A couple who shared their experience being caught up in the Ashley Madison hacking scandal have shared an update on their marriage. Earlier this month the Netflix documentary Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal was released, telling the story of how the dating site which encouraged married people to cheat on their partners, was targeted. In 2015 hackers released the personal information of thousands of the site’s users after its owners refused to bow to demands to shut it down.
One of those who was exposed was Sam Rader, who had signed up for the site seeking ‘attention and excitement’. A year earlier, the Texas-based nurse had become a social media influencer with his wife Nia after a video of them singing the song Love is an Open Door from Frozen with their young daughter went viral. Creating a public persona of being a committed Christian husband, a few days after Sam was exposed in the leak, the couple uploaded a video online in which he claimed he had never met anyone face-to-face or had an affair.
However, as Sam explained in the Netflix documentary, he’d been unfaithful throughout their entire marriage and had even tried to cheat with one of his wife’s close friends. After their dirty laundry was aired again in public, the couple have now revealed that they don’t blame the hackers for what unfolded. Sam and Nia, who married in their early 20s, describe their romance as a ‘fairytale’ and have said they saved each other from troubled upbringings.
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