Donna Adelson’s Jailhouse Life: ‘Jailhouse Daughter’ Drina Bernhardt Talks Donna, the Trial & Jail
Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 106 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | She said she did it, Donna Edelson. |
| 0:02.6 | It was to keep her grandkids, but it wasn't supposed to go that far. |
| 0:08.6 | That's what one of Donna Adelson's closest jailhouse friends told the jury in Leon County during |
| 0:15.5 | Don Adelson's trial. |
| 0:17.2 | And tonight that jail daughter, Drina Bernhardt, who I just met backstage and is awesome. |
| 0:23.8 | She joins Surviving the Survivor in her first in-depth. |
| 0:29.1 | Welcome to the global phenomenon, surviving the survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime. |
| 0:36.6 | Here's your host Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman. |
| 0:40.9 | What's up, SDS Nation? |
| 0:42.5 | Welcome to Survive and Survivor. |
| 0:43.8 | This is the show that brings you the very best guests in all of true crime, no matter |
| 0:49.8 | how long it takes to get cranking, but it is understandable with Drina. |
| 0:56.3 | She needed a little extra time and we are happy to give it to her tonight. |
| 0:59.5 | We're going to hear from her. |
| 1:01.4 | She is the woman Donna Adelson basically tried to manipulate to no avail. |
| 1:07.1 | Drina Bernhardt is our guest. |
| 1:09.5 | She is the inmate that Donna Adelson did call her jail |
| 1:13.0 | daughter. Drina says Donna Adelson promised her money, pills, commissary, even a grand piano, |
| 1:22.6 | all in exchange for giving false testimony that could have changed the course of the trial, but Drina said, |
| 1:30.0 | buzz off, Donna. |
| 1:31.0 | Here she is. |
| 1:32.2 | Trina, Trina. |
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