- Previously, on "The Real
Housewives of Potomac"...
- â™ª We're going on a trip, we're going on a trip â™ª
- Nola!
- The girls are headed out again tonight,
but, oh, I told them, I said, "Look, go have a great time,
because I'm still mourning."
- Oh.
- South Africa loves you. I love South Africa.
- Karen's on Instagram Live right now.
This is how you grieve?
- My mama's always analyzing people.
I remember sitting at the table
and being diagnosed at like, ten.
Like, "Yeah, you're bipolar."
This is why I don't know if I want to have kids.
- Aw, Candiace. - Did you guys get the feeling
that Ashley's knocked up? - She's not.
She's drinking like she is thirsty.
- Oh, I'm getting a little buzzed now, whoo-hoo!
You don't believe that I'm trying to get pregnant?
- I think that you are not sure.
- You don't even know if you want to have a family,
and I have been fighting to have a family.
- Well, I don't know that? - Who are you as a woman?
I've had a miscarriage. And so, you think
that it's okay to judge me as a woman who's had a miscarriage?
What the (BLEEP)?
- When have we ever had a conversation
about you and your personal journey...
- Right, right. - To having a baby,
and being a mother? We've never.
- Do I have to put it on record?
Do you want me to put it in email, text, carrier pigeon?
So I'm gonna need to tell you that I want to have a baby
in order for you to believe that I want to have a baby?
- She's just saying be a friend, that's all.
Just be a friend. You know how you tell me--
- Being a friend-- - Just stop, Candiace.
- Being a friend requires reciprocation.
- You tell me to be a friend-- - Reciprocation.
- No, you tell me to be a friend to Karen.
- And you don't know this. - Excuse you!
- I have invited Ashley-- - You tell me to be a friend
to Karen. - To be friends.
- And Ashley wants to be a friend when it's convenient.
- But you're being a hypocrite. - I have tried to be
a friend to you, and you are only interested
in being surface friends. - I'm drinking my beer, okay?
- Candiace. - Drink your beer!
- Take it back. Throw it back, Ashley.
- I am. - Have this, too.
- Okay. - Have it back.
- Sweet--sweetie pie. - If I wanted to, I would!
- If I would have known that this fight would have ensued,
I would have kept my mouth shut.
I don't get it, is this, like, a pageant girl rivalry?
Is this "Miss Congeniality" gone bad?
- These mamas, we were drunk and got pregnant, okay?
- Okay. - So Ashley,
get your drink on, honey.
Right now, I want both of these little yap-yaps out.
Okay, so everybody's leaving.
- And we being kicked out now, so we can't even talk no more.
- Yes, because we have a whole nother day,
and it's a long day tomorrow.
- The door says no. - So--
- Anybody who's not over 5'5" has to leave.
[laughter]
[upbeat music]
[bell rings]
[foghorn blows]
â™ª â™ª
- Good morning, Miss Gizelle. - Hey.
- How you feeling? - I am good, I'm good.
- You get some rest? - I got a lot of rest.
Talked to Ray last night. - Oh, good.
- Thank you for understanding though.
I really appreciate that. I needed that time.
Did y'all have fun?
- Yes, yes. We had a great time.
- Okay.
[playfully tense music]
- Karen could not be bothered to hang out in the Big Easy.
But I really can't question Karen,
because if I question her grieving,
then I'm the A-hole.
- Good morning, ladies.
- Okay. Hey, Monique, good morning.
- I survived the night. - What does she mean that?
- I actually woke up pretty good.
Well, because we were hanging late.
all: Good morning! - Good morning, little lady.
Did y'all have fun last night? You had fun?
- Yes. - Too much fun.
- Very hung-over. - Hey!
- It was great! It was fantastic.
- How you feel? - I'm good.
- You're good? - So I see you guys
are ready for alligator.
- You don't look dressed for alligator.
- I'm not. Candiace and I
are going to Dooky Chase.
My dad's going to meet us there.
- Where's Ashley and Katie?
- They're going to do a little tarot reading.
So later, y'all know, is my dad's party.
- Like, who's coming? - So it's my uncle,
my aunts, my cousins and then... - Oh, wow.
- One of my ex-boyfriends might be there.
- Okay, rekindle-ization.
- But I think our cars are here,
so we need to cha-cha. - Skedaddle.
- All right. - Let's do it.
- Ready. - All right.
I'm going to wrestle them alligators.
- Hi. - Hi.
- Hello. - Are we going to Dooky Chase?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- Yay, I'll slide.
- Candiace can be a lot. We all know that.
But I appreciate the fact that she owns who she is.
I trust that she can behave herself
with the mayor of New Orleans.
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- I need a picture.
Babe, this fountain is everything.
- It's beautiful. - Little photo shoot.
- I'm going down, Charlie Brown.
- Hey, now. - I like you from this angle.
- I know you're a photographer.
It's sticking to my leg. Its--
- [laughs]
- We'll go with it, all right. At least we tried.
- So, girls, what did I miss?
- Oh, God. So we get back to
Gizelle's room, and the conversation just kind of
turned left out of nowhere.
- Who left-ed it? - Well, Gizelle mentioned
that Candiace did not believe
that Ashley was trying to actually get pregnant.
- So Gizelle brought it to the whole group?
- They had a conversation.
- Gizelle is still pot-stirring
in everyone's lives that she calls her friends.
My guard is up where Gizelle is concerned.
So Candiace felt, "If Ashley is going on this whole
"holistic journey of trying to get pregnant,
why are you drinking?"
- I think the main thing with Candiace
is just helping her rise above the position
that her mother has put her in. - That's heavy.
- It's almost like she's the new Ashley.
- I love Candiace, but I do not agree with her right now.
It might be her mom that she really wants to lash out at,
so she's lashing out at Ashley.
I'm not a psychiatrist.
Her mom's a psychiatrist, right?
Yeah, so maybe she needs to go talk to her mom.
[laughs]
I don't know.
- You think you're grown, you married.
"Oh, I'm an adult." Like, no.
You actually still mentally have a lot of growing up to do.
- Last night, I could hear you screaming your head off.
- Yeah, it got a little heated between
Candiace and I last night. - Okay.
- You know I appreciate a good drunk,
but people have boundaries.
- Did I do that? - Yes.
[dramatic music]
Yeah. - That's a little aggressive.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
I know drunk Candiace can be a bit much to handle at times,
and maybe I can apologize to Ashley.
I can admit it was a lot of Candiace to take in.
I'm a little-- - Yes.
- Little--what is it?
I have a big bite, but I'm a little dog.
- Is that a saying? - But I'll bite you.
- Okay. - Bark--you have a lot of...
both: Bark but no bite. - I'm the other way.
- You're a lot of bite, no bark?
- I have a lot of bite. I don't know.
- [laughs]
- I'm a lot, though.
[bright music]
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- Oh, you know what?
- Y'all ready to ride the alligators?
- I'm not riding on them.
[laughter]
- There it is!
- I know! - Are you excited?
- I'm a little nervous. - Yeah.
[dramatic music]
â™ª â™ª
- Hi, how are y'all doing? - How are you?
- Katie. - Katie, I'm Zaar.
- Hi, Zaar, Ashley. - Nice to meet you.
- Have a seat.
- Yeah. - I think we'd like
to get a reading.
- Who am I reading? - Me.
- Shuffle up. - [chuckles]
I can tell you're a little nervous.
- My hands are a little sweaty because I'm nervous.
So that's why I'm trying-- no, no don't touch them.
- Oh, oh. - Yeah, they're all clammy.
- I had a surgery done,
so I can't sweat from my hands anymore.
- What, you did? - Yeah.
No sweating, ever. Never.
- You had surgery? - Mm-hmm.
- Okay.
Now, are there any particular things
you're having me look into today?
- Um, do you see any little people in my future?
- Fertility notions.
You have 15 cards to pick from anywhere in the deck.
Hand them to me one at a time. - All right.
[exhales] Okay. - [laughs] You can do it.
- Here we go.
The last time I was in New Orleans,
everything that the tarot card reader said was spot-on.
14, lucky number 15. - Yeah.
- Okay. - All right.
- [laughs]
- Woosah. Okay.
- So, to be very honest...
[dramatic music]
Out of the 15 cards on the table--
- That implies there's a problem.
- Coming up next... - Watch this.
Hold it down lower in the water where he can see.
[dramatic music]
- [screams]
- Oh, hell! - Karen!
- You will never ----ing disrespect me again
when I ask you a simple ----ing question.
You understand? Stay in your ----ing place.
Do you get that?
[dramatic music]
- To be very honest,
out of the 15 cards on the table--
It looks like you're putting so much pressure
on being a mother that it's slowing your flow.
- Really? - Be careful.
Don't put so much pressure on it.
- To be transparent with you, I did have
a miscarriage a couple of months ago.
And my husband and I, we separated
because he--he didn't want to have a family.
And so that, leaving me, I felt was almost like
my relationship was going to end too.
- The children are supposed to be
the culmination of the parents,
not something to glue the parents together.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Okay? - That's deep, yeah.
Michael and I have really weathered the storm.
We took time apart to figure out
if we're meant to be together, we would come back together.
I've put in my work.
I'm ready to yield my profits here.
That's so bad. But so true, yeah.
Do you see a timeline as to when I can expect to conceive?
- It's inside a year. - Oh!
I literally feel like I'm ten pounds lighter.
- Good. - I really do.
- Yeah. - Thank you.
- Oh. - Booty sweat, too.
Don't touch it! - Oh, my God.
- Girl, my booty-- it's hot outside.
[laughter]
How do you not have any coochie--
- Oh, I do, but it's-- - She had surgery!
[laughter]
- Whoo! Oh, hello, hello.
- How y'all doing? - We are good.
- Hi. How are you? - All right.
If y'all want, follow me down to the boat.
- Yes. - Right down this way.
- Oh, I'm so excited. - This is fun.
- I mean, y'all saw it just rained, so
please be careful stepping up. both: Okay.
- It's gonna a little slippery. Grab onto the hand rails.
- All right. Okay.
- Be careful. - All right.
- No, no, no! I want to come back, baby.
- How cute is this? - I know, right?
- Hello. - Hi, I'm meeting my dad here.
[upbeat music]
Oh, here he is. - Hey, how you doing?
- I'm good. - Oh, you're looking lovely.
- I'm good, thank you. Mwah.
- Hello, there. How are you? - Candiace, Candiace.
Nice to see you again. - Great.
This lady is the queen of Creole cooking.
- Okay. - Making the second best
gumbo in the world.
- Oh, who makes the best? - I do.
- Of course, yes. Of course he does.
- I'm from a very strong political family.
My father worked in the Texas House state legislature.
I used to work at the NAACP,
and that's actually where I met my ex-husband.
Candy-pants worked in the Obama Administration.
She understands policy and politics,
so she's the perfect person to have at my side.
There she is! - How are you?
- Hi! - I'm wonderful.
- Thank you so much for having us, Mrs. Chase.
- This is Candiace. - Hi, I'm Candiace Dillard.
- She's a friend of mine. - Thank you for having us.
Very nice to meet you.
[laughter]
- Never that!
- Not only is Leah Chase a bad chef,
this is a restaurant that does wonders for the community.
Any time all the civil rights leaders would get together
where would they meet? Dooky Chase.
- Now, I told Gizelle that you fed her grandmother
many, many times. - Yes, I did.
- And her favorite dish was what?
- Veal pannee and jambalaya. [soft chuckle]
- There she is! - Hey.
- How are you? How are you?
- The real queen has arrived. - Yeah, right.
- The mayor's in the house. The mayor's in the house.
- By God's grace, how are you? - This is Candiace.
- Nice to meet you. I'm Candiace.
- Sit, sit. - I would love to.
- I know you're very busy.
- We all are. - And you're doing a good job.
- You really do.
- Of course. - Okay.
[laughter]
- I am so very proud that
you're the first black woman to run this city.
- 300 years... - 300 years.
- The first female. - Yes, yes.
- That's incredible. - And it showed you
what we're all about in New Orleans.
- Right. - We work together.
- That's right. - That's right.
- It takes everybody.
- On the 13th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina,
I think your words are cemented
in how far we've come,
and it's because we worked together.
- Yes. - Mm-hmm.
- Okay, I'm going in. I'm going in.
- You're going in? Then I'm going in, too.
- All right, yeah.
- This is reminding me of my childhood.
This is a huge full-circle moment
for me and for my dad because
my dad is a man that has made a difference
in New Orleans and in the black community.
It really makes me want to
super celebrate his 80th birthday.
- You're beautiful ladies. both: Thank you.
- Look in the mirror every day
and say to yourself, "I am the prize."
- Yes, that's great for this newlywed to hear.
You the prize, honey. - That's true.
- He just said you're fertile Myrtle.
- Yes, I'm glad we're going lingerie shopping,
so hopefully, I can work on that.
- Ooh, I need, like, some lingerie.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- Well, we're not going to end up for dinner, are we?
- Alligators don't like eating people.
But one of the most important things
is literally to keep hands and things like that
inside the boat just for the sake of not being bit.
There's literally thousands of alligators
amongst the swamp in here.
- Do you guys not realize we are on a little piece of metal
floating down the swamp?
We are like steak tartare for these alligators.
- Look at the little baby over here.
- Oh, my God, it's so cute! - Oh!
- This one's probably what, like, three years old?
- Oh, not even. - [laughs]
- Oh, so, cool.
Brutus is still out here. - Oh, Brutus!
- So he's the largest alligator we've seen on tour.
- Are we behind him, is all I want to know.
- What is that? - This is something you'd find
and feed them, like, at a zoo. - What?
- Coax him in? I'm fine with him where he is.
Oh, hell!
[laughter]
Brutus was on crack!
[alligator hisses]
[yelps]
No!
This lifted me right out of grief.
- He's literally been around since way back in the day
when they, like, over-hunted these guys
to the point they thought they were going extinct.
He was probably around then. - Wow.
[alligator hisses] - [yelps]
[laughter]
- All of this is where their blood flows.
This is bone that grows up like this.
It's like their solar panel. They're called scutes.
So that's another way you could tell he's old.
That scute bone's just real protruded out of his back.
- Well, can I feed Brutus? - Yeah, yeah, watch this.
Hold it down lower in the water where he can see.
- Can he see it? - He can't--
- [yelps] - [laughs]
- Wait a minute! What did you do to him, Karen?
- I tried to feed him.
Let's get the hell out of here.
He is not happy. - You made him mad!
- [laughs] - Let's go!
- Oh, Karen.
- Now I see why Gizelle is so rough.
She's been fighting alligators all her life.
- This is it. - Ooh, look at this.
- Whoa. - These tassel things.
- Are you talented?
Can you, like, make 'em... - Yeah, you--yeah.
- Like, I'm going to need to see that.
- Ma'am, are you allowed to try on tassels?
- Here are some tassels. - Okay, yes.
It's really nice to have fun, outgoing Katie again,
because she reminds me of the person
that I used to hang out with when we'd be crazy.
[dance music]
â™ª â™ª
- Ready?
- Here we are. - [screams]
[laughter]
- Unlike Candiace, who claims to have
my best interests at heart, Katie doesn't judge me.
[laughter]
Look at this talent. - Yeah.
[laughter]
- Coming up next...
- Hey!
[jaunty music]
- Oh, y'all ain't ready for the second line!
[vocalizes]
â™ª â™ª
[upbeat music]
â™ª â™ª
[line trilling]
- Hello? - Okay, really quick, Katie.
We have, like, two minutes to get downstairs.
- You can have-- you have seven.
- Seven. Good-bye.
These girls are the worst.
- Oh, Candiace.
- How's your trip? - Really fun.
Gizelle is being a very gracious hostess.
- [laughs] Hello.
- Now, you did not know
that I was going to be as ready as I am.
- I have reached out to my family here in New Orleans
to properly celebrate my father's 80th birthday,
and I'm happy that I'm able to share this with my friends.
- Yes, I can clean up.
[upbeat music]
â™ª â™ª
- Where's Karen? - I don't know.
They say they're coming? - Karen and Katie?
- No.
[exhales]
[alarm blaring]
- Hi. - Hey.
- How are you? - Fine, and you?
- Good, good, good.
I think we made it. - We made it.
- Are we not--
- I don't know.
- Katie.
We got to Uber together. We're late.
Do we have our panties on?
- Maybe not. - That works.
Let's go in there with those. - Okay.
- I'm busting out. - Busting out!
- Oh, my God.
- You're having more kids, right?
After--I know, I'm like-- - We'll see.
- After this one. - We'll see.
- You haven't even popped out this one.
- Well, we said four, but I don't know.
- I will say that I--
I realized that last year,
you had lost a life that you were carrying inside of you,
and I wasn't sensitive to that fact.
And, um--I'm really sorry.
It wasn't a pretty thing. I'm sorry.
- I appreciate that, thank you. I accept your apology,
and it's refreshing to hear.
I don't necessarily need an apology from Ashley.
I'm just glad she understands how I felt.
You know, the more we live, the more we
kind of can relate to other people.
And we may have hope,
because that's how much that meant to me.
[jaunty music]
- Oh, I didn't know that!
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- Hey!
- Cross the street! - Some people in the South,
they have barbecues on Saturday.
We eat jambalaya, put on some white,
and second line, honey.
Oh, y'all ain't ready for the second line!
[vocalizes]
Okay.
- [vocalizing]
- Yes!
- This is taking me back to my band days,
when I was drum major.
I'm having fun, but the difference is,
I wasn't pregnant back then.
And I'm over here, like, "When is this going to stop?"
- Come on! Come on!
[cheering] - Oh, man.
- Thank you all. Thank you all so much.
Only in New Orleans.
- That's how you do. - Girl, you are something else.
- My honorÃ©, it's my godfather.
I want y'all to know this is the funniest man alive.
- Really? - Yes, y'all think
my father has jokes. - Yes.
- No, no, no, no, no.
Yes, this birthday party is for my dad,
but I'm super excited.
JB, how you doing?
Because I get to see my peeps!
How you been?
- Good, how you been? - Good.
Time just goes by, and I just don't
see them on a regular basis anymore.
So this is super special for me.
- My mother and his daddy are brothers and sisters.
There come a time that we have shared one house.
- Oh, my.
- All the way through high school.
- Oh, wow.
[jaunty music]
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[cheering]
- So we haven't seen each other all day.
I was thinking we could sit down and chit-chat.
- I just want to know how everybody's day went.
- Oh, my God. - Can I tell you
about mine first? both: Yes.
- All right, me and Candy-pants went to Dooky Chase.
- Oh. - Leah Chase was there.
- She's 95, right? - 95.
- Wow. - So sharp.
- We went and saw the voodoo practitioner.
- Okay, what did he say? - He told me that
there is nothing obstructing me from having a baby,
so just relax a little bit.
- Nice. Did you receive it?
- I did. - Okay, good.
- It was very powerful. - Speaking of that journey,
I do want to apologize for getting in your face.
I don't know what you're going through.
It's not my journey, but I would like to be a part of it,
and know what you're dealing with.
- Okay, um--that's going to take some time.
- Oh!
[dramatic music]
- Coming up next...
- She has a track record that we're noticing,
and we want her to do better.
- I do want to apologize.
I don't know what you're going through,
but I would like to be a part of it.
- That's going to take some time.
- Bitch, you sound like Miss Karen.
- It takes me a little bit more time,
because you know, I love really hard and really fast.
- I'ma pass out. - So--
- Is this how you've always felt about friendships?
- Um, I'm a little bit of a loner sometimes, so.
- I mean, I could say, like, Ashley and I,
it took us at least two or three years--
- Years. - To get to a place
where we can say that we're friends.
- Based on what I've seen between her and her mother,
I don't fully believe that Candiace
is going to know how to conduct herself
in a mature way moving forward.
She needs to grow up.
- The food is ready, so if y'all want to go eat, you can.
It's in the back. - Okay.
- Oh, we can get food?
[bright music]
- I just feel like you can't come here
and not eat the daggone food. - No, baby, yeah.
Go ahead, eat up.
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- Hello! - Gizelle, how you doing?
- Y'all came out! I haven't seen you in forever.
My dad's going to be so happy. - I know, I know.
I have the outfit. I even have on white drawers.
[laughs]
- What happened last night? - So--okay.
Let's move. - Okay.
- Let's move over here. - Okay.
Ashley, this is Steve. - Hey, how are you?
- Hi, how are you? Ashley.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
You and Gizelle are friends? - Yes.
- Yes, we are. This is Katie.
- Good to meet you.
- The break-up with Sherman is still kind of fresh,
so really haven't been on the dating scene.
However, Steve is somebody
that's been in my life for so long,
it just makes sense that he's invited to my dad's 80th.
- Have you guys met each other before?
- Yes. - Oh, okay.
- You mean her? I been knowing her a long time.
- No, no, I know.
[jaunty music]
- You guys know what you might like to drink?
- Sazerac, yes, sir.
- And I'll have the Hemmingway daiquiri.
- Ma'am.
- Do you want me to get you something?
- Just some fruit with some whipped cream.
- Thank you, Katie.
- Ashley purports herself to be this open person,
and now, all of a sudden, she wants to be, like,
"Oh, I need a moment, I need some time."
And it's cod liver bullsh--.
- Candiace may be on to something with Ashley
sending conflicting messages.
And if Ashley is truly a changed person,
that'll be what we see from now on.
If she's not, we'll see old Ashley in a few minutes.
Trust and believe.
- So they were asking me some questions.
I told them that we used to date.
- Okay, why did you break up? - Oh.
- I think somebody told you something--
- Somebody told me something that threw me off the edge,
and I have very low tolerance.
So I saw him, and I went--yes.
He was like, "Huh, say what?"
- Oh, my God. - So we broke up.
- A little bit. - Oh, this is purple shirt.
- His name is Steve.
- Y'all dated for how many years?
- I didn't run him off. - She has a track record
that we are noticing as friends,
and we want her to do better.
- Kind of unfair, as this woman
will not answer any of my questions
about anything to do with Karen.
La'Dame, La'Dame, La'Dame. - Coming soon.
- So, like-- - Soon.
- But you going to tell Steve about my personal life?
Absolutely not.
- I'm going to walk away, we all going to walk away,
and you going to slip that question in there,
and get that date. - All right.
- Where's my beer?
- Run, Stevie, run.
[laughs]
Run for your life!
- What can I get you, Monique? - It's fine.
Katie's getting me some fruit now.
It really feels like Ashley's being fake about--
now she needs time. - Thank you, ooh!
Is that peach cobbler or something?
- Yes. - Yes, thank you, babe.
[tense music]
It'd be different if she was, like,
"Ashley lost her dog and I don't believe her."
- Right. - No, you're talking about
something that's a very real issue.
- So because I spoke to Candiace, and her concern--
you're setting boundaries for her
when you didn't really respect boundaries in the past
the others set for you.
- Who made Candiace the judge and the jury
in relation to the friendships that I made?
- So we're going to get some cake here--what's wrong?
- Apparently, I guess, Candiace said that--
- Oh, Lord, what happened? - So you apologized to me,
but you didn't mean the apology today?
- What? - Is that what you said?
- No. - Oh, Candiace.
- When I apologized to you, Ashley,
I apologized for being aggressive.
But what I said, I stand by.
If you were trying to get pregnant--
- I don't care about what you think.
- And that's fine. - And I am not--so, great.
- You don't have to care.
- So you don't have to waste
your precious air that you need to sing
in order to say that to me anymore, okay?
Can't any more-- I am not putting your--
- You are not putting pressure on me.
- I don't want to. - Don't come for my uterus.
Find something else. Find something else.
- Find something else. Find something else.
- Find something else. I don't, I don't.
all: Candiace, Candiace! - You're being too aggressive.
- Fine, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done.
- Can I just say something please?
- Go ahead. - You just got married.
I have a baby on the way. She lost her parents.
She has experienced loss. - Yes.
- Sometimes, in the past, yes, she was messy.
- And--and-- - But wait.
But she's human. Do you think it's possible
that from that loss, maybe that has
changed some things about her? - I do, I do.
- So let's not judge so harshly.
- I can't negate my feelings. - And that's fine.
- And I--I spoke my feelings.
- Guys, we're done with it, okay?
It's my father's 80th birthday. We're done with it.
[soft music]
Stop fighting.
Okay, can I get a clink-clink?
You only turn 80 once.
Well, in Karen's situation, twice.
But, you know, that's a whole nother story.
[glass clinking]
Can I have everybody's attention?
[laughs]
I am so excited to celebrate Curtis Matthew Graves,
who has made it to 80 years old.
Um, to know me, I'm bold. I'm in your face.
I say what I feel like, and most importantly,
I fight for whatever I feel like is right.
And I got all of that from my dad.
So happy birthday, Daddy.
Did you want to say something short?
- I do, I do. - Okay.
[laughter]
Okay, Daddy. - I got 46 minutes in me,
as a matter of fact. - Daddy, you got seven.
You got seven.
- I've had a lot of good birthdays.
You know, 80 of them.
But, um, I think this is a topper.
It topped it all. Thank you, Gizelle.
- You're welcome, love you. - See, that was short.
- Yeah, that was short. - Okay.
- All right, so there's more drinks,
there's food here, and we'll have a cake coming out.
So enjoy yourself.
[applause]
Everything about this town,
the way it smells, the way it feels,
my family, it's just me.
And it's really helped me just to figure out better who I am.
So is the cake back here? Candiace?
I feel like I am becoming a more compassionate person.
Go ahead. - Tell me when to go.
- Now.
- They're not listening. - They are.
- â™ª Happy birthday to you â™ª
â™ª Happy birthday â™ª
both: â™ª To you â™ª
â™ª Happy birthday, dear Curtis â™ª
[laughter]
- â™ª Happy birthday to you â™ª
- Okay! [cheers and applause]
- [comedic vocalizing]
[laughter]
- Coming up next... - At the end of the night,
I saw Steve. - Oh!
- And we just needed to catch up.
[upbeat music]
â™ª â™ª
- New Orleans has knocked us out.
So we're calling it a night, right?
- I think we should call it a night.
- I agree.
- We have--Monique is with
eight children in her belly.
And, um-- Karen has on flip flops.
Ashley's half asleep. We's tired.
- All right. - Ooh, (bleep) balance.
- Let's go, ladies. Okay, so the plan is--
- Make sure you pack your things and go to bed.
I think I have entertained you all enough for one night.
- Oh, I used to be able to hang.
I can't hang no more.
- I think I deserve a pat on the back
for understanding that the ladies are tired,
and they need to just relax, unwind,
and go on Instagram if you want to.
[upbeat music]
I think I'm the hostess with the most-est.
[lock beeps, clicks]
[exhales]
Ay-yi-yi, what a night.
[jaunty music]
â™ª â™ª
- Hi, Mama. - How are you?
- How you feeling? This is the early morning.
I'm like-- - Yes, it is.
- Y'all are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
all: Good morning. - Oh, my gosh.
- Good. - Yesterday was so much fun.
My hips are feeling it right now.
- They are? - All of that dancing.
- Yes. - When we were walking
down the street, oh, my Lord.
- We're going on a steamboat,
which is, like, quintessential New Orleans.
We're going to go to CafÃ© Du Monde.
If you come to New Orleans, you have to go there.
And then, we have to get out of here.
- Good morning. - Robyn-o.
- There you are! - Oh, girl, come on.
- Good morning! all: Good morning.
- Look at this!
- All right, guys, we have to get on the bus
or we going to miss the boat. - Where's Katie?
- Um, she was on the struggle bus this morning.
[mischievous music]
â™ª â™ª
- Oh, gosh, I am tired.
I don't know how I'm going to make it through this weekend.
[upbeat music]
- The whole clan is dead. - Tonight, when I touch down,
I'ma actually see some family in the airport.
We all in around the same time.
I have all of my family and Chris's side of the family
coming to the house for this rainbow party.
This'll be the first time that my mother-in-law
actually comes to see us in Potomac,
and she's going to be staying with us.
So we'll make sure we
keep a listen out for any name-calling.
- If you can endure-- everybody can't endure.
That's a man.
- So we need to chop-chop,
hopefully have Katie meet us there.
â™ª â™ª
- Yes, we are here. - Come on, ladies, chop-chop.
We don't want to miss the "Creole Queen."
- I'm so excited. It's so nice to be outside.
- This is really, really cute.
[foghorn blows loudly]
[muffled yelling]
- Well, all right, then. [laughter]
- Reverberated.
[jaunty music]
- Are you and Ashley coordinating
on purpose every day?
Jeans, sweatshirt, white toes. - Eh, it's just coincidence.
[dramatic musical flourish]
- Bug--oh.
- Is there a bug? Is that a bug?
[yelling]
- Oh, my God.
- [yelps]
- It's all right, Candiace. It's okay.
It was just a little bug.
- [heavy breathing]
- It was just a little bug.
- Now everything is itching.
- If I didn't see it, I would have been fine.
But I saw it. (BLEEP).
- Half of Candiace's antics are annoying,
but then, half of it's kind of funny.
It's like, okay, girl.
If you going to make a fool of yourself,
I'll sit here and laugh at you, so...
- Oh, thank you. - Thank you.
- These are all mine. - Why'd you bring six?
[laughter]
- I'm double fisting, because I'm stressed now.
- Cheers to the "Creole Queen." - Cheers.
- Yes, that's me! - The boat and the lady.
- Um...
Made some drinks. - Oh, really--uh-huh.
What was the nature of these drinks?
What happened, Miss Gizelle?
- We just--we just needed to catch up.
So that was good. - What was the tone?
- Um, at the end of the night, he didn't really want to leave.
- Oh. - Oh, wait, he came up.
- No, he did not.
- And I gave him, like, a big hug.
And I was, like, all right. - Did he sneak a kiss?
- He did. - Ooh, on the lips?
- He did. On the lips.
- Oh, Gizelle! - You let him kiss you?
- Well, yeah. - Oh, my God!
[laughter]
- Was that why you cut the party
a little short last night, Gizelle?
- No, Monique is pregnant.
I was trying to look out for her.
She was on time-out time.
This one, you know, she's grieving.
- Well, I just--this is the first time I said it, actually.
- No, no, no, you said it several times this week.
So let's drop the word "grief" right now.
Try and step outside of it.
You set me up with the thought that
I was welcome to come on your trip
to get over the loss of my parents.
- So what--what word should we use?
- Note to self: I'm watching you, Geezy.
- I don't know. - You know, first of all--
- No, no.
- Done, okay. - Yeah.
Karen did the most with my conversation with Steve.
And now, you're bringing up Sherman again
knowing it's a sensitive topic.
She got one more time with me.
All right, ladies, let's go.
CafÃ© Du Monde, here we come.
- Coming up next...
- Boundary up! Boundaries!
- Boundary down. - Boundaries!
- You will never ----ing disrespect me again.
[upbeat music]
â™ª â™ª
[playful music]
â™ª â™ª
- Are you all right, my darling?
- You going back to the hotel, baby?
- I think I should. - Okay.
- I need to lay down.
Any other time, this trip would be a piece of cake.
But I have pushed it to the maximum,
and I need to do something about it.
Start listening to my husband more.
Y'all have fun. - Okay.
[bright music]
- Oh, there she is, right there.
- Hey, Katie, Katie. - Oh, we missed you.
- Yes!
- Katie, Katie, thank you. - Was it--was it--was it--
- Oh, my God, you're holding down the court for us?
- Yeah, I did. - Okay.
- The first time I took my daughters to CafÃ© Du Monde,
I sat down and cried.
And I explained to them, "This is where I would come
with your great-grandmother, and we would just chat."
And I would eat my beignets, and it was beautiful.
CafÃ© Du Monde means everything to me.
Hi.
- We need six orders, and a hot chocolate, small.
- Thank you.
- So, Katie, you look rested.
- I--well, I saw you this morning.
You could tell it was rough. Who was that guy last night?
The one with the purple shirt? - Right, purple shirt.
The one--oh, he informed me
you dug into his-- the back of his collar.
- This is such a nice shirt. - Thank you.
- What designer, or company, or--wait, let me look.
Is it okay? Don't think badly of me.
I'm just doing research.
- He did say Katie's a little weird.
- Yeah, I am. - He wasn't ready for Katie.
- Yeah. - Yes.
We did have a nice little drink last night.
- I was glad to see you smiling, you know what I'm saying?
- I'm always smiling, Karen. - No, no, no, no.
With a male friend. It was nice.
- Oh, okay. - I hadn't seen that in a while.
[tense music]
- So--okay, but since this is, like, really the first time
you've been around a handsome man since Sherman,
were you feeling ready to spread your wings?
- We done moved on, yes. - Okay, okay.
- I thought you guys were in counseling.
- We've already had this conversation, Karen.
- No, no, no, no, no, no. Now, you told me
I couldn't ask any questions.
- I'm not telling you anything about Sherman.
- No, no, I'm asking you specifically as a friend.
- And I'm telling you specifically, I'm not...
- How--how much time? How much time?
- Answering any... - How long ago?
How long ago? - Sherman questions to you.
- Why can't I ask you? You want me to be--
- Because you are friends with his ex-wife.
- So you know for a fact that had been some talk?
- I went to Karen's house, and she asked me about him,
and I was, like, "Yo, I'm not discussing him with you."
- Uh-huh. - And she said--
- You're setting boundaries with me right now.
- Yes, yes. - And I hear them
and I receive them.
- So, boundary up! - You know--
Listen-- - Boundaries!
- Boundary down. - Boundaries!
- I'll tell you what you're-- - Boundaries! Boundaries!
- I don't give two sh--s about this part.
- Boundaries! - As a friend--as a friend,
which you say you want to be,
I was just asking when did that happen?
- I'm not discussing this with you!
[dramatic music]
- It got back to me that Sherman
was saying he had sex with another woman.
So my guess is, my girl, Gizelle,
had heard about the rumors already
and she thought I was about to out her at the table.
But I'm not her. She outed herself.
You're being defensive right now.
Pot calling the kettle black. - Waiting on my beignets.
Karen always wants to put a line in the sand.
She always wants to give me rules and regulations
and things I can and cannot ask.
I'm about sick of trying to play by Karen's rules.
Let a girl enjoy her beignets.
[soft music]
- [speech echoing faintly]
- Because mine are crispy, and they have
a whole lot of powdered sugar on it,
and I've been waiting all day for these things
because I like to dip mine in hot chocolate, then I eat it.
That's how I eat my beignets,
and you're disturbing me with your foolishness.
- Gizelle, on a serious note,
I think it's bullsh-- you attacking me at this table
when I asked you a simple ----ing question.
But let me say this.
I will not bring up Sherman again,
but you will never ----ing disrespect me again.
Do you understand that? Stay in your ----ing place.
Do you get that? - I didn't disrespect you.
- Receive it! - Okay.
- I think it's fair if Gizelle
wants to set her boundaries with you.
All that cursing was unnecessary.
- I curse at who I want to when I want to
because I'm not going to have that.
However, I will take that into consideration,
and I will talk to my therapist about it.
- I am the only one working in this friendship.
I'm supposed to trust Karen,
but she really doesn't trust me as a friend at all.
We're never going to be what we were.
I've tried.
- I feel better.
- It's time to go back to Potomac.
- Next time on "Real Housewives of Potomac"...
[cheering]
- Wow.
- So my mother-in-law actually
would love to say something to you all.
- Oh, my.
[dramatic music]
- We were expecting to be done
flipping the house within four months.
[drill clicks]
What the (BLEEP)? We don't have power.
And now, we're going on month ten.
- There was a conversation that I had with Monique
where she said she looked like Amistad.
- Monique thinks that she's a slave?
- I'm afraid that ultimately, I'm going to end up alone.
- [sobs]
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