Encore: Behind The Thrillers With Freida McFadden
Barely Famous
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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This week on Barely Famous, Kail talks to Freida McFadden, the author behind thrillers like The Housemaid and The Boyfriend. She reveals the secrets behind crafting her signature plot twists and shares the struggle of balancing dual careers as a physician and writer. Freida also gives listeners an inside scoop on her books being adapted for film and TV. Plus, she reads some hilariously mean reviews of her satirical novella.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the shit show. |
| 0:02.9 | Things are going to get weird. |
| 0:04.0 | Get weird. |
| 0:04.5 | It's your fave villain, Kail Lowry. |
| 0:06.4 | And you're listening to Barely Famous. What you guys don't see behind the scenes is that internally, I'm freaking the fuck out. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm so fucking nervous. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm so nervous. |
| 0:34.5 | I thought that maybe something would come up and she would cancel and then I just go |
| 0:39.4 | through this anxiety again. |
| 0:41.0 | But let's welcome Frieda McFadden into the Barely Famous Podcast. |
| 0:45.9 | Thank you, Frieda, for coming on Barely Famous Podcast. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm so excited to have you. |
| 0:49.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm so excited to be here. |
| 0:53.0 | I have to tell my listeners a funny little story. You're |
| 0:57.9 | familiar with it. So I emailed Frida when after I read, I think one or two of your books, |
| 1:04.7 | the first two that I ever read. And I emailed Frida and I was like, hey, if you want to |
| 1:08.4 | collab on a book, like I'm totally down. And Frida emailed back and she's like, hey, if you want to collab on a book, like, I'm, I'm totally down. |
| 1:27.5 | And Frida emailed back and she's like, I don't, I don't do well with collabs, but like, thank you. And I thought that was so funny and honest. And I literally remember telling my hairstylist, because she's the one that got me into your books. I said, I was just honored that you even said no to me. |
| 1:31.6 | Like that was fine and I was completely okay with it because I was like so many people will just ghost you and not answer. |
| 1:33.5 | Oh, that's fucking up. |
| 1:36.3 | I mean, I was excited, but you know, there are still people that I know from like middle |
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