Dan Swygart opens up about the connection he shared with TLC star Shauna Rae.
in the last part Sarah Fraser Show podcast, Swygart himself and I am Shauna Rae lead never took their relationship to the next level.
“We got very, very close on an emotional level,” he admitted. “I mean, it was never really physical, we kissed once. Of course, I wasn’t there for long… So it never really turned into a relationship.”
European Swygart revealed that he and 23-year-old Shauna, who had the body of an 8-year-old child due to pituitary dwarfism, were put on trial both in real life and online after they made the connection. Documented in season 2 of the TLC series.
“We went to a bar with some of my friends, some of her friends, and her older sister, and there was a restaurant. We were eating at the restaurant, and then we went to the dance floor, there was the bouncer on the dance floor,” she recalled. “He lets us all in but he stops Shauna and Shauna shows him his ID and he says, ‘No, that can’t be right, no, no, no, wait, no,’ and then the crazy thing was, there was a TV playing in the corner and that’s his It was the program.”
“People were taking out their phones and taking videos of him, so I had to go over and tell them to go,” he added. “People came to me and said, ‘Hmm, isn’t it past bedtime?’ It’s just one evening and all the time.”
Swygart added that the criticisms of the couple’s connection were particularly difficult for him because some people assumed he was inappropriately attracted to Shauna because of his 3’11” height.
“With that came such a huge amount of hate and I felt like the world was crushing me because the media and the people, and the YouTubers, have classified me as the most hated group of people on the planet.” . “Obviously, because of Shauna’s condition… they put me in that category. I felt like that world was crushing me.”
However, she was grateful for the support she received after sharing Instagram videos denouncing Shauna who didn’t deserve love because of her physical appearance.
“I basically lost faith in humanity, I made these videos and then a huge amount of love and support came and I am so grateful to the world,” he said. “Because that was the lowest level I’ve ever seen in my life, the world kind of saved me while the world was crushing me like that. [me]I got a huge amount of support.”
“They started attacking all the negative comments and people started deleting the negative comments and yes, the rainy clouds disappeared and the sun started to shine and now everything is fine.”
Recently, Shauna has been candid about the challenges she faces on a daily basis, posting on social media about the frequent treatment she gets in restaurants and the motto of being a woman “stuck in an 8-year-old body”. wrong.
In a post, Shauna Rae explained the importance of raising awareness for pituitary dwarfism.
After sharing a story about being treated like a toddler while dining out, she wrote, “This is something that happens to me very often and it happens to me every time I go out.” “By raising awareness for my type of dwarfism and disability, I hope this will help us to be more open-minded when it comes to the human diversity that the world and we humans have in our world.”
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She shared, “Everyone deserves the same treatment, no matter their differences ❤️”.