Hey there.
So, straight off the bat,
you're not gonna believe the video that I'm about to show you,
but, give me a minute just to set the scene.
As you know, we've been doing these video responses
about the tv series that was done about me
that was called 'The Deep End'.
As you know by now,
I am against this series in a very real way.
The director and producers
went to great lengths to deceive us
for the period of three years.
What they did is that they cultured
incredibly close trusting and affectionate relationships with us,
and then exploited and betrayed that trust.
The entire time the director, producer and crew
told me that my work was helping the world.
That I was a wonderful person and courageous
and that I made a positive difference in their lives and in the world.
They told me that the story arc would be a hero's journey.
But as you all know by now,
when the series aired
the reality turned out to be the exact opposite.
Instead, they portrayed me as a cult leader, falsely.
The footage was edited to a degree that I cannot even believe is allowed,
scenes were taken out of order and out of context,
there was creepy music and lighting
that was used to set a negative tone,
they even spliced together my voice
from other conversations from different times and places.
Essentially, it was edited
to make the audience see what they wanted them to see.
Rather than the actual truthful reality of what actually happened.
But, the real tragedy in this whole situation
is that pretty much since this series has aired
it's really only been my word against their word.
But it turns out that I actually do have some proof.
What I have found is a series of birthday videos
that were given to me by the director,
the main producer and the other members of the film team
on my birthday in June of 2021.
And by the way the director Jon Kasbe
and a couple of other crew members
even came to celebrate that birthday with me.
By that point, the film crew had already been with us
filming for two years.
They knew my work,
they knew my family, they knew my team,
they'd been to synchronization workshops,
they've been to interviews,
curveball events and completion process trainings.
So, here it is...
the video that director Jon Kasbe made me for my birthday.
Happy birthday Teal.
Hope you're having a great day.
I speak for the whole film crew
when I say we have so much appreciation and gratitude to you
and everyone on your team for welcoming us into your lives
and into your family.
I feel like we've learned so much along the way
and...
just feel lucky to have met someone like you
who's so brave and intuitive
and willing to do the hard things
to make the world a better place.
So, thank you for doing what you do and for being who you are.
We love you.
Think of the deception here.
That's a man that just created a tv series
that insinuated that I am a dangerous cult leader.
I want to play this part again
and I want you to think to yourself:
Does this make any sense?
I speak for the whole film crew when I say
we have so much appreciation and gratitude
to you and everyone on your team
for welcoming us into your lives and into your family.
If you considered someone to be like family,
how would you feel if they made a film like 'The Deep End' about you?
And how about when he says:
"I just feel lucky to have met someone like you
who is so brave and intuitive
and willing to do the harder things to make the world a better place".
That was one of my favorites.
Just feel lucky to have met someone like you
who's so brave and intuitive
and willing to do the hard things to make the world a better place.
My question for you is:
Does that match with what you were shown in 'The Deep End'?
Is that what he conveyed to the world?
At the end of this video he finished with:
"We love you".
We love you.
If you sit down to watch 'The Deep End'
or if you listen to Jon Kasbe's interviews about making this project,
and you are asked afterwards:
What does this director feel and think about Teal Swan?
What would you say?
Now, does it match with what he has said in this video?
Most especially, does it match with:
"We love you"?
You might be thinking to yourself,
"Well, maybe Jon went into this project "clean"
and then things went bad between everyone
after they filmed these videos for teal on 2021?
Nope!
Do you remember the scene with Simon Lavelle?
The scene from episode one?
The scene that Jon Kasbe has been saying in interviews
made him shake while he was filming it
and went on to imply
that it made him change his mind about me for the negative?
That scene was shot
a full 10 months before this birthday video.
And I can definitely tell you
that what Jon said to me in the team room
about that interaction with Simon and about Simon himself
was the exact opposite
of what he's been saying in these interviews.
And you know the water breath pool exercise from episode 3
that they shot and edited to make it look like waterboarding?
Yeah, they shot that two months earlier
on April 17, 2021.
The birthday video was a full two months after that.
The second clip I'm gonna show you is Bitsola.
This is the producer that was with us
for the entire duration of the project.
Here is her birthday video to me;
Once again, this is from June of 2021:
Happy birthday Teal!
Excuse my sweaty appearance here.
Um... I mean, happy birthday.
I hope you're just having a sensational day
and celebrating in all the ways that only, uh, you all can.
Uh, and I'm so sorry not to be there.
Um, but thank you for seeing each of us.
For seeing us for who we are
and, and...
helping us on our journeys
as we attempt to share your journey with the world.
It's a really special thing and it's rare.
Um, and I know we're all incredibly grateful to be a part of it.
Uh, in thinking of today down to business,
and thinking of today
um, I wrote a little poem,
a little rap poem.
So, I will now read it:
Okay so... where to start?
The queen she looks on over all of us
so that our trauma is seen,
is both a laugh and serene, concocts exotic cuisine...
colorful, tasty and lean from all the places she's been.
She gets past the junk, the clunk,
debunks what's defunct in every one of our brains
so we become less deranged.
Her presence never goes missed.
Through obstacles she persists.
She is a fire, inspires...
we but inquire, admire as not to mire in dire life paths
cross fire of feeling,
her voice a liar of truth,
whether it's soft or uncouth,
she's not afraid, her mission to expand humankind's vision,
her cognition sees fission and heals it with her redition
a rhetorician physician in human pain demolition
her intuition alone has no living competition
she has ambition, volition is tactful with exposition
puts herself in position to remake healing tradition
with unique disposition for giving us all a chance
to take a positive stance
towards a future more bright and more deserving of light.
On top of that, she's a star,
wears heels and still can walk far,
as we stare on amazed my shoes in envious gaze.
So when I think of today,
it feels most pressing to say
that Teal you are a wonder you lead us through as we blunder
we're here to celebrate you with joy and gratitude true.
Go outside laugh and play because June 16th is your day.
Happy birthday!
Notice how she says:
"Thank you for seeing each of us for who we are,
and for helping us on our journeys".
Thank you for seeing each of us
for seeing us for who we are
and, and... helping us on our journeys.
She said this because since the onset of this project,
I had been helping her
and all the other members of the film team
with the struggles they were facing in their personal lives.
They had been using my processes.
In this clip,
Bits did an entire slam poem
about how much of an amazing person I am
and about the amazing work that I do in the world.
And now, I'm going to show you the rest of the team.
This is David Bohlen
the director of photography and the project.
Happy birthday Teal.
I hope you have an amazing day.
Um... Thank you for all the incredible adventures we've had this year,
and...
I still remember how amazing you made my birthday,
so I hope yours is even better.
Um...
Really excited to see you soon.
Happy birthday!
Notice how he says:
"I still remember how amazing you made my birthday,
so I hope yours is even better".
And I still remember how amazing you made my birthday,
so I hope yours is even better.
We were so close by that point,
that the reason that he said this
is because he was with us filming over his birthday
and my team and I set out
to try to give him the best birthday of his life.
We loved David
and we wanted to show him that love,
so we bought him presents and cooked for him
and made him a cake
and filled the day with activities that he loves the most,
like playing poker.
And this is Richard,
the sound man on the project:
Happy birthday Teal
this is Richard and River
Muak. Say "hi"...
"Happy birthday."
I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday
I hope you're having fun with Graciela, Mathias,
uh, Blake, Mark and, of course, Winter.
Um...
And one thing we love about you
is that you're always constantly pushing us to be better human beings,
looking inward
and you're always brutally honest about...
you know...
going, going inside of ourselves.
And I think a lot of people don't do that too often
and we appreciate that.
I know I do. Huh princess?
Happy birthday. Have a great day.
And this is Justin, one of the cinematographers:
Teal happy birthday from your favorite bear.
Very grateful for you
and so lucky to be sharing, uh, this time in our lives together.
Hope all is well, much love. Happy birthday.
And this is Taylor, another one of the cinematographers:
Hi Teal, I just wanted to say
I hope you have a very very very happy birthday.
And I wanted to let you know
that the things that I love about you
are your intense ability to actually listen to people.
The eye contact that you make while you're doing that...
I think, um...
really just explains how present you are
while you're with other people.
And I think everybody really feels that, as well.
Anyway, I hope... I hope I get to see you again
and the whole family. I love you all.
Bye. Have a happy birthday.
Now that you have seen these clips
I want to ask you:
Does what you have just seen match
with what you have seen in 'The Deep End'?
Does it match with what you hear Jon Kasbe saying
in post-release interviews?
It goes without saying
that we are in really serious emotional pain
about what the director and producers did to us.
Most especially, because
they resorted to extremely deceptive means to gain our trust,
only to betray it.
And it is very painful
to have such close relationships with people,
not only to lose those relationships,
but to find out that they were a lie, in the first place.
All of this, on top of the damage done to my career.
I made a huge mistake at trusting them
and in not making sure
that I legally had some degree of creative control over the project.
Not that they would have entertained that option.
I will learn from this,
and do different in the future.
But, you the public
deserve to know the actual truth about all of this.
And you need to see what actually happened,
because the reality of the footage they shot,
when compared with what they showed you
in 'The Deep End'
is as different
as these birthday videos are
from what you have seen in 'The Deep End'
and heard from the director in interviews.
And so... all I can do is reiterate
by asking the director and producers to
#releasethefootage