Name: New docuseries tells story of pregnancy and alleged deceit
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Neil was charismatic and witty, just a nice, normal man.

There's something very strange about this baby.

I've spoken to probably 200 people who Neil traumatized.

I'd never seen anything as extreme as this.

For years, this story lived in whispers until it crossed the Atlantic and found an audience on the hit podcast Betrayal.

and this is Betrayal, a show about the people we trust the most and the deceptions that change everything.

Gunning is now sharing these stories on the ABC true crime docuseries Betrayal: Secrets and Lies.

Tina's story begins after she moves home to London for a new job, leaving New York where she'd been married, divorced,

So it was very early 2016, I was at one of these conferences in London.

That's where I stumbled across Neil Lorman.

He's a successful businessman, and he even has an interesting hobby.

He loves cooking and appears in YouTube videos.

If you cooked, they sort of actually come around for dinner and let you cook for me.

Tina had no desire for a relationship, but after the conference, Neil texted her out of the blue.

And Neil seems like he might be good fun for a drink.

And he said that he was divorced also, and they'd lived together in the States too,

and that his ex-wife had got quite bitter about the fact that he couldn't give her children.

He said I'd had testicular cancer and, uh, I'm completely infertile.

I felt like he was being, you know, quite vulnerable and genuine.

She still has no desire for a relationship, but she's having fun with him,

That was part of what it was and part of what was fun.

Even though he told me he was infertile, I was still worried because having another child was not in my plan.

He's like, "No, like, I have zero sperm count." But he had sort of dropped into conversation about having a lot of allergies,

and one of those allergies was latex, so he couldn't use protection.

Tina started noticing things about Neil that were off-putting.

I heard him have a phone conversation with his mother, and he was being so awful to her.

He was clearly lying about his education.

Just as Tina's hoping that this relationship with Neil fades away, she starts to experience this familiar but concerning brain fog.

And then my period was late, so I got a pregnancy test.

I was like, "Well, no, I can't be pregnant.

I thought, "Neil doesn't know he can have children." Tina decides to keep the baby and reaches out to Neil.

If you are pregnant, how you deal with it's not my problem.

Don't sit there putting things on me that this could be mine because it isn't.

So I just said, "You're more than welcome to take a DNA test when the baby's born." Neil refuses to do the DNA test,

She just couldn't understand why he was adamantly denying it.

and in January of 2017, Tina welcomed her baby girl, Josephine, and she calls her Fifi.

When my daughter was born, she had really serious jaundice.

and they said, "Then we're going to need blood types of the parents, any medical history." Tina was afraid for her baby's life.

but she had kept in touch with one of his friends,

How dare I contact his friend and that he would not be giving any medical history.

Luckily, the next level of lights did work.

After a week in hospital, we were able to go home.

Tina and the baby are settling in nicely at home,

but she can't let go of how Neil conducted himself, so she decides to take action against him.

I thought, "I'm going to set the child maintenance service onto you for the next 18 years.

but because you deserve it, because you're not a nice person." Tina submitted an application to the Child Maintenance Service, which is the UK's agency for child support.

When the report came through, it said that he had been assessed £5 a week because he was a benefits recipient.

But then the next really alarming thing was that that £5 a week was split between four children.

The first thing I did was go to Facebook, and I look up Neil's last name: Lorman.

I thought, "Well, this must be his ex-wife." And on the profile was a picture of two young girls,

I thought, "Shall I write to her?" So I did and said, "I've just had a baby,

and the father is Neil Lorman." And quite quickly, she got back to me.

The first line was just, "I am so sorry that you have also been his victim." I'm like, "Oh." Neil's ex-wife tells Tina that they've never lived in the United States.

He's definitely the father of her two kids, and he has never once mentioned having cancer.

At this point, I realized that he had impregnated me maliciously.

There is absolutely justice that needs to be served against Neil.

I didn't consent to being with a fertile man.

To find out what happens, watch the series Betrayal: Secrets and Lies, premiering right here on ABC this Sunday and then available on Hulu and Disney+.

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