Trashy Divorces
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
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 553
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
S22E18: Olivia de Havilland (Trashy Divorces Classics)
Alicia has the life and loves of screen legend Olivia de Havilland, with spiderweb appearances by so many legends including her sister Joan Fontaine, Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes, John Huston, and so m…
01:02:52 |
Sun 09 Jun 2024
S22E17: Josephine Baker (Trashy Divorces Classics)
Alicia has the incredible-but-true story of entertainment legend Josephine Baker, a woman who did every famous person cliche first, while also spending World War II as a spy coordinating activities f…
00:27:55 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
S22E16: Phil Hartman, Part Two
Phil Hartman married for a third and final time in 1987, and while the marriage was quite rocky, he and wife Brynn Omdahl had two children together. What Phil didn't know was that once they were toge…
00:33:44 |
Sun 02 Jun 2024
S22E15: Phil Hartman, Part One
Comedy legend Phil Hartman spent many, many years establishing himself as a performer before he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live and became an icon. His talents weren't just visible on stage; b…
00:45:29 |
Wed 29 May 2024
S22E14: Shakira
Shakira isn't just a global pop phenomenon - she's also the rare Trashy Divorces subject who has never actually been married. But two very long relationships, scandalous breakups, and a shadowy hacke…
00:35:58 |
Sun 26 May 2024
S22E13: Fleetwood Mac ca. Rumours and Stevie Nicks (Trashy Divorces Classics)
We've got a special double-feature for you today with two listener favorite episodes - Stacie's telling of Fleetwood Mac around the time Rumours was made, and Alicia's story of the strange, sad, and …
01:16:15 |
Wed 22 May 2024
S22E12: Tallulah Bankhead (Trashy Divorces Classics)
While we both hope that our ties to Alabama put us on track to be considered luminaries of the state, we'll never be in the same league as actress Tallulah Bankhead. Born into a powerful political dy…
00:49:50 |
Sun 19 May 2024
S22E11: Bruce Springsteen and Julianne Phillips
In the mid-80s, New Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen was on top of the world. His album Born in the U.S.A. became the kind of chart topping achievement that even very successful artists are unlikely t…
00:54:02 |
Wed 15 May 2024
S22E10: Sam Cooke, Barbara Campbell Cooke, and Bobby Womack
By the time of his death at just 33, singer Sam Cooke had become a bona fide superstar, as well as being an effective activist in the movement for Black equality in America. He had also been married …
00:44:21 |
Sun 12 May 2024
S22E09: Dumpster Dive | Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd, Ben Folds Five!, and Billy Porter
This week, we're taking the opportunity to catch up on some recent splits that may not have generated enough coverage to produce a full episode on their own. Alicia walks us through the recent divorc…
00:34:52 |
Wed 08 May 2024
S22E08: RHOM's Joanna Krupa
Today, Alicia takes us back to the Real Housewives universe with the story of a two-season cast member from the Miami edition, Joanna Krupa. And seriously, you're not ready for all the very many plac…
00:48:01 |
Sun 05 May 2024
S22E07: Alex Kingston and Ralph Fiennes, ft. Francesca Annis
Alex Kingston's career really took off in the mid-1990s, first portraying Dr. Elizabeth Corday on NBC's ER, and then in the late 2000s, as River Song, the mysterious friend who knew Doctor Who's futu…
00:33:45 |
Wed 01 May 2024
S22E06: Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst (Done & Dunne Crossover)
Media mogul William Randolph Hearst can be cast as a hero or a villain of the 20th century, and plenty of writers have taken a stab at pinning down his legacy definitively. But one of the lesser reme…
01:12:34 |
Sun 28 Apr 2024
S22E05: Babe Ruth
Baseball legend Babe Ruth, nicknamed "The Sultan of Swat" during his 22-season career, is a treasured piece of Yankees history, but not exactly a family guy! Turns out, he might even have gone to gre…
00:32:02 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
S22E04: The William Shakespeare Mystery (Trashy Royals Crossover)
It's a big week for Tortured Poets, so we decided to take a long look at history's most famous one: William Shakespeare himself. Alicia explores the mystery around the true identity of the author of …
01:30:26 |
Sun 21 Apr 2024
S22E03: Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green, ft. Machine Gun Kelly
Beverly Hills 90210 alum Brian Austin Green has grown up in the public eye. His first serious relationship was with Tiffani Amber Thiessen, who eventually became his co-star on the hit series, and th…
00:51:16 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
S22E02: Michael Douglas
We think of him as Hollywood royalty, a star born of a star, but the truth is that Michael Douglas's father, Kirk Douglas, wasn't famous when Michael was young, and by the time Kirk was a box office …
00:47:37 |
Sun 14 Apr 2024
S22E01: Judge Judy Sheindlin
And we're back, with a brand new episode of Sassy Divorces! Americans are almost certainly familiar with Judge Judy, the no-nonsense jurist who's hosted history's most successful reality TV courtroom…
00:30:38 |
Wed 10 Apr 2024
S21E22: Mary J. Blige
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…
00:50:14 |
Sun 24 Mar 2024
S21E21: Relationship Red Flags, with Sam and Allie from I'm Horrified!
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 o…
00:45:36 |
Wed 20 Mar 2024
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