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.  





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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:
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Follow the We Stand With Nikki campaign on Instagram at @westandwithnikki, on Twitter at @standwithnikki, and on their webpage at <a href="https://westandwithnikki.com/">www.westandwithnikki.com</a>.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Nikki’s sister, Michelle Horton, wrote about Nikki’s story in her book <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michelle-horton/dear-sister/9781538757154/?mc_cid=9abafc8dfc&amp;mc_eid=7fb39be00e">Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Check out Justine van der Leun’s book <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/224791/we-are-not-such-things-by-justine-van-der-leun/">We Are Not Such Things: The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Read Monica Cosby’s writing <a href="https://truthout.org/authors/monica-cosby/">here </a></li>
<li aria-level="1">If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse, use a safe computer and contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at <a href="http://www.thehotline.org">www.thehotline.org</a> or call 1-800-799-7233. You can also search for a local domestic violence shelter at <a href="https://www.domesticshelters.org/">www.domesticshelters.org/</a>.</li>
<li aria-level="1">If you have experienced sexual assault and need support, visit the Rape, Abuse &amp; Incest National Network (RAINN) at <a href="https://www.rainn.org/">www.rainn.org</a> or call 1-800-656-HOPE</li>
<li aria-level="1">Have questions about consent? Take a look at this guide from RAINN at <a href="https://www.rainn.org/articles/what-is-consent">www.rainn.org/articles/what-is-consent</a>.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Learn more about criminalized survival in New York State at <a href="https://www.survivedandpunishedny.org/">www.survivedandpunishedny.org/</a>.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Learn more about the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act at <a href="https://www.nysda.org/page/DVSJA">www.nysda.org/page/DVSJA</a>. </li>
<li aria-level="1">Read Justine’s May 2020 investigative piece on Nikki’s case at <a href="https://gen.medium.com/nikki-had-proof-shed-been-abused-but-was-it-enough-for-self-defense-bd9f196396eb">www.gen.medium.com/nikki-had-proof-shed-been-abused-but-was-it-enough-for-self-defense-bd9f196396eb</a>.  </li>
</ul>
 
 
Believe Her is created in partnership with Spiegel &amp; 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 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/believeher/">www.facebook.com/groups/believeher/</a>. 
 
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 <a href="https://joinsubtext.com/lemonadasuperfan">https://joinsubtext.com/lemonadasuperfan</a>.  
Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and all other Lemonada series: <a href="http://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors">lemonadamedia.com/sponsors</a>.
To follow along with a transcript, go to <a href="https://lemonadamedia.com/show/believeher/">www.lemonadamedia.com/show/believeher</a> shortly after the air date.

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 long reach of trauma, and the ways in which survival is criminalized, leaving us shocked at how far people will go to avoid seeing what's right in front of them. From Lemonada Media and Spiegel & Grau.

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 long reach of trauma, and the ways in which survival is criminalized, leaving us shocked at how far people will go to avoid seeing what's right in front of them. From Lemonada Media and Spiegel &amp; Grau.

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