'Mormon Wives' Star Mayci Neeley Shares How Her Ex's Death Influences The Way She Reacts To Drama

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00:00We are here with Macy Neely from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives to talk all about her new

00:05memoir, Told You So. Right that you've wanted to write a book for the last 10, maybe even more

00:09years. Why was now the right time to do it? I just felt like over the years I was kind of

00:16compiling different things, like writing different things, and then the opportunity kind of presented

00:20itself. I had a publisher that I like got with that and it just worked out and I just was like

00:24this must be the time because I feel like I didn't know. In the past there were times like even five

00:28years ago where I'm going to write it now. I'd start and I'm like I don't know it just doesn't feel

00:32right and this time I just you know almost like a feeling I guess. Yeah and you know what was it

00:37like because you write about so much what was it like to go back and relive a lot of these moments

00:41were there any parts that you found harder to write than others and if so which were they? I think the

00:46hardest ones for me to write were like about the abuse like there are certain stories written that

00:50were like really hard to write and like have to reread and I have said this before but I think

00:55writing about the abuse stuff that I experienced made me angry but like writing about the loss of

01:00my son's father made me really sad like I was feeling so many emotions like there's also like

01:04joy in the book right so it's like you feel a lot of emotions like anger like sadness like happiness

01:09joy like it ends happy which is great but like you go to like a roller coaster for sure but yeah

01:16like writing about the abuse was like I think part like the hardest part I think. Yeah and I love that

01:21you wrote this book because there's only so much we get to see of each girl in the show. We're starting to

01:25see more of everybody you know through Dancing with the Stars through The Bachelorette with you

01:29and your book. If you could narrow it down to one thing what's one thing you hope people take away

01:32about you from this book? I mean I think at least I hope that they understand me more because I do get

01:37a lot of people not understanding like why are you so neutral? Why are you on the fence? Why can't you

01:41just like be more opinionated? And I feel like I am at times like I'll say things when I really feel

01:45like it's necessary but I feel like this book kind of explains that because it's like I have been through a lot

01:50and I think because of that I don't like having beef with anyone. I don't like leaving things

01:54on a bad note because like I know how precious and fragile life is and how soon it could be gone

01:58and I think that's what stems. I think that's why because people always ask like why are you? I'm like

02:02I don't know. I think it's just the way that I am from the past and so I think they hope

02:06I hope I can take that away but also get to know me a little bit better and like my background with

02:11tennis and things like that and like kind of the inner workings of me maybe the more emotional side

02:16and the deeper side to me. Everything that happened with Eric it broke my heart that those chapters

02:21um you talk about how you and Jacob first told Hudson about him he was really young and he was

02:26kind of like okay back to my Legos kind of thing uh what are those conversations look like with him

02:31now that he's older how do you how do you keep Eric's memory alive for your son? Yeah I mean I think

02:36I kind of leave it up to my son like if he asks questions we're very open to them like we answer

02:40any questions he has like we went to a memorial for him like for his old baseball team they had like an

02:46event where it was like a senior day and they invited us to come and kind of celebrate Eric

02:51there because he was like their MVP so like we did that and he got to see all the pictures and like

02:55celebrate him so we definitely have those ways and then he also hears about him from like his

03:00grandparents so he had he gets to see them and he sees that side of him so then then he never feels

03:04like he's growing up with any secrets and we don't want that for him we want to be very open-minded

03:07and like an open household where he feels comfortable like asking his questions. I think you guys do such a good

03:12job and we even saw it in the show last season you were with Eric's parents and you had Jacob there you

03:16had Hudson there you had everybody and I yeah that was so beautiful that you guys still stayed

03:20close yeah and I feel like if you keep things like normal to where it's just like normal to them it's

03:24not like weird to see the grandparents are like it's you don't see them very often right it makes

03:28it almost a secret and I don't want to have any secrets or have a feeling like oh this is weird you

03:33know so I think when you introduce them to them that young it just is normal for him now like

03:39growing up it's like nothing's different you know right you talk about a lot of instances in your life

03:43from from dick to the horrible bishop you had to talk to your friends in college do you think

03:48you'll be hearing from anyone once this book comes out and what do you think their reactions are going

03:52to be huh I hope not I feel like I even with the book like I went hard like towards the bishop and

04:01things obviously I feel like resentment there and things like that and just stuff that I would never

04:06want my future my daughters to go through in the future um and so I think that you can definitely feel

04:11the animosity there but um as far as like my other friends that I lost I feel like I wrote it like

04:16fairly neutral to where I was like this did make me feel a certain way but like I look back like I

04:21wasn't a perfect friend either so I have to be open to the fact that like maybe there was something else

04:25going on in their life to where they treated me this way and you know vice versa so but I hope I

04:30don't get people feeling resentment or anything like that because I feel like I tried to keep it at the

04:34end of the day it's my story yeah this is my opinion and I have to be clear on that like it's that

04:39their experience is different from mine but this is my experience you were almost bound to be on

04:43reality tv no matter what because your family got offered a reality show that fell through right

04:49yeah yeah years before which is so random but I remember at the time being like I don't know if I'd

04:54ever want to do reality tv like I don't know if this is like great for me or my family and then it

04:59fell through and we're all kind of relieved I will be honest and then like this show happened I was

05:03like maybe I was just meant to be on reality tv I don't know so then I was like I at least with the

05:08secret lies more my wife so it's kind of just like if I don't like it because I was actually

05:12really nervous to say yes to doing it and I was like if I don't like it I'll do a season I'll be

05:16done like it's fine and I feel like I I always feel like I can sleep at night so it's good if I

05:21have moments where I stop sleeping at night and I'm anxious and maybe we'll reevaluate but for now

05:25I'm like I'm pretty good yeah well I was gonna say if they ever came back around and they were like

05:29okay spin-off show about Macy and her family what would you do I would ask the family you would have to

05:36see I don't know it makes me a little bit nervous just because I like love my family and like we're

05:41a little crazy there can be drama so I'm like I don't know if I want to ruin those relationships

05:46you know so I would definitely be hesitant but like I'm still open to the idea right but maybe

05:52in a different light like we'd have to see like how it would be like is it about tennis because that

05:55could be good that'd be very interesting because my sisters are like crazy tennis sisters my mom was

06:00like a crazy tennis mom I was like we should do a tennis version of dance moms people don't realize

06:04how crazy the tennis world is you played your whole life you had a child you went back you

06:10finished college that's so amazing yeah I did a lot do you look back at that and you're like man I'm

06:14pretty resilient I think now I do in the moment it was just normal for me it was just like what I felt

06:19like it felt like the bare minimum to be honest because I was just like how I was raised like I

06:23grew up on the tennis court every day like I'd be like throwing up and I'd have to go play a tournament

06:27the next day and it was just normal and so I think that's just kind of the way I was like even when I

06:31tore my ACL I was like full-on gonna go play right away I didn't even know I tore it you know

06:35so I think it's just way I was raised was very tough love so I think in those moments where I was doing

06:40so much I just felt like it was normal looking back I'm like whoa that's actually kind of crazy

06:45you did all that like I don't know like I feel like now I get more proud of it than I did back

06:49then right in retrospect yeah your kids are gonna look at that and be like man mom you killed it yeah

06:54and that was part of the reason why I did do it like because I was a single mom I was like I want my son

06:58to grow up and be like I can do this too I can do whatever I put my mind to my mom can do it she

07:01did it with me like when I was by her side like I can do anything written a book you've done reality

07:05tv um what's another thing you'd like to check off of your bucket list so the book was actually the

07:12biggest one for me so I'm gonna have to re-evaluate and kind of see like I definitely have a lot of

07:15hobbies and interests so I think I'm gonna try to see what I want to pursue what Macy wants to do like

07:21I'm still trying to figure it out but I do say I do love hosting like I would love to like host

07:26honestly a show like I would love to host a show like I think that'd be really fun

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