Everyone has an opinion about Josie Bennett.

For years, pieces of her personal life, relationships, legal battles and past have been discussed, dissected and judged online. There are accusations, rumors, court filings, competing versions of events and an enormous amount of internet commentary surrounding her story.

But there is one voice that too often gets lost when the internet decides who someone is: the person at the center of it.

For the premiere of Season 2 of the Dirty Army Podcast, Nik Richie sits down with Josie Bennett and gives her something increasingly rare in today’s social media culture: the opportunity to explain herself in her own words.

Nik doesn’t pretend the controversy doesn’t exist. He asks about it.

Josie opens up about the turmoil that has followed her, the relationships and decisions that cha ...