“We’re being persecuted somewhat,” Sam says in new video

Aug 19, 2015 08:36 GMT  ·  By
Sam Rader, overnight Internet star, says wife's miscarriage was “staged by God”
   Sam Rader, overnight Internet star, says wife's miscarriage was “staged by God”

Becoming internationally famous is now only a video distance away, as Sam and Nia Rader found out a couple of weeks ago. They had gone viral before with their family vlogs, but when he surprised her with a positive pregnancy test, they really went big.

He had used a urine sample from a toilet bowl to conduct a pregnancy test, and she reportedly had no idea that she was carrying. She suspected it but hadn’t gotten to verify it yet.

A few days later, Sam and Nia posted another vlog, which also went viral, in which they announced they had miscarried. They claimed they were about 6 weeks along and were positive they had a girl. They never went to the doctor to confirm the pregnancy or after the alleged miscarriage, which has sparked a lot of talk about how the whole family crisis had been fake, a staged move to get their videos to go viral.

The drama was staged, but by God himself

There were several clues that cast the shadow of doubt on Sam and Nia’s story, from the fact that they never saw a doctor to his claim that he had quit his job as nurse at a local hospital (he’s still listed as working at the Texas Regional Medical Center), to his saying that he knew the pregnancy video would go viral and their surprisingly cheery behavior days after the miscarriage.

More importantly, medical experts weighed in and stressed that taking samples from a toilet bowl to conduct a pregnancy test was the least accurate method of testing out there, because the sample was too diluted and possibly too contaminated by chemicals to provide an accurate result.

In the couple’s latest vlogs, they address the controversy they started with their story and they also explain why they never saw a doctor after the alleged miscarriage. And by the way, they’re feeling “persecuted somewhat” because people call into question the veracity of their claims. The videos are available at the end of this post.

In the first one, Sam addresses the “haters,” a term he uses to include those who doubt his and Nia’s pregnancy story. He talks about how all this is God’s plan and how God singled them out, which meant they knew to expect such hate.

In fact, they were so prepared that he doesn’t even want to address those asking him if the pregnancy was fake. He will say this, though:

“One interviewer asked me, ‘Was it all staged?’ - A lot of people think it was staged. I’m like, you know what? It was staged. It was all orchestrated by god above and nothing less. I’ll say stuff like that just to kind of throw them off, but it doesn’t make me happy that people are deceived, but it does make me happy that god chose our family out of the world.”

Obviously, he doesn’t mean it in a literal sense that God staged the miscarriage, in a way that they would have staged it. But it’s clear that he sees the attention (the hate, too) as a good thing - good enough to get him to avoid the question altogether.

Who needs a doctor when you have WebMD?

The second video below is the newest of the two and while it’s called “Why We Never Saw a Doctor,” it only dedicates the final couple of minutes to the issue.

Right before signing off, Sam and Nia settle in their bed and take a question from a fan, wanting to know why they didn’t see a doctor after the miscarriage. Nia says she lives with an ER nurse in the house (that’s Sam), so she relied on his knowledge for this.

Plus, she adds, she went online on WebMD and she got all the answers from there. She didn’t think she should see a doctor since her miscarriage was “completely normal.” Not even to confirm that she really had a miscarriage.