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
S21E01: Cher and Gregg Allman
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…
00:44:03 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
S20E22: Gilded Age Chronicler Edith Wharton
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 s…
01:08:38 |
Sun 24 Dec 2023
S20E21: Rascal Flatts' Joe Don Rooney
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…
00:32:16 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
S20E20: Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald
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 …
01:14:20 |
Sun 17 Dec 2023
S20E19: Molly Ringwald
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…
00:48:49 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
S20E18: Robert Downey Jr.
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.…
00:34:18 |
Sun 10 Dec 2023
S20E17: James Gandolfini
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 a…
00:43:11 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
S20E16: "Washington's Greatest Swinger" Henry Kissinger
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 d…
00:32:59 |
Sun 03 Dec 2023
S20E15: Rock Hudson
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'…
00:59:55 |
Wed 29 Nov 2023
S20E14: Hollywood Legend Loretta Young
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 recipien…
00:22:52 |
Sun 26 Nov 2023
S20E13: The Addams Family's Carolyn Jones
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 - inc…
00:28:02 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
S20E12: GMA3's Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes
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 fr…
00:36:03 |
Sun 19 Nov 2023
S20E11: 90210's Ian Ziering
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 clas…
00:41:46 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
S20E10: Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott (Trashy Divorces Classics)
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…
00:50:06 |
Sun 12 Nov 2023
S20E09: Fantasy Island's Herve Villechaize
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 …
00:40:26 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
S20E08: RHONJ's Teresa Giudice and Joe Giudice
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, …
00:28:57 |
Sun 05 Nov 2023
S20E07: Tia Mowry and Cory Hardrict
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 …
00:49:44 |
Wed 01 Nov 2023
S20E06: Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger, ft. Sophia Bush
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…
00:26:49 |
Sun 29 Oct 2023
S20E05: Joan Bennett
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 th…
00:33:06 |
Wed 25 Oct 2023
S20E04: Elon Musk Redux (Trashy Divorces Classics)
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…
00:45:54 |
Sun 22 Oct 2023
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