Three years prior to Unspoken, Westcott, who worked as a public schoolteacher, was investigated on the orders of Beverly McCord, the principal of the school he worked at, when she witnessed him touching a female student's injured leg, interpreting the way he did so as molestation. Consequently, he spent two months without pay while he was being investigated. After being cleared, he quit, but it took him another year to find a new teaching job.
