My thoughts exactly! That thing about the lady not contacting him until his first daughter was 5 yo sounds more like "I ghosted her as long as I could but family court found me"This may have already been stated and I'm late to the game, but I went and watched the video they did during vlogmas "the story of us" and "autism early years, our story". So clearly they leave out all the parts about him not wanting to be married anymore and getting another woman pregnant, but what I did note by doing the math, is that while this other woman was raising a one year old, Priscilla was giving birth to Abbie. His second child with this other woman would have been 5 months old when he got Priscilla pregnant. So in their video's when they say "we were trying and trying and trying to have another child and nothing was working" is really...."we were fighting and fighting and I left and had an affair".
I speculate here, but maybe the other woman was ignored just like he tried to do to Priscilla when they first met. In "the story of us" video they talk about how he just stopped contacting her and she finally had to have her parents get a hold of him on the boat. He was blowing her off until he found out she was pregnant and then most likely forced by parents to do the right thing. I wonder if the other woman was told to back off, he was married, this would be bad....go away....etc. She may have tried to pursue it and he tried desperately to keep her a secret until someone convinced her she needed to seek support. That happens a lot when the other women finds out about other children born into the relationship. They start feeling like outcast and that their child is missing out. I don't know....we may never know...and honestly I'm not sure why I care at all. *shrug*
Here's how I believe it went:
Baby momma: "Hi government! I need some money/help for my daughter because I am a single mom"
Gov: "Sure honey but where's the father?"
Bm: "I don't know, we just had that one night and then he disappeared"
G: "I see but he has to take responsability because... citizens shouldn't pay if HE is not paying"
Bm: "I'm with you there but I don't know where he is, I just know his name and that he was in the Coast Guard at the time"
G: "Excellent! Just bring some of your daughter's saliva and we'll make sure he responds!"
And the rest is... lies & gossip.