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Love & Marriage: DC w/ Monique Samuels · Reality with The King

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  Speaker 1: I had Reality TV PTSD. I was traumatized. The thought
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  Speaker 1: of the whole process all over again was a little traumatic.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, I felt comfortable because with you,
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  Speaker 1: I felt safer.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like, Okay, this is gonna be real.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have drama, We're gonna have our ups and downs,
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  Speaker 1: but at least it's gonna be real.
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  Speaker 3: Stay tuned.
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  Speaker 4: We'll get into my conversation with Monique Samuel right after
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  Speaker 4: these quick adds. Welcome to Reality with the King. It's
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  Speaker 4: me Carlos King, the King of Reality TV and one
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  Speaker 4: of the most sought after executive producers in reality television.
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  Speaker 4: With over ten years of production experience, I've executive produced
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  Speaker 4: top rated programs such as eight seasons of The Real
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  Speaker 4: Housewives of Atlanta. Additionally, I have created shows such as
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  Speaker 4: marriage franchise at TV one's Hollywood Divas, just to name
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  Speaker 4: a few.
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  Speaker 3: So y'all know I have many.
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  Speaker 4: Marriage DC, Hey, rain Drop. Yes, so look, today's guest
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  Speaker 4: on Reality with the King is the legend of all
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  Speaker 4: housewive reunions myth by your honey. Yes, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 4: the leading lady a Love and Marriage DC, Monique Samuels.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to Monique Samuel's.
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  Speaker 4: I've always been a fan of that woman.
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  Speaker 3: And let me tell you why.
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  Speaker 4: I remember watching season two of The Real House Sposer
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  Speaker 4: Potomac because season one wasn't great, No, Shay, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: And what was so interesting about season two was Monique
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  Speaker 4: period point and the blank, because she was so dynamic,
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  Speaker 4: she was so present, and for me, she was somebody
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  Speaker 4: who I felt like, Yes, she represents wealth, she represents class,
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  Speaker 4: she represents a woman who's able to hold her own
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  Speaker 4: against Giselle Bryant.
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  Speaker 3: And I've been a fan ever since.
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  Speaker 4: When she left the Real House Spots of Potomac, it
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  Speaker 4: was a sad day for us Bravo fans because Monique
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  Speaker 4: was such a great addition to that franchise. So when
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  Speaker 4: she left, I was sad. I splint in her DMS.
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  Speaker 4: And what you're going to hear in this conversation with
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  Speaker 4: Monique Samuel's is the fact that a friendship was burnt
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  Speaker 4: after a destruction that happened with her experience on the
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  Speaker 4: Real Housewives of Potomac. So I can't wait for you
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  Speaker 4: all to listen to this insightful interview with one of
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  Speaker 4: the architects of the successful Real Housewives of Potomac franchise,
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  Speaker 4: Monique Samuels. You are back starring on my franchise that
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  Speaker 4: I created, Love and Marriage DC. You are such a
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  Speaker 4: fantastic personality, star woman, business woman, mother.
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  Speaker 3: Wife, all those things.
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  Speaker 4: But before we get into your brand new show, let's
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  Speaker 4: talk about why did you decide to leave The Real
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  Speaker 4: Housewives of Potomac.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So, reality TV is something that I've grown to love.
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  Speaker 1: I actually enjoy it the mystery of actually living your
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  Speaker 1: real life and then going through the whole process of
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  Speaker 1: filming and then being entertained by seeing what they do
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  Speaker 1: with all the footage.
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  Speaker 2: You know, So I really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: Even at times where I was getting frustrated or feeling
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  Speaker 1: like my story wasn't really being told properly. I still
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed the whole process. I enjoyed the entertainment side of
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  Speaker 1: it all, and I did enjoy that most people who
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  Speaker 1: watched the show still got a pretty good idea of
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  Speaker 1: who I was as a person. Right, So, when I
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  Speaker 1: joined reality TV, my sole purpose was I want to
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  Speaker 1: show black love. I want to show a black family
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  Speaker 1: who doesn't have it all together. But we're a real
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  Speaker 1: representation of what black love looks like and how it
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  Speaker 1: can last, it can survive, It has its ups and downs.
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  Speaker 1: We have beautiful children that were raising and this is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. Well, when it got to a point
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  Speaker 1: where who so many things. So when the real hate
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  Speaker 1: starts happening off camera, that hate that's on camera, you
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  Speaker 1: think is like, okay, we are filming the show, so
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  Speaker 1: I can let that slide. But once you start finding
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  Speaker 1: out things that are happening outside the show, even after
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  Speaker 1: we've wrapped certain things and being said, and people are
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  Speaker 1: coming together trying to manipulate and mastermind some type of plot.
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  Speaker 1: Once that starts happening, that's when it gets really ugly
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, wait, hold on, what are we doing here?
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  Speaker 1: You know, so it was like off camera, behind the
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  Speaker 1: scenes issues.
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  Speaker 2: It was also just the production the network.
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  Speaker 1: There were issues that were coming from all over that
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  Speaker 1: ultimately led me to say, you know what, this is
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  Speaker 1: too much and I need to quit. I remember filming Reunion,
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  Speaker 1: my last reunion. The day that we arrived to the hotel,
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  Speaker 1: we then found out that I was put in the
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  Speaker 1: wrong hotel purposely. Yes, yes, they put me in a
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  Speaker 1: wrong hotel, which when we got there, I said, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't the caliber hotel that we usually would stay in.
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  Speaker 3: It in a three star hotel.
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  Speaker 2: It was more like two point eight stars. Yes, yes
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  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was intense to the point where as soon as
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  Speaker 1: my husband and I had gotten a room, I immediately
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  Speaker 1: pulled out my diffuser and started putting oils in it
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  Speaker 1: and started getting the room to smell good, because I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: this is just weird. If it weren't for the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Karen and I have a genuine love for each
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  Speaker 1: other and wanted to see each other once we arrived,
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  Speaker 1: I would not have known that I was in the
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  Speaker 1: wrong hotel until the day of reunion, which we're up
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  Speaker 1: at like four or five in the morning, so that
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  Speaker 1: means nobody would have been answering that phone. I would
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  Speaker 1: not have known I was in the wrong hotel. I
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  Speaker 1: would have been coming down to the third floor, like
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  Speaker 1: they said over our conference call, and I would have
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  Speaker 1: been like, well, where is everybody?
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  Speaker 2: I had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: So it was almost like that situation that Nini talked
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  Speaker 1: about with her show, where everybody had on white and
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  Speaker 1: she was told to wear black, and it wasn't until
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  Speaker 1: she sat down that she.
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  Speaker 2: Realized, wait, I have the wrong darn color on, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So it was just it was insane.
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  Speaker 1: And not only was I I was put at the
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  Speaker 1: wrong hotel, I was then giving a bunch of lives
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  Speaker 1: and excuses as to why I wasn't at the proper hotel.
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  Speaker 4: What do they say to you in your inquiry why
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  Speaker 4: you weren't at the same hotel as the cast?
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  Speaker 1: They said, because I was bringing to Challa my parent,
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  Speaker 1: which they asked me to bring. But I told them,
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  Speaker 1: I said, no, this is the hotel y'all always said
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  Speaker 1: that I was at from the very beginning. I said,
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  Speaker 1: I have email proof, and you know, I pulled out
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  Speaker 1: them receipts and sent the emails as I always do,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, this is what I was always told
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  Speaker 1: before y'all even knew T'Challa was coming. So I said,
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  Speaker 1: that's some BS. Then they said, oh, the hotel sold out.
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  Speaker 1: I said, okay, hold on one second. Called the hotel
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  Speaker 1: they had rooms available and everything. I said, can you
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and book me three rooms because I have
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  Speaker 1: my glad with me? So I said, book me three
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  Speaker 1: rooms for tonight. We'll be there in two seconds. I said, also,
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  Speaker 1: I have my parent with me, who is very well trained.
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  Speaker 1: Is it okay if he comes as well? And she
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  Speaker 1: said yes, no problem. You'll just have to fill out
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  Speaker 1: a form and you get here. They told me, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: the parent can't come, and that's why they were trying
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  Speaker 1: to come up with all sorts of excuses, and of
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  Speaker 1: course I put them on pause. I called did my
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  Speaker 1: due diligence right then? And I said, these are all eyes.
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  Speaker 1: The hotel is not booked. And they also said I
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  Speaker 1: can bring my parent.
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  Speaker 2: So what else? What you got next? What else can
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  Speaker 2: you come up with? Because you're lying.
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  Speaker 1: Secondly, they tried to they staged a whole scene on
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  Speaker 1: the day of reunion, having a fake security guard as
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  Speaker 1: if to say they were afraid of my husband and
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  Speaker 1: I because we're supposed to be this aggressive couple.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: There was so much that happened, But God is good.
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  Speaker 1: God was on my side the entire time through it all.
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  Speaker 1: I knew it was going to be a rough time
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  Speaker 1: to conclude this, but I had my mindset and I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that I found out when I did that we
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  Speaker 1: were at the wrong hotel, and we quickly corrected it,
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  Speaker 1: because they would have completely thrown me off my game.
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  Speaker 1: Had I not woken up at the right place, I
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  Speaker 1: would have woke up frustrated, you know, just like trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out what's going on. I would have been frantic.
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  Speaker 1: My hairstyles and my makeup artists would not have been
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  Speaker 1: on their game.
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  Speaker 2: We would have been late.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been so many things that could have
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  Speaker 1: happened that would have completely just like ruined everything. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm just grateful that what they tried to do didn't work.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think they supposedly tried to sabotage you?
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  Speaker 3: Like, what would they have gotten out of that?
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  Speaker 4: If you believe that that was the reason why they
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  Speaker 4: did it.
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  Speaker 1: It's called poking that bear. Even more, they wanted me
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  Speaker 1: to be pissed off. They wanted me to be angry
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  Speaker 1: because they needed to justify the fight. They wanted to
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  Speaker 1: paint a picture as if I was this aggressive person
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  Speaker 1: who was going to be and what actually happened was
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  Speaker 1: they proved to be the aggressive ones. You know, once
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  Speaker 1: we sat down, I was very cool, calm and collected
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  Speaker 1: the whole time. You're not going to define me by
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  Speaker 1: a moment. Everybody has moments, you know. So I had
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  Speaker 1: a moment that I wish I could go back and correct,
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  Speaker 1: but it happened, and all I can do now is
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  Speaker 1: move forward. And that's what I was determined, is to
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  Speaker 1: show people this is actually who I am. I went
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  Speaker 1: through a moment, I dealt with it, I was accountable
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  Speaker 1: for my actions, and I moved forward according to my time.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't going to let anybody force or rush me
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  Speaker 1: through my process. So when it came down even to
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  Speaker 1: the apology, I did it when I was ready to
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 3: So that it could mean something, So it can be genuine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, so it can be genuine. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to poke the bear. They wanted me to
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  Speaker 1: come in there pissed off and going crazy. But then
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  Speaker 1: after it concluded, it really showed who the crazy ones
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  Speaker 1: were yelling out, screaming. They didn't show all of it,
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  Speaker 1: but there was a lot of And I sat there
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  Speaker 1: like this the whole time time and didn't break a sweat.
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  Speaker 3: Sitting pretty and sitting on ready.
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  Speaker 4: So when you talk about because one thing that people
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  Speaker 4: don't know about reality TV is when you're on a
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  Speaker 4: show with women, you oftentimes meet on the show, like
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  Speaker 4: we love to say, oh, we were friends, and sometimes
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  Speaker 4: it's true, like some reality stars on the ensemble show
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  Speaker 4: are friends before the before the show starts, but ninety
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  Speaker 4: percent of the time these reality stars are meeting each
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  Speaker 4: other for the first time on camera. So you walk
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  Speaker 4: into a situation where at the time you were friends
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  Speaker 4: with Sharis, but everyone else were brand new to you.
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  Speaker 4: And it did appear that Giselle was intimidated by you.
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  Speaker 3: So when you talk about things happening on.
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  Speaker 4: The show that you took it as Okay, this is TV, whatever,
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  Speaker 4: I get it, let's make a good TV show, whatever.
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  Speaker 4: But your concern was when it's spilled into your personal life.
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  Speaker 3: And you and I never talked about this.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm only saying this to you based on what
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  Speaker 4: I've heard being a reality TV executive. Is you felt
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  Speaker 4: that some of the women on the show were spreading
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  Speaker 4: lies about you your family that at that point was
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  Speaker 4: sort of like this is off limits, and this is
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  Speaker 4: this is not even what I signed up for at
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  Speaker 4: this point, like it's one thing to throw shade, but
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  Speaker 4: when you involved these allegations of cheating and DNA and children,
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  Speaker 4: it got to the point where it was no longer
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  Speaker 4: making good TV. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And also, let's just be clear from the very beginning,
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  Speaker 1: even when it comes to Shariz, when I came onto
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  Speaker 1: this show, I didn't know any of these women, you know,
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  Speaker 1: So at.
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  Speaker 2: The end of the day, I didn't know way No.
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  Speaker 2: The first time I met her was at Katie's event
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  Speaker 2: when I walked.
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  Speaker 3: In Monique Battie Samuels.
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  Speaker 4: I listen, I feel stupid because I believe that, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Damn listen.
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  Speaker 1: I remember going to Wizards games, and I know who
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  Speaker 1: her husband is.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even know he was married, to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: But no.
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  Speaker 1: So I've heard of some of these women, but I
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  Speaker 1: never actually knew them or met them until I started
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  Speaker 1: filming with them.
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  Speaker 2: So, but the thing with Cherise was we.
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  Speaker 1: Actually formed a very genuine sisterhood from that moment. So
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  Speaker 1: I thought so, I thought. We spent a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time together. And what's sad is when when I had
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  Speaker 1: a friend who was actually on the show my second season,
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  Speaker 1: she made a couple appearances. And I've known this woman
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  Speaker 1: for like a long time, over ten years. She's the
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  Speaker 1: one that started creating these rumors, and she was literally
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  Speaker 1: pitching them to production, she was pitching them to cast,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody knew it wasn't true. Everybody knew it wasn't true.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, at the time, Chris, myself and Jose we
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  Speaker 1: all worked out at the same gym.
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  Speaker 2: We would see each other.
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  Speaker 1: From time to time, passing by and never spoke to
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  Speaker 1: each other, but we would see each other, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So it was like everybody knew, but it was like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is something good that we can bring to TV,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: But my where I drew.
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  Speaker 1: The line was it wasn't the rumor. Everybody's going to
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  Speaker 1: have rumors about them. I've had rumors about me since childhood.
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  Speaker 1: It's what happens, Especially if you're a person where people
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  Speaker 1: see lights or if they see something good in you,
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  Speaker 1: they're always going to want to come up with something
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  Speaker 1: that can possibly tear you down. So the rumors is
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  Speaker 1: not what bothered me. It was once they started involving
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  Speaker 1: my child. And then what really tipped the iceberg was
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  Speaker 1: that last season that I was on, there were two
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  Speaker 1: shows happening.
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  Speaker 2: There was a social media.
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  Speaker 1: Show and then there was a show on TV. So
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  Speaker 1: people who followed on social media, they saw the lives.
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  Speaker 1: Especially she who shall never be named, went live and
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  Speaker 1: actually admitted that they were plotting and trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out a way to come up with this mess and
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  Speaker 1: then put it on the show.
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  Speaker 2: So that didn't come from me. I didn't say those things.
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  Speaker 1: That was told by her at a point where her
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  Speaker 1: and I weren't even friends, so I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: if she realized what she was doing.
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  Speaker 2: She was team Monique right then and didn't even know it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, so once she admitted that, my husband and
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  Speaker 1: I went live in response because people were messaging us
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  Speaker 1: and sending us, bloggers were reaching out.
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  Speaker 2: They were like, are y'all going to address this?
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  Speaker 1: It's going around and people are really starting to pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to this live that's going around as being passed
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  Speaker 1: around on YouTube and everything else. So I said, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, me and Chris talked and we said you
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  Speaker 1: know what, We'll go ahead and go live and address
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  Speaker 1: everything and just put everything out there. And we told
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  Speaker 1: the full story everything you need to know about everything.
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  Speaker 2: We had been dealing with this woman for two years
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  Speaker 2: off camera.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there was a time where Giselle was trying
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  Speaker 1: to say that my husband was cheating on me, but
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  Speaker 1: that didn't stick.
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  Speaker 2: So that never made it to the show.
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  Speaker 4: And if you know Chris, Chris worships the ground you
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  Speaker 4: walk on, Chris Stopher Samuel's the man I met and
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  Speaker 4: been around. He's never going to risk losing you. And
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  Speaker 4: that's coming from me, that man loves you. So no
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  Speaker 4: wonder didn't stick. Because this makes me so sad because
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  Speaker 4: one thing I appreciate about producing reality TV is the real,
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  Speaker 4: authentic moments. And it's funny because Kenya Moore and I
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  Speaker 4: were talking yesterday about this season of Atlanta and one
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  Speaker 4: thing she said to me was she misses the authenticity
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  Speaker 4: where it was nobody was playing up to the cameras
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  Speaker 4: and I and I the reason why I loved you
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  Speaker 4: so much when you entered season two.
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  Speaker 3: You were so natural.
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  Speaker 4: You were I love women who are pretty, but they
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  Speaker 4: don't act like they are like you were. You were
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  Speaker 4: a girl's girl and you really wanted to like experience
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  Speaker 4: this sisterhood.
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  Speaker 3: And it was sad.
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  Speaker 4: To see how destructive it became because one thing I
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  Speaker 4: know working with you, and I'm going to say this
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  Speaker 4: on the record, Monique is a star and she wants
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  Speaker 4: to make a good TV show. She's all about Monique
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  Speaker 4: is always like, we're on TV.
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  Speaker 3: We're on this show. Let's be real. She gives PEPs
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  Speaker 3: talks to the cast of DC.
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  Speaker 4: Monique is like, look, we need to make sure we're authentic.
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  Speaker 3: That's always been your biggest thing.
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  Speaker 4: So I know you so well that you being a
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  Speaker 4: part of a machine where the cast is trying to
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  Speaker 4: make the show so great at the demise of someone's marriage,
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  Speaker 4: I think is sad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where you draw the line, because that's not
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  Speaker 1: what we're here for. It shouldn't be it shouldn't be
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: so malicious, Like we can make great TV and still
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: respect each other's boundaries, you know. So when it came
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: to that, I was like, why would I go back
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: to this? Now you have that situation, You then add
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: in the hotel situation. You then add in the gas
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: lighting that happened with the fight and the outcome of
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: the fight and everything else when they literally tried to
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: act as if I didn't get hit in the face
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: with a glass. So when they're yelling get off her
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: and let her go, I'm literally she had a broken
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: glass in her hands. I supposed to let her go
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: so she can then slice me up, like come on,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: And it was just insane. It was like everything I
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: was saying was like, well, that didn't happen. We didn't
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: see that, and at the time, I never saw the footage.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: So it's funny because a lot of people want me
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: to be really upset and angry with Andy Cohen, but
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: he was the one who we reached out to each
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: other and we had a conversation right after the fight
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: happened and I wanted to leave.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Then I was like, you know what I'm done. This
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: isn't while while I'm here.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I don't like who this show is turning me into,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: and I would rather walk away, and Andy just said,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: you know, whatever makes you feel comfortable, you do. And
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: he said, if you don't want to film with the cast,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: that's fine. If you don't want to go in the
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: cash Trip, that's fine. We will follow your story outside
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: of everything else. And you can film with who you
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: feel comfortable filming with. So I said, okay. So in
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: terms of my stance on what happened at the fight,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: he said, listen, if you recall what you recall, that's
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: what you stand on. He said, don't switch up based
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: off of what other people are saying. He said, but
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: if this is what you remember, then that's what you
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: stick to. And I'm so glad I did, because had
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I gone off of what they said, I would have.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Never probably seen what actually really went down, you know.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: So that the level of respect that I have for
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: him for giving me that advice, even back then when
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: everybody else was trying to crucify me, I appreciate it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: And he said, just keep it real, keep it authentic,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and you stand on what you remember. And I said, okay,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna do.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's the angy that I know. Like even
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: when Portia had that unfortunate incident between Hurry Kenya at
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: the season sixth reunion. You know, listen, you can say
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: what you want about Andy. I will always go on
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: record saying Andy really does want to make sure that
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: the women feel safe. You know, He's not about like
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: let's continue on this road. And what was so interesting
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: about the Porsche and King situation, and I was present
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: for that one, was we allowed Porsche to leave to
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: deal with it.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: But what you said earlier is so true.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: It never defined her like we of course followed her reality.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: But if you see who Porsia is now, Porsche is
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: a businesswoman. And at the end of the day, I
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: always tell people this, if you look at anybody's life,
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: we all have the ability to go there when pushed,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: when provoked, or when we feel like our backs up
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: against the wall, you know, And one thing I appreciate
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: about you is you did not allow that moment to
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: define you. You allowed yourself to heal, to be able
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: to have a genuine apology to the person involved, which
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: I always looked at that like, no one understands that
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: she could have apologized the moment that happened.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: It wouldn't have been genuine.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: You allowed yourself to heal, to learn and to say,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: I see my mistake in it. And the most beautiful
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: moment that came out of your mouth that season was
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: she did not deserve this, and I feel bad, And
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: I was like, this is the beauty of Monique owning
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: it and wanting to move forward. And I feel like
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: you don't get enough credit for that.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Everybody wants to stand on the conversation that we had
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: at Karen's house when they asked me, did I have
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: any remorse?
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: And I said no.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: That was literally like four days after the fight happened
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: even have time to process it, and I was my
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: adrenaline was still pumping, like I was still like I
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: never had a moment to just calm down and really
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: sit back and really digest it all. You know, I
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: did not feel remorse in that moment, and nobody was
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: gonna make me feel it in that moment. So I'm like,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: give me some credit for being real at that moment,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: because how many times have people gotten into altercations and
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: fights knowing that they were dead wrong? And was just like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I don't feel bad about it, and still to this day,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: don't you know. So I had to wait and feel
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: it myself. I couldn't allow somebody else to feel it.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I was still trying to put all the pieces together
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: to actually recall everything that happened. Even when I thought
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I was recalling certain things, I was being told no
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: that that didn't happen like that.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: It was so much back and forth. So yeah, I
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: had to.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Go through the process myself and I went on an
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: entire spiritual journey after that, which I'm still grateful for.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: It allowed me to really dissect some things that happened
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: to me in childhood, to understand myself on a deeper level.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Because I thought I was a person that was fully
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: in control of myself. So I realized in that experience
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: that I don't have control and that I needed to
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: make sure that something like this will never happen again.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I'll know better when to use good judgment to whether
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: it's walking away, whether it's you know, removing.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Myself from the situation or what have you.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: So because of that, it's like sped up my growth
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: process so much more So you never know through what
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: you go in life.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: You never know why you go.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Through those things, but sometimes certain things have to happen
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: for you to wake up.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I wish that wasn't it, but it was the thing
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: that woke me up.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: So I'm grateful, and it's your journey.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: And it's interesting is you will always be known as
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: the iconic woman who brought a binder to the reunion
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: and I even tweeted and put on my Instagram page,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: and I stand by this. Potomac Season five Part one
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: reunion will always go down in history as one of
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: the best reunions ever. You sat there, You sat pretty,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: you were sitting already. You rad the girls for filth.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: You looked gorgeous, your bob was bobbing, and.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Your skin was skinning.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Honey, and I loved it. But then after part three aired,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: you decided you were done after Wasn't is it true
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: that after part three aired and you watching it, is
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: when you decided, Okay, I'm done done.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, I watched it on the Saturday before it aired,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and I was just completely just blown because they kept
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: insisting on showing my husband and I live where my
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: husband was basically like, well, if I was a woman,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I would have slapped on women, you know, for talking
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: about our child. He had every right to be upset.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: He didn't do anything aggressive to them. He actually called
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: all them right after and apologized.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: He even apologized.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: He called Wine and he talked to Wine, he talked
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: to Ray, and when he was on the phone with
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Wine and Robin, he told them, he said, listen, I
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: don't have Giselle's number, and my wife don't talk to her, obviously,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: he said, but please let her know that. I also
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: apologized to her for saying that. So they never talked
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: about that. They never showed that, nor did they show
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: why we went live in the first place.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: They never showed that.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Girl basically saying that, Yeah, there was a plot, and
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I told them that this plot won't make sense because
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Chris Baby looked just like him.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: It looks like he spit them out.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: You're gonna look stupid if if you basically move forward
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: with this plot. You need to come from a different angle.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: She said all of that, and they had the life.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Andy asked me four or five times to make sure
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I sent him that live and also to make sure
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: production had it, and I did that. They said that
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: they were gonna use it. They even wanted all of
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the receipts that were in my binder. I gave them
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: of electronic document that had an electronic version of my binder,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: so they had every receipt if they wanted to post
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: it on the TV screen or whatever they had. They
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: had every single thing that I had in that binder electronically,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and I still have that link. If you want it,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I sent them everybody and to see that.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: They did not show the full picture. That was all
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I wanted. Just show the full picture. Don't show it
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: so one sided and try to make my husband and
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I look like these angry black people, you know. So
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: when they didn't come through and actually show what they said,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: they even set out their own mouths to us, we
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: have to show both sides, because that's only fair. They
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: said that, and then they didn't show it. So I
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: remember that night, I was like, I'm done. And I
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: remember the next day, Funky Dyniva, we were in Florida.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Funky Diniva came past my mom's. We were all hanging out,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and I was trying my best to keep my face
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: straight because I didn't want him to pick up on
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the fact that I was pissed and I was out
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: because I didn't want to tell anybody until I was
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: ready to tell anybody, and he didn't pick up on it.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: That night, I already drafted up my email. I sent
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: it to all of the execs you already know who
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: they are, for Bravo and for Truly, and I said,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: you know, thank you, but no thank you. I said,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I'm no longer want to be a part of this.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I appreciate my time on the show. Good riddens, basically,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and I sent that email at ten thirty one pm
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: that night after.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: The reunion aired.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I literally hit send at ten thirty one pm. Gotam done.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Stay tuned for more of my conversation with Monique.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Samuel's We'll be right back after some quick ads. This
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: is reality with the King, and I'm Carlos King. Let's
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: get back into my conversation with Monique. I tell people
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: this all the time as a man in reality television,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: I don't care if I know you or not. If
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: I see someone hurting or someone not having the best experience,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: I will always reach out to that person to say
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: I don't want nothing from you. I just want you
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: to know you don't have to go through this alone
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: and that if you need someone to talk to, I'm
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: here to talk to. I sent that to Monique. Miss
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: Monique responded two weeks later, child I said, but no,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Monique responded. Two weeks later, Monique, myself and Chris had
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: a two hour conversation.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Again.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: We didn't talk about nothing, but like her experience, it
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: wasn't about work, it wasn't about nothing except I want
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: to I want you guys to know that I am
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: here for you, and that's all it was. And I
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: wanted to let the world know that you and Chris
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: said things to me that I know for a fact
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: it's true because I am in this business. And the
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: one thing I said to you and Chris at the
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: end of the call was, don't let this experience define
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: what you think reality TV is about. And if given
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: the chance, I would love to showcase a different experience
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: for you guys, if it should come to that. And
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: then a month or two later is when I was
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: approached by the Oprah Winfrey Network to spin off Love
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: and Marriage Huntsville into a New City. And I said,
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: if I'm going to do a new city, I want
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Monique Samuels.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: But Monique turned me down the first time I asked her.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Tell me the Monique what happened.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I was like, Carlos, I don't know. I don't want
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: to do another ensemble. I said, oh, I don't know
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: if I want to do that.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: But it's so funny because you.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much, Chris and I both because
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: you allowed us to vent, You allowed us to get
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: it all out and because we were able to get
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: it all out in a safe space, it allowed us
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: to heal. You know, it kind of sped up our
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: healing process. Chris, you know, he always takes a little
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: longer than than the most, but he finally came around.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: But it was it was a very toxic situation, you know,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and it was scary. I remember, I mean even fast
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: forward once we once you called me and was like,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: you know, once we agreed to it, we went through
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the whole process, and then when you were like, here's
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the date it's ready on said yes, I was.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Just like, oh, well, I don't know.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: He's like when he stopped playing with me, I was like, oh,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: let me talk to Chris about this.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: You. I was so scared, like Monique is a about
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: to back out of Love and Math DC after I
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: saw the show to own and Monique introduced me to
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: all these wanton for koupofs and she's about to leave
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: the show before it started shoot and say, and the.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Crazy thing about it, I just got I got cold feet,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: and I got That's why when we even had our
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: very first confessional, I said I had Reality TV PTSD.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: I was traumatized the.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Thought of the whole process all over again was a
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: little traumatic, But at the same time, I felt comfortable
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: because with you, I felt safer. I felt like, Okay,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: this is gonna be real. We're gonna have drama, We're
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: gonna have our ups and downs, but at least it's
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: gonna be real. And when I tell you your crew,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: oh my god, I never even felt like this could
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: be possible. Where they were literally flies on the wall.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was just like, do what you do,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: you know, and I appreciate that. It was very genuine
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and it was I mean, everybody had such good energy.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I didn't have to feel like I had to sage
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: my house every time. After the camera crew left, I said, oh,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: we are good energy up in here.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Listen. I'm like, listen, take all y'all spirits right on
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: up out of here. But your crew had very good,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: positive energy.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Very open and loving and accepting. Oh man, we would
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: just have fun talking on the side. One of the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: camera guys, Gabe, me and Gab would be talking natural
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: remedies to the point where they're like, cameras are back up,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: can y'all wrap up y'all's conversation.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: It was just it felt like family. It felt very nice.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Not that I didn't have people that I felt like
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: that with. There's There's one.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: There's one produce in particular, who I still talk to
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: to this day, who I love so much from when
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I was on that other show.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: But it just it was different.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: It was a totally different experience, so it was worth
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: coming back.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Oh thank you, No listen.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: I tell people all the time my job as the
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: creative shows is to make sure that my casts have
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: a good experience, because I don't think people understand how
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: difficult and challenging it is for someone to show the
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: world the good, the bad, the ugly like.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: That it takes a lot.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: To be vulnerable in front of millions of people and
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: the whole camera crew in your house. So my biggest
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: thing I always tell people is my job is to
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: make sure my cast feels comfortable. And when I say
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: to you, guys, Monique and Chris are a fantastic addition
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: to this franchise. And I will go on record saying
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: this franchise could not have worked without Chris and Monique
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: because you two bring such a lie level of experience
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: and authenticity to the show, and it's spilled over into
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: the other couples on DC to the point where it
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: allowed them to be more real and to be more vulnerable,
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: because you two were the example of how it should work.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: And when I say to y'all and listen, I wouldn't
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: say this, but wasn't true.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Love and Marriage.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: DC is about to knock your socks off. It is
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: a fantastic show. It's black love, but it's real love,
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: and it's the ups and downs. And when I say
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: to you, Monique and Christopher, the first episode starts with
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: Monique and it ends with Monique, honey.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Oh lord, listen. Now let me tell you. Let me
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: tell you something. One thing about Chris and I.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: The entire time we've done reality TV, we were told
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: that we were too perfect. We were told that, you know,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: y'all don't show us this, and y'all don't show us that.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: All y'all show us is the good. And I remember
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: telling production and telling the network. I said, Number one,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I don't hear y'all saying that to Lisa, Vanda Pump
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: and Ken. I don't hear y'all saying that to Kylin Mauricio.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I don't hear y'all saying that to all the other
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: couples that are less melanated in their marriages when we
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: hear stuff about them off camera that we never hear
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: on the show. So I said, so, at the end
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: of the day, what Chris and I will never do
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: is give you something that we're not actually going through.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: So it's not my fault that the time of year
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: y'all want to bring around cameras. Me and Chris are fine.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: But let me tell you love and marriage DC. Oh.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: They called Chris and I at one of our most
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: challenging times in our relationship, and it's funny because the
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: beginning of the year is always a rift for us.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: So I remember when you said we're gonna start filming
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: in January, and I was like, oh lord, I was
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: texting you like probably, I don't know. I was like, Yo,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: come get this dude now.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Monique was like, I'm going to Arizona right, yes. Monique
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: was like, Carlos, I'm going to Arizona for two weeks.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: So how long it was with by by myself because
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: I need to save my marriage. But in order for
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: that to happen, I have to be okay with me
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: and the beautiful part of that conversation I never shared
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: this with you. Either was the fact that I will
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: always give Chris his promps because he made sure that
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: you felt safe enough to go through that in.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Order to be whole.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: And I don't think a lot of husbands would have
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: allowed their wife to go out of town by themselves
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: because they needed to heal while he was at home.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: I will always give that black man his credit.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, I was there for five nights, and when I
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: tell you, I went to a meditation in a meditation resort.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: So it was all about just like mindfulness, being present,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: no phones, just very like. It was amazing and it
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: allowed me because you know what happens in the marriage.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: A lot of times we want so much from our spouse,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: but we really don't know what we want because we
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: don't know who we are. We don't know what makes
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: us feel safe, whole and present. So in order for
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: me to come back and tell Chris, hey, this is
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: what I need from you, I needed to see what
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I needed from me, you know, And that's what I
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: needed to really understand myself even better when it comes
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: to me as a woman, as an entrepreneur, as a wife,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: as a mom, especially with the thought of going back
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: into reality TV. I said, I need to know exactly
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: where I am, and he allowed me to do.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: That, and now I'm actually not now, but I've.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Been encouraging him to do the same, even if he
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: goes to the same resort I went to, whatever he
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: wants to do. It is something about in time with
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: yourself and you have that one on one time with
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: God and you're able to I was journaling every day
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: and it was incredible. But it also this is the
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: thing about spiritual journeys and growth. As you start to
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: elevate in your spiritual journey, and if you're in a marriage,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: your spouse has to elevate as well. So then that's
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: what a lot of people are going to witness when
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: they watch Love and Marriage DC is that Chris and
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I are off balance and we're trying our best to
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: get back on balance and get back on the same page.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: So it was a very real season for us. It
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: still is.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Every time we had confessionals, it was like we were
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: in a therapist's office and we were very open and vulnerable,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: very vulnerable about everything that we were dealing with.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Now, I promise you, guys, if you think you knew
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: Monique and Chris, you have seen nothing yet.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: It is deep, it is real.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: And the thing about the Love and Marriage franchise is
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: similar to other franchises. Each city is different, So Huntsville
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Love and Match Huntsville is very different. It's it's great
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: on his own. They got their own marital issues. The
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: thing with DC is it feels to me like the
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Black nine to two one zero. And these couples are
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: beautiful and they're funny and there. Each couple is going
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: through their own journey and their marriage. But Monique, let
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: them know what they can expect from the season between you,
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: the other couples, and your friend, Miss Winter Williams.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: If y'all, if y'all watch Game of Thrones and they
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: say winter is coming, Honey, winter is coming. I know,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: I know it is like May up out here in
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: these in these United States streets.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: But let me let me tell you winter is coming
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: May fourteenth.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: That couldn't even start a winter, Oh lord, let me
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: tell you so Quick and Ashley so Quick is a
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: very well known DJ in this area. Ashley is a
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: very bubbly, social like entrepreneur, boss mom, all of that
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: in her and Quick's dynamic. First of all, let me
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: just say this about all of the couples. Everybody is
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: bringing their weight, everybody is earning their check, everybody is
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: bringing vulnerability, they're bringing their own story, and then we're
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: all helping each other through whatever it is that we're
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: going through, allowing each other to space to vent, and
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: it really does show you what real marriage is about.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: So with Quick and Ashley, they are the first to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: let you know that they do not have a lot
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: of married friends. So we're gonna navigate that because you know, Ms.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Ashley don't like using that friend word. She'd be like frue,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: so I'm not. I'm like, we'd we ain't friends. But
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: one thing I do love also about this show is
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: that we're not coming into this acting like we've known
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: each other and we're besties. We're letting you know we
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: know each other from social scenes. I met Arena on Instagram.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I remember seeing her on the black Socialites page Kyle
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: rest in Peace. He had a page in DC that
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: talked all about socialites and everything else, and he would
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: post her and I'm.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Like, well, who is she? I need to know her.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: She's so fine.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I slid up into her DMS and I was like, honey,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: you need to be on this show.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: That was the other show.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: That's how long ago this was, and me and her
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: would chat back and forth and once we connected, it
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: is so beautiful to see her and her husband, Jamie
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: the Tylers. Jamie invented the day party scene in DC.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: You're gonna see a lot of DC culture. Arena is
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: born and raised in DC. Ashley and Quick.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: First of all, Ashley is hilarious, beyond funny.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Without you and trying to be funny, she thows shade
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: by accident. I love her.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: She is so funny. She cracks me up. But she
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: is very real.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: You ain't gonna have no questions about how she feels
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: about you after you leave the room. She ain't got
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: no reason to continue a conversation after you're gone, because
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: she's gonna let you know right there.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: You know, Raina is so she's so poised.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: She is like a perfect queen, and she's going to
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: actually really show you behind the curtain what is going
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: on with Raina as she raises her children. And then
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: you have Tasha and Neil Lyons, who are friends of mine.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Tasha used to do when people say, oh, who used
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: to do your hair? And confessionals. Tasha most of the time,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: all of those afrocentric styles that I wore. That was Tasha,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: So her and Neil and I we've all been friends
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: for years and to the point where we would get
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: together as families. We would go out to our lake
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: house and we would get together. So we've known each
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: other for a long time. And they're very spicy, they're
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: very real and open.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: And Chris and I we're the young couples in this group.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Then you have Miss Winter.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Now Winter I've known from the NFL Wives Club, So
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: I was a girlfriend back then and her ex husband
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: and Chris played together, and so we've known each other
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: in that realm of that NFL world for a long time.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: And one thing about NFL wives is that even when
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: you don't talk all the time, years could literally go by,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: that connection is still there because we all understand what
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: it's like to be married to an NFL player or
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: a former NFL player, and when we need help, when
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: we need somebody to lean on, when we're going through
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: things in our marriages, you have these people that you
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: can feel comfortable and trust and talk to. So it's
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: going to be a heck of a season. I cannot
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: wait to watch.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: Oh it's good. It's good.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: No, cap is fantastic, It's f b reap thing Love
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: and Married DC premiere Saturday, May fourteenth at nine o'clock.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: And then Monique is going to be my first guest
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: on my late night series called The Night Captain Carlos King.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Aaron got ten o'clock following DC. And before I let
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: you go, the girls gagged because you were offered a
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: spot on Real Housewife Ultimate Girls Trip.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: Yes, and you turned it down. Is that true?
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's true.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Andy reached out to me and he said, you know,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: I have an awesome opportunity that I would love to
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: talk to you about.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: So I was like okay, and.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: We talked on the phone and he's explaining everything to me.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I was actually his I think I was his second
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: call that he made after he was greenlit and he
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: wanted me to be there. He reassured me that it
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: was just me. He's like, we don't have any other
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: potomacast coming or anything like that, and I said okay,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: So I just listened and I was very quiet, and
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: he was like, well, why don't you sleep on it?
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, no, I don't. I don't
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: know if this is something I want to do, and
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: I told him, and I told him I straight up.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: I was straight up with him, and I said, it's
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: not just a cast issue. I said, it was also
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: a production and a network issue. So I said, you know,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if this is something I
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: want to do. And he still was like, sleep on it.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: So I said, okay, I'll sleep on it. A few
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: days later, we talked again and I said, I said,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you thinking to me, but I'm going to
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: have to pass. I just I don't feel comfortable doing it.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: And he said, okay, I totally understand. If you change
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: your mind, just let me know and and then I
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: stay in touch. You know, there's no love life.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: Congratulated you when Love and Marriage DC was announced.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: He did, he even when they when they actually leaked it.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: He was one of the first text messages I got
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: saying congratulations, and I couldn't respond because it wasn't official.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: So I just had to leave him on red for
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: like weeks.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: So as soon as y'all all announced it officially, I
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: text them back, like, thank you so much. I wanted
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: to respond, but I couldn't. He said, oh, trust I
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: already know how to say worked. He said, I figured
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: that was the case. It's all good, you know. So yeah,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: he definitely congratulated and he said, I know the show
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: is going to be a hit because it has you.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: And I said, oh, thank you.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: And he never lied.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: Have you heard from the Potomac Ladies about Loving Marriage DC?
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I've heard from Ashley, I heard from Karen. Those
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: are the only two ladies I still talk to. Those
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: are my sisters. I love them.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: I actually hooked up with Ashley Chris and I met
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: up with her and.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Michael in Florida a few months ago, so so yeah,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: it sucks to hear what they're going through right now.
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: But yeah, how is she spoken to her since she
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: announced she was falling for divorce?
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: But you know one thing about Ashley, she is one
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: of the most positive people that I've ever met. She
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: is the biggest tree hugger, Like, she is always going
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: to see the good in every situation. So she's keeping
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: her head up and she's, you know, just to see
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: what happens down this road. So I'm really proud of
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: her for just being brave enough to do what she
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: feels is best for her you know, and Karen you
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: know that's that's my honey. So yes, I talked to
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Karen right before her show premiere on Bravo. She had
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: her Grand Down reunion, which I was so excited for her.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I stay in touch with those two.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: So where can people follow you support you me? Like
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: even centrals all let the girls know, honey, well they
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: can support you and follow you.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, everything is Monique Samuels dot com. That's the easiest.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: But you can follow me on Instagram at missus Monique Samuels.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: I am on a morning show, the local morning show
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: in DC WPGC ninety five point five. You can listen
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: to me every morning from six am to ten am.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: It's the Good Morning Show. And you can also download
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: the Odyssey app if you're not local in the area,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: and you can hear us. We have a whole good time.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: You will laugh the entire time you're listening to that show.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: We just come every day and choose ignorance.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: So yes, it's fun. And then on Twitter, i am
• 48:06
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• 48:20
  Speaker 2: We got an all for it.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: I really hope y'all enjoy my epic conversation with Monique.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: Let me tell y'all something I love this woman and
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: the beauty of Monique is when you guys watch Love
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: and Marriage DC, I promise you one thing, you're going
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: to definitely see Monique be the force multiplier of the show.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: Come on, force multiplier. She is such a joy to watch.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: She is comfortable in front of the camera.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: And for the real Housewives of Potomac fans, you're going
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: to see the real side of Monique on Love and
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: Marriage DC. And I hope that this conversation proved that
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: she is a woman who has learned from her mistakes
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: and she did it on her own time so that
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: it could be genuine. Please, please, please make sure you
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: watch the show, because I promise you one thing, you're
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: going to love it as.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: Much as I do.
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: Make sure you catch the series premiere of Love and
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  Speaker 4: Marriage DC this Saturday, May fourteenth, at nine o'clock East.
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