked about how he'd love to hire a teenage girl to clean up and do sexual "favours" for him.
Chances are, your aunt knows
This guy needs to be on a list, this is straight out of the book “grooming”. Pretty much illegal everywhere.
The fact our social services has been and continues to fail children and adults is heartbreaking. Don’t get it twisted they do a lot of good but are heavily under staffed and funded. So there is way to many gaps where things like this can happen and go unreported, or if reported straight ignored. 😢
every major group of individuals but especially government entities/ non profit groups also have bad apples so while it's definitely not most people there is times when these groups do more harm than good I experienced it growing up (it might not even have been done in a malicious way just in a very unhelpful and aggressive way) though generally speaking they are needed and it's far more necessary to improve and continue their existence
She's an adult tho...
@@wiredvibe1678 She’s 18. I really wish we would quit it with this whole mentality of “once you’re 18 you are completely different and suddenly an adult in all ways.” He’s in his 40s and she’s an 18 year old woman who plans to live with him because she needs support. He’s being sexually manipulative and demonstrating grooming methods.
@@astrocake584 so true!! Also you can groom people over the age of 18.
@@wiredvibe1678 she's not a full adult yet, being 18 doesn't make you a full adult, she'll live with them bcs needs support for her child, not bcs she wants a creepy middle aged man who has some sort of daddy/daughter kink to groom her.
9:05 is how far I made it. I feel that the ordeal has caused me to shrink as a person.
the "where's my blowy" actually blew me away
Literally uh huh 😂😂
HUH
I literally clicked in the video just because the thumbnail made me lose it
No fr cause my parents have never and will never ask me that like wtf😭😭
It...blowied...you away?
Danny is a predator, and the fact that "his daughter" is pregnant just makes me even more concerned for that baby
This man saying “Share OUR marital problems” sounds exactly like something my narcissistic biological father would say.
Right??? He's moving the blame away from himself even though he's the one who's causing all the issues.
And how he looks at her when she cries, like “You’re embarrassing me in front of this teenager I’m trying to fuck”. Fuck this guy to the moon and back.
You're married to your father?
@@S3RAPH1MX 😐 no. he used to say things like that to my mom.
@@salemmoon888 not my fault you implied that you were married to your dad
10:16 you can’t say this is a twinge of cringe chad chad this is a lethal dosage
I have never developed such a profound hatred for a person in 11 minutes as I have with danny
on god
samee
Christy is not a crazy cat lady, shes a mature cat lady.
She is crazy for staying with him after his cheating
Must be some emotional damage there somewhere. @@wurzeleule
DUDE he's expressing his concerns about becoming ATTRACTED TO HIS ADOPTIVE DAUGHTER RIGHT INFRONT OF HIS WIFE, WHICH HE HAS CHEATED ON BEFORE. LIKE WHAT???????
@Aybüke Tonbul the book suggestion is good, but wtf does "academically capable" mean, lmao? It's a book, I started reading it and english isn't even my first language and I learned it at 16 years old, maybe I'm wrong but you sounded extremely condescending
@@Mimi-py8mf dude, come on, you're just not as academically capable as someone who can't spell explain.
@Aybüke Tonbul Its not incest.I can bring some young adult girls and treat them like my daughters for years and i will still be attracted to them.Because they are not my daughters in first place neither i raised them from childhood.So its nothing to be surprised about
@@Returntonature145 u see, in people who don't sexually objectify women to a worrisome degree like you and danny do, certain relationship dynamics DO in fact make you unable to feel sexual attraction to the person. like, if you're a decent person, that it. just blew ya mind, yer welcome 😎😎😎
@@natevans8024 Do you even know what objectifying means?
bro literally said, “where my hug at?”
I don’t think words could could express how this man’s interactions, responses, body language, and demeanour made me physically hurt. I’ve never felt like I was getting docked in the gut before.
Yes. This.
Re-watching this masterpiece to help with the algorithm 🙏
you're a real one!
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SAMEEEE
Same
@@secretsips not you agreeing with yourself ✨IRONIC✨
You can see when they saw Ileana at the airport how afraid Christy was. She was obviously afraid for Ileana, and I think that’s definitely a large factor into why she didn’t want to do this. I hope that both women and Ileana’s child got away from Danny.
100% agreed
I love how he talks abt being in love with young women, say the most freaky-ish stuff, acts like it’s jst his “child” and cheat on her right in front of his wife and she’s jet sitting there like nothing happened and she is just has to be happy for her husband and the girl.Thats jst sad for her she deserves better tbh
As an Ohioan, this guy is one example of why I totally understand everybody dunking on Ohio all the time.
get well soon /j
Can't even get adopted in Ohio. 💀
oof yeah
Average Ohio household
Ohio is the Florida of the Midwest
I think Danny has watched too many totally “family friendly” father daughter videos on a certain website.
*HornPub*
Even his body knows that he cant have a child because who knows what he'll do....
@@Google_remote that doesn’t matter it’s still men Danny age becoming dads his wife might not can’t have any but I guarantee if he mess with illiana she will most likely get pregnant
@@sagba947 No im saying since hes attracted to borderline adults, he might be sexually attracted to his kid(s).
@@sagba947 he’s infertile not the wife
I've avoided watching other reactions to this particular show because it makes me so sad to see this guy's wife. You can tell that she has a broken sense of self-worth, and it's really gut-wrenching.
Im rlly numb rn i feel like i cant process things bec ive gone through like alot latly but i understand this is bad im still trying to fully process just how bad of a situation that is its literally like s2x traffiking, like some other ppl said its weird this guys got a f5tish or something ((sorry if thats upsetting
Solid video and I particularly like ur editing style. Nice job!
Openly being a creep is a whole other level, how is this even televised? Is this not a crime in the US? Love your sense of humour double chad, even tho this is not a funny situation.
I live in america, and yes, this is a crime. The producers probably didn’t care at all and just needed better ratings. Good thing the show was cancelled, as it should be.
I am an American and I don’t even fucking know to be honest with you I’m disgusted with most of our policies here I literally wanna leave but can’t to poor. I mean it isnt legal but it probably wont get investigated.
The problem is people like him are perfectly fine talking about being a creep because you can’t be arrested just for just talking about these gross things. Nothing is usually done unless he acts on it
This is a crime in the U.S.. I do not know how this was televised.
Lots of bad shit is televised in this country. You ever seen cop shows? Those are bad too.
A supposed, older "friend" I had during my teenage time acted *exactly* like Danny did before he SA'ed and r0ped me. The close contact, the constant "cute" compliments even though I was 15, the weird questions, even going as far as to say if he could he'd adopt me.
By dear God do I hope Ileana and her baby are okay.
U r a very strong person
I'm sorry, I wish you well. And same, I hope someone got Ileana out of there.
I hope your okay now and understand nothing of this was your fault (wanted to write this, because many people think it’s there fault after they were SA). Also i really hope that asshole is behind bars and you can live your life more safe.
I also agree with you about Ileana and her baby. I still kinda worried about her and the child
@@emimew he sadly isn't as far as I know since I didn't have the courage to report what happened, and it's been years now so it's not provable anymore in court unfortunately. Thank you for your kind words and same, I hope they are safe 🙏
You are amazing, I hope you are well
So on top of being an entire creep, he’s also racist😅 why does this not surprise me! Hope Christy leaves this guy and finds peace with her cats. Love your editing as always✨
Wait where did they say he was racist?
@@aleynahallie9506 in the last couple minutes of the video
@@aleynahallie9506 Someone didn't watch the entire video
@@deadalpeca8099 I couldn't get through it the first time but I watched all the way through the second time
@@aleynahallie9506 honestly i dont blame you 🤢🤢
I was having a too-pleasant of a day. Decided to return to this pure-salt-in-my-eyes/ears that is this video.
Love you, ChadChad.
For me a big red flag is someone taking a regular thing and adding "on you" to the end of it. The way he says "I like hugging on you" just gives me the heebie jeebies.
I never realized it, but thinking about what you said, I only say "on you" to my partner. Like "lemme love on ya" when I want cuddles kind of thing. I can't think of a single circumstance where I'd use that phrase with another person. I'd think maybe it's just the way the guy talks, but given all his other red flags, it weirds me out. Like bruh why you wanna be "on" a pregnant 18 year old in any context? Ew.
I think it makes you sound like lenny from of mice and men.
I think he is just creepy. So anything he says becomes creepy.
@@markbaker4425 a man of culture I see
I said this before but it’s important! Adult adoption was a big deal in Texas especially for LGBT couples who wanted to inherit from one another in case of intestacy. Adoptive kids and parents would be same sex spouses who would do this in case of emergency so they could inherit from one another if a will wasn’t possible. This was one of the most interesting and important historical things i learned in my Texas wills class. Of course, the Texas legislature later made this much more difficult to prevent LGBT marriages or marriage-like relationships.
not only in texas, but you‘re absolutely right!
at this point, don't know why anyone would bother with texas unless they were a racist, trump supporter.
Kinda like Japan hey?
I didn’t know that thanks for sharing
@@joueenfalt3561 if you mean where they adopt someone on to their family registry then yes
I CANNOT imagine how anyone at A&E thought this would be a good thing to put on air…
Like, that shows a shockingly dysfunctional moral compass.
The fact that this went through production at all is an astounding feat of sliminess.
you see, they doin a good lil ol trick, they DONT HAVE a moral compass
Based on all the other stuff on A&E and TLC...Im not shocked.
Yeah... I wish that slime would be slick enough that they just sort of... y'know... fall off the face of the earth and into the sun. We'd all be better off.
Because now days ppl think it's cool being a disgusting freak 👍
isnt a&e the channel that put out scared straight, which is basically child abuse: the show
When he was saying "Willing to share our marital..." I fully expected the next word to be "bed."
The fact that no one during filming was like “maybe it’s okay to let that legacy end here?” ESPECIALLY AFTER ADMITTING TO FINDING ATTRACTION IN AN 18 YEAR OLD WHO
SOUGHT HIM OUT FOR PARENTSHIP!!!! What?!?!
Christy looks like shes on the verge of tears the entire time its so sad
When you look like that you're justified
@@PatrickArcato??
the girl: just wanting a family to help her raise her baby in a loving home ( kinda like the movie 'Where The Heart Is' pretty much )
the wife: just wants her cats and a husband who loves her and wont cheat or be a creep.
the guy: being a total creep about it, way too obviously wanting "something" to happen with the girl, and is putting everything wrong he did with the last girl on his wife ( whose done nothing wrong ). Plus he still sounds like Big Ed, so nope. all around creep.
That dude needs investigated!! I pray that nobody left kids alone with this man!! All the vibes are there about this dude !!