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Emily Simpson Defends Joining ‘Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition’ Amid Son Luke’s Health Journey

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00:00Yeah, and also I'll tell you just to be completely honest, we were worried about Luke as well.
00:05And, you know, I saw some people that said things online like, you know, I can't believe she did another show.
00:10First of all, as far as the timeline, I said yes to Wife Swap long before we started having a lot of issues with Luke.
00:16So that's the timeline on that.
00:19And we were concerned about that and if it would be too overwhelming for him.
00:23And I had to kind of, you know, think about that.
00:27But actually Luke, I think the difference was for Luke was he was so, he was part of it.
00:33And I think that was, he liked that.
00:35You know, with Housewives, the majority of the time it's me filming with the other women.
00:39And then occasionally there's some things at home.
00:42But, you know, there's a long period of filming and 95% of it is me with the other women.
00:48And so I think Luke really enjoyed this because he was just, it was about him too.
00:54So, you know, he liked, he's kind of a ham, so he liked it.
00:58You know, he's, he's much better.
01:00I mean, we still have lots of issues.
01:02We still, you know, we still have therapists and we're still trying to figure things out.
01:07And we're still doing a lot of diagnosis type of things and taking him to occupational therapy and trying to understand everything so that we can, you know, do what's best for him.
01:15But I will tell you, he's now in a different school and it's an academy and it's geared toward kids like him that don't really fit into that traditional type of classroom.
01:27And so he's just been, he's blossomed since this new school.
01:31He loves it.
01:32Math is his favorite subject now.
01:34He gets excited to go to school.
01:36So that's alleviated so much stress on him, on us, on the household.
01:41So it's been life altering.
01:44Yeah, it really was.
01:45And I'll tell you, I didn't know.
01:46I just knew, I mean, the basis of the old wife swap was basically, you know, there's some type of opposites going on.
01:53But I didn't know what that was.
01:55I had, it's not like they were laid it out for me.
01:58You know what I mean?
01:58And so I'm like, I didn't know if I was going to go to, you know, the mountains or, you know, be in West Virginia in the middle of nowhere.
02:06I had no idea what the opposite was.
02:09But it was once I got there and I remember pulling up to the house and I was like, this home is beautiful.
02:14Like, I mean, clearly it's not, you know, they're not sending me to some remote deserted place with an outhouse and I have to like, you know, use well water.
02:22So that's not it.
02:24So it wasn't until I was kind of like figuring things out and meeting the kids and then reading the letter that I was like, okay, now it's clicking.
02:31Like the opposite is the husband's.
02:33That's the opposite.
02:34Okay.
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