nightline tonight. danny masterson guilty. the actor best known for that 70uilty. the actor known for that '70s show. you get all after school special on me. >> byron: convicted of raping two women. >> the deputies surrounded him and he was can -- handcuff. >> byron: to the jury on a third count. responding tonight. and the prison sentence he could face. plus, the postpartum struggle.

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surrounded him, and he put his hands behind his back and was handcuffed. the jury deadlocked on a third count. former scientologists like leah remini received bonding tonight. and the pris. think of saw you good evening. we begin tonight with news out of hollywood. actor danny masterson, whose snide sense of humor helped make that 70s show a hit is now a convicted rapist. the shocking conclusion to a sexual assault trial that involves celebrity and scientology. abc's zohreen shah is in los angeles. what do you think? actor danny masterson walking into a los angeles courthouse today. just hours later, a stunning verdict returned. the mood was pretty

somber. it felt like everybody knew something was happening. the one star of that 70s show convicted of raping two women in instances dating back to 2003 while they were all practicing scientologists. the jury deadlocked on a third count. for the third, there was a mistrial because the jury could not come to a verdict. it was 8 to 4 to convict. but these charges, they have no effect on one on the other. the only question is, will the prosecution retry him for that one? and only alleged victim? the conviction is after six days of deliberations, is a breakthrough after a first trial ended in a hung jury last year. los angeles county district attorney george gascon said in a statement. we want to express our gratitude to the three women who came forward and bravely shared their experiences, their courage and strength have been an inspiration to us all. masterson was deemed a flight risk. the deputies surrounded him, and he put his hands behind

his back and was handcuffed. his wife, actress and model bijou phillips in the courtroom when the first guilty verdict was read. bijou phillips, danny's wife, let out a sob and then the judge had to ask her if she could keep herself composed. the actor faces up to 30 years to life in prison. it's a stunning fall from grace for the 47 year old who rose to fame as the wisecracking best friend on that 70s show. oh, man. see this is why i didn't want to tell you. i knew you'd get all after school special on me. the accusations against masterson came to light in 2017. more than a decade after the alleged assaults. in 2020, the actor was arrested, charged and posted a $3.3 million bail. at the time of accusations in the early 2000, masterson was one of the most visible celebrity scientology artists. a controversial religious group known for its high profile hollywood adherents. the women accusing masterson eventually left the

church. during the most recent trial that began in april, prosecutors told the jury the evidence will show that they were drugged. also adding intimate details about the alleged rapes, saying masterson dragged one accuser across the floor by her hair and another one. the defense countering in their opening statement that the alleged victims stories are inconsistent and suggested the women colluded over time, adding that the case is people versus masterson, not people versus scientology. the prosecution's strategy in this case was to focus on the church of scientology as a way to explain why the victims and alleged victims in this case did not come forward quick enough or in a way that people would think they would have. for the defense, danny masterson did not testify for them. it was about inconsistencies, half truths. and as they argued, full lies. some of the women at the center of the case reacting tonight to the verdict. jane doe number two, saying, i am experiencing a complex array of emotions,

relief, exhaustion, strength, sadness, knowing that my abuser, danny masterson, will face accountability for his criminal behavior. for jane doe number three, a longtime girlfriend of masterson's also speaking out. the jury was hung on the charge connected to her case. she said in a statement, i am devastate added that he has dodged criminal accountability for his heinous conduct against me. actress and famous ex-scientologist leah remini tweeting after the verdict, expressing relief, adding the women who survived danny masterson's predation are heroes. leah remini has showed up at this trial several times to be there as a support person for a couple of the women. she's she's kind of been with them throughout all of this. in a statement this evening, the church of scientology said the church was not a party to this case and religion did not belong in this proceeding and added the church has no policy prohibiting or discouraging members from reporting criminal conduct of anyone, scientologists or not, to law enforcement. masterson

was one of the first men that came out in the metoo movement as a perpetrator of sexual offenses and so i think for many victims, whether it be those of danny masterson or others, this is justice found. masterson has not commented on the verdict. his next hearing is scheduled for august fourth. our thanks zohreen. up next, the real housewife opening up about her real life postpartum depression , a struggle millions of mothers face and why there could be cause for hope. this amazing hotel and paid this much for her room. jess stayed in the same hotel and paid a lot less. how? let's go back while claire found her hotel and her usual booking site, jess found her deal on trivago. have a look

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often considered the best news, but for many women, that bundle of joy can lead to a battle with depression or other mental health struggles. abc's jane norman takes a closer look at the postpartum struggles that so many mothers face for the latest installment in our mental health series, state of mind. where's the park ones? the mother of a precocious three year old. i thought it was on this side. no, no. back up the other a mom to a loving toddler. yeah. both living different lifestyles. gretchen and california, ayanna and florida share one common struggle that every year also affects millions of other new moms. pregnancy related disorder , like postpartum depression. i prayed for her and i asked for her for so many years, but i didn't feel connected to her the way that i wanted to, and that

made me feel guilt and postpartum psychosis. i heard from god my daughter was the second coming of jesus and that i was going to rewrite the bible. it just was like. so beyond the estimates are 15 to 20% of women experience postpartum depression or a pregnancy related mood disorder that's diagnosed, confirmed reported cases. the true number is likely much higher. newport beach, california, home to real housewives of orange county's gretchen rossi. when the going gets tough, i just get stronger and stronger. and her partner, slade smiley, i hope you'll marry me. and i hope that we can have a wonderful, fabulous maybe not perfect, but happy life together. the couple underwent ivf for four and a half years, hoping to have children finally receiving the news they'd been waiting for. well, are you sitting down? yeah, because you are pregnant. oh, my god. i went

into it with such a positive mindset. i had the best pregnancy i've never felt more beautiful or more confident ever in my life. gretchen eventually gave birth to a healthy daughter , skylar gray. smiley but immediately afterwards, a drastic turning point when they first handed me the baby, i think i had this vision of this, you know, angelic, like, you know, oh, like the sky parts. and this ray of sunshine comes through. i just remember immediately feeling a descant act. something felt off to me though. gretchen always physically cared for skyler. she says she struggled with connecting with her daughter emotionally. i cried a lot. i was unbelievably exhausted. and i remember my mood swings went from just a really feeling high and happy and like, i'm killing the mom game to i just felt like a complete and total failure and that i couldn't do anything right. not the most obvious

symptom is tearfulness, but there could be feelings of fear, feelings of sadness, feelings of guilt, detachment from that newborn in not wanting to care for the infant or newborn or other children. my gynecologist called me and she's like, we need to talk. and i think that you don't realize that you have really bad postpartum depression . and look, i'm going to cry like it makes me sad. i felt like i was failing my daughter and i didn't want to let her down. i kind of remember that for me, i felt a little bit of relief finally knowing what was happening. i could start looking to finding a solution. i no longer felt as much guilt. it was more my body truly had this chemical imbalance that i could not control. in recent years, celebrity moms have shared their own stories of postpartum depression, helping normalize the issue. among the first to speak out back in 2005 was

brooke shields on oprah. i am so , so thankful that that i didn't have the desire to hurt her, but i certainly didn't have the desire to help her either. i wanted to hurt myself. i wanted to obliterate myself and then i would have visions of her or this little body hitting the wall and sliding down. i wasn't the one throwing her, but i saw it. it was like an action movie. a recent study shows the number of moms diagnosed closed with postpartum depression has almost doubled in the past ten years. experts say talk therapy, along with prescription antidepressants, can help, usually within months. we're going to turn now to the new fast acting postpartum pill under fda consideration, new hope is also on the horizon in the first of its kind pill to specific treat postpartum depression, zuranolone could be approved by the fda this summer

if approved, this pill could help millions of women like gretchen. i remember staring out the window and just tears rolling down my eyes as i'm breastfeeding her. i was trying , trapped inside my own home, having to take care of my child . and i remember having so much guilt around having those feelings. pregnancy related disorders can have a ripple effect beyond just the mother. i was so concerned for her mental health. it was scary because is i can't do anything about the medical condition. i can't change that. so i just did everything i possibly could to take as much pressure off of her as i could. at first, gretchen decided to resist prescription drugs. turning to homeopathic remedies and cbd. it took two three years till i actually felt like myself. now that might be totally due to the route that i took. maybe taking the pharmaceutical drugs would have gotten me back to where i felt

like myself again much quicker for as appealing as something natural is, you have to look at the evidence based medicine. there and make that decision risk versus benefit and understand exactly what's at stake. while millions of moms have struggled with postpartum depression like gretchen, millions more have pregnancy related anxiety and a fraction have something much more severe and potentially danger worse postpartum psychosis is i kind of always knew that i wanted kids. it was something on the horizon for us. 29 year old ayanna lage and her husband, wagner, were college sweethearts and welcomed their daughter nora in 2020. i felt amazing, like i was meant to be a mother all along because it had just awakened something in me. was there a point when that changed? yeah yes. my mood went from being like, deliriously happy and feeling just so great at

everything thing to not being able to move because i was just like, so sad and i didn't know why, ayanna says. in the span of eight days, her paranoia set in. i woke up in the middle of the night and i had this like just overwhelming fear, this gut realization that i couldn't trust my husband or my parents who were there to help around my daughter. the tampa based writer and blogger says she and her family came to the realization that something was very wrong. probably around eight days after nora was born, i started to hear messages from god and that, i think, was kind of i don't want to say the beginning of the end, but the first real sign that i may need intensive inpatient treatment. i said, i'm going to kill myself if you don't take me to the hospital. when she said that and that it was just like, this is it. i remember breaking

down just crying like this. this is awful. like, this is the worst decision i've ever had to make. ayanna spent 17 days in the hospital. once you got home and realizing that of your daughter's first month, you'd missed 17 days that you were never going to get back. it felt very unfair. when i got home, i was still so highly medicated that i was sleeping even once i got home, i still was missing so much. i had to just make peace with it and be grateful that i still have of the rest of her life to make memories with her postpartum psychosis. we don't hear about that often because it's so rare. it's more 1 or 2 women out of a thousand. dr. deborah knutson gonzalez is a reproductive psychiatrist. she says symptoms for postpartum psychosis include losing touch with reality in some way. it might be that you're hallucinating, hear voices or people telling you to do things.

it might be they're seeing things that other people can't see. experts say other warning signs can include confusion, delusions, change in sleep, pattern and thoughts of self-harm or others, and rapid mood swings. ayana's own prior history put her at a higher risk . but despite the severity of post partum psychosis, it is treatable. things will get better. the woman does not have to suffer for indefinitely without treatment and without support. but the key is taking that first step in asking for help and then getting help. slowly but surely, most women return to their the same level of function at some point in the job. nora is now two years old, and the ladies say they are grateful to be on the other side of such a harrowing experience. for now, my life is so full and my daughter is doing so well and we have such. i'm just so grateful for everything. so i think i'm now able to look at it

like, okay, this is how far i've come, rather than all of my emotions being grieving over what i lost. if i share this story, there's a chance. it's one that someone who had had the same experience will feel less lonely. more importantly, for me , that someone may see the warning signs. what do you think that family or spouses of someone who is going through this has gone through this, should know if you stick by that person, if you show them the love that they need in that time , the things will get better in the end. she's she's herself again. she's fulfilled. she's the best mother i've ever seen. so this is the spot that i would always come down to. and i would sit here and i would look out at the water and i would help clear my mind from real housewives to real life, gretchen is eager to help others. i want women out there to know that like a you're

not alone, but b, we got to stop putting this much pressure on ourselves. we got to be able to open up. we got to be able to talk and say, i'm struggling or i need help. let's have a better our relationship with what it means to be a mom and let's get real about that. our thanks to jenny. and if you think you or someone you know is experiencing an urgent mental health crisis, call or text the suicide crisis. lifeline at nine eight, eight, there is help available. up next , sex and the city's samantha , sex and the city's samantha jones is back. your house on homeowners insurance, so i was thinking... [laughing] -will? -hello, old friend. so you have met... years ago we both had big dreams about saving people money on their homeowners insurance. yeah, just look at us now! your house is lovely.

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