Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Closure Call: Ex Best-Zila

Episode Date: October 8, 2026

One woman has kept a secret from her bridal party for the last 6 years, and it probably explains why she cut contact with all of them the day after the wedding!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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important to them. And our producer actually works with our listener to come up with a set of questions. Then our producer tracks down that person. Sometimes it's It's easy. Sometimes it's hard. Today wasn't that difficult. No. And then they just send them the questions and have them right back. So it's pretty fascinating.

And today we've got a really crazy one to me. Some Bridezilla drama. Yeah, bridezilla drama for sure. Yes. So that's coming up in just a second. But first, we've got comments. Yeah, Bowden Meyer said, long time listener from Idaho. I listen every day on the drive home.

Much to my coworker Logan's misery. He wants 80s country. I want Brooke and Jeffrey. Logan has lost this battle. That's right. Take that, Logan. I was born in the 80s in Idaho. That country has nothing to do with us, okay?

I don't know. Just trying to stick up for Bowden. Yeah, but you're doing a good job, Bowdoin. All right. Here we go. Brand new closure call starts right now. On a scale of 1 to 10, what number would you give

to the worst bridezilla you've ever personally been around? Pretty high. Well, whoever it is that you're picturing in your head right now, tell them to take a seat. Because one woman has kept a secret for the last six years from her entire bridal party that could explain why she immediately cut contact with all of them the day after her wedding.

It's shocking, but the truth is finally going to come out live here in a brand new closure call right after this. They say sometimes when you're stressed, you take it out on the people you love the most. Oh, ain't that the truth? Yeah, I can see that. That's why Brooks' two stuffed animals are so disheveled. They've had to absorb years of backlash from Brooke's personal life. That poor glowworm.

Yeah, the pound puppy. Where do you think it got its name? Oh, yeah, we're just a puppy before she bought. But one of our listeners is worried she's been absorbing the backlash for a close friend of hers. Oh, no. And she isn't really sure why. That's why she's reaching out for a closure call with us today, where we can track down someone for you and try to get you the answers to the questions

that have been burning in your mind for so long. And that's the case for today's listener, Gina. So Gina, welcome to the show. Hi, everybody. Thanks for trying to help me out here. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. In my opinion, losing a boyfriend is like, that happens.

But losing a friend is like life-shattering. Yeah. It's the worst. It's the worst. What's the deal with you and your friend? How did this all start? Yeah, so I was in her wedding. Oh.

It was about six years ago. Yeah, yeah. So we were really close. Yeah, yeah. What's her name, by the way? Catherine. Catherine. Okay, you were in Catherine's wedding?

Yes. Okay. And her wedding night, you know, after the reception and everything, that was actually the last time I ever saw her. What? Whoa. Whoa. Okay.

Did you do? something at the wedding, like get you drunk or something? No, no, I don't know why. Did you hook up with her dad? Let's be honest. We're up with her dad right away. You say that, but have you ever seen Duelipa's dad? I actually did just see him.

There was just a video that she posted, she was at a wedding, and she did a dance with her dad. Yeah, so Catherine's dad kind of looked like Dua Lepa's dad, but I would never. Oh, okay. Well, I'm glad we sidebarred for that.

The five people that know what he looks on. But let's focus on you and Catherine and your crumbling friendship, not so much on Dior Lipa's father. So what happened with the wedding? So I've tried to keep up with her, and I put in effort. But every time I was like, hey, are you free this day? Or this is my calendar, you know, so that we can, like, hang out and talk and catch up. And she doesn't put in the effort in. And she never wanted to hang out.

She didn't. And then one time she stopped responding altogether. Okay. I know what you mean. But what happened at the wedding? There had to have been a catalyst to this. I'll say, Brooke, in her email, she mentions there wasn't one moment that stands out to her for why, but that's why you needed our help for a closure call.

Yeah, exactly. And I just, I keep playing back the whole day and leading up to the wedding in my head, you know, if something could have possibly happened. And when she got engaged and she was planning the wedding, she was a little bit of a bride's I mean, there's a lot of, there's a lot of attitude. Right, but women are allowed to do that in the lead up to the wedding. That is like, there is like a two-year grace period where you're allowed to take it out on friends and family. That's, it's like science.

You had me in the first half-year. I don't know if I'd agree with that. But, you know, I was kind of letting it go. But the other girls, they were like, hey, can you please talk to her? And so I did in a nice way. Yeah. And being the spokesperson for all the bridesmaids, always means you're being set up for failure.

Yeah. Well, hold on. Give us the timeline of like when that happened in the in the wedding process. It was about a, it was a couple months before the wedding. Yeah, and I remember I remember the conversation and I told her that myself and the other girls felt

like she was being really demanding and we were all kind of feeling it and we wanted it to be a fun and light and happy experience and we didn't want there to be all this stress and she said she would try. That's a good spin on it that you were trying to make it stress-free for her. Yeah.

The start was a little rough. But the conversation, even just going to a bride and being like, hey, you're being a little bit extra about your own wedding. Like, how did your friend Catherine take that? She handled it really well. I was scared because I'm not, I don't like confrontation. Yeah. But she said she was going to try and relax.

And, you know, to her credit, she even took on some, like, bonding things. So we would go over to her house usually once a week or every other. week and kind of have little brunches together. So she still liked you enough. Yeah. Yeah, so this is where I am and that's why I'm trying to figure out what happened. I thought we were good. There was a little bump, but I don't even feel like it was a bump.

So that's when I'm trying to figure out what's going on. I can understand why you'd be dwelling on this for six years because it would not leave my mind either. Like I'm in my best friend's wedding. I'm even voted as the friend that is the one that can talk to her about this stuff and suddenly gone, ghosted. Like, that's terrible. You were so close you know you guys can get along.

Yeah, exactly. And we were really close. You know, there's not one time during this home not speaking that she ever initiated contact with me after the wedding. What about the other

bridesmaids that were in the wedding party? Is she still close with any of them? She had six bridesmaids, and I only keep up with two other girls and I don't really know her sister all that well, but they I don't really talk to her very much either. Okay.

Back to the groom theory. Yeah, see? But they could be trying to spare my feelings, so I don't know. Yeah. Okay. I mean, no matter what, you want to know what happened. Yeah. Just to be able to sleep at night.

So the good news is our producer found out what happened. Because if you don't know how the segment works, you've been working with him on four questions to send your friend, Catherine, to hopefully give you the closure that you've been looking for. Yeah. We sent those out. and Catherine has responded to all four. Oh, man.

What if it's just a giant F for the first one? A U for the second. Don't spoil it, Jose. We want that drama for when we come back and read each letter by itself in your closure call coming up right after this. Hold on. A wedding is supposed to be a joyous, happy memory

that you can share with your friends forever. Yeah. One of the best days of your life. Not the last time you ever see your bridesmaids. It just dawned on me. What did this bride do with her wedding photos? Yeah. Maybe that's one of the questions that she wanted to send to get closure on in her closure call.

That was the case six years ago because our listener, Gina, was in one of her friend's weddings named Catherine, but has hardly been able to speak to her since that day. I feel like you have to say best friend because you're not in anyone's wedding unless they're your best friend. I don't feel comfortable ranking other people's friendships, but if Brooke wants to put best friend label on, you guys. What about better friend? Yeah. Better than a regular friend, but not the best.

BFF. Her BFF has not talked to her in the six years since the wedding. And Gina's gotten the feeling there's a reason for all the animosity on the part of the bride, but isn't sure exactly what that reason is. Yeah. And that's what this closure call is for. Our producer has worked with her on four questions that we, sent over to Catherine.

We finally got answers to all four questions. So Gina, are you ready for this? I am. I'm nervous, but I am. You sound smiley. Like, how are you actually feeling? I just can't believe that she actually responded to you guys with how hard it's been

for me to get a response from her. So that's just something. Oh, that you're clocking. You're clocking. I see that. Well, producer Boyd is very good at this. He's extremely flirtatious when he's corresponding with the people. I think that's how he did it. I get very flirty vibes from him whenever I speak to him.

But maybe you guys pick up something different. I do. Either way, let's read the questions and the answers we got back. So question one that you sent said, Hey, girl, I miss you so much. Can you believe it's been six years since your wedding night? I've tried to reach out a few times and get together, schedule things, but nothing's really worked.

And it feels like at this point it's a little on purpose. Am I reading that right? I think that's what it's not like aggressive or attacking anybody. Coming in light and friendly, giving her an open door to maybe make amends. And I'll read that last sentence again. It feels like at this point it's a little on purpose. Am I reading that right? Okay.

And Catherine wrote back yes. Okay. We already knew it, but it still hurts to hear it. I mean, it took us six years to read it. Okay. Thoughts, Gina? That's all Captain said. She just said yes, period.

No, is this going to be super short and like passive-aggressive? Why did we start with a yes or no question that is terrible interview stress? Yeah, Gina, why are you asking yes or no questions? I mean, if you knew her, she's very chatty. At least she was in the past. So I didn't expect her to just go yes. So obviously I did, obviously I did something so egregious to her. Well, I hope the second question is just why.

Okay. It does feel like when you rub a genie's lamp and you ask a dumb first wish, that's what this feels like. A waste of a question. But we've already started out with it sounds like someone who's ready to get something off their chest at least. Yeah. And we got confirmation. I mean, you put a period on yes. So well, maybe something will come out of the other questions because question two said,

I've been racking my brain for so long trying to think if there was a specific moment or something that happened at your wedding that made you upset with me. Yeah. Could you tell me what it is? That's another yes or no question. Well, it is. Yeah. Hopefully she would expand more.

And not just say no. As long as there's an answer. Well, let's find out because Catherine wrote, the wedding wasn't necessarily the issue. Oh. Although you were one of the worst dancers on the floor and ate way too many crab cakes, parentheses, I have witnesses. Oh, my God. You don't count the crab cakes, okay?

Was she always this petty? I mean, you know, looking back on it, you know, yeah, a little bit. I mean, she just said something really mean to me once. Why are we not mad at her for eating too many crab cakes? Those are expensive. No such thing as too many crab cakes, Jeff. What if all the guests didn't get one? Who cares?

They're not in the wedding party. They're being carried around on trays. They were after grab. I think 20 is the limit, though. She's like, I'll take six of those. I've also followed an hors d'oeuvre waiter around a party. I don't eat anything with eyelashes, so I had these the crab cage. Eyelashes.

Like a cow. Actually, crabs do have a little weird eyelashes. It's like hair on their shell. All right, I stand corrected. But by the way, we didn't even finish the answer to the second question. Sorry. Catherine goes on, but my main problem with you and frankly, the other bridesmaids, happened long before the wedding day.

Uh-oh. Is this when you called her out for being a bridezilla? Does she explain? Which now makes sense. That's where she finishes her answer to part two. That's it?

Oh my gosh. She really wanted to leave it on cook haggers. She's mad at all of us. Yeah, she's had it all of the bridesmaids. That's what it sounds like for sure. We're picking up on that. So we're running out of time. We're going to keep going to question three.

From Gina, she said, is there anything that maybe I don't know that you would feel comfortable sharing about why you feel like you had to block me out of your life. There's a question. Let's go. What did Catherine say? It should have been question one, Gina. She said.

But Catherine responded, she wrote, I don't remember the exact time, but months before my wedding day, you decided to recklessly confront me and say I was acting inappropriate.

It was the Bridezilla talk. The rest of this is written in all caps. He wrote it in all. She wrote this next part in all caps that says, me, the bride. The one you should have been focused on supporting, but you and the other girls in the bridal party were thinking about yourselves and your hurt feelings, selfish little piggies. And that's why I had to plump you up.

Oh, my God. What is that mean? There's more. Do you remember my weekly bridesmaid brunches? where I made special slimming smoothies for the group, they were actually loaded with a triple serving of weight gain powder. What? What?

That is psycho. I am so sorry. All of you had to adjust your dress sizes before the big day. Oh, my God. Laf emoji, laugh emoji, laugh emoji. That is so weird. That's like one level below serial killer. Gina, thoughts?

Oh, my gosh. I'm kind of just, oh my God, it's like she took a page from main girls. Is that true that all the bridesmaids had to readjust their dress sizes right before the big day? Not drastically, but you know, you go through like three or four fittings before the wedding. Oh, my God. Everyone did an adjustment. I mean, I could always use a little more in the rear, so it wasn't a big deal with me. Dude, this woman is psycho, Gina.

That is psychotic. Is the fourth question, are you still married? Because I bet she's not. No, but her husband's really fat. He has something wrong, and she's been sneaking butter. Everything he ate. Well, we're just about out of time. But question four, again, you didn't know what she was going to say to any of the other responses before you sent this.

This may be a weird question, then. You did not, like, I am just floored that this woman was your best friend. This is probably why you wrote, whatever the issue is, that caused our rift, I'm sure we'll be able to work it out. Yeah. Maybe we can start having brunch again. I miss those. Do not trust her around food.

Oh, no. I didn't know. I wouldn't have wrote that. Yeah. But Catherine obviously knew, and that's why her answer was, this is hilarious, especially since you want to put this on the radio for everybody to hear. Oh, my God.

Just remember, next time you come at the queen, you better be ready to take her down. Laugh emoji, laugh emoji, laugh emoji. Oh, she thinks she got revenge. She thinks she's the queen. Oh, I'm so happy she had no friends. I'm pretty sure she's the crazy one here. Yes.

Can you imagine she's at her own wedding and all she can think about is how fat she made the bridesmaids and it's like giving her joy? He called me a biggie. Yeah, that is. No. But it looks like maybe she's open to meeting up for more brunch. I think I'll bring her a special smoothie. Yes. Let's not take a page out of her book or The Mean Girls book or any books.

No, I kind of like the sound of a special smoothie. No, I'm going to take her page out of the help. The help. Oh, man, I don't read, so I don't know what that means. Yeah, we don't know what happens in that. Octavia Spencer. Oh, wait. Is that where Dua Lepa's father hooks up with one of the bridesmaids again?

Okay. You do that, Gina. I just can't wait for your group chat with the other bridesmaids. Yeah, this is a new future documentary for sure. I'm going to rename it Biggie Chat. That's really funny. All right. So that was your closure call.

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Code BJ. I feel like the information that came out about the weight-gaining smoothies would have hit harder if this was like a month after the wedding, but it's been six years that she's been holding on to this and laughing maniacally to herself about it.

It's so stupid. Like, she really thought that she got some sort of weird revenge. Yeah. Her friends were just trying to help her out and be like, yo, chill. Chill out. It's not like they were like, she got us so good, oh, diabolical. I know. I mean, our listener had the best time at the wedding.

She said it was really fun. Right. And, I mean, jokes on the bride. OZempic's more readily available now than ever before. So it's not like she did permanent damage. I don't think anybody was doing OZempic after a three-pound weight game. Yeah. The point is we can help you get closure in your life if you ever needed.

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