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I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

True Crime & Stalking with Isla Traquair

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Society & Culture, Jameela Jamil, Storytelling, Disasters, Personal Journals, Comedians, Comedy Interviews, Conversation, Stand-up, Comedy, Funny, True Stories, Shame, Embarassing

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jameela is joined by crime journalist and activist Isla Traquair and they cover her long spanning career reporting on true crime to recently becoming a victim of emotional violence and stalking herself. They discuss the mental health impact of stalking & navigating the justice system, the grim statistics of convictions along with the lengths women need to go to to stay safe and establish their boundaries. They talk about supporting survivors, victims and their families, and Isla shares how she's making UK history by covering multiple decade-old murder cases for her podcast. We also get into the fascination with true crime and why it’s the most popular genre of podcasting. You can find Isla on IG @islatraquair and find her true crime podcast The Storyteller: Naked Villainy You can find transcripts for this episode on the Earwolf website I Weigh has amazing merch – check it out at podswag.com Jameela is on Instagram @jameelajamil and TikTok @jameelajamil And make sure to check out I Weigh’s Instagram, Youtube and TikTok for more!

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jameela Jamil, a podcast against shame.

0:04.0

I hope you're well and I hope you're prepared for a harder lesson than normal because we are

0:08.2

covering the subject of stalking, harassment, the impact on your mom's mental health, violence

0:13.2

against women and how fucked up the justice system is still after all these years

0:17.6

towards survivors. So it's not easy especially if you yourself are a survivor so I want to give you

0:22.3

that warning but I will say it is an amazing conversation because my guest is extraordinary. I've

0:27.7

known her for years. Her name is Eilertra Kueh and I'm very lucky that she came onto this podcast

0:33.1

to tell her story and the stories of others who've been impacted by this level of violence

0:39.6

and I think that she's really special and the reason that her podcast is so successful is multiple

0:44.8

number one podcast is because she is someone who's coming at the subject of murder trials

0:51.1

from an angle that isn't sensationalist. She's a she's a real human being. She really cares about

0:56.8

all of the people impacted. What could have been done differently? All the survivors that are left

1:02.0

behind when someone dies and when someone experiences tremendous violence. We always focus on the killer.

1:08.6

We don't talk about the victim when we don't talk about the victim's families. We just kind of move on

1:12.5

because we're so desensitized. In this episode we talk about a huge historical case that she's

1:18.4

covering on her new season of the storyteller Naked Villainy which is a podcast at season three

1:23.6

and she's making history in this series because she's the first journalist to ever be allowed

1:27.8

to record a real trial live in the room and give her insight seeing as she's been covering this case

1:35.8

for most of her career. So it's really fascinating and I think a really important case because it

1:41.9

brings up a lot of deeply relatable issues. Eilert in this episode also talks to me about her own

1:47.2

experience of being stalked and we go into tremendous detail about that and she was so honest

1:54.1

and vulnerable and talked about the mental and physical aspect of it. We talk about the cost

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