This article contains a few spoilers from May December.

One thing is true about the audacity of tabloid TV, such as Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, during its heyday in the 90s and early 2000s: It always showed something deeply disturbing and passed it off as totally mundane and appropriate for general audiences on a weekday. In May 2005, it was the wedding footage of Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau.

If youre unfamiliar, Letourneau was a schoolteacher who began statutorily raping her student Fualaau when he was only 12 years old. Ten years including her 7-year imprisonment and two children later, they were married. And The Insider sat down with the smiling couple in an interview that was prominently about, of all things, love.

She was the 43-year-old white, giddy bride-to-be set to walk down the aisle again (she was previously married and had four children with her ex-husband when she met Fualaau). He was the visibly awkward then-22-year-old dad of Samoan heritage who seemed marginally happy.

This was meant to be normal. And to validate that, millions of people watched, riveted.

We didnt really know the interiority of their relationship. We only knew what they shared in interviews (they gave many throughout their 14-year marriage), which were dominated by Letourneau.