Latest / Reality with The King / EXCLUSIVE: Kenya Moore Interview Pt. 1
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- 0:30Speaker 1: It's me Carlos King, the King of Reality TV and
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- 0:58Speaker 1: I mean this woman, and it's not only my sister,
- 1:05Speaker 1: she's my friend.
- 1:07Speaker 2: And I don't use the F word loosely. No, you
- 1:12Speaker 2: don't you know? I love listen. I love the girls. Yes,
- 1:15Speaker 2: I love all the girls.
- 1:16Speaker 1: I don't keep in touch with all of them though, No, Shay,
- 1:19Speaker 1: there's a few. Yes, and you, I mean you know
- 1:25Speaker 1: how much I love you.
- 1:26Speaker 2: I love you the same so do the other girls.
- 1:29Speaker 2: But to know that.
- 1:34Speaker 1: First of all, my Late Night showed the nightcap Kenya
- 1:37Speaker 1: was confirmed there was a COVID situation going on.
- 1:41Speaker 2: I had to reschedule.
- 1:42Speaker 1: She said, I want to do it, my bitch, I
- 1:44Speaker 1: have an international fly. I got and I said, it
- 1:47Speaker 1: ain't your fault. But again, God has the perfect timing
- 1:51Speaker 1: for everything. I want to thank you for coming on
- 1:55Speaker 1: my podcast doing your.
- 1:57Speaker 2: Face to face. You are by far too I wanted to.
- 2:02Speaker 3: I was like, you, we need the in person thing,
- 2:04Speaker 3: not the computer barrier. It's just weird for me, like
- 2:07Speaker 3: our chemistry is in person.
- 2:09Speaker 2: No, it really is. It really is. So everyone welcome.
- 2:11Speaker 2: Thank you the living legend this USA. I mean she
- 2:18Speaker 2: puts the.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Lebrity in Bravo Leberty Chocolate queen. I mean this woman,
- 2:25Speaker 1: her and portsche saved the franchise from sinking.
- 2:30Speaker 2: I said it before and I'll say it again. Thank you,
- 2:33Speaker 2: thank you, thank you.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Give it up for Kenya the icon Morey.
- 2:42Speaker 2: First of all, let's get started. Thank you to my
- 2:44Speaker 2: three fans that are means everything to me.
- 2:49Speaker 1: Let's talk about you before housewives, because what I want
- 2:55Speaker 1: to remind people is you were that girl before there
- 2:59Speaker 1: were ever a reality show, a Bravo network, a housewife,
- 3:03Speaker 1: a peace to hold.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Any of those things.
- 3:06Speaker 1: You are a dark skinned black girl from Detroit, Michigan.
- 3:10Speaker 2: Come on Detroit, Okay, what up dough? What up dough?
- 3:13Speaker 1: Our hometown, and you have a mask, this empire for yourself.
- 3:19Speaker 2: So I want to go back a little bit.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Take me back to the time when you knew inherently
- 3:27Speaker 1: right that I meant to be something special.
- 3:33Speaker 2: When did you know that? Oh gosh, that's so weird.
- 3:38Speaker 3: I don't know if I ever knew it. I just
- 3:40Speaker 3: knew that my life was different. I felt like my
- 3:44Speaker 3: life that I was living was different from a lot
- 3:46Speaker 3: of other kids around me. And I felt like the
- 3:52Speaker 3: all of the adversity that came my way dealing with
- 3:55Speaker 3: my mom, who could have easily destroyed me, like literally,
- 3:59Speaker 3: she told me she would destroy me to my face.
- 4:04Speaker 3: My mother said that to me, She said, I will
- 4:05Speaker 3: dog you for the rest of your.
- 4:07Speaker 2: Life to my face. How old were you?
- 4:09Speaker 3: I was about I had to be. That was when
- 4:15Speaker 3: I was hiding in my my mother's closet. I had
- 4:18Speaker 3: pre recorded something because she wouldn't talk to me, and
- 4:22Speaker 3: I was trying to get her to speak to me,
- 4:24Speaker 3: and my cousin and I pre recorded on the little
- 4:28Speaker 3: tape cassettes and I hid in her closet of my
- 4:33Speaker 3: grandmother's home, her mom, hoping that when she came home,
- 4:37Speaker 3: I could just press play she would listen. And I
- 4:41Speaker 3: poured my heart out, like just saying, you don't have
- 4:43Speaker 3: to speak to me. You don't have to you know,
- 4:48Speaker 3: we don't have to be friends. You know, you don't
- 4:50Speaker 3: have to call me your daughter, But can can you
- 4:52Speaker 3: least speak to me acknowledge me? You know, let's try
- 4:56Speaker 3: to have a friendship. And when she came home, my
- 5:00Speaker 3: cousin buried me in the closet, you know, like put
- 5:02Speaker 3: all the clothes things.
- 5:04Speaker 2: So I was hidden in her closet.
- 5:06Speaker 3: And when she came home, I remember my heart was
- 5:09Speaker 3: just beating out of my chest. And I think it
- 5:11Speaker 3: was around twelve eleven twelve, I think, and.
- 5:16Speaker 2: She came in. She was she figured out what was
- 5:19Speaker 2: going on.
- 5:19Speaker 3: She you know, she was like, who is there? You know,
- 5:22Speaker 3: She's opened the closet door. She pulled all the clothes
- 5:25Speaker 3: and things off of me, grabbed me out of there,
- 5:28Speaker 3: took the recording, and she was livid.
- 5:32Speaker 2: She was living.
- 5:33Speaker 3: My grandmother was home, it was her mom, and they
- 5:37Speaker 3: she told me, you know, I don't have a daughter.
- 5:43Speaker 3: She pretended like, you know, I didn't exist, but she
- 5:46Speaker 3: was livid. She had a conversation with my grandmother, her mom,
- 5:51Speaker 3: and she told her mother to her face, I've never
- 5:53Speaker 3: had a child. She was like, I've never had a child.
- 5:56Speaker 3: And my grandmother, for the first time ever in my life,
- 5:59Speaker 3: I saw her take up for me, like why can't
- 6:01Speaker 3: you just speak to her? Why do you have to
- 6:03Speaker 3: treat her that way? And my mother was like, I've
- 6:05Speaker 3: never had a child. I don't know what you're talking about.
- 6:07Speaker 3: They were arguing and I just remember crying. My cousin
- 6:10Speaker 3: was crying, and after she was done speaking to my mom,
- 6:15Speaker 3: her mother, she came to me and she said, I
- 6:18Speaker 3: will dog you for the rest of your life. She
- 6:20Speaker 3: was like, I will never be your friend. I will
- 6:22Speaker 3: dog you for that.
- 6:23Speaker 2: I will never forget those words. And that was.
- 6:26Speaker 3: You know, After that, I think just to just left
- 6:31Speaker 3: me feeling like that's the end of it.
- 6:34Speaker 2: You know, that was the end of it.
- 6:37Speaker 3: And I don't know what happened to me, but over time,
- 6:43Speaker 3: I think I just developed like this thick skin that
- 6:46Speaker 3: said I'm going to show her wrong, like you're not
- 6:49Speaker 3: going to destroy me, and she tried everything that she
- 6:53Speaker 3: could try. I remember the first pageant later that I
- 6:58Speaker 3: ever want.
- 6:58Speaker 2: It was called Little Let Me. I'm gonna get this wrong.
- 7:06Speaker 3: Miss black Star was my first one, little Miss black Star,
- 7:10Speaker 3: and then the second one.
- 7:10Speaker 2: I can't remember the name right now because I'm getting old.
- 7:13Speaker 2: I can't remember the mine other.
- 7:21Speaker 3: It is not as good, definitely failing me at time,
- 7:28Speaker 3: but I remember it was so crazy because I remember
- 7:34Speaker 3: I won my second pageant, so I was I was sixteen,
- 7:38Speaker 3: and that pageant you didn't have to reveal your age,
- 7:43Speaker 3: so the first one you did, I was fourteen thirteen
- 7:45Speaker 3: or fourteen thirteen. So the second one I entered, I won,
- 7:49Speaker 3: and I was dating someone in high school that was
- 7:54Speaker 3: very wrong. But he was a predator eleven years my senior.
- 7:59Speaker 2: So I was sixteen. He wasn't a student as twenty seven.
- 8:03Speaker 2: He was twenty seven years old. He was a faculty member.
- 8:06Speaker 3: He was a predator who followed me home from school,
- 8:10Speaker 3: which a lot of the boys because I looked so
- 8:13Speaker 3: much older.
- 8:14Speaker 2: You know, I was tall, I.
- 8:15Speaker 3: Was you know, athletic, curry all that. So no he
- 8:20Speaker 3: met me outside of school. And so anyway, my mother
- 8:26Speaker 3: was calling the pageant director and was telling her I
- 8:30Speaker 3: was an alcoholic, I was dating this older man, I
- 8:34Speaker 3: was all of these horrible things, and that I should
- 8:37Speaker 3: not be her beauty queen. I was a horrible representation,
- 8:43Speaker 3: and she tried to get my crown taken away. And
- 8:45Speaker 3: I remember having this meeting with both of my grandmothers
- 8:49Speaker 3: being there with her name was Rosa Robinson and my grandmother.
- 8:54Speaker 3: Both of my grandmothers had to come and it was
- 8:56Speaker 3: like a trial, and I was on trial to I
- 9:00Speaker 3: need to keep my first crown that I ever ever won,
- 9:04Speaker 3: and it was all because of my grandmother. I have
- 9:06Speaker 3: all the proof, the letters, I have everything in my
- 9:08Speaker 3: safety to positive box.
- 9:11Speaker 2: But that was all a.
- 9:11Speaker 3: Part of my memoir. So hopefully one day we'll.
- 9:13Speaker 1: Oh, no, we need to see it. But I want
- 9:15Speaker 1: to go back a little bit in terms of what changed. So,
- 9:19Speaker 1: your mother had you when she was a teenager. Correct,
- 9:21Speaker 1: she was six, She.
- 9:23Speaker 3: Was around sixteen, fifteen sixty.
- 9:24Speaker 2: She was on fifteen sixteen.
- 9:27Speaker 1: We know tons of my dad too, right, your parents
- 9:31Speaker 1: were teenagers who I considered the Beyonce of the church.
- 9:37Speaker 1: Sarah Dix Roberts had a baby at fourteen, So I
- 9:42Speaker 1: want to be everyone's different, But I know having a baby.
- 9:45Speaker 3: Black community seventies, it was not their first, not minor,
- 9:52Speaker 3: well minor, but teenage pregnancy in the family.
- 9:55Speaker 2: It was their second. It was their second.
- 9:58Speaker 1: Yes, did the pregnancy her to become reclusive because of
- 10:05Speaker 1: the time that had happened, That's.
- 10:07Speaker 3: A good question. She was always a recluse to me.
- 10:11Speaker 3: She would always be in her room. The mother that
- 10:14Speaker 3: I knew that I would observe and what I have
- 10:16Speaker 3: been told, she was never someone who was out and partying.
- 10:21Speaker 3: She was always in her room. But I know her
- 10:24Speaker 3: post me. You know her post baby. So I can't
- 10:29Speaker 3: answer that. I only can answer what I personally is.
- 10:32Speaker 3: And you know some of what people have said, but
- 10:34Speaker 3: I don't. I think it's deeper than that. And I
- 10:36Speaker 3: really wish in my lifetime that her story would be
- 10:39Speaker 3: told because we don't know the full story.
- 10:42Speaker 1: Do you think it's a form of Do you think
- 10:44Speaker 1: she's suffering through some form of mental illness?
- 10:46Speaker 2: Absolutely?
- 10:47Speaker 3: That's why I study psychology because I wanted to find
- 10:49Speaker 3: out what was wrong with my mother. It was my
- 10:51Speaker 3: only passion in life at the time. I wanted to
- 10:55Speaker 3: know what would make a person look their own child
- 10:59Speaker 3: in the face and say you.
- 11:02Speaker 2: Are not mine.
- 11:02Speaker 3: I never had you, and was confident like in her
- 11:06Speaker 3: eyes she meant that.
- 11:10Speaker 1: And by her trying to block your crown, get it
- 11:12Speaker 1: taken away.
- 11:13Speaker 3: She Oh, that was just one a minute. That was
- 11:14Speaker 3: the one thing that I cited. But there was a
- 11:18Speaker 3: history of her literally trying to destroy me.
- 11:21Speaker 2: That was her.
- 11:21Speaker 1: Mission when you came to her house season seven or eight,
- 11:27Speaker 1: I believe one of those. Did she ever say anything
- 11:34Speaker 1: to a founding member about you doing that?
- 11:36Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, my aunt Laurie, Yeah, my aunt Laurie got
- 11:40Speaker 3: all the smoke. Yeah, she basically and as you saw,
- 11:46Speaker 3: my Aunt Laurie agreed with her, like just leave her alone.
- 11:48Speaker 2: That's her house.
- 11:49Speaker 3: You know, she doesn't want to have a relationship with you.
- 11:52Speaker 3: You know, she doesn't have to. And the viewers one
- 11:55Speaker 3: hundred percent loved LORII. After that scene, they were like
- 11:58Speaker 3: they hated her, not hated.
- 12:01Speaker 2: But no, they were disappointed.
- 12:03Speaker 3: They were disappointed because it's like, how are you going
- 12:06Speaker 3: to tell this child that she cannot seek a relationship
- 12:10Speaker 3: or answers from her own mother? And it was it
- 12:14Speaker 3: was It was a crucial time in my family's life
- 12:18Speaker 3: and I've always felt that nobody was ever on my side.
- 12:22Speaker 3: No one ever fought.
- 12:23Speaker 2: From me to chut oh you know, Oprah like, no,
- 12:30Speaker 2: we do no. The thing is this as you do that.
- 12:35Speaker 1: I want to say this for the record, and I'm
- 12:36Speaker 1: going to say this on the record. This is the
- 12:39Speaker 1: Kenya who I know. This is the King who I
- 12:41Speaker 1: talk to. You and I have tons of fun shape conversations.
- 12:47Speaker 1: The majority of our conversations. I know you're vulnerable. And
- 12:51Speaker 1: the reason why I'm so I'm going to say it,
- 12:55Speaker 1: the reason why I get so disappointed in what happens
- 12:59Speaker 1: to you on the show is because I'm like, she's
- 13:03Speaker 1: not a one trick pony. She knows how to give
- 13:05Speaker 1: y'all share. She could do it to her sleep. She
- 13:08Speaker 1: knows how to be whimsical and twirl. But the Kingyam
- 13:11Speaker 1: Moore that I know is a woman who is vulnerable.
- 13:15Speaker 1: My mom died of cancer. Kenya Moore surprised me, flew
- 13:20Speaker 1: to Detroit and attended my mother's funeral. She did not
- 13:24Speaker 1: have to have to do that. That's the Kenya Moore.
- 13:27Speaker 1: I want the world to know and I want the
- 13:29Speaker 1: world to see this because my job on this earth
- 13:34Speaker 1: is to create safe spaces and to provide clarity for
- 13:38Speaker 1: people like you, who I feel like are some misunderstood
- 13:41Speaker 1: and I want to let the world know that when
- 13:45Speaker 1: it comes to you, imagine being a girl. You're a girl,
- 13:49Speaker 1: and every girl's best friend is their mom. And to
- 13:53Speaker 1: grow up knowing that you're trying to navigate through life
- 13:57Speaker 1: as a girl and the one man who gave birth
- 14:00Speaker 1: to you, it is ostracizing you. And I always said
- 14:04Speaker 1: to the world, and that's why I appreciated you and
- 14:07Speaker 1: your father being so honest about this story as we
- 14:10Speaker 1: were filming bra Housewives, is because I'm like, I want
- 14:14Speaker 1: to give context to Kenya the woman, and my job
- 14:19Speaker 1: is to showcase the complexities of you.
- 14:24Speaker 2: Women and men on the show too.
- 14:26Speaker 1: But people on reality because they only watch forty two
- 14:30Speaker 1: minutes a week, six months out of the year, and
- 14:33Speaker 1: they feel like they know you. And I'm going to
- 14:36Speaker 1: go on record saying this, I think you are by
- 14:38Speaker 1: far the number one most misunderstood reality star because people
- 14:46Speaker 1: think you are mean, a bitch, vicious of villain evil,
- 14:52Speaker 1: you know, and none of those words is what I
- 14:56Speaker 1: use to describe you, and those were I don't use.
- 15:01Speaker 2: When I talk to God.
- 15:02Speaker 1: About you, and I'm happy that you're comfortable sharing that,
- 15:08Speaker 1: but no, we're gonna, we're gonna, you know, get through that.
- 15:11Speaker 2: But I had to let the world know that. Imagine
- 15:14Speaker 2: being that.
- 15:16Speaker 1: Do you feel like this that obviously shaped you to
- 15:19Speaker 1: be the strong woman you are today?
- 15:22Speaker 3: Oh, one hundred percent. I just think that, you know,
- 15:24Speaker 3: I had my grandmother. I had my grandmother who raised
- 15:28Speaker 3: me from three days old, who wanted me, you know,
- 15:33Speaker 3: and as I feel like my grandmother was a saint
- 15:37Speaker 3: and everything that I am, that is who I am
- 15:40Speaker 3: from my core, is because of my grandmother. She was
- 15:44Speaker 3: just the most beautiful person, and she gave me all
- 15:49Speaker 3: of those things that a mother is supposed to give
- 15:51Speaker 3: a child, confidence, self esteem, you know, love, She cherished me.
- 15:57Speaker 2: She lit up when I walked into the room.
- 16:00Speaker 3: And she told me I can do anything, I can
- 16:04Speaker 3: be anything. How smart it was, I mean, that was
- 16:06Speaker 3: just like she would always praise me for being smart.
- 16:09Speaker 3: It wasn't because I was beautiful that she thought in
- 16:12Speaker 3: her eyes. Yeah, it was because you know, when I
- 16:15Speaker 3: would come home, I was a gifted student. I was
- 16:18Speaker 3: you know, we know what, I'm smart. Okay, I'm not
- 16:20Speaker 3: the smartest person in the world. But I'm far from
- 16:21Speaker 3: the dumbest.
- 16:22Speaker 2: Oh, you're smartest.
- 16:24Speaker 1: That's the bason why some of the girls hate you,
- 16:26Speaker 1: because it's like, not only is this bitch beautiful, she
- 16:29Speaker 1: had to be smart and not to cut you off.
- 16:31Speaker 1: My favorite moment when me and the producer realize.
- 16:35Speaker 2: King is too smart for her own good. It was
- 16:37Speaker 2: season seven.
- 16:39Speaker 1: Doctor Jeff had a consting session with all the housewives.
- 16:42Speaker 2: I remember that session. You used the word I've never
- 16:45Speaker 2: heard at that time.
- 16:46Speaker 1: You said, Portia, you are a revisionist historian.
- 16:51Speaker 2: The producer said, what the fuck does that mean? And
- 16:55Speaker 2: we looked at her and said, this pitch is so
- 16:57Speaker 2: smart that the.
- 17:00Speaker 1: Housewives the producers read the said resiness historian.
- 17:08Speaker 2: You're you're you're super smart history. It's not how it happened.
- 17:14Speaker 2: We're revising history. It's okay, it's okay smart.
- 17:20Speaker 3: That's a damn you are.
- 17:24Speaker 2: You would not be thriving, honey, Come on now. Yes,
- 17:29Speaker 2: I love humility though, that's it's cute.
- 17:32Speaker 3: It's cute jinks again. No, I think because of everything
- 17:43Speaker 3: that happened, you know, I think people make a choice.
- 17:47Speaker 3: If they can't, it's fight or flight, and I think
- 17:50Speaker 3: that I just had from Doris Grant. She instilled in
- 17:56Speaker 3: me to fight, and that is why I'm a fighter
- 18:00Speaker 3: by nature.
- 18:01Speaker 2: I'm a lover. I want everyone to get along. I
- 18:04Speaker 2: love to laugh. I'm a happy person.
- 18:07Speaker 3: But bitch, when you come for me, now you're challenging me,
- 18:10Speaker 3: and now I have to fight, and I will give
- 18:12Speaker 3: you everything that I have. And sometimes that is perceived
- 18:16Speaker 3: as evil or because my rebuttals are always so lethal
- 18:21Speaker 3: that they forget about what the other person did to me.
- 18:24Speaker 3: But when you forgot this person literally just try to
- 18:26Speaker 3: spit on me, or this person just trying to kill me,
- 18:29Speaker 3: or this person just said the most horrible things to me,
- 18:32Speaker 3: all you can see is the strategic or the way
- 18:38Speaker 3: that I respond. And it's not fair because they just
- 18:42Speaker 3: forget about what people have done to me, and it's
- 18:44Speaker 3: not nice.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Do you think a lot of that has to do
- 18:47Speaker 1: with colorism? You are a chocolate yeah, black woman.
- 18:53Speaker 3: I know that's come up a lot as of late,
- 18:56Speaker 3: and I definitely see that there is a choice being made.
- 19:02Speaker 2: And how to respond to people that look like me.
- 19:05Speaker 2: You Candace Dela Bassett, Yes, chocolate, chocolate, Yeah, yeah, undeniably chocolate.
- 19:11Speaker 2: Candace A.
- 19:11Speaker 1: Wordsmith smart, a pageant girl, yes, read the Girls for films. Yes,
- 19:17Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they want her out.
- 19:19Speaker 2: Yeah. You you also, they can't take us. They can't
- 19:22Speaker 2: take us.
- 19:23Speaker 3: Yeah, it's unfortunate, but I have seen a lot of
- 19:27Speaker 3: that on these shows I have. It's it's not a lie,
- 19:30Speaker 3: it's not made of it's not a perception.
- 19:33Speaker 2: It is a reality.
- 19:35Speaker 1: Speaking of reality, you went from Miss Usa. Yeah, the
- 19:39Speaker 1: second black woman in the history. You are in the
- 19:42Speaker 1: history books. You have acted everything from Waiting to Excel
- 19:46Speaker 1: to Martin the Jamie Fox Show. You created movies with
- 19:51Speaker 1: Will Packard, Twah Honey.
- 19:54Speaker 2: More Vision Media produced it. Yes, you are. By the
- 19:59Speaker 2: time You're More. I was your More at the time.
- 20:01Speaker 1: Okay, before we get to your reality trajectory, when you
- 20:11Speaker 1: were a self made producer, what was your vision for
- 20:15Speaker 1: your life? Did you think, like, okay, before those are
- 20:18Speaker 1: Shonda Rhimes, Isa Ray, Ava Dumanet, Kenya Moore picked up
- 20:23Speaker 1: a camera a call sheet.
- 20:25Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Lena, I learned the business
- 20:29Speaker 3: from the other side of the camera because I'm a creative,
- 20:32Speaker 3: like you know what I mean. Yes, I'm in front
- 20:34Speaker 3: of the camera, but my love is creating I was
- 20:37Speaker 3: in cast tech.
- 20:38Speaker 2: I was a performing arts major.
- 20:40Speaker 3: I loved anything having to do with radio or performing,
- 20:43Speaker 3: any dance, cheerleading. I was a part of all of
- 20:47Speaker 3: that and it was a love of mine. So I'm
- 20:49Speaker 3: kind of split down the middle. I love psychology, I
- 20:52Speaker 3: love to think, I love being analytical, but I also
- 20:56Speaker 3: loved creating and for me, creating content, movies, videos, whatever
- 21:04Speaker 3: I wanted to do. It was a creative outlet for me.
- 21:07Speaker 3: So it's still a passion. It's a creative passion. So
- 21:11Speaker 3: I wanted to I was frustrated in things that were
- 21:13Speaker 3: going on, and I said, you know what, I can
- 21:16Speaker 3: do this, I can create my own content. Let me
- 21:18Speaker 3: learn from the best. So I started. I think my
- 21:22Speaker 3: first credit producing was on TOA and that was alongside
- 21:28Speaker 3: Will Packer. You know where his career is now, and
- 21:30Speaker 3: please ask Will Packer why he's not hired me again?
- 21:33Speaker 1: Oh Will Packer, you know I love you know I
- 21:36Speaker 1: love you and Heather Packer, thank.
- 21:37Speaker 2: You for being up behind every man.
- 21:39Speaker 1: So we follow each other on Instagram and we.
- 21:41Speaker 2: Have a love for each other.
- 21:42Speaker 1: Brother, I need to know why you ain't hiring Kenya
- 21:46Speaker 1: Icon Summer Legend more may have.
- 21:49Speaker 3: Been responsible for putting him on the map. Did I
- 21:52Speaker 3: say that out loud? Did I say that out loud?
- 21:56Speaker 2: Did I say that allegedly?
- 22:02Speaker 1: Yes? Pick up your allegedly T shirts or Carlins kingshop
- 22:06Speaker 1: dot com.
- 22:08Speaker 2: So we'll Packer, we need you to.
- 22:09Speaker 1: Let's have a meeting because this is you. Guys don't
- 22:13Speaker 1: know this. Me and Kenya talk, if not once a week,
- 22:16Speaker 1: every other week, even when she's filming.
- 22:19Speaker 2: So one of the things that I've always.
- 22:21Speaker 1: Asked Kenya, I'm like, because she's my girl, I'm like, Yo,
- 22:26Speaker 1: can we produce a reboot a twah? What are we doing?
- 22:31Speaker 1: I said, I can call Bill Packer. I want a
- 22:34Speaker 1: reboot of that movie? So, Kenya, why can't we do it?
- 22:37Speaker 1: Can we do it?
- 22:40Speaker 2: Well, we can do it. Do we want to use
- 22:43Speaker 2: twa in the title?
- 22:44Speaker 3: I mean, they owe that, But if we did it
- 22:46Speaker 3: on our own and did a iteration of it.
- 22:49Speaker 2: And I think we will be safe. Can I tell
- 22:52Speaker 2: you my dream? No? No, my dream for you? I
- 22:56Speaker 2: never said this to you. Oh okay, tell me.
- 22:59Speaker 1: I want you and I yes to create a show, yes,
- 23:03Speaker 1: a drama like Melrose Place, Oh yes.
- 23:07Speaker 2: And I want you.
- 23:09Speaker 1: To play the character like Heather Amanda, I want you
- 23:12Speaker 1: to be like a man.
- 23:14Speaker 2: Yes, I would love to do that.
- 23:15Speaker 1: You are you would kill a dramatic role as a sexy,
- 23:20Speaker 1: hot villain.
- 23:21Speaker 2: Yes, I love it, a black Melrose place. Let's do it.
- 23:23Speaker 2: I can write it, yes, and I can.
- 23:25Speaker 1: Produce it, and we can both be the creators and
- 23:28Speaker 1: I can finance this.
- 23:32Speaker 2: We'll talk later, you know. Tonight I'm gonna start writing it.
- 23:34Speaker 2: I am doing okay, yes, and we're going to copyright it.
- 23:37Speaker 1: So and I are going to co create a scripted
- 23:41Speaker 1: drama and the likes of a Merrose play, write the
- 23:43Speaker 1: pilot and you're You're okay, But you have to start
- 23:46Speaker 1: as like the sexy villain, like the heathern lock Layer.
- 23:49Speaker 2: Yes, and I've always called you the black head.
- 23:52Speaker 3: Lock And in that meeting at where were we mastros, yes,
- 23:58Speaker 3: you said that.
- 23:59Speaker 2: I remember. That's how good my memory is now. I
- 24:02Speaker 2: don't mit. That's the thing. I don't lit im mad.
- 24:04Speaker 3: You can't be the heather Locklier of reality TV.
- 24:07Speaker 2: You could be a one hit wonder and go away
- 24:09Speaker 2: like you can't.
- 24:10Speaker 1: Do yeah, no, no, remember, but you are the heather
- 24:12Speaker 1: lock Layer of reality TV. Meaning heather lock Layer would
- 24:16Speaker 1: come on a show that needed some life and resurrect
- 24:20Speaker 1: it and say that. And you did that to the
- 24:23Speaker 1: Real Housewives of Atlanta.
- 24:24Speaker 2: Yes, well, thank you you.
- 24:26Speaker 1: And the reason why I've said this to you privately
- 24:30Speaker 1: I shared that publicly recently is because when I worked
- 24:34Speaker 1: on season four of the show, I felt like something's missing,
- 24:40Speaker 1: something's off. I didn't understand what it was. I was
- 24:42Speaker 1: still a young producer. I felt something was off. I
- 24:46Speaker 1: left the show after season four. You came on season five.
- 24:50Speaker 1: I did not do season five. However, I was contacted
- 24:55Speaker 1: weekly by the producers and people in Atlanta. This is
- 25:00Speaker 1: a true story, and she knows this. And they all said,
- 25:07Speaker 1: you don't know what you're missing. And I said, what
- 25:09Speaker 1: do you mean this? Kenya Moore is twirling her ass
- 25:15Speaker 1: all over the screen and she is causing a ruckus over.
- 25:19Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, what are you talking about? They said, Carlos,
- 25:23Speaker 1: We've never seen anything like it. It's like a tsunami,
- 25:25Speaker 1: Like she's going crazy. I want to talk to you
- 25:29Speaker 1: about this before we get to your introduction to that show. Yes,
- 25:34Speaker 1: here you are in Hollywood producing acting. I know the
- 25:38Speaker 1: story could be talked privately, but I love this story.
- 25:42Speaker 2: So much, and you never shared the publicly your.
- 25:44Speaker 1: Decision into going into reality And if I may, the
- 25:51Speaker 1: one thing you said to me and I never share
- 25:53Speaker 1: this to you, it made me. It made me leave Housewives,
- 25:58Speaker 1: meaning it was part of my reasons of.
- 26:00Speaker 2: I know what you're gonna say.
- 26:01Speaker 1: You said, Carlos, it was like groundhog Day. I was
- 26:06Speaker 1: doing the same thing over and over and over, pilot season.
- 26:10Speaker 1: I'm in la I'm trying to finance this, produce that.
- 26:13Speaker 1: And you said I just needed something different. I needed
- 26:17Speaker 1: something different, And you drove to Atlanta and decided to
- 26:26Speaker 1: embark on reality television. Talk to the world about where
- 26:31Speaker 1: you were at that time of your life.
- 26:34Speaker 3: You know, I just felt like it was stagnant. My
- 26:37Speaker 3: life was stagnant. I was in my thirties, had multiple
- 26:42Speaker 3: back to back long term relationships. Of course mini proposals,
- 26:50Speaker 3: so now I had relationships like three years, four years,
- 26:55Speaker 3: almost got married. In one of those relationships celebrity men.
- 26:59Speaker 3: He was I would say he was a celebrity one.
- 27:02Speaker 3: The other one was an agent, non celebrity. And I
- 27:07Speaker 3: just became like a person who stayed at home so much.
- 27:13Speaker 3: I would work, work, work, kept my head down, booked,
- 27:16Speaker 3: a job here and there, kept the light built, you know,
- 27:19Speaker 3: paid and on my own home at twenty six years old,
- 27:23Speaker 3: had my own home in California. I just I just
- 27:29Speaker 3: felt like I was like you said Groundhog's Day, I'm
- 27:32Speaker 3: doing the same thing.
- 27:33Speaker 2: My life is not changing.
- 27:35Speaker 3: Yes, it's okay, it's a decent life, but it's not changing.
- 27:39Speaker 2: And I wanted something different.
- 27:41Speaker 3: And there's a Bible saying leap and there will be
- 27:46Speaker 3: a net, yes, And that is how I felt. I
- 27:48Speaker 3: felt like I have family there. My aunt was there,
- 27:52Speaker 3: my cousin who I was very close to, and my
- 27:56Speaker 3: other cousin was there, and I had one of my
- 27:58Speaker 3: best friends was there from right and I said, you
- 28:01Speaker 3: know what I'm going to I'm going to take this
- 28:06Speaker 3: leap and wherever I fall is where I fall. And
- 28:09Speaker 3: as soon as the work got out that I was
- 28:12Speaker 3: moving to Atlanta, I was very good. Judy at my
- 28:16Speaker 3: Lawrence Laurence told the producers.
- 28:19Speaker 2: And then one of them was Joy.
- 28:23Speaker 3: And then the rest is history from there. And I
- 28:27Speaker 3: remember having a conversation with Joy and she was like,
- 28:29Speaker 3: this girl is either crazy or I was just talking
- 28:33Speaker 3: to her like yeah, because I'm you know, I was
- 28:36Speaker 3: just like very myself, like I didn't know what I
- 28:42Speaker 3: was doing. I did not know about reality TV. I
- 28:44Speaker 3: had only seen a few episodes of the show.
- 28:48Speaker 2: It was early on.
- 28:49Speaker 3: It was like and I remember when Lawrence told me
- 28:51Speaker 3: that they were even developing the show. I was like, Oh,
- 28:53Speaker 3: that's not gonna work. I remember telling him that because
- 28:56Speaker 3: I don't know why. I just felt like he told
- 28:58Speaker 3: me who the cast. He was like, oh, they think
- 28:59Speaker 3: about doing in the show, and da da da, And
- 29:01Speaker 3: I was like, oh, that's not gonna work. And I
- 29:03Speaker 3: just I remember telling him that before the show ever aired.
- 29:08Speaker 2: I didn't know. Yes, yes, So fast forward to the
- 29:13Speaker 2: show was airing. It did.
- 29:16Speaker 3: It was funny, you know. I saw a few episodes.
- 29:19Speaker 3: I remember not liking a.
- 29:21Speaker 2: Few of the characters.
- 29:22Speaker 3: Oh well, I did not like men. I did not
- 29:27Speaker 3: like Meani. I don't know why. I did not like her.
- 29:30Speaker 2: She was loud, she was brash.
- 29:32Speaker 3: I was just like, yeah, you know, but yeah, and
- 29:37Speaker 3: I changed, you know, after I got on the show
- 29:40Speaker 3: and we we you know, my first season on the show,
- 29:42Speaker 3: I had Thanksgiving at her house.
- 29:45Speaker 2: Like I remember that.
- 29:46Speaker 3: Yeah, So it changed, Yeah, because you got to you
- 29:49Speaker 3: have to get to know people versus what.
- 29:50Speaker 2: You see on TV.
- 29:51Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's that's the whole reason why I appreciated
- 29:54Speaker 1: the top of our conversation because it's allowing people to
- 29:57Speaker 1: see the real you because they only see a chop
- 30:00Speaker 1: down version of.
- 30:00Speaker 3: It and what the editors choose.
- 30:02Speaker 2: To show.
- 30:06Speaker 1: Allegedly as we're seeing this season allegedly hey flashbacks. So anyways, Okay,
- 30:19Speaker 1: when you were starting out not auditioning, so I want
- 30:24Speaker 1: to explain to people how it works. It worked back
- 30:27Speaker 1: then then because anybody could get No Housewives is no longer.
- 30:32Speaker 1: At one point in time, the Real Housewives of Atlanta
- 30:35Speaker 1: was a so Whole House membership.
- 30:37Speaker 2: Yes, it was it. You better say that again.
- 30:40Speaker 3: Some people don't know who SOHO housees, so maybe explain.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Okay, so SOHO House is a all.
- 30:50Speaker 2: It is an exclusive club.
- 30:52Speaker 1: It's a top tier restaurant, lounge, celebrity grim and there's
- 31:00Speaker 1: one of us Hollywood, Miami.
- 31:02Speaker 2: Now before it was just LA.
- 31:04Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just LA, but now they have LA
- 31:06Speaker 1: New York, Miami, London, London and all of the world now.
- 31:12Speaker 1: But you got to pay like five thousand dollars a
- 31:15Speaker 1: year to be a part of the membership.
- 31:17Speaker 2: And be referred. You all pay your money and get in.
- 31:21Speaker 2: You have to be referred.
- 31:22Speaker 1: You have to be referred by two referrals. Yes that
- 31:26Speaker 1: are already they're already members, so they don't let anybody in.
- 31:30Speaker 2: No, they do not. You got to be and you
- 31:31Speaker 2: have to submit a hit shot. Yes you do. I remember,
- 31:41Speaker 2: I am a member. Catch me if you can.
- 31:47Speaker 1: At one point in time, The Real Housewives of Atlanta
- 31:49Speaker 1: was like a house membership. Now it's like a playground
- 31:54Speaker 1: to where it's free to the public and you don't
- 31:57Speaker 1: have to do anything to get in but arrive.
- 31:59Speaker 2: With your huler and.
- 32:03Speaker 1: Your rehearse reads and being prepped and having a battery
- 32:07Speaker 1: in your back with double A batteries and a charging station.
- 32:11Speaker 1: That was meant for Tesla, but it's really for these
- 32:14Speaker 1: new girls to wind them up like a rag doll.
- 32:17Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, I forgot my a lot of questionings.
- 32:21Speaker 1: I went from another stratosphere. AnyWho, I'm back there at
- 32:26Speaker 1: the time when it was a privileged to be on
- 32:28Speaker 1: the show, when it was the show to be on
- 32:30Speaker 1: the show, to be on the men and girls audition,
- 32:34Speaker 1: men and girls were told bye bye.
- 32:36Speaker 3: Yes who.
- 32:39Speaker 2: I hate to interrupt, but stay tuned for more.
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- 34:28Speaker 1: the King, and I'm Carlos King. Let's get back into
- 34:31Speaker 1: the show. You filmed for over a month, oh over
- 34:37Speaker 1: a month, yeah, without being an official housewife.
- 34:41Speaker 3: Right and without pay. They didn't pay you, they didn't
- 34:45Speaker 3: pay me. That was the reason, you know. Eventually I
- 34:48Speaker 3: was like, I'm out of here. If you don't know
- 34:49Speaker 3: it by now, you're never gonna know it. And so
- 34:51Speaker 3: I'm gone. So thank you, thank you very much. I
- 34:53Speaker 3: know how to walk away. That's the one thing about me.
- 34:56Speaker 3: I don't do things just for money.
- 34:58Speaker 2: You know that. The history of me being on this show.
- 35:00Speaker 3: Tells you that if I'm not happy, if I don't
- 35:03Speaker 3: like the way things are going, I'll just say it's
- 35:05Speaker 3: not working it out.
- 35:06Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for your time. Yeah. So yes.
- 35:10Speaker 3: Back then, anyone who was auditioning or wanting to be
- 35:15Speaker 3: a part of the cast went through this rigorous filming.
- 35:18Speaker 3: They would film you alone, they would film you with
- 35:21Speaker 3: your man, they would film you with your children, they
- 35:23Speaker 3: would film you out and about and maybe, if you
- 35:26Speaker 3: kept making the cut, you would film with a housewife,
- 35:30Speaker 3: or if you if you didn't know a housewife already,
- 35:33Speaker 3: I knew Lawrence, so I would film with Lawrence.
- 35:36Speaker 2: That was my you know, Andrea or what not.
- 35:39Speaker 1: Andrea, he was your he was your introduction into the
- 35:42Speaker 1: He was my introduction.
- 35:44Speaker 3: Yes, so Lawrence was my introduction to the cast. And
- 35:48Speaker 3: so from there, you know, in a scene, he might say,
- 35:51Speaker 3: you know, if it's going well, oh, you know Phaedris
- 35:53Speaker 3: having a get together tomorrow, do you want to come? Oh? Well,
- 35:56Speaker 3: I don't know who Phaedre is, you know, in real life.
- 35:59Speaker 3: So I'm like, well, sure, I don't know what to expect.
- 36:01Speaker 3: I don't know these people, you know. So that's how
- 36:03Speaker 3: it worked. And the great thing about that casting process
- 36:08Speaker 3: is that you had to earn your right to be
- 36:13Speaker 3: a housewife of Atlanta. You had to earn it. It
- 36:17Speaker 3: wasn't like, oh this girl looks good. Oh she looks
- 36:19Speaker 3: good on paper, let's make her housewife. Girls are getting
- 36:22Speaker 3: their contracts before they even meet us, and so then
- 36:26Speaker 3: it blows up when they do meet us and they
- 36:29Speaker 3: can't keep up and they're not a good fit. We've
- 36:32Speaker 3: seen it season after season. It doesn't work. You need
- 36:37Speaker 3: to be tried and tested, that is it. You need
- 36:41Speaker 3: to have all these girls our can't do you remember
- 36:44Speaker 3: the Nini had an event, the success even whatever, and
- 36:49Speaker 3: all the potential housewives are there. I mean, you had
- 36:52Speaker 3: Jerry Stackhouse's wife, you had all these you know, prominent
- 36:56Speaker 3: beautiful women of Atlanta.
- 36:58Speaker 2: I mean they were not only beautiful, but they were were.
- 37:01Speaker 3: Rich and you know, they were successful, they had husbands.
- 37:04Speaker 3: They were the quintessential what you would think is a
- 37:07Speaker 3: housewife of.
- 37:08Speaker 2: Atlanta and the christ.
- 37:10Speaker 1: And for my audience, this is season five, it's become
- 37:14Speaker 1: a meme. Is when Niinie walks out like this, it's
- 37:20Speaker 1: a meme.
- 37:21Speaker 2: Now, it's a mean now and keing here.
- 37:22Speaker 1: Moore takes a microphone and said, okay, now that we're
- 37:25Speaker 1: doumble the clown show.
- 37:27Speaker 2: So so for my audience is that scene that.
- 37:31Speaker 3: Was a reference because I was like, I was amongst
- 37:33Speaker 3: a bunch of clowns like they.
- 37:35Speaker 2: Were, and I'm not I'm not calling.
- 37:38Speaker 3: The girls at now. For me, it was like, why
- 37:41Speaker 3: am I here? I'm freaking miss Usa? Why am I
- 37:45Speaker 3: being auditioned? I don't audition Honey's offer only, I don't.
- 37:53Speaker 2: Am I being an audition Really? I was so infected.
- 38:03Speaker 1: I at that scene, you still did not have the
- 38:08Speaker 1: I did not have a contract.
- 38:10Speaker 3: I did not have a contract. And I remember that's
- 38:13Speaker 3: also the time where Cynthia and I got into it
- 38:16Speaker 3: because I was like, Cynthia, I didn't understand.
- 38:19Speaker 2: I didn't watch the show.
- 38:20Speaker 3: So when I saw the way Cynthia was just so
- 38:23Speaker 3: protective of her friendship with Ninny, I was like, this
- 38:26Speaker 3: is weird, you know, this is this is very weird,
- 38:29Speaker 3: you know, And so I didn't have a point of
- 38:31Speaker 3: reference like that. I think the problem is the girls
- 38:33Speaker 3: that are being cast now they're fans, and that's a
- 38:36Speaker 3: big problem because I wasn't a fan. I was a
- 38:39Speaker 3: fan of Lawrence, Miss Lawrence. I was a fan of Atlanta.
- 38:44Speaker 3: But I didn't know these girls. I didn't watch them religiously.
- 38:47Speaker 3: I didn't get in front of my TV and was like, yeah,
- 38:50Speaker 3: you girl, you bet a twirl.
- 38:51Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't do that.
- 38:53Speaker 3: So my interaction with them was was genuine and it
- 38:56Speaker 3: was authentic, and whatever I saw I called out because
- 39:00Speaker 3: that's just my personality. I was like, okay, I wasn't
- 39:03Speaker 3: gonna sit there like a wallflower. I was like, well,
- 39:05Speaker 3: I don't understand you. Why is this girl that just
- 39:07Speaker 3: so beautiful, like holding on you know, like dear life
- 39:12Speaker 3: to Nini and I just didn't understand it, and so
- 39:15Speaker 3: we talked.
- 39:16Speaker 2: About it on camera, you know, you being filmed.
- 39:19Speaker 3: So that's what ended up having Like that's how those
- 39:24Speaker 3: relationships were born, you know.
- 39:27Speaker 1: And what was born was a star in terms of
- 39:31Speaker 1: this woman is meant to be in reality television. And
- 39:34Speaker 1: then another star was born by the names of Portia
- 39:38Speaker 1: Stewart at the time Stuart and what I.
- 39:42Speaker 2: Heard and I want to I never asked you this.
- 39:44Speaker 2: I was told.
- 39:47Speaker 1: When you guys were filming season five. The current Peach
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- 40:44Speaker 3: They went on striking against Kim. They did not like
- 40:48Speaker 3: that Kim. Now, remember Portia wasn't cast. I was cast, right,
- 40:53Speaker 3: They weren't looking for anybody else. They the casting was closed. What, Yes,
- 40:57Speaker 3: I didn't know this. Yes, the casting was closed when Kim.
- 41:02Speaker 3: When they because I remember sitting at the lunch and
- 41:04Speaker 3: I believe this lunch was televised.
- 41:07Speaker 2: It was yeah and the camera. Yes, No, she wasn't there.
- 41:12Speaker 3: They cast Porsche after Kim walked off, because then it
- 41:15Speaker 3: was like they didn't know what was going to be
- 41:16Speaker 3: happening with Kim, and so Portia was the replacement housewife.
- 41:20Speaker 2: Not no shade to Porsche. No, no, I'm just saying,
- 41:23Speaker 2: how was that?
- 41:23Speaker 3: But yet no, yes, because they remember the number of
- 41:26Speaker 3: housewives they had.
- 41:28Speaker 2: I think at the time it was six. Six.
- 41:30Speaker 3: They didn't need seven. They never have been seven of Atlanta,
- 41:33Speaker 3: not not from my memory, it's never been seven. Even
- 41:36Speaker 3: to this day, I don't think they've ever had seven.
- 41:38Speaker 3: So when she walked off, that opened up the casting
- 41:42Speaker 3: again and said, okay, we have this other girl, let's
- 41:44Speaker 3: look some more. And then Porsche came and I don't
- 41:46Speaker 3: know who else, but yeah, that's that's how that happened.
- 41:49Speaker 2: So the Housewives went on strike.
- 41:51Speaker 3: Yeah, they banned they which was a great thing because
- 41:54Speaker 3: they came together, which I admired. They did not like
- 41:57Speaker 3: the way that Kim was receiving preferental treatment, and they
- 42:02Speaker 3: band together and it was like, we're not gonna work
- 42:04Speaker 3: this week. So they were like, Okay, well what are
- 42:07Speaker 3: we gonna do. Production is down for a week. Let's
- 42:10Speaker 3: get this other girl audition her because now we don't
- 42:13Speaker 3: know what's happening. Kim's walked off. Let's look at what
- 42:18Speaker 3: else we can film. And so that's when they called
- 42:20Speaker 3: me to come in to go to Porsche's event. And
- 42:25Speaker 3: Porsche was very interesting and actually we had before the event,
- 42:32Speaker 3: we had a lunch. We had a lunch together. I
- 42:35Speaker 3: remember that we had a lunch and she was really sweet,
- 42:38Speaker 3: and you know me, I'm always sizing people up, so
- 42:42Speaker 3: I'm like listening to her little things she would say,
- 42:44Speaker 3: and I was like, okay, okay, okay. We had it
- 42:47Speaker 3: was a fine lunch, Like it was nothing wrong with
- 42:49Speaker 3: the lunch. Then when I get to the event and
- 42:53Speaker 3: it was just little things that I was seeing, Like
- 42:56Speaker 3: it was an event for charity for her grandfather. So
- 43:00Speaker 3: she received a Chanel bag, you know, in front of
- 43:04Speaker 3: all these people, and I was like why, Like it
- 43:09Speaker 3: was just my natural thought, like is it like is
- 43:12Speaker 3: this the right time to like give your wife a
- 43:14Speaker 3: chanelle back? Like it was just very odd to me.
- 43:17Speaker 3: So it was just little things I would see. But
- 43:21Speaker 3: if people think it was they have a different take. Again,
- 43:25Speaker 3: they always look at my response, but they don't look
- 43:27Speaker 3: at what was done to me.
- 43:29Speaker 2: So the thing with.
- 43:29Speaker 3: Portia is Okay, yeah, sure, she screwed up my title.
- 43:34Speaker 3: Plenty of people do it. I think there's this you know,
- 43:36Speaker 3: a lot of people think they're one of the same.
- 43:38Speaker 3: They're both prestigious titles, Miss America, miss USA, They're the same.
- 43:42Speaker 3: It was her reaction, like it was like ah haha,
- 43:44Speaker 3: you know, like whatever, girl, you know whatever, Like, no,
- 43:47Speaker 3: it's not whatever, it's miss USA. Like I'm telling you
- 43:50Speaker 3: that you got it wrong. Don't go oh whatever, ha
- 43:52Speaker 3: ha ha ha. No, say I'm so sorry for that,
- 43:55Speaker 3: you know, it don't embarrass me. So it was that
- 43:58Speaker 3: I remember going out getting some air. So this is
- 44:02Speaker 3: when I think they kind of took her aside. Like
- 44:06Speaker 3: she came out, she was polite at first, she came back,
- 44:08Speaker 3: and then that's when the insults started to fly, like
- 44:11Speaker 3: she was like, you know you're leaving when you could
- 44:13Speaker 3: just go you can just go.
- 44:14Speaker 2: To the curb. I remember this almost like you can
- 44:17Speaker 2: go to the.
- 44:18Speaker 3: Curb where you belong or something. And I was like, well,
- 44:20Speaker 3: now it's termed. See I didn't insult you. I walked away.
- 44:24Speaker 3: I did not say anything to you. I did not
- 44:26Speaker 3: insult you. My one of my triggers is when people
- 44:30Speaker 3: insult me, and especially when it's uncalled for. I don't
- 44:33Speaker 3: think people know that about me. I don't like to
- 44:36Speaker 3: be insulted because I'm gonna play nice with you, but
- 44:38Speaker 3: I'm not going to hit you first. When you hit
- 44:41Speaker 3: me is when I have to return with something much strong.
- 44:45Speaker 2: So and I didn't think people know that. They know
- 44:48Speaker 2: that now, Yes, she hit me.
- 44:49Speaker 3: With these insults like wait, wait, wait, I'm on a curb,
- 44:52Speaker 3: like wait, why do you.
- 44:53Speaker 2: Have to insult me? Girl?
- 44:54Speaker 3: You just insulted me there. I didn't say anything to you.
- 44:56Speaker 3: Now we are out on the curb and now you're
- 44:59Speaker 3: you know, you're you're just like all of a sudden,
- 45:02Speaker 3: you're a different person and you're like doing the most.
- 45:05Speaker 3: So that's how that started. People didn't see it that way.
- 45:09Speaker 3: They looked at this young cute girl.
- 45:11Speaker 2: Oh so a loof.
- 45:13Speaker 3: It's okay, she's not that now, but she was then.
- 45:17Speaker 3: And I was like, you gotta be kidding me, because
- 45:19Speaker 3: one thing I admire most about people is intelligence. I
- 45:22Speaker 3: think people know that. You know, I like a smart
- 45:23Speaker 3: pretty girl. You know I live for you know I
- 45:26Speaker 3: live for a smart pretty girl.
- 45:29Speaker 2: You know I keep you a smart pretty girl. So
- 45:31Speaker 2: you know. So I'm like, no, I'm not.
- 45:34Speaker 3: I'm not jealous. I'm not because I keep a dollar
- 45:36Speaker 3: worth of dines around.
- 45:37Speaker 2: You know that. You know that.
- 45:42Speaker 3: So please don't come over here talking about some beauty
- 45:45Speaker 3: because I have seen beauty in my life. You know,
- 45:52Speaker 3: Tracy ed mss Tyra was my best friend. It's one
- 45:55Speaker 3: of my best friends even to this day. So please
- 45:57Speaker 3: don't act like I'm jealous of this.
- 45:59Speaker 2: You know I'm not. Let's just be clear.
- 46:01Speaker 3: I can appreciate beauty at its finest. So yeah, so
- 46:06Speaker 3: that South, that South all that started we were born
- 46:10Speaker 3: because they went on strike.
- 46:12Speaker 1: That is so amazing to me because it also showed
- 46:15Speaker 1: that me as a vor watching season five, so I
- 46:21Speaker 1: produced the first four seasons I left, I'm watching it
- 46:24Speaker 1: at home and I'm fascinated by the two of the dynamics.
- 46:29Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by the dynamic.
- 46:31Speaker 3: And it was the first time like I wasn't a
- 46:33Speaker 3: house don't. I wasn't a housewife. I wasn't a housewife.
- 46:37Speaker 3: Then it was two non housewives shooting a scene at
- 46:40Speaker 3: the time, which is unheard of, unheard of. They didn't
- 46:44Speaker 3: have a choice, they had nothing. They were going to
- 46:46Speaker 3: waste the whole production week or they were gonna shoot something.
- 46:49Speaker 2: When were you officially made a housewife?
- 46:52Speaker 3: I think it whoa. I think it was after it
- 47:01Speaker 3: was after the means event. It was after means no,
- 47:08Speaker 3: after the success a success event, because I remember I
- 47:13Speaker 3: was done, Yeah I was. I remember saying I was done.
- 47:16Speaker 3: I was like, if you don't know it now, I'm
- 47:17Speaker 3: not going to be working for free.
- 47:19Speaker 2: I've shown you enough.
- 47:21Speaker 3: If you don't think that I'm that girl, then someone
- 47:23Speaker 3: else will. Thanks, but no hard feelings. And then they
- 47:27Speaker 3: begged me just one more scene, just one more scene.
- 47:29Speaker 3: And I remember saying, if I shoot this scene and
- 47:33Speaker 3: you don't make me a housewife, you cannot use me
- 47:35Speaker 3: for anything else. You cannot go you cannot use any
- 47:38Speaker 3: of my footage and they agreed to it, and they
- 47:40Speaker 3: made me a housewife after.
- 47:43Speaker 2: You earned it.
- 47:44Speaker 3: Yeah, I told him. I was like, if you don't,
- 47:47Speaker 3: then you can't use me at all.
- 47:49Speaker 1: What people don't realize is this when season five aired,
- 47:54Speaker 1: obviously you're seeing what other people are saying about you,
- 47:57Speaker 1: and there first time, yes, being accused of being an alcoholic.
- 48:02Speaker 3: Oh my god, someone who's never been drunk a day
- 48:05Speaker 3: in their life. God on a hand on a bible.
- 48:08Speaker 3: I have never been drunk a day in my life.
- 48:09Speaker 3: I've been I have been tipsy, I've been feeling good
- 48:13Speaker 3: from alcohol. I have never ever in my life drunk
- 48:16Speaker 3: this day. I've never been drunk a day in my life.
- 48:21Speaker 3: And you have people accusing me, and you know that's
- 48:24Speaker 3: the trigger because guess what who accused me of that?
- 48:26Speaker 3: And I had never even tasted alcohol before My mother
- 48:30Speaker 3: Sorry I told you earlier. She told those people that
- 48:33Speaker 3: I was an alcoholic. I don't even like liquor like that.
- 48:37Speaker 3: You know what I mean, anybody who's ever gone out
- 48:39Speaker 3: with me, If.
- 48:40Speaker 2: I get two drinks, that's rare.
- 48:42Speaker 1: Yeah, that is rare. In your life, You're not to
- 48:46Speaker 1: get a little tipsy. But when you and your tips and
- 48:49Speaker 1: is fun and it's.
- 48:50Speaker 2: We a fun girl when I drink. But I've never
- 48:55Speaker 2: been drunk, so that hurts you.
- 48:56Speaker 1: It hurts wh was calling you an alcoholic? It reminded
- 49:00Speaker 1: you of your mother?
- 49:01Speaker 2: And what else did she say?
- 49:03Speaker 3: I confided in her about my mom, about my mom,
- 49:05Speaker 3: thinking that she had a mental illness because of the
- 49:08Speaker 3: way that she treated me. And Phaedra used that when
- 49:12Speaker 3: we fell out. She used the two things that were
- 49:15Speaker 3: my ultimate triggers, saying that I had some kind of
- 49:18Speaker 3: illness because of my mom and saying that I had
- 49:21Speaker 3: and I was an alcoholic. And that all leads back
- 49:25Speaker 3: to my mother in her treatment of me and the
- 49:28Speaker 3: things that she did to try to destroy me. And
- 49:30Speaker 3: that is why I have the opinion that I have
- 49:32Speaker 3: a phator now, amongst other things.
- 49:35Speaker 2: Look into that. Yeah.
- 49:37Speaker 1: Second, Yeah, you were not in a good space when
- 49:42Speaker 1: season five was airing. No, is it true that you
- 49:49Speaker 1: had to speak to a therapist. I did when season
- 49:55Speaker 1: five was airing.
- 49:56Speaker 3: When it was airing, and I saw all of the
- 49:59Speaker 3: things that were a stretch that they were making, it
- 50:03Speaker 3: seem like I was the one thing that crushed my soul.
- 50:08Speaker 3: Is when I was watching the Cynthia Bailey Fashion Show
- 50:13Speaker 3: and there that was fine when they tried to when
- 50:19Speaker 3: it appeared let me, let me, let me be diplomatic.
- 50:22Speaker 2: When it appeared that I was.
- 50:25Speaker 3: Being mean or saying unflattering things about another black young
- 50:31Speaker 3: girl that destroyed me. That is not who I am.
- 50:36Speaker 3: That is not who I will ever be. I have
- 50:39Speaker 3: the weakest like I am. I am a fool for
- 50:42Speaker 3: a young black girl in need. I have always. I
- 50:45Speaker 3: have so many people that I mentor. I literally take
- 50:49Speaker 3: on so many women and cases and just girls who
- 50:56Speaker 3: remind me of myself and who remind me of that
- 50:59Speaker 3: little black girl from the ghetto, just just dealing with
- 51:03Speaker 3: life and dealing with not having a family and not
- 51:07Speaker 3: and wanting a relationship with my mother and just trying
- 51:10Speaker 3: to just get home at night without being robbed or
- 51:13Speaker 3: raped or killed, and just wanting something more for your life.
- 51:17Speaker 3: And when I saw that, when I tell you I
- 51:21Speaker 3: I didn't answer my phone for a week.
- 51:24Speaker 1: I can't confirm that because our friend Joy again I
- 51:28Speaker 1: didn't work season five.
- 51:29Speaker 2: Yeah, I was told she had to had a mental breakdown.
- 51:34Speaker 1: Joy had to drive to your home yep and sit
- 51:37Speaker 1: with you for hours yep, and said I'm just here
- 51:41Speaker 1: to talk to you.
- 51:42Speaker 2: Yep. Like that's how severe it was for.
- 51:45Speaker 1: You, because here you are entering into the space of
- 51:49Speaker 1: reality and like, okay.
- 51:51Speaker 2: I can but tell the story of the way.
- 51:53Speaker 1: Yeah, and that really made you second guests come back
- 52:00Speaker 1: to the show.
- 52:01Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, it was like, if this can happen, you know,
- 52:05Speaker 3: the fun, the fun stuff, I can deal with that
- 52:08Speaker 3: Ninny pulling up when and saying that, I was literally,
- 52:11Speaker 3: I'm in a four star hotel with a two B
- 52:14Speaker 3: and her pulling up in the honk and the horse
- 52:17Speaker 3: and the stuff like that, like oh.
- 52:20Speaker 2: Guy, and the ambulance in the background and the police sirens.
- 52:25Speaker 3: I was like, oh, y'all tried it. You're like funny,
- 52:29Speaker 3: it's like stupid whatever, stupid. I'm like, I'll take that,
- 52:33Speaker 3: l you know what I mean. Meanwhile, I'm across the
- 52:35Speaker 3: street from the Fox Theater in bedroom for our star hotel.
- 52:39Speaker 2: It's it's fine, okay.
- 52:41Speaker 3: Like even just showing my little office papers, my little
- 52:44Speaker 3: makeshift office, like it was like like, like, really.
- 52:49Speaker 2: It's my office, like you was thinking.
- 52:52Speaker 3: It was roaches and rats running around the soap for
- 52:55Speaker 3: the way they met.
- 52:56Speaker 2: I love the stuff. You're like now that was good.
- 52:58Speaker 3: Like that was so long that way, it's hilarious to me.
- 53:02Speaker 3: The whole thing was the landlord who tried to put
- 53:06Speaker 3: out the house. You cannot buy that kind of TV.
- 53:09Speaker 3: It was you cannot plan it, sus you cannot buy it.
- 53:13Speaker 3: You cannot make it up. It was reality. That woman
- 53:17Speaker 3: was just as crazy as she appeared. The fact that
- 53:19Speaker 3: that shady ass nine one one call, and I was
- 53:23Speaker 3: there for that.
- 53:24Speaker 2: And so going back a bit.
- 53:26Speaker 1: So I'm asked to come back in and executive produced
- 53:29Speaker 1: season six.
- 53:31Speaker 2: Yes, and again I'm watching the show like this.
- 53:33Speaker 1: Kenya my Detroit says, because again, let me tell you something.
- 53:37Speaker 1: My father, my brothers, every black man in America had
- 53:41Speaker 1: Kenya Moore as their wallpaper on their computer art, on
- 53:47Speaker 1: the Smooth magazine calendar, like a national treasure, honestly. And
- 53:54Speaker 1: I said, I can't wait to have fun with Kenya.
- 53:58Speaker 1: And then I was told she's not coming back.
- 54:00Speaker 2: And I said, excuse what, No, ken Ya, what are
- 54:04Speaker 2: you guys talking about. We already talked.
- 54:06Speaker 1: About Porsche being on the chopping blocking, but with you,
- 54:11Speaker 1: I have to fly to Los Angeles.
- 54:14Speaker 2: He did.
- 54:15Speaker 1: I had the company credit card, me and my producer
- 54:19Speaker 1: Brent to love who you love, who you love? It
- 54:23Speaker 1: was you and Brandon, your bestie, took you out to
- 54:28Speaker 1: dinner and I'm begging you and you're, of course expressed
- 54:34Speaker 1: your grievances. And I remember saying this to you. I'm
- 54:38Speaker 1: back and I'm going to hold your hand. But I
- 54:41Speaker 1: can't do this season about you because you twirled into
- 54:46Speaker 1: our live season five. And would you admit, though humility
- 54:51Speaker 1: is good, that you and Porsche resurrected the show?
- 54:56Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely.
- 54:57Speaker 3: The executive producer told me that, but he said it
- 55:01Speaker 3: was in a bad place and we revived the show,
- 55:05Speaker 3: and you know, it was magic. Portion and I together
- 55:09Speaker 3: we made magical TV for sure. For all these years,
- 55:13Speaker 3: you know, for all not just season five, for all
- 55:16Speaker 3: those years. You know, it was just so interesting to
- 55:19Speaker 3: see the relationship go up and down, sideways wherever it
- 55:24Speaker 3: was going to go, and it made for very compelling TV.
- 55:29Speaker 1: When you think about your time on the show and
- 55:33Speaker 1: getting to all the altercations, the arguments of fights, who
- 55:36Speaker 1: would you give the number one slot to or position to?
- 55:40Speaker 1: In terms of this was my biggest challenger, Like when
- 55:46Speaker 1: she and I went toe to toe.
- 55:47Speaker 2: It was good and it was interesting and I'm even
- 55:52Speaker 2: entertained by it. I mean, come on, that's easy. That's
- 55:55Speaker 2: Nini Niani.
- 55:56Speaker 3: I mean, come on, Nini is that girl who could
- 56:02Speaker 3: you just never knew where she was gonna come from
- 56:03Speaker 3: half the time, Like is it gonna be friend.
- 56:07Speaker 2: Nini or enemy Nini?
- 56:08Speaker 3: I mean we became frenemies, but when we made Magical
- 56:13Speaker 3: TV when we were friends, and we made magic on
- 56:17Speaker 3: TV when we were enemies, and she could give as
- 56:20Speaker 3: good as she got, and I mean she was the
- 56:23Speaker 3: ying to my yang. She was feisty, funny, effed up
- 56:28Speaker 3: at times, crazy at times, a real friend at times
- 56:32Speaker 3: like she was all of those things, but she could read.
- 56:35Speaker 3: She was funny, and I enjoy working with her.
- 56:40Speaker 2: Do you miss her being on the show. Yeah?
- 56:43Speaker 3: Yeah, if I'm being honest, yeah, she She's a force
- 56:47Speaker 3: all her own.
- 56:47Speaker 2: You can't take that away from her. That's one thing
- 56:49Speaker 2: about me.
- 56:50Speaker 3: I am never going to not give you your flowers,
- 56:53Speaker 3: and I'm never going to discount what you contributed to any.
- 56:57Speaker 2: Space that you're in.
- 56:58Speaker 3: She was a major for worse multipliers you like to say,
- 57:03Speaker 3: of that of real housewives, and you can't you can't
- 57:06Speaker 3: ever erase that from her, Do you agree.
- 57:09Speaker 2: With her when she says she built the house.
- 57:12Speaker 3: She built the house, but it got four closed on.
- 57:18Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, well wails who took the deed?
- 57:29Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you have to figure that out, honey. Oh God.
- 57:43Speaker 2: But the thing you will, the beauty of it is this.
- 57:46Speaker 1: I remember season six and again, Season five was tough
- 57:50Speaker 1: for you.
- 57:51Speaker 2: You were on your own battling all of these girls.
- 57:55Speaker 3: Yes, I remember that reunion. It was me against everybody,
- 57:58Speaker 3: like Detroit versus everything. Yes, that's why I love that
- 58:00Speaker 3: Detroit versus everyone's us. It's us deplait versus everybody. That's
- 58:05Speaker 3: how I felt, and I slayed them all one by one. Okay,
- 58:10Speaker 3: season five reunion, everybody came for me and their husbands,
- 58:13Speaker 3: and I still held my own. So please give me
- 58:16Speaker 3: my flowers.
- 58:19Speaker 1: I'll just go there now. I don't think you get
- 58:21Speaker 1: the flowers you deserve. I think you are the most
- 58:27Speaker 1: unappreciated housewife. I think when it comes to you, you
- 58:34Speaker 1: don't get the treatment you deserve. It makes my stomach
- 58:42Speaker 1: turn every time I watch a reunion and you're not
- 58:47Speaker 1: in the first seat. Yeah, it makes my stomach turn.
- 58:52Speaker 2: Yours and mine? Boss?
- 58:53Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, Well, let's talk about conversation with them before.
- 58:57Speaker 2: I had this conversation with them.
- 58:58Speaker 3: Before because I was bringing up I just remember this
- 59:01Speaker 3: the seating or whatever. I don't remember it was that
- 59:04Speaker 3: year that people couldn't understand the seating. I think it
- 59:06Speaker 3: was last year, and it was like, you would never
- 59:10Speaker 3: move me NC even and don't tell me it's about story.
- 59:12Speaker 2: It's not because because at the end it's not. It's not.
- 59:16Speaker 3: It's not about story. Okay, it's about who are the
- 59:19Speaker 3: leads of the show. Okay, that's why Giselle and I
- 59:22Speaker 3: love Giselle.
- 59:24Speaker 2: I love Gazelle. Gazelle is a star of Potomac, but
- 59:29Speaker 2: face a Potomac.
- 59:30Speaker 3: Well, now, Karen, they put her in the middle, but
- 59:35Speaker 3: I didn't like that.
- 59:36Speaker 2: I didn't like it. And I love Karen. I love
- 59:39Speaker 2: Karen too, But Gizelle is that girl.
- 59:41Speaker 1: Gazelle is the face and the star Potomac. I love Karen, Wendy,
- 59:45Speaker 1: I love I love them all. Yes, but Gazelle is
- 59:49Speaker 1: that girl.
- 59:49Speaker 3: And I have I remember calling I will call because
- 59:52Speaker 3: it's the same production company. I remember calling an executive
- 59:55Speaker 3: and saying, why isn't Gazelle in the middle.
- 59:57Speaker 2: Well, I don't understand what their what is it their whine? Champagne, Champagne.
- 1:00:02Speaker 3: Why isn't she in the middle, Like this is ridiculous,
- 1:00:04Speaker 3: you know, And then when it can when it comes
- 1:00:07Speaker 3: to reunion ceding, it is a lot of people think
- 1:00:11Speaker 3: it's about story.
- 1:00:12Speaker 2: It's jobby about story.
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: I don't care how at the end, Nini did not
- 1:00:17Speaker 3: have story.
- 1:00:18Speaker 2: For three seasons. You ain't see her family man half
- 1:00:24Speaker 2: the time, you ain't seen nothing.
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: But Nina would come and show you her shoes. She
- 1:00:29Speaker 3: would come and model her shoes and sit in the
- 1:00:30Speaker 3: corner and be mad at everybody, and they would never
- 1:00:34Speaker 3: move Ninie Seed.
- 1:00:36Speaker 2: Okay, that is a fact.
- 1:00:38Speaker 3: And I so disrespected, knowing what I have put into
- 1:00:44Speaker 3: this franchise, what I have sacrificed, what I have been
- 1:00:47Speaker 3: on this show, you should never move my seat.
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: Never Canny can sit on the end. She don't care.
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: Her paychecks is not gonna change what.
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: What what I can confirm is it's not about story.
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: It's not about story.
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: It's about and listen, it is what it is. The
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: first seat is about who's the star of the season,
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: the star of the show, who's the.
- 1:01:08Speaker 2: Face of the show.
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: It's the reason why Giselle, Teresa Judaiz, Kyle Richards, Mini Leaks,
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: Kim Zosiac yep Okay, Bethany Frankel.
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: Let's have a conversation about it.
- 1:01:24Speaker 3: Always had the most story, never never. I feel like
- 1:01:31Speaker 3: I'm a kind of Kyle, like Kyle in some way,
- 1:01:33Speaker 3: like Kyle, I've always had great story. This year not
- 1:01:37Speaker 3: so much, you know, not so much. But at the
- 1:01:42Speaker 3: same time, Ninia's had seasons where she was not, like
- 1:01:46Speaker 3: I said, she was not giving you great story. But
- 1:01:48Speaker 3: that does not mean that she was not still the.
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: Star of that show.
- 1:01:53Speaker 3: And I really just that I really took umbrage to
- 1:01:55Speaker 3: that and still do because I think it's a mistake.
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: I think it's a mistake. Do you think it's a
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: message to you.
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: If that's the case, then every season they do that,
- 1:02:08Speaker 3: it is a message to me. I mean the message
- 1:02:10Speaker 3: is maybe, you know, like you said, I don't feel
- 1:02:13Speaker 3: that my time on this show has been as valued
- 1:02:18Speaker 3: as it should have been, as it should be where
- 1:02:22Speaker 3: my spinoffs. When I was at the height height of
- 1:02:27Speaker 3: my time on this show, and I wanted a spin
- 1:02:32Speaker 3: off with my child having a baby, and I.
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: Was denied that, and you.
- 1:02:37Speaker 3: Know why that should have never happened because the show
- 1:02:42Speaker 3: should come first. The show should always come first, and
- 1:02:48Speaker 3: I cannot say that the show is coming first.
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: Now, were you punished because you got married to Mark
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: Daily off camera?
- 1:02:56Speaker 2: Of course? Is that a secret? I mean, is that
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: a secret?
- 1:03:02Speaker 3: Of course you like that, And listen, I understand both sides.
- 1:03:08Speaker 3: I'm a smart girl. I understand both sides. We have
- 1:03:10Speaker 3: invested all this time in you. Your storyline from the
- 1:03:13Speaker 3: beginning is that you wanted to be married and you
- 1:03:14Speaker 3: wanted to have a baby. But when I tell you
- 1:03:16Speaker 3: on my side, well, I can't have a husband by
- 1:03:20Speaker 3: bringing him on the show, because we all see how
- 1:03:22Speaker 3: that turns out season after season. If I bring a
- 1:03:25Speaker 3: man on the show, it's like the kiss of death.
- 1:03:27Speaker 3: It's not going to work for whatever reason. And now
- 1:03:31Speaker 3: you're seeing that every marriage, marriages are failing, marriages are failing.
- 1:03:37Speaker 3: I'm trying to get married, and if I have all
- 1:03:40Speaker 3: of these distractions, all of these girls, and all of
- 1:03:42Speaker 3: these things being said, and people, you know, constantly putting
- 1:03:46Speaker 3: all this negative attention, people going in.
- 1:03:48Speaker 2: I remember I bought one guy.
- 1:03:50Speaker 3: On the show once before it was he was just
- 1:03:53Speaker 3: in the trailer before he even appeared on the show,
- 1:03:56Speaker 3: They had mugshots of him, they had all kinds of
- 1:04:00Speaker 3: stories coming out on him.
- 1:04:02Speaker 4: And it's like, for what, you're killing me, You're and
- 1:04:09Speaker 4: this is not the thought of Bravo, this is the
- 1:04:12Speaker 4: thought of all.
- 1:04:13Speaker 3: Of the people invested in our show. And it's unfair
- 1:04:15Speaker 3: to dig up dirt on someone that you don't even
- 1:04:18Speaker 3: know yet. And what was the point of it. What
- 1:04:22Speaker 3: is the end result of that? What is the end
- 1:04:24Speaker 3: game for you to fuck with my life? Because obviously
- 1:04:28Speaker 3: this man is going to look at me like, well,
- 1:04:30Speaker 3: you're causing me. You're having my clients calling me that
- 1:04:34Speaker 3: didn't even know I had been arrested, and they don't
- 1:04:36Speaker 3: even know what this was about. This was about a
- 1:04:39Speaker 3: man doing X Y and say to me, not what
- 1:04:41Speaker 3: they're portraying it to be. So it's a costly thing
- 1:04:45Speaker 3: for me, and I waited what I needed first, and
- 1:04:51Speaker 3: I needed to have a family before I needed a show.
- 1:04:54Speaker 3: Which is why I can always walk away because I
- 1:04:56Speaker 3: always prioritize what is going to make me the happiest.
- 1:05:00Speaker 3: And at that point in time, I met someone that
- 1:05:03Speaker 3: I thought, this is the one. Now if I make
- 1:05:07Speaker 3: the choice to make it public and bring him on
- 1:05:10Speaker 3: the show. He could go away, but right now it's good.
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: And as soon as I exposed him on the show,
- 1:05:16Speaker 3: what happened divorce papers ensued. Rightfully so, but there is
- 1:05:23Speaker 3: a rhythm to it. But I understood their point of view,
- 1:05:28Speaker 3: which was, we invested in you. This is what your
- 1:05:30Speaker 3: storyline has been for since season your first season, season five,
- 1:05:35Speaker 3: and then you go off and get married and we
- 1:05:36Speaker 3: don't even have it. And to add insult to injury,
- 1:05:39Speaker 3: he didn't want to appear on camera, and now he
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: does because he's allegedly shooting in his own reality show.
- 1:05:45Speaker 1: Well, we're going to give it to that too, because
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: he did not want to film on the show, and
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: the producer we keep talking about, she had to call
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: him constantly to do it. Yeah, before we get into
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: that though, again, you and I are friends in real life,
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: real life. You were so protective about this relationship. You
- 1:06:09Speaker 1: didn't tell me about it, our our girl joy you
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: really I knew you were dating, So I want to
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: be clear. You told me you were dating. I didn't
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: know you got married either until after you did it,
- 1:06:22Speaker 1: and you told me, can you talk?
- 1:06:24Speaker 2: I said, yeah, you said, I'm marry bitch. I said, bitch,
- 1:06:26Speaker 2: who that God was telling me about from New York?
- 1:06:29Speaker 2: I said, why you? And I said, this is a
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: true conversation. Does the network?
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: No? No, bitch, I said, well, ain't saying shit like
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say a word. I remember, though, seeing
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: the wedding photo and you two had a fist bump.
- 1:06:45Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: And I never said this to you, but I remember
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: seeing it and I felt something was off because and
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: unless there was just certain photos that weren't released.
- 1:06:58Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they were unauthorized photos.
- 1:07:01Speaker 2: Oh, because for me it was my photo.
- 1:07:03Speaker 3: God, I eventually posted that photo on my on my Instagram,
- 1:07:09Speaker 3: see that.
- 1:07:10Speaker 2: That was the only one.
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: And I felt in that moment, this doesn't feel emotional
- 1:07:16Speaker 1: or romantic really, yeah.
- 1:07:19Speaker 2: Because for me it was a wedding photo.
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: You guys should be kissing, and well I had those
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: Well that's what I'm saying.
- 1:07:24Speaker 2: So I thought it was the opposite.
- 1:07:25Speaker 3: I thought it showed that we had a great, fun,
- 1:07:29Speaker 3: friendly relationship. It wasn't just about a sexual attraction or
- 1:07:35Speaker 3: oh I got to marry you so fast because I'm
- 1:07:37Speaker 3: just so hot for you.
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: I thought it was rooted in a friendship.
- 1:07:40Speaker 1: So because a lot of people did assume and let's
- 1:07:44Speaker 1: talk about it. Yeah, did you Russia get married because
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: of where you were in your life at the time,
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: wanting to have a child? You met this he's listen,
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: the spy was going on right now.
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: The man is fine. Yeah, he's fine. Marcus stunning. He's
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: a good looking guy.
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: He will probably if he was on more than one season,
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: he would have been one of the hottest house husband. Sorry,
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: Mauricio and happy Eddie and while.
- 1:08:11Speaker 2: Dixon you get uh, I mean, I know, Marcus, Marcus gorgeous.
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: Was the pressures of.
- 1:08:23Speaker 1: You being on the show having to go on couples
- 1:08:26Speaker 1: trips as a single woman? Oh you think that rushed
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: me to the aug No, no, no, no, I want to
- 1:08:33Speaker 1: talk about the psychology of things because what I like
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: to do is go further. The thing is this, I
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: don't know what it's like to be invited on a
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: couple's trip as a single female, and when you're getting
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: into with these girls rightfully so their husbands have their back.
- 1:08:53Speaker 3: Yes, I've encounter in the last few seasons here on
- 1:08:57Speaker 3: Real Housewives.
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and you're sort of like alone and it
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: must do something to you. So the one thing I've
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: always wanted to ask you, was yes, you wanted that
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: in your personal life?
- 1:09:09Speaker 2: Was it also.
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: Something like, hmm, I also just want somebody on this
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: show that I can be protected by.
- 1:09:20Speaker 2: You know, I am so No. It had nothing to
- 1:09:23Speaker 2: do with the show.
- 1:09:24Speaker 3: And honestly, we connected right away. I remember, and I
- 1:09:30Speaker 3: don't know if a lot of people know this story,
- 1:09:31Speaker 3: but I met him months before dating him. I was
- 1:09:35Speaker 3: fresh out of the relationship with Crazy I call him
- 1:09:38Speaker 3: Crazy Eyes, and I was like, I don't need to
- 1:09:41Speaker 3: date anybody because it's like and that was pressure.
- 1:09:45Speaker 2: That was pressure dating Crazy Eyes. Crazy Eyes was pressure.
- 1:09:49Speaker 3: Yes. So when it came to Mark, I met him
- 1:09:58Speaker 3: right after I seeing Crazy Eyes, and I thought, I
- 1:10:04Speaker 3: was like, wow, this is a good looking guy. I
- 1:10:06Speaker 3: was in New York. I was at a restaurant and
- 1:10:08Speaker 3: I met him, and I thought, wow, that's a good
- 1:10:10Speaker 3: looking guy, like you know, and he was, you know,
- 1:10:13Speaker 3: he looked kind of like a little nerdy because he
- 1:10:15Speaker 3: had his little book bag and backpack or whatever you
- 1:10:18Speaker 3: want to call and he was doing paperwork in the
- 1:10:20Speaker 3: restaurant because he owned the restaurant, and he was just
- 1:10:22Speaker 3: there doing paperwork at one of the stations. And so
- 1:10:28Speaker 3: later I was like, I really would like to connect
- 1:10:31Speaker 3: with him, but I'm not ready. I need to just
- 1:10:34Speaker 3: take some time for myself, figure out how I got
- 1:10:37Speaker 3: myself in this situation with this other fool, and I
- 1:10:41Speaker 3: need to.
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: Just be ready. And I prayed.
- 1:10:45Speaker 3: I prayed so much, like work on me, fix whatever
- 1:10:50Speaker 3: is broken, so that when I do meet someone, I
- 1:10:53Speaker 3: am ready to receive them. And that's what I did.
- 1:10:58Speaker 3: I just worked on myself. I read I, you know,
- 1:11:01Speaker 3: I was going through counseling all of those things, and
- 1:11:05Speaker 3: I remember it was it was not I think it
- 1:11:08Speaker 3: was Thanksgiving Ish maybe three months later, and I called
- 1:11:12Speaker 3: up Chef Roblay and I said, you remember the guy
- 1:11:15Speaker 3: you know that you introduced me to And he said, yeah,
- 1:11:17Speaker 3: is he single? And he was like, let me check,
- 1:11:20Speaker 3: you know, and then it was just history from there.
- 1:11:23Speaker 3: So he was very I made the first move, and
- 1:11:27Speaker 3: I remember us having We didn't talk right away. When
- 1:11:30Speaker 3: we did talk, we were on the phone for two
- 1:11:32Speaker 3: hours at a time. Every time we would speak, we
- 1:11:34Speaker 3: would be on the phone for hours at a time.
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: Is he trying to take your money?
- 1:11:41Speaker 3: He wants me to pay his bills and some payment
- 1:11:44Speaker 3: that no one understands.
- 1:11:46Speaker 2: What the payment is for.
- 1:11:47Speaker 3: But that's not holding up the divorce because I would
- 1:11:50Speaker 3: pay him whatever to go away. It is he is
- 1:11:53Speaker 3: trying to undo my rights to Brooklyn when it comes
- 1:11:56Speaker 3: to TV appearances, because he's now doing a reality show.
- 1:12:00Speaker 2: Is it a pilot because you know you're I believe
- 1:12:03Speaker 2: it's a show, because is it straight to series?
- 1:12:05Speaker 3: That I don't know. He won't tell me about it,
- 1:12:07Speaker 3: he won't discuss it. I do know that they've been traveling.
- 1:12:10Speaker 3: I do know. So if you just have a pilot money,
- 1:12:13Speaker 3: you usually don't travel people and shoot in multiple locations.
- 1:12:16Speaker 3: So I do believe that it's an actual series.
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: And he was upset when he saw Marlowe kick the
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: door while Brooklyn was in your hotel room.
- 1:12:25Speaker 3: Well, he was allegedly upset because this is a man
- 1:12:28Speaker 3: that hasn't seen his daughter for a total of two
- 1:12:31Speaker 3: days and two years.
- 1:12:33Speaker 2: But so what he's.
- 1:12:34Speaker 3: Trying to do is trump up charges so he can
- 1:12:38Speaker 3: have me sign off on her appearing in his show.
- 1:12:42Speaker 3: And that is what held up the divorce because if
- 1:12:45Speaker 3: it was the other things, I'd sign off. I mean,
- 1:12:47Speaker 3: you want this money here, I'll make it.
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: I'll make more. It's not that he was trying.
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: To take away my right to Brooklyn when it comes
- 1:12:56Speaker 3: to TV appearances because he wants her toppear on his show.
- 1:12:59Speaker 2: Did the show ruin your marriage?
- 1:13:02Speaker 3: No, Mark ruined our marriage. Mark ruined our marriage. I'm
- 1:13:06Speaker 3: a good wife and I will be a great wife
- 1:13:08Speaker 3: to the next man. So it was a real genuine
- 1:13:13Speaker 3: connection that we had. We both wanted the same thing
- 1:13:16Speaker 3: at the same time. Which is also again the crazy
- 1:13:20Speaker 3: thing about you know, from the rumors with Walter that
- 1:13:27Speaker 3: escalated to things being fake all started by Miss Parks,
- 1:13:30Speaker 3: of course.
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: Where Walter were in a real relationship.
- 1:13:36Speaker 3: Kenny told you that, yeah, but they chose to believe him, saying,
- 1:13:41Speaker 3: you know, I asked him, but he had been to
- 1:13:43Speaker 3: my house. Walter had come all the way from Atlanta
- 1:13:46Speaker 3: and stayed in my home because we were dating at
- 1:13:48Speaker 3: the time. And then I remember Kenny saying, well, you know,
- 1:13:53Speaker 3: I know that they're saying this stuff, but his best
- 1:13:56Speaker 3: friend is also one of my best friends, and he
- 1:13:58Speaker 3: said they were date. But that's not what they wanted
- 1:14:01Speaker 3: to hear. They wanted to go with this spose narrative that.
- 1:14:04Speaker 2: It was fake.
- 1:14:04Speaker 3: Then for them to keep perpetuating this notion that I
- 1:14:11Speaker 3: paid for men and all that.
- 1:14:13Speaker 2: It's like, really, girl, people, what does it cover? A
- 1:14:17Speaker 2: lot of people really believe that I got some tea.
- 1:14:21Speaker 2: I got some tea for you.
- 1:14:23Speaker 3: Nini is the one who called me and said that
- 1:14:25Speaker 3: Walter was going on the radio and he had been
- 1:14:27Speaker 3: retained Phaedra had been retained by him. Nini is your
- 1:14:32Speaker 3: girl who called me up and gave me the heads up. Okay,
- 1:14:35Speaker 3: so wait, Phaedra was in cahoots with Walter and Phaedra
- 1:14:42Speaker 3: is the one who Nini told me that Walter asked
- 1:14:47Speaker 3: Phaedra to be his attorney. And that is when he
- 1:14:50Speaker 3: then went on the radio and said that crazy stuff,
- 1:14:53Speaker 3: which you never said.
- 1:14:54Speaker 2: I paid him.
- 1:14:54Speaker 3: By the way, he said, I asked him to.
- 1:14:57Speaker 2: Be on the show.
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: Yes, can you come on the show, because if you do,
- 1:15:03Speaker 1: you got to sign a release. You gotta film at
- 1:15:05Speaker 1: two o'clock on Tuesday. He's supposed to ask.
- 1:15:08Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:15:09Speaker 3: That turned into somehow us spaking it when clearly Candy
- 1:15:13Speaker 3: already said that he had told people we were dating,
- 1:15:15Speaker 3: and he's it's obvious evidence that he had been.
- 1:15:18Speaker 2: At my house. So that was a complete lie.
- 1:15:20Speaker 3: Hand on a bible, hand on a bible If you
- 1:15:23Speaker 3: have a Bible right now, I would swear hand on
- 1:15:25Speaker 3: a bible and that would bring bring a bible.
- 1:15:28Speaker 2: App. I will put my hand on the bible. App.
- 1:15:29Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sure it works that from that, you keep
- 1:15:36Speaker 3: perpetuating this rumor.
- 1:15:38Speaker 2: But then I thought about it. I said, those.
- 1:15:41Speaker 3: Kind of rumors exist for every single person that is
- 1:15:45Speaker 3: on the show. Candy will always be the sugar mama
- 1:15:48Speaker 3: who paid men, who pays for boyfriends, so you know,
- 1:15:51Speaker 3: the sugar mama who takes scare of me. Cynthia will
- 1:15:54Speaker 3: always be the girl who was the weak one, no backbone,
- 1:16:00Speaker 3: always up Nini's behind.
- 1:16:02Speaker 2: Whatever.
- 1:16:02Speaker 3: We all have something that someone in the cast says
- 1:16:06Speaker 3: about us. This sticks, this sticks, and that was mine,
- 1:16:11Speaker 3: even though if you're looking at me, really, I have
- 1:16:13Speaker 3: to pay someone. Really, this is what you want people
- 1:16:16Speaker 3: to believe. A successful, bright, kind, smart woman needs that
- 1:16:23Speaker 3: looks like me, A form missus say, has to pay
- 1:16:25Speaker 3: someone to be up to date them. Really, that's what
- 1:16:29Speaker 3: you want, and it worked, and even after even after that,
- 1:16:33Speaker 3: then everything the fruit of that became a lie, fake husband,
- 1:16:39Speaker 3: fake well, fake boyfriend, fake fiance, fake husband, fake marriage,
- 1:16:43Speaker 3: am I having a fake divorce, fake baby all of
- 1:16:48Speaker 3: those take Affair with Apollo, Fake Affair with Apollo.
- 1:16:52Speaker 1: There were allegations that you try to suck Apollo's dick.
- 1:17:02Speaker 2: Hey, Rain Bob.
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