Donna Adelson’s High-Stakes Loyalty: Scripts, Cover-Ups & Prison Future

Donna Adelson’s High-Stakes Loyalty: Scripts, Cover-Ups &
Prison Future

What happens when enmeshment doesn’t just ruin relationships—but
pulls a family into crime? In this segment, Tony Brueski and
psychotherapist Shavaun Scott dive into the Adelsons’ darkest
dynamics, where loyalty has crossed into cover-ups, scripts, and
manipulation.

We explore why some family members are willing to risk
everything, even prison, to protect the family unit. Why does one
sibling cross the line into criminality while another refuses?
And how did Donna Adelson allegedly turn manipulation into a
lifestyle—writing scripts for testimony, bribing with promises of
money, pianos, and veneers, and pulling strings even behind
bars?

Shavaun breaks down the psychology of narcissistic control, where
scripting family members and dictating their roles becomes second
nature. This control, she explains, doesn’t stop at the prison
gates. Donna may continue to build “family” on the inside,
manipulating vulnerable women the same way she controlled her
children.

The conversation also looks at how juries perceive this kind of
toxic family loyalty: is it recognizable to outsiders, or does it
take expert framing to expose just how abnormal it is?

Finally, we ask the chilling question: what does Donna Adelson’s
future look like behind bars? Will she deteriorate, or reinvent
herself as the same manipulator she always was?

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