My Mom Toasted My Sister For Saving Dad - I Had Given Him My Kidney And She Lost Everything — Transcript

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1. 0:00My name is Alice Jordan. I'm 31. Nine
2. 0:03weeks ago, I gave my father my left
3. 0:05kidney and saved his life. On November
4. 0:0723rd, at his recovery dinner, Mom
5. 0:09toasted, "To Natalie, my incredible
6. 0:12daughter, the one who saved your
7. 0:13father's life."
8. 0:1522 relatives cheered. Nobody looked at
9. 0:17me. I sat with a fresh 6-in scar burning
10. 0:21while Mom erased my kidney like it never
11. 0:23happened. Then Dad grabbed my wrist
12. 0:25under the table, sliding a folded napkin
13. 0:28toward me. What I read changed
14. 0:30everything. Where are you watching from?
15. 0:32Comment below. I'm the invisible
16. 0:34daughter. $36,500
17. 0:36a year at a Charlotte nonprofit.
18. 0:38Natalie, 36, is VP at Dad's company at
19. 0:41$185,000.
20. 0:44With Mom's undivided attention, on July
21. 0:4620th, Dad collapsed. Stage four kidney
22. 0:49failure, transplant needed within weeks.
23. 0:52I got tested in secret. A week later,
24. 0:54compatible.
25. 0:55O positive, 98% match. When I told my
26. 0:59family I'd donate, Mom said, "You've
27. 1:01never finished anything difficult in
28. 1:02your life." Dad just said, "I trust
29. 1:04you."
30. 1:06Days later, Natalie announced a
31. 1:07fundraiser, the Natalie Jordan-Pearson
32. 1:09Initiative. My name appeared nowhere.
33. 1:12September 15th, I donated my left
34. 1:14kidney. I woke up in searing pain,
35. 1:17alone. Mom and Natalie never left Dad's
36. 1:19ICU room. At 2:50 a.m., my door opened,
37. 1:24Dad in a wheelchair, oxygen tank against
38. 1:26orders. He took my hand crying. "I see
39. 1:29you, Alice. I've always seen you. I'm
40. 1:31going to make this right."
41. 1:33Next morning, medical power of attorney.
42. 1:36Mom replaced by me. Two days later, his
43. 1:39$2.3 million life insurance beneficiary
44. 1:42changed to me. Then 51% voting shares to
45. 1:45me, filed September 25th. Mom and
46. 1:48Natalie knew nothing. Nine weeks unpaid
47. 1:50leave, $11,000 in debt. Natalie's
48. 1:53fundraiser made the news, $83,200.
49. 1:57Her face everywhere.
50. 1:59My name wasn't mentioned once. November
51. 2:0123rd, 22 guests. I sat at 18.
52. 2:05Mom tapped her glass. One person stepped
53. 2:07up and raised it to Natalie. To Natalie,
54. 2:10my incredible daughter, the one who
55. 2:11saved your father's life.
56. 2:1322 glasses rose. Mine stayed down. I
57. 2:17stood. Dad grabbed my wrist, sliding the
58. 2:19napkin over. Read it. Please don't leave
59. 2:22yet.
60. 2:23Below the table I read, proxy. Mine,
61. 2:26September 16th. Insurance, $2.3 million.
62. 2:30Mine, September 18th. 51% voting shares,
63. 2:34mine, September 20th. They don't know
64. 2:36yet. Attorney Walsh has everything. I'm
65. 2:38sorry I waited so long. I see you now.
66. 2:41Dad.
67. 2:42Every document is ironclad, Walsh told
68. 2:44me Monday. Witnessed, notarized, filed.
69. 2:48Days later, Mom learned she was no
70. 2:49longer the beneficiary. Natalie found
71. 2:51the new shareholder registry. I
72. 2:53overheard them planning undermine me,
73. 2:56turn the staff, make sure she screws up.
74. 2:59Drew walked in. You're sabotaging your
75. 3:01own sister?
76. 3:02December 16th, I took the head of the
77. 3:05board table.
78. 3:06I'm the majority shareholder, I said,
79. 3:08sliding the filing over. Then my donor
80. 3:10papers, collar down, scar showing. I
81. 3:13donated my left kidney, September 15th.
82. 3:16Then the ethics report, August 18th, Mom
83. 3:18asked the hospital to stop my donation.
84. 3:20Unstable, attention-seeking. Cleared. My
85. 3:24mother tried to stop me from saving my
86. 3:25father's life.
87. 3:27Silence.
88. 3:28Then.
89. 3:29Mom out as CFO. Natalie, demotion or
90. 3:32severance. 48 hours. Board voted,
91. 3:35carried. Mom's lawyer, ironclad, no
92. 3:38grounds. Drew confronted Natalie. Their
93. 3:41marriage cracked. December 30th, Natalie
94. 3:44came to my door at midnight, drunk,
95. 3:45crying. Mom had orchestrated it all. She
96. 3:48apologized. I heard her, but I couldn't
97. 3:50be her sister yet. In January, I hired
98. 3:53an outside CEO and started a donor fund,
99. 3:56$50,000 a year for donors' medical
100. 3:58bills. Dad and I have coffee every
101. 4:00Sunday. The scar is still there. I don't
102. 4:02hide it anymore. Not invisible, not
103. 4:04erased, just Alice, free.