The painful secret I hid from my twin

我藏匿于孪生兄弟之痛的秘密

Lives Less Ordinary

社会与文化

2025-04-07

31 分钟
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After a terrible motorbike accident 18-year-old Alex Lewis was left with no memory of his previous life. The only person he could remember was Marcus, his identical twin brother. He became the person Alex most relied upon to rebuild his entire life and memories. But then Marcus made an extraordinary decision - to shield his brother from their traumatic past by re-writing history and creating a new reality. For over a decade, Marcus carried the weight of his secret. But when fragments of the past began to emerge, that carefully constructed narrative was shattered, leading to some deeply personal and difficult conversations. Please note this programme contains themes of child sexual abuse. Alex and Marcus' story features in a documentary called Tell Me Who I Am which is available on Netflix. Presenter: Andrea Kennedy Producer: Tom Harding Assinder Photo: Alex and Marcus Lewis Credit: Alex and Marcus Lewis Get in touch: liveslessordinary@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp: 0044 330 678 2784
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  • Just before we begin, this programme deals with childhood sexual abuse.

  • Please listen with discretion.

  • I've been living this false life and giving Alex false stories and making our life fun and normal.

  • It's avoid of any fact that we'd had any kind of tough childhood.

  • I'd taken a while that away from him and created a new reality for him.

  • And suddenly, within two seconds, it all unraveled and he knew that everything I'd said was a lie.

  • That's Marcus Lewis.

  • In 1982, he was given an incredible gift, the power to change the course of a life.

  • His identical twin brother, Alex, had been in a serious motorbike accident.

  • I actually felt him have the accident while I was in bed.

  • It was in the middle of the night and I knew that he'd had an accident and I spoke to my mother about it and said

  • that he's in the hospital and we need to go to the hospital now and then an hour later the hospital phoned to say

  • that he was in the hospital.

  • You knew this then?

  • I knew he'd had the accident, yeah.

  • Wow,

  • to the extent that you would actually go and be able to tell someone that he was in hospital that he had an accident?

  • That's right, yeah, I did, yeah.

  • That's incredible.

  • And feel the pain?