tell me lies ft. Alicia Crowder
Delusional Diaries
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4.1 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
this week on Delusional Diaries, Halley and Jaz are joined by Alicia Crowder, aka Diana from Tell Me Lies, and it’s peak fangirl chaos and behind-the-scenes tea. they get into the cult-like TikTok community around the show, insane fan theories that almost outdo the writers, and what it’s like to watch people dissect your character in real time. from auditioning over Zoom and finding out she booked the role while sitting on her couch, to the shock of reading THAT plot twist, Alicia shares what it’s really like being at the center of one of the internet’s most unhinged relationship dramas.
the girls dive deep into Diana’s psychology: ambition, codependency, perfectionism, and that terrifying type-A composure that somehow still cracks. they talk toxic men, manipulation disguised as love, and why Stephen isn’t strategic, he just wants control. Alicia opens up about Juilliard, 15-hour shoot days, filming scenes out of order, memorizing five-page dialogues, and the pressure of delivering emotional chaos on cue at 4 a.m. plus, the subtle power move of asking writers to let Diana score higher on the LSAT (as she should).
and because this is Delusional Diaries, it wouldn’t be complete without a little fun: Diana answering Hinge prompts, night owl vs. morning person debates, dog-mom routines, superstitions during auditions, and the very real spiral of waiting to hear if you’re “the final two.” it’s a mix of ambition, vulnerability, internet obsession, and the reminder that even the most put-together girls are still human. chaotic, thoughtful, and slightly delusional, obviously. just, with a special guest this time!
Timestamps
0:17 - Alicia Crowder from Tell Me Lies
14:45 - Season 3 reactions (and spoilers)
21:18 - If Diana was on Hinge
27:30 - Auditioning for Tell Me Lies
35:41 - Need a Season 4
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, guys, welcome back to Delusional Diaries podcast. I'm Hallie. And today we are joined with Alicia, who plays Diana on Tell Me Lies. I am obsessed with the show. It's so weird to see you here in real light and not on my screen. Does episodes come out every Tuesday? Yeah, every Tuesday. I'm fully caught up, waiting for the next one tomorrow. Like, I am obsessed. So I feel like we just want to get into some of that, your personal life and just |
| 0:37.6 | all of the things. You want to start? I was just going to say it. My favorite thing about |
| 0:42.5 | tell me lies right now is how TikTok is a community. Like every single week, everyone's so |
| 0:47.8 | invested into what's happening. And you're like, you have to be a part of it. 100%. Yeah. |
| 0:52.5 | Like you're missing out. Yeah. it's been really fun. I've gotten |
| 0:54.6 | like a lot more active on social media and even I have like my professional page and then I have |
| 0:59.9 | like a personal page. And when like Tommy Lai stuff comes up on there, it's so fun to like see what |
| 1:04.9 | people are saying. You know, there are all these different like niches, you know, like different kinds |
| 1:09.7 | of people who like find other like minded people who talk about the show. It's really fun. Do you ever see their prediction videos of like people think it's going to happen and be like, oh wow, that would have been cooler if that did happen? All the time. Like no, seriously, I'm like sometimes I'm like, we need to recruit fans to like write for the show because like people come up. |
| 1:28.2 | And like obviously the writing is amazing and like everyone's awesome. But like sometimes the crazy theories. I'm like, wait, that would have been so cool. I know. The proof is like they. I'm like, you're making me think that this could happen. Right. And I'm like, oh. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. When did you start filming the show, like first, first season? |
| 1:47.3 | Oh, my God. I'm like, oh, wow. Yeah. When did you start filming the show? |
| 1:45.5 | Like, first, first season. |
| 1:47.3 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:48.6 | In 2022? |
| 1:51.7 | Okay. |
| 1:52.6 | Like a lifetime ago. |
| 1:53.5 | Yeah, like in January. |
| 1:54.6 | I was cast in 2021, which is crazy. |
| 1:59.6 | So, yeah, it's like this year it will have been like six years. No, five years since like it all started, you know, yeah. That's crazy. Is it based off of a book, right? Yeah. Okay. Had you ever like read the book before or anything? I hadn't, but when I told people that I was auditioning for it, they were like, oh my God, I love that book. Like I read it in college. Like people who are like a few years older than me. |
| 2:19.7 | Yeah. |
| 2:19.9 | Okay. And did you originally audition for your character or did you like audition for a different one? So I originally went in for Diana. They were like, great. Also put yourself on tape for Pippa, which I did, which was really just like looking at where looking at where we are now and just like seeing Sonia in that role, like I could never imagine. Like I think they made the right choice. Like I think I'm very much more Diana than I am Pippa. But it was fun like doing that like as well. Oh my gosh. No, I'm sure'm sure what's it do you feel like you relate to your |
| 2:53.0 | character at all in your life oh yeah 100% like when I started filming um you know I was really close to |
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