Plot Twist: Still Alive

EPISODE 35: STILL ALIVE — THE HALFWAY THROUGH 40 FUCK IT LIST This week, I'm flying solo with a bottle of champagne that says "DO EPIC SHIT," which honestly feels like both a life motto and a warning label. After surviving cancer three different times, I stopped waiting for the "right time" and started saying "fuck it" to the adventures that scared me most. Some happened years ago. Some happened r...

Inspired by the internet...and all the trolls living under its bridge. After one of Plot Twist: Still Alive's Facebook videos exploded to more than 700,000 views , thousands of reactions, and hundreds of comments, complete strangers decided they already knew the story. PLOT TWIST...they didn't. Because toxic people don't come with one gender, one title, or one relationship. They can be romantic pa...

Weslea was living a relatively normal life. Married. Building a career. Making plans for the future. Then, during a routine annual exam, she asked her doctor to check her lymph nodes. "It's probably nothing." Those four words turned into months of tests, appointments, and a holiday season consumed by uncertainty. Then came the diagnosis that changed everything: Lymphoma. In this episode, Weslea sh...

The Reaper Didn’t Train for This In the Final Destination movies, Death always gets what it wants. Miss your turn? Death finds you. Cheat the system? Death finds you. Escape the plan? Death finds you. But what happens when Death hands you a terminal diagnosis, an expiration date, and six months to get your affairs in order? When Jim was diagnosed with Stage IV colorectal cancer, he was told he had...

It’s National Cancer Survivors Month , and our BREASTIE Stacy is back...but this time, we’re talking about a different kind of survival story. Growing up in the 90s in small-town Texas with a strict religious family, Stacy spent years trapped in the closet. From a young age, she was terrified that being honest about who she was could cost her everything. With no openly gay people around her, the f...

We have officially SURVIVED 30 episodes….in honor of this we are doing a very special MASTER OF PLOT TWISTS episode. So if you can’t handle anatomy or the word Nipples being used over 738 times….grow up or avoid this like a big city during the zombie apocalypse.   Krystal with a K invites the PERKY GIRLS Crystal and Courtney with a C to tell us how they made a dream that most people have a reality...

Imagine a night when you can’t sleep and are doomscrolling TikTok at 3AM…we find Krystal with a K in this very predicament. After their Big Bend trip collapsed into a construction-zone disappointment, the algorithm delivered something far more dangerous: Havasu Falls. And in true “FUCK IT LIST” Zone fashion, the exact night Krystal discovered it just happened to be the exact moment permits went on...

Before everything changed, Adam was the guy who lived through movement — athletic, active, independent, social, always pushing forward. His body wasn’t just part of who he was… it was his freedom, his identity, his entire way of life. Then something inside him turned hostile. At first it was subtle. Then terrifying. His body stopped listening. His future started collapsing piece by piece. The life...

Send us Fan Mail Some darkness doesn’t stay in the shadows.  Sometimes… it finds its way into the people we love most. In this episode of Plot Twist: Still Alive , we meet Melissa — a single mother, a nurse, and the kind of woman who doesn’t hesitate when things get heavy… even when that weight is her child’s reality. When her daughter begins slipping into a world filled with mental health struggl...

Send us Fan Mail Final Chapter of a 4-Part Survival Series  Krystal with a K closes the series where everything finally comes into focus. After the illusion, the distortion, and the addiction, this is where the pattern is fully exposed for what it is. In X: The Awakening , she can finally name it all—love bombing, mirroring, gaslighting, devaluation, reactive abuse, discard, and hoovering. What on...

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 3 of a 4-Part Survival Series Krystal with a K returns—and this is where leaving stops being a choice. In X: The Addiction , the abuse cycle tightens through the hovering phase—the part where he doesn’t let her go, just pulls her back in. Apologies hit like a fix. Promises feel real. And every time she creates distance, something drags her right back to where she started....

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 2 of a 4-Part Survival Series Krystal with a K returns—and this is where the horror sets in. What looked like love in the beginning starts to twist into something darker. In Chapter 2, Krystal pulls back the curtain on the Devaluation phase —the slow, psychological unraveling where affection turns inconsistent, criticism hides as concern, and reality itself begins to feel…...

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 1 of a 4-Part Survival Series Since the beginning of Plot Twist: Still Alive , host Krystal with a K, three-time cancer survivor and chaos coordinator, has asked others to share their darkest survival stories. Now, for the first time, she tells her own. In this first chapter, X: The Perfect Stranger , Krystal recounts meeting a man who seemed perfect—vulnerable, magnetic,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the new Master of Plot Twists segment on Plot Twist: Still Alive...where we trauma bond with people who have  stopped talking and started doing the terrifying, glorious things on their bucket/fuck-it lists…and absolutely fucking kill it. This episode dives into the tenacious and punk rock story of how William Sterling became an AUTHOR. Equal parts horror‑camp and confes...

Send us Fan Mail There’s always one in the family who doesn’t quite fit. The one who sees too much. The one who questions what everyone else pretends is normal. Meg was that one. The “white sheep.” Raised in a home where addiction, neglect, and volatility weren’t exceptions… they were routine. Where chaos had a rhythm, and silence was safer than truth. And when she finally found the courage to spe...

Send us Fan Mail Some monsters leave scars you can’t see and wounds that can reopen without warning. The ultimate survival tool in any trauma survival kit isn’t a manual, a medication, or a meditation app….it’s a person who has fought the same monsters as you.  For Stacy, that monster was breast cancer, and her journey not only forged an unshakable bond with the host of Plot Twist: Still Alive, bu...

Send us Fan Mail Sarah is the kind of person who walks into a room like a ray of sunshine. Kind. Warm. The kind of person people trust immediately. But sometimes the brightest light hides the darkest rooms. For years, Sarah and other children lived through a nightmare no child should ever endure — sexual abuse at the hands of a teenage caregiver and trusted family friend. The kind of horror that h...

Send us Fan Mail FAN FAVORITES ARE ALL RETURNING: Krystal survived Frankentitties. Abi survived The Stranger. Aaron survived The Happening. Barely. Now we’re putting all three of us in one room. We promised no question goes unanswered. This may have been a mistake. Welcome to Plot Twist: 3’s a Crowd.  ⚠️18+ only Dark humor, sex, abuse and trauma.....AND THERE WILL BE SPOILERS (so listen to those e...

Send us Fan Mail Some people leave behind money.  Some leave behind property.  Some leave behind stories that crawl under your skin and refuse to die. This week, we bring back one of our ride or dies since birth… Auntie. Last time we talked about grief.  This time we dig up 78 years of living. The bucket list items she crossed off.  The fuck it list items she actually did.  The ones she didn’t.  T...

Send us Fan Mail You think it’s different this time. Different face. Different voice. Different promises. But somehow… you end up standing in the same position. Across from a completely different person, having the same arguments, feeling the same confusion, questioning your own reality all over again. Why? Because trauma creates patterns.  Because unhealed wounds don’t magically close.  Because w...

Send us Fan Mail Julie is nine years old when her life splits into BEFORE and AFTER. Her father dies suddenly….no warning, no goodbye, no final moment her memory can cling to. Just a silence so loud it follows her everywhere. A house now holding a mother and five children, and a man-shaped absence that settles into every birthday, every school event, every milestone he will never witness. At nine,...

Send us Fan Mail From the outside, Lauren’s family looked traditional.  Four siblings. Lauren, the baby, the sister , and three older brothers—grew up, built lives of their own, got married, and had children. A family that seemed normal…until a deadly secret was exposed. One of Lauren’s brothers is rushed to the hospital with liver failure caused by a hidden alcohol addiction. Within months of lea...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the FUCK IT LIST Zone—where chaos, sunshine, and bad decisions collide in the best way. Drew and Krystal break down their Costa Rica adventure, complete with turtles fornicating, hump-back-WHAAAAAAAALES, and moments that prove we are STILL ALIVE. Somewhere along the way, Krystal falls for Costa Rica… both literally (because she’s a clumsy chick who would absolutely...

Send us Fan Mail Your hostess with the mostest, Krystal’s 40th birthday approaches and she finds herself deep in a FUCK IT LIST ZONE trip of a lifetime in Costa Rica. This mini episode is a pause—a reminder to truly LIVE, even in the midst of grief, sadness, and life’s hardest seasons. Ten minutes. Real, raw, and honest. If you need a reminder to live your life while you’re still here, this one’s...

Send us Fan Mail Aaron had the life people dream of. A successful career. A wife. Kids. A dream home. Stability. Health. It all seemed perfect… until it wasn’t. A divorce where everything was split in half. Their business. Time with his kids. A life divided cleanly on paper, but messily in real time, while the community watched. Then his body joined delivered the final blow. A fainting episode. Tw...