S32E6: Brigitte Bardot, Advocate for Animals & A Curdled Legacy
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In her later years, French actress and icon Brigitte Bardot devoted her considerable talents to the protection of animals all over the planet. In the 1980s, having retired from film, she created the Brigitte Bardot Foundation dedicated to animal welfare, and used her substantial platform to contact governments and heads of state with letters decrying their nation's treatment of animals. But her attitudes about people became far less generous as she aged. Her fourth and last marriage was to a far-right politician, and she was repeatedly fined by French courts for inciting racial hatred. To be honest, she had a lot of bees in her bonnet by the time she died on December 28, 2025, and she leaves a genuinely complicated legacy behind.
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| 0:45.0 | podcasts. New episodes every Sunday. Hello and welcome to Trashy Divorces. Everybody's |
| 0:51.8 | favor of good podcast about bad relationships. My name is Stacy, |
| 0:56.5 | and today, Alicia, we are completing our Bridget Bardot arc. Brigitte Bardot, complicated and trashy. |
| 1:04.0 | It is Alicia here. Thank you, one and all for joining us today for this conclusion of marital misadventure. |
| 1:10.6 | And yes, we have come around |
| 1:12.0 | full circle for it. Today, it's Brigitte Mardo from the mid-60s single. We're going to take her |
| 1:20.0 | through one more marriage and divorce to a German billionaire. One final marriage, her animal rights |
| 1:25.9 | activism, and, well, all over views on so many things that led to loads of legal troubles and a definite damaging of her reputation. |
| 1:33.9 | The tarnish because she was pretty out loud with her frequent racist, Islamophobic, homophobic, and anti-trans comments. |
| 1:42.7 | No, she sounds like she was a peach in our later years, really. |
| 1:45.2 | Super big peach. |
| 1:46.8 | There's a lot to get into here. |
| 1:50.3 | Let us, along Z. |
| 2:05.5 | All right, Trash Pandos, buckle in. |
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