escape character being added to quotes in imgdesc

I created a hack that displays html to use to add an uploaded image. The problem is that if I use quotes in the $imgdesc then it gets converted from " to \".

I don’t mind the " being converted to " and arguably that’s a better thing! But it’s the escape character \ that is driving me nutty.

How do I make WordPress stop adding that backslash?

Thanks!!! 🙂