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Trashy Divorces

S32E6: Brigitte Bardot, Advocate for Animals & A Curdled Legacy

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

History, Comedy

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2026

⏱️ 56 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. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to trashy divorces. Everybody's favor of good podcast about bad relationships.

0:06.9

My name is Stacey and today Alicia, we are completing our Bridget Bardot arc.

0:12.5

Brigitte Bardot, complicated and trashy. It is Alicia here. Thank you. One and all for joining us today for this conclusion of marital misadventure. And yes, we have come around full circle for it. Today, it's Brigitte Mardo from the mid-60s single. We're going to take her through one more marriage and divorce to a German billionaire. One final marriage, her animal rights activism, and, well, all over views on

0:39.9

so many things that led to loads of legal troubles and a definite damaging of her reputation.

0:45.2

The tarnish because she was pretty out loud with her frequent racist, Islamophobic, homophobic, and

0:52.3

anti-trans comments. No, she sounds like she was a peach in our later years, really.

0:56.6

Super big peach.

0:58.1

There's a lot to get into here.

1:01.7

Let us, buckle in.

1:17.1

We're going the distance in this one.

1:19.3

So we left off last time with Brigitte Bardot, divorcing Jacques Charié, not worried about motherhood at all, giving up custody of the kid.

1:29.8

She makes that 1963 film that redeems her a little. So she's kind of back on top of her game,

1:36.0

film-wise. At this point, Brigitte Bardo gets on a boat and stays on a boat for about two years.

1:43.6

Wow.

1:45.4

Just sail. South America.

1:47.5

I mean, she's going to do a few more films.

1:59.1

One of those films is made by Louis Malle, long before he marries Candice Bergen, long before they have their daughter, Chloe, who is now the new editor of Vogue.

2:00.8

Talk about Spiderwebs.

2:03.1

Brigitte Bardot, stories about her.

2:07.1

She is, like, still the most popular actress in the world.

2:11.2

She's being stalked in France when she does come back home.

2:18.4

But here, I don't know, 10 years into her film career, Brigitte Bardot, we saw this brewing last time.

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