00:00They are filming you for about 900 hours a day, and then they have to edit that down.
00:12I do believe that they truly film what you give them.
00:15If you act a fool, they're going to edit a fool.
00:17But I definitely agree with you.
00:19People can only use what you give them.
00:21So if you don't show yourself acting a complete donkey, they can't depict you being a complete donkey.
00:27On our show, Real Housewives of Atlanta, we shoot, well, this season, about four months out of 12.
00:37So if you just look at it as though it is a moment in time, so that speaks to how much of your life can you really share in four months?
00:46It's just a fraction of that.
00:47You have to remember this is television.
00:49It's entertainment.
00:50So there's a dose of it that you have to remember the producers are trying to get what they need.
00:57to make it interesting or keep it interesting.
00:59Some shows, you may have to do that more than others.
01:01It's the art of storytelling.
01:03You need the villain.
01:03You need the peacemaker.
01:04You need the goofball.
01:07You know what I'm saying?
01:07It's to tell the story.
01:09You know, with us, it's a little bit different.
01:11And the one thing that I can say, and I enjoy all of you, by the way, but the one thing that I can say is I envy you guys only in the sense that when you're finished your work, you get to go home.
01:20And you don't have to worry about taking any of that baggage with you.
01:24You know, for us, we are sisters, and we're a family.
01:26So when the cameras stop rolling, those events that you're seeing and that you're watching, we're actually going through them.
01:33And it impermeates in us because we have those real true emotions and feelings, and we have to wear them on our sleeves.
01:39And then we still have to film, even though we are mad as heck at each other.
01:44You can ruin relationships, real, genuine, off-camera relationships with a moment, just one moment, especially one moment shared with millions of people.
01:54So it's not always that we're not pulling each other's co-tail or we're not saying something to each other.
01:59It's just maybe we didn't do it on camera because that definitely affects the afterwards.
02:06Unlike my sister sitting up here, I like to say I'm the phantom wife.
02:10I'm like Santa Claus.
02:12He drops off gifts, and nobody ever sees it happen.
02:15First of all, this chick's one-liners are the best.
02:19It was not about money.
02:21It was not about exposure.
02:23It's about saying, you know what?
02:25I've been in the shadows way too long.
02:28So this is a platform.
02:32As women, we tend to be in the background, and we put our hopes and dreams on the back burner for our children, for our husbands, our boyfriends.
02:40And you look up one day, and you're standing in the mirror going, who am I?
02:44What happened to me?
02:45And I did it in front of the public, in front of the world.
02:49So I did it for the women out there who feels like she can't.
02:52But guess what?
02:52If Drea could leave and R. Kelly, maybe I could leave Daryl, Jerome.
02:56Amen.
02:56I am more vulnerable now being on this show than I ever was when I was Miss USA or the 20 years that I was acting.
03:08So it comes across really crazy sometimes when you open up a magazine and you read something about yourself.
03:17So that is a cost that you do pay.
03:22I mean, I know you've been fortunate.
03:25And sometimes it comes and it goes, you know.
03:27Because God chose you to be in that position because he felt you were strong enough to handle it.
03:32We all have cracks, but we're not broken.
03:34Every woman sitting up here, you have to know that you are strong enough, and that's why you are in that position.
03:40So when that opposition comes, no, the devil is busy, boo.
03:44He ain't going to send you people to tell you they love you every day.
03:46He wants to break you down.
03:48He wants you to think you can't do it.
03:49He wants you to think you're not good enough.
03:51He wants you to think you're a failure.
03:53He wants your information out there.
03:55But at the end of the day, boo, I get up in the mirror.
03:57I said, as long as they're talking, it's right.
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