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Cynthia Bailey Interview
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00:00pro at this since the uh boom you heard that okay all right ready cheers cheers to my
00:07to seagram seagram's escape peach bellini this this baby has caused me a lot of drama
00:13so enjoy oh that is fresh i love it you like it it's it's so good i told you this is what all
00:23the drama is about you guys you gotta make sure you go out and get yourself some uh get a nice
00:27four pack of peach bellinis you'll see my picture on the box and uh enjoy matter of fact have a peach
00:36bellini while you guys are watching part two of the real housewives of land on sunday so first tell
00:42me what made you get into the alcohol business uh well i'm on a reality show and this reality star
00:49you know a cocktail comes in handy and i thought you know what i'm around a lot of drama i can
00:57appreciate a cocktail more than anyone when seagram's approached me about this partnership
01:01i just thought you know what this could be a win-win they make good drinks and i like a good
01:06drink i love that um and and what like what's going on with you i mean what's not going on with
01:14you obviously this beverage has caused a lot of drama did you ever in a million years think that
01:18that was gonna happen i really didn't like honestly for my seagram's escape honestly for
01:25my seagram's escape peach bellini launch i just thought i wanted all my friends there i wanted
01:30to be lifted up in a blaze of glory and just celebrate like it was a big deal this partnership
01:35is a huge big deal for me and i wanted to be successful and uh the the actual event was pretty
01:44successful but i guess it was kind of bittersweet it was short-lived honey because the drama came right
01:52after do you think though maybe the alcohol in the seagram's had anything to do with how the evening
01:58went down well you know i have to say it's not that much alcohol actually in one bottle but people
02:05were popping bottles all night so if you drink several cases of this yeah i'm sure you can get
02:12drunk so i i don't really know i don't want to make excuses for anyone i think at the end i think at
02:17the end of the day when you come to someone's event to celebrate them your friend your friend's
02:23events you know it's all about it's all about them for the night it's their night and your only job is
02:30to celebrate them so if there is some drama that drama could be the next day and obviously everybody
02:37does want to know have you talked to nini when's the last time you talked to her saw her
02:42i have not talked to nini since right before the reunion i've not talked to her no no texts no
02:53nothing have you tried reaching out you know what actually um she did send me a text last week
03:00but it wasn't very nice so i didn't respond and how hard how hard is it on you that you guys were
03:08so close and you're now like getting texts from her not responding i am still you know it's almost
03:17like a dream or nightmare it's like it's like okay this is really happening like this is not really
03:26that big of a deal but it just keeps living on and being this huge big deal and i'm just trying to
03:32move on i'm just trying to be happy my whole thing is this if we need a break if we don't want to be
03:40friends anymore if it's that serious of a situation to her and she doesn't want to try to like talk it
03:46out and figure it out i thought we talked it out when we all met up at the the pizza restaurant uh the
03:51italian restaurant with candy and tanya and uh we hugged it out you know she cried i was like i'm sorry
03:58looking so sorry i thought it was done that was in october and now it's as if that part didn't even
04:06show up in the episode like it's very confusing so all this time since october i thought we were good
04:11but apparently not do you think she just rehashed everything at the reunion to cause more drama or do
04:17you think there really is a lot of hurt there i don't know i mean i you know it's interesting because
04:22once you remove yourself from certain situations you'll be surprised how the universe just opens right up and
04:28information just starts falling in your lap and i will say um apparently so the universe says
04:37she never really forgave me for inviting kenya to my seagram speech bellini event and uh i guess has
04:47pretty much been pretending to have forgiven me and be my friend because we've hung out quite a bit since
04:54october and now and that is not only hurtful but just disturbing at this point to even fake that
05:03like everything was good when it really wasn't and it was like kind of just waiting for the reunion to
05:08happen to expose me for this big betrayal of whatever it is i betrayed inviting kenya to the event
05:17and how did you feel when nini said at the reunion that you guys weren't good friends
05:24well at that time to be honest although i had seen the last episode the finale apps
05:31to be honest at that time i had seen the finale episode the night before the reunion and i figured
05:36that was probably around the time she saw it and when i saw some of the mic stuff i was like oh god
05:41she's gonna think this that and the other and whatever whatever although when i lean into my
05:47boyfriend's ear you i mean i don't know if your tv said anything differently but i certainly didn't
05:52hear myself say anything but i did read the caption and the funny thing about captions isn't
05:57they're actually not necessary unless you can actually if you don't hear what the person's saying
06:02there's really no need for a caption so i thought it was very interesting that you couldn't hear what
06:05i was saying and then this caption appeared so i was like okay but i didn't honestly feel like
06:10it wasn't anything that i couldn't explain to her or get past with her at the end of the day again
06:16i invited kenya to the event i wanted kenya to come to the event kenya said she was not coming to
06:22the event because we were filming i got it i was like look the event's still going to go on i just
06:28wanted to invite you it is what it is she shows up and here we are so what was the original question
06:36how you felt about nini saying at the reunion you guys weren't good friends oh yeah i was still
06:39optimistic at the reunion that once we got out there we could just talk about it and i could
06:45kind of explain like how it all went down which i tried but of course she just turned her nose up
06:49at me and didn't want to hear so again uh we kind of been down this road before different situation
06:56different circumstances but we've we've you know not been friends before and you know surprisingly life
07:02went on you know i still you know i woke up the next morning the sun i woke up the next morning the
07:08sun still shine and lake bailey was still there and you know i still had a lot of love and support so
07:15i'm okay i'm not you know i'm 52 years old i'm not going to force any friendships i'm certainly not going
07:22to beg anyone to be my friend if they want to anyone that wants to be friends with me anyone that is a
07:28real friend first of all would have no issues sitting down with me and getting past this this
07:33is not that deep it is not when you use words like betrayal and all this stuff i didn't sleep with
07:40your husband honey i didn't burn down your house in the middle of the night i invited my girlfriend to
07:45the party she came get over it and kenya clearly doesn't seem this bothered by nini the way that nini's
07:52bought by kenya i don't think he loses any sleep over nini at all like she her name doesn't even come
08:00up um and do you really think nini wasn't talking about you in her tweet that was brought up at the
08:05reunion uh nini said that she wasn't but i feel like it was probably me but i called and asked her and
08:12she denied it and denied it and denied it so i said okay i said well i hope if you felt that way
08:17or if you had something to say to me you would actually call me and be warm enough to say it
08:23so when she denied it and denied it at the reunion you know i think some of my castmates
08:28may have felt like she maybe wasn't telling the truth but what am i gonna do she says she didn't say
08:34it okay fine you didn't say it and you made it pretty clear like you guys have not you know she did
08:41reach out to you but like that's pretty much all it's been where do you see the relationship going
08:45in the future at least from your perspective you know i wish her well i wish her well i wish great
08:51continued health i want her to keep being great i want to open up a million more swag stores i want
08:57her to be happy um because i'm going to be happy with or without her i'm i choose happy i have an
09:04amazing man that loves me who i love very much hashtag chill hi hashtag chill and i'm not insecure
09:12because i have a hashtag chill i just like having a hashtag chill it just makes me happy so um my
09:19daughter's great you know i'm in a good place i have a lot going on i have my deal with seagrams you
09:25know i got my peach bellinis i'm gonna have a peach one way or the other no matter what and um you know
09:32i'm good i wish her well and i i wish that that reciprocity was there which she would just wish me well
09:39we don't have to be friends girl like we don't have to run around trashing each other i have no
09:43interest in saying anything about you other than hey be great we we're not friends okay fine let's
09:50don't be friends but you know your character speaks volumes and even in a situation that was as sticky
09:56and crazy as this for me my character still defended itself even though it looked crazy people still
10:03have watched my character over the years they've watched me do nothing but be loyal to this woman
10:08for years especially this season with her doing especially especially the season with her dealing
10:14with greg's cancer battle and i will have to say even throughout this the love and support i've
10:21gotten has been amazing like i really and i knew she was going to use this and really like you know
10:26really go on her smear campaign which of course didn't take a psychic to figure that out of course
10:32that's exactly what she's doing and i've just gotten so much love and support and people like look
10:37just be classy you know we know your heart like there's nothing out there that nini can ever say
10:44that i was a horrible friend to her like okay so it looked like what it looked like it is what it is
10:49you don't want to talk about it so run with your smear campaign i'm still going to sit over and eat
10:54i'm still going to sit over here and drink my yes delicious peach bellini which is selling out
11:00like crazy please go on to my ig in the bio is the store locator i know you guys are having some
11:06problems finding them everywhere because it's selling out so fast but please make sure you go
11:11and and you know find the store nearest you to enjoy one as well but i'm happy i'm good i have said what
11:20i've had to say and um i really truly you know pray for her and greg and i wish them well and i i
11:27would welcome her to wish mike and i well because we're happy and you know life is good life is good
11:35and it feels good not to have to be in a situation anymore where i even have to entertain this kind
11:41of nonsense this is like petty high school stupid nonsense like this is not a grill this is not a grown
11:47woman situation and it's really quite sad because again what i was trying to say i think i kind of
11:54lost my moment but uh what i was trying to say is the way people treat you when you're friends is one
12:00thing but the way they treat you after you are not friends anymore speaks volumes and the way that
12:06she's speaking about me now that we're not friends is is not only hurtful but it's really sad because no
12:13matter what i am always gonna love nene i think nene's great for the show i think nene is great
12:18at all the things she does and i think she's awesome but we're not gonna be friends that's
12:22fine and i still think she's great and we don't have to be friends and that's okay but you're open
12:28to being friends with her should she maybe reach out to you and text you and say nice things to you or
12:32apologize or something uh honestly i think at this point i think the break would be good i don't i don't
12:38foresee us getting past this anytime soon and that's fine that's fine because you know i'm in
12:44a good place and my mental health and wellness is important to me and i like being happy and uh if
12:53being friends with her is going to make me feel like i can't just be free and happy and not have to
13:01deal with petty bs for no reason um we're good we're good right now she she can just stay over
13:09there and be great and i'll stay over here and be great and and we're good do you truly feel like you
13:14did any you did nothing wrong i did absolutely nothing wrong this was my party it was my event
13:22once king had told me she wasn't coming i never thought anything else about it and that's it had king
13:27and told me she was definitely coming i might have given nini the courtesy of hey you know what
13:33it really shouldn't matter but just so you know king is coming to my event this will not be a
13:38intimate gathering in my living room with six people this will be at my event space my new
13:42event space the bailey room um please go into thebaileyroom.com to book uh my event space
13:50anytime you want to and work it out babe there's gonna be a lot of people there
13:56like you this is i'm not putting you in a situation and nor do i have nor would i ever
14:01have a desire to put kenya in a situation she's eight months pregnant at this point i'm not trying
14:05to put her around any drama nor did i need any drama like everybody showed up for me the whole cast
14:10showed up all their husbands bays boo showed up and kenya showed up i mean it was a successful event
14:16and that speaks volumes because out of the whole season 11 everybody has different events and mine is
14:22the only one that everybody usually comes to so i can't be that horrible of a person or a friend
14:27because the love and support is is obvious and again no matter what is being said about me my
14:33character defends itself i'm not a bad person i wanted both of my friends there one said she was
14:40coming and showed up anyway so what okay girl get over it like celebrate me let me have my night
14:47let me have my moment and what happens she ends up making it about her and then it ends up in this
14:53whole thing and then i got to rehash it at the reunion when all i wanted to do was be great and
14:58celebrate my sequence escape peach bellini um any talk about phaedra returning
15:07you know it always comes up um anyone that's been on the show for the most part it comes up a lot
15:13i don't i don't know like i'm not an executive at bravo you know i'm talent myself um i definitely
15:21think you know phaedra definitely brought a lot to the show when she was there she's funny as heck
15:24and her confessionals whatever and phaedra and i have gone at it but i still think she's funny so
15:28i don't know i do think that the show works best when you have a good mix of women you know i
15:34definitely don't think it's a one woman show for sure and there was a little rumor floating around
15:39like last week that apollo would be returning next season have you heard that and what do you
15:43think about that okay you guys are good i have not heard anything about that but that
15:47that would be interesting turning with or without phaedra oh well i guess we don't know yet but it
15:53would probably be without because they're not together anymore and she's very happy and moved on
15:58okay well uh that would be interesting i am happy to i am that would be interesting i will say uh
16:06uh you know good for him that he you know will be able to come home soon uh yeah that
16:15i'm happy for him that he's served his time and he'll be coming home soon and get to see his
16:20see his beautiful boys so i'm excited about that as far as i'm coming to the show i don't know anything
16:25about that um and always people want to know kenya returning do you think like this would be a good
16:32time for her and and i'm sure as her friend you can give us a little scoop as to how she's feeling
16:37about the idea i think he is great for the show i think kenya more daily is very good for the show
16:43she is you know she's living her best life she has beautiful baby my little niece brooklyn is super
16:50cute i actually just saw her the other day they're here in la so i hung out with them and uh you know she
16:56has a great husband mark is awesome um i think kenya is definitely great for the show so if she's
17:01coming back uh of course you know she's my friend i i think it's great she's coming back
17:07do you think she'd want to come back i think so i think i think kenya definitely would want
17:13to come back i mean it's this is a great platform like why wouldn't i think anybody that's been on
17:18the show would want to come back if they had the option because it again it's it's a great platform
17:26um i know you're very happy so is marriage like you guys talk about it do you think that's coming
17:33soon we talk about getting married all the time here's the thing you know mike's been married actually
17:39he's been married twice i've been married he has kids i have kids he's 48 i'm 52 it's one of those
17:46things where yeah like i love this man so much that there's no reason for me not to marry him
17:52when the time is right but i'm not like in a rush and he's not in a rush and i'm not going to put
17:57pressure on him to marry me like i it feels like just yesterday i got divorced so i am definitely
18:03there's no reason for me to to put that pressure on him when he's ready to ask me i already said yes
18:09yes world i will marry my heel the minute he asked me i am so ready for it and you guys will be the
18:14first to know but until he's ready to ask me i'm good i love where we're at right now we're having
18:20fun we're just over here hashtag chilling um what's your what's your relationship like with peter i mean
18:26we've kind of seen him here and there and i know him and noel or last we saw we're very very close so
18:30what's your relationship with him and how is he doing um i haven't talked to peter in a while but
18:36last time i did actually talk to him he was doing fine you know the whole like jail thing happened and
18:42you know he's passed all of that i wish peter well he's moved on i've moved on um i have a
18:47great relationship with his kids especially his daughter portia who lives here as a matter of fact
18:52i was just on the phone with her um i may see her tomorrow night before i leave to head back to
18:56atlanta we're good we're good i i feel like we're in a good place nini probably sees peter more than i
19:03do actually at this point because i think she you know she filmed with him this season which i had no
19:08problem with uh i'd never filmed with greg when they broke up but anyway um but i'm a bad friend
19:15anyway uh and i think she hosted his uh his opening for his new bar which i hear is beautiful new bar one
19:24in miami so if you guys hadn't had a chance to go to bar one in miami i hear it's gorgeous so i'm happy
19:30for him i really truly wish him well like all shades i wish him extremely well and we have moved on
19:35and you know i will always root and be supportive of peter um have you been catching bethany frankel's
19:41videos about you guys have she watched the reunion oh you haven't seen it oh you'll have to i wonder
19:47if they're still on her stories so she watched the reunion and she tagged you a lot in it like
19:52she was basically like just asking fans to kind of like help break down what was happening and like
19:56she was trying to understand because she was getting so into the reunion so you you haven't seen it what
20:02was she saying about it like what was she saying well she was like really just trying to understand
20:05like what was because it was like a lot of we were in the same boat honey i was trying to understand
20:09what was happening on the reunion too it was just like a lot of fighting yeah well um you know it's
20:15interesting because um at that point you know the reunion is all about closure it's all about look
20:21let's have a conversation hopefully try to move on it is what it is um as you can see from the first
20:27reunion nini was very close to you know having conversations with folks i'll just say that
20:35i think she was saving all her energy for madam cheekbones over here but we'll get to that
20:45i was like oh boy she's not gonna waste any her energy on these other girls she's just waiting for
20:49cheekbones baby over here um do you talk to teresa judice ever you know it's interesting we have um
20:56teresa and i have a friend in common my friend taja in new york and we recently had dinner a big group
21:03of us it was like maybe like six of us and teresa was there and that was maybe a couple months ago
21:08and i like teresa we've had dinner in atlanta as well uh i like her a lot she's cool because you know
21:16no no because she's she's going through so much so you know we just want to know like how she's doing
21:21well you know i i will say from what i can see from the outside looking in and you never know what
21:27anyone's really really going through i think she's a strong woman that's a strong woman she
21:33has dealt with this situation pretty well under the circumstances it's it's a lot and you know i've
21:39been on the show nine years and i've had to go through personal issues and you know financial
21:45you know devastation and all that stuff on the show and it's hard to do it on television in front
21:53of a camera and in real life because at the end of the day when the camera crew goes home you still
21:57don't have any money or you're still dealing with like jail time or whatever it is you're dealing with
22:02and you still have your kids that you're trying to keep it all together in front of so i take my
22:06hat off to her i i wish her well and um i think she's she's she's a strong one well it does seem like
22:13for you at least your cast is pretty much rallying behind dio you know candy and porsha and porsha
22:20nini have really gone out pretty bad on social molest week so i mean if nothing else it seems
22:26like maybe it's brought you guys closer together would you say that's true and how does it feel
22:30that everyone has your back uh i i will say this and this was kind of the blessing that came out of the
22:39whole situation i really felt like at the reunion i was going into the lion's den alone i really did
22:46i knew that i was definitely gonna have my only real issue was gonna be with nini and knowing her
22:53like i do i just knew kind of knew how she was gonna react to it kind of how she's reacting to all
22:57this press and stuff she's doing so i knew what i was dealing with i did not know or expect because
23:04i hadn't talked to my other castmates before the reunion because i talked to nini more than anybody
23:08to be honest um that they i didn't know how they felt after they saw the tape after they saw the
23:15last episode i didn't know if they were like oh my god cynthia's such a horrible friend you know how
23:18dare could she how dare she invite king and not tell nini this is so bad like i honestly didn't
23:23know what they thought and i was very um happy to see that you know they all received me with love and
23:32you know you know had their own issues with her it had nothing to do with me so i think at this
23:38point it's not even a matter of them having my back per se even though i'm so grateful that they
23:43see my side of it and do have compassion for me i just think they all legitimately have their own
23:48issues with her and you know wanted to make sure they addressed them and you know the only thing we
23:53kind of had in common really that day was we all had issues that we wanted to address with her
23:58anything else you want to add here um yeah let's see um i just want to say this in closing i want to
24:09say this i am exhausted about talking i'm so exhausted talking about this this is such a waste i'm sorry
24:19no disrespect to you because you're doing your job but i am so about positive affirmation you know
24:27supporting women you know the women's movement lifting women up like this is such an incredible
24:32time for women and the fact that i have you know all these business things that are happening like i am
24:38really truly a woman boss and i am living my best life honestly and it really sucks and it's just so
24:48exhausting to have to talk about something that is just so ridiculous like it's just so ridiculous that
24:56this is even a thing that this is even you know press worthy like honestly and it's sad because
25:05when this blows over because it usually does what i'm going to be left with and what she is going to
25:11be left with is how she handled the situation you know the things that she said you know that's why i'm
25:18trying to be very mindful and careful about the words that i use because at the end of the day
25:22i can't take love back from her i love this woman you know i love greg you know i root for them i pray
25:31for them and it really is coming from the most genuine purest place ever it truly truly is and the fact
25:39that at the end of the day when i go home at night to lake bailey and lay my head down i really have to i
25:46can't even take back the time that i've that i've spent in this relationship with her in this
25:52friendship the hours of just talking and laughing and thinking that you know this is my girl she's
25:58got my back she wants the best for me she's rooting for me she's happy for me and only to find out
26:03the way she's behaving right now it's kind of hard to believe that she could have ever loved me or cared
26:09about me because even if you are upset with someone you cannot try to destroy someone's spirit and
26:17character and soul it's just not what people that love you do even if they're mad at you so
26:26that's disappointing to me that's really sad to me that i invested so much time into someone who
26:34clearly could just throw me in the trash can at any moment and not care about my feelings my daughter's
26:45feelings who's reading stuff about this worrying about if i'm okay you know what i mean that's
26:53that speaks a lot about her character and who she is and what she stands for and i will never ever ever
27:02go that low i won't the only thing i can say is lord if if that's been if she was my friend i would
27:11hate for to be my enemy that's all i could tell you so when you ask me because i get asked this question
27:16all the time would you be back friends with her honestly i have to say no not not not not a real
27:23friend not a friend that really is you know coming from a place of love because that can't exist with
27:29somebody like this you know my real friends can be wrong about stuff my real friends aren't perfect
27:35my real friends make mistakes my real friends are forgiving my real friends actually really love me
27:40and want to see me win so yeah can i work with her absolutely can we be real friends again
27:50um i mean i hate to never say never but my definition of friendship is clearly very different
27:58from hers and you know
28:05i'm just gonna leave it right there well cheers to you and to your successes and to uh part two of
28:12the reunion airing this sunday oh yes uh make sure you guys definitely tune in on bravo uh
28:16uh eight o'clock p.m eastern standard time to check out part two three and please have a peach
28:22bellini while you're watching please go to my cynthia bailey 10 ig click on the store locator and my
28:29link in my bio and find a store near you
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