Christian YouTuber caught on Ashley Madison 'nervous' over Netflix doc
YouTube star Sam Rader has admitted that he’s been unable to sleep and ‘super nervous’ ahead of the release of Netflix’s docuseries about Ashley Madison that he and his wife will appear in – seven years after the website devoted to cheating was hacked and his name was among the list of users.
Ashley Madison was launched in 2001 as a dating site for spouses looking to be unfaithful and told those who had tied the knot to embrace infidelity, becoming known for its tagline, ‘Life is short. Have an affair.’
More than 37 million unfaithful spouses took the bait and created a profile on the site in hopes of getting tangled up under the bedsheets with another married stranger.
And while the dating page proved to popular, everything came crashing down for the brand when it got hacked in 2015 – with every name on the site leaked and destroying marriages.
YouTube star Sam Rader has admitted that he’s ‘super nervous’ ahead of the release of Netflix’s docuseries about Ashley Madison that he and his wife, Nia, will appear in. Both pictured
One of the members who was forced to face the wreckage that was left in the aftermath of the hack was Christian vlogger Sam, who is married to fellow content creator Nia.
On their combined YouTube channel, Sam And Nia, the couple uploaded a new video titled, ‘Our Lives Will Never be the Same…. We’re coming to Netflix’, on Saturday following the release of the trailer for Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies, and Scandal.
The lovebirds admitted to being a part of the docuseries as Sam confessed that he hadn’t been able to sleep because he had been up thinking about their story.
‘I haven’t been able to sleep for the past couple of days, it’s been rough,’ he revealed
The couple explained that they first got an email about the Netflix docuseries in February 2022 before telling viewers that they had opened up even more about their journey in their upcoming book, which is set to be released on May 16.
Sam and Nia also shared that they weren’t sure how their story would ‘play out’ on the streaming platform.
‘I just don’t know how our story will play out, or if it would be portrayed accurately,’ he expressed.
Last week, the couple also hinted at the docuseries with a video titled, ‘We’re Super Nervous,’ just one day before the release of the trailer for the Netflix show.
Ashley Madison was launched as a dating site for spouses looking to cheat in 2001 and told those who have tied the knot to embrace infidelity (Sam seen in the trailer for the docuseries)
The couple’s marriage was put under the spotlight after the website devoted to cheating was hacked and Sam’s name was among the list of users. Pictured is Nia in the Netflix docuseries
In another video shared to YouTube, Sam – who is featured in the trailer alongside Nia -admitted that he was ‘nervous’ for the release of the show
And while the dating page proved to be popular, it all came to a screeching halt in 2015 when Ashley Madison got hacked, destroying marriages (Sam seen with his wife and kids)
Though they did not name the project in that video, they alluded to having ‘nerves’ about an event their followers would know about ‘soon enough.’
‘It’s almost happening,’ Sam says to his wife in the clip, before adding: ‘How do you feel?’
Nia then appears to laugh nervously.
‘I feel like every day I have to overcome a new [level]… I have to like go through the steps of like why we did this, what was our goal, why did we do it and forget about the nerves that are behind it,’ she responded.
‘Yeah I keep asking why too,’ Sam adds.
‘Why was I up for this? What was I thinking?’
Nia continues: ‘I’ll try to go to sleep and suddenly this new thought pops in my head, a new person seeing it, like having a reaction and I have to talk myself out of caring what that person will think or say.’
Sam then says he ‘imagines our phones are going to blow up with just like texts from a bunch of people that we haven’t heard from in a long time,’ with Nia adding: ‘Gosh, I hope not.’
‘And for those of you who don’t know what’s going on, let me just say…,’ Sam says.
‘Neither do we,’ Nia jokes, ‘No I’m kidding.’
Going along with her, Sam quips: ‘Yeah we don’t either. What the heck are we even talking about?’
He then continues: ‘So guys you’ll know soon enough and when you do come on back over… let us know what we did, why we did it?’
Sam said he was headed off to go camping with their son, Abram, ‘but something might big might happen while I’m away, so we’re just kind of out here talking with each other, preparing for it, just in case it does happen, we don’t know yet.’
‘Crap might hit the ceiling fan,’ he added.
The docuseries features the couple and appears to also have testimonies from other members of Ashley Madison and employees
The trailer for the three-part docuseries titled, Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies, And Scandal, was released on YouTube on Thursday. It’s set to stream on Netflix from May 15
Later on Nia says: ‘If it does, we need to make a decision right now… are we gonna watch it together or are we going to make each other wait.
‘I think we should watch it and text each other, I don’t want to wait.’
Sam agreed with this stance.
Underneath the video, one fan alluded to the Netflix docuseries coming out.
‘I just saw the trailer!!!! I’m honestly so excited! I’ve been watching for a long time, and remember when everything happened. I’m really proud that you guys can talk about and it and worked through everything and decided to do this documentary! Can’t wait!!!!’ they said.
The trailer for the three-part docuseries titled, Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies, And Scandal, was released on YouTube on Thursday – and it’s set to stream from May 15.
‘I love being a dad, I love my wife, it was a beautiful marriage but it was also monotonous,’ the first man featured in the trailer – who appears to be Sam – said.
‘I remember seeing an advertisement. “Life is short. Have an affair.” That sounds intriguing.’
The trailer than cut to snippets of other couples who used the site and employees of Ashley Madison.
‘Ashley Madison was ahead of its time,’ one woman – who was unnamed – said.
In 2015, hackers who called themselves the ‘impact team’, stole 32 million records of data from the extramarital affair site
Another man – who seemed to work for the company and be on the site – said: ‘The vision was to be the largest and only website for married people who wanted to have an affair. When I’d go to trade shows, they’d say, “Who’s your biggest competitor?” And I’d say, “The Bible.”‘
A second woman declared: ‘I thought it was a great idea, go on a site, and you’re able to tell this stranger your deepest, darkest desires.’
‘I signed up with all my real information, which obviously was a stupid decision,’ Sam said.
Meanwhile, employees of the company noted that ‘security’ became a heightened issue – adding that they were ‘worried’ about it.
‘Ashley Madison was a cash cow and then all of a sudden, we got hacked,’ one employee said.
In 2015, hackers who called themselves the ‘impact team,’ stole 32 million records of data from the extramarital affair site.
The hackers demanded that the site be taken down, which didn’t happen, and as a result the names of everyone who had been involved in an affair went up for the public to see.
Marriages were destroyed due to the leak as well as lives; the state attorney in Florida was forced to resign and a pastor in New Orleans committed suicide.
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