Melissa G. Moore was having breakfast with her father, Keith Jesperson, at a diner when he almost exposed his secret double life.

The high school student, who was gearing up to get her driver’s license, was gushing about getting her freedom. She was also excited to spend time with her father, a trucker who, at that point, was divorced from Moore’s mother.

“I was on the verge of turning 16,” Moore recalled to Fox News Digital. “He made an unannounced visit and asked my siblings and me if we wanted to go have breakfast with him before school started. My siblings had other commitments, so they couldn’t join us. … We talked about what would be my first car. I remember he said he would buy me a Pontiac, and I debated with him.

“My father gave me my greatest sorrow, which is the trauma of growing up with him as a dad,” she said. “I would say the series does a really good job of showing this deep desire within me to have the father who no longer exists, the father of my childhood. He’s no longer here. Maybe he never really existed.”