LadyGang - Cheryl Burke

Episode Date: September 29, 2020

Dancing with the Stars’ Cheryl Burke is back! She’s dishing on what it’s like being partnered with our favorite Backstreet Boy, AJ McLean, her long tenure on the show, her marriage to OG heartthrob Matthew Lawrence and their journey to the sex-chelles Plus… the underrated joy of diamond painting.  Shout out to this episode's sponsors! Seedlip – Visit seedlipdrinks.com and use code LAD Y15 for 15% off. Sweaty Betty – Now through November 1st get TWENTY PERCENT OFF your ENTIRE purchase when you visit sweatybetty.com/ladygang.  Each and Every – Visit eachandevery.com/ladygang and use code LADYGANG to get 30% off your first purchase. Healist – Go to healistnaturals.com/ladygang to sign up and get your free sample today. Netsuite – Schedule your free product tour right now at netsuite.com/lady.  Rothy’s – Check out all the amazing shoes and bags now at rothys.com/ladygang.   Hammit – Go to hammitt.com and enter code LADYGANG at checkout for a complimentary leather cleaner with your next Hammitt purchase.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Well, what is this? Welcome to the Lady Gang. That's amazing. Say that again. The Lady Gang. Things are about to change around here. Each week we catch up with Hollywood's hottest girl posse, Kelty Knight, Becca Tobin, and Jack Vanek. Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the Lady Gang.

I am Becca Tobin here with Jack Vanek and Kelty Knight. Yeah. Hello. We're here. We're great. I'm so excited. Our guest today was the first person we ever actually recorded Lady Gang with. Do you know that? She was our third episode, but it was our first recording ever. Was she? Yep.

Wait, who was our first ever episode to air? Allie? Allie was our first episode, but we recorded with Cheryl first. Wait, was Cheryl's? Then my good week was my sandwich. When I got the sandwich named after me? Oh, my God. You've come so far.

Wow. I just always remember that. Honestly, it's probably been my best Good Week I've ever had in my life. It was a good one. It became iconic, you know, as a sandwich connoisseur, you know. I know. It became my brand. And you still eat sandwiches every day.

Every day. Well, not every day, but we'll say every day. Most days. Well, I have big news, so let's get to it. All right. It's time for... Good Week. Yes, it is.

Bad Week. Oh, no. Kelty, would you like to start? Sure would. um i think i have broken my toe is this a bad week this is a bad week thank you so i've been very excited because i've been on my health journey for four days and i fully expected that being on this health journey my bones would be strengthening with every vegetable i ate and yesterday uh we're all together we're working here and i just like run around i'm so excited you

guys are here there's like people we're working we're doing things I got my foot well my toenail caught in the door jam and then like closed the door with my foot in the underneath the door I don't know how like just while walking and I woke up this morning it's purple it's like bright purple the underneath is like insanely purple I know Kelsey I know because you have posted pictures close-up pictures of your foot on Instagram which I knew was troubling which Well, wait, it's disgusting. And then you have like, what else is on your foot? You have like little scabs on your foot. My feet are always eaten alive by bugs. Yeah. My feet are disgusting. I'm bringing it normality to COVID. You probably didn't break your toe. No. Remember when I hit

my toe on, it was like a weight or something or no suitcase. Cause Zach wouldn't move his fucking suitcase out of the hallway. I remember that. I was convinced that I also did. And it was black and blue, but if you give it a few days, it might be okay. Also it's, I think it's hard to break a pinky toe. They're so stubby. Yeah. Yeah. There's not much toe. Is there even a bone in there? Is there a little sausage of fat? Well, Chris is like, I put it up on the desk this morning and I was like, yo, what do you think of this? And he's like, okay, is it normally this size? And he like went to the ring toe. And I was like, well, the ring toe is one of the most beautiful toes like i want to put a pinky toe in the ring slender category they're always ugly and

i feel like evolutionarily they're on their way out so they're just like kind of hanging on you know they're not really a toe and this toe has been honestly the pinky toe has been in bad shape since pointe shoes in like you know at grade five and on like the the nail is anyway did you compare to your other foot to see, is it? No, it's bad. You guys like it's, it's bright purple. The underneath of it is like maroon. Like it's bad. It's very painful. It also made me not be able to work out. So I did Pilates on obey instead. And I actually realized that I would kind of love a mat Pilates. So maybe I'm like a Pilates hottie now. Anyway, that's it. Um, good. I have a good week. So my good week is that I was a, essentially like a super, um, like grown up with

Chris. I was like in therapy and I was annoyed. And so I was saying to my therapist, like, I'm so annoyed. And then she's like, well, you should just talk to him about it. And then I talked to about it. We had like a conversation and then we worked it out like adults. Wow. This is the first time you're doing it in a relationship. It's shocking. We very, very rarely fight. I very rarely get angry enough to be like super steamy over things. And you guys know when I get mad at him, I don't talk to him for like a week. Were you mad at him because of the thing that you talked about on the podcast last week? Because he didn't believe in the lady gang. He didn't believe in the lady gang. Anyways. He didn't support your dreams. But we talked about it

And it was very much like, I was very calm and I was just really proud of myself. Cause normally I'd like steam for at least four to six days before I like was willing to talk about it. And I steamed for about 17 hours and then went right to adulthood. So I felt like this is like real progress. So you don't, you don't, if something's bothering you about him, you don't just get it out there while it's happening. You let it, I'm not a yeller. I'm not confrontational. I go and steam and just like, don't make eye contact for, you know, it used to be six to eight days, but now it was like just 12 hours. So I'm proud of you. Thank you. Good for you. Um, I'm going to go next. Cause I have also a toe related bad week. It's so gross. So the other night I was

like really going ham on my bathroom organization. Cause I'm just really trying to like get, get myself there. It was like every little thing being in a place and getting rid of old things. and I rewarded myself. I was like pretty much done with it. And I rewarded myself with having like a little bit of whiskey. And I was like in the bathroom sipping on whiskey. And I had found these amazing like pedicure kits from this company that I think it's the scientist. What's it called? Barefoot scientist. Yeah. So they sent us like the cheese grater for your foot and all the good stuff. And I was like, oh my God, this is a great opportunity for me to get in the steam shower and like give myself a proper pedicure with the cheese grater. Well, I was drunk and I sliced the

side of my toe with it. But then the worst part is I had alcohol in my system. So my blood was so thin, it just would not stop bleeding. So I was trailing blood and it was such a like, it's a place that like i couldn't really fit a band-aid yeah toes are hard so i had like droplets of blood all over my my bedroom floor um one that we just didn't find until like yesterday and that's there forever now don't you always wonder well maybe this is me when like when and if a murder happens and people are like looking in your house and they see this blood i thought of this i always worry about that with like period blood i'm like if somebody's like oh there's a lot of blood there. And I'm like, I have a heavy flow, bitch. I know. I wonder if they can

differentiate period blood. I think so. I like, I just feel like this little spot a couple of days later, it was like nothing. I like nicked it like by nothing. And it was just oozing blood. And I thought of that. I was like, well, I hope someone doesn't die in my house or I hope I don't die. You already have the murder room. And it's like, now when you go to resell this house, they'll be like a murder did happen this is how they store the bodies yep yeah plant and evidence okay so my good week is um oh so i went to i hosted an engagement uh shower thing for two of my really good friends but jenna was one of them my other friend megan um we had that company the picnic collective come and like it was so cute this little outdoor picnic blah blah blah but

before the party, I texted everybody and I was like, Hey, it's only 10 of us, but like, wouldn't we all feel better if we just went and got COVID tests before we got together? Because the air quality in California is bad. I was like, we might have to move it inside, whatever. So we all go get tests and I go and I go to this place where you literally just pull into the parking lot and they come out and they bring you the swab to go up your nose and they watch you. They tell you what to do and they watch you. And so I'm like, okay, cool. So I like, he hands me the swab and he's like still staring at me. And I didn't think about it. I was like, this is so uncomfortable. Why does he have to watch? It's like, well, cause you're an idiot. He has to make sure you,

everybody's doing it far enough up there, but it was so intimate. Like I would almost preferred him do it himself. Then watch me shove the swab up my nose. So I'm like doing the swab. He's like, do it around five times. I'm like, cool. And then it's worse when you have to do it yourself. I would never be able to do it myself. It takes longer. It's hard. And then I did the other side five times. And then I like take it out of my nose and I look at it as I'm handing it to him. It's a huge booger. Yep. Ew. No. Okay. Can this transition into my good week? You can't touch it. You can't touch. It'll get up. He is probably seeing so many boogers every day. No. So I I am starting. So I'm starting my embryo freezing process. So I'm doing it at this place called

CCRM. It's like the best place ever. Not really, but mine's better. It's cool. Okay. Whatever. But I, um, had to do my own COVID test myself too, yesterday. And I swear to God, it's like, you have to do it for like 20 seconds in each nostril. And she's like the goopier it is the better. oh my god that's i mean i guess a booger would be a great way to know because it has to live in the booger the virus oh yeah no it's like they want as much like shit up your nose as they can get and it's nasty i feel like they don't get boogers when they put it in your brain i guess it's it bypasses where the boogers live i don't know i've had all kinds of tests i've done the mouth. I've done the mid nose. I've done all the way up the nose. It's, I mean, you're a COVID

test connoisseur. I've had so many. I just love it. You do like, you have told me like all of the best places to go. Like, well, it's important to know this. I agree. Listen, I write them all down because that is good information to have, especially in LA. There's so much like junk happening. Yeah. And now you're going to be getting them all the time for your embryo testing. So you, know you're gonna be really grateful for that list get ready girl i know okay so my good week is i'm starting my embryo process yes yes but i wanted to say thank you to you becca because you being like so open and honest about your fertility journey it changed what i was actually gonna do for myself so i would have never known like the benefits of doing like egg versus embryo if you

didn't have your fertility doctor come on and like really talk about the process and your experience so i really appreciate it oh my god you're so welcome and now i forgive you for saying your place was the best i mean i love them ccrm is the best um okay they're in la right they have like locations all over the country so the one i'm going to is in orange county it's right by my parents house oh that's nice yeah it's nice because you have to go in like every other day and get all that shit done oh so we definitely have dueling places dueling dueling um so my bad week is yesterday we were at Kelty's house. We're doing work. We filmed this little thing for a project that we're working on and it was really fun. We did our parts, you know, we're talking

to the camera, whatever. And then I go to the bathroom and I look at myself in the mirror and I had a piece of fucking lettuce in my teeth the entire time. And neither of you guys said anything. I did not see lettuce. Where in your mouth? Right up in this tooth. I don't believe you. like really, I swear to God. So I will say I do have a, I have a problem I've noticed about myself is that I see everything, but I don't actually absorb it and like clock it. Do you know what I mean? Right. You're like, Oh, that's there. But like, should I say something? It's weird. It's like, I notice everything, but I don't really notice it until, and then in hindsight, I'll be like, Oh, maybe I saw something. And I just didn't take the time to like, let it enter my brain and,

process. It's wild. So I apologize. If I have a lettuce filled mouth in these videos, I need to be very on brand. Well, the thing is it will be on brand. I'm not like a toothy talker. So maybe it was like shoved far enough up on my tooth that you like, can't really see it, but it was there. I mean, I looked in the mirror. This was probably like three hours after we filmed this and I didn't need anything. Well, maybe it was a kale chip from, from Kelty's emmys after maybe it was did you eat a kale chip i did eat a kale chip that's what it was it was the kale chip and that was after kelty got a gift bag for the emmys and we were like going through like savages yes we were all right when we come back we're going to the ballroom hi i'm barbara

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your face looks better than ever like i was noticing when i was watching dancing with the stars i was like this fucking haircut and this hair and this your haircut is so good right now it's so chic because because you know in the ballroom everyone does like extra extra extra like so much yeah and then you coming out with like sleek little bob like your kendall jenner kaya gerber was very sexual also that body suit i just i want it i want a girl you can have it once you drive in it you're like traumatized so you're done um but yeah you know they were trying to go on met gala you know meets dancing with the stars you got tyra as the new host so i was like all right well then let's do it cool not like you'd wear not like you'd wear that to

the met gala but i would felt like a little j-lo inspiration right there i absolutely would yeah it was very JLo inspired. It was hot. It was hot. So I just want like everyone, I want to get us all up to speed. We had AJ on Lady Gang TV over a year ago and it was probably the greatest 48 hours of our life. So we've always loved AJ. And then when he was on Lady Gang, we had such a good time. I fell off a chair. Like there was just a lot going on. And then he was like, you should come see the residency. And so he was like, you should come see the residency at some point when it's going on. And we're like, Oh no, no, no, no. It was their last performance. Oh, was it? Yeah. Was this in Las Vegas? Yeah. So we, in the middle of podcasting, writing our book and doing the TV

show and like all our other jobs, we were like, you know what? We should definitely go to Las Vegas. So we booked flights. We went and saw the residency. Um, we hung out and like celebrated and we all wore Backstreet Boys shirts and like, so then after, after spending this 48 hours with AJ, Becca went back to her normal life and Jack and I spent four to five months with AJ as the main obsession of our lives. So we were sending like healthy and I would stay up until like 2 AM and we would send each other YouTube videos of AJ performing and being like, okay, okay. go to two minutes and 46 seconds and like watch how we did. We were like, first of all, AJ loves you guys. Cause I told him I was doing this and he's like, Oh, you're doing it by yourself. I'm

like, yeah, AJ, you're not invited. And so he like, he loves you. Um, congratulations by the way, on all your ventures. It's awesome. I love your clothing line. I love your book. I love it all. Um, but, uh, yeah. So it was a just AJ or was it? No, it's just AJ. Oh, interesting. Just aj like i don't even he wasn't even my favorite backstreet boy he was not my favorite i was a brian i was a brian and then a nick and then an aj so it was like he was third tier but i was totally an in sync fan oh he asked you he asked you on the first episode he's like and singer backstreet boys and you're like for the dancing and singing oh she lying but but then i watched their documentary because they have a documentary out on it i'm sure you know about it i'm sure you

all about it um and i was like oh that was the backstreet boys i started hearing the song and i was like oh their music i was like oh at the whole time i got them all mixed up oh backstreet boys have like the bangers yeah totally but like you got the dancers you know i'm looking at the dancing but this is gonna soon change because now we've got nick carter who did dancing and then you have you know aj my partner so and also aj is the strongest dancer of all those backstreet boys like he said he was team captain he was like the dance captain of backstreet so i was like oh really let me see it still have to see it i'll be waiting well i did think it was interesting first of all you crushed like you're you know you're the og and you have this innate ability to make your

partners look incredible like no matter who they are whether they're good dancers or not like you you just have that choreography brain where it like comes together um i think that everyone looks fucking ridiculous doing the jive like the jive is stupid no offense like so stupid i hate it it's like out of all the five latin dances first of all i can't believe it's considered a latin dance like the jive it's not sexual right it's not sexual but i tried to make it sexual a little bit yes you did so like the song is a little like you know it's a new song from the weekend and i was like we gotta like you gotta just kill it like we gotta make it not so we're not like two cheerleaders bouncing up and down like i can't handle it like but doing the splits

in the air and shit like i can't do it yeah the jive i hate and i was like this is a disservice to um aj's hips abilities because we didn't get to see any thrusts and there were no body rolls really but i love there was a body roll i slapped his ass too at the same time by accident well what i think is great is that aj's clearly gonna win this season like he has you and you're gonna win i don't know we got sixes no i know but this is what i'm telling you i feel like a lot of people got sixes though yes they first of all they got clearly judges got a note to start low and then well it sucks that we were first like who goes first yeah someone's gotta go no one wants to go first and then if aj had had a rumba or like a waltz and had been so amazing

he would have whatever he would have had nowhere to go i love it i love you i love the way you think i love it but we've got the fox trot coming up. Oh, see Foxtrot is beautiful. We're going to get, we're going to get all the non-sexual dances out of the way. And then like, I'm like my highlight, like my, what I'm really good at is with the sexual stuff. Yes, exactly. Though you guys would have already done it. Yeah. You would have already done the Foxtrot and you crushed it and you go, you're so good. We're still on the show, right? Yes. I had a private, like private tour of not tour, I guess a private show of just him doing his Backstreet Boys moves. Cause I was like, listen, you gotta, like, you

gotta put your groove into ballroom because like my job is to make you look good. And if you feel awkward, you look freaking awkward. Like, I don't know what to say to you. You have to learn the technique, but then you gotta like throw that out the window. Then you gotta like marinate in it and put a little back straight into it. So I made him perform in front of me, like go full out. And I was like, it's like a different person. And I'm like, yo, AJ, you gotta put this, like, you gotta to make this into like a ball you've got to like yeah this is the one thing that Emmett Smith who obviously wasn't known for being a dancer but he had a groove right and he put his groove into the dance and made it his own after he learned the technique so we're right there still like we're

trying to fit find like a happy medium because like I'm like you look so masculine you look so dominant when you're dancing your stuff but then when you like are doing like the foxtrot you look like uncle fester and that's why you're the best because i know i just like honestly i would take a full reality show of just cheryl and aj's rehearsals oh my god that is amazing so one of the producers goes that has known me since season two for 15 years now he goes yeah you're extra nice this season aren't you and i'm like listen when i get someone talented i'm really not my best version of myself but i'm also like really passionate so i'm like definitely and poor aj like he's just taking it. Like he's so sweet about it, but I'm just like, I'm full on. I'm like extra

this season. That's good. Cause you know his potential. Yeah, totally. And if I were nice to you, you should be worried if I was like, Oh yeah, good job. Then, you know, I don't care. Yeah. Then you're out. You're like, bye. It was fun. See, um, I love that you guys are together as a couple because AJ, when he was on lady gang, I mean, he's been so open about his struggle with sobriety and, and, um, watching him during COVID, you know, for someone that's dealing, uh, with any type of mental illness or addiction, I know that it's, it's really great to have routine and watching him during COVID. You can tell that like being off the road and being home with his family and having routine has been so good for him. He has like such a light in his eyes. And I was like,

I felt sad for him. I was like, I don't want you to ever have to go back to real life because being on the road and these flights and everything like that's really hard, you know? And then he got you and I thought, well, this is great. Like you're jumping back into Hollywood, but you're doing it with someone who is not, you're not really in the same boat, I would say, but you're living your life sort of dry now. Like you're not totally sober for two years. Yeah. And so I think that's really cool. And then you guys decided to start this podcast and you're being so raw and open about it. And this is something that honestly, sure. Like, I feel like I've known you all those 15 years. And like, I didn't know this about you. Um, so it's great. I mean, like, that's the thing.

And that's why I really wanted AJ. Cause I'm like, you know, for him to be maybe partnered with someone who is just like still fresh in the scene or like, likes to go out. Like I was a little worried just as a friend in a way, just like, uh, but then, um, I'm glad we were partnered up together. And yes, I've been sober for two years now. I have not been in that program and the AA program, but, um, I, it was just a decision that I made to my, for myself. Um, and it was when Matt and I got engaged and it was during that engagement party that we were just like, or that I was like, he didn't even know. I was just like, I was done. My father passed away. And then my dad was an alcoholic. So either I was going to crash and burn and check myself into rehab, or I was

going to just quit cold Turkey. And that's just my personality. It's either black or white, you know? so um and then with AJ now you know and us meeting via zoom as everyone does nowadays I guess with the new normal it was like we just bonded right away just because like I love therapy talk I love therapy I'm such an advocate for it I think everyone should be in therapy um and also I've done a lot of self-help during this whole quarantine like I've just done a lot of like soul searching I guess you can say and um I've learned so much just about life in general and just how there's just different perspectives in this world you know and it's how you see it and you know me kelsey i'm not mrs positive like you know what i mean i'm not mrs positivity trying to

fake it um what you see is what you get and what's so um been frustrating i guess is just the fact that like you know i'm being edited on dancing with the stars so you don't really get to see it's not about us right it's about the celebrity 100 which is totally it's all good so it's nice to be able to like talk about it and talk about who i am and my experiences in this world before hollywood and do so freely on our podcast called pretty messed up which is a great team name and the podcast is super so good yeah um and like i hope you're gonna keep it up right like you're gonna try to do this whole year i guess i mean even if we were not partnered we would have still done the podcast okay so it's gonna go past dancing with the star star yeah oh that's so

great i hope so we'll see unless we get kicked out so you don't know you'll see that's the plan that's the plan it's very very cool and then you you briefly and i'm proud of you i'm really we're we are really we're discussing before we started like when we filmed our first lady gang episode five years ago i mean we were like in a studio drinking canned champagne and we would just be like so messy like things have changed you know and and i kind of love that we've evolved you've evolved like it's all it's all working out yeah i do want to talk about this wedding of yours and i know this is old and you've already done the people magazine and blah blah blah but like holy sheryl you were so beautiful i mean you're normally beautiful but this wedding

oh oh god yeah it was expensive it looked like it it looked expensive why do you think you're shaking my ass again just kidding um yeah no it was i mean honestly it was so i'm happy it happened when it happened right because then shortly after was a pandemic we went to seychelles for our honeymoon i mean we live you went to the sex shells sex shells yes and the sex shells is so freaking it 35 for a freaking ice cream cone that melts in your hand no it's crazy expensive where to god it's so expensive it takes forever to get there yeah but i'm so happy and matt obviously loves animals we've got i live like on top of his um full-on petting zoo he's got like 45 reptiles crazy only reptiles better than chicks right better than yeah enjoy your lizards baby

make out with iguanas all you want boo-boo um yeah does he have snakes no thank god it's just like a bunch of different like lizard type things you guys like a huge iguana his name is jomo he's looks like an alligator does he have any like mammals or is it just reptile i'm like it's just reptiles so tortoises he's got made tortoises that mate that multiply so i'm not kidding like the number is like spot on and then you've got like um no wait what are they called blind drag is that a club is a nightclub blind dragons yeah komodo dragons no anyways why was i thinking because we were talking about clubbing earlier so i was like blind dragon that's the name of the club. Anyway, you guys, I think you, someone will know anyway, um, bunch of reptiles everywhere.

And that's what he does. I mean, this is his passion. So we went to South Africa. We went on safari and it was amazing. It was like so amazing. He had the best time. We had the best time, but I wanted to get to stay shells because no one wants to go on adventures after you've been planning a freaking wedding. No, a hundred percent. What I thought was the most amazing. I mean, there's lots of amazing things. I just have to tell you, like the fact that that dress and not have one wrinkle in it made me so happy. What was it made of? Like, I've never seen that kind of like tubular, not lace, like dress looks so perfect. Like that's your dress was what I wanted Megan Markle's dress to look like. And Megan Markle came out with some wrinkles and like

the fit was off, you know? Well, I just didn't want anything to resemble Dancing with the Stars. Right. So, and then I've got like two personalities, right? You've got like the blingy diamond painting cheryl that loves bling and then you've got like the real chill like i'm just normal down to earth hopefully um yeah and so ramona caveza did the dress and it was just something that i i just wanted a plain just long dress and then with like pure just like crystals just as buttons i mean it was really simple i just know that i know from you know helping design dresses every single season that like my clavicle is a good area so let's show it people let's show the clavicle it's so true you like you dress up every single day in a spot i know so it would be hard to like

an embellishment is not not the vibe no and also like i don't want to sometimes i don't want to dress up you know i'm not like i'm not here to do like a i kept referring to the wedding as like oh let's dress rehearsal it's like i gotta stop like this was like a real thing um and so every day is like a dress up day for me so like when it comes to halloween or any time i have to dress up i dread it. Yeah, I get it. I love that. I love that. The last thing I want, well, I have two more things I quickly want to ask you. Number one, thanks for diamond painting. I don't know if you know this. Oh my God. Did you get into it? Oh yeah, she did. I was so heavily influenced by you. Oh, is that where you got your influence from? Yes, of course. I didn't even know this

existed. We talked a lot of trash on Kelty for this. Okay, wait, girls, you have to try it. don't talk shit till you try it i'm not gonna try it you're trying it where do you put them when you finish that she has a whole room i freaking frame them where is it you do yeah they're downstairs that was mine by the way great christmas gifts guys i would never want that as a gift you're yes you would if i gave you the one that's made of just swarovski i think you would i think oh yeah that would be worth something yeah if it's worth the money you'd see it on an auction site, like Swarovski crystal diamond painting by Sheryl Burke. $100,000. Well, I was so excited because I got one when you started doing them. I ordered one and then I ordered

one from your kit. I got the tiger, the tiger eyes. It's a cat. I have to show that I haven't showed to you. I just finished it. You did. Um, but I had it for a while and I hadn't finished my last one. So then I ended up giving the cat to my friend, Jodi, who loves cats and she's going to do it. And then my friend gave her half a one. I hadn't even started. I hadn't even taken it out. I was working on Northern Lights, which is a different kit I got. Um, so then I gave, um, so then I gave cat to my friend Jodi and then my other friend as an anniversary gift, which is so strange and thoughtful, gave me two diamond paintings. One, they took a picture of me and Chris and turn it into a diamond painting. Yes. You can get custom made diamond paintings. You

know, who else is really into it is Joey Fatone. You guys, we should all have a diamond painting party. Oh my God. And then someone sent me one of me and RuPaul. Really? Yes. So I'm so excited. So I think it's weird. It's weird to see your face all pixelated. Like this company from the Philippines gifted me and Matt for our wedding and gave us a life size, like life size diamond painting of our wedding picture oh i'm like it's literally it's gonna take me 10 years like i had i had it just laid out here and on our dining room table and anybody that would come over back before the pandemic i'd make everyone sit down and start diving painting like if you wanted to see me you have to sit down and dive and paint that is i'm not gonna even open the door for

your ass yeah well it's very um it's very relaxing addicting addicting and relaxing and for people who don't know what to do during the pandemic they're like it comes to seven o'clock at night And you're like, what am I supposed to do? Make a cup of diamond paint. It's very, and then I'm up till seven o'clock at night the next day. Crazy. Yeah. Clearly I'm an addict. And then, I mean, you've been very busy during COVID and I just want to mention one other thing. Um, you sent us some of your beautiful Bailey blue masks and they're so cute and all the dancing with the stars, girls are wearing them and they're, and they're adorable and they're available on Bailey blue clothing.com. And I just want to, you've got the, do you have the Rumba? Cause I

know that now that's your favorite dance the rumba mask that's the most bold one but by the way so the main reason why I wanted to do this and I did I wanted to make masks even before the pandemic when we um when I did this live stage show in Japan I saw all these beautiful like Japanese women walking around wearing dental masks and I was like that's so disgusting like this is like an accessory right so you have to look cute then pandemic hit I bought every single mask you can possibly think of and then I was choking on it so like I'd be crying I'm choking I'm laughing, choking, breathing, choking, you know, like I'm like, why am I swallowing my damn mask? So the main like reason why I wanted to make it was not just because of the bling, but it was

because I wanted people to be able to breathe in their masks so that like, if we had to dance in our masks, then we could. And you could. Wow. That actually worked. But you guys are just getting crazy COVID tests all the time, right? Yeah. Every single day, five days a week. On weekends, which I'm like, why not weekends? You still get COVID on weekends. Yep. All right. When we come back cheryl's gonna fix your life now back to the lady gang okay and we're back so i don't know if you remember but we have this thing called ask the lady gang we're listeners writing questions and then we try to help them fix their lives okay back in one in one sentence oh no well you know we can like talk about it try that oh three words well the first time that we had you on and we had

fake questions because we had no fans yet so these are those were fake these are actually real you guys have you guys are like totally killing it right now in the podcast world right oh yeah totally okay so first question comes from sinister in law she says my fiance and i have been together for almost five years we got engaged this spring and i'm so excited to marry him i became very close with his younger sister and told her that she could be a bridesmaid for our wedding but recently she's been annoying the hell out of me she's extremely judgmental of other people, very competitive and has said hurtful things about my family and is honestly just kind of rude. I don't want her to be a bridesmaid anymore because I know she'll just complain

and judge things that I love the whole time. I haven't done the whole bridesmaid box thing yet or officially asked anyone. So how do I unask my future sister-in-law not to be a bridesmaid? You can't, you have to do it, dude. You have, first of all, she's your sister-in-law. So then that's going to be like resentment, just totally not, not cute. You can't get married and not have her sister-in-law not be a part of it unless if she was already not a part of it. Do you know what I'm saying? Like that's really uncomfortable. And plus she's already expecting it. You're just going to have to like, let her be and let her freak out and just know that that's her issue and not yours. Just suck it up. I feel like it up, suck it up. Who cares? I mean, she's going

to be there anyway. So you might as well just dress her up and walk down the aisle. and it's she can't upstage you if she's a bridesmaid because she's obviously not going to be in a great dress just make sure the dress is not cute yeah exactly i also think this is someone that's going to be in your life for a really long time so it's like it's okay for you to use this opportunity to take her out for a cup of tea and say so hey i wanted to talk to you about something you know i know that this like some of the stuff that i love about this wedding It seems really stupid to you, but like, I really need you to be happy for me. And like, am I going to be my sister for the rest of my life?

Like, this is such a special moment for me. Can you like lean in and, you know, um, if you hate stuff, just keep it to yourself or like talk about me behind my back. And then also just not, just not, don't invite her to do many things. Like just keep her involved. Just don't invite her to the bachelorette. Don't invite her. The wedding.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But also just know that like, let her just be like, don't let her negativity affect you because that's when she wins yeah and also if your wedding is still scheduled um and maybe that's why she's being a dick to you because you probably shouldn't be having a wedding right i want right i want to know what um her soon-to-be husband thinks of all this yeah me too but that's not part of the show next question right okay next uh next question comes from melissa she says i need some advice on how to bring sex toys into the bedroom specifically a vibrator i love bring it

in bring it in i know i love having sex with my boyfriend but i'm way too in my head to sometimes get off aren't we fucking all how do you bring this into bed without hurting your boyfriend husband's ego it's truly not you would love it i know it's my own securities and i don't think you fully understand dude men love this shit men love anything new anything new just like anything new he'd be like he would get off on it watch just watch watch do it send him send him a picture or a link to something on text and be like i just purchased something dot dot dot and then like send the picture of what it is yeah yeah and then maybe dress up a little like maybe put like a i don't know a wig on a wig and not on your head

american i don't i think that there's like a misconception where like women think that bringing a toy in means that like the man can't like perform well enough for them whereas men are just stoked to get totally yeah exactly it's like having another chicken bed yep i wanted to call off sex the other night because my womanizer battery was dead i was like nope mine dude my battery broken i can't figure out how to charge that's why you have to get double a's don't be charging shit see i'm telling you the old school double a battery you always have them right you don't need to wait you don't have to keep the charger i don't think i've ever had a vibrator that uses double a battery okay next question you can thank me later mrs last question comes

from cindy she says are you are you supposed to wear underwear with your workout pants i don't understand how women have no underwear lines i usually wear my granny panties thong thong thong thong i wear nothing i can't not wear nothing i'm very uh highly sensitive person cannot have multi-layer of clothing on and so i can only do no no underwear and sometimes i change my leggings like twice a day because of it because you're staying you have a snail trail in your what fabletics see that's the thing i can't get that's why i don't want to see that's why i can't do it because i'm just like the snail trail is either in the legging or in your underwear in the legging no but your underwear the underwear can change and it can change like i don't have

like 75 of the same leggings oh i do with a legging well but we've already covered it that kelty has a dry ass pussy and she has a thigh gap you have a thigh gap so you have a thigh gap and a dap and a wide set vagina and a big vagina it's just nothing down there it's the wide and dry variety she's the only one that can wear no underwear because like there's no there is no snail trail it's like a dry bat cave see my my inner thighs will rub together and i'll be like what the f**k is going on is that my inner thigh sweating or is it my vag yes yes no not a good luck but i don't think a granny panty on my legging is appropriate no but no how about like a seamless thong yes from skim by the way skims i mean i just love the product did they gift it to

you nope i'm buying everything but that's fine because whatever it's all good my thing is is that i've never worn a bra until i just hate bra seriously never worn a bra until skims came into my life amazing we've got a strapless i'm totally giving them free publicity right now but it's all good strap i'm gonna see what kind of bra they have padding oh my god it's so good so good i have to tell you kim kardashian gave me my very first pair of spanks oh my gosh they were used they were not used i think so i maybe not i don't know but like okay so when she did the show we hung out a lot then i danced with her brother and then like she basically opened up door what's it called door dash oh my god it's not called door dash stupid

dash. Yes. Forget the door. Um, and she was like, yeah, you don't, I'm like, what is that thing? Like, why are you wearing like a full on like body suit? Right. And I'm like, doesn't that make you feel like you're suffocating? She goes, no, here, try it. So this was like, she was really passionate about her undergarments and she knows how to do it. I mean, well, everyone, Cheryl has to get to rehearsal with our AJ. Um, you can listen to the pretty messed up podcast Tuesdays on iHeart, wherever you get your podcasts. You can vote for them starting this. Is it on Tuesday this week? I'm confused. No. So it's Tuesday only. Yeah. So Tuesday this week, but then Monday every other week. Yeah. And same with our podcast. The hashtag is team pretty messed up mass available

on Bailey blue clothing. You can check out Cheryl's Instagram at Cheryl Burke, all of her links to her fabletics and also diamond painting collections are there. And we love Cheryl. Thanks for coming back we were so excited to chat girls stop laughing down there i'm sending you one we're starting a new podcast called the diamond gang and it's just me and cheryl it's called bitchy bling we will see you next tuesday thanks for listening and make sure to rate and review this podcast wherever you get your podcast we have new episodes of lady gang every tuesday and thursday follow us on social media at the lady gang uh follow us personally at kelty most importantly at becca and at jack banik the lady gang network is produced by will sterling steve delamater

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