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00:00 - Hi, Sheree, I'm super excited to chat with you today.
00:03 Kind of crazy to think that this season
00:05 of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta"
00:06 is nearing its end, right?
00:08 We only got a couple episodes left.
00:09 - I know, did it not go by so fast?
00:12 - It always does. - Slow down,
00:14 what's going on?
00:14 - I know, how are you just feeling
00:16 about the season coming to an end
00:17 and everyone seeing the finale coming up?
00:19 - I feel really good about the season.
00:23 I think that, you know,
00:24 I mean, of course we had our ups and downs,
00:27 but I feel like we had some really good times
00:30 and I was trying to be the peacemaker this season
00:34 and I felt like we made some,
00:37 well, I got a little leeway, a little bit with girls.
00:40 - Yeah, how do you feel like this season
00:41 compared to last season,
00:43 which was like another comeback season for you?
00:45 - I really, really enjoyed,
00:49 first of all, thanks everyone who was fighting
00:53 to bring, for me to come back.
00:55 I love all the fans and,
00:58 but just about the season.
00:59 - Oh, it was good.
01:00 And I feel like it's really picking up now
01:01 as we're getting closer to the end.
01:03 I feel like there's a lot going on
01:04 with all the different ladies
01:05 and the stuff that we kind of heard about
01:07 between Drew and Ralph and stuff,
01:09 we're really seeing to see all of that play out,
01:11 which has, I think, been exciting
01:12 the last couple episodes, especially.
01:13 - Yeah, for sure, for sure.
01:15 None of us expected that.
01:16 I mean, it seemed like they were fine during the season
01:20 and then as soon as we wrapped,
01:21 it took a different direction.
01:24 You were surprised about Drew and Ralph
01:25 'cause I was thinking that you would say otherwise.
01:27 - Well, of course, I mean, we've all seen
01:30 the chemistry and some of the things
01:34 that has happened in their relationship
01:36 the last couple of years.
01:37 So of course, you had that,
01:39 but it seemed like this season,
01:41 from what I saw,
01:43 they seemed like they had been doing much better.
01:47 I didn't see the arguments
01:50 or the clash with them.
01:53 This season, I didn't see that.
01:55 - Yeah, when you found out,
01:57 'cause I think we're gonna see that on the episodes,
01:58 was it from Drew or was it from the press?
02:01 - From the press.
02:02 - Wow, so she didn't clue any of you girls in
02:04 or at least not you specifically.
02:06 - No.
02:07 - Wow.
02:08 - Anyone, I think we all found out in the press.
02:10 - Yeah, did you feel a little,
02:12 I don't wanna say betrayed,
02:13 did you feel a little blindsided
02:14 in the fact that she didn't clue you girls in
02:15 after you had already filmed the whole season?
02:18 - I mean, I do.
02:19 I feel like, 'cause it happened so fast after we wrapped,
02:23 I felt we all have had things happen or gone in our lives.
02:27 And what we did do is sign up to be on a reality show.
02:31 So we need to see a reality.
02:34 Don't portray that everything is fine
02:37 and everything is hunky-dory when it's not,
02:39 because that's when we are here to rally around you
02:43 and to be that support sometimes you need.
02:45 - Yeah, what have been your thoughts
02:46 seeing these past episodes?
02:48 Like this most recent episode,
02:49 they were talking about therapy
02:50 and that Ralph doesn't wanna go anymore.
02:52 What's your response to seeing all this play out,
02:54 knowing that they do break up?
02:55 - Divorce is hard.
03:03 Marriage is very difficult,
03:07 but you gotta put in the work.
03:08 And sometimes therapy, it's not for everyone,
03:13 but I do think that giving it a try
03:15 and just making sure you put in a thousand percent
03:20 to make it work.
03:21 And if that's what you guys wanna do,
03:24 then I think that you should do it.
03:26 But sometimes you're at your wits end
03:27 and you've tried everything and it just doesn't work.
03:31 Wish them the best.
03:32 I got into a better place with Drew this season.
03:38 And I actually think Ralph is a good person
03:42 as far as what I see and how he treats me.
03:45 But they have a family
03:46 and I just wish the best for them.
03:49 - Yeah, absolutely.
03:50 Speaking of relationships,
03:51 we've seen your relationship with Martel
03:52 a little bit this season.
03:53 I believe he's gonna be coming up on another episode.
03:55 What's the status with you guys?
03:57 Are you guys still together?
03:58 How's everything going?
04:00 - Well, Martel and I have always been friends
04:02 and we are still friends.
04:03 Yes, we're still really good friends.
04:05 - Okay, friends, friends.
04:06 How about him and Kenya?
04:07 Because that was a real big blow up early in the season.
04:09 Are they, do they squash things?
04:11 Are we gonna see that?
04:12 - Well, you have to wait and see,
04:14 but they do run into each other at my sip and see.
04:18 - For coming up, to celebrate you being a grandma, right?
04:23 - Yes.
04:23 - And I'm sure that's been an exciting chapter
04:25 of your life, right?
04:27 - Oh my gosh, so incredible.
04:28 So incredible.
04:29 I never thought that I could love,
04:33 like, you know, you love your kids,
04:35 but this is like so many times more.
04:39 - Yeah.
04:40 We've seen the previews for next week, right?
04:43 Your ex, Bob, and there's talk about him in the episode.
04:45 What can you say about that
04:47 seeing on the previews so far?
04:49 - Well, you definitely see Bob show up, you know.
04:52 We've established a better relationship
04:56 from what you guys have saw in the past.
04:58 And at the end of the day, we are grandparents.
05:00 We're new grandparents.
05:01 So of course I wouldn't do a sip and see and not invite Bob.
05:04 - Yeah.
05:05 Are you guys in communication a lot or not that often?
05:07 - Just enough.
05:08 - Okay.
05:09 - As much as we need.
05:10 - You're keeping it simple.
05:13 - Yeah.
05:14 - I feel like social media has been buzzing
05:17 about this new after show episode that just came out
05:19 when you and Sonya get into it
05:20 and you guys have always been pretty good buddies.
05:23 I think everyone's a little bit surprised about that.
05:25 And it involves the birthday party
05:27 and who paid and who was supposed to pay.
05:29 What was your take on how you guys kind of got into it
05:31 during the after show?
05:33 - I was very shocked.
05:34 I was very surprised by that
05:36 because I did think that Sonya and I had a, you know,
05:40 a good relationship and I felt like
05:41 if she felt a way about anything
05:43 that she definitely could have come to me and told,
05:45 you know, told me and it did not have to be on camera.
05:48 I was shocked to know that, you know,
05:52 she and Marlo were the ones talking about it
05:54 because I mean, you guys already know how much heat
05:57 and how much flack that I get from Marlo shit.
06:01 - Yeah.
06:02 - Things that Marlo do.
06:02 They don't only accuse Marlo.
06:03 They like, they just group me in with it.
06:06 - Right.
06:07 - So I've always, you know, I've tried to have her back
06:09 and it just really threw me off guard.
06:12 So for my birthday, which is around the holidays,
06:14 you know, a lot of people are traveling.
06:15 So, and I'm all, anybody who knows me,
06:18 I am very last minute.
06:19 I will throw a party the day of.
06:21 - Right.
06:22 - So it's my birthday, Martel's in town.
06:24 We, you know, he got me gifts.
06:26 He bought me some flowers.
06:28 We went and got massages.
06:29 And then later on that day, I was like, you know what?
06:32 I'm gonna do it.
06:33 I'm gonna do a dinner because a bunch of my friends
06:34 wanted to, you know, come over and celebrate.
06:36 So I put this together.
06:38 I invited Sonya and, you know, her husband
06:41 and, you know, a bunch of other friends.
06:42 Then I also invited Martel.
06:45 So for her to get there and think that one of my guests
06:49 was supposed to pay for her and her husband's meal
06:53 was beyond, it was ridiculous to me.
06:56 You're coming to a birthday party.
06:57 Typically when I go to a birthday party,
06:58 the birthday person doesn't pay for anything.
07:01 - Yeah.
07:02 - You know, but if I'm coming with a guy
07:05 and I don't even know if I was with a guy,
07:07 if he would want another man paying for my meal
07:10 and his meal.
07:11 - Yeah, it's true.
07:12 And you did say on the after show
07:12 that you and Martel haven't been together for that long.
07:15 So that was part of the reason why he didn't owe anyone else
07:18 a free party.
07:20 - He was a guest.
07:21 He was a guest.
07:22 - Yeah.
07:23 - He was a guest just like everyone else.
07:24 I put this together.
07:25 I did this.
07:26 So, I mean, you know, had it been, you know, later on
07:29 and, you know, we really established something
07:31 more than, you know, just a friendship.
07:33 If we were, you know, in a committed relationship,
07:35 then yeah, I definitely would think that, you know,
07:37 he would, you know, pay or, you know,
07:38 of course if he was my husband.
07:41 But I don't feel like that should have been put on him,
07:44 the expectation.
07:46 I don't go anywhere if I can't afford to eat.
07:48 So I'm not assuming that anyone's gonna pay my meal.
07:51 If I'm going to, you know,
07:52 if I know it's a thousand dollars a meal
07:54 or a place, a restaurant, if I'm invited,
07:57 trust me, I can afford it.
07:59 And I'm gonna pay my own way if I have to.
08:00 And I'm not gonna complain about it.
08:02 - Yeah, it's true.
08:03 If you make the plan, then you have to be prepared to pay
08:04 whatever the amount could be that you kind of signed up for.
08:07 - You know, I mean, no one had to pay for their meals.
08:10 Everybody got a free meal.
08:11 - Yeah.
08:12 - You know, of course Martel reimbursed
08:14 by the time the check came to him,
08:16 the people, my friends at the end of the table
08:18 had already paid for it.
08:20 - Yeah.
08:21 - So of course, you know, he reimbursed them.
08:23 But it was something very small, very silly.
08:27 You know, he said something and they ran with it,
08:31 but he said it laughing while pulling his credit card out.
08:34 So it was actually a joke.
08:36 I took the joke and it was just really strange
08:39 that they felt like that was something
08:41 that they should run back and, you know, talk about.
08:44 - Yeah.
08:45 - You know, it's other things that, you know,
08:47 I could be talking about too, but I chose not to
08:49 'cause I really thought that, you know, we were good.
08:51 - Yeah, does this situation come up at the reunion?
08:53 'Cause I know you guys filmed that a few weeks ago.
08:56 - It does.
08:57 - Always, it always does.
08:58 - Yes.
08:59 And the crazy thing is the entire time,
09:01 both of them kept saying, "I think it's Courtney."
09:06 Courtney did, "I think it's Courtney."
09:08 Like, so I'm looking at Courtney sideways, like,
09:12 'cause Courtney's like, "No, I didn't, you know,
09:13 it wasn't me 'cause it wasn't that serious."
09:15 You know, we were laughing about it, you know.
09:17 It was just weird.
09:19 - Yeah, 'cause Marlo does kind of throw Courtney
09:20 under the bus there in that moment.
09:22 - Well, Marlo and Sonya did to me the entire season.
09:25 I mean, off camera, you guys don't see it,
09:28 but we kept saying it's Courtney.
09:30 Courtney, Courtney, Courtney.
09:31 - How do you feel like Courtney's fit in
09:32 with the group so far?
09:34 - I think Courtney fit in great with the group.
09:36 You don't have a friend, a newbie come in
09:39 and able to hold their own against two very strong
09:44 characters on the show, in a Kenya,
09:47 help her own and then still be, you know,
09:49 be able to, you know, come around the group,
09:51 be a girl's girl, be bubbly, be happy, be fun.
09:55 You don't get that.
09:56 So I think that she's an all around girl
09:59 and I think she fit really great with the group.
10:01 - I feel like Candy hasn't been super present
10:03 specifically this season.
10:04 Do you feel like she's a little out of it
10:06 and she's not as into the show
10:07 maybe as she once used to be?
10:09 - Yeah, I totally feel that way.
10:10 I felt like, you know, she's just too busy.
10:14 - Yeah.
10:15 - You know, she got other things going on
10:17 and this seems to be not a priority for her anymore.
10:20 And, you know, more power to her.
10:25 But if that's the case, then, you know,
10:28 it's not fair to, you know, everyone else who,
10:31 you know, we have to show up.
10:32 We show up and we're there and, you know,
10:34 we signed up to do this and we make this a priority.
10:38 - Do you feel like maybe her time on the show
10:41 could be coming to an end sooner rather than later?
10:43 - Do I feel like it or do I think it should?
10:47 I'm just kidding.
10:48 - Those could be two different answers or the same.
10:51 I don't know, you tell me.
10:52 - I don't know.
10:55 I think sometimes, you know, some time away
11:00 and, you know, people, for people to actually miss you
11:05 and, you know, see what you have going on new
11:07 or, you know, when you come back, I think that's great.
11:11 The times I took away, trust me,
11:13 they were mental, were balancers.
11:16 Like I actually needed those times,
11:18 whether they were, whatever I was going through.
11:22 'Cause it's a lot, it's a lot of shooting.
11:23 And then, you know, I know she has so many other things
11:25 going on, then maybe just kind of focus on
11:28 some of the other things.
11:29 And then when you come back, maybe you're open
11:31 to talking about what's really going on in your life.
11:33 'Cause it, you know, not only is she not here
11:36 most of the time, you can't talk about the things
11:40 that happened in her life.
11:42 - Right.
11:42 Yeah, I think it's like the pause,
11:44 that's become a thing now in "Housewives."
11:46 Maybe you just saw it with Tamra, that she came back
11:48 and people are really enjoying her back in OC.
11:49 So I do think when you do the show for so long,
11:52 you start to kind of lose sight of what's happening
11:54 in the moment.
11:54 And I think maybe taking a pause for any "Housewives"
11:57 or any city could be helpful sometimes.
11:59 Trust me, from one, someone who's been gone
12:02 a few times and come back, it's definitely helpful.
12:05 - Yeah, definitely.
12:06 How was the reunion for you?
12:08 Did you leave in a better place with some of the women
12:10 that you've had issues with?
12:11 - I wouldn't say that.
12:15 (laughs)
12:17 - Well, they could be perfect.
12:18 Well, what about like, I guess Drew and Kanye?
12:19 - Wouldn't be too perfect.
12:20 - Yeah, is it Drew, the person that you kind of clashed
12:23 with the most at the reunion?
12:25 - I don't wanna give you too much,
12:27 but I will say that the OG did have to check some people.
12:32 - As well, she should.
12:34 - Yeah, so she had to say the reunion.
12:37 But it was really good.
12:41 It was a good reunion.
12:42 I think everyone was able to get some things
12:44 off their chest as we should.
12:45 And moving forward, I don't know how,
12:49 it's one thing, one-
12:54 - With the shady receipt,
12:55 'cause I was gonna ask that next,
12:56 'cause Andy says there's a shady receipt that happens.
12:59 - Okay, so yeah, a super shady receipt
13:02 that is beyond probably the shadiest thing, like Andy said.
13:07 The shadiest receipt ever in Housewives history.
13:10 Yeah, I can't wait for you guys to see that.
13:12 But I was gonna say, it's another little disagreement
13:17 that is going to shock everyone.
13:20 It's gonna turn some, I would say some-
13:26 - Wow.
13:27 - Alliances.
13:27 - And this is a disagreement you're involved in
13:31 or you're watching gleefully?
13:33 - Cannot say.
13:34 - Okay, now it's interesting you just used the word alliance
13:37 'cause I think from some of the fans
13:39 and maybe some of the women,
13:39 it's felt like, is this side,
13:42 these people are on this side, these people are on this side.
13:44 Is that something that you feel as a cast member
13:46 on the show, that it is a divided group?
13:48 - I felt that even more this season, yes.
13:51 And for me, it's mainly because none of the other girls
13:56 really cared for Marlo.
13:58 So I'm cool with Marlo.
14:02 So I'm not gonna be not cool with Marlo
14:04 because you're not cool with Marlo.
14:06 So I think that's what the divide was.
14:08 And it was so obvious where, even so much so
14:12 where they're speaking for each other
14:14 and it just got really, really crazy.
14:18 I mean, we're all adults and I hear people say sometimes,
14:21 you picked the wrong team.
14:22 Like we're adults.
14:24 We're not in middle school.
14:26 I'm team me, honey.
14:28 - Yeah, that's true.
14:29 And everyone should be friends
14:30 with who they wanna be friends with,
14:31 not based on what alliances, quote unquote, are going on.
14:34 - Yeah.
14:35 - How about, what can you say about if Marlo and Candy
14:38 kind of resolved their issues?
14:39 'Cause things were very ugly early in the season.
14:41 It seems now they're kind of just not talking.
14:43 It doesn't seem like there's much of a relationship
14:45 in the current episodes.
14:46 Is there a resolve for them in the reunion?
14:54 - You know, I don't wanna give you too much.
14:56 I will say that there are some resolve
14:59 in some relationships.
15:01 I'm not gonna tell you who.
15:03 And actually, I feel like some people
15:06 actually went way back.
15:07 They, backwards.
15:09 Yeah.
15:10 Yeah, it kind of goes.
15:12 - Yeah.
15:13 As we kind of wrap up here,
15:14 what would you say would be high and low of this season?
15:17 I know you said that you did enjoy the season
15:19 for the most part, but I know there was kind of bumpy roads
15:21 along the way with everyone.
15:22 What was your high and low from season 15?
15:24 - My high and low, my high is always,
15:27 definitely my family.
15:29 Filming with my family, watching Cairo become a dad,
15:33 watching him with his baby,
15:37 becoming a grandma was definitely my all-time high.
15:42 My low was
15:45 probably
15:50 where's my low?
15:54 Just not really being able to get the girls
15:57 on the same page.
15:59 Where I was trying to bring everybody together,
16:01 I still felt like toward the end,
16:03 we were still very divided.
16:04 - Yeah, and we really did see you try
16:05 to bring everyone together at that brunch that you had.
16:08 And it just went haywire,
16:10 even though you did, we saw you put in the effort to do so,
16:12 but Marlo, Candy, there was a lot of bad blood still
16:15 that couldn't be overcome, it seemed.
16:17 - Yeah, yeah.
16:18 At some point you just gotta realize
16:22 that everyone's not for you,
16:24 but it's okay to, we're a group of friends,
16:28 you can agree to disagree,
16:30 and you can be for Jill,
16:31 because sometimes it just makes it very uncomfortable
16:34 for everybody in the group.
16:36 - Yeah, absolutely.
16:37 And my last question, how is She by Sheree doing?
16:39 I mean, I'm looking at a beautiful sign right behind you.
16:42 How's the business going?
16:43 Do you feel like the women are supporting it?
16:45 How's everything going with that?
16:46 - She by Sheree is doing really great.
16:49 Of course, I'm still learning,
16:51 I got so much growing to do.
16:54 We've expanded, as you saw, with the baby line,
16:57 and just continue to add new products.
16:59 And I'm still looking forward,
17:01 just really trying to put a great team together,
17:03 and that's been kind of difficult,
17:05 finding people who have the same drive,
17:09 and vision, and belief, as your brand.
17:13 So still looking for that.
17:15 Hey, hit me up, www.shebysheree.com.
17:18 - The internet.
17:20 - Yeah.
17:20 But yeah, it's doing good.
17:23 It's doing really good,
17:24 and I'm excited for you guys
17:27 to see some of the things that we have coming up.
17:28 - Yeah, and I hope there will be a She by Sheree stand
17:30 at BravoCon in Vegas this year.
17:32 - Oh, you know it.
17:33 I don't know, was I supposed to announce that already?
17:36 But yeah.
17:37 - I don't know, but I'm just assuming
17:38 that there was one last year,
17:39 so I'm sure there will be one this year,
17:40 except in Vegas this time.
17:42 - Yes, in Vegas.
17:43 - Yeah, so I'm excited.
17:44 Well, Sheree, thank you so much.
17:45 I'm excited to see the rest of the season play out
17:47 and the reunion with everything that goes on with that.