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Real Exposure and Real Talk (Kenya Moore Suspended From RHOA and Lizzo Tells Her Truth
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Lauren LaRosa
Let's get to it.
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Lauren LaRosa
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody, you know, she don't lie about that, right?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Lauren came in hot.
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Lauren LaRosa
All righty, y'all. We are back again. We are in week two of the latest with Lauren LaRosa, the podcast and, you know, a daily podcast. It's a hustle, it's a grind, but I mean, this is what I do. I literally sit on my phone live and breathe text, talk, call, reach out, email about, you know, entertainment news and pop culture stuff all day long up until a certain point. I will cut it off at some point because I'll be like, all right, I got to eat. I got to. You know what I mean? But I mean, I say that to say it's ongoing, so this is not hard to do. What has been the challenge in this new phase in life with dropping the podcast and, you know, us rolling out the Latest with Lauren LaRosa, the Breakfast Club iteration of it. And I do a show with BET called BET Talks has been balance of life. My mom called me today and she was like, hey, what you doing? Because she called me twice and I was on a zoom call with my assistant, and I answered and I'm like, hey, mom, you all right? And she was like, yeah, I'm fine. What you doing? You don't call me no more. And I'm like, that's the third time she told me that this week. And the way I'm set up with my mom and my grandmom, I talk to them every single day. If they don't hear from me. They're like, what the heck is going on? Sometimes my grandmother will be like, oh, she's busy. So she'll call my mom, be like, oh, did you talk to Lolo? That's my family nickname. So y'all family now? Cause y'all don't. Y'all know my nickname? She'll be like, hey, have you talked to Lolo? And my. My mom will tell her, like, oh, yeah, I talked to her. She was doing such and such and such and such. So my grandma would just let it rock. Cause she's like, yo, you running around, you doing so much. My mom ain't letting nothing rock at all. She want all the smoke. She wants to talk to me every day. She wants to know why she's not talking to me every day. She wants to know, you know, if I'm doing all this work, am I being paid with the coin, Looking like baby Lois, that's my mom's name. She don't play no games at all. But I think, you know, I've been thinking a lot about today. Just feeling kind of guilty for that and guilty for the fact that just within his last two weeks, my time. This last couple months, my time has changed because I'm getting busier and things are moving, and I. I just wanted to be. Move slow about it and take on one project at a time and then bring other things in. And then now everything kind of hit at once. Everything I was slowly taking on at one time. It's like, it's all. It's all on the table, and we ain't even nothing on the table. We ain't even no money on the table. So, you know, I'm here and I'm doing it, but I'm not able to go home to Delaware and just sit and play cards and eat crabs with my grandma as much as I was before. I can't sit on the phone on phone all day with my mom as much as I was doing before. And I know that they have such a dependency on me, especially because I'm my mom and my grandmother's caretaker. So even though I don't live in Delaware, me, my brother, we make sure that they straight. They're. They're older. They've both gone through health stuff. So there is a. A really strong dependency there, especially because of their age, but especially because, you know, like, medically, they. They've just been through things where it's. It's helping that we. Me and my brother know more than they do right now. So, you know, I'm making sure, you know, they're eating how they supposed to eat. They got help in the home. The homes are being cleaned and all that good stuff, even when I can't be there. So that's. That's what I've been figuring out so much of. But, you know, just feeling guilty that I can't show up and do those things myself anymore as much as I used to. Cooking the dinner, hanging out, just playing cards, just chilling. I'd rather be there and get yelled at about not spending enough time than being asked, when are you coming back? And it's like, oh, my God. And, yeah, so when my mom called me and said that today, I was like, oh, I was feeling good because today was my first day where I'm, like, up and energized and I slept early last night. And then she called me, and I'm like, but it's still not enough. I got to figure out the balance of life now and work. So personally, that's some of the things that I, you know, today have been dealing with. But I am more refreshed, so at least I have the clear space of mind to do so. So I thank God for that. But we gonna get on into some stories. It's Lauren LaRosa. This is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. And you guys know, despite what's. Whatever is happening in my life, whether I'm figuring out family, work, whatever, I'm always gonna be the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. And what I don't know, baby, I will pick up the phone, reach out and figure it out. Okay, so let's get on into some things. So up first, I wanted to talk about Real Housewives of Atlanta. And I'll just fresh off of watching the new episode of Real Housewives of Atlanta. The episode is called is titled about last night. Now, for those of you guys who are Real Housewives fans, you'll know that we were waiting. All of the Real Housewives of Atlanta fans were waiting for this episode because this is the episode that is Kenya Moore's last episode for season 16, unless. Well, for season 16, for sure. And potentially in the franchise, unless she decides to come back or they allow her back. Like, we still don't know the answer to that. So. So on about last night, this episode, the main focus of this episode, news wise, has been the fact that this was Kenya Moore's last episode for the season. And the reason why this was her last episode is because Kenya Moore opened the Kenya Moore hair spa. She owned Kenya Moore hair care product line and decided to put it in an actual hair spot in Atlanta where you could come get your hair done. You know, all the. All the spa things. But it's all based around her product. So during this episode and at the opening of that spa, her and another girl from the show, a girl named Brittany, who is a newcomer to the show. Y'all know Kenya Moore is an og. She's been there since the original Real Housewives of Atlanta days, back when Nene was there and all that good stuff. So, of course, when you are the OG On a, you know, a show, a reality show like Real Housewives, the new girls gotta come for you. It's kind of like a rite of passage. It shows how they can hang her if they can't. You know what I'm saying? And it also can elevate their peach or lack thereof. So they're at the hair spa opening, and Kenya and this girl Brittany have actually had a very weird exchange the episode prior. The episode prior that, at this, like, special dinner thing. And, you know, they kind of get into it over a question that was asked during, like, a round table type game. And, you know, Britney begins to talk about when they're leaving out after they've gotten into it. Britney mentions, like, a pistol and some whips that she owned that she. You know, she'd still be packing. And Kenya, like, in her head, like, girl, who you talking to? Because if me and you just got into it and now you talking about a little pistol. One plus one equals two. So what we seeing right now, how we giving it up? And of course, now these, you know, the Real Housewives of Atlanta, the Real Housewives of anywhere, these girls gonna get on into it. But at the end of the day, these are girls with brands, businesses, kids, coin. They not trying to get into all of that. When you get to that point where you talk about pulling out a pistol and all that, people are worried about their actual safety. They gonna do what they need to do to protect that. So when I saw the. The episode prior to this, and I saw Kenya's reaction, I'm like, I wonder why Kenya didn't, like, I don't know, anything like legal protection, like involving a lawyer or something. Because that. That's a very, like, Housewives boss move, bringing attorneys and figure out, like, something like a cease and desist to try to get her to not film because she felt threatened. Something like that. Mind you, if that had happened, we'd have been known by now because all of this stuff was filmed last Summer. So keep that little nugget in your back pocket. Back pockets back here. Keep that little nugget in your back pocket. So then in this new episode, to me, I feel like you get a better understanding of Britney. And not to say that what Brittany said to Kenya about, you know, having a pistol or packing a pistol or whatever. You know what I mean? Whatever the situation was going to be about that. But what I'm saying is that you kind of see her be like, okay, look, I got a lot going on in life right now. She mentioned she just lost her aunt to a stroke, and the stroke happened out of nowhere. And then all of a sudden, her aunt was on, like, life support. And then, you know, her aunt had passed away. And, you know, she's just like, yo, I was wrong. I was wrong. I want to apologize. Like, I get it. I understand why she would be upset. I understand why she would feel threatened, even if I didn't mean it. Like, I'm about to pull my pistol out. I get it. I understand. I'm a woman. Blah, blah, blah. Like, all that stuff. So that's happening on one side of. Of the. Of the production site, right? But then on the other side, Kenya is like, no, I felt threatened. I'm not trying to hear that. And maybe that's why Kenya reacted the way she did in this episode, because what she ended up doing, because the network, you know, honestly got to a point where the network did retaliate after these last two up. Not retaliate. The network did react after these last two episodes. But instead of Britney, who mentioned having the pistol or whatever, doing anything, I mean, anything happening with her, they decided to let Kenya go. They let Kenya go because Kenya, during the spa salon opening after Britney walks out, because she's annoyed that Britney even comes there. So Britney walks out, and Kenya starts showing these, like, poster presentations. The first. There's three of them. The first one she shows, it's like every single time she brings out one, it gets worse and worse. But first one she shows it is her talking about, you know, who is this girl who. Who was Britney. Because, you know, she's, I guess, had a lot of plastic surgery to her face, allegedly, and, you know, those type of things. So there's all of the photos of the before and after type of vibe. Then the second one, it's like, you know, I'm. There must be photos of Britney in, like, these alleged music videos. And Kenya's like, oh, she was a video ho. See, I was a video girl. This is Kenya. I was A video, girl. I got paid for the videos. I was a video vixen. We know, like, we've seen Kenya and, like, Jay Z's videos and stuff like that. But she basically was saying, like, girl, you was low budget. Like, you can't sit with me. I'm the queen, period. Then the third poster, baby, Kenya brings out this poster with this girl and these photos of this girl on there. Y'all know that this girl's on there. She was putting a man's private part in her mind. And again, all of this we knew about because it was such a big deal. Because basically, the network looked at this as Kenya releasing revenge porn, which is a crime. And they had to fire. Not fire. They had to suspend Kenya for the rest of the season. So after this episode, she no longer filmed whatsoever. Now, after. So I've been reporting on this a ton, A whole ton. And when it first came out, Kenya, like, really played as if she. I don't know. Like, it was weird. It was almost like as if she was saying she didn't do or didn't. Like, she was posting things like, believe half of what you see and none of what you hear or something like that. Like, kind of giving it up. Like. Like maybe the story might have been spun not to her benefit in the wrong way. That made her look, you know, crazier. Made the situation look crazier than it was. After watching this, there's no way around what she chose to do. Like, even in the episode, Portia walks out, a lot of the girls walk out because they're like, yo, bro, you took it too far. And she's doing it at the spot opening. It's like you in here talking about, you built this for your daughter. This is something for you to pass down to your daughter and blah, blah. And then you do this here, and she's saying that, like, you know, she felt threatened. She felt like somebody was coming for her, trying to take food out of her daughter's mouth. It was a bit much for me. I'm not even gonna lie to y'all. It was a bit much for me. Andy Cohen has come out and reacted to it, and Kenya was not happy about that. Kenya had a very lengthy message for Andy Cohen in response to what he had to say. And the fact that there is a whole. There's a whole justice for Kenya movement happening right now from the Real Housewives of Atlanta fans. They feel like Kenya was unjustly suspended. And there's other people who feel like, you know, even if she was going to be suspended. There should have been more action taken against Britney because this was a reaction to something. But we're going to talk about that nugget. We're going to talk about Andy Cohen's response and whether that was right or wrong on the Breakfast Club. But back to what we're talking about here. I think it was too much. I do. I. I get it. I get the antics of the show. I understand, you know, how the antics rev up your character, rev up your, you know, your positioning on the show. And, you know, you got the peach, and you're the OG Girl, whether you don't have the peach or not or, like, you know, I understand all of that stuff, but I just. At this point, Kenya has been doing this for a really long time. I think that one of the things that Kenya should know by now is that you got to protect the brand by any means. And I think she thought she was protecting the brand by being the person that, like, came on. On top and, like, you know what I mean? Like, I'm going to go low because you went low. I'm going to go lower. But it didn't make her look good. Like, I was watching it, and I'm like, it's not even giving. Like, clap back. Oh, you did that, Kenya. It's giving. Girl, you look dumb as hell. Kenya. Let that girl trick her out her spot. Hate that for Kenya. But what's done is done. I do think that there should have been something, and I don't know if there was, like, conversations behind the scenes or what, but, like, I do think it's weird that somebody can mention they got a pistol after you just got done arguing with them and, like, just carry on about their business. That. That is kind of crazy. A hundred percent. That is crazy. Y'all. Let me know how y'all feel. If y'all have been following this situation with Kenya Moore and Brittany from the Real Housewives of Atlanta, do you feel like Kenya should have been suspended indefinitely for the rest of the season? They. They haven't said that she can't come back, but there has been no announcement about her coming back, y'all. I mean, I know I want her back, but do y'all think she's gonna actually want to come back? Because there's also the conversation now spiraling that, you know, from that Candy has started and about the network just not protecting their stars. Normally, my girl can twirl and twirl and twirl and, you know what I mean, clock it. But that was. That was a really big misstep on her part. It just doesn't look good. It doesn't read well off of the show. I wonder how it has affected her off of the show with, like, brand deals and endorsements and things of that nature. Yeah. So y'all let me know what y'all think. All right, so second story, we now are going to go to Lizzo. So Lizzo has been, you know, moving around. She's been sitting down with different people, having conversations about her recent weight loss. She lost a ton of weight. If y'all have not seen Lizzo in recent. I would say, like, recent weeks. It's been like a couple months now, but in recent weeks, please go take a look at Lizzo. She looks amazing. But one of the biggest things that she's been having conversations about, you know, when it comes to, like, change and. And things and how they've affected her life differently, the changes is her mental. And how she dealt with her mental health after wanting to commit suicide and things just being in a very dark place for her. So she was on the Jay Shetty podcast. I love this podcast, by the way. I feel like they sit and they have really in depth conversations. And I watched the conversation in full. I do think that there were parts of it where I was like, okay, Lizzo, girl. I. Earlier when I watched it, I used the word insufferable. I was like. A little bit of this was like, all right, girl. But I think it's because maybe I'm hearing her tell the same stories multiple times over and over and over. I don't know. But what I could appreciate. Let's talk about that. What I could appreciate from this conversation was the honesty. And she got really honest about. Okay, so she retold the story about when she was out in LA at the concert, and this was right after all that lawsuit stuff had dropped, when, you know, her employees claimed that she was, like, a horrible boss and that she'd allegedly been calling people fat and just been really evil and nasty toward the people that were working with her. And I remember when that lawsuit dropped, she had spoke. I think she released, like, one statement, but she didn't really say much. And you didn't really see her, like, nothing, like, at all. And Lizzo was so hot. Like, Lizzo was everywhere with that damn flute and that twerk everywhere. Big brands all over her. Like, you know what I mean? Performing all the time. And it was like everything kind of just, like, simmered down and she kind of went away. And then it got to a Point where she started posting things that were very dark on Instagram. Like, it happened a couple times where she would post things and it would make people be like, yo, is she all right? Like, she talking about she won't be here no more, type vibes, like, what's going on? And you just knew she wasn't okay. She talked about during that time, just she had already scheduled, because that's just how business works. When you're in music, there's a time when you're really, really, really, really on and you're going, you're going, you're performing, the music is out, you're pressed, you're pressed. And then there's a time where you gotta make the music to then make the money to go, go, go to perform, to do the press. You know what I mean? So she was in her phase of like, I'm taking a step back, I'm going, I'm secluding myself. We making the music. And then all of the lawsuit allegation things dropped. So she had already decided to kind of go, you know, out of the country a little mia, all those things. But I think that it made it look crazier. Even though, to be honest with you, if I'm being real honest, and I've been doing this for a while, when allegations and stuff come out against people, you kind of know and you get the sense when people are, like, not going to be able to recover from it fully. I didn't think that Lizzo was completely done. I did think that it was going to be difficult for her to come back out of it because she was going to have to address it. And again, Lizzo was the fun, bubbly, flute, twerking friend. I never realized that at no point in Lizzo's career am I ever seeing her sit down and do hard interviews. Not in, like, a controversial the world doesn't like you, so now you guys on this podcast and bury your soul, you know what I mean? And feed the media different things so that you can rebut headlines. Never that. So I just didn't know how she would come up on the other side of that because of the way that her brand had been set up. And when she was on Jay Shetty, she said the reason why she had gotten in such that dark space was because the brand that I'm telling y'all about, the way that I just explained how I looked at her, where everything was basically so curated, so perfect, so jolly, so fun, so music, it was a caricature. And when that lawsuit happened, and she didn't have the friends that she thought she had around her. And a lot of people she loved around her were not good people. And things were happening. She couldn't live in that character anymore because now it doesn't work. Because now you have all these claims. True or not, they're allegations. But now they're out there and people want answers. People want to know, like, yo, what's going on? Did this really happen? Please go listen to Lizzo on Jay Shetty podcast. It was a really good conversation. She said she didn't know what to do at that point because she could not be the character anymore. So it forced her to really take the time to go away and to figure out who the hell she was. And that is my prayer every single day. I did an interview with Carlos King. Make sure you guys go and check out that interview with me and Carlos King. It is now live on his YouTube channel. But I said that in my interview. And, and that's. I felt Lizzo when she said this. Like, I was. Every day I pray to God, like, yo, just keep me doing the work. Like, I don't want to get caught up in the. The. It's a Lauren LaRosa. Like, it's. It's because it's not that for me. For me, it's like, yo, this is work. I take it serious. This is how I feed myself. This is how I'm able to help my family. It's cool. I love storytelling. It's a passion, you know what I mean? It's a God given gift and a passion to be able to. To do what I'm doing and tell stories. But I don't ever want to do it through a character. Like, I want to just really be out here. I mean, a little guarded a bit. Like I'm learning how to, you know what I mean? Like, keep a couple things to myself, but give y'all me for real and. And intertwine the work and still be able to, like, keep going off of that. Because when you lose the character, like, you lose everything. I don't want that. And that's what happened with Lizzo. And Lizzo says that, like, during that time, because it was so dark for her. She. She was. She was dark. And other people saw that. There's no way that other people didn't see that. She talked about social media and how social media, like, really, you know what I mean? You start to have these thoughts of yourself based on what other people are saying that social media, you know what I mean, stuff is that's a whole different beast of its own. Like she says, there were days where she was like, girl, just kill yourself. Won't nobody care. They hate you right now anyway. So she had to really build herself back up away from Lizzo with the flute and the music. It's a really great conversation. Please go take a watch. It's on the Jade Shetty podcast. Yeah, let me know what resonates with you guys from that. I enjoyed the conversation and I hope you guys have enjoyed this conversation. I'm Lauren LaRosa. Again, at the end of the day, there's always a lot to talk about. So every time y'all join me here, right on here. Right here, right here. Every single time. I'm always thrilled. I always appreciate you guys. I'm your home girl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody and I'll see you in my next episode.