00:00We are here with an icon today.
00:02Shamia, welcome.
00:03I cannot wait to talk to you all about the Real Housewives of Atlanta.
00:06But I want to start with, you know, on somewhat of a light note,
00:09because I'm curious, are you in the process of trademarking Shamessi?
00:13Because I feel like if anybody is going to make money off of that, it should be.
00:16Or Shamina, or Shalaya, or I mean.
00:19Oh, I just heard a new one.
00:21It was Shehoah.
00:22Yeah, that was the preview, right?
00:24Fun.
00:26Who knew my name could be so colorful?
00:28We need, like, we need a merch line or something.
00:30You need to make money off of this.
00:32Well, you know what?
00:33I think other people on the cast need to make that money more than I do.
00:35So we'll let them do it.
00:37Before we get into the drama, I want to say I love to see how close you and Kelly have
00:41gotten.
00:41Yeah, that's my girl.
00:42Yeah, when did you realize that she was, like, this ride-or-die friend for you?
00:46I knew it last season.
00:48She was just, you know, just very supportive.
00:52And not the supportive way where it's like,
00:55okay, I got to shade somebody else to make you feel good.
00:58It was just like showing up, like bringing a meal to the hospital
01:01or picking up my daughter to show her a good time
01:07while my husband and I were dealing with my youngest.
01:10To me, that's love, right?
01:12That's support.
01:13The show is one thing, but it's how you carry yourself off of the show,
01:18off of the camera.
01:19I need to know you really are in my corner with or without the show.
01:23Because, you know, I mean, hey, peaches are lined up.
01:26They want it.
01:27You know, people, there's not a lack of people that desire to be on this platform, right?
01:31And I don't take it for granted.
01:32I appreciate the opportunity, but there are also a lot of people that want to do it.
01:35So if you can show up for me with or without a peach on or off camera, then we good.
01:40On that note, I do want to get into some of the drama this season.
01:44Why not?
01:45Right?
01:46You and, you know, you and Portia, obviously, not as close as you once were.
01:50And you did bring up some texts that were sent between the two of you
01:53after the last reunion you guys did.
01:55So, you know, we had some pretty nasty texts that went back and forth after a reunion.
01:59And one was, like, about my marriage.
02:02I'm not going to put our business out there, but, girl, it wasn't great.
02:05You don't mean well, you don't wish me well, then I don't want to do fake s*** no more.
02:10What can you say about those messages and what was in them?
02:13Well, you know, like I said, it was like a bunch of...
02:18Right.
02:21Oh.
02:23Really?
02:24Oh.
02:26And those are the messages?
02:27And that was it.
02:28That's the context?
02:29That's it.
02:30That's what she said, and that's what I said.
02:31It was either you or Portia who said, you know, your problems stem much deeper than the friend group,
02:37than what we've seen on the show.
02:38Will viewers be let into that at some point?
02:42I'm going to match energy.
02:43Yeah.
02:44So if other people want to allow viewers to be a part of that, then let's do it.
02:50It's fine.
02:51I'm cool with it.
02:52Yeah.
02:52Well, I was going to say, because we did see Portia, you know, kind of shut down talk of the
02:56text.
02:56And when she was at Lake Bailey, she brought up something about you and her having some text exchange.
03:02I'm not going to be defending a text message that was in private.
03:05Did you feel like in that moment, she was, in a way, trying to have your back?
03:10Well, I would have loved to have had that happen last year, when people were throwing things out there
03:15and saying I said or did things behind her back that we still to this day haven't seen.
03:21I would have loved for that type of energy then, because I don't think we would be in this space.
03:25Last year, I was called the lap dog because I was a loyal friend.
03:29Half of the beef started because I was protecting and supporting what I thought was, you know, a real friendship.
03:35So this year, to see the walk away, it's like, wow, man, that could have happened back then.
03:41Then we probably wouldn't be here.
03:43But okay.
03:44I mean, but it's easy to walk away if the seeds are already planted.
03:48I mean, hell, it feels like they all got a battery in their back.
03:53And it's like, who placed it there?
03:55Right, right.
03:56I mean, I don't have to sit around and make sure that, you know, my remote is working if I
04:00already put the battery in it.
04:01Hell, at least I can leave it there.
04:02It's going to do its job.
04:04Appliances are going to work if it's plugged in.
04:06Right.
04:07They are plugged in.
04:08And who plugged them in, though?
04:10Because what did I do to y'all that, why are y'all so mad?
04:14You're going into reunion this week.
04:16What do you, do you hope to find resolve in that friendship?
04:19Do you hope to move forward?
04:20Like, what do you need in order to move forward in that friendship?
04:23Well, absolutely, I want resolve.
04:25I want better understanding.
04:27I want names of these players that I have allegedly slept with.
04:31Please name them.
04:32So that way we can move forward how we need to move forward.
04:35I want, yeah, give me the receipts.
04:38That's where I'm at with it.
04:39I mean, we saw last year, Angela made this whole thing about Phaedra, something that she said Phaedra did.
04:47But at reunion, the receipts didn't land.
04:51So now I'm wondering, okay, is this what you do, sis?
04:54You just create these stories and false narratives, and then you just say, oh, yeah, what's wrong?
05:01I'm sorry.
05:02Because that's not the type of friend group I want to be a part of.
05:06I want honesty.
05:07I want, you can roast me, read me down.
05:10I love a good read.
05:11Like, let me help you read me down.
05:13But when you start attacking marriages and just, it's a new low for me.
05:19And I know people are like, oh, well, you know, you took a stab at her first.
05:22No, I didn't.
05:23Only thing I've said about Angela are the things that she or her husband have said about herself or their
05:27relationship.
05:28Right.
05:28I use what y'all gave me.
05:30Right.
05:30That's not something I created, but what you're doing is a whole new low.
05:33I really don't like when people come after marriages, especially when they're little kids.
05:39It gets worse.
05:40Wait till you see Scotland.
05:41Oh, no.
05:42If you thought the Hawks, Valkans, and all the other things were a thing, wait till you see Scotland.
05:46It's like, I got another person on my vagina.
05:48Oh, my God.
05:49You enlisted another one?
05:51I can't support all of these people.
05:53When you're talking to your husband and you're saying, filling him in on the day and what's going on,
05:57how did you bring that up to him and tell him the gossip going around in the group?
06:00Oh, I mean, just, oh, you know, well, he's like, what's wrong?
06:03He can see it over my face.
06:04I'm like, can you believe that this bitch said, you know, that's kind of how we get into it.
06:08And he's like, you cannot worry about that.
06:10You can't let these people stress you out.
06:11They're doing this because they need to do this because this is their, you know, but you have to remember
06:16why you're there.
06:17You're there on the platform because you want to, you know, bring awareness to this or you want this or
06:21this is helping you get closer to your dreams
06:23and aspirations of being a singer or an actress or a dancer or whatever it is that you want to
06:27do.
06:27That's why you're doing it.
06:29But sometimes people are doing it for far worse reasons.
06:32Like they got to pay their bills.
06:34Right.
06:34And this is how they eat.
06:36If you were going to cut me a check and all I got to do is curse this one out
06:40or just bring up some drama about them,
06:43who wouldn't do it?
06:44I know people that would do it for less.
06:46You know, I got people that I know that would do it for a little or nothing.
06:49But if you cut a certain type of check, people would do anything for it.
06:52I personally did not love to see the gang up on you in those final minutes.
06:57Shamia, where's Jill?
06:58He's working.
06:59He's a work day.
07:00Shamia, you mentioned I was coming for your marriage.
07:02That couldn't have been further from the truth.
07:04And I feel like you are spreading that narrative about me.
07:07And if we're talking about patterns, you are the one who said that you thought I set my husband up.
07:13Do you have any inkling that that kind of pile on was going to be coming?
07:16Because it felt like you were just taking it from everyone.
07:19Oh, it's been like that the whole season.
07:21And even when they do it sneakily, like they sometimes they throw rocks and hide their hands.
07:26But I see it.
07:27I feel it.
07:28So the energy that I have, I'm matching everything that I'm feeling and everything that I'm seeing.
07:31I'm not masking anything.
07:34Last year, I was absolutely quiet, absolutely masking things because I felt that I had a friendship that I could
07:41still salvage.
07:42This year, I could give a damn.
07:43Right.
07:44I mean, to be honest, I could care less.
07:46I want to meet you where you are.
07:47If you like me, if you care about me, and you really want resolve, I'm here for it.
07:52I'm open to it.
07:53But it doesn't feel like that.
07:54It feels like an alliance.
07:56It feels like the very thing that they accused me of doing.
07:58That's what's happening right now.
08:00And even like Kay Michelle, I was kind of surprised to see that she was starting to feel some type
08:04of way about you.
08:05Listen, bring it.
08:07Bring it.
08:08You're ready.
08:08It feels, you know, with that, even with Kay, it was unfortunate to see because I really do like Kay
08:12Michelle.
08:13But it's like, damn, do you feel like, like Portia said, you chose the wrong team?
08:17Maybe that's how she's feeling.
08:18Like she chose the wrong team.
08:20And maybe she's trying to jump ship and go on the other side now.
08:24Listen, I felt like it was room for everybody to be friends.
08:27You don't have to pick a side.
08:28But I never had to.
08:29I was friends with this person and this person.
08:32And even when they beefed, it was like, I'm still going to be cool with them.
08:35They can figure it out on their own.
08:37I did that a few times with people for my ex-best friend.
08:41I was like, oh, you don't like her?
08:43I don't like her.
08:44Okay, I'm going to get her then for you.
08:45Or, you know, absolutely.
08:48I'm a loyal friend like that, aka the lapdog.
08:51But now it feels like we got a bunch of, like, it's a whole litter.
08:54It's a litter of lapdogs over there.
08:56Because what are y'all doing?
08:58And why are y'all so mad?
08:59One more quick question for you.
09:01And we're going to push the drama to the side.
09:02Because we have seen so many amazing things, exciting things come from you.
09:06The rum line, acting, you know.
09:08You're always so open about your family.
09:09And I love that.
09:10You know, what else can we expect from you?
09:12I feel like you're just like checking off your bucket list items.
09:15And I love to see it.
09:15Yes, I am focusing more on music.
09:19That's my heart.
09:20Like, that's always been a passion of mine.
09:22That's where I started before the acting and the dancing.
09:25I was singing.
09:26And it's my first love.
09:28And it's always been very close and near to my heart.
09:30So I'm going to focus on that more.
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