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Aug 2022
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Tortured By His Own Family: The Six-Year...

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Original Air Date: 04/15/2011

At times he wasn’t given any food or water for days, all while being chained inside a tiny closet. At age 19, Clayton speaks out for the first time about the torture he endured at the hands of his father and stepmother when he was six. Plus, Oprah speaks with the man who saved Clayton’s life.

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