The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Almost Famous OG: The Tales Of A Broken Finger with Ali Manno

Episode Date: January 17, 2025

There's nothing more painful than a broken bone, especially when you've put your all into training. Ali Manno joins Trista to discuss how her pesky broken finger derailed her “Special Forces” plans as she shares why that wasn’t even the toughest part of the competition. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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bestie, and you're not going to want to miss it. My name is Curley. And I'm Maya. Get in here. hear listen to the super secret bestie club on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast this is the almost famous podcast with iHeart radio hey everybody it's the almost famous the ogs podcast bob guinea here joined by my lovely co-host the very godmother of the bachelor franchise trista sutter and today we are very excited we are joined um um It's our Special Forces Edition episodes, and we are joined by a former Bachelor Nation superstar, I say, Allie Mano, nay, Fettitowski, in the spirit of how I say Trista Sutter, nay, Ren. So we are so excited to have Allie on. I have personally not seen Allie since we did our, was it Us Weekly or People Magazine, the favorite bachelors of all time spread?

It was either Us Weekly or Life and Style. I think it was Us Weekly then. Yeah, it was a long time ago. I probably could conjure up a copy and I'll pop it up on the screen. But very excited. I'm in the room that has all of the Bachelor propaganda. Memorabilia. Oh my gosh.

That's hysterical. It just might be something I can grab. But we're very excited. Allie came on to Special Forces with a force, no puns intended. and we are very excited to have her out. So let's bring her in, ladies and gentlemen. Allie Mano Ney Fedatowski. Hi, Ali.

Welcome. Thanks. How are you? Great now. We're good to see you. We're so excited to have you. We've been, I think you know, but we've been talking to some of the recruits. And we got to talk to Q earlier this week.

I'm going to be talking to Rudy. Bob, I think you, well, maybe you can't be there. but Rudy and Billy will be on. So we're trying to get, you know, everybody to come on and talk about the experience because it was, you know, very, I don't know, what would you say? Intense. And so, but what I want to get to initially is that I, you know, everyone wants to know, I feel like, And I want you to be able to explain what happened in your experience when you had to leave the show.

Because you, as with me, as with everything, you only get to see like a teeny tiny part of what actually went down. And so I want you to be able to share your truth and talk about your exit on the show. Yeah, I don't know what you guys have talked about so far on here. but, like, it's just so mind-boggling interest. I know you get this so much how little, like, they show and how easy it looks as a viewer. Totally. I remember watching, not easy,

but I remember watching, like, the first season and the second season and being like, why are they, like, crying? Like, it's not that hard. You know, and then now that I've done it, now I'm like, oh, my gosh, you've seen me. nothing right like you know we'll get to the finger thing but like the beehive when we were in that pool treading water the way i described that to like my husband kevin and my friends when i got home was like it was so terrifying it was the scariest moment of my life i thought i was

going to drown i thought other people were going to drown um it was so physically hard and when i watched it back i was like that looked like nothing and it was so horrible And so I want people, I guess, like, when they're watching to keep in mind, like, you keep seeing people like, I notice on the show, like, Landon Donovan and, you know, a professional soccer player who's like, clearly had some very physically grueling things in his life, right? He said, like, after we swam from the boat to shore, he's like, it's not going to get harder than that, right? You can get harder than that. And that was really the first 10, you know, minutes we were there. So I guess everyone watching just, like, keeping. in mind, the show is so much harder than it looks, I guess, to say that. But I will say this.

I think it looked pretty damn hard. I was watching that first episode. And obviously, you know, I don't, I don't talk to you, Allie, as much as I talk to Trista. We haven't talked in a few years, but I know you, you know, and I feel like I know you. And I'm watching the show and I'm watching these people go through this stuff. And I'm just like blown away at you guys challenging yourself like this, stepping up to the plate and delivering. And, Ali, you, I mean, oh my god you looked like you were gonna literally you could have taken down cam newton in a given second if you wanted to you look so strong i was sure she was when they sent me home i was like who know i need to fight like i don't care how broken my hand it i was like i was like putting me in front

of can't newton like that's how i felt so first thank you for saying that you look so fit absolutely and i wanted to say this too real quick what a difference between watching and And again, we've interviewed him, so I don't mean this in a bad way, but interviewing Stephen Baldwin, you know, in the way that he left the show. And then you're like, no, no, I'm not going. You know, and so I'm so excited to see where they pick up because I don't feel like they've, I feel like they teased you leaving, I'm assuming, you know. No, I'm gone. I mean, that's it. And, you know, I, I'm just going to say, I actually left the morning of the third day.

I didn't leave the night of the second day. so it's a little confusing on the show. I think, like, for editing purposes, they just probably needed, like, you know, to end the show on, like, someone going or something. But I did spend two nights there. No, it's seen for me. Yes.

No, you can't take away from that, for sure. No. Yeah, say it. Speak it. I said to the producers, I was pretty, I was very upset the next morning. I was upset with the medic. I was upset with the producers.

I was upset all around, right? Sure. So what happened? I actually don't know exactly when I hurt my finger. I always up until basically, I rewatched the episode last night with my girlfriend who was out of town when it aired. She wanted to watch with me. And that was the first time I realized, oh, did I hurt my finger on the drop on the bridge? Or did I hurt it when I was trying to crank like the thing, the belay to get me down?

Mine was like twisted and upside down. Like something weird happened. Like, I don't know if they do it on purpose where they put some people's carabiner hooks on upside down and backwards. Mine wore not right when I fell down. So I remember like squeezing so hard, I'm like, so did I hurt my finger on the drop down? Or did I hurt it trying to get myself down? I actually don't know.

I just know what happened on that, sometime during that challenge on the bridge. And I had a really, I hate gloves. I had some bad luck with gloves in the show. The helicopter challenge, they gave me two left hand gloves. So one side was like leather and the other side had actual grip. So that's why I couldn't like hold on once I got up there. My hand was flipping. When we got our burghans, our rucksacks or burghans, my bergans didn't have one glove.

So I was down a glove. So it was two glove issues on the show. And then the third glove issue was on the second challenge where everyone had like, Trista, your gloves, they were like fitted black gloves, right? They weren't fitted. I mean, my hands are super small, but, but still. But everyone said, like, or most people who I spoke to said like, oh my gosh, no, I had like new black gloves. Oh, good. Pretty well. Mine were like these like really old, crinkly brown, way too big for my hands gloves.

So what happened when I come down, you see me walk up to the other recruits and go like this? And that's because all my fingers had fallen out of the gloves for the drop. So that's when I thing happened. So the medic basically thought, I went, actually, I never went to see him. So the medic was coming in to check on people. Poor Trista. I mean, you don't see this, had a hypothermia. I know. Isn't that crazy? Because it was so cold. Mirian had hypothermia. Kyla had a hypothermia and low blood sugar. We were taking care of her in the barracks. Kyla didn't know her name. She couldn't remember who she was. Oh, my gosh. There was some, like, really scary step going on.

And I had a pressure issue. I did not go to the medic. He came to, like, our barracks. And all I said to him was, like, I busted my finger. Can I have some buddy tape and some ibuprofen? Like, I just wanted some ibuprofen because I knew I needed to get the swalling under control. And he looks at it. And he goes, come with me to, because I would have hit it from him.

Like, I just, I literally felt like, oh, just a little, little swallinger, no big deal. like, I went and did the Navy SEAL training. I put a hundred pound logs over my head. I ran back and helped other people with their logs. Like, I was not going home. And then he took me in his thing that night, night and night too. And he's like, look, you, there's a worst case scenario I'm going to have to medically withdraw you.

And I was like, oh my gosh, no, please, please, please don't. And he's like, best case scenario, it's just a sprain. He's like, I'll look at it in the morning and we'll make a decision then. So I go to bed that night. I'm very upset. at the thought of even getting medically withdrawn. But I go to bed that night, you know, have a horrible night's sleep like we all do. And then what is it?

Two hours that we get. I mean, it's totally. Unreal. Nothing. And so then they wake us up with like a barrel in the room of putting firecrackers in it. So it sounds like gunshots. Oh, gosh. It's terrifying.

I mean, you know, Trissy, you woke up that morning in a really rough mindset. It's horrible. So then at that point, they call us, we have to pack our bags really quick and I'm taking my bad hand and I'm punching my bag down to try to waterproof it and all this stuff and running around and we go out on like the parade square and Rudy goes number four to the medic. And that's what I went into the medic that morning and they were like, and the medic wasn't there. It was just one of the DS and he said, we're medically withdrawing you. And I was so pissed off. I started punching the table. You don't see it because I don't show it, but I'm punching the table saying, I'm fine.

I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. And the medic, I'm like, where's the medic? And he's like, the medic's not here yet. I'm like, so you're telling me the medic wasn't even going to look at it again? So I was so mad because not only did I spend another night there when I didn't have to, but I just, I wanted the medic to look at it. I knew it. I knew I felt in my heart it wasn't broken and like it was okay. I just needed some tape and some ibuprofen.

Yeah, yeah. And it already had looked a little. better in my opinion that morning. But, yeah, ultimately, they said, he was like, there's nothing we can do. Like, for, like, this show, people can really get hurt on this show. It's intense. Like, I can't film it in America. I honestly don't think it's legal to film here. What they do. Right. Yeah. Well, you know, you see, you see in the, when they're showing like you, like all, you know, pissed in the, in the medical room and everything, then they go to, you know, this season on, you know, special forces and you see you doing sit-ups in the water with the log like you see that you

know and i was like that's why i was like no she must not go home they must be just like baiting us like you know and and i was i was so bummed when i found out that you did go home because i could tell you had the drive and you were you had physically prepared and you know that was that was tough to watch when it's you know when you got your little vested interest i got i got my vested interest and two people on that show man i'm like let's go you know we had a Big legacy to fulfill. And I was like, we fulfilled this legacy. Ali did not achieve that goal.

So I have to give a little background. So as Ali said, I haven't talked a lot about the hypothermia on here. But the hypothermia definitely got me. We talked earlier to Christy. And she reminded me that I was turning blue and lethargic and all of these things. And it was really freaking scary. and finally get back to the barracks where everyone was. I was like delayed.

Everyone was already taking showers and eating and all this stuff. And I'm just like, you know, moving along like a teeny little inchworm. And I get to the, the medic told me to go warm up and get some food. And so I walked into the warming room and it's got three little stoves. And I just like, there were a bunch of people, including Allie in there. And I was like, I'm not even going to talk to anyone. I'm just going next to the stove. I was facing the wall.

Like, I just wanted to, you can't be by yourself anywhere. Like, you're, you just, you basically can't. Like, you're with at least one person all the time. You have to be. And I was like, this is my way of just being by myself and just getting right with my thoughts and getting warm. And I'm like, I'm not going to bother anybody. I'm already feeling like a burden.

And Allie was like, I hear you go, is that Trista? And she came and sat next to me. and we just talked about what was going on. Foxy actually came in, which Allie was like, okay, I feel like I'm really honored to be sitting next to you because they don't come in the warming room. Like, they're not supposed to. And I was like, that's really sweet that he came in to check on me. She went and got me food.

Like, she was my caretaker. So thank you, Allie, for taking care of me. It meant a lot. And then I went to bed after I had a mirror room interview that, they don't show. And then I went to sleep and just was kind of at peace. And I, we all wake up to the explosions going off. And, and at that point, you know, I can talk about this later.

But at that point, I was just like, okay, it's my time. And Allie was still in it. She was running around like getting, like everybody, all the recruits were running around like crazy because you have like five minutes to make sure that you have your, your ruck packed, your water is full, your. you've got, you know, everything that you need from the warming room, if there's anything warm. And so everyone was running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Like it was chaos. And what people don't realize in those moments is that we have a wet

working suit, like so working gear, and then we have dry gear. So anytime we're in our dry gear, like what we sleep in and they're like out here in five minutes. You're like, oh, five minutes, that's a long time. They have time. We have to completely change. And it's a lot. Like, Belle, you know, fleece, undershirt, pants, sock, foods. You have to switch out everything. So it's stressful, right? And, and everyone was doing it at the same time. So everyone has their stuff in the warming room.

And it's like there's three racks. Like, it's not a huge room. And there's only three, like, stove things. So you want your stuff close to the stove. But, Ellie, I still, I lost a pair of like, you know how you wear those biker shorts underneath or I brought like biker shorts I still they they couldn't find them I left them there they got mixed up I think someone grabbed mine and I ended up with somebody else's so you're trying to get your clothes and like everyone's is scattered everywhere and it's not like it's labeled it's all

the same it looks all the same and then you're so pale because someone steals your sock and you're like totally it's chaotic it's chaos like and that morning was chaos like and that morning was but she went out like I was saying my goodbyes and handing like I think I gave my watch to cam and my pillow to somebody and I think socks to somebody and a snack to land in and um and she's running around and still doing this and I felt bad because I was like I'm so at peace and she was like no I don't want to leave yeah this is not fair and it wasn't it really wasn't I feel like you know they do pull you for medical reasons. And seeing your finger afterwards, you know, like you just shared a picture of how swollen it was. Denise and I had both, we were at the hotel and we called Allie when we

afterwards. And we were just trying to talk you through being like, we just heard that they fought today. So can you even imagine your finger could have been permanently damaged? So we're trying to like get her through it. But I can't, I can't imagine. that frustration because you worked so, so hard leading up to it and then to be taken out by what was like you didn't even want to tell them, you know, because it was your finger. I don't know. It's frustrating. So when they pulled me out, I saw Tris outside, right? Like, we like saw each other for a minute and I was so mad. Like, Tris is all like, oh, just at peace. And I'm like, I'm so upset. I punched a steel door.

at that point, a steel door with my bad hand, because I was trying to the producers, I was okay. So if my favorite was broken, I'm like, I think I might have broken it at this point. Oh, maybe that's why I was so swollen. It wasn't from the damage from before. I think it got worse. I was so mad.

And the producers, this is a thing, I will say, they felt so bad for me. And they just kept saying, they're like, Allie, we feel horrible, like the DS even did. Like, DSQ reached out to me after he's like, we really thought you were gonna make it far like the d like he said all of us like really thought you could make it to the end like we're so sorry and that meant a lot to me like him reaching out and saying that gave me a lot of validation

that I think I needed um but the producers just kept saying I was like look I'm fine and even after I went to a well she are they took me right to emergency room because they wanted like that was in my contract that like they tell me you got to go you got to go and so after it ended up not being broken um the producers then still were like back at the hotel they're all like we're so sorry we're so sorry but the way it works once the medic says you have to go there's nothing the producers can do so it doesn't matter if they want you to stay if the medic says you have to leave you have to leave and that's in place from what I understand for insurance purposes this show I'm sure get insured because it's so dangerous yeah they follow like extremely strict

safety protocols, and one of those safety protocols is the medic and the medic's decisions. So given that, I know there was like, nobody had a choice. I'm still a little bit mad at the medic for not coming the next morning and looking at it again. Right. I would be too. I think it's because we woke up at like 5 a.m. that morning and went to bed at 3 and he went to bed at like 3 to the medic. Like that's the last time I saw him was at like 2 a.m. So I'm guessing he like didn't want to have an early call time of 5 a.m. when he worked in the morning before, but it was in his contract to get like a five-hour sleep

night or something, you know. Exactly. But I was so heated. Like most people go back to the hotel and shower and sleep forever. I went back, showered, and immediately got on a train to London and then an airplane home to L.A. Oh my gosh. You were just done. I was, I would like get me home. I was so upset. I was like, but I mean, I don't know. I'm like begging the producers to do a

redemption season. Oh, that'd be sweet. I want a redemption season. I want another chance. If they do one and they don't include me, there's going to be words. Hell, you are so scrappy. I love it. You know, I've always loved your personality, but I've never seen this side of it where

you're just like a scrapper, man. I think that's amazing. Most people would have probably been like, oh, thank God. I'm out of here, you know? I mean, I probably would have been like that. I would do it again, not on TV, not get paid, and just. do it to do it. Like, that's how badly I wanted the experience.

Like, I really wanted, and look, like, Trista, I'm 10 years younger than you, right? Someone 10 years younger than me is going to have a different experience. Someone 10 years younger than, like, I know at 40, I cannot do what I did at 30. So I don't want to undermine in any way in this conversation what you completed for yourself. Like, look, in 10 years, I'm not doing this. Like, I commend you so much. for doing you like you my body just isn't what it was when I was 30

you know and I'm sure you will say to me my body isn't what it was when I was doing you know like you both know like you're there were you know the OGs for a reason like our body's exactly yeah but you know it's so for me like I just I really felt

I was at the best shape of my life I know from here it's only you know going to be harder to get in the shape. No, no, keep up your hard work. I know. That's the one thing I did get from the show, I will say. Like, I'm obsessed with, like, physical fitness now. Like, I love pushing my body to the limit.

And that's just not who I was before. I used to work out, like, painstakingly before because, like, I wanted to look good. You know, it was the end of these. I was like, I want to look good in my jeans. So I'm going to do squats. Whereas now I'm like, I want to do squats because I want to see how I want to do a thousand squats. in, you know, 10 minutes. Can I do it?

Let's see. Like, now my mindset has changed. Like, I have a pull-up bar in my bathroom door in my bedroom or in my bathroom that I had there for the show because every time I'd walk into my bathroom, I would, like, try to do some pull-ups. And I kept it there since the show because now it's like, I just randomly will jump up on it and, like, work on pull-ups. And, like, I love that that, like, love of fitness has stayed with me. So I'm grateful.

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And it was like, it was, you could definitely tell that, I mean, even when you guys were standing on parade and I don't know why I noticed this at one point, there was like a side, like swiping shot. I think you guys were outside even maybe and you were called to attention. You're all standing there.

And you were like rigid and like you were in it to win it you could tell you know i remember that angle i go oh my god alley's like great i can kill somebody out there like you're like you know and i remember the whole sweeping shot and i was like oh you know and it's just crazy because you know i feel like i know everyone in that show even though i've never met 90% of them and you can see that they're tired at least maybe in the way that you didn't even look you didn't even look tired to me like you look like you were as you're ready to climb another mountain let's go i'll you know i'll do this. I mean, and that had to feel so good because you know you're being pushed to the brink of your

of your physical and your mental capabilities. It had to feel so good knowing that, okay, they're not going to get me from a physical side of things because I'm doing it, right? I mean, you had to feel that confidence, I would think. Thank you so much for saying that first. You're welcome. That, like, means so much to me. Yeah, I, I could, like, when we were in the water and people were getting hypothermia like I wasn't even shivering half the time because I had trained in a 33 degree coal plunge every single day for two months like I would my body I can't even explain to you like what a machine it was at that point in my life like I'm not even close right now to where I was that because of how I had trained yeah I felt so strong like you don't

see but that that pool episode where we're all in the pool doing the beehive everyone one but five people went to the edge at some point, right? Like, because it was so difficult. The people that didn't go to the edge was the Olympic swimmer, the professional surfer, Brody Jenner, who's essentially a professional surfer, like he serves time. Christy Romano, which good for her.

She kicked so hard, she kicked a boot off. One of her boots, she did? I didn't know that. Oh my gosh. What? Which I think it ended up helping her because she had one boot off thing, Because those boots, when they get wet, but the water, they're so heavy.

Yeah. And I guess who the best person was, me. I never left. And I can't even swim. I'm a horrible swimmer. Like, I just, I really, I just can't explain to you, like, how you're, like, thank you for what you said. And yes, I was in the top. Yeah.

I was at the, I was always in the front of the pack when we were running. I just, I was there. I always said, like, like, I joked after. I was like, could someone just have Ronnie locked my finger? Like, I don't know if you know Ronnie Locke, but he's a football player who had his finger, like, cut off mid football game. It's actually my friend's dad, funny enough. No way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't know if you know my friend Willa, but Willa, her husband. Yeah, yeah, her husband is Ronnie Locke's son. Oh, my gosh. Oh, that's so funny. But I'm like, why didn't they just Ronnie lock me? Just cut it off. I wanted to say. Like, I just wanted to do it.

And I'm not kidding you. I wanted to be there so bad in the moment. I was like willing to sacrifice my finger to say. Like that's how I felt. Oh, wow. I was crazy. Like I was crazy person. No, I don't think you're crazy.

No, I don't either. I think like Trista said she was driven too. I mean, you guys were just in a different mind space. I think it's crazy. It's awesome. It's just a goal. And when you're there, if you truly want to be there, then you want to be there. Like it's like, you know, you want to go until the end.

There are, you know, there are certain people who do this show in the past, whatever, and I feel like they just, they come and they're like, okay, I need to stay for five minutes to collect my paycheck and then I'm fine to go. But, you know, like, you clearly, clearly had a purpose and a goal to get to the end and to have that taken away. It's hard. I would have given them my paycheck. I literally would have been like, take all the money you're paying me to be here and let me say. Wow. Wow. I love that.

It was about so much more. saying something. Yeah, no, I totally get that. What was the hardest moment? Well, never mind. We already answered that what the hardest moment was. Maybe take away the finger in your exit. Prior to that, what was the hardest moment for you? For me, it was the living conditions. Ah, yeah. Would I also don't think people, I think we, out of all the seasons, got completely screwed with living quarters. because our everything one smelled like manure everything like I remember being in like the cars and smelling my fleece and it just being manure did you smell the manure tris up because golden tape told me he didn't smell the manure I'm like that's all I smelled I mean a little bit but I really truly think that this is because you're smelling it because it was put in your mind because didn't a producer tell you like right before that our room had been. full of two feet of manure like two weeks before? Oh, okay. I'm like, well, maybe it was in your head because it was planted there.

Maybe I have a good trend to smell because it was like I remember pulling up to the place and smelling the fields around and just being like, like, oh my gosh, it's so bad. And then like I remember just smelling it all over my clothes. And yeah, the living quarters we lived in, the producers told me when we left, it had had piled high two feet with manure from animals living in there two weeks. Oh, my God. I can't believe somebody didn't go home with some sort of like bacterial. I agree.

Yeah. I agree. And like when we got home from that Navy SEAL training, which looked like it was 15 minutes on the show, but it was literally like two plus hours of intense training. Basically waterboarding is what it felt like when they put us back. in that water. They, after that, we go back and I was the first one to shower. And I remember thinking like, yay, I get to be the first one to shower.

But I so badly wish I was the last because what happened is I get in there and everyone wants to get in. So I think I had 30 seconds. I came out. I still had clumps of sand all in my hair. Oh, no. Like barely coming out. I didn't even get to rinse off really.

I was so covered. Like, and what I didn't realize is that people were jumping in the pig trough to rinse off first. And so there's like a pig trough there, which smells and is disgusting, where they had everybody jump in with their manure boots. And then you're supposed to jump in after them to wash a hot. I mean, it was. Bob's face. Oh, my gosh. And the toilets. Oh, my gosh, the toilets. We have to talk about those. So I always know, oh, they're porta-potties. Yeah, they're gross. That sucks. They're like people are watching you poo and pee and like, whatever. And not that anyone even can go poop on the show. I mean, I definitely didn't in the days I was there,

but I've heard that people don't the whole 10 days because it's just so horrible. But the seats were like splintered wood. It wasn't even like nice wood. It was like, it was plywood. Plywood was all splintered. Like I remember being like, I can't sit on this with sand all over it and dirt. And I think they must have had like the farmers that owned the farm we were on. using them for like a month before we got there? Because they were huge, very, very used that first day. Weren't they, Trista? Yeah, it was not, it was not like, you know,

it's not the fantasy world of Bachelor and Bachelorette. Those porta-potties made a port-a-potty on July 4th in the middle of Times Square looked like a five-star bathroom. I was literally just going to say a porta-potty is way better. Like, you know, those were, yeah, they left some. something to be desired. That's for sure. I love that you said they've been like using them before you guys even got there. I'm sure. I mean, because this was like a working farm. Yeah. I remember looking in it and being like, where did all this poop and peek come from? Like we've been here private.

What is happening? No kidding. God forbid they dig a fresh hole for you guys, you know? It is. God forbid. Like even when there's like downtime people are talking for two seconds, it's like two seconds. So you're getting information and then you're filling up your water bottle and then you're making sure your bergans packed and then you're switching out your gear and making your sure your stuff it was just never a moment right yeah yeah it was crazy but i want to do it again i want to do it again my boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now i'm seriously suspicious oh wait a minute sam maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit well dakota it's

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So this experience, obviously, I know being in Bachelor, Bachelorette, like having the world of social media, you know, people are not always nice. And I know that in times you talked recently on Caitlin's podcast about your experience with Ellen and feeling like she was laughing at you instead of laughing with you and kind of that she made you feel stupid. And then after this show, I'm wondering, like, I know Ellen's not on anymore and we're not necessarily doing like those big talk show interviews. But how has the response been? I mean, you can talk about Ellen and that experience, too, if you want to elaborate. I got so blown out of proportion to, by the way, like, the media picked that and, like, you know, I saw an article like, Ellen doesn't plan to apologize to Allie, which was like so. Oh, stop. Really?

It was some random article that some, I'm sure some random person, like, told that story. Ellen hasn't, Ellen doesn't care about me. Like, this is not on her radar. like yeah yeah right Ellen Ellen's I'm I feel horrible that I even re brought up that like drama for her because she's been through enough in my opinion like I feel for Ellen actually um but yes I didn't have the best time but I didn't know making that like one comment was gonna like blow yeah right I'm like oh my gosh I'm so sorry because I I feel like sometimes on the meet with the media stuff and you know this

Trista and Bob, you too, like, things can just be blown out of proportion or like people can be dragged through the mud and it's, it's horrible. It causes you stress at home. And like, when that blew up, I was like, I really hope Ellen doesn't know about this because I don't want to be another person causing her pain. You know what I mean? So like, oh, I think that that happened. But, um, but yeah, I mean, with this, honestly, everything's been pretty positive.

I mean, I try to avoid Reddit, like the play. I'm sure there's negative stuff on there, but I don't go on there. I accidentally went on there a while back. Like I someone asked me from like my Instagram, my Instagram website URL. And so I'm like, oh, I know my handles Alley.comto, but let me go look like, let me cut. I didn't know if it was like http.w. Yeah, yeah. Copy and paste my Instagram.

So I typed in Allie Mano. and I was going to type in Instagram. So it just like went to my Instagram on the computer. So I copy and paste my URL and email it to somebody. And when I did that, like Allie Mano weight loss popped up because that was like a thing because people were like, how did she lose all this weight? Because they didn't know I was training for special forces. So there was all these like whatever. And so I like clicked on it because I was curious.

I was like, oh, this is like one of the top things people are searching about me. And then like these Reddit threads come up and I clicked on one and I will never do it again. I will never, ever, ever read a threat about me ever again. The hate on Reddit is so just horrendous. Like, I feel one horrible for anyone who's there's a threat about on there because they're like almost all negative. I mean, maybe not. Yeah.

One's about me. I'm sure they're all about all of us. I don't think it's just you. It's definitely not just. No. Like the P, I mean, it's just such a negative, a spot of the internet. So I'm avoiding that.

I assume that there's a lot of, and I actually think when I chapped on that thread, there was like one comment that said something like, oh, yeah, I know she's doing special forces because it was like, people knew before, you know, yeah, we're on it. And someone's like, oh, I bet she goes home injured. And I at that point had already known I went home injured.

So I was like, like, oh, like I've made me feel bad about myself. And then I just want, it's so unhealthy. like I will never, ever, ever, ever go on Reddit thread about me ever again. Yeah. Because it just, it hurts your soul. And I know I'm a good person. I actually think that I got a really good edit on special forces. Good.

I feel like, like, I was worried that they were only going to show me, like, crying about falling off the bridge when I was upset about that. Like, I'm going to be like such a whim because I was so strong. And people would see that. And I actually think that people did see how, strong I felt and like take care of others and like I was happy that that part was shown I guess yeah I think it definitely was I was upset that like I felt that I didn't I was upset that your struggle wasn't shown in the way that like I felt it deserved to be shown because thank you

there was such a vulnerability that you showed on the show and like those conversations I add with you, I remember being in the warming room and talking to you. And you were really beating yourself up in those, like you really, and I remember them when the DS came in and they were worried about you. Like I said you, I'm like, see, like they care about you. And then, you know, and like I just thought that vulnerability you had and you were opening up about how you felt. Like I thought that that would resonate with so many people and I was so upset that they didn't show that. And I know they can't show everything, but like, how do you feel about your journey. It's hard because, you know, you saw me that day. When we both left, when we were

doing like our exit interviews, um, I was so at peace. Like I truly was just a peace came over me that morning. And I've told people this that before I, we went on the night before I saw the number 444 and I love angel numbers and I looked at that up. Like what does 444 mean for angel numbers? And it was like your guardian angels are watching over you. And I went into it thinking, okay, they're with me. They're going to let me know, like, you know, when it's time or whatever. And I woke up that morning and I just had this peace over me after being able to have the mirror room interview, you know, and kind of getting to that point and connecting with them more on like a human level and sharing like who I am really and knowing that they saw that I was trying my hardest meant so much to me.

So when I went to bed that night for the two or three hours that we slept, I was kind of like, okay, I'm just going to see how it goes in the morning. Like, we're going to see what I wake up to. And we woke up to explosions. And I was like, okay, I think I've learned, you know, enough from this. I've gotten enough out of this experience. Yeah, exactly. It was a sign.

It was literally like, okay, I think it's time to get back to family. You have pushed your body to the extreme and you survived. and maybe the next time you wouldn't. And so I think it's time. So thank you for asking because I do, like I don't, they didn't show me off the bridge. They didn't show me like jumping to the helicopter. They didn't show a lot of me.

But that's not why I did the show. You know, I did it because I wanted to challenge myself, have this once in a lifetime opportunity, meet everybody who did it with us. It's also like not about other people seeing you do it. Like, for me at least, like I needed to see me jump off the bridge. I needed to see me jump to, like, for me, I wanted to see what I went through. Like, I was so upset when I wasn't seeing you.

I remember thinking about you. Like, we talked about this on the phone. I was like, I thought that, like, I would, you were not even going to see me, but I was so grateful that I got to see some of my stuff for my own healing process. And to know, I did. Like, I want that raw footage for you. Like, I want, like, and me. I want to just have.

that to see and I think it's part of the healing process and like the journey is like get back of what you did you know so I think that's got to be hard for you like not yeah yeah I would love that I would love the raw footage just for closure just to be able to show like I really did do this like to remind myself I really did do that and I and I did pretty well I felt like in those moments you know you said in the beehive that you guys were the five or whatever and I literally went to the wall like seconds before. I think it was like three, four, five seconds before they ended. So I really surprised myself in that. The bungee jump, I never thought I would ever bungee jump just because of my back problems. And I did that and almost passed except for my stupid grunt that I made.

You know, so like, yeah, I really would love to see the rough footage. But it is what it is. And, you know, like I told you at, you know, when you were having a hard time after the exit, was there's a reason. Like, we don't know the reason now and maybe we'll never know. But I feel like there were reasons that our journeys were what they were on this show. And I know you feel the same way. I feel so grateful for just the opportunity to have done it, you know. Absolutely. A hundred percent grateful for the opportunity.

I do think there's a chance if I had stayed that I would have permanently damaged my hand. Like the fact that they were fighting that night and that's what the medic basically said. He wrote me this letter and the letter said, well, it was a letter for my doctor in Nashville because I went to a hand surgeon when I got back here. But it basically said like my fear for you

if you had stayed and punched someone with that hand, you would lose permanent function of your hand. Like nerve damage or whatever? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And to this day, this, so this is the finger that I happened to. And I can't put my ring over this finger anymore. So like my knuckles, yeah, yeah, it's, something's messed up in my finger.

If I, if I push on this knuckle, it hurts. So it is, there is permanent damage. It's not like, I need to worry about it. I can still, I have function of my hand, I'm fine. But they're, you know, I understand now why the medic did what he did. Yeah, I just wish I had the running clubs. Yeah, no kidding. You got the short end of the stick with all the glove issues, man.

It's brutal. I said what you'd give me a glove endorsement. Like, good for fun, glove brands. Yeah, come on gloves. So it can be like tired of gloves not fitting. Well. Try on these sorrels. True alley, man, I'm sure.

Tired of them not fitting. Try on these alley gloves. Made a real dear way. So I have a question for you. So I was reading about someone you just told a story recently. We were laughing earlier, I was laughing earlier, about how my son, my six-year-old son, reacts to people knowing me from The Bachelor. Like, he has no idea what The Bachelor is. He's never watched it.

But, like, we'll be at McDonald's Playland. And Trista, I think I told you this story, but, like, I'll order, you know, two happy meals for him and his little brother and the little 14-year-old girl will come over to deliver the tray. And he'll be like, he's the Bachelor. He'll sign it for you. What do you want? Yeah, he'll get a picture. I'm like, and he's in the Playland. Like, he's yelling from the top of the Playland.

I saw a really funny story about you and your son with respect to him talking to Alexa. Can you share that with us? Yeah. So I posted this on TikTok a while back. It's like my one TikTok that's gone viral. I'm too old to understand TikTok. Same. But in my son, Riley, he's six.

I think he was five at the time. Maybe he went over to Alexa and he's like, let's say, show me a picture of mommy. You know, nothing comes up. Alexa, show me a picture of Ali Manow. Nothing comes up. And then I think Molly, my daughter said something like, say, Allie the Bachelorette. And it's because my daughter's eight.

She knows that I was the Bachelorette. She understands now. So he's like, Ali, the Bachelorette. And this picture of like me and Roberto pops up, like right after that engaged. He's like, no, he was that.

And it's like when your six-year-old son discovers you were on reality TV. Oh, my gosh. So, yeah. That's awesome. But now they, so and then the funny part in the clip, my husband, Kevin then goes up to Alexa and goes, and then plugs in. It's like, all right, kids, say by to Alexa.

I'm like, hold it away. And the funny thing is, how my kids know that, like, jokingly that that, like, affects him. Like, my husband doesn't really care. Like, I could be sitting right next to me chatting right now and my husband when I came back. Totally. But my kids now love to go up to Alexa and try to get that picture to pop back up.

So they're like, Allie the best right. Allie and Roberto. Like, they're like, Alexa, show me a picture of Ali and Roberta. Oh, cute. Yeah, they like to talk to my husband by doing that to him now. I love it. Trista reversed hazed me not too long ago. We were in Tahoe together and her son Max was there.

And, you know, I've never heard Trista say anything like this before. So it caught me way off guard. But Max was like busy on his phone. He's not really paying attention to us. You know, he's what, 16 or 15 at the time? And Trista goes, oh, Max, do you remember, you know, Bob? And he's like, you know, he's like, you know, he's like, like, oh, hey. And she goes, my ex-boyfriend. And I'm like, oh. I'm like, whoa, hold on, dude.

You know, it's like a really funny moment. She just starts laughing and walks away and I'm all stressed out. Oh, my God. That is amazing. Oh, they don't care. Yeah, they don't care. Yeah, Max still doesn't care. Max, he'd run into me on the street and be like, who's this guy? I have no idea. Yeah, totally isn't care. Well, speaking of stuff like that, my daughter and I have to have a lot of conversations about what it means like what faith means right like she's at this age now where she's like mom are you famous and I'm like well no honey I'm like I was on a show one so people know who I am like I had a level of fame at one point in my life yes I have my five minutes like I was like but no and she's like well what does it mean to be famous and I'm like okay

well usually famous people are like on TV or in movies she's like you're on TV you're in movies because I did one movie um but um I'm like, okay, well, normally, you know, famous people are like doing red carpets and people asked for their picture about, and she's like, we went to Taylor Swift. She's like, she was like counting how many people came up and asked for a picture. And she's like, 17 people, mom, you're famous. I'm like, well, no, it's like this. And then she goes, cool, and talks about it.

And I'm like, it's this weird conversation right now I'm having with her. But the reason of that is because then this did not help my cause because then she's like, and I'm like, Molly, you can't talk. to kids about that. I'm not, you know, let's not talk about fame

and it doesn't matter. Then Special Forces airs, okay? And it's like 16 celebrities take on the top of the air. They're like, dang it.

It just got past this. I know. I'm like, all this worked to try, and then she looks at me and she goes, so you're not a celebrity? And I'm just like,

I can, smarty fans. No, I feel like you need to just face the music. You are a celebrity, Ali. I'm just going to share that.

And I know that it's hard because your kids are, you know, at younger, but, you know, just continue to have those honest conversations with them. And, you know, she's going to call you out. She knows how it is. She's smart. Riley's smart. They know what's up. So I think just doing what you're doing.

You're a great parent. And at least you can just be Allie with her. My son thinks that I'm Bob the Builder or Bachelor Bob. You can't figure out which one. Yeah. He calls me both and I'll be like Nope

That's so cute Bob the builder I'd take that one For sure I was going to say A six year old eyes That is a celebrity So congratulations

Totally Exactly Thank you I have got to get going We could of course Talk for hours and hours And we will We'll have you back on the show

Not to talk about special forces But just to chat about life But I would really I just want to thank you again for taking care of me. I'm so glad you were there that we had each other. You were like the only familiar face

I had, even though I had met I think Denise once before. But it was so good to have you there with me. And like, and like we were talking before because we found out, we can share this story later because I don't know that we have time for it. But we found,

Ali found out that I was on the show like when we were in sequester basically waiting to go film. and I knew before because she was sharing on Instagram how hard she was working out and I saw her working out with her military boots one day and I was like, okay, that's it. I know she's doing it.

I wore them with dresses to events. I was wearing, I never took them off. It's amazing. I literally have a video of me wearing them with a dress because I like refuse to put on heels because I need to break in these boots. But anyway. So good for you.

That's another training tip that Hannah gave me actually. But anyway, so I need. knew going in that we would have each other. And that definitely gave me a little bit more confidence. So thank you. Thank you for being there. Thank you. And I feel like it brought us closer. Like obviously we're in the bachelor room together and stuff. But now I feel like I have like this different way to connect with you now. And like, and I'm grateful for that. And I feel the same way. I was so happy you were there. And now we can talk about it together. And I know, we know, we're back on our redemption season. That's right. That's right. I like it.

But thank you so much for being here to talk with Bob and I on the Almost Famous OG podcast. We would love for everybody, go give Allie a follow on Instagram. It's at Alli Mano. Alley.com. Okay. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you, everybody.

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