S32E4: Brigitte Bardot
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In the final days of the no-good, very-bad year of 2025, the world learned that the iconic French actress Brigitte Bardot had died at the age of 91. Having achieved international stardom back in 1957 in the film And God Created Woman - a collab with her first husband, director Roger Vadim - she became a significant cultural export from France in an era where the rules that seemed to govern the conduct of ordinary people were increasingly being questioned and cast aside.
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| 0:33.4 | Hello and welcome to trashy divorces. |
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| 0:40.1 | My name is Stacey and Alicia, you've got one that has been a long time coming. |
| 0:44.7 | Exactly. |
| 0:46.3 | Bonjour Brigitte Bardot. |
| 0:49.3 | It's Alicia here, Trash Pandas, and thank you, everybody, for joining us for today's tale of Marital Miss Adventure |
| 0:55.5 | for the first time or almost the 600th as we are in season 32 of this adventure. Stacey, I'm really |
| 1:05.2 | delighted, I think, to be bringing to you and all the folks out there, the trashy saga of Brigitte Bardo, the French actress. |
| 1:15.9 | Brigitte is our focus this week, and she is a woman to be remembered certainly in a lot of ways. |
| 1:22.7 | First up, kind of impressive. In less than 21 years, Brigitte Bardot made 47 films and perhaps leaves an impact that will last in ways you and I will not live exactly to see. |
| 1:37.4 | Biographer Marie Dominique LaLivre said about Brigitte Bardot, she is the first woman to have publicly displayed her sexual freedom. |
| 1:48.6 | Before Bardot, a woman who changed lovers at the slightest whim was called a bitch, a salop, which in French means a slut. |
| 1:59.1 | La Livra says, after Bardot, such a woman was simply seen as a |
| 2:04.6 | liberate. Unlike Hollywood actresses who played by the rules, Bordeaux set her own. She attracted |
| 2:14.0 | women who wanted to do like her and men who simply wanted her. |
| 2:21.0 | That's a pretty good setup. |
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