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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast

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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, Ashley here, Ben is well, Well what Ben

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Speaker 2: talk about the state of his life when he comes back?

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Speaker 2: But you all know that Jess is giving birth this week.

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Speaker 2: And I just wanted to come on here because we

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Speaker 2: got info yesterday that really clarified why Beverly.

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Speaker 3: Beverly or Tega left this season early.

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Speaker 2: Rachel Recki and I were on here recapping a couple

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Speaker 2: of days ago, and we thought it was the weirdest

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Speaker 2: thing that the show just made it seem like, oh,

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Speaker 2: she didn't feel she didn't feel very good, and I

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Speaker 2: think she's gone forever. Well, they love to do. They

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Speaker 2: have had a tendency lately of taking of making lights

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Speaker 2: of some things and editing out parts that probably should

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Speaker 2: have been in there, just to give clarification to the audience.

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Speaker 2: And then they have liked to fill in these gaps

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Speaker 2: on their official Warner Brothers show, which is the Happy

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Speaker 2: Hour podcast with Grocery Store Joe and Serena, and they

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Speaker 2: had her on this week. They had Beverly on that

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Speaker 2: show and they explained what really happened. She was very sick,

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Speaker 2: but it wasn't just very sick. It was appendicitis.

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Speaker 3: So here's a quote.

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Speaker 2: I went to go take a nap and I wake

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Speaker 2: up and my stomach's hurting, and I'm like, okay, maybe

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Speaker 2: I should go to the bathroom. Maybe the food didn't

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Speaker 2: sit well. And then all of a sudden, I start

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Speaker 2: throwing up, and then I'm like, okay, maybe I just

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Speaker 2: need to get out whatever it is. Her stomach continues

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Speaker 2: to hurt, and then she goes I'm in excruciating pain.

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Speaker 2: I'm continuing to throw up. It's like a mess. And

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Speaker 2: this goes on for twelve hours. Like why wasn't this

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Speaker 2: a storyline? Back in the day? This would have been

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Speaker 2: a storyline, because I mean, it's awful for her, but

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Speaker 2: it is kind of interesting. Awful, but like what at

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Speaker 2: this point you would think it would be drama. It

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Speaker 2: would be one of those moments where they get the

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Speaker 2: ambulance and they show the ambulance and the you know,

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Speaker 2: the scene to the next episode in the big teaser,

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Speaker 2: and then it ends up being like, you know, awful,

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Speaker 2: but not too much of a not too much of

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Speaker 2: a big deal.

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Speaker 3: Well, appendicitis is kind of a big deal.

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Speaker 2: She said that that sometimes she experiences nausea during panic attacks,

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Speaker 2: and she has diagnosed anxiety, and she was thinking, maybe

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Speaker 2: I'm anxious because I have a one on one later

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Speaker 2: in the week. I actually understand that knowing you have

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Speaker 2: a one on one so much earlier than just like

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Speaker 2: the morning of, would really get you kind of in

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Speaker 2: a tailspin. To be like, okay, in twenty four hours,

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Speaker 2: in forty eight hours, I have to go on a

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Speaker 2: first date with someone on TV and it's gonna last

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Speaker 2: like twelve hours.

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Speaker 3: That is anxiety. And so she was just thinking, maybe

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Speaker 3: this is all anxiety.

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Speaker 2: But after ruling out food poisoning, she was taken to

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Speaker 2: the hospital and after three hours of being in the er,

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Speaker 2: the doctor came in and said, you have an appendicitis

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Speaker 2: and you're gonna need emergency surgery, all right. So this

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Speaker 2: news was really hard for her to process, she said,

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Speaker 2: especially with her being away from her family and her friends,

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Speaker 2: and she underwent the surgery the next The next day,

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Speaker 2: she went home to Howard Beach, New York. Shortly after

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Speaker 2: the procedure, she goes, I was really really sad. It

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Speaker 2: honestly took me a month and a half to recover

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Speaker 2: emotionally physically obviously, I was okay.

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Speaker 3: Emotionally, I was not.

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Speaker 2: I was left with the what if, Like what if

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Speaker 2: Grant and I were to build a connection. He saw

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Speaker 2: and felt exactly what I was seeing and feeling. And

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Speaker 2: I know they didn't show a lot of our moments,

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Speaker 2: but we had a lot of cute moments. And she

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Speaker 2: said that she didn't get to say goodbye to Grant

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Speaker 2: when she left the mansion. She said, I hope I didn't.

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Speaker 2: He didn't think that I left just because you know,

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Speaker 2: and she goes. Eventually they start flying to places and

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Speaker 2: it just wasn't safe or smart for me to fly,

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Speaker 2: which when you're recovering from surgery, which is why they

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Speaker 2: didn't let her rejoin the cast, and you know, the

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Speaker 2: long days and long nights. I was just sad about leaving,

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Speaker 2: But once I got home and everything settled in, I

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Speaker 2: for me to come home and recover because it was

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Speaker 2: a lot. Oh my goodness, gracious, I can't imagine. I

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Speaker 2: still think this is bizarre that they didn't put this

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Speaker 2: into the show. They normally would have been like having

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Speaker 2: a goodbye scene, like why wouldn't he go to the

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Speaker 2: into for surgery tomorrow. I'm so sad. This is bizarre

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Speaker 2: I think about. I mean, this is obviously not a comparison,

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Speaker 2: but on Jones season, Chock lost his mom in the

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Speaker 2: midst of the season. They let him fly back for

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Speaker 2: a few days to settle things at home, and then.

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Speaker 3: He flew back.

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Speaker 2: This is a little different because you know, the pain

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Speaker 2: is not grieving pain. It's like actual physical pain, probably

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Speaker 2: less painful, but it was a storyline, right, and they

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Speaker 2: obviously had Chock leave and come back because he was

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Speaker 2: such a front runner.

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Speaker 3: I think it could give Beverly a little bit of

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Speaker 3: relief in knowing that this is awful. I'm sorry. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 3: but I'm sorry, Beverley. If you're listening to this.

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Speaker 2: You you having all those what ifs, right, and the

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Speaker 2: what if suck. I always say that I tried to

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Speaker 2: eliminate as many what ifs in life as possible, so

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Speaker 2: I know what you're going through. But if Grant and

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Speaker 2: if production really thought that you were going to be

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Speaker 2: like Top four, they would have made I'm sorry to

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Speaker 2: say you a storyline. They would have made this sickness

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Speaker 2: a storyline. And they could have worked out some way

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Speaker 2: for you to come back. Of course, this recovery, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you probably should have been on planes to Europe.

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Speaker 3: You probably couldn't have done that, so.

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Speaker 2: I get it, but wow, knowing this makes it even

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Speaker 2: weirder for me that they didn't make it a storyline,

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Speaker 2: and then it's it's just I just feel really bad

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Speaker 2: for her. Can't imagine be giving the opportunity to feeling

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Speaker 2: something with Grant and then just to be plucked away

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Speaker 2: from it and buy something that you really can't control.

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Speaker 3: That's all.

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Speaker 2: But we wanted to get on here and do a

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Speaker 2: mini podcast episode about this just because you know, Rachel

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Speaker 2: and I really at this missing plot, and now we

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Speaker 2: have the answers.

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Speaker 3: Until next time, Talk to you, letter love guys. Bye.

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