Let the damage control begin...episode 3 of "Basketball Wives" was off the charts, chain, Richter scale and any other measuring apparatus you'd like to place it on. The classy, rich and who's who of the NBA Wives club were totally out of character and seemed a little throwback like they were in high school or something. Many viewers were offended, however, I didn't take offense to the way Gloria was treated nor did I take offense to Gloria's name calling as she left calling Shaunie a Bitch and a Cunt. Yeah Cunt, who says that right? What I did take offense to is this whole time these broads have been walking around acting like they are royalty and really and truthfully they just like the hood rat on the block but with money. They're disrespectful, tacky, poor in character and chasing paper since the man they was chasing found some other hoe to trick on. Hey, the truth hurts and so do I. Here's the interview with Shaunie from VH1Blog.com:
After seeing the negative reaction to the Shaunie O�Neal/Gloria Govan confrontation on this week�s episode of Basketball Wives, we reached out to Shaunie to find out her take on the arguing and whether there was anything that went down that the public didn�t see. It turns out there was: below, Shaunie explains why they got on the subject of Gloria�s canceled wedding in the first place (she maintains that she did not meet up with Gloria to tease her). She also accepts responsibility, calling the blow-up immature and part of �a bad day.� All this and her reaction to the public�s reaction is included in the interview below�
Tell me what you think about the incident with Gloria.
It was one of those things where Royce called, and said, �Let�s go and see Gloria and Suzie because this is the only time we�ll get to see them.� She had questions for Gloria, even though they ended up not being asked. I was in Orlando with my kids, and that was the only point of being in that city. Getting that call, it was like, �All right, I�m already here, so let�s go.� We kind of go everywhere together when we�re in each other�s cities. I think the whole thing just took its own direction. As soon as we got there, everything deteriorated so fast and went to a whole other place than probably anyone wanted to go. For me, I can say it was a bad day. As I was going into the restaurant, I was thinking, �Why am I even doing this? This is just pointless and out of my character.� I should have followed my gut, but in the midst of the adrenalin and being with my girls and supporting each other, I rolled with it. I guess people are blaming this on the Laura Govan/Shaquille allegations, and it�s so not that. That�s so last year. I think everybody�s over that, including Gloria, but I don�t want to speak for her. It doesn�t come up in my life at all ever. It was other stuff with Gloria and me: there was tension there. And I guess with us all walking into that restaurant, Gloria immediately went into defense mode, which then sparked a lot of nonsense going back and forth between us.
There was also a bunch of stuff said before the world saw what it saw. There were things said before that, which would probably help make sense of why we even got to the discussion on why she didn�t get married. I think Gloria felt like she was being ambushed and that her back was against the wall so she was going to throw out whatever she possibly could throw out. I get that, but the things she did say were things we could never show on TV due to them having nothing to do with myself, Jenn, Evelyn or Royce. She was totally attacking our exes, and saying what filth and dirty and pathetic men they are, which she thought would be insulting to us. I could give a damn. You can talk about Shaquille all day. It really doesn�t matter. Your opinion of him has nothing to do with me. We were kind of laughing at her, like, �OK, so what? We know who we�re dealing with. We already know what these guys have done.� We were kind of laughing at her, and she said, �Look who you picked!� That�s when we went into, �Well, sweetie, you didn�t get married, so there must be something wrong with your dude, too.�
I think the scene would have made a little more sense with that part in tact, but with me being an executive producer, I don�t want to bash the guys. I don�t ever want that to be the show. It was really important to me to protect the guys from that crap. I wish that people could hear the whole conversation, but at the same time, I�m happy they didn�t, because that�s not whatBasketball Wives is about. It�s not about bashing the guys. And this wasn�t intentional, I�m sure, on Gloria�s part, but that�s just what she came up with in the midst of the arguing. She said that that�s how I got to be miserable. And the whole bitter part? I absolutely having nothing to be bitter about. My kids and I live the same exact lifestyle we always did during my marriage and as they can see on TV, nothing has changed. We�re going on the same exact vacations, driving the same cars. No one�s hurting. I�m able to maintain my lifestyle and step away and do Shaunie. I�m in a new relationship, I�m happy. If anything, I�m in a better place than ever before. There�s nothing to be bitter about. It was just a bad day. That�s what I chalk it up to. I participated in mess due to the exchange of words that never should have been said.
Do you regret the incident?
I regret not following my gut. My gut feeling was not to even go. It wasn�t that important to me if I ever saw Gloria again. It�s not something that even crossed my mind. What happened there and what was said was absolutely natural. It was a natural reaction and I think most women would have reacted the same exact way. And like I said, it was a bad day and it was immature of us, but had people seen the conversation, they�d know that we didn�t go in there for the sole purpose of teasing Gloria about her relationship.??
I think it�s also important to remember that this beef didn�t come from nowhere � you�ve said things about Gloria, and Gloria has said plenty of negative things about you guys and the show.
It says a lot that she�s back on the show. She said she�d never come back and she didn�t want anything to do with it. But she�s back and she asked to come back. Maybe that was what she wanted: those five minutes of bad-ass Gloria. I don�t know.??
Any thoughts on following her out to the car?
It had gotten so heated. She was cussing everyone out and whatever, and it was like, �You�re real bad-ass here when you have 30 people in the room that you know will not let anything happen.� I mean, I�m not going to fight. That�s not in my character. But at the same time, you want to be Billy Badass, and when it wasn�t working, when attacking the guys wasn�t affecting us, then it�s up and leave. No, let�s finish.
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