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- 0:03Speaker 1: Reality with the King is hosted by me, Carlos King.
- 0:07Speaker 1: I'm an executive producer who have produced some of your
- 0:10Speaker 1: favorite shows from the Real Housewives in Atlanta, New Jersey
- 0:13Speaker 1: and my own creation, The Love and Marriage Franchise and
- 0:17Speaker 1: Bell Collective. Every episode, we recap reality television from the
- 0:23Speaker 1: Real Housewives Franchise to The Bachelor or Selling Sunset, in
- 0:27Speaker 1: addition to celebrity guests, whether in the unscripted space or
- 0:31Speaker 1: scripted as well. Rain drops on today's episode of Reality
- 0:40Speaker 1: with the King. This is a very, very very episode.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Is my annual Reality Star of the Year, but this
- 0:49Speaker 1: time I'm actually giving this award in person. This person
- 0:57Speaker 1: is by far the most entertained, invigorating, hilarious star power
- 1:05Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five. Without much further ado, give it
- 1:13Speaker 1: up for the Reality Star of twenty twenty five, Stacy Rushy.
- 1:26Speaker 2: I love that we're hyping each other. We're like, yay,
- 1:29Speaker 2: oh my.
- 1:30Speaker 3: God, thank you so much, well deserved.
- 1:33Speaker 2: I can't even as you're giving me this intro. I
- 1:36Speaker 2: can't even believe the words that are coming out of
- 1:38Speaker 2: your mouth. This is so cool. I am so humbled
- 1:42Speaker 2: and so grateful. I'm so excited to finally meet you.
- 1:46Speaker 2: I've heard so many things about you, good things always. Okay,
- 1:54Speaker 2: I can't go trade. I'm the best thing.
- 1:57Speaker 3: Don't go too far down the rabbit hole.
- 2:00Speaker 2: But I watch you every week and I adore you.
- 2:04Speaker 2: So this feels so good. So thank you.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Where were you when you found out that you made
- 2:10Speaker 1: Carlos King's list as the number one reality star of
- 2:13Speaker 1: the year.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Okay, So my publicist sent me an email and I
- 2:21Speaker 2: read it and I didn't believe it. So I sent
- 2:26Speaker 2: her a response saying, I need more clarification. Please. Am
- 2:30Speaker 2: I one of the nominees? Am I just doing a
- 2:32Speaker 2: short video? Can you tell me exactly what I'll be doing?
- 2:35Speaker 2: When are we filming? And they're like, no, crazy. He's
- 2:40Speaker 2: saying that he wants to honor you and that you won,
- 2:42Speaker 2: and I just couldn't even believe it. I just it
- 2:46Speaker 2: just feels good to be seen, It feels good to
- 2:49Speaker 2: feel loved, and after a crazy season, it feels good
- 2:57Speaker 2: to have some positivity, you know.
- 2:59Speaker 1: Yes, let's just talk all positives. So for your award,
- 3:01Speaker 1: I bought you a gift.
- 3:03Speaker 2: You did.
- 3:03Speaker 1: I love a gift I did. Are you ready for it? Yes,
- 3:06Speaker 1: it's it's much needed allegedly.
- 3:10Speaker 2: Okay, I'm scared.
- 3:11Speaker 3: Okay, you're ready for it?
- 3:12Speaker 2: Oh my god.
- 3:13Speaker 3: No, So listen, I'm gonna bring it to you now.
- 3:16Speaker 2: Uh uh, what is it? You better stop playing with me.
- 3:19Speaker 3: I bought breath mint now okay, now.
- 3:21Speaker 2: You better stop right now. I need you to come
- 3:23Speaker 2: over here. Uh huh. Put that down on that table
- 3:26Speaker 2: and come over here and come and smell me. Smell
- 3:29Speaker 2: my body, Smell my smell my legs, smell it all.
- 3:32Speaker 2: Smell me, smell my hair, smell me, smell my breath.
- 3:39Speaker 2: What do you smell? Success? Okay, thank you, babe. You
- 3:46Speaker 2: are a fool. I am not gonna let a little
- 3:52Speaker 2: mint shake me. Okay, thank you.
- 3:55Speaker 3: I love that you have up humor.
- 3:58Speaker 1: I know that team in the back is like this
- 4:01Speaker 1: actually stepped up and knocked this ship down after they you.
- 4:04Speaker 2: Were miked perfectly. They are gonna cuss to you.
- 4:07Speaker 3: God's going to come in and fix me. I'm fine
- 4:10Speaker 3: with that.
- 4:11Speaker 2: We are in so much trouble, in so much trouble.
- 4:15Speaker 1: So listen, there's so many things that I want to
- 4:17Speaker 1: talk to you about. You have set Potomac on fire,
- 4:26Speaker 1: have I No? So listen and I say this with
- 4:30Speaker 1: all sincerity, with all honesty when it comes to selecting you.
- 4:36Speaker 1: There were a lot of people, men and women days
- 4:38Speaker 1: that my team and I were going over and it
- 4:43Speaker 1: was truly undisputed when your name was mentioned, and we
- 4:47Speaker 1: kept saying, like, Okay, we we believe, we kind of
- 4:50Speaker 1: know it's her, but let's do our due diligence and
- 4:53Speaker 1: name other people and look without naming names, there were
- 4:57Speaker 1: other people from other shows or the network.
- 5:00Speaker 2: But like Angela from Atlanta.
- 5:02Speaker 1: Angela Angela Oakly from Atlanta, I love her so much.
- 5:07Speaker 2: I know she was a contender.
- 5:09Speaker 1: She was a contender, Olandria from Love Island, somebody from
- 5:14Speaker 1: Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. But you really came on
- 5:19Speaker 1: the show this season and made your mark, and it
- 5:24Speaker 1: should be studied what you have done. You are a
- 5:27Speaker 1: breath pun intended of fresh air. Okay, and you're You're
- 5:34Speaker 1: You're what the doctor ordered. You are the doctor ordered.
- 5:38Speaker 1: This is a fantastic season. Shout out to the network,
- 5:41Speaker 1: to the original Lorraine leolajas the entire team as well.
- 5:47Speaker 1: But I want to get to know you first. You
- 5:50Speaker 1: and I are both from Detroit, Michigan. Yes, who was
- 5:53Speaker 1: Stacy as a little black girl in Detroit, Michigan.
- 5:58Speaker 2: You know, I think that it's really interesting that people,
- 6:05Speaker 2: including my castmates, tend to say that I'm quirky, or
- 6:09Speaker 2: I'm different or you know, a little strange. You know,
- 6:13Speaker 2: I've heard that all my life. I grew up in Detroit, Michigan.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Proud of the d proud of the three one three. Yes,
- 6:23Speaker 2: my mom was a single black mom that raised me.
- 6:26Speaker 2: No help from my father. He wasn't present in my life.
- 6:31Speaker 2: I was raised a Jehovah's witness. A lot of people
- 6:33Speaker 2: don't know that. Yes, I was going to door to
- 6:37Speaker 2: door sell and watchtowers. If you can imagine that, I
- 6:41Speaker 2: figure out. I didn't celebrate Christmas until I was twenty
- 6:47Speaker 2: one years old, until I moved out of my mother's house,
- 6:49Speaker 2: you know. And so I'm saying all that to say,
- 6:53Speaker 2: I've always been raised to be resilient because I've been
- 6:59Speaker 2: viewed as someone who's a little bit different, even just
- 7:03Speaker 2: from my household. That's why I'm sharing that with you.
- 7:05Speaker 2: So to be in a group of women who say, Okay,
- 7:10Speaker 2: well she's not like everybody else, what's going on here?
- 7:13Speaker 2: I'm used to that, and that's why I can roll
- 7:15Speaker 2: with it, and I can let you know, the scrutiny
- 7:18Speaker 2: roll off my shoulders because I've been doing it all
- 7:21Speaker 2: my life.
- 7:23Speaker 1: When it comes to the relationship that you did not
- 7:26Speaker 1: have to have father growing up, Yes, did you ever
- 7:29Speaker 1: meet him?
- 7:30Speaker 2: Of course no. I knew my father. I loved my father,
- 7:34Speaker 2: but he just wasn't present in the way that we
- 7:37Speaker 2: needed him to be. My mother was very much a
- 7:40Speaker 2: single mom who raised her kids and worked very hard
- 7:44Speaker 2: to give me so many opportunities that really have allowed
- 7:48Speaker 2: me to even be sitting here right now. You know,
- 7:50Speaker 2: She's that type of a woman, and she always taught me,
- 7:55Speaker 2: and maybe it had a lot to do with my
- 7:56Speaker 2: father not being present and us, you know, being part
- 8:00Speaker 2: of a religious community that was different than the norm.
- 8:05Speaker 2: She always taught me. You know, God blessed the child
- 8:07Speaker 2: that has its own You are reliant, be reliant on self,
- 8:12Speaker 2: and I've carried that with me my entire life. It
- 8:15Speaker 2: really doesn't matter what other people may think about you
- 8:18Speaker 2: or how they judge you. When you know who you
- 8:21Speaker 2: are and you know that God is on your side,
- 8:26Speaker 2: you'll just find that you're able to do anything. You
- 8:30Speaker 2: really are unshakable when you know who you are and
- 8:33Speaker 2: that God has you and I'm used to the treatment.
- 8:36Speaker 2: So I think that you know, when we talk about
- 8:38Speaker 2: like where I come from from the d and how
- 8:41Speaker 2: I was raised and my mother and my humble beginnings,
- 8:46Speaker 2: which I'm very proud of, I just think it's a
- 8:51Speaker 2: testament to the woman that you see sitting here before you.
- 8:55Speaker 3: What is your relationship like now today with your father?
- 8:58Speaker 2: My father passed away. I'm sorry, thank you. Yeah, So
- 9:01Speaker 2: it's interesting. My father passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, and
- 9:07Speaker 2: it was very difficult for me because there were a
- 9:09Speaker 2: lot of moments and conversations that I didn't get to have.
- 9:14Speaker 2: And I'm sure lots of people feel that way with
- 9:16Speaker 2: their parents about their parents when they passed away. But
- 9:21Speaker 2: my mom and I decided after my father's funeral, we
- 9:24Speaker 2: decided to take a trip to Miami and go to
- 9:27Speaker 2: a spa and just spend some time together. And at
- 9:30Speaker 2: the time, my mom was living in Detroit, but I
- 9:33Speaker 2: was older when my father passed away, so I was
- 9:35Speaker 2: actually living in Chicago. That's where I met AJ. So
- 9:38Speaker 2: I was living in Chicago at the time. Yeah, we
- 9:41Speaker 2: love AJ. I was living in Chicago at the time
- 9:43Speaker 2: when my father passed away. So I met my mom
- 9:46Speaker 2: in Miami. She flew from Detroit. I flew from Chicago.
- 9:49Speaker 2: We had a week together. We held each other, we
- 9:51Speaker 2: uplifted one another. And on the way back, we were
- 9:55Speaker 2: on the plane and I was sitting my mom was
- 10:00Speaker 2: sitting by the window. I was sitting in the middle seat,
- 10:03Speaker 2: and the aisle was empty, and there was a man
- 10:06Speaker 2: that was walking down the aisle, a tall white man
- 10:09Speaker 2: with blue eyes and blonde hair. And we were on
- 10:12Speaker 2: a flight back to Detroit because I wanted to make
- 10:14Speaker 2: sure my mom was settled and well, and then I
- 10:16Speaker 2: was going to catch a flight to Chicago in a
- 10:17Speaker 2: couple days after our trip together. He was walking down
- 10:21Speaker 2: the aisle and I looked him up and down and
- 10:22Speaker 2: I said, well, clearly you're not from Detroit. What are
- 10:25Speaker 2: you doing on this plane? That was Temo what I
- 10:31Speaker 2: met Timo when my father passed away. With my mother
- 10:35Speaker 2: sitting beside me, there was an empty seat. He sat
- 10:38Speaker 2: in that seat. He said, can I sit here and
- 10:41Speaker 2: just talk to you? You're so beautiful. I said, well,
- 10:43Speaker 2: I'm here with my mama, and if you want to
- 10:45Speaker 2: sit you can, okay, And we just talked the entire flight,
- 10:49Speaker 2: and when we landed in Detroit, he said, you know,
- 10:52Speaker 2: I'm only in town for a little while, but I'd
- 10:54Speaker 2: love to see you, you know, And the rest is history.
- 10:58Speaker 2: We met in the air, we traveled to over forty
- 11:02Speaker 2: five countries together. We have a child. Her her initials
- 11:07Speaker 2: are Air because we met in the heir Arabella Isa
- 11:10Speaker 2: Rush and so. And I know how people make fun
- 11:14Speaker 2: of me about saying Arabella. I don't know why do
- 11:17Speaker 2: people make fun of me. I think it's Arabella.
- 11:20Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm saying it the way you say. You're the
- 11:23Speaker 3: mama Arabella Alla.
- 11:25Speaker 2: When you name your child, you better name your child
- 11:28Speaker 2: a name that you want to say over and over
- 11:30Speaker 2: and over again until you die. And I will never
- 11:33Speaker 2: get tired of saying Arabella, and.
- 11:36Speaker 3: I would never get tired of hearing it. That's a
- 11:39Speaker 3: beautiful yeah.
- 11:40Speaker 2: So that's how you know in it virtinly.
- 11:43Speaker 1: Oh.
- 11:44Speaker 2: And I forgot to mention something on the day that
- 11:46Speaker 2: we met, when I was with my mom coming back
- 11:49Speaker 2: from laying my father to rest, spending time with my mother,
- 11:52Speaker 2: when I met Timo, it was actually his dad's birthday,
- 11:57Speaker 2: who has since passed. And so we always like to
- 12:00Speaker 2: say that our fathers in some way brought us together.
- 12:04Speaker 1: You know, I was going to ask you that too.
- 12:06Speaker 1: Do you think spiritually your father sent you Timo.
- 12:13Speaker 2: I think that my father wanted me to be okay,
- 12:16Speaker 2: and he wanted to make sure I was taken care of.
- 12:19Speaker 2: All fathers want there for their baby girls, right And
- 12:22Speaker 2: I think you know, he left that seat and Timo
- 12:28Speaker 2: filled it.
- 12:30Speaker 1: And I I, I'm very spiritual, so am I I'm
- 12:33Speaker 1: very spirit and my spirit is telling me that Timo
- 12:40Speaker 1: was sent to you to do what your father couldn't
- 12:45Speaker 1: do or wouldn't do for you that you deserved quite possibly,
- 12:48Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? And because you got
- 12:51Speaker 1: to be married for sixteen.
- 12:52Speaker 3: Years almost eighteen, almost eighteen, well, I.
- 12:54Speaker 2: Mean, well we're not married right now. Yeah, we're divorced.
- 12:58Speaker 3: You're divorced, yes, is that true?
- 13:00Speaker 2: It's you better call TMZ, you better call TMZ.
- 13:05Speaker 1: Well there was an RMZ Robin Dixon's MC, but that's
- 13:10Speaker 1: what that was two years ago.
- 13:11Speaker 2: So yes, I am divorced at this time. I am
- 13:14Speaker 2: legally divorced at this time.
- 13:16Speaker 3: Yes, how do you feel about that?
- 13:18Speaker 2: It's just crazy how life is. You know, we laugh
- 13:22Speaker 2: about it, we you know, laugh about how much money
- 13:24Speaker 2: we spent to get away from each other and now
- 13:27Speaker 2: we're right back. We're like, who does that? So as
- 13:31Speaker 2: we could have taken all the bags I could have
- 13:34Speaker 2: and I spent it on a lawyer, and I'm right
- 13:36Speaker 2: back home. Who does that?
- 13:39Speaker 3: So you're legally divorced, but you're back together.
- 13:42Speaker 2: We're we're trying to make sure that we are making
- 13:47Speaker 2: the right decision. When you love someone and you and
- 13:52Speaker 2: you part ways and you still have those doubts and
- 13:56Speaker 2: you still have a yearning for that person and a
- 13:59Speaker 2: need for that person in your life, Listen, we are
- 14:02Speaker 2: only on this planet for one turn. You would be
- 14:05Speaker 2: a fool not to make sure you're making the right decision.
- 14:11Speaker 2: And when we found out about our divorce, we were
- 14:14Speaker 2: in Mexico together with my family celebrating Christmas last year.
- 14:19Speaker 2: You know, we both got the email from our attorneys,
- 14:23Speaker 2: and it wasn't like this joyous like oh my god,
- 14:26Speaker 2: we're a divorce, you know, like let's go, you know,
- 14:30Speaker 2: have a toast. It was like gut raging, you know,
- 14:34Speaker 2: it was like want want merry Christmas. We were It
- 14:38Speaker 2: was horrible, and so we talked about it, and we
- 14:43Speaker 2: talked about our feelings, and we had what we've done
- 14:46Speaker 2: wrong and what we should have done, and how we
- 14:49Speaker 2: would do things differently if we had a second chance.
- 14:52Speaker 2: And I think that now we're exploring that.
- 14:55Speaker 3: When it comes to you right now. So here you are.
- 14:58Speaker 1: You were a woman that spent was it like ten
- 15:02Speaker 1: years doing QBC?
- 15:04Speaker 3: Oh?
- 15:04Speaker 2: No, I was only at QVC for a couple of years.
- 15:07Speaker 3: A couple of years.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Yeah, how does one?
- 15:09Speaker 1: It's sort of you know, well, because we're from Detroit,
- 15:11Speaker 1: it reminds me of you remember like the Mary Kay Ladies.
- 15:16Speaker 2: European Cadillacs, the Pink cadillact I have gone to many
- 15:20Speaker 2: Mary Kay parties. Yeah.
- 15:22Speaker 1: So I will always as a kid be like how
- 15:24Speaker 1: does one become a Mary Kay lady? So I want
- 15:28Speaker 1: to ask you this because I will watch QBC right,
- 15:30Speaker 1: how does one become a QVC host?
- 15:34Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know how other people are getting on
- 15:36Speaker 2: the network. But what happened for me is I was
- 15:41Speaker 2: teaching yoga for seven years. I had my own business,
- 15:45Speaker 2: and I taught yoga for the White House Athletic Center
- 15:48Speaker 2: for the CIA, NASA American University. I had so many
- 15:53Speaker 2: people coming up to me saying you have such a
- 15:57Speaker 2: beautiful voice and such a beautiful spirit, like you should
- 16:01Speaker 2: do TV, like you should really be on TV. And
- 16:04Speaker 2: I was like, I have a great life, like I
- 16:07Speaker 2: teach yoga and my bare feet with no makeup on
- 16:11Speaker 2: all day, you know, like I had my beautiful German husband,
- 16:16Speaker 2: you know, working and at home, I had my dog.
- 16:18Speaker 2: This was before Mela, and I was like, I'm actually
- 16:21Speaker 2: I'm good. But so many people kept saying it and
- 16:25Speaker 2: saying it. So someone said to me, QVC is looking
- 16:28Speaker 2: for someone who is in wellness to represent. I think
- 16:34Speaker 2: it may have been Puma at the time, it was
- 16:36Speaker 2: like an athletic brand. So I said, oh my god,
- 16:39Speaker 2: I'm just gonna send them a tape and see what happens.
- 16:42Speaker 2: So I sent them a tape and I sold a
- 16:44Speaker 2: yoga mat and I basically talked about my yoga mat
- 16:47Speaker 2: that I used every single day and how it deepened
- 16:50Speaker 2: my own spiritual practice and also helped me to help others.
- 16:54Speaker 2: And I just talked for like ten minutes, and they
- 16:57Speaker 2: called me and they said you need to come in,
- 17:00Speaker 2: and so I came in and I sold my yoga
- 17:03Speaker 2: mat again in my yoga clothes and a tank top
- 17:06Speaker 2: and they were like, who is this person? And I
- 17:10Speaker 2: got a call from a woman. Her name is Her
- 17:14Speaker 2: name is Susan Graver. She called me. She said, hello,
- 17:18Speaker 2: is this Stacy Rush? I said, yes, who's this? She said,
- 17:21Speaker 2: my name is Susan Graver. I'm the top selling fashion
- 17:23Speaker 2: designer at QVC and I have been for the past
- 17:29Speaker 2: twenty years. And I saw a tape of you selling
- 17:32Speaker 2: a yoga mat and I think you're incredible and I
- 17:35Speaker 2: want you to work for my line selling fashion. I said, well,
- 17:39Speaker 2: I'm not you know fashion. I was like, I was
- 17:42Speaker 2: like Granola, I'm like and I was like, okay, let's
- 17:46Speaker 2: have a meeting. She hired me on the spot. I
- 17:49Speaker 2: taught excuse me. I worked for QVC, and then I
- 17:53Speaker 2: started working for QVC in Germany because I'm fluent. I
- 17:58Speaker 2: worked for QVC in the UK, so she named me
- 18:01Speaker 2: her global brand ambassador and I worked for QVC all
- 18:05Speaker 2: over the world.
- 18:06Speaker 3: You're really good at it.
- 18:09Speaker 2: Well I love shopping, No, but like that, but you
- 18:13Speaker 2: don't love to shop.
- 18:14Speaker 1: Okay, no, you can sell anything, so I want to
- 18:17Speaker 1: I want to do a game with you. A game okay,
- 18:21Speaker 1: you know the saying how with someone's a good salesperson like,
- 18:24Speaker 1: I'm so good I could sell water to a well.
- 18:27Speaker 3: There's a glass of water, pick it up, okay, And
- 18:31Speaker 3: I want you to look to that.
- 18:32Speaker 1: I want you to look to the camera and sell
- 18:35Speaker 1: the water to the audience.
- 18:37Speaker 3: I want some water in your QBC.
- 18:39Speaker 1: This is QBC and Stacey Rush is selling water to
- 18:45Speaker 1: the audience of water.
- 18:46Speaker 2: Let me think, I'm as we think about the holiday
- 18:52Speaker 2: season and we think about what really matters, right, we
- 18:57Speaker 2: think about our families, we think about those special moments.
- 19:00Speaker 2: But I think it's really important to also keep health
- 19:03Speaker 2: in mind. And when you think about health, we all
- 19:06Speaker 2: know that hydration is everything. It's one thing to have
- 19:10Speaker 2: bottled water and a plastic bottle, like, where did that
- 19:13Speaker 2: come from? How long has it been sitting there? I
- 19:17Speaker 2: don't really want water from a fridge, Like have you
- 19:19Speaker 2: changed your filter? I don't know. But this water and
- 19:24Speaker 2: this glass, it's the perfect temperature. I mean, how refreshing
- 19:29Speaker 2: does this look? Even when I take a sip. I'm
- 19:35Speaker 2: speaking a little bit more clear. I'm sitting up a
- 19:37Speaker 2: little taller. My thoughts are more clear. I mean, it's
- 19:42Speaker 2: really about this water, not just any water. So when
- 19:48Speaker 2: you think about your family this holiday season. When you
- 19:51Speaker 2: want to create those memories that last a lifetime, I
- 19:55Speaker 2: think you should think about your health and hydration and
- 20:00Speaker 2: cheers and toasting to twenty twenty six. I don't know, Josh,
- 20:11Speaker 2: I'm just talking. I'm just talking.
- 20:15Speaker 3: You are no, you are, You're everything. You are everything.
- 20:21Speaker 3: Who sells water like that?
- 20:23Speaker 2: I mean, it's a delicious classic. Thanks you, guys, thank
- 20:27Speaker 2: you so much. Thank you, Yes, thank you, Podville.
- 20:33Speaker 1: This is reality with the King, and I'm Carlos King.
- 20:36Speaker 1: Let's get back into the show. How did you feel
- 20:41Speaker 1: when you saw the Oscar Award winner Halle Berry?
- 20:46Speaker 3: Oh my god. We just talk about it as a meme.
- 20:51Speaker 3: You're meme, Queen. Your KPC videos are like iconic.
- 20:55Speaker 2: Okay, And I love that because, let me tell you,
- 20:59Speaker 2: at the time when I was working at QVC, I
- 21:02Speaker 2: was going through a divorce. I was, you know, fighting
- 21:05Speaker 2: for my life, thinking about my daughter. I was selling
- 21:08Speaker 2: because I needed to sell. Do you hear me? I
- 21:11Speaker 2: was a single mom right doing what I needed to do.
- 21:15Speaker 2: So to go back and look at those cells and
- 21:17Speaker 2: look at those videos and to see the joy and
- 21:20Speaker 2: to see me having fun, I am laughing and enjoying
- 21:25Speaker 2: with everyone else. I don't even remember saying those things.
- 21:28Speaker 2: I don't even remember what I said about this wall,
- 21:30Speaker 2: Like never remember you're talking to I don't remember what
- 21:33Speaker 2: I said five minutes ago. So to look at you
- 21:36Speaker 2: know those videos, I am laughing and just having a
- 21:39Speaker 2: ball with everybody else. Honestly, it's really really cool and
- 21:44Speaker 2: I love the validation. You know, there were you know,
- 21:47Speaker 2: some people who were like, oh, I've heard that, like
- 21:51Speaker 2: you were doing anything to be on TV and to
- 21:53Speaker 2: get on the show. And I'm like, babe, I've been
- 21:57Speaker 2: on TV.
- 22:00Speaker 1: At TV's been on you. You you were, you were Listen.
- 22:04Speaker 1: I've been doing reality television for twenty years. And I
- 22:07Speaker 1: will say this looking at you, and I do feel
- 22:10Speaker 1: this way. I feel like God created certain people to
- 22:15Speaker 1: be for television and you are one of those people.
- 22:20Speaker 1: Everything about you, your statue asque figure, your height, your beauty.
- 22:24Speaker 3: Your the tone. It's the tone of your voice.
- 22:27Speaker 1: You have this this glare in your eye, your teeth
- 22:31Speaker 1: ish shin no no, no, no, you you you were
- 22:37Speaker 1: you were, you were made for this, So thank you?
- 22:40Speaker 3: How did you become a real housewife? A Potomac.
- 22:45Speaker 2: There is an incredible casting director, Adrian I know, you know.
- 22:51Speaker 1: Adrian's iconic bitch, Adries Adrian icon icon give him his flowers,
- 22:57Speaker 1: you cast all the Potomac girls.
- 22:59Speaker 2: I'm he believed in me. You know, he believed in me. Honestly.
- 23:06Speaker 2: I don't know how we found each other. How did
- 23:08Speaker 2: we find each other? I don't know how who introduced us.
- 23:14Speaker 2: I don't even know how we found each other. How
- 23:16Speaker 2: how did I meet him? I'm not kidding. I cannot
- 23:20Speaker 2: even think of how we met. But I met him
- 23:23Speaker 2: and we sat down and we talked. Then we we
- 23:27Speaker 2: did like a video together. Then we we had a
- 23:30Speaker 2: video and Timo was in the video. Like we just
- 23:34Speaker 2: did videos and we talked, and I don't know. I
- 23:37Speaker 2: guess I can just say, like he he honestly, he
- 23:39Speaker 2: just believed in me. He really did. I wasn't like,
- 23:44Speaker 2: you know, pretending, I was just myself and talking and
- 23:49Speaker 2: talking and you know, he was like, listen, let's do this,
- 23:53Speaker 2: and I was like really, I'm like, I'm at QVC.
- 23:56Speaker 2: I have my own show. I have you know, I
- 23:59Speaker 2: had a lot that was coming out when I left QVC.
- 24:02Speaker 2: I had a fashion line under my name that I
- 24:05Speaker 2: designed that was debuting in August and I left that
- 24:10Speaker 2: job to join RHOP. I left a fashion line.
- 24:15Speaker 1: You need to go back to it, meaning are you
- 24:18Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure QBC is like, is there a way
- 24:21Speaker 1: to do a deal with her? I mean, I mean,
- 24:23Speaker 1: I'm hoping you're doing it. Okay, never mind, Okay, I never.
- 24:27Speaker 2: Know what the future will hold. But I gave up
- 24:29Speaker 2: a lot to come home and join the show. But
- 24:34Speaker 2: also it's sort of double edged sword here. I do
- 24:38Speaker 2: want to say that with the divorce, when I was
- 24:42Speaker 2: working at QVC, QVC is at They're located at this
- 24:48Speaker 2: amazing complex right outside of Philadelphia. So when I was
- 24:52Speaker 2: working for QVC, Timo was living in our home in Virginia.
- 24:55Speaker 2: We have multiple homes. We have homes in Virginia and
- 24:58Speaker 2: multiple properties in Munich. He was living at home in Virginia,
- 25:03Speaker 2: and I had Arabella and ro Pair in Philly so
- 25:07Speaker 2: that I could work on QVC. So our household was split.
- 25:11Speaker 2: It was very, very difficult. So I do want to
- 25:14Speaker 2: say coming back to DC doing the show, having Bella
- 25:19Speaker 2: come to her home, where her bedroom is, where her
- 25:22Speaker 2: friends are, it was wonderful for the emotional stability of
- 25:26Speaker 2: my family as well. So it wasn't like I just
- 25:29Speaker 2: left QVC to do the show. It was also having
- 25:33Speaker 2: a lot to do with Arabella's security in terms of
- 25:37Speaker 2: being in her own home and her own neighborhood, you know,
- 25:41Speaker 2: and feeling secure. So it was like perfect timing. Yeah,
- 25:45Speaker 2: but Adrian, he did it.
- 25:46Speaker 3: It was fantastic.
- 25:47Speaker 2: It's amazing.
- 25:48Speaker 3: Were you a fan of Potomac before joining?
- 25:50Speaker 2: Absolutely? I watched Potomac at the beginning stages when it
- 25:55Speaker 2: first came on, I was like super excited because it
- 25:58Speaker 2: was like in the DMV, you know what I mean.
- 26:00Speaker 2: I fell off a little bit.
- 26:02Speaker 3: As when you first watched her, tell me the beginning years.
- 26:04Speaker 3: Who's your favorite?
- 26:06Speaker 2: Definitely Karen. I thought she was hilarious. I also liked Katie.
- 26:12Speaker 3: Katie's fun.
- 26:13Speaker 2: Katie is amazing and I wish the best for her.
- 26:16Speaker 2: I've heard a lot of things about her. I've never
- 26:18Speaker 2: met her, but I do like her. I remember watching her,
- 26:24Speaker 2: and I've spoken to a lot of the other cast
- 26:27Speaker 2: mates about her, and I think it's safe to say
- 26:29Speaker 2: that we all wish her well.
- 26:31Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 26:31Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 26:32Speaker 3: What was her thoughts on Giselle watching the earlier season.
- 26:34Speaker 2: She's the same person that she is right now, which
- 26:37Speaker 2: is what pretty and Petty. What has changed in ten years?
- 26:44Speaker 2: She's the same person.
- 26:46Speaker 3: You don't think Jazilla has grown in ten years being
- 26:48Speaker 3: on the show?
- 26:48Speaker 2: No, because it's allowed clearly.
- 26:57Speaker 1: Well you'll give it, okay those girls. Would you give
- 27:02Speaker 1: Jozelle this that she knows how to get the party started? Yes?
- 27:10Speaker 2: Absolutely? In terms of stirring the pot, yes, yes, I
- 27:15Speaker 2: will give that to her hands down. Yes.
- 27:18Speaker 3: Is Gizelle needed for a Potomac?
- 27:21Speaker 2: Yes, of course I am. I am respectful and Giselle,
- 27:29Speaker 2: Karen and I can't even believe my lips are going
- 27:34Speaker 2: to form and say this, But because I'm honest and
- 27:37Speaker 2: God is watching, I'm going to say this, even Ashley Darby.
- 27:41Speaker 2: These are women who have been the anchor of Potomac
- 27:45Speaker 2: for over a decade, and to say that they aren't
- 27:50Speaker 2: needed or you know, they don't have relevancy is preposterous.
- 27:56Speaker 2: You know, I give respect respect is.
- 28:01Speaker 3: Who do you think is not needed on Potomac anymore?
- 28:07Speaker 2: Who's not needed? I wouldn't say that anyone is not needed.
- 28:12Speaker 2: I think that And honestly, what drew me to Potomac
- 28:16Speaker 2: was I loved the the the ability to join a
- 28:26Speaker 2: cast that represents affluent African American women in our nation's
- 28:34Speaker 2: capital with beautiful, diverse lives and so, you know, everyone
- 28:40Speaker 2: may not be my cup of tea, but I can
- 28:42Speaker 2: appreciate the diversity of our cast and everyone having their
- 28:46Speaker 2: own story.
- 28:49Speaker 3: Were you ever a passion girl?
- 28:52Speaker 1: No?
- 28:53Speaker 2: Imagine girl, Why do you say that? I mean, you know,
- 28:56Speaker 2: that was a good answer. I mean, I mean, and
- 29:00Speaker 2: that's how I mean.
- 29:01Speaker 3: That's good. That's good. That's good.
- 29:03Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think that's pretty accurate.
- 29:06Speaker 3: Good, good, good.
- 29:07Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about this season that
- 29:11Speaker 1: is on fire. A lot of people, and I'm sure
- 29:14Speaker 1: you read the tweets, a lot of people are saying
- 29:16Speaker 1: this is Potomac's comeback season. Really, they're loving this season
- 29:20Speaker 1: and they feel like this season is funny, and they
- 29:23Speaker 1: give you a lot of credit to that. One of
- 29:27Speaker 1: the things that we have been seeing this season is,
- 29:30Speaker 1: you know, people are saying that they feel like the
- 29:34Speaker 1: girls are not being nice to you.
- 29:36Speaker 3: They feel like they're ganging up on.
- 29:38Speaker 2: You because they have eyes yes okay, and ears okay okay.
- 29:44Speaker 1: When you reflect back on your experience this season and
- 29:49Speaker 1: even watching the episodes, why do you think the audience
- 29:52Speaker 1: is walking away thinking like why is everybody ganging up
- 29:55Speaker 1: on Stacy?
- 29:56Speaker 3: And do you feel like you're being hazed? Still?
- 30:00Speaker 2: Yes? And yes, I think you know, the season was
- 30:07Speaker 2: very difficult for me. I would come home and say,
- 30:11Speaker 2: am I crazy? What's really going on? You know, you
- 30:17Speaker 2: have to like think about yourself and the words that
- 30:20Speaker 2: you have chosen and the actions that you have you
- 30:24Speaker 2: know made, And I'm trying to figure out like what
- 30:27Speaker 2: is really good? Like why am I rubbing everyone the
- 30:30Speaker 2: wrong way? And I really couldn't come up with an answer.
- 30:34Speaker 2: And so I think, you know, a lot of times
- 30:38Speaker 2: with women, sometimes when we see characteristics and other women
- 30:44Speaker 2: that we want, it can be intimidating and so we
- 30:50Speaker 2: lash out. And I think that for some people on
- 30:53Speaker 2: the cast that is the case. You know, you tend
- 30:57Speaker 2: to hate on the qualities you wish you had.
- 31:03Speaker 3: Who do you think is your biggest hater on the show?
- 31:06Speaker 2: Definitely Ashley and Kay. Ashley is if you and I
- 31:16Speaker 2: feel differently about both women. With Ashley, it's expected she's
- 31:22Speaker 2: I've said that many times. So my expectations are very
- 31:26Speaker 2: low because you know, you got to recognize the devil,
- 31:29Speaker 2: but don't let the devil change you. So I know
- 31:31Speaker 2: what I'm working with with, you know, with Ashley, now
- 31:35Speaker 2: with ka I just didn't understand what was the problem.
- 31:41Speaker 2: I just have never had someone have such a visceral, aggressive,
- 31:48Speaker 2: negative reaction to me, and I've never done anything to them.
- 31:52Speaker 2: It was bizarre and a little unhinged.
- 31:56Speaker 1: Quite honestly, the audience feels like Keana is using you
- 32:03Speaker 1: for a storyline, using you to remain relevant. A lot
- 32:08Speaker 1: of them feel like she is a dog with the
- 32:12Speaker 1: bone this season that because the flute was dangling like
- 32:17Speaker 1: a carrot between her and Jazzy and she got it.
- 32:21Speaker 1: The audience feels like kk will do whatever it takes
- 32:24Speaker 1: to stay on the show, and making you her arch
- 32:28Speaker 1: nemesis is what she feels like she has to do.
- 32:31Speaker 1: Would you would you say there's any truth to any
- 32:33Speaker 1: of those things.
- 32:35Speaker 2: I really don't know what her problem is. I mean,
- 32:42Speaker 2: we could sit here and psychoanalyze all afternoon, and I'm
- 32:46Speaker 2: gonna need some champagne because I really don't understand what
- 32:51Speaker 2: it is. Honestly, I really will never understand it. And
- 32:57Speaker 2: it's really sad because you know, I don't even know
- 33:02Speaker 2: if I should be saying this. But last season, when
- 33:08Speaker 2: it was made known to me that Kay would in
- 33:13Speaker 2: fact be a housewife and Jesse would be a friend.
- 33:20Speaker 2: I immediately called Kay and I said, Kay, Oh my god,
- 33:28Speaker 2: I am so happy for you. She said, Stacy, I
- 33:31Speaker 2: can't believe you would call me. I said, I know
- 33:34Speaker 2: what this means to you. I said, now you know,
- 33:37Speaker 2: Jesse is my friend, that is my girl. But I
- 33:40Speaker 2: think you are beautiful. I think you have something unique
- 33:44Speaker 2: to bring to this cast, and I'm happy for you.
- 33:46Speaker 2: So I just wanted to call and say congratulations. I
- 33:50Speaker 2: cheered for her, and then to see her treat me
- 33:54Speaker 2: the way that she has treated me is just I'll
- 33:58Speaker 2: never be able to explain it. It's very strange.
- 34:02Speaker 3: Do you think.
- 34:05Speaker 1: They made the wrong decision choosing K to be a
- 34:09Speaker 1: housewife and not Jazzy.
- 34:11Speaker 2: I stand by the decisions that production makes and casting makes. Listen,
- 34:17Speaker 2: I'm gonna do my job with whoever they choose.
- 34:20Speaker 3: Okay, would you like Jazzi to be a housewife?
- 34:25Speaker 2: I think that they made the right decisions this season.
- 34:32Speaker 1: Did you try to kill K with cheese?
- 34:36Speaker 2: You know, somebody hates you if you order cheese and
- 34:40Speaker 2: they have a problem. Okay, if you order food for
- 34:45Speaker 2: yourself and someone has a problem. Come on now, like
- 34:49Speaker 2: you guys seriously, Like I'm a pescatarian. I don't eat meat.
- 34:53Speaker 2: I don't eat chicken. Do you know how many meals
- 34:56Speaker 2: I sit at on a nightly basis where my family's
- 34:59Speaker 2: eating meat, my friends are eating steaks. Do I say,
- 35:02Speaker 2: Oh my god, are you trying to poison me?
- 35:06Speaker 3: Like girl?
- 35:08Speaker 2: And then like I saw something the other day and
- 35:12Speaker 2: she was saying, I think it was was it watch
- 35:15Speaker 2: what Happens Live? Maybe it was Watch what Happens Live
- 35:17Speaker 2: on Sunday? It was, And she was saying that she
- 35:22Speaker 2: thinks I'm performative. I think I'm reactive. You've come for
- 35:28Speaker 2: me over and over again because you thought I was
- 35:31Speaker 2: an easy target and I've answered you to your face
- 35:35Speaker 2: and in confessionals. Okay, don't be mad because I'm doing
- 35:40Speaker 2: me better than you're doing you.
- 35:48Speaker 1: Yes, okay, As I watched a few episodes ago and
- 35:54Speaker 1: it's this meme that's gone across the world where you
- 35:57Speaker 1: know Kay and you are having a one off and
- 36:02Speaker 1: she says that you're jealous of her, and you said, girl,
- 36:05Speaker 1: of what she goes my life, my thing, my condo,
- 36:08Speaker 1: my bad everything. What do you have my picture frame.
- 36:16Speaker 1: Is it Tiffany's or CBS.
- 36:18Speaker 2: I wish it was Tiffany. That would have made it better.
- 36:21Speaker 3: And you said, I have a husband something you don't.
- 36:24Speaker 3: I have a ring something you do not.
- 36:27Speaker 1: When it comes to case relationship with Greg, do you
- 36:30Speaker 1: think Greg will ever put a ring on it?
- 36:36Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know, and I think that
- 36:42Speaker 2: I've been married for many years, divorced and back together
- 36:47Speaker 2: with my ex husband, so I know a thing or
- 36:49Speaker 2: two about love. You want your partner to want you mmm.
- 37:05Speaker 3: Mm hmmm mmmmmmm mm hmm yep, okay, wow, yeah, lovely, Okay.
- 37:16Speaker 3: I want to shift gears a bit too. I am
- 37:25Speaker 3: in so much trouble.
- 37:27Speaker 2: This is probably calling my pone and he's calling He's
- 37:32Speaker 2: like you are saying, whoa that much?
- 37:34Speaker 3: How did you feel those?
- 37:35Speaker 1: Because I did watch watch what I did watch Watch
- 37:38Speaker 1: What Happens Live when KK was on it with doctor Simone.
- 37:43Speaker 2: I love doctor Simone everything. She is so wonderful. I
- 37:48Speaker 2: love her. I met her at Watch What Happens Live,
- 37:51Speaker 2: and then I also spent time with her at Bravocan
- 37:54Speaker 2: and I met so many girls from Atlanta at bravocon
- 37:58Speaker 2: and I fanned.
- 38:00Speaker 3: Was your favorite Lanta Housewives.
- 38:01Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm in love with Porsha.
- 38:03Speaker 3: Yeah, she's so beautiful.
- 38:06Speaker 2: She was like, come here, girl, I'm gonna tell you
- 38:08Speaker 2: how you gonna win this show. She was like, come
- 38:11Speaker 2: your girl, I got to and I was like, yes, dude,
- 38:14Speaker 2: you get that so cute? You love her?
- 38:17Speaker 3: Do you get the Kenyamore comparisons a lot?
- 38:20Speaker 2: Oh my god, yes, yes I do. Have you met
- 38:23Speaker 2: I haven't met Kenya Moore?
- 38:25Speaker 3: Have got the end?
- 38:26Speaker 2: No, I've never met her. I've never had the opportunity
- 38:32Speaker 2: to speak to her. I adore her. She's a queen.
- 38:39Speaker 2: She is someone who represents so much to me as
- 38:45Speaker 2: a black girl being raised in Detroit. She is top tier.
- 38:50Speaker 2: You know, we all go through the highs and lows
- 38:54Speaker 2: and our lives and our careers. But I stand by
- 38:57Speaker 2: her and I adore her, and I love the opportunity
- 39:00Speaker 2: to meet her. I think we have a lot in common.
- 39:03Speaker 3: No, I think so too. I mean she's one of
- 39:05Speaker 3: my friends. So as I'm looking at, well.
- 39:07Speaker 1: You need.
- 39:09Speaker 2: You need to get us together.
- 39:10Speaker 3: Oh, well she's at the bier right now. Child, But
- 39:12Speaker 3: you know I'll figure something out. Sorry, can't you told
- 39:15Speaker 3: your business but.
- 39:15Speaker 2: On Instagram she's so beautiful. I love her.
- 39:19Speaker 1: You know a lot of people I am people. You know,
- 39:22Speaker 1: we gave me a thoron. Well I did the I
- 39:27Speaker 1: coined the phrase Mia b Lyon.
- 39:29Speaker 3: Yes, right, yeah, have you heard from me recently?
- 39:35Speaker 2: I have not checked in with her, and I was
- 39:40Speaker 2: sad to see her unfortunate mishap.
- 39:43Speaker 3: With the law. Do you believe she sold furniture?
- 39:48Speaker 2: I there is nothing excuse me, as crazy as Mia is,
- 39:57Speaker 2: there is nothing about her person that would make me
- 40:01Speaker 2: think she was a thief. No, okay, no, so, and
- 40:04Speaker 2: I don't you know, laugh at other people's misfortunes. So
- 40:07Speaker 2: for sure.
- 40:08Speaker 3: Yeah. I checked in with her. She's doing good? Is
- 40:10Speaker 3: she okay? Second checked them with that.
- 40:11Speaker 2: I'm not.
- 40:13Speaker 3: Yeah. People call you Stacy be lying. They do, Yes,
- 40:17Speaker 3: they see me, No, they do not.
- 40:19Speaker 1: I am.
- 40:19Speaker 2: I am all over Twitter laughing at the comments. Oh
- 40:23Speaker 2: my goodness, people roast me. It is so funny. I
- 40:27Speaker 2: laughed so hard. I literally laugh until I'm crying, and
- 40:30Speaker 2: I call my friends and then they laugh with me.
- 40:32Speaker 3: So you don't mind the negative comments?
- 40:34Speaker 2: No, it's hilarious.
- 40:38Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
- 40:39Speaker 2: No?
- 40:40Speaker 3: As the King of reality television, I can assure you. Listen.
- 40:44Speaker 1: Angel wrote me a comment with me Dustin and Claudia
- 40:50Speaker 1: Dustin Ross, a fellow Michigander Love Dustin say some things
- 40:54Speaker 1: about Angel based on the show, which is which is
- 40:56Speaker 1: our job as content hosts and creators.
- 41:00Speaker 3: Who watches the show.
- 41:01Speaker 1: Rihanna commented on my video you saw that, So of
- 41:06Speaker 1: course I'm like Queen Rihanna.
- 41:07Speaker 3: And listen, I don't care if it's good, bad, or
- 41:10Speaker 3: and different.
- 41:11Speaker 2: Rianna talks about it, We're gonna acknowledge it. We're gonna
- 41:14Speaker 2: acknowledge it absolutely.
- 41:15Speaker 1: But Angel said for me to be so boring, you
- 41:18Speaker 1: guys spend every week talking about me, And I was like, well, Angel,
- 41:23Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 41:23Speaker 3: You like, we're talking about the show, and I'm gonna
- 41:27Speaker 3: have fun. It's a fun gig.
- 41:30Speaker 2: So I think that Angel, quite honestly, is at the
- 41:35Speaker 2: point where I was when I had to kick Tiya
- 41:39Speaker 2: out of my event. I think that you can only
- 41:46Speaker 2: take so much and then you kind of say is
- 41:50Speaker 2: it enough? Is enough? And I think that maybe that's
- 41:52Speaker 2: where Angel is right now. I think Angel is very
- 41:55Speaker 2: much aware of what people are saying about her. Everyone
- 41:59Speaker 2: has their opinion, and I think that she's reacting to that,
- 42:03Speaker 2: and that was how I felt about Tia. You know,
- 42:06Speaker 2: it was so difficult for me because you know, and
- 42:13Speaker 2: I was talking about your girl Claudia earlier and her
- 42:15Speaker 2: comments about Timo. We can table that, but I think
- 42:20Speaker 2: it's quite obvious that Timo is appearing for me because
- 42:26Speaker 2: he loves his wife. And for me to allow Tia
- 42:34Speaker 2: to come and spend time with Timo and my daughter
- 42:38Speaker 2: and my daughter's friends, to invite her in to get
- 42:42Speaker 2: to know me, you know, everyone's like, you know, we
- 42:44Speaker 2: don't get to know the real you. We don't know
- 42:46Speaker 2: anything about you. So I actually invited someone into my
- 42:51Speaker 2: circle and they used that opportunity, or I should say
- 42:55Speaker 2: Tia used that opportunity to do like recognissance and like
- 42:59Speaker 2: do fact checks to bring it back to the group
- 43:02Speaker 2: and then start to mess with Wendy and then come
- 43:05Speaker 2: to my event and disrespect me and tell me to
- 43:07Speaker 2: shut up on my day. You're eating the sandwich that
- 43:12Speaker 2: I paid for at this celebration for me and my brand,
- 43:15Speaker 2: and you have the nerve to be so duplicitous and
- 43:19Speaker 2: to be so disrespectful. I think I was just tired
- 43:24Speaker 2: of so many people ganging up on me and someone
- 43:27Speaker 2: who I actually thought was level headed and neutral to
- 43:30Speaker 2: see them join the bandwagon. I had had enough, and
- 43:34Speaker 2: I feel like Angel is at that point.
- 43:39Speaker 3: When it comes to Angel. Do you think what? Okay?
- 43:44Speaker 1: I think Angel is. First of all, I think she's
- 43:46Speaker 1: a beautiful woman. I think she's so beautiful.
- 43:49Speaker 2: Face tune or not, face till to night.
- 43:51Speaker 3: Listen, we all do a little face tuned filter.
- 43:53Speaker 2: Life, so face tuned.
- 43:55Speaker 3: So I had her back, but this is let the
- 43:57Speaker 3: record reflect, Yes, we all it's fun.
- 44:02Speaker 1: So listen, I have her back on the show, on
- 44:04Speaker 1: my show when I said, okay, Gazelle stop and I
- 44:08Speaker 1: love me some Gazelle, I'm okayja Zel the catfish thig,
- 44:11Speaker 1: I'll be it funny listen.
- 44:13Speaker 3: Who cares?
- 44:13Speaker 2: Right?
- 44:15Speaker 1: But I do feel like Angel has this delayed reaction
- 44:20Speaker 1: when it comes to people coming for her and misdirected anger.
- 44:23Speaker 1: I do not, till this day understand why Angel is
- 44:30Speaker 1: so pressed when it comes to Wendy when I feel
- 44:33Speaker 1: like Gizelle is the one coming for you every chance
- 44:36Speaker 1: she gets, because that's Giselle's job. But you, for some reason,
- 44:40Speaker 1: are going down the Highway express Lane HOV Lane with
- 44:46Speaker 1: Bobby and you're coming for doctor Wendy. When I feel like,
- 44:50Speaker 1: do a U turn and go back to Suzel on
- 44:53Speaker 1: the street where the word is that and get her
- 44:56Speaker 1: her lashings make it make sense, I don't, so.
- 44:59Speaker 3: I don't, but take elate to me they are.
- 45:02Speaker 2: I sat in disbelief as viewers sit in disbelief watching it.
- 45:09Speaker 2: I don't understand. And I think that you know, people
- 45:16Speaker 2: may call me performative or you know whatever. I think
- 45:21Speaker 2: that one thing that you can say about me is
- 45:23Speaker 2: that I am authentic in the moment. I say how
- 45:26Speaker 2: I feel in the moment, whether you agree or not,
- 45:28Speaker 2: whether you think it's a lie or the truth, I
- 45:31Speaker 2: say how I feel. I think it's a disservice to
- 45:34Speaker 2: Angel to not say something, go home and think about it,
- 45:38Speaker 2: consult with her husband, take notes, and then come back
- 45:41Speaker 2: and address it when we've already moved beyond that issue.
- 45:47Speaker 2: That's just my opinion.
- 45:49Speaker 3: It's a fact. As I agree with you, do you
- 45:51Speaker 3: really believe be who.
- 45:53Speaker 2: You are in the moment, even if that's not perfect,
- 45:56Speaker 2: even if it's not right. I've said things that you know,
- 45:59Speaker 2: I was like, well, maybe I shouldn't have said that,
- 46:01Speaker 2: or why didn't I say this or what about this?
- 46:04Speaker 2: We're human beings. You can only be yourself and say
- 46:07Speaker 2: how you feel. But you can't sit on things and
- 46:11Speaker 2: think about it and form a reaction and then make
- 46:13Speaker 2: us backtrack. We are moving on. You know how many
- 46:16Speaker 2: people are on the cast. You know how many things
- 46:18Speaker 2: we have to talk about, and how many celebrations and
- 46:21Speaker 2: dates and lunches and family parties we got to go
- 46:25Speaker 2: to and get this season done.
- 46:26Speaker 3: Girl, we have moved on, you know.
- 46:29Speaker 2: Yeah, And I hate that for her, but maybe that's
- 46:35Speaker 2: what her spirit calls for.
- 46:36Speaker 1: You know.
- 46:37Speaker 2: I don't want to knock anybody. That's never my Yes,
- 46:40Speaker 2: I'm just saying from my point of view, I would
- 46:43Speaker 2: rather speak your truth in the moment, whatever truth it
- 46:46Speaker 2: is for you, speak it and be done with it.
- 46:49Speaker 2: But you can't sit on it.
- 46:51Speaker 3: Do you think she moved to Potomac to be on
- 46:53Speaker 3: the show?
- 46:57Speaker 1: You know?
- 46:57Speaker 2: I think that making the commitment to be on this
- 47:02Speaker 2: show is really big, and people underestimate what that entails,
- 47:08Speaker 2: especially when you have a family with two young children.
- 47:11Speaker 2: So I think Angel made the best decisions for her
- 47:15Speaker 2: family that she could at the time.
- 47:18Speaker 1: You are really good, Rob, will give us one a
- 47:22Speaker 1: show crisis management. Tia is their room for you and
- 47:29Speaker 1: Tia to ever become friends.
- 47:34Speaker 2: I think that time will tell. Okay, I'm disappointed that
- 47:43Speaker 2: Tia jumped on that hate Stacy train. I'm disappointed with
- 47:48Speaker 2: the way that she treated my family. I'm disappointed with
- 47:53Speaker 2: the way that she treated me at the Bloomball and
- 47:56Speaker 2: at my launch. But we all make rookie mistakes.
- 48:04Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about your friendship with
- 48:06Speaker 1: doctor Wendy. Yes, we love the two of you together.
- 48:09Speaker 2: Are fun.
- 48:10Speaker 3: You guys are fun.
- 48:11Speaker 1: And the fact that I saw a picture you posted
- 48:14Speaker 1: last week, you guys were hanging out without getting too
- 48:17Speaker 1: much in the weeds of it.
- 48:18Speaker 2: Can you imagine that we met for lunch and we
- 48:20Speaker 2: were both wearing black and we both had dark hair
- 48:23Speaker 2: with blonde highlights. And what's crazy is Wendy and I
- 48:28Speaker 2: every time we see each other when we're filming, we're like, girl,
- 48:31Speaker 2: don't wear black. You know we love color. Color loves us.
- 48:34Speaker 2: We always wear bright colors. So for us to both
- 48:37Speaker 2: show up at lunch and all black everything with the
- 48:40Speaker 2: same hair, we were like laughing, you can't make it up.
- 48:44Speaker 2: I love so crazy.
- 48:45Speaker 1: I think listen, I've been around doctor Wendy. She is
- 48:49Speaker 1: beautiful inside and out. She is We all know what's
- 48:52Speaker 1: been going on lately in the press. What can you
- 48:54Speaker 1: say to us in terms of how she is doing
- 48:57Speaker 1: right now?
- 49:03Speaker 2: I think that every time I speak to Wendy, whether
- 49:08Speaker 2: we're talking about the show, whether we're talking about our children,
- 49:12Speaker 2: whether we're talking about the holiday season or shopping, whatever
- 49:16Speaker 2: we're talking about, I see in her a deep connection
- 49:22Speaker 2: to her faith and a reliance on her faith during
- 49:26Speaker 2: this time. And I love to see that. She talks
- 49:32Speaker 2: a lot about her faith and relying on God. And
- 49:38Speaker 2: I think that that's paramount above all this, above the lights,
- 49:42Speaker 2: above the show, about, above the charges, above the girls,
- 49:47Speaker 2: is your faith and your soul. And I think that
- 49:52Speaker 2: I feel comfortable enough to say that every time I
- 49:54Speaker 2: talk with her. I'm so proud of her and her
- 49:57Speaker 2: connection to God.
- 49:59Speaker 3: Yeah. No, she's very spiritual person.
- 50:01Speaker 1: She is.
- 50:01Speaker 3: Oh yeah. Would you say, of all the girls on
- 50:04Speaker 3: the cast, you're the closest to her.
- 50:08Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, I'm definitely the closest to Wendy right now. Yes.
- 50:13Speaker 1: When it comes to your cannabis line, yes, I mean, Stacey,
- 50:18Speaker 1: you did say last season you weren't doing it and
- 50:20Speaker 1: come to find out you are.
- 50:22Speaker 2: I wasn't doing it when it was asked of me.
- 50:24Speaker 3: Say you had no conversations about it.
- 50:30Speaker 2: Listen, I'm living ploughs. You of all people, know that
- 50:35Speaker 2: when we are talking about deals and contracts and money,
- 50:41Speaker 2: you don't talk about things until they are a thing.
- 50:47Speaker 2: So when I talked about my brand was when I
- 50:51Speaker 2: needed to talk about it. And I don't care who
- 50:56Speaker 2: asks me about it, or who challenges me, or who
- 51:00Speaker 2: tries to one up me or be premature and announce something.
- 51:05Speaker 2: I really don't care. You gotta play chess, baby? Are
- 51:09Speaker 2: you kidding me? I announced it when it launched, because
- 51:15Speaker 2: that's when it launched. Facts.
- 51:21Speaker 3: You can't argue that. I can't argue that, and listen.
- 51:23Speaker 2: And I have offered to give I have offered to
- 51:28Speaker 2: show Wendy contracts, dates, conversations to prove that I did
- 51:36Speaker 2: not have my brand. It was not formed when we
- 51:40Speaker 2: shot the reunion in New York in January of last year.
- 51:45Speaker 2: I've offered it to the girls. I've offered it to Wendy.
- 51:47Speaker 2: Nobody wants to see it, of course they don't.
- 51:52Speaker 3: Have you heard from TJ?
- 51:54Speaker 1: No?
- 51:56Speaker 3: Do you miss your best friend?
- 51:59Speaker 1: No?
- 52:00Speaker 2: I think it's very clear that he wasn't my best friend. Right.
- 52:08Speaker 3: Does it make you sad when you think about it?
- 52:12Speaker 2: It doesn't make me sad. I think, you know, honestly,
- 52:15Speaker 2: I think to have the kind of faith that I
- 52:24Speaker 2: have and that God has me in any circumstance. When
- 52:32Speaker 2: I am at the top of my game and the
- 52:34Speaker 2: world loves me, and when I am at the bottom
- 52:37Speaker 2: of the barrel and I want to hide my head
- 52:39Speaker 2: because I'm embarrassed and I can't believe I've been betrayed,
- 52:43Speaker 2: under any circumstance.
- 52:45Speaker 3: God has me.
- 52:46Speaker 2: And when you know that, you can revisit moments in
- 52:50Speaker 2: your life we're awful things have happened to you and realize, yes,
- 52:55Speaker 2: it hurt, Yes, it was unbelievable in the moment. It
- 53:01Speaker 2: hurt you physically, it hurt you emotionally, it hurt you mentally,
- 53:06Speaker 2: But it was for a reason. Everything happens to us.
- 53:11Speaker 2: It's all in divine timing. It happens for a reason.
- 53:15Speaker 2: If that didn't happen to me, maybe I wouldn't know
- 53:18Speaker 2: how strong I am right now? Right who knows? So
- 53:23Speaker 2: under any circumstance, I have faith that God has my back,
- 53:27Speaker 2: So I don't look at things that happened to me.
- 53:29Speaker 2: And of course there are things that happen that I'm
- 53:32Speaker 2: sad about. You know, there's a I'm you know, yeah,
- 53:36Speaker 2: But in these circumstances, you know, I learned something about myself.
- 53:42Speaker 2: I learned that I'm stronger than I thought that I am.
- 53:45Speaker 2: And I also learned to be you know, I'm a
- 53:49Speaker 2: very open, organic, sort of you know, free spirit, and
- 53:57Speaker 2: I love people and I trust people. And I think
- 54:03Speaker 2: that God taught me to be a little bit to
- 54:07Speaker 2: hold myself a little closer, and to be a little
- 54:10Speaker 2: bit more aware of my circle and who I let
- 54:12Speaker 2: into my life. I think there was a lesson there.
- 54:15Speaker 2: I think there was a lesson there on how when
- 54:20Speaker 2: people try to diminish you, how it's impossible when you
- 54:27Speaker 2: can't be diminished. Right. So I think I just I
- 54:31Speaker 2: learned so many valuable lessons, albeit painful lessons. So I don't.
- 54:37Speaker 2: I don't think of it in that way. I don't.
- 54:39Speaker 2: I'm not sad. My life is too full and too
- 54:41Speaker 2: beautiful to be sad. That's ridiculous. What do I have
- 54:45Speaker 2: to be sad about? Look at me, I'm sitting here
- 54:47Speaker 2: with you. My daughter's at school. She had a beautiful
- 54:50Speaker 2: tenth birthday party. I'm going to Africa on Friday. My god,
- 54:55Speaker 2: the show's doing well. I mean, the face is facing.
- 55:00Speaker 2: What in the world could I be sad about? That's
- 55:03Speaker 2: that's preposterous. My life is too beautiful to be sad.
- 55:09Speaker 2: I refuse to be sad.
- 55:13Speaker 3: That's good. That's good. That's good. To more questions that
- 55:15Speaker 3: we're gonna go.
- 55:17Speaker 1: Chris Samuels was a big topic of conversation this season.
- 55:22Speaker 1: You hung out with him, the shady iPhone camera producer,
- 55:27Speaker 1: you know, in the ceiling being Spider Man.
- 55:30Speaker 3: Capture the moment of you talking about it, did that
- 55:33Speaker 3: gag you?
- 55:34Speaker 2: You was like, well, I am literally still a rookie
- 55:38Speaker 2: because I didn't know these cameras were on. I thought
- 55:43Speaker 2: we stopped filming. Let me tell you, I had taken
- 55:47Speaker 2: off my lashes, taking off my lipstick. We were calling
- 55:52Speaker 2: it a night. Oh my god, these reducers vicious.
- 55:59Speaker 3: You're always a I know that. So I'm talking about.
- 56:02Speaker 2: Other people making rookie mistakes, and clearly I am still
- 56:05Speaker 2: a rookie.
- 56:06Speaker 1: You know.
- 56:07Speaker 2: I didn't know that that was captured. So when I
- 56:09Speaker 2: saw it online, I was like, well, Damn.
- 56:16Speaker 3: I'm not even.
- 56:19Speaker 2: But I said what I said.
- 56:26Speaker 1: Okay, So for the record, you and Chris Samuel's did
- 56:32Speaker 1: y'all go out on two dates?
- 56:34Speaker 2: There?
- 56:34Speaker 3: Just two dates? Those two You are so crazy?
- 56:37Speaker 2: Did we go on two dates?
- 56:39Speaker 3: That's my undertad.
- 56:40Speaker 2: We didn't go on any dates.
- 56:42Speaker 3: Y'all had a one on one?
- 56:44Speaker 1: Man?
- 56:44Speaker 2: Did we have a one on one? Carlos?
- 56:46Speaker 3: I saw the pot?
- 56:47Speaker 2: What do you mean the photo? What photo did you see?
- 56:50Speaker 3: That's a picture of you and him sitting got a
- 56:53Speaker 3: table at a corner.
- 56:54Speaker 2: A long table of twenty five people. I saw a
- 56:57Speaker 2: picture of us at the end of the table.
- 57:00Speaker 1: Is that what you saw? I didn't see the whe shot.
- 57:06Speaker 1: The picture I saw was the one they showed up
- 57:08Speaker 1: the TV.
- 57:09Speaker 2: So I'm sitting at a table of twenty five people
- 57:11Speaker 2: and that means I'm dating someone. Is that what you're saying?
- 57:17Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't see the WI shot.
- 57:19Speaker 2: They did showed the elongated Of course they didn't.
- 57:23Speaker 1: So was Chris Samuel's ever flirty with you? Because I
- 57:28Speaker 1: did see the text messages.
- 57:29Speaker 3: I watched the show.
- 57:31Speaker 2: Why didn't you guys want him to?
- 57:33Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, no, I watched the show.
- 57:35Speaker 1: He you but dude, you've read the text. You He said, Hi,
- 57:40Speaker 1: you look beautiful because you saw the magazine cover.
- 57:42Speaker 2: Of Arabella and I yeah, Lifeele magazine.
- 57:45Speaker 3: And you ignored him.
- 57:48Speaker 1: And he said hi, and you ignored him again, and
- 57:52Speaker 1: then he heard word on the street was that you
- 57:56Speaker 1: guys were talking about him on camera and he text
- 58:00Speaker 1: that you again.
- 58:04Speaker 2: Even with all that, that doesn't mean that he's not
- 58:10Speaker 2: a nice guy. I don't have anything bad to say
- 58:12Speaker 2: about Chris. No, no, it wasn't bad, and I'm not
- 58:14Speaker 2: gonna ever say like I feel like I'm never gonna
- 58:18Speaker 2: say anything bad about him. He was a nice person,
- 58:23Speaker 2: very respectful. Of course. You know, you know how small
- 58:29Speaker 2: this area is when we talk about our circle of
- 58:31Speaker 2: people with us, it is what it is.
- 58:36Speaker 3: Was he attracted to you? I think you would have
- 58:39Speaker 3: to ask Chris, did he ever ask you out a date?
- 58:44Speaker 2: What do you mean?
- 58:45Speaker 3: Do he ever say Hi, I would like to take
- 58:47Speaker 3: you out to dinner or dreak?
- 58:48Speaker 2: He's never said that. No, no, okay, no, he's never
- 58:51Speaker 2: asked me that question.
- 58:52Speaker 3: No, okay, okay. Have you heard from him recently?
- 58:58Speaker 2: You know, I pride myself on my friendships, so I
- 59:04Speaker 2: think that if there are any questions that you want
- 59:09Speaker 2: to ask Chris about me? You should probably ask Chris.
- 59:12Speaker 3: That's fair. Can I ask Cookie? Because Cookie knows everything?
- 59:18Speaker 2: What What did I do to deserve that? What did
- 59:26Speaker 2: I do? Carlos? Can you make? Can you just tell me?
- 59:28Speaker 1: Like?
- 59:28Speaker 3: What did I do?
- 59:31Speaker 2: I showed up in a beautiful dress. I came to
- 59:35Speaker 2: support Giselle and non existent Robin Like, how are you
- 59:40Speaker 2: not at your own party?
- 59:42Speaker 3: Okay?
- 59:43Speaker 2: They you know, Gizelle just gets away with anything. Gizelle
- 59:47Speaker 2: gets away with not having a man on the show,
- 59:51Speaker 2: then being exposed for dating someone yet going and filming
- 59:55Speaker 2: an entire dating show called The Love Hotel when you're
- 1:00:00Speaker 2: actually dating someone. Here in the DMV, no one says anything.
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: I'm the only one that says something. Gizelle has an
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: event to celebrate her business, her business partner isn't there,
- 1:00:12Speaker 2: and we just accept that. Like, really, Giselle says I
- 1:00:17Speaker 2: shouldn't be trusted around women, or what did she say?
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: I shouldn't be trusted around? Gizelle says I shouldn't be
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: trusted around husbands or children, and her bestie is out
- 1:00:29Speaker 2: here kissing her friend's son. Really, Gizelle, Oh, I almost
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: thrip in my mouth a little bit when Ashley admitted
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: that I would have taken that to my great are
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: the picking so slim? You dating your friend's son?
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: Oo?
- 1:00:47Speaker 2: Glad? I'm not single. Streets are rough. The streets are rough.
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: What are you doing.
- 1:01:05Speaker 3: Well, Stacy? In conclusion, as we celebrate you being more?
- 1:01:08Speaker 2: Are is it over? Are list?
- 1:01:11Speaker 3: I can talk to you all da.
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: Why are we stopping because I think we should go
- 1:01:16Speaker 2: have lunch.
- 1:01:17Speaker 3: I mean I have a flight to cash Mo. We
- 1:01:18Speaker 3: can figure things out.
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: I want to come with you.
- 1:01:20Speaker 3: I flew in just for you.
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: You did.
- 1:01:23Speaker 3: Yeah, I flew in today. Oh my god, my flight
- 1:01:26Speaker 3: leaned at f and it'll least.
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: Thank you for flying in for me. Listen for inviting
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: me and acknowledging me. I'm so happy to meet you.
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 1:01:37Speaker 3: I listen. I'm happy to meet you. I want to.
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: I want to say this to you as somebody who
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: did season one, episode one of the Real Housewives of
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: Atlanta in two thousand and eight. Okay, also did Jersey
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: two thousand and nine to season one, episode one. Anyway,
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: With all that being said, come, among other things, Hi,
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: thank you. Okay, Now with that being said, I do
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: want to say this to you. You have the I
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: and the T and one of the main reasons we
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: all love you is because you are organically you.
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: You are authentic. You're not trying to be the moment
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: you really you really show up and you're just you
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: and that's why the audience loves you. It's the reason
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: why you are the most celebrated reality star of this year,
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: not only on this podcast, but for the world at large.
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: You were featured in Vanity Fair, Halle Berry is reposting you.
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: You're on Drew Barrymore Show.
- 1:02:47Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean? Like, these aren't things
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: that just comes to everybody. It doesn't. And I've seen
- 1:02:56Speaker 3: many girls. I've seen many girls.
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: Who want that sort of recognition and they unfortunately do
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: things that are seen as thirsty to attain it.
- 1:03:10Speaker 3: So I applaud you for being authentically you. And my
- 1:03:14Speaker 3: advice to you is this. My advice to you is this.
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: Okay, I know y'all think I don't have ears.
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I'm gonna give you this. Carlos
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: King's advice is this, Okay, you have a lot of potential. Okay,
- 1:03:29Speaker 1: don't believe the hype, but enjoy it.
- 1:03:33Speaker 3: There's a difference.
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: It's sort of like when you're on a roller coaster
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: and you're enjoying the moment of the highs and the
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: lows in those quick twenty seconds or whatever, but you
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: don't believe that, oh, well, that's gonna be something that
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: I can experience. You know, every time I'm on a
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: roller coaster an amusement park, you're you're in the moment.
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: So I do not want you to be somebody who
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: makes the mistake of, you know, feeling themselves and thinking like, oh,
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: I'm beloved and I'm this and then it goes away,
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: because it goes away. God will humble you if you
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: take your blessings for granted.
- 1:04:12Speaker 3: And God will.
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: Humble you when you think it's all about you, when
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: you think it's all about you, and you have so
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: much potential to go very, very very far in this business.
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: And I am honored that you have said yes to
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: being on this podcast. I don't take that for granted.
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: And I want you to know, as a fellow Michigander,
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: the entire city of Detroit, we are proud of you, and.
- 1:04:41Speaker 3: We are very proud of you.
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: And continue representing you, not the community, not the race,
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: not the gender. You continue to represent you and that's
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: how you win.
- 1:04:57Speaker 3: Okay, I appreciate you.
- 1:04:59Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
- 1:05:00Speaker 3: Walk up, Stacy Ross.
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: Carlos King, Now why was my no better than Nashley?
- 1:05:14Speaker 3: That was good?
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: Reality with the King is executive produced by me Carlos King,
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: produced by Lizzie Nimitz, and a partnership with the Lack
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