JESS MEGAN • surviving grief, addiction and social media #657
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by model, activist and general whirlwind of greatness JESS MEGAN!
A deluxe edition of the podcast this week as Pip catches up with Jess, which as you will bear witness to, is no average catch up. While they worked together on the 'Dark Summer' Speech Development merch shoot back in 2016, which seems like mere months ago, that was an entire decade ago it turns out. And as with life in general, it also turns out that an almost insurmountable itinerary can intervene. In Jess's case, without treading on any of what you're about to hear, there's been an immense amount of grief, varying degrees of addiction, depression, and in case you need any sensitivity warnings, there is frank discussion of suicide - so please know that before you begin this episode.
Of course, among the heavier elements of the conversation, a huge amount of light enters - Jess and Pip are lovely people and you're in safe hands, as hopefully you'll feel aware of by now. There's a lovely balance of the fun and the far more serious, including a lot of fascinating chat regarding social media and the like. But importantly, even if this situation doesn't mirror one of your own, there will likely be familiar moments or perhaps some which might be of help for others going through it. However you meet it, you'll emerge at the end in a different spot, and hopefully have found a glorious new friend in the bargain. A valuable, intimate but ultimately incredibly powerful conversation right here folks.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the Distraction Pieces podcast episode 657. We've done a few |
| 0:07.8 | episodes, aren't we? We've done a few episodes and this one is as good as any. It's a really |
| 0:13.4 | special one. We mentioned at one point the early days of the podcast with really special talks |
| 0:20.0 | with people like Eddie Temple Morris and |
| 0:22.9 | Gail Porter. |
| 0:24.8 | I always love the Jeff Lloyd one. |
| 0:27.8 | And this feels like one of them. |
| 0:29.5 | It's a long one, as you will have seen. |
| 0:31.2 | We really got into it. |
| 0:32.6 | Today's chat is with Jess Megan. |
| 0:34.9 | I've known Jess for over a decade now. |
| 0:37.1 | If you're not familiar with |
| 0:38.3 | Jess, you're going to get very familiar. Jess blew up on Instagram, about half a million |
| 0:43.8 | followers as a body positivity spokesperson, an activist for numerous things. And then Jess |
| 0:51.6 | vanished for like four years. And she's just recently come back |
| 0:55.5 | and I wanted to offer up this platform |
| 0:58.1 | as kind of a safe place for her to tell her story |
| 1:02.0 | and explain what's been going on. |
| 1:04.9 | Trigger warnings. |
| 1:06.1 | This is a deep dive into grief. |
| 1:08.8 | This is a deep dive into addiction. This is a deep dive into addiction. This is a deep dive into suicidal ideation. |
| 1:16.0 | It's also a beautiful, beautiful conversation. I feel so privileged to have been able to be a small |
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