The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Kendra Wilkinson is The Girl Next Door No More

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

Kendra Wilkinson isn't looking to be anyone's girlfriend just yet! The single mom sits down with Amy & TJ to spill the tea on how she's dealing with her chapter 2 and how she really feels when it comes to her ex-husband. Is Kendra ready to find love on TV? Wanting to try a non-traditional relationship again? Amy & TJ are asking it ALL! Plus, Kendra is giving fellow reality star, Brittany Cartwright, some sound advice. Email us at: [e-mail] or call us at 844-4-I Do Pod (844-443-6763)Follow I Do, Part 2 on Instagram and TikTokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We're just a few of your hosts here on the podcast. It's Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes. And today, we have a very special guest. You have known her for years. And we actually had to double check the date because we can't believe she made her debut, her television debut on the girls next door all the way back in 2005.

So yeah, that was 20 years ago. And since then, she's had her own reality shows. She's a realtor. Of course, she is a mom. And like everyone that we've had on this show and present parties included, She's gone through a very public divorce, and we're going to talk about it all today. And, well, we just want Kendra Wilkinson to know that she is in good company and in a very safe, soft place here with us on this podcast because, yes, we've all been through something similar.

Kendra, thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. It's so good to be here with you guys. And if there's two people I trust, it's you guys. You guys are as real as it can get. And I'm all about real. I've always been real. That's why I've lasted 20 years in reality TV because people see it in the eyes.

They know that I'm real. So, you know, real meets real. Here we go. You know, I always say that. Certain folks find each other. You can tell immediately when you find your tribe. And yes, it takes sometimes people going through something and sometimes a public flogging, unfortunately, but it is really cool to have you, all these things you've gone through.

And we seem like we've watched you grow up, become an adult, get married, get all. all these things. Is there some part, all these things are so personal. Is there some of it that you think maybe shouldn't be done in the public eye? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, there's two, there's a many different like ways to look at this. There's, there's Playboy, there's show business, there's media attention. There's like so many different ways of looking at what I've done, you know. And a lot of people focus a lot on like, oh, you did Playboy, Playboy, Playboy, but no one really focuses on what it took to actually shoot a reality TV show and what it does what what what how much it takes to shoot a reality TV show and it took every ounce of my soul like that's why they call it

sell the soul and a devil like I sell I sold my soul the goddamn devil and and yeah there's a price to pay with that there's a major price to pay with that I have a lot of regrets when it comes to I don't have regrets with Playboy and all that but I have regrets on like you know where things went with show business so um yeah i mean you know there's we made choice we make choices and we reap what we sew it is what it is but um you know like and i take full responsibility for my choices and my actions and everything like that but you know like there was a lot of pressure on me there was a lot of pressure like shows called kendra kendra kendra sells hollywood kendra kendra on top Kendra, Kendra, Kendra, like, you know, like there's a major pressure on my shoulders to entertain and to give the audience what they want and to get, you know, to draw blood and to, you know, make people laugh, make people cry, make people, you know, relate, you know, and I sold a lot of my soul that way and, you know, you can't get it back. So like, you know, I always thought like, oh, sharing the realist and the rawest.

part of me would, would be the best way to go, you know, with storytelling. And I did that. But, you know, it came with consequences. It came with a lot of media attention and, you know, a lot of people, you know, not respect, like a lot of hate, a lot of criticizing. So, you know, and I can't, I'm only one person. I can't take on the world like that. So it definitely hit me hard, you know, it hit me hard at one point and it, and I crumbled and I fell to my knees begging for mercy. And that's, you know, and that's, that's kind of how things played out, you know, over the course of 20 years. And yeah, over the course of 20 years, Kendra, yeah, as we said, you started on that show in 2005. If my calculations are correct, because you are

still 39 years old, you were a teenager when you started in this, not just the television, television business, but this was a highly sexualized. Some would say over-sexualized part of television, not just the magazine, but now you're one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, one of three, I think initially at the time. But you, again, you were 19. So I hear you saying I take responsibility for my actions. I take responsibility for my decisions. But you were just a baby. I'm sorry, but you were a baby. How did you get in that position to begin with? You know, like I, um, I was a horrible teenager. Like, I was horrible.

Like, I was a runaway. I sold cocaine at the age of 15. Like, I was more like a runaway from home. I never really, you know, had a stable life. And so I went looking for the wrong things. I went looking for dark things. I went looking for fun. And now I'm not saying that everything I did was dark and wrong.

I'm saying that like, you know, it was easy to take that one-way ticket to L.A. into the Playboy Mansion where how vulnerable I was. And, you know, I also regret, you know, not, you know, fighting at a young age to go to college, you know. Like I felt like I always had to fight for myself and my life in a certain ways. So like, it, you know, it just kind of, I took the easy route. I took an easy road out. but you know like who has the money to go to college like I never had the money to go to college so like you know I mean it's easy for people like me to wander and to you know wander into the gates of a playboy mansion so that's what I did I wandered in there at 18 years old and you know now I'm saying that I can honestly look back and say that I was safer at the playwood mansion than I was at 15 years old dealing drugs Wow. So in that case, like, I was safe. I was in a safe environment.

I was healthy eating salads every day, working out every day, no drugs every day. So I was in a safe environment at the Playboy Mansion, but was I sexualized? Absolutely. Did that cause me problems later in life? Absolutely. So, you know, like, you know, choices, there are consequences for every choice you make. how did that have an impact that environment on a again you're a teenager you hadn't been necessarily exposed to healthy relationships at that point in your life but it put you on a

certain path of course we'll get into your marriage and divorce in a second but what did that do to you and shape what you thought a relationship was should be and the type of person even you were interested in yeah look I struggle still to this day with my relationships and my views on sex and I kind of you know I had to go through a lot of therapy like and you know they looked at me and they're like this is the first time I'm admitting this but they're like you might have like a little bit of a sex problem like you have a little bit of a problem when it comes to thinking of sex what kind of a sex problem Kendra what did they what were you referring to specifically um you know it's just unhealthy thoughts like just like not really

settling for like you know a marriage and stuff like that which is not I wouldn't say unhealthy I'm saying that, you know, everyone has their choices and some people want to be single, some people want to be married, some people, and I'm just, you know, and I'm more of a fun idea type of person, you know, so, but, you know, my marriage, you know, my marriage was was my happiest days of my entire life. My marriage were, I mean, I'm telling you, those days were the happiest days of my life. And so when those days came to an end, I crumbled so hard and it almost killed me. It almost killed me.

Wow. I can say that I managed to, you know, I left the Playware Mansion at age 23, got pregnant, got married at the age of 23, then started my life as a wife and a mother. And it was the golden years of my life. And, you know, I went from the Playwood Mansion all, like, all of a sudden to, like, this, this, this, this, like, marriage life and in a blink of an eye. And it was the right timing, you know, I, I found myself just, you know, so bored at the Playboy Mansion. I was just like, I'm ready to leave this place. I'm ready to start a family. I'm ready for the, I'm ready for, like, Calabasas lifestyle, you know, where my kids go to a great school.

You know, I'm a soccer mom. I'm a softball mom like I'm a basketball mom like you know like I was like ready for that and so it all can't I manifested it and it came to me and I met the perfect man the man of my dreams and he's still even though we're divorced he's the father of my kids and he's the most amazing father to my kids and I know I chose right with him you know even to this day help you got to help help us and help other people who will hear that the man of my dreams I was the happiest I'd ever been. He is a great father to these kids. Why is that relationship not still solid or even worth fighting for listening to you now? It sounds like it's still something

there. Yeah. Yeah. Look, you know, like I'm one person that can kind of, you know, we're human. We're human. We all have mistakes. We've all made mistakes. And, you know, we just made, I think that Hank and I being young like we just made too many of them and I think that it was it wasn't repairable at a certain point so like we just decided to like cheers like over over a drink and be like hey let's call it a day let's raise these kids right you know let's not you know that's not chase like this this fantasy you know and me who knows maybe later you know I want I want that again But let me tell you something, I have not found it yet. I have not found that thing again.

So it's going to be a hard. This dating life is brutal. It's gross. It's hard. And I'm not finding a marriage number two just yet. Well, Kendra, I'm just curious. And for people who don't know you and your husband, Hank, you divorced in 2019. But you stood by him after a.

pretty big cheating scandal and we don't have to get into all of the details but it was very public and I can only imagine how that must have felt it must have felt humiliating for both of you with all of the details that came and it was a he said she said whatever but you forgave him for that I did you took him back so it seemed like my god you guys got through that we did why couldn't you get through what was next what happened next that made it so it was not okay so that it was intolerable. I honestly there's a you know there it takes two people to be in a relationship and when one person has when one person changes their minds on love and and marriage the that's how easy it is for it to fall apart. So I will always always want my family back

together. I will always want that. So till the day I I die. I don't know if I have another chance at marriage with that man or not. I will always want my kids to have these two parents together. But unfortunately, that's a fantasy. So I have to march in the reality of things. And I have to be in this disgusting scum dating. Oh, Kendra. Kendra, it sounds like you're still in love with Hank. I will always be in love with Hank. I will always be in love. And, you know, mistakes are mistakes. Like, we all make mistakes. I've made my mistakes too. Like, you know, and, and, but love will never go away. And, and if it's real love, you're going to put your pride aside and, and want the best for the other person. And I,

and I want the best for the other person so badly. I'm, you know, I'm willing to be, you know, friends with them. I'm willing to, like, there's no need for bitterness and there's no need for toxicity. So I've, through these last six years, I have done so much therapy. I've gone even to the hospital for seven days to just reprogram my thinking. And I did that and it really worked. So I'm now living in the state of peace of mind. I'm on good meds. You know, I'm just in a really good place right now. And, you know, taking up this, taking up this new venture in real estate has really has really, you know, got me to focus on that and not like so much, you know, like the past and, you know, regrets and stuff like that. So I'm like so focused on building my

real estate career that nothing is like, nothing is entering my, my world right now other than friends and fun and good stuff. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Well, wait a minute, Sam, maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone.

Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same age. And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet.

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or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth? Unfortunately for Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced. He said, you are a number, a New York State number, and we own you. Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps, are short-term, highly regimented correctional programs that mimic military basic training. These programs aimed to provide a shock of prison life, emphasizing strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, and rehabilitation programs. Mark had one chance to complete this program and had no idea of the hell awaiting him the next six months.

The first night was so overwhelming and you don't know who's next to you. And we didn't know what to expect in the morning. Nobody tells you anything. Listen to shock incarceration on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your Podcasts. Kendra, at this point, would you consider it almost a setback to all the work you've done if Hank approached you sincerely and said, I want to talk about us being together again? It sounds like certainly you haven't closed the door necessarily completely in your mind,

but would that be a bad thing for you to have to go back to and start thinking about again? I think that we would both have to be healed properly, and I don't know that other person's healing. I'm not that person. So, you know, I think it just has to do with, like, timing and healing and, and the wanting to be in a relationship. And some people don't want to be, if it's not with my ex-husband, Hank, like, I wouldn't want to, I don't find it fun to want to settle for someone. I don't find it. I'm kind of in a fun zone right now. I'm about to turn 40 in June.

So I have like fun ideas more than just like settling for like there's like a couple guys in my life that I'm like that one just sent me flowers, you know? And I'm just like, what is this for? What is, you know, like I overthink. Like what did I do? Like what does he want? Like I overthink everything, you know? And I'm just like, I'm not the type.

to probably settle down just yet with anybody. Now if my ex came to me and be like, let's let's like have a family again. I'd be like, yes. But other than that, it's going to have to be Prince Charming's, he's going to have to be pretty wonderful to catch you. We had a great relationship. We used to

I hold on to only happy memories. So we used to go like you have a trailer and we used to take the trailer out all over the world, all over the country. And and we used to like go to the lake and like we had amazing summers we used to go back to his hometown for his small hometown and you know for for the holidays and we I just hold on to happy memories and you know I guess I have a problem with trying to duplicate that so that someone

doesn't come into my life with like a you know with with a with a with a forward truck with the trailer on the back like let's go camp like I don't want it you know it's like it's so weird. So if someone sends me flowers, I'm like, I want a, I want a trailer on the back of a pickup truck, not a, not some flowers right now. It's good to know what you want. It's very good to know what you want. Maybe we should introduce her. We're, we're going to be talking to the new guys from the Fox show, Farmer wants a wife. We're going to, we're going to be talking. They have a lot of pickups and a lot of cowboy hats and a lot of trailers among these guys. There we go. There we go. Tell them about me. Please. Tell

Okay. All right. We will. That's a great idea. T.J. But Kendra, I've been seeing you putting out on social media. You're working out. You're proud of what you look like as you near 40. And you know what? You do look amazing. But you talked about in your Instagram post, haters, you're actually getting hate out there for being you and being your amazing self? It's just, it's just so weird. You know, I feel like I think I, I I started reality TV and Playboy at 18, 19 years old, and that's when the peak of my fame was, you know, right around there. So I think that people hold on to this image of me. And, you know, I'm not saying everyone.

I'm saying certain people hold on to this image, like, oh, you should always be this Playboy girl or whatever. But reality, you know, the reality bursts in bubble popped a long time ago. I'm a 40-year-old woman. You know, I have love handles now. I have a bush. Like, you know, like, it's, it's, it's not playboy anymore, okay? And it's not, it's not cute, but it's, you know, it's going to be for the right man. Is that going to help your dating prospects to put that out there, though?

Come on, Kendra. We're trying to help. I know, but that guy's going to have to accept all of me. I love that, though. We're getting older and that, and whoever's going to be with me is going to love all of me forever. like not just a part of me for a temporary. So, you know, so that person has to buckle up and ride that rode that rodeo all the way because it's not cute.

It's not Playboy. It's nastiest, you know, can be a lot of the times. I'm kind of a mess. Kendra, is that empowering, though, because I imagine being someone at, and we both, you said it too, you were sexualized, you were coveted, you were dropped dead and you still are. but obviously at 18, you can't ever be that again, this drop dead gorgeous playboy model. A lot of women in your position would create and understandably so all their value in how they look. And then when you start aging, it starts unraveling.

How have you managed that where that was the thing, you know, people are like, oh, she's so gorgeous. She's a playboy model. She's perfect. How do you handle that when now you are 40 and dating again? and there's this image of you out there and maybe you even hold it or at one point held it within yourself. How do you manage that? Yeah, look, I just take, I'm one personally. This is my journey I'm on. I'm not, this isn't to preach to anyone or to like, everyone can live under their own standards or their own lives. But for me personally, I'm on this road of just like not, like even though my boobs are

fake and I got a tummy tuck one and I have a little Botox in my face like I want to live in a pretty authentic life so like you know and and with age you know I'm all about law of attraction and stuff like that so I don't I don't feel like you know how Pam Anderson is is going makeup free and everything like that I'm this very similar I have a very similar outlook on life at the moment so I've been sexualized for so much just like she was you know and and we went through similar things. And I'm kind of over chasing this fake thing. I'm over chasing this thing.

So in the meantime, like, will I get Botox again? Absolutely. You know, will I work out? Will I diet? Absolutely. But, you know, I'm just going to ride through life the way it's supposed to go. And, you know, if a guy doesn't like me, oh, I just went on this date. my dumbass my dumbass I go to this I go on this date to Hawaii this guy's like you're going to go to Hawaii and I'm like yeah he's like I don't date anyone over 30 I'm like whose problem's that you know that's not mine that's not mine so I'm not going to sit here and like transform myself to fit other people's needs anymore I used to do that in Playboy I used to like you know need to look a certain way or need to feel a

a certain way, but look, as long as I'm working out at least three days a week, if I'm cooking for me and my kids, I'm on the right track mentally, I'm, you know, I'm, I feel fine. I feel completely at peace with myself. Now, other people, you know, and I wear like, I only have like five different outfits in my closet and I mix and match them. I'm on a budget. Like, I'm on a budget. like I'm a single mom and I'm on a budget like I'm not going to sit here and get face lifts and stuff like that like no way I'm I'm like even though Hank's in the picture I'm I'm alone on my end with my own finances and stuff I'm not going to sit here and chase all these you know these ridiculously priced things and drain my bank account to like look a certain way you know could you have to tell me, I had to go back, Hawaii. Did you end up in Hawaii or not? I ended up in Hawaii on a date with a guy. Okay. I met this guy a week ago. Not now, but like a couple months ago. I had met a guy a week

before he went to Hawaii. And he's like, let's go to Hawaii. What do you want to? And I said, sure, it's better than going to some local pub. Right. So I'm like, let's go. Let's go. So we hop on a flight and we go to Hawaii. And let's say it was the most awesome. awkward. It was the most awkward date of my life. It was so awkward. How long was it? It was four days. We cut it for three days. Oh my God. Yeah. So that's that's bold, though, to go on basically a first date with someone to Hawaii. You know, it's not like we were ever alone alone. We were in a hotel or we were in a plane at the airport. Like, we weren't like alone alone. So I felt safe. But you, but it was awkward. He was cool, but like we just didn't.

not bond and we were stuck on this trip together for three days. And it was a night. It was a nightmare. It was a night. How do you meet people? How do you date? How does it usually come about? You know, it just has to come naturally. Like, I've never been on a dating app. As a matter fact, I've been, I've been on the Raya dating list waiting at waiting list for about five years now. For about what? They will not let me in. Why? I don't know.

I don't know. So I have not done it yet. I've never done a dating app. And it's just been, usually men like will pop up. Like I go to the bar sometimes when I'm not with my kids. And a guy will just come to the bar. And I'll be like, what are you doing tonight? I'm the one who, I'm the man. Because if I have some time away from my kids, I got to get done.

Like. Yeah, Tom. I love that. So you approach the men and you say, what are you doing tonight? Yeah, I'm usually the guy in the situation. Yeah. That's amazing. And it works.

It works. It works. And I do have two very young, attractive, like, ex-NFL players that are, like, all up on me right now. And it kind of, you know, that makes me feel young. Okay. You said very young. What's very young NFL players? I'm 39, so, like, young for me is, like, 35.

So it's young. That's young. And you like your NFL guys, apparently, Kendra. Like, the hot. I wish I could, I wish I could show them to the world and be like, that will make, that's, like, instant Botox for me. Like, it really is. It's like the, it's like the mood, like, I become instantly hot again if I showed a picture of who I'm, who I'm having sex with at the moment. Now, how much of your dating life, if any, do you share with your kids?

Because how old are they now, 15 and... 15 and 10. And 10. What do they know about mommy's dating life? Oh, man. We're so open about it. We're just really open. We're an open household.

And they think I'm funny. They think I'm, you know, it's a very lighthearted household that I have. And we have such a great relationship. So, um, just yes. we let we're at um we're at a restaurant and we're talking about love and I'm like so Hank you know my son I'm like do you have a girlfriend and Elijah my granddaughter I'm like do you have a boyfriend and they're like no she's like no mama and then but my son's like yeah I'm like oh let's see let's see a picture ever she's so pretty and then I'm and they're like looking at me I'm like well you're

guy's day life's better than mine. I have nothing. I have nothing. I might dabble into some sex every now and them, but to date and to build it being a relationship is the longest far-fetched thing I could possibly feel at the moment. Like, I hope it comes. I think I have, like, I'm in a Bachelorette type of vibe right now. Like,

I'm about to turn 40. I have a 40th birthday to celebrate in Vegas. So it's like a marriage. So think of it like the marriage thing. Like I have a couple things I need to do before I get married again. Kendra don't get married in Vegas on the 40th. Okay. Please don't get married in Vegas.

If I do, it'll be with like three guys, just like half. Like I reverse it. I'd be like with three different guys. Oh. 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 back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor and they're the same age.

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or wherever you get your podcast. Yeah, it's so interesting having had that experience with Hugh Hefner, then you obviously had an amazing experience being married. But would you, just having had that experience now, polygamy, polyamorous behaviors is so accepted. I mean, would you consider an, I would say, a non-traditional relationship? Because you've already had one at a time, maybe when it wasn't as accepted. But now it's so much more. Would that even be a, in the realm of possibilities? Yeah, definitely.

I know that sounds like freakish and taboo, but I probably would. I'd probably explore that a little bit. I probably want to. Who knows if it'll happen. Who knows if that'll happen or not? But like, I'm open to that. I think it would be kind of fun.

You know, the best of the best taught me how to do. You have to have taught me what it's like. Um, the OG. The OG. I only had the, the OG like influencer on, you know. Um, so yeah, I mean, maybe. Um, I do want to get married again, though. I do. I do. So I just have to clean up a little bit and, and get ready for all, like, start manifesting that. Okay. You're, you're open to it. You're not seeking it out now, if I heard you're right, but you're still, you will remain open to it. I think it's fair. Well, you know, you know what happened. So like the other day I'm with his. guy and he's the guy who sent me flowers and he talks a lot about being with other women and I'm like and it doesn't bother me I think it's with age or something I kind of like I don't really care I'm just kind of like wow I don't have that jealousy thing anymore I used to have a jealousy thing when I was younger when I was in my 20s I was married in my 20s and I used to be all

crazy like don't what girl you're looking at you're looking at that girl why you're looking at that or why are you looking? And now I don't have I don't feel jealous anymore like I it's like if a guy wants another girl like so be it that's not my problem like I'll just go my own way or something

but I'm this this one particular guy was talking a lot about being with another he even showed me other women and I'm just like oh that's cool like the guy who sent me flowers and I'm like oh I would still be with him you know I would still be with him so I don't know if an open marriage

which is, is, I don't know if I would do that, but, you know, it feels like I would do it. Just because, like, I don't want to feel that toxicity ever again in my life. Like, I never want to feel jealous or toxic or feel those weird jealousy feelings. It's like the worst. That, to me, is probably the worst feeling ever. Yeah, yeah. It's a feeling of insecurity. But if you're confident enough in who you are and you know what you want and you know what

you don't want. I'm curious, you've shared so much of your life on reality TV. Would you ever go on a reality dating show to find love? You know what? Guess what happened? I created my own dating show. I created it and it was called Kendra's Fun House and it was going to be me in a house with a bunch of guys. Oh, my God. I came up with it one day when I was drunk and I was like, this is like the best idea ever to get with all these hot guys like and then be casted and like I get all like I just saw myself in a hot tub like rubbing their abs and stuff like that.

And then how fun of a show would that be? So I created it and I pitched it and it actually, it was about to get picked up. And I freaked out. I'm like, no, I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it. What? How long ago was this? This was like a year ago.

It was your dream. It was your dream. You're going to get paid for your dream. I know. I freaked out because my son goes to a Christian school. Very boy. Okay. Okay, that makes sense.

But like, you know, in three years, it'll be 18 and it won't matter anymore. Okay. Okay, maybe I should pitch that again. Maybe I should pitch it again. Do you watch any of the, um, reality dating shows at all and go wow i would be on that one or i could be good on that one anything like that no um that's why i i've always created my own shows because i don't watch any tv and i just all i know is how to entertain myself with myself about my life like i'm in my own

category of like life so um that's what i would that's i would want to do my own show for sure and and you know and and date i wouldn't mind finding love on camera i think there's There's one part of me that has never been seen before, and that's dating, Kendra dating. Ah. You've always been in a relationship. Always been in a relationship. It has to happen. That's so fascinating.

We have to make it happen. Okay. It starts here. It began here. It was announced here. Kendra, we just talked, actually, when we were in L.A., where you were right now, we talked with, I don't know if you know who Brittany Cartwright is from Vanderpump Rules.

She's got the Valley now. She's in the midst of a very public divorce, and she was going through it still. And you could tell the emotion was raw and real. I mean, she's still going through the divorce. Would you have any advice for her having gone through a public, scandalous divorce where everyone's writing everything you say, everything, you know, what would you, what advice would you give, Brittany? Ooh, take a break from the media.

Like, you know, take a major step back and really focus on yourself right now because is, you know, it could get super ugly. It can get messy. The more you give to the media and the limelight, the more you're going to get back. And sometimes it's not good of what comes back to you. And so it's just, you know, handle as much as you can in private, you know, as much as possible. I know she has a job to entertain. She has a job.

She gets paid to put her life out there. But do the best you can with handling. you know, the situation in private, you know, I think they're kids or a kid is getting older, you know, to clean, you know, just and be as giving as possible, even though it hurts and even though like that person hurt you, like, do as much as you can to like, you know, you know, just know that you're going to be stuck with this person for the rest of your life and do the best you can with, you know, diffusing, diffusing the situation. diffusing any negative toxicity.

That's a, this is really, Kendra, this is part of the reason I have, certainly I think I speak for Robs here, love doing I do part two. This podcast, it has surprised us, I think, at every turn to talk to people when you, there's something everybody thinks about you when they hear your name.

I just heard you give an answer that you probably cannot imagine an 18, 19 year old Kendra living in that house, giving in terms of advice of get out. out of the public eye and handle your personal business. That was such good advice, in my opinion. But were you the girl in that position?

You're giving her the advice that you would have never taken back in the day, yes? A thousand percent, yes, thousand percent. So like I said earlier, I come with a lot of regrets when it comes to show business and media. So I did handle a lot of my things too publicly. and it bit you know and I didn't really see it then because I was living in the moment you know but later on later on years down the line I look back and I was like why did I say why did I do that why why did I feel the need to tell the world way too much you know and it just it just gets really messy really fast and you know you might you might not feel it at the moment but later

on you will be thinking about it so um i wish i could turn back time and and take back a few things you know like i went on you know after you know after hank and i went through our problems i went on all these live tv shows and i just gave all these interviews without healing i never you know i never went through therapy um instead i used you know the media and and and and and entertainment to to be my therapy and that was the wrong way to do it you know I let the devil in I let the darkness in instead of getting the proper support and the proper help and the proper therapy to truly move forward you know I just got refueled every time I did an interview every time I did something it would trigger me and I would fall back into a depression I would

fall back into a depression. I would fall back into a depression. So, you know, like as much as you possibly can't, you just got to diffuse it as soon as possible. So you don't just keep living in the same cycle of toxicity. Well, Kendra, I have to say to hear where you are now. And what you said today was nothing but kindness and love extended towards Hank, even, you know, towards yourself. I see, and I think everyone listening can hear those regrets have now created the person who you are today. So I know, and I hope you feel proud of that because it's remarkable to see you use that pain and those mistakes, but isn't that what mistakes are for so we can become better people. So I just, I applaud you for sharing as much as you have today, but sharing

it with love and with kindness. That was beautiful to hear you talk about. your ex-husband that way and it's a lesson for all of us to learn because you know everyone on the show has exes right and a lot of the folks listening do too we're racking them up but yes it's it's an important thing to remember especially when children are involved so i just want to thank you for your openness and just how beautiful your words have been today thank you so much thank you thank you so much for having me yeah i just think that you know it's it's the truth that we're human beings and we all are suffering our own and on our own path in some way, shape, or form. And we all deserve, you know, I'm not saying we all deserve forgiveness to some degree.

We deserve second, third, sometimes third chances. And I think that's how life should go, you know. Yeah. All right. And Kendra, this is, she said it, I can't say anybody than she said it. It's just been an absolute treat. And it's a pleasure to meet you and we're going to keep our eye out. But at end, a reminder.

Yeah. Kendra's funness. It sticks out. Please let me, please let them know that I'm single. I'm ready to mingle. But if he doesn't have a pickup, a trailer or an NFL contract, he need not apply. Is that correct? I'll take a Lamborghini and a dinner at Nobu, Malibu.

You know, I'll take that too. Good, good taste. All right, Kendra. Thank you so much, dear lady. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Kendra. Bye, my, my, thanks guys.

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