April Richardson Returns
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
Alison Rosen
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
CW: emotional abuse, self harm, coercive control
Comedian and writer April Richardson was last on the show in 2016. Since then she fell in love, got married and moved to England. But things with her new husband quickly changed. For a long time time she was absent on social media—to the point her followers were direct messaging her to see if she was okay—but recently she surfaced to announce she'd left an abusive marriage. I reached out to ask if she'd be willing to tell the story on my show and she said yes.
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| 0:00.0 | Allison, Rosen, |
| 0:02.8 | Allison, Rosen is your new best friend. |
| 0:06.7 | Allison, Allison, with perfect good times never end. |
| 0:12.0 | Allison, Rosen, too, in a way to dance and dance again. |
| 0:17.7 | Allison, Rosen, Allison's your new best friend. |
| 0:22.9 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:23.7 | Hi, hello. |
| 0:24.4 | Welcome to another exciting episode of Allison Rosen is your new best friend. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm delighted to welcome back to the show. |
| 0:30.7 | Someone I have not talked to on the show since January of 2016. |
| 0:35.4 | It is writer, comedian, host of the very popular at one point website, what |
| 0:43.4 | I say? Podcast, go Bayside. Please put your hands together for April Richardson. Yeah, 10 years. |
| 0:50.1 | It's been 10 years. Yeah. I was listening back to the episode. I have not listened to the full episode because I'm bad with time management. |
| 0:58.6 | But I was listening back and you were saying that you said something about like being a, you know, a grown ass 36 year old woman. |
| 1:06.4 | And I was like, wow. |
| 1:08.8 | Now 40, I just turned 47 a couple weeks ago. |
| 1:11.8 | Happy birthday. Happy belated birthday. 40, a grown ass 47 year old woman. Yeah. So I am connecting |
| 1:19.6 | with you remotely. You are in what part of England? I live in Brighton, England. It's like an |
| 1:25.2 | hour south of London on the coast. Okay. So you you left |
| 1:30.4 | Los Angeles some years ago. How many years ago? Seven years ago. I've lived here seven years. |
| 1:35.5 | Okay. And you, I knew that you were living in England and you were in a relationship. And then that |
| 1:41.9 | relationship did not go well, was abusive. We will get into the details |
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