620. Gordon Lightfoot's Redemption Story

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

History, Comedy

4.5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today's episode is sponsored by Incogni. Use code trashy at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan: incogni.com/trashy. After his first divorce and his toxic relationship with Cathy Smith, it would be 16 years before Gordon Lightfoot took the plunge and married again, this time to Elizabeth Moon. It's hard to say if this was a good relationship, but it produced two children and seems to have involved a very long period of separation during which, for once, he was involved in parenting his children. He also had some serious health events during this time. When he married his third wife, Kim Hasse, he was already into his 70s, but the guy was durable. In spite of decades of late nights and hard living, he lived to be 84 years old, passing away on May 1, 2023. Sponsors Today's episode is sponsored by Incogni. Use code trashy at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan: incogni.com/trashy. Today's episode is sponsored by Quince. Head to quince.com/trashy for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too! Today's episode is sponsored by Smalls. Get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping and free treats for life, when you head to smalls.com/trashy! Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Hello and welcome to trashy divorces. Everybody's favour of good podcast about bad relationships.
0:36.7	My name is Stacey and Alicia. You're taking us up north again,
0:40.1	closing out the Gordon Lightfoot sequence. Hello, that I am. Thanks for joining us, everybody.
0:45.8	The ship is going down on Gordon Lightfoot. Do you like that? I did. That was good. We left his
0:52.0	romantic adventures in 1974 with the breakup of Kathy Smith.
0:57.2	See Wednesday's episode for that.
0:59.1	We have a little bit more ground to cover.
1:01.1	A few more lovers, two more wives, four more kids, and well, a redemption story too.
1:06.9	Oh, I love those.
1:07.7	If we're going to get to that, we had better.
1:09.6	Go, go, go.
1:21.6	Music Oh, I love those. If we're going to get to that, we had better. Go, go, go. Oh, Gordon Lightfoot, you Canadian animal, you.
1:25.9	In 1974, we're down one wife, Britta and two kids, Fred Ningred, from abuse and the drink.
1:33.5	We're down another lover, couldn't handle the jealousy and all the tumultuousness in the Kathy Smith relationship.
1:39.7	That one has sundowned.
1:41.6	We have Gordon here in the mid-1970s, still doing his music thing,
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