[cheers and applause]
- We are all Black women. - Yes.
- And we're all going through our different things
in our lives, and we're gonna embrace that, okay?
We're gonna keep Potomac weird, okay?
[cheering] We in Austin. We gotta keep Potomac weird.
[audience cheering] - This season,
on "The Real Housewives of Potomac"...
- Do you want me to stop dancing?
- No, never. [laughing]
- Butt, Titties tight, and get that booty right.
[screaming] - Oh, my God!
- I would like to introduce you to Demi and Diamond.
[audience laughing]
- Who at the table swallows?
[laughing]
- There is a new Grande Dame of Potomac.
- If only it were that simple.
[audience applauding]
- The best drag show ever!
**
[screaming]
- I had a contact high with ganja.
[color bars beeping]
- Hi. - Ladies,
this is my friend, Nneka, I was telling you about.
- Nneka? - Hello, everyone.
- Hi. How are you?
- My daddy's a rich bitch,
and he made sure his daughter was a rich bitch, too.
Thanks for buying me a $2 million house.
- I most definitely think
that you married Michael for his money.
- Did you marry Gordon for his money?
- I might have.
- The mother----er who is suing me...
- Hey! - ...is still married
to the woman sitting in there.
- Juan was in a nail salon.
Juan was in a laundromat.
Juan was at the hotel.
That's a (BLEEP) Juan moment.
- People always got somethin' to say.
I... don't... care!
- You wanna turn me into a ----ing villain.
I didn't do sh-- to none of y'all.
- Wendy's mom started saying
that she has a shrine and that--
- She's doin' voodoo on you?
- My mom worships our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
- At day.
By night, she's submitting names to shrines.
- Oh! Oh! Fire. - Oh, God.
- This is the demons coming to get us.
- Just shut up. Shut up. - No, I'm not shutting up!
- Shut up! I ain't listening to your raggedy ass.
- Okay. Blah, blah, blah.
- Uh-huh. We're good. Blah, blah, blah.
(BLEEP) you! - Blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah!
**
The meeting I had with the lawyer
about the prenup-- - Mm-hmm.
- The question was posed, like, do you put, like,
an infidelity clause?
- I don't think that's gonna be an issue.
- I declare that Juan and Robyn are now, again,
husband and wife.
[cheers and applause]
- Where do we begin?
Um... Juan and the girl in Canada...
I know that this is, like, eating her up
that everybody is poking holes at her marriage.
Now, we really know
what's going on beneath the surface.
[eerie music plays]
Robyn-- - Yeah.
- There is some sort of strumpet out here...
...that is staking claims on Juan Dixon.
- Yes, Juan was an idiot. [sighs]
And communicated with this woman on Instagram.
- Hmm...
- Young lady came forward.
She shows this, like,
hotel receipt with his name on it.
She's reaching out to him.
She tells him she lost her wallet in the casino,
and she cannot pay for her hotel room.
- Okay.
- So, he feels bad for her.
He goes to the hotel, puts his card down,
and that's it.
- You believe that they were never physical with each other.
- They were never physical. Yeah.
- She wants to believe her husband.
I get that, but, whoa, girl,
he signed a whole-ass receipt.
- Okay, so, that should not have happened,
but they have gotten past that.
- You just got outed by the Canadian woman.
And now, five seconds later, in the laundromat
with the girl that you used to work with.
- This is a young lady that used to work for Juan
who was on his staff.
It just don't look right. It just looks bad.
- Now, there was another picture surfacing of Juan...
...in a nail salon, of all places.
- The-the nail salon was a little too much for me.
I was screaming and yelling when I saw it.
- Robyn is on another planet this year.
[birds chirping]
But the truth will set you free.
[sighs]
**
- So handsome.
- Hey. - Hey, how was your workout?
[sighs] - It was good.
What you up to? - So, I got--
so, you know all those-- - Oh, okay.
- So, you know all those frames in my--
in the office? - Mm-hmm.
- I finally got the pictures to go into 'em.
- Oh, cool.
- So, decided just to use all the wedding pictures.
- What's up? - Hey.
- Oh, look at Corey. Okay. - Here, so it's--
I know, right? He looks so handsome.
- You got 'em in black and white?
- Fits the aesthetic in the office.
- Hmm. Oh, my God, Carter.
Dang, he's grown up so much since then.
- Right?
- That's crazy. - I know.
This is, like, my first day kind of feeling settled
since we got back from the Bahamas.
- Oh. - Did you have fun?
- Yeah, it was good. It was a great trip.
- Yeah, yeah.
Now, it's, like, back to real life.
- Back to reality.
- Which, sh--, right now, real life is a-a bitch.
- It's all good. That's part of life.
- Yeah.
- It's a lot.
- Like, all of the noise that's been going on,
the whole... girl with the hotel receipt.
- And once again, that was stupid.
That was foolish. - But--
- But? - We chose to move forward.
We chose to get married.
I wasn't expecting, like, the firestorm
that came out of it
when Gizelle and I addressed it on the podcast.
Like, but-- - I told you not to do that.
- It is what it is.
But, like, people really took that
and, like, and ran with it.
**
- That was me, yes.
But it was me being nice. - Right.
- I've given homeless-- random homeless people
$20, $50 before because I wanted to do a good deed.
- Right. - Well, this was a young lady
that said she was going to visit
a dude that played for the Ravens.
- Right. - Okay.
She lost her wallet at the casino.
- Right. - She reached out to me.
I got her the hotel room.
I know it sounds weird, but that's the truth.
- Right. But my, okay, my question, though
is, like,
okay, you're, like, at a hotel room with a woman.
Like, why not go for it?
- With who? - With her.
- Did you see her?
- I mean, uh, not in person.
You saw her.
- I didn't do anything. - Yeah, but-but--
- I-I-- it-it was on me, though.
I ----ed up.
- Yes, you ----ed up.
You shouldn't have been friendly with her.
I don't know why you were. - Yeah, I'm-I'm too friendly.
I'm too nice.
- But-- - I am too nice.
- But we worked through it.
At this point, it's been a year and a half.
So, a year ago, when I'm, like, hanging around
with the other ladies and stuff,
and, like, for people to judge me
for, like, not sharing that while we were, like,
preparing for our wedding and stuff--
- I just think Robyn panicked, to be honest.
- She said she was waiting for you to bring it up.
- Isn't that amazing that she's waiting for me
to out Juan's women for her?
- First word or phrase-- Robyn Dixon.
- A fraud.
- I heard from Candiace earlier today.
- I heard she was, like, tweeting a lot.
- She's also really angry and disappointed.
She feels betrayed by you.
- Why?
You know, the minute I heard what Candiace was saying,
it was quite shocking because, last year,
I showed her as much support as I could.
I don't think it's a big deal.
I think whatever you were saying
was out of concern for your wife.
- Mm-hmm.
- They think that, like, our relationship is fake,
or that we have an arrangement, and then, of course,
they don't believe the story, like, you know.
- Well, of course, they don't believe the story.
- Right. - It sounds weird.
- Right. - But it's the truth.
- Right.
I know it sounds crazy,
but the reason I-I chose to believe it,
is because Juan wouldn't make somethin' up that stupid.
- No, that's not-- - You know what I'm saying?
Like, if you were to-to-- - I'm not that good.
I'm not that good. - Right.
99.9% that heard that story-- - Right.
- Thinks that you lied to me.
- It's-- but that is-- it's okay,
but I don't know... it's all good.
People gonna think what they want.
- I guess it was exacerbated by the whole...
...you in the laundromat.
- Working? - Like, working.
Yeah, that's so crazy.
It's like, you called me that morning, like,
"All right, me and Coach Bre, we're going to laundromat.
"We're gon-- we're gon' wash the practice jerseys."
- They don't know. See, I don't know.
She saw Juan Dixon in a laundromat
with his co-worker-- Maybe she didn't know.
And they see us in public,
recently, at the, uh, nail salon.
Men and women work together all the time.
They chill together.
They don't know the relationship, though, Rob.
But Coach Bre is a beautiful, attractive woman.
- Right. She's--
like, people almost think we look alike.
- She's a beautiful woman.
So, yes, you see attractive dude
with an attractive woman, and you think--
- Right, and she's young-- So, of course,
their imagination's gonna run wild and stuff.
And then, on top of that, you lost your job,
which is, like, devastating.
- It's not devastating. - So, what is it?
- But it's, I mean, it's-it's hard.
I mean, I felt like I loved my job.
I was passionate about my job.
- Right.
- But, I guess we didn't win enough basketball games,
but when you have key injuries.
- You know, I know, but I also, like, I hate that, like,
the public thinks that you lost your job
for another reason.
- It's unfortunate that certain things came out,
nothing factual.
- And then you have people almost, like, rejoicing,
because you lost your job because they think
that you did something wrong. - That's fine
because they're miserable. - And it's like--
- I ain't did sh-- to nobody. I mind my business.
I don't party. I don't drink.
I'm not all over social media.
- Well, you are now.
- Well, yeah, I guess, but you know what that's about.
In today's society, people want likes.
They want clicks. - I--
- I hate giving this particular story energy.
I wanna be focused on raisin' our boys.
- Coming up next...
Do you want me to feed it to you?
- Please don't. - Look away.
- Disgusting.
- The west wing is seeing some things
it hasn't seen in a while.
- Blech.
- Robyn came after you, came after me,
and came after you in order not to talk
about her truth. - About--
- It's clear that you are projecting
and deflecting from what you have currently going on
**
- Ooh, no.
- Hello. Hi. How are you today? - Hi, how are you?
- I would love some champagne and an orange rind.
- Okay. - Thank you.
- Girl-- - Yes.
- Hi!
- Hi. How are you? - Good. You look great.
- You look fabulous. - Thank you.
- Give me your purse. - Yes.
A purse, inside of a purse, inside of a purse.
- So, we're gonna wait for Wendy.
- Oh, very good. She's OTW. She's on the way.
- She's on her way? - Yeah.
She lives way in outer Mongolia.
You need to give her some grace.
Oh, your drink. - Thank you, darling.
- Let's do the- the Threat Level Midnight.
- Sounds good. - Yes. Thank you.
- Thank you. You're headed to L.A., again.
- Yeah. - Oh, my God, how exciting.
- I have two shows for tomorrow and Saturday.
- All right.
- Ahh! - Cheers, enjoy.
- Thank you. - Thank you. Oh, yes.
- Hi, beautiful. - Hey, look at you. Muah.
- Oh, my gosh. Where have you been?
Yes, Valentine's Day. - How are you doing?
[laughing]
- All there.
- Girl. - There's holes on the floor.
- Oh, I almost died. [laughing]
- Hello. Excuse me.
- Would I be a Debbie Downer if I get water?
- No. - Yes.
- No.
- Okay, can I get-- - No pressure.
- Do you have, like, a margarita?
- I have, like, the grand margarita.
- Okay, I will do that, please.
- Oh, yeah, sure. - Thank you so much.
- I appreciate that. Thank you.
- You guys, uh, so, for lent, I gave up alcohol.
- Okay, oh. - Oh.
- And no, no, no, you know, lent is over now.
Is it just Catholic people that give up stuff for lent,
or is-- is that everybody? - No.
- You give up. - Baptists give up.
- Okay. I be carrying my-- I carry my rosary.
That's why I'm protected.
[ethereal music playing]
- I knew she was Catholic.
I didn't know she kept the rosary in her purse.
Wendy, where was this rosary?
You could have pulled the rosary out for me.
- Getting this girl time off, overtime.
- I'm protected with my rosary.
- You need to pull that out.
- That's why they mess with me,
but it bounces off. - Yes.
- Well, let's talk about that, bouncing off of us.
You know, I got us together because I wanted
to see where you guys are.
What's going on wit' you all?
- Yes, very good.
- Because when we left New York, it was a hot mess.
- You assaulted me.
(BLEEP) you forever.
I want you to understand that. - You ----ed Peter,
and that's the real story.
- You are a garbage individual.
You have no soul.
- Karen was implying that Juan sexually assaulted her.
You said that. You-- - Does he need to keep his hands
off of women inappropriately? Yes.
We've said some ugly things, you know,
and we're all capable of forgiveness.
We can only pray.
- So, where are you at with everyone else?
- I'm okay with Gizelle.
Uh, Ashley, I'm okay.
Robyn has some ownership to take.
Because truth has come out.
We can only get along if we--
- If we are being honest.
- If we are being honest 'cause the biggest liar
is the woman who hid her truth.
We were the targets in order not to talk
about her truth. - About--
- Came after you, came after me, and came after you.
- The focus of the entire year
became maligning my husband's name,
but we discovered that, all this time,
she has a whole scandal with her husband.
What really, like, blew my wig over there,
was when she said,
"I was waiting for Karen to bring it up."
- It happened before we filmed season seven.
- How do you stay silent?
- I was waiting for Karen to bring it up.
- I clearly said "Look..."
I was dealing with Juan's domestic women.
Not international women.
- There's so much I know about Robyn Dixon,
including Juan's other woman.
Yeah, that looks like me.
- She behaved, with all of us, as if everything was fine.
- One day, people are going to see you for who you are.
- People see me, right now, and they clearly--
- Yeah, a bullsh---er.
- And the only liar is Robyn Dixon.
- Ooh, that's a good question.
I have.
- I'm an open book.
Robyn is a bald-face liar, okay?
There is a total difference.
- Next question. [laughing]
- It was such a projection.
- It was a deflection.
- It's clear that you are projecting and deflecting
from what you have currently going on in your life.
- If Robyn owns her sh--, we got no problem.
- She doesn't care if he cheats on her.
- Robyn just needs to say,
"Look, we have an understanding."
- Yes.
- If she doesn't care-- - Because it's an arrangement.
- If she doesn't care, then I don't care.
- Are they even-- have you seen the marriage certificate?
**
- All right, who's gonna help me with the trash?
- Oh, big boy, okay.
Look at this team.
Okay, almost there, champ.
Good job, buddy.
- Just the cutest.
All right, let's go make our lunch.
Welcome to Ashley Darby's Seaside in the City.
I am now a homeowner,
and the inspiration for the decor is coastal chic.
Previously, living in my penthouse,
it was very dark.
The finishes were really dark gray and brown.
So I want it to be light and airy, very natural tones,
with blues, and greens, and tans.
I love it, it's really just my little slice of heaven.
Now, I am paying for it.
I just had to get my ass out of the penthouse right then.
I'll start it, and then you finish cutting it.
- Yeah, very nice.
Boobie, do you like your new house?
- Right?
It's definitely different having Dean and Dylan
in the house without Michael.
I'm full-time mom.
- Oh, Dean, did you help him up there?
- All right, guys. Let's be careful.
I have to be really aware
of how available I am for my kids.
Like, I don't really have anyone else
who can, like, take the kids for a minute.
It's really just me.
- Thank you. - Thanks, Daise.
And Daisy.
What's your favorite part about your new house, booba?
- Playing with my brother.
- Playing with your brother.
And what do you guys like to do that's different
from daddy's house?
'Cause you have two houses, right?
You have this house and daddy's house.
Michael's name is still on the mortgage of my home,
but Michael doesn't have a room in my home.
He actually has only been upstairs in my house,
like, two or three times, ever.
I don't know what will happen with Michael and me financially
until we're fully divorced.
Um, I'm not in any rush, necessarily,
to take Michael's name off the mortgage.
You know, it's like there is that little bit of security
where if something goes wrong,
like, he's there to also help me, you know.
[sighs] My favorite little spot.
Hi.
- Hi, sunshine.
- Where are you going?
- I'm actually-- my kids have a dentist appointment.
- How are you doing?
I mean, so, Grace is about to go to college.
- Yeah, and I'm moving in with you.
- Ha! Good.
I really need some extra help with the kids.
[laughing]
- So, like, what-what's going on over there
'cause I saw that Michael was in the Bahamas with you?
So, I just wanna be clear. [laughing]
- Wait, where did you see that?
- Somebody DMed it to me.
- Oh, well, no, it was really good.
We went as-as coparents, as friends.
- Are you divorced?
- No, we're still hashing out.
Now, we're going through just, like, discussing custody,
but, for the most part, we've agreed on the big things.
- But he did kick in the money a little bit, right?
- Yeah, he helped pay for the down payment
on my house, for example.
He does pay child support.
- Okay, I like that.
- Yeah, so, it's not alimony,
but he's-he's not leaving me high and dry
or anything, you know.
- What is the status of the prenup?
Will you get half of what he has?
- No, man.
According to the prenup, I am not allowed to get alimony.
- Wow.
- In complete honesty, I am dragging my feet
quite a bit with my divorce.
It's pretty hard.
- You know what? I'm also inviting you to my house.
- Oh, yes.
- So, I want you to come over. I'm gonna invite, like,
Charrisse, Robyn. - Yeah.
- I think we all need to, like, have a moment
with Robyn to encourage--
I don't wanna call her delusional.
I don't wanna say that.
I wanna say looking at her relationship
from a different perspective.
- Yes, so a little shift.
- The things that Robyn is going through,
people don't make it to the other side.
People can't handle what Robyn is handling.
This is a lot for anybody.
So, yes, my concern for her mental health is huge.
- I have had experience with difficult conversations
with Robyn in the past, especially involving Juan,
and that has not gone over very well.
I think that your relationship is a hindrance.
You are not in a situation
that is conducive to a happy life.
- Yes. - Get the (BLEEP) outta here.
- So, I don't really have the best expectations
for this conversation.
- I-I just wanna support her to get through this
and to get to a better place, however that looks.
- What does she say when you ask her about
the relationship with this girl and him,
and why were they in the nail salon together?
- She said they're just friends.
Juan always feels sorry for people,
and he just befriends people,
because he's a nice guy.
[laughing]
- He's nice-nice. He's nice, okay?
- Her perspective is different from everyone else's,
and I just want her to know, like,
you look crazy. - Yes.
- Coming up next...
- We pivoted pretty quickly once we got through
our two or three months of woe is us,
and did we do anything wrong and...
- Babe, you went through a whole depression.
- Well-well, I went through a depression.
**
- Okay, I hear a lot of noise.
Oh, my gosh, what's happening?
- Nothing. - Nothing?
- The noise means it's going down.
- I could not be more excited.
Okay. - So, you have three different types of tuna.
- Okay, which one tastes better?
- Salmon-- we're gonna try it all.
- We're gonna try it all. Okay.
And then scallops?
Oh. - Say no more.
We're gonna do cooked scallops,
and we're gonna do raw salmon and tuna.
- I have a bigger pan.
- Do you? - Yeah, I do.
Okay, let me get that.
That way, I can bend over. - Bigger is always better.
- And you can check out the scene.
- Oh, oh, oh, my.
I'm not looking. [laughing]
- All right. Like, somethin' like this?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - This better?
- That'll keep things from popping up.
- Jason is how many years younger than me?
- No one is counting.
Do you want me to stop dancing?
- No, never. [laughing]
- Mama gotta live.
You know, mama has been mama for a long time,
but I got to live. I got to do my thing.
And I did run up on this guy named Jason,
and he's a young, hot thing,
a little tenderoni.
When I first met Jason, Ashley introduced us,
and for whatever reason,
Jason and I definitely just clicked.
He has been keeping me quite occupied,
and the west wing is seeing some things
it hasn't seen in a while.
Should I start with-with the gloves, or no?
- Not until we start using the rice.
- Okay.
Did you bring that knife?
- I did. - Wow.
This is actually very special.
- Well, you know, I haven't seen you in weeks.
- I know.
Sometimes I, like, get kinda weirded out.
I'm like, I need to see you.
- Yeah, I'm like, when am I gonna see her, again?
- I haven't even really, like, gotten into, like,
Gizelle nagging mode.
Like, I need to see you.
- Do you get into that mode?
- No, it's not really what I do.
However, I can.
Jason, with his cute self,
lives all the way up in New York,
and I live, you know, down here
in the Potomac area.
So, we try to see each other as much as we can.
It's hard. I think we manage it,
like, every other week or so.
Either I'm going there, or he's coming to see me,
and it's nice 'cause, you know, I don't like
somebody in my face all the time.
So, it's perfect.
So, tell me about this trip to Dubai.
I have heard nothing other than the flower garden.
Whose idea was the flower garden?
- Adore. - Okay.
- Yes.
Grace is about to graduate from high school
and go to college, baby.
So proud of her, so happy for her,
but, yes, it is sad.
That's my baby girl. That's my first love.
You know, college is the next right step for her.
Um, however, before we get sad,
this is her last spring break,
and I was like we're going to go to Dubai, honey.
We're gonna ride camels. We're gonna go shopping.
And it was fantastic.
No stone unturned in the Dubai.
So, not happy but happy for her.
Last time, you made-- what did you make?
- We did pasta ala vodka.
- With scallops. - On the side.
- That was amazing. - That was-- that was tasty.
- Didn't think that you could top that.
- Well, you know, this is, um,
welcome back from Dubai din-din.
- Ooh. [laughing]
Um, all right. Angel has to help.
Angel!
- Coming!
- All right, Angel, it is time to make some sushi.
The day that I met Jason, I invited Jason
to my live show in New York of "Reasonably Shady."
And, of course, the girls were there helping me.
Grace peeped him peeping me,
and she was like, "Mommy, who is he?
You're not slick." And I was like,
"Oh, that's my friend. That's-- his name is Jason."
She just was like, "Is this my brother?
"How old is he?"
- I was kind of on edge
because I didn't really know him,
and this random guy is just following us around.
Like, I just was confused.
- Hey.
- I thought you were gonna make the sushi.
- Hey, you want to help? - I am.
- I love it. - I'm ready.
Well, I helped him with the pasta last time.
- You did. - Yeah, you did.
- I need, um, oh, no, I'm good.
- I am right here.
[laughing]
- Grace is somebody who is going to...
not give you an A in the beginning,
and you gotta work your way to an A.
So... - Yeah.
He worked his way, for sure.
- Is he on an A? - Maybe A-minus.
- Oh. [laughing]
- Pull that up a little bit,
and, yeah, so you're-you're pretty perfect, almost.
- Oh, okay.
- Angel, that one is for you.
- All right. Thank you, mom.
See? It's pretty.
- I was gonna ask you. - What?
- If you wanted me to feed it to you, but I guess--
- I'm here. - Please don't, please don't.
Please-please don't. [laughing]
There is a child present.
- Look away.
- Disgusting. Bleh.
[laughing]
- Your next step, you need to have my mom's breakfast.
That's, like, top tier.
- Ooh, oh, what?
- But he's not a breakfast guy.
Angel, he doesn't really like to eat breakfast.
- Who is telling you this?
- I've been with you in the morning.
- Pancakes are her specialty.
- Mm-hmm. - Okay, so, the pancakes.
What else? Anything special?
- Pancakes, waffles, brownies.
- Ooh, what? - Those are her specialties.
- These are just plain brownies.
These don't have any extra additives in.
- You mean, like, chocolate chips?
[laughing] - Like chocolate chips.
- Sorry. Did I-- [laughing]
- Coming up next...
- Like, why is your husband in the nail salon
with a woman? Why? - Right.
- And she-she told me she doesn't care.
- She doesn't care? - But why doesn't she care?
- She needs a support system.
**
- Oh, hey, babe. - Hey, babe.
- You made it, huh? - I survived.
We made it through carpool.
Have an amazing day.
Are you really gonna wear your tiara?
Let everybody know who is the princess.
- Why did you lock the door?
Reflex? - Oh, my bad, yeah.
I was thinking to myself, oh, my gosh, like,
you don't miss the house.
- Yeah, of course, I do.
- Moving out of the big house has been quite, uh,
an adjustment.
Square footage wise, we went from 10,000,
almost 11,000, to 1,500. Yeah, it's like a closet.
Like, literally, my old closet space
is now my new living space, okay?
Seriously.
As far as cost is concerned, we can no longer afford
$10,000 a month,
with everything that was going on with our businesses.
- Mia, all of your businesses were taken away
from you and G by his brothers.
- We are literally living off of our savings.
Are you feeling okay with all the bullsh--?
- Well, feeling better because I'm resolved now
as to what we need to do.
I think, eventually, it's gonna get to be
a court case. - Okay.
- I am not gonna walk away from a half million dollars,
which is what the company owes me.
- Gordon and I started developing
The Joint Chiropractic in 2013.
This is Dr. Lee.
He's actually going to be doing your adjustment.
- Hi.
- You might hear some popping sounds.
- Ooh!
Reminds me of when I first met Ray.
- Oh.
So, back in September, Gordon was voted out of
the family business, um, for a reason that
I'm still unsure of, and I no longer work as
the marketing director for the company.
Why are they acting like this towards you?
- No idea. I have no idea.
All they said was that I'm not listening,
and that's it.
It makes no sense to get rid of a CEO who has done nothing.
The revenues of the company dropped,
and the value went down immediately.
It was stupid to do that.
- It has definitely put a financial strain
on our household.
So, we need to figure out how to replace that income,
but I am most definitely gonna figure out
how to get back and even better.
- I'll give ourselves a pat on the back
because we pivoted pretty quick,
once we got through our two or three months of woe is us,
and did we do anything wrong, and...
- Babe, you went through a whole depression.
- Well-well, I went through a depression. Yeah.
- You sat on that sofa for two months.
To see you like that, it was really, really hard for me,
and there were moments that I was like--
- Mm-hmm. Right.
I know that, and I appreciate you standing by me.
- Yeah, it was so hard. - Right.
I knew it was hard.
- I didn't think I was gonna make it through but then--
- And you cussed me out a few times.
- I was gonna say then I would go to being angry
and cussing you out and telling you
to get the (BLEEP) up off your ass.
- Yeah, 'cause you thought I had done somethin' wrong, too.
Tell the truth. - No, no, no, no, no, no.
I just didn't know.
- So, did the brothers argue about how the money
was being spent? Was that the--
- Hmm. - No, that wasn't it at all.
- Because it looked very much
like a little bit of embezzlement.
- When we heard rumors of an audit, you got concerned.
I had the attorney and the, uh, accountant
in their office do their own audit.
- Yeah. - I sent them everything,
and they're going, "Oh, things look clean."
And the CPA said the same thing.
- No, yeah, I know.
- So, okay, 'cause you kept asking me,
"What did you do?
Are you sure you didn't do anything?"
- Well, 'cause I gotta-- I gotta protect my assets.
- Well, I understand. - And my kids.
I just think that, this year, um, has been, like,
a good year for me even through adversity.
There are some lifestyle changes that I need to make
in order to make sure that I stay okay.
- Yeah.
- So, how do you feel about me not drinking alcohol?
- I didn't know you weren't.
- I thought I told you, babe. - I don't think so.
- Because you, yeah, because we were at the beach,
and you were like, "You want a cocktail?"
And I was like, "Babe, remember I'm not drinking."
- And you-- but you said-- right, but then you said
you'll take a glass of wine, which is still drinking.
- Okay, so, yes. Okay, so, I'm drinking wine.
Yes.
- There's the same amount of alcohol in a cocktail
and a beer. [laughing]
- I decided to cut out hard liquor
because I felt like it's mind and mood altering.
And quite frankly, I like who I am without it,
so I don't need it.
- But why did you do it?
Why did you make that decision?
- I think about the last time I had a cocktail.
Um, I felt like--
- It was a little rocky with Karen.
- I mean, it wasn't necessarily rocky.
I don't think.
Someone is saying that you went to Vegas,
and you had sex with him in the bathroom.
So, my mouth is probably a little bit more filtered,
but I think it. [laughing]
But I don't know. I need to check on her.
I do.
You think I should, like, call her?
- Yeah, absolutely. [sighs]
- Oh, God, what am I gonna say?
- Absolutely. I mean, you guys are friends.
- Sorry for calling you a ho.
- You didn't call her a ho.
- Sorry for accusing you of being a ho-ho-ho.
- Coming up...
- My joy has been taken, but it's not Juan's fault.
- Uh, it-it kinda is. - It is.
- That's a (BLEEP) Juan moment, for sure.
- Okay, bring it on.
I don't give a (BLEEP) anymore.
**
- It's good that you're home. - Yes.
- I feel like I haven't spent any time with you
in the last six months.
- Six? - That's what it feels like.
- It's like three. - Four.
Here, we're gonna go right here, under this big,
shady tree. - Oh.
Let's try that blanket first.
- Oh, that'll work.
That's just beautiful. Look at that.
Oh, man. [grunts]
- Oh, my God. [grunts]
- Lunch in the park, how exciting.
- There's a lot of bugs. I don't like it.
- Yeah, well, this is what you get
for wanting to be outside.
Cheers to a-a day, just us, hanging out.
- Yay.
Last year was the most challenging year
in our marriage.
- Many a married man have tried me,
and I felt like it was a situation
in which he was trying to see if I was with it.
- Chris DMed me at 2:40 in the morning.
- My husband?
- He comes over a little wanna, like--
- And he's smiling at you in your face?
- Yeah, yes, the eyes. Yeah, the eyes.
- Some of your actions were just a little questionable.
- Man, (BLEEP) that sh--, Ashley. No.
- It's been a journey, but we're able to have fun
and not harp on our drama.
- So, you glad to be home? - Yes.
It feels good to not be living out of suitcases.
- Yeah.
- So, Nye sent me a preliminary budget
for the tour. - Mm-hmm.
- And it's a lot of money.
Like, just the band alone is almost 50k,
and then that doesn't include everything else.
I've been performing the last three months.
* It's about to be a situation *
* if I pull up hanging out the Jeep *
* with my day ones and they turn up baby *
Thank God for labels that have marketing dollars
to help with these things,
but so much of touring is on the artist,
and I'm sure that I spent over six figures
to go on tour last year. [laughing]
And the goal is eventually to make profit
in the form of ticket sales, in the form of merch,
but I have to go bigger this time.
Costumes, hair, makeup, wigs, highlights,
chicken cutlets, boob tape, titties--
it's all gonna be there.
So, get your tickets.
- First thing I'm gonna say is, do you need dancers?
Do you need a band? - I'm not Alanis Morissette.
I'm not Jewel.
I don't have, like, a, like, acoustic show
where you're just waving back and forth for an hour.
- I mean, the way you're dressed today,
you fit right in.
[groans] Oh, man.
- You should do Pilates. - No.
- Well, you need to do something 'cause you're old.
- I go to the gym. It's fine.
- You haven't been to the gym.
- Yeah, like, not, like, three weeks but whatever.
I'll go back. - Hmm.
- How was your, uh, visit with Wendy and Karen
the other day?
- I mean, we all have a lot of opinions on Robyn.
- Mm-hmm.
- I don't understand why Robyn would think
that it's okay to go along with these lies about you
when she has a true scandal happening with her husband.
So, I acknowledge that Robyn was supportive.
Where it starts to get muddy, is when I am seeing her
in other situations where she's not so passionate.
- Can we agree that it probably is not the best idea
for a married man to be in a hotel room
with a single woman?
- Thinking about how she moved on that whole story
about you being a sneaky link, it just makes me sit back
and say, were you only supporting me and Chris
so that no one would bring up what was happening
with you and your husband?
- If you were to approach her, um, or just say,
"Hey, I-I-I'd like to talk.
I don't know where we went wrong."
But it's piled on, right, over the last couple of months.
- Yes, yeah.
- But I still think you guys have the opportunity.
- Robyn has always been one of my home girls.
I don't like having contention.
So, I'm really open to talking to her.
[groans]
- Oh, man. Oh, got it.
- Ooh, you're turning white people red.
- It's hard out here. - My God.
**
- I am treating the ladies nice today.
I will let Charrisse open this.
- Surprise! - Oh, yes!
Charrisse is in the building. - My surprise for-- thank you.
You did not have to do all this for me.
I am serious. You really did not.
- Aww, welcome.
- Thank you for having me, love.
- So, because of you, I, of course, I this here.
- Yes, thank you. That's definitely me.
- Yes, and I will let you, like, open it and do all that
'cause this is-- you know,
I would have my butler here for you,
but I gave him the day off. [laughing]
Okay, we're gonna--
hopefully, Ashley will get here before Robyn.
- Right.
- We're about to give her some tough love.
- Mm-hmm. - Um...
- I'm scared. - Okay.
- 'Cause I don't know how she is gonna react.
- Neither do I. Here comes the Ash bash.
- Oh, hey.
- I'm going down the slip and slide.
- Hey, Ashley. - Oh, hi, babe.
Hotel Gizelle is always under construction.
[hammering]
Somethin' is always broken.
Somethin' always needs some paving,
some trimming, some demolishing.
When is my girl gonna have a completion date, okay?
Because if I break an ankle or break a toe,
like, she is done.
We're gonna be in trouble, okay?
Hi, babe. - Hi. Muah.
Good to see you. - How are you?
Great to see you, too. Hi. - Is this for me?
- Yes. - Thank you so much.
- Yes, of course. Thank you for having us.
- Okay, y'all sit down. I'm gonna get you--
- Okay, we're sitting. Yes. - Yes.
- Okay, where is Robyn sitting exactly?
- We'll put her over there. Okay.
Yes, I'm-I'm gonna sit here.
- Okay. Okay, that's good.
Is Robyn on her way? Did you talk to her?
- She's on her way. Okay.
- And we're gonna talk to her about our concerns and feelings.
- Yes. Right.
- As her girlfriends.
- And we've all been in a similar situation.
- Yes. - Right.
- But I do think there is, like, some delusion
with what's really going on in her life.
I know that Ashley and Charrisse
have been through similar things in their marriages,
so these are the best two people to come and really talk to her
and tell her, hey, you got us.
We are here to love you.
When I saw the picture of Juan with the girl in the nail salon,
I screamed, and yelled, and went off.
Like, why is your husband in the nail salon with a woman?
Why? - Right.
- And she-she told me she doesn't care.
- She doesn't care? - But why doesn't she care?
- She-- I think she said she was numb to it.
She said somethin' crazy. - Maybe she's used to it.
- And this is not the first time.
It's just, like, a repeated thing
that she's learned to deal with. - Right.
- This is like her normal now.
- How terrible is that? - I agree.
- No, but a lot of people live like that.
- We too old for all of that. - I hear you.
Life is short.
- So, that's why I was saying, is it denial?
Is it delusion? What is it?
- She's upset, and she's hurt.
Like, she needs a support system.
**
- Is it denial? Is it delusion?
What is it?
- She's upset, and she's hurt.
Like, she needs a support system.
You do need to hear, like, this is some bullsh--.
What are you thinking? - Are you serious?
I'm not trying to bust my ass here.
- Oh, yeah. Walk backwards. It helps.
- Oh, really? - Yes.
- Too late. - And look how cute you look.
- You need, like, steps. They need to be steps.
- Steps, exactly. - Steps? Okay.
- Yeah. - Yes.
- Whatever you want, Robyn Dixon.
- Okay, I was nervous. Hi.
- How are you? - Look at you. I'm good.
- Good, good, good. - Oh, look at you.
You've been working out. - Hi. How are you?
- I know she has been-- you have been working out.
- Look at you. - No, I haven't.
- Yes, you have. - You've been doin' somethin'.
- Somethin'. - Not really.
Hi. - What? You got the Bahamas tan.
- How are you? - Good.
- What would you like to drink?
We have some spritzers. - I'll have champagne.
- You want champagne.
- Yeah, sure. - What about the--
I know you like the rosé,
- Um, uh, this is open.
I'll just have that. - Champagne? Okay.
- Yeah. - Okay, but you--
you're our special guest.
So, I can open up a bottle for you.
- I'm your special guest? - Yes.
- Why? - Have a seat, Robyn.
- You didn't-- I didn't-- - 'Cause we love you.
- You didn't tell me that. You just told me to come over.
[laughing] Okay, all right.
- The three of us, you know, love you,
100%. - Uh-huh, yeah.
- And so, this is, like, a little tough love,
a little bit. - Tough love?
Damn, what'd I do? - Yes.
Okay, let me just start by saying
I talked to these two... - Mm-hmm.
- Because I know that they also love you.
We are here to support you-- - Mm-hmm.
- As it relates to Juan.
- So, this is just an open forum to talk.
- Okay, go ahead.
- I don't have anything planned to say, right now.
- Okay, did you have something to say?
[sighs]
- When those things broke, like when the story
about the hotel came out-- - Right.
- And all of that, you know,
I had messaged you that night,
and I was like, "Robyn, I-I know this is ludicrous,"
da, da, da, da, da.
And then as more things starting coming out,
there started being some things that sounded a little fishier.
And I was like, did Robyn tell me the truth?
I-I wasn't sure if you were being honest with me,
or if you were even being honest with you.
- Mm-hmm.
- And then when the nail salon photo came out...
[sighs] I got really upset for you.
- Mm-hmm. - Because I'm like,
I've been in that position where, you know,
you have to, like, defend your relationship,
and that just-- I-- it's not a comfortable place to be.
- All right. Let me, okay, let me--
let me just explain some things.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- Okay. Ashley, Breanna has worked on Juan's staff
for over-- for three years.
So, that relationship is not new to me.
Now, the laundromat story was a straight lie,
and that's the thing that is really unfortunate
that people are out here putting out blatant lies
when they say, "Oh, they were hugged up,
putting stuff in the washing machine."
That didn't happen.
Although Juan was not smart in communicating
with the female in Canada,
he's not dumb enough to be anywhere in public
being affectionate and physical with another woman.
- So, for me, the two incidents
you say are two distinct things.
So, I think that the thing that happened
with the girl from Canada is a different situation
than the coach. - Right.
- As far as with Coach Bre, I think it's more so
the sensitivity of the optics.
And if I were Juan, I would probably operate
a little bit more cognizant or aware of what's happening
just for a minute, you know.
- Literally, I told him, I'm like-- he's telling me,
"Oh, I'm going to the nail salon.
Bre is gonna come by and say hi."
I'm like, "Juan, the block is hot."
And he's like, "Okay, whatever.
Like, am I supposed to just, like, sit in the house?"
- Yes, because he made the mistake
back with-with the hotel. - Yes, yes.
- No, I-- but I'm-- see, that-- it's just-- I don't--
- Yes, he's not thinking,
"How is this going to affect Robyn?"
- All right. So, what do y'all want me to do?
Get mad at him, and scream, and throw a shoe at him?
"Oh, my God, I can't believe you went
to the nail salon with Breanna.
Oh, my God, how could you do that?"
Like, is that what you want me to do?
- He is not thinking about you,
saying, "You know what? This is bad optics."
- I'm not going to tell him to end his friendship.
I'm not going to tell him, oh, you can't do
certain things that were fine before.
At this point, I don't care.
- Robyn. - I don't.
- We're just talking about you,
your happiness, your joy.
Are you good?
- My joy has been stolen
because of all of the sh-- that has piled on nonstop.
Every other day, it's a headline.
- But there's one person at the center of it.
- What do you want me to do, Gizelle?
- I don't-- no, no, no.
I just want you to be happy.
I want you to live your best life.
- I'm-I'm-- this is the thing.
The world wants to tear us apart, right?
And yes, my joy has been taken, but it's not Juan's fault.
- Uh, it-it kinda is. - It is.
- It's Juan's fault.
- His actions are determining-- - It's Juan's fault.
Juan was in the nail salon. - Okay, take away--
- Juan was in the laundromat. - Take away the fact that we--
- Juan was at the hotel. - Okay, bring it on.
You know what I'm saying? Like, just bring it on.
I don't give a (BLEEP) anymore.
- You don't have to act like this isn't bothering you.
The world has come after you as it relates to Juan.
- I don't give a (BLEEP). Pile it on.
They've already stole my joy. Just keep beating me up.
- Do you feel like we have your back?
'Cause-'cause we're here today because we do.
- All of this has been a pile on,
and this is cruel.
- It's Juan's fault.
The world has come after you as it relates to Juan.
- I don't give a (BLEEP). Pile it on.
They've already stole my joy. Just keep beating me up.
- Do you feel like we have your back?
'Cause-'cause we're here today because we do.
- All of this has been a pile on,
and this is cruel.
- Take the world out of the equation.
He should not be out in public with other women, period.
I just--
- So, if Breanna was big, fat, and ugly,
would you care?
- My ex got to have some bogus honey,
so I would have never thought he would have stuck his thing
in those thangs, and he did, okay?
I went through years
of my ex being in various relationships,
and, honestly, and I-- and I think...
I didn't wanna do this. My heart hurts for you
because it opens up a wound for me.
And I'm not saying your situation is my situation,
but it looks so familiar.
I gave Eddie 1,000 passes,
1,000 excuses, everything.
And at the end of the day, I knew the truth.
I'm not really sure what's going on in my marriage.
- Mm-hmm. - Okay.
- Hmm. - Um,
we're just at one of those crossroads,
and this has been going on actually for, like, three years.
So, it's not like-- - Oh, hell no.
- Charrisse.
- I didn't wanna accept the truth.
I made excuses for everything.
And this guy decided one day
to just walk out the ----ing door
after everything that I did,
and I just don't want that for you.
- So, are you saying that I'm in denial,
or I'm making excuses for that? - I don't-- I don't--
I don't know.
If you go back to the other situation
with the girl from Canada,
to me, yeah, I kinda feel that vibe,
the-- of you being in denial about that.
Watching you on that show out of New York,
I was like, oh, my God.
- Did he show you their correspondence?
- He didn't show me. No, I didn't really ask
because I just trusted, like,
that what is telling me is the truth.
- It just made my heart bleed for you.
- Mm-hmm.
- You know, Robyn, it's just like when I came to the barn
after things happened in my situation,
and I was, like, telling everybody what happened,
and I-I made a lot of excuses.
One of these women said, "Do you want to go have some fun
in a hotel?" He took the bait.
He was so drunk
that he laid down-- - Okay.
- And went to sleep.
I did blame myself. You know, I was postpartum,
and I wasn't giving him affection
and all of that. - Yeah.
- But ultimately, I hit a boiling point.
And I know we are different people,
but I just don't feel,
knowing you for this many years now,
like-like you're happy.
- What do you mean?
- Like, this-- this really feels
like this is a protect Juan campaign.
- It's not.
Listen, the woman in Canada, the story is crazy, right?
- Yes.
- He would not make up a crazy story.
He would actually make up a better story.
- Juan was still communicating with her.
- Uh, yeah, that's the problem.
He-he should not have been communicating with her.
That's the problem. - Okay.
- So, you're making him accountable for that.
- Uh, we dealt with it, right?
- Right. - I found out. I was angry.
I told him to get the (BLEEP) out.
We worked through it. - Okay, wait, pause.
When you told him to get the (BLEEP) out, did he leave?
- No. - Did you pack his bags?
- No, I mean, it was just-- I was-- it's just like no, no.
- Oh, okay, but would you ever put him out?
If there was another hotel receipt,
if there was another incident,
would you put him out? - Yes.
Yeah, we-- that's it.
- Okay. - Oh, you would?
- Yes.
- 'Cause I've-I've been feeling like
there's nothing that he will do that you will feel like,
"you know what? You need to go."
Because some women just turn a blind eye.
You want it to work,
and so you'll put up with a lotta sh--.
- Especially the second time around.
- But in all of that, you lose yourself,
and you know my story.
I was married to Jamal Bryant.
Jamal was a cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater.
The woman that he was sleeping with
very much told me.
Um, so, for me, it was an automatic, like,
no, I'm not living this life.
I'm now a very grown, mature woman,
and I am at a place in my life
where I'm always gonna put me first, not Jamal,
not any other dude, because I didn't for so long.
And I don't want you to ever lose sight of you.
I remember when you guys got divorced.
I know the woman you were then.
You're-you're a different woman today.
- Right. Yeah, for sure.
- I always want you to put that woman first.
Respect that woman.
Make sure he's respecting that woman,
'cause that woman can get beat down.
Juan, I think, makes up crazy, unbelievable stories
so that Robyn can say,
"This is so crazy it's gotta be true."
Whatever Juan tells her, she believes.
I don't believe it,
but it doesn't matter what I believe.
It matter what Robyn believes.
- I can tell Robyn until I'm blue in the face
that I don't think the story is real,
but if Robyn believes it, which is really
all that matters, then so be it.
- I know what denial looks like 'cause I lived it.
I lived the basketball life,
so I know what goes on in those hotels, okay?
So, hmm, not believing it.
I just feel like you seem a little defensive, right now.
- I'm not being defensive.
I think I'm not saying stuff that you all want to hear.
I think you want--
- What do you think we wanna hear?
- "(BLEEP) Juan. I can't believe he did that sh--."
- No, no, no. - No, absolutely not.
- I am not on that team.
- Like, yeah, so-- - I'm okay with you saying that.
I am. - She's like, "I'm okay."
- I'm gonna be honest.
That's a "(BLEEP) Juan" moment, for sure.
- Okay, and-and that was three weeks ago.
You still want me to be mad?
You want me walking around angry?
- No, I don't want-- - You want me to divorce?
I don't want-- - Like, what do you
want me to do? - No.
What do you wanna do? - No, I-I'm--
- What does Robyn do?
- I wanna keep living and-and get through this.
- Okay. I do want you to feel comfortable
knowing you've got some friends
that love you and care about you.
We wanna support you. - Right.
- Whether you wanna admit it or not,
you've been through a lot, and we're here for you.
- Yeah. - 100%.
- Yeah, I appreciate y'all.
I appreciate your hard truth, your opinions,
all of that.
We're going to continue to live our lives, and
whether people judge or speculate,
that's on them. That's what it is.
I am okay.
It's just been a lot, you know. - Yeah, it is.
- Robyn lives life according to Juan,
but Robyn and I are very close,
and I've been feeling her pain,
and I feel like one day
it'll bubble up
and explode.
- But I-I do believe that, you know,
there are better things coming. So...
- I pray.
We got nowhere to go but up.
- Next time, on "The Real Housewives of Potomac."
Ladies, this is my friend, Nneka.
You guys actually have a lot in common.
- Okay, tell me. - She's Igbo, as well.
I talked about it with Nneka.
There was this article about you being, like,
Osu or something.
She basically was like, "Oh, Osu is, like, terrible."
- Hi. - Oh, hi, Robyn!
- Hey.
If you got somethin' to say, then say it.