LadyGang - Nene Leakes

Episode Date: March 3, 2020

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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, and welcome to the Lady Gang.

I'm Becca Tobin here with Jack Vanek and Kelty Knight. Whoa, I wasn't even ready. I know, Kelty really was shot out of a cannon. I will say that you love us so much. no i love you all that you're so indefinitely this is the first time in all the years we've done this where i'm like holy shit we built a company no i actually had that like i this whole time even when we had the tv show i'm like it's cool like we've got this whatever i'm like i am running with my friends a small corporation well because alex is running yeah well because we're

We're just going through like a hundred different things, but then not really checking one off at a time. We're bouncing from one to the other, to the other, to the other. It's crazy. But do you guys have anxiety about what happens after the tour this summer and the book comes out? Like, what are we going to do with ourselves? I know we only have life planned up to about July.

No, that's not true. We have another fun thing in the fall coming. Oh yeah, we do. Right. It'll, it'll happen. It'll be fine. I mean, it always happens for us. I finished my renovation, and I literally all weekend, I had no projects.

There's nothing on my to-do list, and I was like, hmm. I started watching a Netflix series. Which one? Who am I? Interior Design Masters. Is it good? It's so great. I'm sure.

But I was like, hmm, now I think I'll look out the window. Did you get in your hot tub? I got in the hot tub, and I was like, I think I will. Can we come over for a hot tub? I want a hot tub and have it so bad. It's so great. Can we do it next weekend? Zach's out of town.

Sure. I ordered margarita. I got margaritas. I got the skinny girl margarita. Alcohol? No, you guys. I'm like a night drinker now. Oh, my God.

Isn't it fun? I'm not even a night drinker. No, Valentine's Day, I was like, let's make margaritas. And Chris is like, who are you? Whoa. And I'm in the hot tub and I'm drinking. I even got special cups that you can drink your wine out of. And then I drank a bottle the other day.

A wine glass? No, but they're like non-breakable. Oh, for the hot tub. And then. No glass by the pool. No glass by the pool. No running. We don't want to have to empty this tub out.

no glass by the tub and then the other day i made dinner and i just like busted out some pinot grigio with our dinner this is where i'm at this is the stress level i'm talking about i love this version of you though i do too i always i love when you drink i do too it's so fun and you never do it so i'm really excited about this you guys you know what come over this weekend yes we're gonna have a hang can we do the tub for real and we'll podcast from the tub i was gonna say can we not work no we won't work we've only hung out once not working well in our entire lives what we should do is get in the tub and get drunk and then do work or do a podcast okay i don't know if you can podcast in the pool you could in my tub electrocuting

no the things will be out and our headphones are on but i aren't there still electrodes touching your head that's a great question you know what we'll have you try it first no because i was the only one that thought of the idea it's true my the backyard's a dream like you have to come over it's like a little spa wow hell yeah i want to come i had a fire this weekend i made s'mores my fire pit my chimney up oh who am i chimney oh my god well i mean i think we know your good week but we should probably hop into good week yes it is bad week oh no i'm kicking this off because you basically just told us your good week um guys i plugged my phone into my car to drive here today and my spotify came up and who was on it could it be the lady gang it

could be us do you know what's so weird is that now that we're newly on spotify it's not been a long time at all i've the like luster of us showing up on itunes is like it was never that exciting except the day that we launched because it's like oh this is where podcasts live like yeah i mean And I've obsessively looked at the charts daily. Yeah, see, that doesn't do it for me. But what does it for me is like Spotify, something I listen to all the time, that now we are showing up on it. And all our shows, too.

This really goes back to my full circle moment of turning into a rock star, because not only are we going to tour on a fucking tour bus, now we're on Spotify with all musicians. Did you ever think as a tone-deaf non-dancer you'd be touring the country on Spotify? Look at you, big star. I somehow circumvented the whole thing and didn't even have to have a musical bone in my body. You did. Yeah. And when I left the Trans-Siberian Orchestra tour, I said, this is going to be the saddest day of my life because I said nothing is better than living on a tour bus.

Life is so simple. And they still quote me on the tour bus about how life is so simple on the tour bus. It is simple. It's like moving summer camp. And I think I kind of created this, too, because I knew I wasn't going to go back to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I'm certainly not talented enough to have a tour myself for music. So somehow we creepily manifested getting back on a tour bus. It's crazy.

Yeah. Our tour bus is going to be so much better than any of the tour buses that I've gone on with my touring boyfriends. I'm not sure it's going to be better than TSO because I was stoned and I ate chilies every night at like midnight and I gained 10 pounds. I'm worried about, I've already thought about the workout plan. We're going to have to have like a workout every morning. I'll do that. I'll actually work out with you guys. Like it'll be yoga one day and it'll be cardio box.

yeah we should actually do some obey like streaming right oh my god that'd be so that would be great like work out with us on the tour bus but we'll we won't be on a tour bus we'll be like in a parking lot at a rest stop we can do it outside of our trailer like everybody used to do on warp tour where they'd like be lifting these like 90 pound weights no i would love to see you lift a weight i'd love to see you lift anything i don't know if i can no she couldn't no my bad week is it's sort of started as a good week summer house summer house is back on carl and um my bad week about summer house is this is that i you know how you go through life and occasionally in your 30s you get slapped in the face with the reality that you're never going to be young again

i know it's such a weird this show does this to me i like love watching it so much but i feel like aren't they around our age well i think some of them are but the ones that aren't like the ones that are like the younger girls in their early 20s and mid 20s i'm so jealous because like one of them is 26 and she has an older boyfriend her name is page she's the cutest thing ever she's got like a 36 year old boyfriend who's like ready to wife her up naturally because she's adorable but i just want to scream through the tv and just be like live your life girl like she's living her life she's wearing short shorts she's showing her knees every night in the hamptons she's drinking to excess she's having pool parties like it's just i want to be young again i do and

it makes me sad i know because we're never going to be those people we're going to be in caftans in your hot tub drinking margaritas only at night you can't show those legs in the day yeah no i'm gonna go don't bring any cans or glass in my hot tub i don't want to have to empty the water and refill the ph will be all mashed up okay my good week your girl is officially looking to buy a house we have a great realtor for you and we'll split the deal do you get money if there's a I already gave it to her you did you bitch it's my guy who I gave to you I actually don't think you gave me his name I just said we're splitting it I think I have a good realtor no I don't it's fine i have a hot tub referral fee yeah he gives a referral fee if you give him a good buyer i gave

her a good buyer she did oh so then it kind of makes sense that becca would refer like we're just referring it down the line but then he wasn't my most recent i had josh back right exactly um anyway so where are we looking well you know i do need a renovation i think i do um i'm looking in silver lakes very randomly i wanted to be in the hills it's too far away but my point of my good week is i have worked my balls off for the past 10 years i've been very good with my money and i haven't really given myself a pat on the back for really anything so this is a moment that i really thought about it and yeah i'm glad you feel good now because when they start having you fill out the forms and they look into every area of your life and they'll be like so do you have

four million dollars in backup saving saving.com saving saving saving and you're like no they'll be you'll feel so shitty they question you about they question you they're like so where have you lived why did you move apartments all the time who lived in phoenix like they're gonna they they go so deep in you they do just have my moment i know no have your moment no it's great it's gonna be so great now is great during sucks and then after is great and then it sucks again but then it gets good because what happens is okay so you buy the house and you're like oh my god pop the champagne i'm a homeowner and then you're like holy shit i own a house i have a mortgage now i'm gonna die how am i gonna pay this every month for 30 years then you move in and you realize that no

one put any heating ducts in your whole ac and you have to read and like you're a guy that did the inspection didn't find it and you now had to spend forty thousand dollars to have your house no then you love it and then something then you're like oh my god the house is amazing and then you're like get in a neighbor war and you're like this house i gotta move or whatever you know yeah neighbor wars you know them yeah well if i do get in a neighbor war i know who to call me not That is culty night. She doesn't get out of them. But she fights.

She fights hard. Okay. She is. She's feisty. My bad week is the other day I was in Starbucks and I was walking out with my drink and this older lady, she stops me and she's like, oh my gosh, can I see your nails? And I was like, okay. And I kind of, I give her my hand.

She starts looking at my nails. She's like, he loves nails and points next to her. And it's this like 95 year old man. please tell me she offered you a hundred dollars to scratch his back no but he takes my hand and starts looking at my nails and he goes the money that i would pay to have you scratch my back no and then winks at me no that's a good week it's not i mean is it i guess i could have made some money from this man but it was freaking creepy and he's just like grazing my hand your nails are sexual i do have sexual nails and that man probably likes a little a little bleedy but a

little bully when my nails get so gross when my nails get long i get very paranoid about the germs under my fingernails i probably have some i mean you can see the germs underneath a little poop under there like yeah i bet you if you took a swab from under anybody's fingernails there's poop on them there's poop on your phone there's poop everywhere apparently there's more poop on your phone than a toilet seat yeah and we're putting that shit up right next to her mouth literally i like to wipe my phone on the rag though i do i clean my phone yeah a little and i'll tell you what's my turn with you sure okay sure i do have a good week should i do another good week or can that be my good week if whatever you want to do you know follow your goals my my good week is

quite fast so i was also excited that lady gang and all of our network shows are officially on spotify and i was like going through and google like putting in the names and seeing what would pop up and i found my new favorite band oh lady fang oh wow and the best thing about it is that then i listened to a little lady fang what do they sound like and then it's like kind of like neon trees ish like very obscury like are they like catchy i don't know if catchy but i just it's very quick listen should they open for us no then i went to their bio to like see other pictures of them because they have like very weird makeup and stuff and their insta bio is here to get you laid and i think that lady gang and lady fang and you know there's a collab to

be had with lady fang they should come on tour with us and either open for them or they open no we would we would be the headliners okay based on instagram um followers which i don't like to base anything on because you can be a big star with a small following that's true they're also influence name one me okay wait there also is an amazing band named lady hawk i know it doesn't that's not the same but it's don't try to take my thunder whatever um my last my bad week i this is a little bit serious i don't think that chris thinks i'm hot anymore why i think that he is like you know how people always say like oh even blah blah blah gets tired of being beyonce yeah well but let me ask you a question do you find chris hot like in that i love you kind of way

well that's probably how he feels about you right now i know it sucks well give what you get bitch i know i know wait someone like i think chris is hot but like this whole long weekend i've been like laying around and i was like you should be like he used to be so perverted and he would always be like grabbing me and saying things and then i was like that's like you're so perverted leave me the fuck alone and now he leaves me alone and i don't want that you should make him drink more margaritas with you i guess i know i think drinking i drank margaritas i was trying to make out with him in the hot tub and he was just like not even having sex in the hot tub yet no oh wow you might get a uti sex in the hot tub is kind of fun though but it definitely

the water's definitely gonna come over the sides though honestly and we can't refill it's too soon We haven't even got the pH right. Like, we can't. And also, our neighbors can see right in. Like, it's, I mean, at night. Yeah, that makes it fun. Okay. You know what?

I think that you give what you get. My friend saw a healer, and he told her, whatever it is that you feel you're lacking in your life and you want more of, consciously go around and give that out to the world. So, it's like, if you think you want more money, you want more money, go and you give more money. You're more generous. If you want to be treated like a hot bitch, you make your husband feel like a hot bitch. That's right.

Hot bitch, Chris. Okay. Well, I'm not going to. When we come back, we have a hot bitch. We have the hottest bitch. Hottest bitch. Burp. Now back to the Lady Gang.

Born in Queens and raised as a Georgia peach, just like our little Becca. And that's not the only thing they have in common. Get your slurpees out because you know I'm talking about Glee. She's an actress, author, television personality, fashion designer, producer, and Broadway star. If there's anyone who can help me land the role of Roxy Hart, it is this former Mama Morton from Chicago. She's brightened up the boardroom on Celebrity Apprentice and cha-cha'd her way into our hearts on Dancing with the Stars. She's even cool enough to appear in the Kim Kardashian music video as herself. Damn.

Her Insta bio is sure to become the new Lady Gang Manifesto. Major shit talker with a heart of gold. And now she's heading out on Ladies Night Out tour with some of the funniest ladies in Hollywood. Please welcome to the LG, NeNe Leakes. Yay! Hey, everybody, get up and start clapping. Wow, that is quite the list of accomplishments. I know.

And wait, your Instagram bio is the best thing I've ever heard in my life. It really is. What is it? Tell me what it says. What is it? It says, shit talker with a heart of gold. Major shit talker with a heart of gold. That's it.

And I say that because, I mean, I don't mean anything by it. I'm just having fun. Yeah. That's what we are. Sometimes we just want to hate on a girl's blouse. Can I just say something? I'm just having fun. The girls who are obviously not in the room with us, all the listeners and some men.

Yeah. How have you, you're Benjamin Buttoning right now. Yes, you look, I was going to say something. Like, what is happening? Oh, thank you, honey. You know, I'm in television. I can't afford to look anything but great. How have you been doing?

Everybody's judging these days. I mean, people are judging. Social media is judging. You have to just look great all the time. What is your secret? My secret is eat everything and go to sleep late at night. No, I'm just kidding. You know, I don't even exercise like that.

But my whole thing is just keep yourself up. Just keep yourself together. Plus, I have a husband that likes to have a good-looking wife. That's the key. And then you can get him to pay for anything. Any treatment. Look at that ring. I know.

I know your ring is insane. You look like, you know, when I do an Instagram story and I flip over to the purple filter one to make you pretty before you tape it. You look like that in real life. Switch it over. Thank you. And also, thanks to my glam team. They keep me together, too. they do when i don't have um makeup on you probably would run that's a lot of us so we

were so excited you were coming on that we went into our facebook group and we said we usually don't tell people who's coming on and we're like but nini's coming and i know you guys are going to have questions and so there were questions there were some of them are from them and some of them are for us but i first want to just say um you were so brave and being so honest and open with Greg's struggle and he's good. He's great. And Oh my God, what a thing to go through. It was very hard. Uh, it was the worst year of our life. Obviously we don't know what cancer is. We never had cancer before. And, um, I was the caretaker and I wasn't great. Yeah. And I, and I wasn't great, but, and, and I struggled a lot and, uh, American cancer society reached out to us. I'm an

ambassador for them. And one of the things they said to me was that there's no right and wrong way to be a caretaker you know the care they have a support group for caretakers um it was just difficult yeah but i'm happy to say greg is cancer free yeah he looks amazing yeah congratulations right how did you celebrate when he got there we had a party yeah yeah we we posted it up you know on all over social media he said i want to have an old school party like everybody's dancing in the kitchen so we invited all the guests and everybody's like dancing around the kitchen and everything. It was really fun. What would you tell, we have a lot of girls that are

dealing with someone in their lives that's struggling with cancer. What would be your best advice as a caretaker? I would say make sure you take care of you. It's very important to take care of yourself. I feel like I didn't take care of myself enough. I dealt with Greg a lot

and it drove me nuts and it made us clash and we were screaming sometimes. So I wish I had taken care of myself. Be a part of a support group Because I didn't know that existed But there is support groups for caretakers That's great

It is true I want to get into the housewives I know you do girl First of all I'm going to start light Favorite housewife that isn't you Any franchise I actually have a couple of girls

I'm really cool with I feel like if I name one I'm really cool with Kyle Richards And I think every time I'm here in L.A., we have the best time. She's super fun. And you're both businesswomen. Yes. And actually, we just saw each other in New York doing business.

And I'm friends with a lot of OGs now, okay? Because we all came in. And we have a special bond. Teresa. Teresa and I have the best time together every time we see each other. She can party, right? Yes. And whenever she needs something, she reaches out and calls me.

I really like her. And those are probably my two faves. Okay. There are other girls that I think are great. If you had to make Housewives All-Stars, and you could take a couple people from everywhere, and I'm not talking just people you want to hang out with. I'm talking about that would make the best television.

Who would you put in the All-Star cast? I would put, what's her name? From Beverly Hills. I already forgot. She and I were on Celebrity Apprentice together. Lisa. No, not Lisa. Erica?

lisa rena lisa rena okay oh yeah i would have lisa rena because i think that you know she's great we were on celebrity apprentice she was not like that but you know on this show um i would i would i'll bring kyle on over okay and then um let me see where am i going new jersey you gotta have theresa always i mean like you got to have her and honestly if i was gonna have her and i know she's not a housewife but that danielle i think is something else And I think she needs to come on over here and get a part of this group. I think it's going to be a, something's going to happen, girl. Something's going to happen.

And I'll go to New York and I would get a Ramona. I have to have Ramona. Her and her eyes. Her dancing. Like, yes. She's so off beat when she dances. It's insane. I've never seen anything quite like it in my life.

No, it's amazing. And so I have to have her. And let me see who else is over there. Well, you're Atlanta. You're repping Atlanta. No, I got to get me somebody else out of New York City. I would take Luann. I'm going to hire an accountist.

yes she'll be a hot mess and that'll be good it makes a good tv in atlanta oh god this is a good cast so far it's so good i'm watching i need to watch andy's literally listening being like and who else she's in atlanta oh are there any potomacs potomac i'll i don't watch the show yeah but i i like that monique and so i would grab her and giselle okay yeah i mean i think that this needs to happen you know what it has to be it just has to be it has to be all stars

everyone goes on a girls trip because the girls trips are when the shit goes down yeah or like a cruise or a cruise housewives cruise but you gotta have good people

I mean if it's gonna be a show where you're gonna bring somebody from East so you gotta have some good oh yeah what about Orange County Orange County

I'm definitely gonna have to have Vicky because she screams all the time she's gotta come and scream a little bit and I'll take Tamara too she'll be good drama

oh my god you know Vicky screen they're ready to go it's amazing well you know with jersey shore not that you're anything like that but they they didn't know how to like now that they were all grown they weren't sure how to do more jersey shore so they put like the beach house and they all went to miami for like two weeks and that was the whole show i would like how was it like housewives when they went housewives hamptons retreat i mean this is whatever no the hamptons don't want us honey we go over there and tell the whole place so they'll be like get out don't ever come back

You're like, you're a black person. Get out. We need to go to Miami, too. Yes. Oh, Miami would be tight. Miami would be, okay. So, well, like, I have an idea. We have an idea.

Why hasn't this happened yet? It seems like something that should be happening. It should have been happening. You know, if it was me, I would, you know, take, I would make a whole nother show. Yes. You know, and it would be a regular show that comes on all the time with, like, this other cast of Housewives. Yes.

Housewives. The all-stars. And the other thing I would do, too. I don't care about the new people. I would have a talk show with five, like, just like The View, but it's all housewives. Oh, my God, yes. And they are sitting around a table, like, talking about all these different cities. And pop culture.

But talk about all the cities, all the different franchises, and then just talk about... Yeah, like a commentary. Because one thing about the housewives, they are very opinionated, and I feel like you're going to get real true opinions and drama. They'll be arguing at the table with each other. Don't you know The View, their ratings always go up when they have those arguments? I know. They be over there arguing about all kinds of things.

anything. Yeah, so these girls could be arguing. It would be drama backstage. I can't even imagine. And then the contract negotiations. Forget about it. Yeah, that's a whole other thing, girl. Now listen, when the contract... Listen, even I want to take my wig and lashes off. I mean, no.

No, and it takes so long. It's a long negotiation. People don't understand. It's not like, okay, it's a call. Even if you have an existing contract, most people want to redo something that's in there. It takes... Are you... Are you, I've heard rumors that you're the highest paid housewife.

You know, I heard rumors that Candy was the highest paid housewife. Yeah. So I don't know. I mean, I don't know. We don't know. I think everybody, you know, kind of assumes. What I do know is that I like my chick. So, you know, I don't know what whoever's making.

I don't really care. When I negotiated my money, I negotiated the money that I wanted. You really can't worry about the next person because that's going to mess you up. For sure. You know, you're going to be thinking about how much money she's making. $2 more than me. If she is higher paid than I am, she's not getting much more than me, baby. It may be $5 more so she can keep it.

And she's also not doing 800 other things. No, she's not. Listen, I'm a real hustler. I literally have, I think, 10 jobs working on 15. That's right. Okay. And I always tell people that you have to make sure you have something else. When one thing goes away, you can grab at that.

That go away, grab at that. You got to have other things. Lots of eggs and lots of baskets. Yes. You got to work. you gotta be a hustler girl and it's not easy no this was a question that one of our girls wrote that i thought was so good what's your preparation like for a reunion oh now listen how much thought process goes into she said how do you choose your look do designers contact you do you have to worry

about what the others are wearing you guys could see nini's face right now no we have a theme so we know what the theme is every year like champagne pop yeah like whatever it is and they tell us the colors that we can wear so they give us the the basis you know your theme is going to be japan so and these are the colors that we're wearing red or something so you have to stay in that right and then like a couple days before the reunion a stylist has flown to atlanta and we take we buy our own looks so we pull our own looks and then we take them to him and we try them on and they kind of tell us like yes no maybe so oh so you can't accidentally wear the same dress as somebody else no they already know and then mentally and then the night before it's like a

no sleep night the cars are picking everybody up at 6 a.m in the morning it's a very long day um because i'm an og um i don't get picked up at 6 in the morning thank you very much i've earned my time chatting my mind is usually at seven one hour later but it mean a lot because i feel like i don't take as long as some of the other girls take to get ready um and so once you get there when you walk in there's a lot of catering like for breakfast lunch and dinner is catered there and there's these rooms with everybody they're not rooms there are things they made because we do it in a hotel ballroom so they'll have on the name nini and i'll have a big peach and then whoever's next whoever's next

and they kind of work it out lining us up beside each other based off if we're cool or not right You don't get to choose where you sit. They sit you. They sit us. And also, the dressing rooms are by who you're kind of cool with. So there's like three on this side and three over there. So they separate if you've got beef. They keep it separate until you get on stage.

Yeah, they don't want anything happening. Because you can hear. You can also hear a little bit, like the person that's getting dressed next to you. Because there's just a curtain separating you. So you can kind of hear what they're saying. And then nobody's really talking to each other that day. and I when you walk out I already know like looking at them like okay so they really they really are going to try me today I see you bitch I see you everybody's sitting there

with their new shoes and new dresses on I'm like girl it's a really I don't like the reunion it's no secret Bravo knows I don't like it Andy knows I don't like it um I don't like it because I feel like um i feel like it's like walking the highest rated thing you're doing it's like walking into the lines like like why do i want to do that to myself why do i want to walk into the lion's den walk in there and then everybody's looking at you and judging each other like oh i don't like her dress her dress is ugly i was gonna get those shoes i'm glad i didn't you know like stuff like i don't know what's wrong with my hair your hair is too smooth too smooth how did they find you originally yeah um i knew a girl that happened to know that there was a

casting director out in atlanta looking for women who live behind the gate and so she wait that was the brief yeah that's what we want women who live behind the gate that is so rich if you remember orange county when they first opened when their first season they opened up this yep right i You know, these women live behind the gate. So the girl that told me that, I didn't think that she was, like, connected. It was just a girl that, you know, I chit-chat, whatever. And so she was like, the Orange County Housewives are here looking for housewives. I said, that's so stupid.

Why would Housewives be, Orange County Housewives? They be looking for Orange County Housewives in Atlanta. And she said, well, they're looking for women that live behind a gate. I said, well, honey, you need to refer me because I live behind a gate. And so she did. No. And the lady called me up. And she called me, and I kind of blew her off.

And she was like, well, I heard about you, and I want to talk to you. And I was like, hmm. Right, right, right. And then the lady kept calling me, like, girl, are we doing this or not? And I was like, okay, come on. So that day that the lady was going to come over, I started cleaning my house. And I don't eat breakfast. I'm not a real breakfast person.

And I drank a bottle of wine. So when the lady rang, yeah, I forgot that I didn't eat, though. Because I was cleaning up, and I forgot I hadn't had anything. And I had some wine. I knew she was getting close to being there. I got some wine. And when she rang the doorbell, I was like, hello welcome and she was like she's like booked and busy this is gonna be the one right here and

so she comes in and we talk and and just so happened my husband my son was in third grade and my husband and i we've never been good at homework and so my husband and and and my son was doing homework and they were trying to add and whatever multiply and both of us are in there like one two three she just thought it was hilarious and she left my house and as she got out of my gate she said listen girl we love you so much who else do you know who are your friends and i said okay kim zoziak sheree whitfield no sean snow we cast i literally cast the whole show with these just talking you know what and then um that's why it was so good i did but they said to me we don't want a white girl okay we want this to be an all african-american cast and i said

okay okay so we gotta find somebody else and one day I happened to be in Buckhead and saw our head of production and Kim was with me all they need to do is see her and she you know she was potty mouthing

I said this white girl wears a wig and smokes cigarettes like you got to talk to her we would work out at the gym together and she would have on juicy sweats remember when juicy she had every color she literally would get off the treadmill and be like and i was just like girl like i was so interested in her i was like

this is amazing we gotta be yeah that's fascinating and then we found out we lived in the same neighborhood so when they saw kim and talked to her they were like forget it okay they were like listen now we did say it was gonna be all black we're gonna put her in she's in and then you guys were up and down and up and down and now you've come around and you're fine yes it's very difficult to have a friendship on a show like oh yeah like it's just not gonna work yeah i don't think so i think that you know you'll be friends for a little while but you have to fall out like i don't think you can be on a show like this and not fall out right so is that because of it's just the way the show is the way that they kind of with you tear okay anything if if you were friends not on the

show your friendship would probably be you know what i say is that uh if we weren't on a show together all of us girls would be so cool of course yeah yeah that's so but that's why the show was so good because you guys actually were friends. Yeah. Now when they cast it, it's like. It's not friends now. They're just like you'll still shut up. And then you're not invested when they have a falling out. Yeah. Yeah, because you weren't friends before. You weren't friends before. See you never.

Yes. See you never. Yes. I'm going to use that. I like that. See you never. Hello. Goodbye. That's my new word. Maybe that's your new tagline. See you never. Can you give us one behind the scenes thing that we

would. I mean, you gave us a little bit of the reason that about producing like i was talking to you earlier you actually it's obviously in your house but what's one thing that people wouldn't know about producing about production yeah about like making the show about making the show but they wouldn't know let me see what they wouldn't do you have any power off of like turn the cameras off no but after a while if you just crack up like i can't yeah and they'll be like okay okay we'll come back let me give her a break yeah we'll go outside gotta come back okay that's kind of interesting but the other thing is um it's like we're like kind of like family yeah i don't know if people would know that we have a lot of the same producers

year after year after year they've been working on the show forever with us yeah um they come into our house i have food out they eat you know they bring food too but it's like they're in our home yeah so we really are like family yeah wow so they know us really well because they've worked with us for a really long time so they kind of like she's not gonna do that today i can tell you right now i just looked like stop poking her yeah i just looked at her and i could tell she's not gonna do it has it been surprising to you that through this avenue which you were like oh i don't know so many things like you i mean the fact that you were on broadway multiple times like it's kind of bananas because it doesn't happen for everyone well you know what everyone's i was acting before

right right i became a reality star right and so um i can tell you this i i i'm an original housewife so the platform at that time was so big and amazing it opened up many doors of opportunity today it still does but not like when we first in that show first jumped off when we first jumped off i mean people were blowing our phones up to do any and everything i mean we were doing it all and I just happened to be an original so I just got to do everything yeah so cool and it really really worked it was a water cooler people

love the show they love it I think it's amazing I'm in the airport and guys come up to me and they be like can I take a picture with you because my wife loves you and I'm like you watch the show too baby they all do

they love to say they don't don't act like you don't then they'll be like yeah I can say yeah my wife makes me watch the show yeah that's what they say yeah um andy as a boss what about him is he great well he's a boss right you know we don't like when you get invited on watch what happens live you're like what what i mean jen your publicist in the corner being like No, no, no, Jen knows that. You know what, I'm skipping it.

Jen seems, Andy seems great. She knows that I'll answer. Who this? Andy seems great. Yeah, no, I don't, you know, I was about to explain to you that we don't deal with Andy like that. Like, not like that. We deal more with the Bravo people who are, you know, dealing with our contracts, the executives over there. Because Andy is talent now, but he's also the producer of our show.

Right. And we deal with the head of True Entertainment, our production company. So when there's issues, we usually deal with them. And because I've known Andy for so long, and if there's anything with me, then I just look down and he texts my phone. But we've known each other for so long. We'll text my phone, do we need to talk? What's going on?

You know, that kind of stuff. Like in the ninth hour, if you need an Andy, like, Andy, you've got to go do this for me. He's there for you. Oh, yeah. I just pick up the phone and call Andy. Like, honey, I don't have time to email you or nothing. Let me just call yourself. unlike a lot of the other housewives i feel like he probably feels like he owes you

for making creating an entire show successful well i mean you're welcome see you never not single-handedly but like it's without a doubt you brought the rating you know i don't know how they see it but i can tell you what i see because i was there i and i i outlasted all of the original housewives i feel like i carried this show a lot i carried it a lot and that's just a fact i carried it a lot you know you you look you can't get on social media hit memes and see nobody but me i'm a gif i think that you are the most memed person i am on reality and i need them to give me some money for that yeah you should be You should be making that meme money.

You should be doing it. Yes, why don't I make that? How can I? Can somebody help us? Anybody listening, can you help us? She needs a 16th job. Yes, I need to understand why I don't even get five cents from it. I kind of hate sometimes when I open up Instagram and I see my face, like, coming up and down

where people are using, people are posting it. I was just like, that shouldn't be legal. I didn't sign off on this bullshit. No, I didn't sign off on somebody just be posting me. They're like, ooh, child, a ghetto. And then there I am tiptoeing across. Oh, my God. I want to ask you a celebrity story.

So I saw on your Instagram that you recently met Lizzo. Yes. Tell me about that moment because she's the best friend that we're all waiting to have. Oh, my gosh. So I didn't know that Lizzo liked me. No, she came up to you. Yeah, but no, they told me that she'd been on Watch What Happens Live and she said that I was her favorite housewife. So I didn't know that she had done that.

And I was at, we were at Diddy's house. Just at Did's. As you are. Just Saturday night at Did's. Just hanging out at Diddy's house. You know, just everybody's just hanging out. And here come Lizzo. She got on her little booty shorts and stuff.

You know, she's so confident. I tell you, I could never be as confident as her. And she was like, oh, my God, there go NeNe. NeNe, you don't understand how I use your language all the time. I say all the things that you say. I bloop girl back. She's just saying all this stuff. And I was like, oh, my God.

She's like, can we please take a picture? And I was like, girl, did you ask me? Should we ask you? I'll take a picture with you. And so I took a picture with her. She's great. She's so bubbly. Yeah.

She's like, oh, my God. So I started following her. Oh, honey, she'd be shaking her booty and everything. Oh, she'd be on there. Now you need a royalty on her. If she's going to use it. Forget about the memes. I mean, you need the Lizzo royalty.

If she's going to use your boop-bop-beep, you better get a royalty on that. I was at a conference the other day because I own boutiques. So I was at a conference for clothes. And this lady, she said, stop by here and buy some of my things. I have sunglasses, and they're called Glam Baby. Yeah. And you're like, I own that. I'm like, why didn't I just, you know, listen.

There's a lot of things I've said I should. Glam babies, that was the first thing I said. So she has a little line of sunglasses for babies, and she called them glam babies. And I was like, girl, now I made glam baby famous. Now here you go. You got to trademark everything you said. And honestly, Marie Osmond was doing a commercial, and she said something like, I'm a glammer.

I'm Marie Osmond. I'm a glammer. And I was like, there she goes. She a glammer. Oh, my God. Now, everybody's a glamour. Imitation. Yeah.

Damn. You got to trademark this stuff. You do have to trademark that. Yeah, and I said bloop. And do you remember when the Kardashians had, Kim was doing like her, what do you call it? Her little. Skims? No, the memes that she was doing.

Like when she was. The selfies? Boomerang? No, like you can, what is it called? No, no, you can put it on your phone again. Oh, the emojis. The emojis. The emojis.

so she had one that said bloop i was like wait now kim i thought we were cool how dare you start putting bloop up for sale honey i feel some kind of uh no you need like a team that just listens to everything you say and if it's something good like trademark it's true you could be making all that well you know i was on kim's game too i know that yeah yeah as yourself i said in here i was like i was like there's so many factors i was like i'm gonna need this one all right so um we are going to lose you're very busy today we're going to lose you we're going to when we come back we're going to ask the lady gang like nicely quickly here we go you're listening to the lady gang all right and we're back so for this part of the podcast we have our listeners writing questions

about love life career whatever and we give them somewhat questionable advice sometimes good okay our first question comes from two-faced she says in a few months two of my girlfriends are getting married but there is one problem i'm struggling with about two years ago i drunkenly hooked up with the brother of the soon-to-be groom he has or had a girlfriend and i'm about to go to the bachelorette weekend with her i never felt guilty about the hookup because i wasn't cheating on anyone but now that i've been around his girlfriend more i've been feeling really shitty she's always so nice to me and i genuinely like her i'm not tempted to tell her but i feel like such a bitch from keeping this from her i can't imagine what she'll think of me if she were ever

to find out do i just keep pretending nothing ever happened between me and her boyfriend am i a horrible person what do i do i think you need to keep pretending and i actually know a situation do not tell yes yeah i know a situation like that is actually involves me oh i am friends with two different girls and one girl is married and my other friend is single and she definitely hooked up with her husband and they are both around a lot of each other it's weird but he's not going to tell her the only person that would tell us her so i say no yeah i would say you know they weren't friends in the beginning yeah and she would be destroying their relationship so she needs to shut up you already slept with him that was enough girl now shut up yeah also way back in

the day we talked about how sometimes when you think you're being honest it's actually just selfish because she wants to clear her conscience but that's not going to be the most productive thing for anybody well and the thing is the only reason why she wants to clear her conscience is because she's around this girl if she wasn't she wouldn't give a shit but still they weren't friends right now and i'm telling you it's a bad thing to do yeah because she's gonna tell her it's gonna put some damage on their relationship just cut it out girl you've already done that and she's not gonna be her friend after that no no she's gonna be like girl now y'all gonna be really awkward around each other well and then it'll ruin the girl's wedding yeah because it's just

gonna be a bunch of drama you learned your lesson yeah don't do it again i mean where does she live it i need to go back you need to give her some words i wish we got addresses i know i need to go over our house and knock on the door girl don't do that uh-uh once is enough you just let the guilt eat at you and then you never do it again no means no okay i don't think that's what that means when a baby says no it means no don't do that okay second question comes from anonymous she says so i've been dating this amazing guy for over a year he's not the biggest guy i've ever been with but he's very much about making me making sure i'm happy in bed okay so not biggest doesn't penis okay i thought meant like miss muscly the penis is small penis is not the

biggest only problem is that i've only got orgasm the only problem is that i've only orgasmed a few times from him it doesn't help that i fake it sometimes leading him to think he's amazing in bed bad move we've also gotten in this rut of north no foreplay and just sex we both love each other but i'm worried about his size not being enough any tips on what to do with somebody who might be a little below average first of all stop faking your orgasms she need to stop doing that she need to stop doing that yeah now i used to date a guy back in there we just had sex and no foreplay because he was so good i was just like just hurry up come on chat just run on over here quickly let's make this thing happen fast but i don't know what she can do maybe they can invite

some toys into the bedroom toys are great yeah yeah maybe they can do that also help because if you're a great guy and also women you have to teach guys yes sometimes you have to say no don't touch me right there touch me over here yeah put your leg over there because guys are just so useless well you gotta tell them certain things you know put your leg over here put yours let me put mine over there that's true well and also they could stick their dick in anything and get off we need a little more we need some guidance a finesse no and again okay don't fake your orgasms ladies ever maybe they try a different position and then also if he's not having foreplay he thinks you're getting off by sex yeah and with his now listen i'm gonna tell

you i wouldn't date anyone that didn't have foreplay i'm sorry i'm just sorry yeah yeah that's gonna have to be number one teach him no foreplay is a must don't even look at me if you don't want to do it bye and you can't grow a penis but like you can do shit with the rest of the parts of your body that don't need to be massive but it's hard to be with someone that you don't like sexually yes that's very important yeah okay last question comes from nana yes nana it's my nana she wants to know if i'm coming over for dinner on sunday yes nana okay my husband and i have been together for seven years married for five the last year has been rough and it seems like we're on completely different pages we rarely talk about anything meaningful never go out on

dates argue frequently and hardly show any romantic connection it almost feels like we aren't even dating just friends who've created life together who happen to sleep in the same bed my question is how do i know if my marriage is falling apart or if we are just going through a weird phase and how do i fix this it could very possibly be a weird phase i agree i mean i've i've been married for 20 something years and you go through phases yeah and I think if it's worth having then I think they push through yeah but you know you can't go on forever that way something has to change so maybe you know a conversation a very open and honest conversation like we don't talk anymore yeah you know we don't go on dates you know I mean we're not having sex I mean I mean are we

better friends than husband and wife you know that I think an honest conversation will work what has gotten you out of a rut when you've been in like well the first thing that got me out was a divorce um that'll do it everyone needs a good divorce you know what my husband uh was never a good communicator and i had to teach him that we have to discuss certain things that doesn't work honey let's talk about this right he used to say when i say i need to talk to you he said oh god of course so many guys yes i can't stand when he say that i said shut up and that's when you're I mean, yeah, because we really need to talk. So I've taught him, you know, to kind of communicate a little bit more.

But we've communicated. And the other thing about Greg and I, I don't know about this couple, we like each other, you know, and liking is important. And I know you love, that's one thing. But to like, you must like each other. Because you can love a lot of people. But I need to really like you. And so I really like him.

He really likes me. Well, obviously. Honestly, I really like you too. Same. When you're ready for that second divorce, I'm also ready for a divorce. Girl, if I ever get a divorce, y'all don't want me out here in East Street. Oh, shit. No.

NeNe Leakes, you've graced the lady gang today. Thank you for making the time in your busy schedule. And for ladies that need a night out on the town, head on over. I looked for where to get tickets. They're available anywhere you get tickets. Stick back there. Access everywhere. The favorite place that we like is ladiesnightoutcomedy.com.

That's right. When are you in L.A.? They already did L.A. We've already done L.A. And then March 22nd, we're in Las Vegas. How fun is that? Come on to Vegas because you get to see the show and gamble. Vegas is the best.

It's the best. Ladies Night Out tour. NeNe, you're amazing. Of course, you probably already follow her, but you can follow her at NeNeLeaks, just her name. And I hope you stay on Housewives because you're the best part of it. Thank you so much. See you. Next Tuesday.

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