"I've been in some similar situations myself - vastly different - but when you're sitting in court and if you have that feeling of just overwhelming emotion, because you can't believe that the people on the other side are saying what they're saying - that by the very nature of defending what they're defending, the lies that they are stating, is devaluing life, is devaluing your children's lives - if that brings stuff up for you, it is totally normal," he said.