Ty Keck found out the hard way that taking a chance to win some money on Mark L. Walberg’s “The Moment of Truth” might not have been worth the risk of revealing something that could cause harm to his personal relationships.

Writes Alessandra Stanley in the New York Times:

Ty, a personal trainer, said yes when he was asked if he has delayed having children because he is not sure that Catia, his wife of two and a half years, would be his “lifelong partner.” After he replied, a disembodied female voice delivered the verdict. “The answer is — ” (long, dramatic beat) “true.” The camera panned to Catia, who stopped smiling and murmured, “I’m dying here.” Her friend April turned to her and asked in a semiwhisper, “Is it worth $100,000 to learn that?”

As it turned out, Catia got nothing along with the information. When Ty replied no to the question of whether he had ever touched a female client more than was strictly necessary, the polygraph contradicted him, and he lost all his winnings.

Ty ran to his wife and tried to hug her. Catia submitted to his embrace but turned her cheek away, pursing her lips in a foreboding moue of lip gloss and recrimination.

Alessandra Stanley writes that “The Moment of Truth” is a show that sends its losers home with the risk that “they could return to a home filled with hate.”

Would you risk having some horrible secret hidden deep in your mind come out before your loved ones and family members in exchange for the chance of winning some cash?

How much money would you need to reveal something embarrassing about yourself?

Is there any difference between watching secrets revealed on “The Jerry Springer Show” or on a classier program such as the “The Moment of Truth?”

What does it say about humanity that we enjoy watching people take risks that could result in great harm?

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