For over seven years, Jenifer Faison thought she was living in a fairytale romance with her college sweetheart, Spencer Herron, until one afternoon in June , when police turned up at their Georgia home. Faison would come to learn that the man she knew and loved was living a double life. Behind that fairytale romance was a web of lies, affairs and criminal sexual assault perpetrated by Herron against one of his high school students.
It features emotional interviews with women who say they were involved with Herron and the disturbing account of the student victim who came forward and pressed charges against him. Faison and Herron first met when they were students at Berry College in northwest Georgia. Faison, a communications major, walked into her first meeting at the school's television station, where Herron was the station manager. The two started dating and became smitten with each other.
But as Faison approached her senior year, she said she didn't want to be tied down to a boyfriend. Herron was a year older and had already graduated.
Herron was devastated when they broke up. But he appeared to move on, eventually got married and had children of his own. Meanwhile, Faison was making a name for herself as a television producer, landing jobs with "Judge Judy" and "Extreme Makeover. Faison and Herron ended up reconnecting on Facebook when Faison commented on a photo from Herron's year college reunion.
Herron told Faison that he and his wife had split up a few years prior. After meeting in New York on work trips, the former college sweethearts became smitten with one another once again. Faison moved to Georgia to be closer to Herron, they got married and eventually opened a wine bar together. Two days after Herron was arrested and charged with three felony counts of sexual assault by a teacher or school administrator, a bewildered Faison got access to her husband's Facebook account to take it down.
