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Trashy Divorces

417 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings

A Good Podcast About Bad Relationships. Every Wednesday and Sunday, Alicia and Stacie take you on a comedic ride through stories of marital misconduct and love gone wrong, blending biography, pop culture, history, and politics. "It’s one part Vanity Fair meets Town & Country, one part country music song—and an all-around good time." - The Atlantan. "Enjoying the juicy details of other people’s relationships is having a moment." Sunday Times Style Magazine (UK). "When this shameless show about bad relationships kicks off with astrological analysis of the couplings discussed in the episode, you know it’s going to be a party." AV Club

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S21E22: Mary J. Blige

March 24, 2024 04:00 - 50 minutes

Mary J. Blige has been on top for so long that it's entirely proper to refer to her as the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, but for all of her astonishing professional success in music and beyond, her personal life has featured more than her fair share of obstacles. After a mixed bag of relationships in her 20s, she thought she had finally found the one when she married her manager in 2003 - only to find herself in financial peril years later, when she discovered in divorce proceedings that he'd not on...

S21E21: Relationship Red Flags, with Sam and Allie from I'm Horrified!

March 20, 2024 04:00 - 45 minutes

Friends, we were delighted to discover that one of our favorite podcasts had returned to production last year, and couldn't wait to have Allie and Sam from I'm Horrified! join us to talk about some of the relationship red flags that horrify them. It's quite a list, from two of our favorite people in podcasting. Be sure to check out I'm Horrified! wherever you listen to podcasts! Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join...

S21E20: Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith

March 17, 2024 04:00 - 26 minutes

When actors Joshua Jackson (Dawson's Creek, Fringe) and Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim, Anne Boleyn) got together in 2018, it seemed like a match made in Hollywood heaven. But this is Trashy Divorces, so you can guess that the wedded bliss didn't last. After a sudden split in 2023, Jodie has been dropping epic, if somewhat cryptic, shade, and Joshua has recently been spotted vacationing with Lupita Nyong'o. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series...

S21E19: Full House's Jodie Sweetin

March 13, 2024 04:00 - 44 minutes

When the beloved TV series Full House ended in 1995, actress Jodie Sweetin, who played Stephanie Tanner, had spent more of her life on the show than off. At just 13, she experienced a personal and professional shift that took her years to recover from. In the process, she experienced significant substance misuse and three marriages that were doomed to fail for various reasons - but today, she is happy and healthy and in a great marriage. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, b...

S21E18: Dumpster Dive | Rupert Murdoch, Scandoval, Cyrus Drama, Bieber Fever, John Mulaney, Michael Gambon, Natalie Portman, Jason Kelce

March 10, 2024 05:00 - 52 minutes

It's been another big week for a bunch of TD Alums, so we're bringing the Dumpster Dive back to the main feed! In the Dumpster today: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is engaged. Again. VanderPump Rules's Tom Sandoval is savoring his turn as the Most Hated Man in America. Miley's mom Tish Cyrus allegedly stole her daughter's boyfriend - then married him. Justin and Hailey Bieber may or may not be having marital problems, but her dad sure didn't help things. Comedian John Mulaney is about to be...

S21E17: ReesaTeesa's "Who TF Did I Marry?" (Alicia's Version), Part Two

March 06, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour

ReesaMTeesa's epic "Who TF Did I Marry?" spans approximately eight hours on TikTok, with a whopping 50 video installments. Alicia watched them all, and in this Part Two episode, breaks down the last twenty or so videos that complete the disturbing story of her courtship, marriage to, and divorce from "Legion." Want early, ad-free episodes, Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in ...

S21E16: ReesaTeesa's "Who TF Did I Marry?" (Alicia's Version)

March 03, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour

If you're on TikTok, you may have already come across the massively viral "Who TF Did I Marry" series over there. TikTokker reesamteesa has a banger of a story about her whirlwind romance, quick wedding, and rapid divorce from "Legion," a man she describes as a "pathological liar." It's a shocking story - part mystery, part love gone wrong - that Alicia has been fully engrossed by, and in this Part One, she breaks down the first six hours or so of @reesamteesa's epic tale. Want early, ad-free...

S21E15: Cheech Marin

February 28, 2024 05:00 - 47 minutes

Actor, comedian, and musician Cheech Marin stormed into the public imagination back in the 70's as half of the stoner comedy duo Cheech & Chong, but his career has long since expanded beyond weed-fueled road trip movies. Along the way, he's had ups and downs with creative partner Tommy Chong, gone through two divorces, and opened an art museum celebrating Chicano art. Alicia has the whole smoke-filled ride. Want early, ad-free episodes, Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom han...

S21E14: John Derek, Linda Evans, and Bo Derek (ft. Ursula Andress)

February 25, 2024 05:00 - 36 minutes

Actor and filmmaker John Derek may not have been the gifted auteur he imagined himself to be, but his luck with the ladies was undeniable. His four marriages were all to starlets, and his roving eye eventually led to an ugly split from a young Linda Evans, later of Dynasty fame, for an even younger - in fact, a minor at the time - Bo Derek. Want early, ad-free episodes, Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a perso...

S21E13: Daryl Hall and John Oates

February 21, 2024 05:00 - 42 minutes

Not every big breakup is romantic, as songwriting and performing legends Daryl Hall and John Oates are unfortunately learning in the Chancery Court of Nashville, Tennessee. Friends since college, the duo spent years honing their craft before breaking out big in the 1970s, and giving the world some of the catchiest music around - Maneater, Rich Girl, Kiss on My List, You Make My Dreams, among many others. Their half-century long partnership has existed long enough to see a revival of their ear...

S21E12: James Brown

February 18, 2024 05:00 - 54 minutes

James Brown was known by a lot of titles: The Godfather of Soul and The Hardest Working Man in Show Business among them, but as Alicia shares, his personal life was more than a little bit of a catastrophe. From trouble with the law, to trouble with the IRS, to extremely abusive relationships with women, this musical legend's legacy is mixed at best. And was he murdered? Content warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of domestic violence. Want early, ad-free episodes, Dumpster Div...

S21E11: Actress Billie Piper

February 14, 2024 05:00 - 45 minutes

When the Doctor Who television series rebooted on BBC in 2005, the producers were looking for a very specific type of person to play The Doctor's human traveling companion. They wanted a young actress to connect to a new generation of viewers, but also relatably perform the role of an ordinary girl whose adventures with The Doctor connect her to what makes her extraordinary. The selection of actress Billie Piper for the part of Rose Tyler was especially inspired; after all, Billie had been a ...

S21E10: Actress Jane Seymour

February 11, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes

English actress Jane Seymour has been a mainstay in film and television for decades. From her breakout role as Bond girl Solitaire in Live and Let Die to her much loved turn as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, she's been an elegant and indelible cultural presence, with a slew of awards to show for it. But her love life? Oh, that's been an awful lot rockier. Alicia has the trashy dirt on this almost-All Star. Want early, ad-free episodes, Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts...

S21E09: Dumpster Dive! The Grammys, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, The British Royal Family, Brangelina, and Taylor Swift

February 07, 2024 05:00 - 39 minutes

We often cite Dumpster Dives as a Patreon benefit, and with so many TD Alums in the news lately, we thought it would be fun to bring one to the main feed. In the Dumpster this week, Alicia talks Grammys magic, of which there was plenty. Stacie takes a musical follow-up with the recent high-profile spat between exes Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. Then Alicia has thoughts about the spate of medical issues facing Britain's ruling family - King Charles III, Sarah Ferguson, and Kate Middlet...

S21E08: Aaron Burr, Sir

February 04, 2024 05:00 - 46 minutes

After finally catching a live performance of Hamilton the Musical this week, Alicia's mind returned to the wild life story of Hamilton antagonist Aaron Burr. Things didn't stop for him after the infamous duel, and Lin-Manuel Miranda's play doesn't even get into Burr's secret family, unacknowledged children, or his much later marriage to - and divorce from - one of the richest women in America. And if the tale is true, there may have been a bit of poetic justice on the part of the Hamilton fam...

S21E07: The Yankees Wife Swap

January 31, 2024 05:00 - 25 minutes

On March 5, 1973, Major League Baseball hosted what had to be the wildest pair of press conferences in its history. Yankees southpaw pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson, for reasons that defy any kind of good explanation, revealed to reporters from spring training that they had not merely swapped wives with each other, but lives. Months before, Mike had moved into Fritz's home, with Fritz's wife, two children, and dog, and Fritz had moved into Mike's, with Mike's wife, his two children, a...

S21E06: Morgan Freeman

January 28, 2024 05:00 - 50 minutes

Is there anyone who doesn't love actor Morgan Freeman? Star of iconic films like Driving Miss Daisy and The Shawshank Redemption, he's an Academy Award winner and the possessor of one the most recognizable voices in entertainment. As a celebrity with two divorces under his belt, he's definitely in our wheelhouse, but allegations - denied by all parties - that surfaced after his second divorce, and again during the trial of his granddaughter's murderer, leave a distinctly disturbing aftertaste...

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January 26, 2024 14:07 - 7 minutes

When you think of the messiest celebrity feuds of all time, who comes to mind? Is it Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun? Maybe it’s Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan… or just about anyone from any reality TV franchise? Diss and Tell is a podcast from Wondery, hosted by comedians Sydney Battle and Matt Bellassai. Each hilarious episode will take you through one of pop culture’s most iconic celebrity feuds, and serve you a little dose of chaos every week. This is just a preview of Diss and Tell. You ...

S21E05: Joey Lawrence

January 24, 2024 05:00 - 34 minutes

Actor and musician Joey Lawrence roared into Americans' consciousness at the tender age of 5, when he tap danced his way into our hearts on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in 1982. From there, everything was coming up Joey for most of the next two decades: Gimme a Break!, Blossom, and Brotherly Love set his high water mark, but he's worked steadily in his industry ever since. He's also been through two divorces and a bankruptcy - and Stacie thinks he may have benefited from taking some "me time"...

S21E04: Doris Day, Part Two

January 21, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes

In this second part, Alicia tracks Doris Day's disastrous marriage to Martin Melcher, and the enormous financial hole he left her in when he died at the young age of 52. There was still one more husband to go before Doris would decide she'd had enough of matrimony and turned her focus to a more deserving cause: rescuing animals. Want early, ad-free episodes, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone ...

S21E03: Doris Day, Part One

January 17, 2024 05:00 - 48 minutes

Actress and singer Doris Day built a giant career in Hollywood on the image of the All-American Girl, a perfectly relatable Girl Next Door, virtuous and funny. It was pure spin, with Groucho Marx once quipping, "I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin." Doris herself chafed at the limitations of the type-casting and how utterly at odds it was to the life she was actually living. In this first part of her story, Alicia takes us through her start in show business, her...

S21E02: Skateboarding Legend Tony Hawk

January 14, 2024 05:00 - 36 minutes

If you were a 90s kid, you were around for the emergence of skateboarding as a sport, Tony Hawk as its king. Timing being everything, Tony didn't just master and innovate skateboarding, he also got on board the emerging art form of video games early, launching the lucrative Tony Hawk Pro-Skater series in 1999 - a franchise that continues to this day. While his success as an athlete and entrepreneur are impressive, his luck in love has been a bit more spotty, with three trashy divorces behind ...

S21E01: Cher and Gregg Allman

January 10, 2024 05:00 - 44 minutes

All the way back in Season One, Stacie covered the marriage and divorce of Sonny and Cher. But Cher's marital adventures didn't end with Sonny Bono, as Alicia shares. After things fizzled between the pair, Cher went on to marry The Allman Brothers' Gregg Allman - who was unfortunately pretty wrapped up in a cycle of addiction at the time. Things were hard for the couple, and while they gave it a real go (with three divorce filings across their four years!), in the end, they were left merely a...

S20E22: Gilded Age Chronicler Edith Wharton

December 24, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour

Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Edith Wharton came by her subject matter the old fashioned way: she was born into a prominent New York City family, and was subjected to the mores of the city's high society circle from birth. This did not suit the plain, brainy young Edith even a little bit, much to her mother's horror, but Edith did eventually submit to an extremely unhappy marriage to a diagnosed megalomaniac (!), which ended in, you guessed it, a trashy divorce. We are taking our mid-season...

S20E21: Rascal Flatts' Joe Don Rooney

December 20, 2023 05:00 - 32 minutes

Rascal Flatts is one of the most celebrated country music acts of the 21st century, but when the band announced that it would break up after a farewell tour in January 2020, the story took a bunch of unexpected turns. Obviously, the pandemic hit and the tour wasn't in the cards, but then it appears that guitarist Joe Don Rooney's life fell all the way apart in the ensuing months. The farewell tour is still TBD at best, but his 15-year-long marriage is all the way over, and it's anyone's guess...

S20E20: Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald

December 17, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour

2023 has been a monster year for breakups, with celebrities (Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas, anyone?), politicians (Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau!), musicians (almost too many to choose: Cardi B and Offset are done; Kacey Musgraves broke up with her longtime boyfriend), all hitting the escape hatch. Breakups are hard, but we are here to say: We're for it! If your relationship isn't giving you what you need, there's no shame in deciding to leave and go live your best life. That's exactly...

S20E19: Molly Ringwald

December 13, 2023 05:00 - 48 minutes

In the 1980s, filmmaker John Hughes was the king of a certain kind of cinema, and his very favorite leading lady was teen idol Molly Ringwald. With a zest for the parts Hughes had written for her and a refreshing atypical beauty, Molly became one of the most famous faces of the era, and the performer of generation-defining characters. Her path departed from Hughes's after Pretty in Pink, and the years since have taken her places she never expected going - including through a tough divorce. Wa...

S20E18: Robert Downey Jr.

December 10, 2023 05:00 - 34 minutes

Some stories contain great seeds of trash that bloom instead into a resilient forest, and that's our story today. Actor Robert Downey Jr., Marvel's Iron Man, famously had a rough start to his career. For years, he was in and out of rehab, in and out of jail, and keeping the Los Angeles Police Department plenty busy with various drug-fueled bad decisions. Talented though he obviously was, he was all but written off by Hollywood in the early 2000s, when he finally found the strength to sit with...

S20E17: James Gandolfini

December 06, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes

When The Sopranos premiered on HBO in 1999, no one knew how thoroughly it would change television for a generation. Mob boss Tony Soprano, portrayed so ably by actor James Gandolfini, was a complex anti-hero who was capable of both shocking violence and everyman confusion and ambivalence about his role as a father, husband, son, mobster, and human being. Gandolfini himself may have been the perfect actor for the role, but becoming Tony Soprano was harder than the public knew. He battled his o...

S20E16: "Washington's Greatest Swinger" Henry Kissinger

December 03, 2023 05:00 - 32 minutes

When the powerful and influential pass, we always like to take a look at their personal stories, and wow is Henry Kissinger's time in the limelight as Secretary of State to Richard Nixon a shocking document of weirdness. Hailed as "Washington's Greatest Swinger" (which meant something a bit more tame than it does these days), the bookish foreign policy expert became an unlikely sex symbol during a time of real tumult. Stacie has the unexpected, but apparently true, story. Want early, ad-free ...

S20E15: Rock Hudson

November 29, 2023 05:00 - 59 minutes

Hollywood heartthrob Rock Hudson was everywhere on American screens in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the man every woman wanted, and every man wanted to be, but what Hollywood knew and the public didn't was that Rock Hudson was a fabrication, a character in and of himself. Roy Harold Scherer, later Roy Fitzgerald, was turned into Rock Hudson by one of Hollywood's most notorious talent agents, Henry Willson, known as much for taking sexual advantage of the young men he made stars as for the star...

S20E14: Hollywood Legend Loretta Young

November 26, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes

Loretta Young's decades-long career, starting in 1917, was lauded in Hollywood. She's the winner of an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as the recipient of two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was married three times, but it's the affair with - or sexual assault by - Clark Gable, and the resulting child that became her "adopted daughter" that really tells the tale of the moral force that was Loretta Young. Want early, ad-free episodes, b...

S20E13: The Addams Family's Carolyn Jones

November 22, 2023 05:00 - 28 minutes

Actress Carolyn Jones had been prominent in Hollywood for a decade and a half before her turn as Morticia Addams made her a cultural touchstone. She also married four times - and divorced three - including to TV producer and unintentional season theme Aaron Spelling. This October 2020 episode originally appeared on Patreon, so it's a bit looser and a bit sillier than most. Happy Thanksgiving, Trash Pandas! We are eternally thankful for you! Want early, ad-free episodes, bonus divorces, limite...

S20E12: GMA3's Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes

November 19, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutes

Last fall, daytime TV watchers were either thrilled or scandalized by The Daily Mail's revelation that GMA3 co-hosts Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes - both married at the time - had leapt the bounds of friendship and were canoodling in New York City bars and taking romantic getaways to a cabin upstate. ABC pulled the pair from the air within days, and they'd exited the network entirely by early 2023, but their respective divorces would take more time, and heartache, to complete. Want early, ad-fre...

S20E11: 90210's Ian Ziering

November 15, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutes

Aaron Spelling spent decades at the pinnacle of television production in America, spearheading cultural touchstones like Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, Dynasty, and, for today's story, the 90s classic Beverly Hills, 90210. The show launched numerous young stars' careers, some more successfully than others. Actor Ian Ziering portrayed Steve Sanders in all 10 seasons of the show, but his life and career have been a bit turbulent. A short first marriage overlapped the show, and a longer, but n...

S20E10: Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott (Trashy Divorces Classics)

November 12, 2023 05:01 - 50 minutes

We all have celebrities that we root for through thick and thin, and for Alicia, Tori Spelling is one of those. Daughter of Aaron and Candy Spelling, Tori's life went awry when she met Dean McDermott, and both promptly divorced their spouses to be together. That was then. In this Trashy Divorces Classics episode, we re-air our Season 6 story from 2020 and Alicia brings us up to date on all the latest for this apparently former couple, who just can't seem to pull the trigger on their long over...

S20E09: Fantasy Island's Herve Villechaize

November 08, 2023 05:01 - 40 minutes

Content note: Discussion of suicide. For a vanishingly brief few years in the late 80s and early 90s, America fell in love with a French actor most known for his small stature and high excitement at new arrivals. When Herve Villechaize opened Aaron Spelling's Fantasy Island with the exclamation, "The plane! The plane!" the public knew they were about to treated to another charming adventure featuring stars old and new. Unfortunately for Herve, his ego and excesses - he claimed to have slept w...

S20E08: RHONJ's Teresa Giudice and Joe Giudice

November 05, 2023 04:01 - 28 minutes

When Bravo launched The Real Housewives of New Jersey, it couldn't have foreseen that it was launching its first Housewife inmate, but that's exactly what happened to Teresa Giudice and her husband, Joe. Their legal ordeal went on for years, and ended with the pair separated by an ocean and choosing to divorce, but Teresa - the only original cast member still present for Season 14 - seems to have finally found her groove. Want early, ad-free episodes, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hang...

S20E07: Tia Mowry and Cory Hardrict

November 01, 2023 04:01 - 49 minutes

If you were of a certain age in the 1990s, it's highly likely that Tia Mowry and her sister Tamera played a pivotal role in your development as an adolescent. The twins starred in Sister, Sister, an anchor of ABC's TGIF lineup, from 1995-1999, and became major parts of the zeitgeist of the era. Both have gone on to successful careers in entertainment, and both have married and had children of their own. But Tia shocked the world in October 2022, when she announced the end of her marriage to f...

S20E06: Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger, ft. Sophia Bush

October 29, 2023 04:01 - 26 minutes

The US National Women's Soccer Team is mostly known for its dominance in the field, but lately, a cheating scandal has emerged that's rocking the sport. Not cheating at sports, mind you, but the more personal kind. Soccer power couple Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger, married since 2019, are suddenly divorcing, and it looks like it has everything to do with One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush. Want early, ad-free episodes, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.co...

S20E05: Joan Bennett

October 25, 2023 04:01 - 33 minutes

Hollywood legend Joan Bennett didn't always want to follow in her family's footsteps as an actor. The youngest of the Bennett Sisters, her siblings Constance and Barbara were already film stars by the time Joan determined to hang a shingle as an interior designer, but motherhood got in the way. After her first short marriage and divorce, she had an extra mouth to feed, which launched her on a decades' long career that spanned dozens of films, including Puttin' on the Ritz, She Wanted a Millio...

S20E04: Elon Musk Redux (Trashy Divorces Classics)

October 22, 2023 04:01 - 45 minutes

With the publication of Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography, Stacie's been following up on some of the highs, lows, and general mayhem in the life and career of Elon Musk since we first covered him back in May of 2021. We really just scratch the surface on our update - a comprehensive telling of the last couple of years would easily be as long as Isaacson's entire book, and then we re-air our original origin story of Elon Musk. Want early, ad-free episodes, bonus divorces, limited series, Z...

S20E03: Hugh D. Auchincloss (Done & Dunne Crossover)

October 18, 2023 04:01 - 51 minutes

Some stories have so much trash it's hard to know where to begin, but for scion of the Standard Oil fortune Hugh D. Auchincloss, it's hard to know even where to stop. Auchincloss, about as blue blood as you can get, was married three times, and through that particular journey, ended up being step-father to the future Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwell, from his third marriage, as well as the writer Gore Vidal, via his second marriage. It's this second marriage, to the former Nina Go...

S20E02: RHONJ's Dina Manzo

October 15, 2023 04:01 - 39 minutes

Bravo's The Real Housewives franchise has lent many things to our culture: feuds, fights, memes, and a constellation of people who've come to be known as Bravolebrities. For original New Jersey cast member Dina Manzo, the experience sparked genuine conflict with her sister, also a cast member, and Dina became the first Housewife to leave a series of her own volition. But that's the beginning, not the end, of a story that involves a long divorce, organized crime, and even violence. Want early,...

S20E01: Christina Ricci

October 11, 2023 04:01 - 58 minutes

Content Warning: Child abuse, domestic violence Actress Christina Ricci has been entertaining us on the big and small screen since she was just ten years old. While many child stars chafe under the pressure of early stardom, for Christina, escaping to a film set was a welcome diversion from her parents' troubled marriage and eventual divorce. While her career would become a sustained success as an adult, her own first marriage turned into a nightmare scenario she's still struggling with, even...

S19E24: The Best Is Yet To Come | Tony Bennett, Part Two

September 24, 2023 04:01 - 51 minutes

The years after Tony's second marriage were not happy ones for him. His career took a downturn as Americans' musical tastes changed, and he coped with the dislocation in extremely unhealthy ways, which crashed his marriage, too. Finding himself entirely adrift, he did the most vulnerable thing a struggling parent could do: he called his adult sons and asked for help. It was the turning point in a life and career that would sparkle for decades to come. We'll be back for Season 20 on October 11...

S19E23: I Left My Heart in San Francisco | Tony Bennett, Part One

September 20, 2023 04:01 - 44 minutes

By nearly all accounts, crooner Tony Bennett was one of the greats. Not just as a singer and performer, but in the ways he treated people, the causes he chose to champion, and his endless willingness to contribute his talents to charity events. But even the greats have rough spots! There may be very few people with an unkind word to say about Tony Bennett, but his two ex-wives could surely be among them. Alicia has his background, lessons from his World War II experiences, and his first marri...

S19E22: Mr. Perfectly Fine | Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas

September 17, 2023 04:01 - 41 minutes

That an actor and a musician would be divorcing isn't really news, but in the case of Jonas Brothers frontman Joe Jonas and his recently filed divorce from wife of four years, Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner, a dumb PR move turned it into a huge story. Did Joe mean for the tabloids to run stories suggesting that Sophie is a bad mom? We may never know, but this Jonas Brother has managed to give himself a huge black eye. Want early, ad-free episodes, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hang...

S19E21: Radio Song | Rush Limbaugh

September 13, 2023 04:01 - 44 minutes

Rush Limbaugh ascended to heights of conservative talk radio in the 80s and 90s, introducing a brand of discourse in America most notable for its toxicity. While there was a willing audience for his bilge, it's clear from his three divorces, substance misuse, and legal issues, that his notoriety wasn't without costs. To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to [email protected] or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/TrashyDivorces. Alicia's Receipts What You Don't Know About Rush L...

S19E20: The Scientist | Carl Sagan, Part Two

September 10, 2023 04:01 - 38 minutes

After Carl Sagan's first divorce, from biologist Lynn Margulis, he was to find love again. And, in a massive betrayal, yet again. Look, the guy indisputably made big contributions to science and the public's understanding of it, but his personal life was a mess! Want early, ad-free episodes, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Sponsors Go to Proactiv.com now and use the exclusive promo code TRASHY to get 20% off your first order! To ...

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