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In 2011, Rebecca Reinhardt moved to Toronto from Calgary to pursue a career as a dancer. Shortly after she moved, she started a relationship with a man. A year after they broke up, a video of Reinhardt was published. What's known as revenge porn. She found out when she was at a concert for her birthday, and she got an email from a friend.

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It literally was like, hey, sorry to contact you, after so much time for something like this, but here, I saw this, I saw you in the video. Here's the link. And it was like, it was like, something like xX xX. And I was like, Oh, shit. I just remember the feeling of like, everything dropping out of my body and just standing there, putting my phone away and just pretending like nothing happened.

0:53  
The video will continue to surface over and over again.

0:58  
2015 I would say was the second time and that's what it was like on like a number and then so I just did the same thing. Like now I started to screenshot it, got it taken down and then tried to move on. September 9, 2018, my best friend had called me I was in Seattle for my friend's wedding and he's like, hey, there's 500,000 views. It's downloadable. It's really well produced like, I'm so sorry and so that's when I kind of was like, oh, gosh, I have to do something about this. 

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It wasn't until 2018 that Reinhardt truly faced what had happened to her. 

1:36  
Lke before I push it away and was protecting him. So it's like, of course, he wouldn't post it. Victim mentality, apparently this is a thing. But I was like, no, no, no. And I don't want to get him in trouble. Like, you know, even if he did post it, I don't want to get him in trouble. And something about this last time was just like, I've tried to hide from this. I this is it's just me like, and now it's really affecting me and I'm scared shitless so like, fuck this and so...

2:00  
She got herself a lawyer, but that's not all she's doing and she's got someone else on her side. Gina Phillips is a longtime friend of Reinhardt's and co-host of Score Golf on TSN. She is helping Reinhardt speak out about what happened to her.

2:21  
We were sitting in a park one day with my boyfriend and he's a journalist, and we're chatting about it. Okay, so the thing about Rebecca is she chat nonstop about her emotions. Okay, so, like, we're talking about this stuff anyway, you know what I mean? It's not like, I had to drag this stuff out of her. I know it was challenging at times. But we're sitting in a park and we're having this same conversation that you could hear on a podcast. So Jeff and I, as as storytellers we're sitting there and just like, man, you guys should do a podcast.

3:03  
Hi, everyone. My name is Rebecca Reinhardt.

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And I'm Gina Phillips.

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And this is Taking Back My Life podcast.

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This is a very raw and candid telling of Rebecca's journey to reclaim her life after a personal sex tape was posted on multiple porn sites.

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 Without my consent.

3:23  
The podcast now has nine episodes and is continuing to grow. Reinhardt and Philips are working to promote it.

3:31  
The only thing that I will say is that, Rebecca, if you're sitting on that side, I would sit further back than Gina because of the lighting because it's side lit. Yeah.

3:41  
Today's goal is mostly promotional material for the podcast. And so we have nothing together that's more serious, Gina and I. And there is a very serious component to this. We want to make sure that we're capturing our personalities, we're having fun, but we're also capturing a serious and more powerful direction that we will kind of want to go with the podcast.

4:09  
The podcast is now part of a social media campaign that Reinhardt started in order to take back control.

4:20  
It was a it started from a very personal place. It was that I felt like I was hiding from this for so many years ugh I get emotional.

4:40  
Like I felt like I was hiding you from it. And I felt like it was like haunting me. And I was doing fine like avoiding it in with quotations. And then this last time that I found out with like all of these views and someone potentially making money off of it, and I just felt so violated. But it's like I needed to have some some sort of control over the situation in any way that I could grasp it and that for me as an artist and who I am was the way to do it.

5:07  
It's called the unintentional porn star.