On January 4th, 2024, Nikki Addimondo was released from prison and reunited with her family. To celebrate, we are sharing two excerpts that were previously only available to our Lemonada Premium subscribers. These two conversations speak to the range of the incredible reporting in this series – one touches on the heart of Nikki’s personal story and the other reminds us that Nikki was not the only person put behind bars for trying to save her own life – this is an issue still impacting so many others. Resources: Follow the We Stand With Nikki campaign on Instagram at @westandwithnikki, on Twitter at @standwithnikki, and on their webpage at www.westandwithnikki.com. Nikki’s sister, Michelle Horton, wrote about Nikki’s story in her book Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds Check out Justine van der Leun’s book We Are Not Such Things: The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation Read Monica Cosby’s writing here If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse, use a safe computer and contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at www.thehotline.org or call 1-800-799-7233. You can also search for a local domestic violence shelter at www.domesticshelters.org/. If you have experienced sexual assault and need support, visit the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) at www.rainn.org or call 1-800-656-HOPE Have questions about consent? Take a look at this guide from RAINN at www.rainn.org/articles/what-is-consent. Learn more about criminalized survival in New York State at www.survivedandpunishedny.org/. Learn more about the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act at www.nysda.org/page/DVSJA. Read Justine’s May 2020 investigative piece on Nikki’s case at www.gen.medium.com/nikki-had-proof-shed-been-abused-but-was-it-enough-for-self-defense-bd9f196396eb. Believe Her is created in partnership with Spiegel & Grau. Follow them on Twitter and Instagram at @spiegelandgrau. Follow Justine on Twitter at @justinevdl and on Instagram at @jvanderleun. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. If you want to continue the conversation with other listeners, please join our Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/believeher/. Interested in bonus content and behind the scenes material? Subscribe to Lemonada Premium right now in the Apple Podcasts app by clicking on our podcast logo and the "subscribe” button. Stay up-to-date on everything in the Lemonada world by becoming a superfan at https://joinsubtext.com/lemonadasuperfan. Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and all other Lemonada series: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. To follow along with a transcript, go to www.lemonadamedia.com/show/believeher shortly after the air date.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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"made her have sex"? you mean rape. call a spade a spade.
omg. if i hear another person referring to chris's abuse of nikki as "rough sex," i am going to lose my mind. this is maddening...
No one knows what someone is capable of - not even that person until put into a specific scenario. I don’t blame his mother for taking up for him and thinking he wasn’t capable of what he is being accused of. No one that loves someone would want to believe that. But - I bet every mother of everyone found guilty of something horrendous would find it hard to believe as well - that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
excellent podcast
funny how juror seems to think its so black and white when in situations like these there is a whole lot of gray
Listen to the robins' songs. 😭 Nikki seems an amazing mother despite the unimaginably difficult circumstances she's traversed in life. I hope she and her children are reunited even sooner than is presently in store. This is an incredible podcast - highly recommended.
That Nicole woman is so ignorant. So they could have a secret kinky sex life and that’s believable but her being abused is Unfathomable. You dear lady are delusional!
No responsibility whatsoever. Always a victim.
This is such an important and well done podcast. Highly highly recommend.
best podcast I've ever heard
And Chatty Juror. These women are awful
The Frowning Juror needs to get educated.
the views these people hold regarding domestic violence and the victims impacted are absolutely mind blowing.. chatty juror using a lifetime movie as baseline and guidance on what Nikki should have done is more than infuriating
those phone calls with her baby's 😭 let this woman go
I heard the believe her is somewhat good but it is excellent one and i loved it best regards from https://hunk-tv.com/ TQ.
wait, how do they get to just say that Chris was asleep when there is no way of knowing that? so the jury can just be fed any story to hold on to? how can they say that she searched how to kill Chris on his phone? I don't even know the password to my husband's phone! did Chris have a password protected phone?? I can't say that she doesn't deserve some kind of punishment but I also can't say that she does. i feel like she shouldn't be taken from her already affected kids.
so far this is so hard. I definitely believe that Nikki was abused multiple times by multiple different people and that without proper help and validation, it lead her down a dark even inevitable road, but it is also tough because Chris is gone. I can't hear Chris. I can't get his side. I can't assume that Chris was an angel but I cannot write him off as a devil either. This story makes me think about what I believe to be true and certainly is a great example of how our legal system treats victims. Should our legal system be looking to discredit her, get the win, and send someone to jail and call it justice?