189. Juliet Nicolson
from Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women
In this episode of Difficult Women, Rachel sits down with acclaimed author and historian Juliet Nicolson for an intimate and in-depth conversation about resilience, reinvention, and family legacy. Every family has secrets, but Juliet Nicolson’s antecedents had some pretty famous, if sometimes badly kept ones. In this episode, Rachel goes beyond Juliet’s distinguished ancestry to explore a problem that transcends class, fame, and fortune. Together, they discuss Juliet’s battle with alcoholism, a struggle that shadowed her daughters’ youth and one she continues to face with honesty and grace through Alcoholics Anonymous. Juliet’s story reminds us that the heaviest secrets are often the ones we keep from ourselves.
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