WEBVTT - Chaos with Maria Georgas 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:06.119 Hey guys, and welcome back to another week of Casual Chaos. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.200 This week we have a very special guest, Maria. Welcome 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:11.440 to Casual Chaos. 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:12.920 Thank you so much for having me. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.640 I am so excited to have you. I feel like 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:22.040 this year, influencing content creating has blown up so much, 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:27.760 and with your platform of obviously The Bachelor, Yeah, has 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:29.280 that changed your life? 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:35.000 Honestly, Like, it's crazy where it's taken me. And like, 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.120 although after coming off of it, I was like, I 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.640 didn't want to become like an influencer type, Like I 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.199 didn't expect for it to like blow up the way. 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:43.520 That it did. 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.479 I've been a big fan of the show always. Everyone 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:49.320 knows this, and yeah, I didn't expect what was it. 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.400 I didn't expect from like even call her daddy, reaching 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.600 out like stuff like that. The things I've done since 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:55.840 the show, it's crazy. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.560 It's like wild, and you know a lot of people 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.800 are go on the yes to find love, but then 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.360 also to get some incentive for themselves. But that was 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.200 not your intention, even in the slightest, Like it's. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.720 So funny because I was very honest about wanting to 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.839 go on the show. To go on the show because 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.200 I loved the show, but not like I think people 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.480 can recognize that I'm not trying to be an influencer. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.560 I actually kind of suck at it. I like my Instagram, 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:26.000 I barely posted. Actually, more recently, i've been okay with it. 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:29.440 But yeah, no, definitely wasn't thinking that I wanted to 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.560 do influencing after the show. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.680 I just really wanted to be on the show. Yeah. Yeah, also, 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.959 but I loved that would have been the better alternative. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:39.440 But yeah, that didn't work out. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.240 But it's not like you and Joey did not have 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:46.560 a connection. And it's funny because I obviously The Bachelor 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.920 is such a famous show, The Bachelor and Bachelorette. 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.120 Yeah, I was. 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.640 Not a religious watcher, and my friends and I so 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:57.120 happened to watch your season. So watching it, I was 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:01.040 a die hard for you, die hard. I wanted you 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.680 to win. I just thought everything about you, you had 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.480 the confidence, you were beautiful, and I also felt that 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:12.480 Italian vibe from you. Yeah, so I was like, she's 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.760 gonna take it home and whenever he would do like 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.320 a left turn, but then I also felt left turns 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.960 from you. I was like, uh, I know she's not 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.520 in it. Well, you know, it's crazy. 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.800 And that's funny that you say the Italian thing. It's like, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:27.399 we have that strong personality. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:27.680 I know. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.240 Your mom is like, that's why I love that about 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.079 your family, is that you're strong, You're loud. You guys 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.000 are like you say it how it is and you know. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.560 And so I always said, like, the people that are 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.280 gonna get me are going to be my kind of people. Yes, 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.480 although that wasn't the case for everyone. It was you 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.120 either loved me or hated me. It was there was 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.520 no in between. Yeah, but so I love to hear that. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:49.000 Thank you. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.160 It was very obvious, even from a viewer standpoint though, 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.360 to see that you were being attacked. 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.679 Well, I mean, and it's so crazy. Actually, I was 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.440 getting coffee today and a girl came up to me 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.840 and she was like, to be honest, was it real? 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.600 Like did it like housewives? 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.520 You know what I mean? And I'm like, you know, 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:08.280 what's so funny. 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.720 It's like, as a viewer of the show, sometimes I'm like, 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:14.639 there's just no way these fights are so dumb. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.200 There's no there's something's like off. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.840 Until I went on the show and then I realized, 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:21.760 oh my god, there are just people out there that 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:26.720 you know. But here's the thing about Sydney, I like 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.360 appreciate her now, like looking back, I can really because 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:31.840 we needed that. 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.080 That like made the show in ways. It kind of 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.040 made the season iconic. That's what I mean. 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.480 I needed, Like, I mean, I wasn't gonna gonna start dramma, 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.240 but I was okay to it happened. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.800 And yeah, you know, you also have to always think 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:47.280 about it. Your haters are also your biggest cheerleaders. 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.840 Well I mean she not that I say, a cheerleader. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.720 Did you see her cheer? That was a kind of fitting. 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:55.960 I thought, Okay, that was fun. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.000 I'm sorry I forgot about that, which you know what 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.560 I kind of feel like in person was it was better? 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:02.000 I promise? 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.960 Yeah yeah, I mean, but then again, when you are 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.520 also in a setting like that, you guys don't get 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.400 your phones, right, no, yes, so you don't get your phones. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:12.440 It's very isolating. 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.119 You're around a bunch of girls, you're basically fighting over 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:16.120 the same man. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:17.800 Yeah, you're gonna go insane. 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.080 There's no way that people could think that that shit's 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.920 not real, because I would kill a bit. 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:24.960 Yeah, you know, I don't know how you went on 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:25.960 that show, I would die. 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.760 Yeah, So I went into it with the mindset that 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.000 he's gonna pick one of us, so ideally, let's just 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:33.560 all get. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.000 Along and then do the best bitchmen you know what 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:36.360 I mean. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.920 Well whatever, But I tried to just really just tell myself, like, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.000 if it's not me, it's not meant to be. Like, 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.480 I didn't want to be in an environment where I'm 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.400 fighting these women for a man. 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.400 I don't. That's why I'll never do a show where 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:50.119 it's like that again. 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.160 And at the same time, it's kind of self respect 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.160 for yourself. Yeah, you don't want to seem desperate, no, 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.880 and you want to just look confident. And I feel 0:04:59.920 --> 0:05:03.800 like that's even women struggle, regardless of the bachelor or not, 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.679 when you really want a man but a man doesn't 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:09.200 want you. You never want to come off desperate. No, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.320 you want to come off confident because then you would 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.160 think the man would want you more. Well. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.599 Yeah, and I think that also, like there's no point 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.160 of like overstepping or giving too much when like it's 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.919 kind of smart to be self aware and like know 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.599 your place, And I think I knew my place almost 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.760 too much to the point where like producers are like 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.240 Maria like, no, you're you're, you're, you're it, You're he 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:32.760 likes you. 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.640 And I was like, I don't know, I think it's Kelsey, guys. 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.719 I'm telling you, Like I was so self aware to 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:39.720 the point where I was like self sabotaging. 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:41.599 Yeah, and yeah, although I could. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.200 Have like tried, you know, to continue it, but you know, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.840 when you just know that it's not you, you have 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.719 the feeling, you just know and like I and maybe 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.440 I could have been wrong in times and maybe I 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.080 was like again in my head too much, but. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.840 I think I mean, now I got my ass at home. 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.120 I think I was right. But it's it's very hard 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.360 in that environment. Yeah, it brings it can bring out 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.960 the worst and uh, but it can bring out the 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:06.320 best too. 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:07.960 There were a lot of good moments too that I 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.000 wish we're shown with the girls, like, yeah, we had 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.000 a lot more funny moments, but obviously the drama will 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.320 over always. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:18.279 Like always over. Yeah, yeah, for sure, that's how it is, 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:19.600 even on Housewives. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.800 Yeah, honestly, I love reality. I would like to do 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.200 more of it, and I think just in a more like. 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.520 Well, that's why people are fell in love with you 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.479 because you felt really real and but that's why it 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.520 also stuck past the Bachelor. 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.080 Well, thank you for saying that's crazy. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:41.159 I'm like, I don't know, no, no, I mean, hello, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:42.479 you were unwell this week? 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.359 Guy? Yeah, no, that's crazy, and like you need to 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.479 come to one of those events. I would love to. Yeah, 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:48.920 my god, she would love to have you. Yeah. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.000 Wait, definitely, yeah, let me talk about that. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:51.919 But for sure. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.520 Wait, I love that though, because I was gonna say, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.400 you were like raised around cameras. Yeah, like you're like 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.480 more used to it than anything. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:04.000 Like, Yeah, I'm definitely used to it. It started from 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:08.080 when I was eight. Wow. And yeah, my mom was 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.320 the OG, so she's been on it from the start. 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.560 She's the only standing OG damn, So kudos to mom. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.160 But yeah, now she's been through a lot. It's definitely 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.440 been a ride. We've been through a ton on this show, 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.640 and it's been a lot of ups and downs with. 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:28.040 My family and you know, we made it out. 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.760 And everyone's doing really good right now, but then we 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:33.200 still go through ups and downs. 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:34.960 It's just it doesn't but that's real life. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.560 That's what people want to see that it's like authentically, Yes, 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.920 your family and you know what I mean, like, no 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:40.640 one's perfect. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.360 No, I don't know. I like that side of things, 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.000 of showing the realness of that. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:48.520 Yeah, speaking of unwell, I always wondered, are the parties 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.040 as crazy as they look? Oh? Yeah, there's so much fun, 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.040 Like I'm not getting like I was because I was 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.360 just in Miami for my cousin's batch party. Were you 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.360 there around the same time, like, oh week, No, like 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.480 a couple of weeks, I'm gonna says I. 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.480 Would have like, oh, I know, I know it was. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.280 They're crazy. They're crazy. 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.480 Yeah, so you were drunk? Oh well, I mean yeah, 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.880 like we were having like a good old time for sure. 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.600 I mean like it's hard not to be. There's so 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.720 much access to all the drinks, and then it's. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.600 Like all the people that are there, you know, I 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.080 think everyone's like really comfortable with each other so regardless 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.440 in that environment, Yeah, we're all like in it together. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.640 You know. No, for sure, they look crazy and know 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.480 so much fun. And she picked like such amazing people too. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.200 She always brings the best crew, and I think, like, 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:34.439 like I said, everyone just gets. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.760 Along so well, so it makes it even more fun. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.160 Did you do know everyone prior. It's kind of like 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.600 a random brand trip in a way. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.680 Well, I know, like the people that I were under 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.680 and well like originally because I've gone to like other events, 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.000 but this time she's invited new people and I got 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.760 to know and meet new people. So yeah, it's always fun. 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.720 It's always good, and she always brings a good crew. 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:55.080 Yeah. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:59.520 I saw Rachel kirkconin Oh my god, Kirconnell, would you 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.080 say her? 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:02.640 Connic? I love it. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.160 But you know, she even when I was like reading 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:07.480 her name prior, but I love you. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.520 Oh, she's the best. So it's so funny because I've never. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:15.360 Met her, okay, and I know she was under yeah right, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.480 not her, but just her relations relationship. 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:19.280 Yeah. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.840 Yeah, but she's doing great and she looks like she's 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:27.760 she's thriving, and she's such a respectful woman, like the 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:28.760 way she holds herself. 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:30.840 I have so much respect for her. Well, you guys 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:32.480 probably bonded because Bachelor. 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:34.880 Yeah, so we had followed each other for a while 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.640 and I know we both wanted to meet each other, 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.240 but you know, life goes on, and then it just 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:41.959 so happened we ended up at the same event and 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.240 we hit it off like as if I've known her forever. 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.719 But that's the best feeling. 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.520 But that's why I knew she was going to be 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.640 a real one from watching her season and then meeting 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.320 her in person was like ten times better love And 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.560 I love that those kinds of moments, you know, because 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.079 you never know what you're gonna get with some. 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.559 People one hundred percent. But no, she's and then also 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.760 after being in the public eye for a while because 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.680 she still also you know, followed that influencing career prior, 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:12.520 she's great after the Bachelor and everything, Yeah, yeah, exactly, No, Yeah, 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.960 she's done really well for herself, and you know with 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.000 her relationship and stuff like that. They were really like 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.200 good at influencing together and doing all the food that 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.080 you know, and that must have been hard to like 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.960 break apart from. Yeah, but you also have to do 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.920 what's best for you, absolutely and has been. So I'm 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.680 very happy to see her. And then Tyler Cameron also Bachelor, 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.760 and he's another one that I actually got to know 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.560 this trip, his girlfriend Tate Like love them. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.040 Yes, she's adorable, she's the. 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.440 Best, and she's so funny and they were just so 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.920 funny together, like again, and I love that where. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.760 She was also came on the Unwell trip. Was there 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.040 any like conversations about Matt James, I know, because Rachel 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.280 was there, or does she really try to like steer 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:55.040 clear from. 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.360 She She she's very respectful in the sense of, like, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.439 you know, like she still appreciates the relationship. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.040 There's no bad blood like in that. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.240 She will never speak negative on that, which I respect 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:04.800 that so much. 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.600 Speaking of just being single out in the world, what 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:21.920 is the status on your dating, Well, yeah, I'm single, 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.600 which is so crazy because I thought, you know, I'm 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.760 like the year that I'm gonna have I'm gonna like 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.000 go back to reality and do my own thing. But 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.360 I thought for sure I was gonna like probably be 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:33.880 in a relationship by thirty. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.640 Or at least have like a prospect. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.240 But I feel like, and a lot of people say this, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.400 and I'm sure you see it while being in New 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:48.280 York more often that thirty is so young. Oh it's different, 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.120 especially and now, I mean I get it coming from 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:57.200 Italian families, they do everything super young. Everything is done 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.439 at a younger age, and you feel the pressure. 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.040 But even being in New. 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.400 York, a lot I see influencers in New York friends 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.880 in New York. They're in their late twenties and thirties 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.040 and still figuring it out. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.880 Yeah, of course, and now, yeah, that'll always be me. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.600 I'm very honest about it too, Like as a thirty 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.520 year old, like, of course, when you're twenty five, you 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.480 think by thirty, I'm gonna have kids, you know what 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.160 I mean. And now I'm thirty, I'm like, oh my god, 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.920 I'm nowhere near yes ready for that. But I definitely 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.560 am open and and like I want a relationship. I like, 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:33.120 I'm ready for that. Yeah. But yeah, I definitely thought 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.120 I thought i'd be sitting here and telling you about that. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.240 But yeah, how about you. I've been with my boyfriend 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:40.480 for like six years. 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.079 That's so nice. Yeah to his mom and dad love. 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:49.160 Love Yeah yeah, my mom loves him anything she needs. 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:49.880 It's Christian. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:50.880 Oh, I love it. 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.679 But my dad he visits him with me in the 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:58.880 Bahamas because my dad lives in the Bahamas. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.119 Nice. Yeah, I love the Bahamas. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.160 It's beautiful there. Yeah, my dad was deported. I don't 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:09.200 know if you know that. No, well damn. So we 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.880 went through legal issues and my mom ended up going 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:17.440 away first for a little under a year. Then when 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.760 my mom came home, my dad went away, so it 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:25.280 was like swapping up the parents. And my dad went 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.160 away my freshman year of high school and never came 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:33.280 home from prison. They deported him and he was only 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:37.600 living in Italy for a year. So my grandparents brought 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.280 him to America when he was one years old. But 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:44.400 the laws changed, so his dad became a citizen before 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.760 he was eighteen, an American citizen. 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.640 Was your mom an American citizen? Yes? So then I 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:50.040 don't know. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.720 I don't know. I thought so too, that it was 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:58.520 that you would automatically become one. I still have questions. Yeah, 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:02.880 it's still crazy. And then my grandma became a citizen 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.680 when my dad was nineteen. The law was at the time, 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.800 your mother needs to become a citizen before you're eighteen 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:09.880 years old, you'll. 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.199 Automatically become an American citizen. My nana did it when 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:14.000 he was nineteen. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.240 So then from eighteen on he was responsible for making 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.400 himself an American citizen, which is where he looked up. No, 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.000 so he was in jail for about like three and 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.560 a half years, okay, then went straight to went straight 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.880 to Italy. He was in ice and then at that 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.720 point he kind of was like, I need to call 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:40.240 it quits. It was just a very crazy experience, very 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.240 hard on the mind. Yeah, I was safe for you, like, yeah, 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.800 it was you know more so honestly for us we 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.480 could only say daddy fight. Yeah, and for him he's 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:50.440 actually living it. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:51.400 Yeah. 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.120 When he was in ice, he lost like thirty pounds. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:59.479 It was worse than prison. It was like crazy experience. 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.480 So it was definitely rough, considering he's also been in 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.760 the States since he was one. Yeah, and it's still 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.760 as rough. I mean, we go visit him, but it's 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.480 it's not the same, you know as having your father present. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.920 And I know your dad was such an important part, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.600 is such an important part of your life, you know, 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.640 So it was to imagine it was. It's definitely rough 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.680 even now. I actually just got back from visiting him. 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.560 Arriving in Bahamas is always so amazing. Leaving is the 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:29.040 hardest part. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:29.280 It does. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.800 I don't think it ever the tears will ever end. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.400 No, of course not. It's your father, you know, Yeah. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.840 Which is crazy, even though you know, I know he 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.440 might have not made the best decisions, but they were 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.960 never he did his time. Though he did his time. 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.400 He wasn't ever hurting anybody. He was never malicious. There 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.200 was no malicious intent, and he's just not a malicious person. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.480 So your dad is someone that's really important in your life. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.760 How did he take the whole thing? Was he just 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.960 happy for you and happy for your decision? 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:05.000 Well, when I first mentioned that I wanted to go 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:06.920 on the show, he was not excited. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.240 I could only imagine he was just not about it. 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.600 You know, he's very protective of me, so like he's 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.720 just like, I don't want you going. And like, first 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.800 of all, he knew he can't call. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.240 Me like we talk every day, which you know, like. 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.200 Yeah, Like, I mean he trusts me, and like I 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.040 you know, at the end of the day, like I was, 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.680 so I'm like, I'm doing it. And I didn't even 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.320 know I was doing it until three days before they 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:29.760 called me. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.280 They're like, yeah, we're flying you out, but we don't 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:37.080 we're not confirming that you're on the show yet. What. Yeah. Yeah, 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.080 So I was in the hotel where they have all 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:40.920 the girls and they're doing like the pre interview. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.120 Theres girls that go there that's and then get. 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:44.640 What we're told. 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.720 I think everyone that that has happened before though, Yes, 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.640 but I think everyone that was in the hotel for 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.000 our season ended up going on. That's why we had 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.480 the most girls, Like I don't think. I don't think 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.080 there's ever been a season with thirty two girls. It 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.080 was like twenty five or something, oh, twenty seven, but 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:04.119 our girls, there. 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:04.840 Was a lot of us. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.800 But I remember sitting in the hotel room and right 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.560 away they take our phones. So now I'm sitting in 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.560 a hotel room being like, I need to call my dad. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.320 I need to tell him that I'm I'm gonna be 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.440 on the show, like he had to find out through 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:23.679 reality Steve basically because he like announced the cast. But 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.560 I was able to get like a producer to give 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.840 me her phone at the time to just be like, Okay, Daddy, 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:29.639 I'm actually going on. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:31.199 But it's a crazy process. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.800 And I understand where his concerns and fears were. 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.080 And I had those. 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:38.679 Same fears because I didn't want to go and not 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.679 be able to talk to talk to my family. But 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.320 coming back, I don't think he expected the audience or 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.399 people watching the show to have loved me, like I 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.679 know obviously he knows like he sees that in me, 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.200 but coming back, all I had to say to him 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.439 was everything that happened, and he was like. 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.199 What the hell did you just go through? So we 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.199 both were like, what are we about to watch? 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.440 Yeah, but thankfully, by the grace of God, people got 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.120 to see the reality of how things went and kind 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.400 of where things went wrong. And yeah, I felt protected 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.439 in the edit, not in the edit, but like I 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.560 mean like they showed on it very well. That's what 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.520 I was working because I was I thought when I 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:22.000