Aunt Lydia's Betrayal: The Flashback Bombshell

0:00On April 29th, episode 6 of The Testaments on Hulu drops a huge flashback bombshell about why Anne Vidalah straight up despises Anne Lydia. Back at the dawn of Gilead, thousands of women get rounded up in a stadium for judgment. Lydia proves her loyalty by aiming what she thinks is a real gun at her old teaching buddy Vidalah's head and pulling the trigger. Turns out it was loaded with blanks, so Vidalah lives, but that betrayal sticks forever. Lydia doesn't stop there. She pitches the whole odds program to Commander Judd, arguing women need to police other women, including the handmaids. She even flips her own past abortion into a redemption story to sell it, positioning herself as top dog to enforce the rules and keep everyone in. Lime. Anne Dowd, who plays Lydia, says shooting that intense scene left her in total shock every take, like seeing her colleague under the hood and boom, pulling the trigger. Mabel Lee, as Vidalah, describes the fortified-hour shoot as pure flow-stay terrifying even with a

1:01fake gun right in her face. Fast forward to now in Gilead, the odds are matching up the green girls like plums at the school. Vidalah's resentment boils over. She calls Lydia soft, especially on the pro-girl program, and Judd's nudging her ambition to maybe take Lydia's spot. That past near-death fuels Vidalah's power grab, and next week we find out Agnes' mystery match. Some girls get what they want, others not so much. Shaking up their crew, big time. Entertainment and celebrity news today, powered by AI bringing you what's trending. I'm Corey with The Story.