Currently spotlights crossover episodes from Wiser Than Me and Happier with Gretchen Rubin.
Believe Her is a Lemonada Media podcast feed whose RSS description frames it as a true-crime documentary series about the Nikki Addimando case, but the episodes available for review are entirely cross-promotional 'Listen Now' samples from other Lemonada shows rather than original series installments. Sampled content includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus interviewing original SNL cast member Jane Curtin on Wiser Than Me, Kate Bowler talking with actress Nikki DeLoach about postpartum depression and her son's congenital heart defects on Everything Happens, and Gretchen Rubin with her sister Elizabeth Kraft reviewing annual goal lists and seasonal reading habits on Happier with Gretchen Rubin. Based on what's actually in the feed, the material spans entertainment-industry retrospectives, personal health and grief narratives, and habit-formation discussions rather than case-based true-crime reporting.
PRESS PLAY
The episodes available in this feed are not original Believe Her installments but promotional crossover drops distributed through it, a common network practice for surfacing sibling shows to an existing audience. Format varies by borrowed show: Wiser Than Me is an interview show hosted by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Everything Happens is a one-on-one interview hosted by Duke professor Kate Bowler, and Happier with Gretchen Rubin is a two-person panel between Rubin and her sister Elizabeth Kraft. Guests featured include Jane Curtin, discussing surviving Saturday Night Live's early misogyny and her 50-year marriage, and Nikki DeLoach, discussing postpartum depression, a child's open-heart surgeries, and her father's frontotemporal dementia diagnosis. The Happier segments center on annual goal-tracking, seasonal reading themes, and small daily habits rather than interview-driven narrative. Recurring subject matter across the sample includes career longevity in entertainment, chronic illness and caregiving, grief, and personal productivity systems. Episodes carry standard sponsor reads (Quince clothing appears repeatedly) consistent with network-syndicated audio. There is no direct evidence in the sampled episodes of the domestic-violence case reporting described in the show's own RSS premise. Listeners drawn to this feed are likely existing followers of the Lemonada Media network sampling its other shows rather than listeners specifically seeking true-crime content. The tone ranges from reflective and biographical (Curtin, DeLoach) to lighter and structured (the Rubin/Kraft goal-review segments). Production style is polished, interview- or panel-based audio typical of a mid-size podcast network's flagship shows.
Made for: Existing Lemonada Media listeners sampling the network's other shows, such as Wiser Than Me, Everything Happens, and Happier with Gretchen Rubin.
What sets it apart: Unlike a typical true-crime feed, the sampled episodes are network cross-promotion for other Lemonada shows rather than original case reporting.
Believe Her is true crime, upside down. In September 2017, young mom Nikki Addimando shot and killed her partner, Chris Grover. She was sentenced to nineteen years to life in prison for murder. Through rare access to police audio, a month-long trial, conversations with Nikki, and original reporting, journalist Justine van der Leun lays out the killing, the evidence, and the aftermath. As this six-part series unfolds, listeners will put together different pieces of a disturbing puzzle. One thing is clear: perception ≠ reality. Believe Her is a riveting chronicle that grapples with assumptions we make about domestic and sexual violence, the lo...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
Believe Her brings True Crime into criminalized-survivor testimony, where punishment, trauma, and legal judgment sit inside the same story.
Believe Her belongs on the True Crime shelf by way of the criminal legal system. The sampled show-specific material turns on domestic and sexual violence, survival, and punishment, especially a bonus episode where Justine Vanderloon interviews Sandra Brown, described as a…
Sandra Brown says victims stand on both sides of the courtroom; your neat verdict won't stay neat.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm, grounded look at how early SNL shaped a generation of women in comedy.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus talks with Jane Curtin about the night Saturday Night Live debuted, and the opening memory of turning on the TV on October 11, 1975 has a real charge to it.
A survivor's account that widens true crime beyond verdicts and toward the damage that precedes them.
Justine Vanderloon keeps the focus on Sandra Brown, a mother and grandmother incarcerated in Illinois state prisons, sentenced to 22 years for murder after a fight in which she says she was trying to protect herself and the gun went off by accident.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
Patrick Radden Keefe investigates whether the CIA secretly wrote a Scorpions hit.
Jake Halpern and the Snowball team track a con artist who defrauded a family.
A city-by-city true-crime documentary, from Detroit's Kwame Kilpatrick scandal to mob confessions.
A murder rumor in rural Alabama unravels into a clockmaker's suicide and estate feud.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus interviews Jane Curtin, original SNL cast member and two-time Emmy winner, in the season premiere of Wiser Than Me.
Believe Her host Justine Vanderloon interviews Sandra Brown, released after 21 years and 10 months of a 22-year Illinois sentence for first-degree murder in the death of a family friend during a struggle over a gun.