Elsewhere in the docuseries, the focus turns to the mental health impact of the scandal. Many spouses affected by the hack were not as understanding as Nia. Unsurprisingly, countless marriages ended and the episodes focus on one New Orleans teacher named John, who died by suicide after his name was included in the leak.

John’s widow, Christi, also appears in the documentary, which director Paton says was because she felt it important to “tell her story”. “She was drawn to the fact that we weren’t making a series that was all about how awful people who cheat are,” he told Variety. “The thing I think she wanted to more talk about was the importance of forgiveness and how we should try and understand the struggles and difficulties that people are going through. Because she feels that the reason why John tragically took his life wasn’t because he was cheating, per se, but it was because he was exposed as someone on Ashley Madison in an extremely toxic, moralising, judgmental environment where people were really keen to expose and shame anyone who was exposed in the hack without really knowing anything about them or the wider context of their lives.

“That was a point she wanted to make: how toxic and damaging that kind of public moralising can be.”

The true story behind Netflix’s Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal documentary