Speaker 1: Hi, guys, welcome back to I Do Part two. It's
Speaker 1: your celebrity mentor Jenfestler.
Speaker 2: And I am here in Las Vegas at Bravo Con.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited to be here, and I'm even more
Speaker 2: excited for my guest today because everyone knows her, everyone's
Speaker 2: talking about her, and she is a little doll. Hello
Speaker 2: to Britney Babeman. Thank you so much, Brittan, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for coming on. Oh my gosh, I'm so
Speaker 2: grateful to be here. I'm very excited to meet you,
Speaker 2: to see you.
Speaker 1: You're doing good. It's fun to see you in the flesh.
Speaker 1: I know. I actually give you a real hug. I agree,
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: So you probably know now this podcast is about part two.
Speaker 2: I've had my own Part two. All of our guests
Speaker 2: have had. He's not really well. We were separated for
Speaker 2: year and a half, so we call that our part two. Yes, anyway,
Speaker 2: not about me, So you is not what about you?
Speaker 2: I mean usually I like it to be, but I'm
Speaker 2: gonna focus on you. My friend got to go. So
Speaker 2: you I believe you've been married twice. Yes, okay, so
Speaker 2: tell me a little bit if you wouldn't mind about
Speaker 2: how it feels how, you know, just going through marriage
Speaker 2: twice and yeah, I just don't know and a little
Speaker 2: bit about those relationships.
Speaker 3: Honestly, if I could go back and do it again,
Speaker 3: I would do it the heatherway, the Heather Gay way. Yeah,
Speaker 3: hey that kind of rhymes, the Heather Gay way, and
Speaker 3: just like focused solely on my kids.
Speaker 1: There were so many things at play.
Speaker 3: There was you know, low self esteem coming out of
Speaker 3: that first marriage and wanting that validation that you know,
Speaker 3: I still am someone. There was also this really strong
Speaker 3: element of I want the kind of family that I deserve,
Speaker 3: and I want my kids to have the kind of
Speaker 3: upbringing that I had, So I want to find a
Speaker 3: partner that will be a parent and equal, you know,
Speaker 3: Like I just wanted get that, just the traditional family
Speaker 3: that I was raised in, and I thought that I
Speaker 3: had found that and it couldn't have backfired worse than
Speaker 3: it did.
Speaker 2: I've gone through many periods in my life where I've
Speaker 2: needed validation from men and where I've made men a priority. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and when my husband and I were separated, I wish
Speaker 2: looking back that I had just had they were there
Speaker 2: always a priority, But I probably wouldn't have done the
Speaker 2: whole thing in terms of like my children and I
Speaker 2: don't know, separating from Jeff. But that's okay because here
Speaker 2: we are to tell the story.
Speaker 3: Here we are exactly with scratches and scars, and hopefully
Speaker 3: we'll just I don't know, gosh, hopefully all wounds can heal.
Speaker 2: Yes they Yes, what I'm it's what I'm banking on
Speaker 2: bringing on. I know, I know that they will, and
Speaker 2: the new wounds will come, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Yes, new deep wounds will come. So what do you
Speaker 1: like got you through the divorces?
Speaker 2: You know, it's so devastating what you learn about yourself
Speaker 2: those marriages ending.
Speaker 3: You know, Just man, that's a really really good question.
Speaker 3: What did I learn so much? I mean, I feel
Speaker 3: like I'm a completely different person. My priorities are totally different.
Speaker 3: I think that I've learned to not care what anyone
Speaker 3: else thinks. And I'm looking back, I'm really glad that
Speaker 3: for the moments I wasn't always perfect, but most of
Speaker 3: the time I took the high road, whether or not
Speaker 3: they were doing the same. Yeah, And I feel like
Speaker 3: at least I can feel good about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, your side of the street was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my side of the street was as clean as
Speaker 3: I could make it, and you know I was. I
Speaker 3: did my best to be kind, and sometimes that came
Speaker 3: to bite me in the butt, you know, came back
Speaker 3: to hurt me because I was I wasn't protecting myself enough.
Speaker 3: But still, looking back, I'm still glad that I didn't
Speaker 3: change who I was intrinsically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, because it is They say you can
Speaker 2: get divorced it, yeah you can.
Speaker 1: And divorce is a bitch oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And to choose to be classy rather than bitchy
Speaker 3: is always the right choice.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: Actually, I think that's again. I don't know why it
Speaker 2: always has to be about me, but I remember, but
Speaker 2: I was separated. It was so important to me to
Speaker 2: never bed mouth yeah my husband in front of the
Speaker 2: kids too. Let's be kind anyway again, not about me. Well,
Speaker 2: I wasn't always.
Speaker 1: Perfect at that. It's hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I've got my daughter here with me, sitting
Speaker 3: in their room, and for that, truly, I am sorry. Sweetheart.
Speaker 2: I have to say I met your daughter earlier, and
Speaker 2: I didn't meet her in distress, and I think I
Speaker 2: was just like a little taken back.
Speaker 1: You're so adorable and pretty and sweet.
Speaker 3: Yes, a beautiful journey and for that I truly apologize
Speaker 3: Olivia for not, you know, always being perfected, always speaking
Speaker 3: like you said, always taking the high roads.
Speaker 1: So he said I would digress.
Speaker 2: But yeah, well here's here's that's the news flash for Brittany,
Speaker 2: for my daughter Rachel. No parent is perfect. I am not,
Speaker 2: and she my daughter, will not be. But we love
Speaker 2: you guys unconditionally anyway. Yes, So, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you've heard of this guy's name is Jared Osmond. I
Speaker 2: don't know if anyone ever asked you about him. Have
Speaker 2: you ever spoken about him before?
Speaker 1: Has he ever entered your life?
Speaker 3: I was scared to say his name because I just
Speaker 3: I did my hair today and I don't want it
Speaker 3: to get wet.
Speaker 1: Okay, well I'm not. It's is that fair have anything
Speaker 1: to worry about with me? Okay?
Speaker 2: You don't having drinks in hand? Nothing, not interested in that. No,
Speaker 2: we're not on the same franchise, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Okay tell me.
Speaker 2: Okay, so just a little bit about where you guys
Speaker 2: are right now, because you know, we're.
Speaker 3: Friends right now and we're really really really good friends
Speaker 3: at the Friendly Platonic Okay, okay, really like it's it's
Speaker 3: a beautiful place to be. He makes a fantastic best friend.
Speaker 3: He's my emergency contact. He really is like a like
Speaker 3: just a really good person, And I feel badly that
Speaker 3: no one gets to see that.
Speaker 1: Side tough for him. It's so hard on him.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it breaks my heart to see how it
Speaker 3: breaks his heart, because he really gets he's the butt
Speaker 3: of all the jokes, you know, and I just because
Speaker 3: I know they feel badly about that, I do too.
Speaker 1: Actually, I feel badly for my part in.
Speaker 3: That, really because I wish I want, you know, to
Speaker 3: defend him more, because he deserves that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it kind of sucks for him now that I'm
Speaker 2: thinking about him about it. What do you think it
Speaker 2: is about him that has drawn you in?
Speaker 1: Though? So many times?
Speaker 3: His kindness and generosity. He is literally the most generous
Speaker 3: person I've ever met, Like if I need anything anything,
Speaker 3: like I mean, I'll give you one example if I
Speaker 3: had a window blow in. We had this really strange
Speaker 3: mini hurricane in Utah last summer and I window literally
Speaker 3: blew in my house and the rain started coming in.
Speaker 1: And who did I pick up the phone to call?
Speaker 1: It was Jared. I get that.
Speaker 3: It was literally like ten o'clock at night, he dropped
Speaker 3: whatever he was doing. He's probably on a date because
Speaker 3: we were broken up at the time. Yeah, and he
Speaker 3: came running to my house and he and I and
Speaker 3: my dad spent the whole night mopping the floor up
Speaker 3: with towels and putting out fans. And he got his
Speaker 3: contractor guys in the next day, you know. I mean,
Speaker 3: he just he's just that kind of person. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean my emergency call, so I get that. What do
Speaker 3: you feel like about him, Olivia?
Speaker 4: I like him as a person and I don't like
Speaker 4: him as a boyfriend.
Speaker 1: For my mom, I think.
Speaker 2: I dig your honesty. I dig how you take it.
Speaker 2: That's very cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that they're bad together, okay, and I
Speaker 4: think she deserves better.
Speaker 3: But talk about like the rescuing that he's done for
Speaker 3: He's done a lot.
Speaker 4: Of nice things for me, Like my car broke down
Speaker 4: and he I called him and he came to the rescue.
Speaker 4: So yes, like, he definitely has good traits. And I
Speaker 4: think that if they're platonically best friends for the rest
Speaker 4: of their life, that's great. Just not platonic best friends
Speaker 4: that make out every once in a while.
Speaker 1: What but the makeouts are so good.
Speaker 3: I wants to hear that I have non comital makeouts occasionally.
Speaker 2: God, Betty ever kissed my husband on the lips in
Speaker 2: front of my children and they're twenty three and twenty
Speaker 2: five now, they like turned to stone.
Speaker 3: No made that mistake once before, haven't I.
Speaker 1: I've made that a city how many times? And not
Speaker 1: many times? Many times?
Speaker 4: One time he's coming to Bravo coon maybe and he
Speaker 4: wants to maybe put a mustache on and walk around
Speaker 4: and see if he what what Bravo cons All night?
Speaker 1: I told my mom is I'm going to be third
Speaker 1: wheeling this trip now? No, no, no, you are not.
Speaker 1: You're not because you're gonna be with me. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come find you and the wheel. You're not going to
Speaker 1: third wheel. I promise.
Speaker 4: We even have a signal if you feel like you're
Speaker 4: a death glare, listen.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. It means, stop making out with your
Speaker 1: boyfriend me. Here's here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Everybody here is going to be watching her and making
Speaker 2: sure that she's watching you.
Speaker 1: I think pressure is on. It is my god, you're
Speaker 1: throwing me. She's here because she wants to be with you,
Speaker 1: and which I just absolutely get it. And what did
Speaker 1: I say when you said your feelings might be hurt
Speaker 1: this morning? What did I tell you? I don't remember,
Speaker 1: Yes I do. I think.
Speaker 3: Well you said, you said, well, why can't you just
Speaker 3: do everything you can to shut it down and tell
Speaker 3: him not to come? I said, okay, done. I picked
Speaker 3: up my phone, and she's like, well wait wait wait
Speaker 3: wait wait, maybe he can come. Remember I was ready
Speaker 3: to shut that down, okay. And I'm not the one
Speaker 3: that invited him. He said that he was going to come,
Speaker 3: which is by.
Speaker 2: The way, And Olivia, you are going to know this.
Speaker 2: We all deal with it differently, falling in love, and
Speaker 2: it's you know it. It can be messy and it
Speaker 2: could be overwhelming. And do you think that it's so
Speaker 2: maybe hard for you to be alone?
Speaker 1: I mean I don't.
Speaker 2: I'm of course, yeah, yeah it really is. Yeah, a
Speaker 2: lot of women find it very difficult. It's not it's
Speaker 2: not that I don't love being alone. I actually love
Speaker 2: being alone in my house.
Speaker 3: Just the toes, and it's just you know, I love
Speaker 3: peace and quiet. But it isn't that it's just like
Speaker 3: what do I do when my window blows in? I
Speaker 3: mean I sometimes you just.
Speaker 1: Need a person.
Speaker 2: There's actually this thing. They're called a handyman, and what
Speaker 2: you do is you get money and then they come over. Okay,
Speaker 2: but find a handyman. It will drop what they're doing
Speaker 2: and come over at ten o'clock at night. I know,
Speaker 2: but I like to think that Jared has a million
Speaker 2: other things that you make you fall in love with
Speaker 2: him than just that he's going to come over.
Speaker 1: It's not that.
Speaker 3: It's literally I don't know what it is. I think
Speaker 3: we honestly, you want the honest truth. I think we
Speaker 3: trauma bonded because I don't.
Speaker 2: Know how you.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know how we met. Do
Speaker 1: you know how we met? Please tell me? Oh well,
Speaker 1: let me tell you a little tale.
Speaker 3: So one day I met my office, my home office,
Speaker 3: do to do working, and I get this phone call
Speaker 3: and I pick it up.
Speaker 1: Oh hi, it's Jared Osmond. I'm like, oh hi, how
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 3: And he's like, well, not well actually, and I was
Speaker 3: like all right, I'm like for I've never met him
Speaker 3: in my life, right, And so he proceeds to tell
Speaker 3: me that his fiance is now dating exclusively my husband.
Speaker 1: That's how we met. Oh my god. So yeah, at
Speaker 1: that time was he your husband or was her? He
Speaker 1: was my husband at the time, get out. No, have
Speaker 1: you told that story on the show? I don't know
Speaker 1: that I have. I mean I would suggest you do well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And I mean it was why he had
Speaker 3: already served him papers and he wasn't he had been
Speaker 3: removed from the house with a protective order at that point.
Speaker 3: So for me it was not as traumatic. But for Jared,
Speaker 3: I mean he called me two days after he found
Speaker 3: out that they were shocking up, you know, wow, and
Speaker 3: he was horriboke. We trauma bonded, yeah, right off the bat,
Speaker 3: and that turned into a best friendship. Yeah, where we
Speaker 3: didn't even see each other. We talked for hours on
Speaker 3: the phone, and then we met finally fell in love
Speaker 3: and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure he took one look at you and
Speaker 1: the rest was history.
Speaker 4: But that's just me.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Okay. So I know you've had issues with Jared.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like there's been a relationship in your
Speaker 2: life that has been not as toxic, like, I mean,
Speaker 2: you were married twice before, but this has just been
Speaker 2: sort of easy.
Speaker 1: And have you had have I have? I, Livy, I
Speaker 1: don't know, don't know.
Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, the beginning with Olivia's dad was
Speaker 3: absolutely IOUs. I was to stay home mom for a
Speaker 3: whole decade, which I I feel so privileged to have
Speaker 3: had that time. And that really is because he worked
Speaker 3: his butt off so that I could be a stay
Speaker 3: at home mom with our kids and that I'm so
Speaker 3: eternally grateful to him.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was it was dreamy for a while.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean that is that is dreamy. I
Speaker 1: love that myself.
Speaker 2: So so the women have been hard on you, but
Speaker 2: we're not really talking about that, but I'm just curious.
Speaker 2: Have any of them tried to set you up? No?
Speaker 3: No, actually, well I think that there was hope that
Speaker 3: I would, you know, be set up with Captain Jason,
Speaker 3: but he was having none of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he made that.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, like that real clear, right,
Speaker 2: I mean I don't do you think he's the kind
Speaker 2: at want. I feel like he just is floating around
Speaker 2: and if whoever gets in his way, he'll stop there.
Speaker 3: So if you want like professional, yeah he's really he
Speaker 3: was so professional like so there was no hanky p
Speaker 3: I know is I've never seen him, sorry Jeffessler, but
Speaker 3: that is like that's a gorgeous man. No, he really is,
Speaker 3: and he's an even he's just as gorgeous on the inside.
Speaker 1: He's a really really good person. He's really good at
Speaker 1: what he does. Yeah, super Professor Jared's coming, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't even matter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but Jared and our friends. I like
Speaker 2: to see you hook up with it Captain Jason in
Speaker 2: front of Jared. No, I would like to see that, right, Olivia.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that would go well.
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you, are there any other
Speaker 2: guys at Bravocan that you would like to Olivia's here
Speaker 2: get to know?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you're making me blush and asking, yes,
Speaker 3: I I have a little bit of chemistry with someone
Speaker 3: else on the show.
Speaker 1: Come on on the show, on your ship, Oh, on
Speaker 1: the ship. Yes, I don't know all the guys on
Speaker 1: the ships here too. I'm embarrassed to say, yes he is.
Speaker 1: Everyone keeps taking the name Mike.
Speaker 2: Is that his name?
Speaker 1: No, No, Mike is adorable. You don't have to say
Speaker 1: Heather claimed him. Oh okay, I thought he all right?
Speaker 2: Whenever I can't keep up with Salt Lake City, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: welcome to Jersey. We have the same So okay, I've
Speaker 2: got two more questions. Who do you think in your
Speaker 2: cast has a marriage worth emulating? Oh?
Speaker 1: Gosh, you know what I used to say, Lisa. I
Speaker 1: used to say Lisa. But this last you know, when
Speaker 1: the season mid.
Speaker 2: Trailer drops, I was shocked. Yeah, I literally thought they
Speaker 2: had the perfect marriage. But I don't remember the I mean,
Speaker 2: I remember I saw the last episode I saw. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're not going there.
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean it's I I don't know any more
Speaker 3: than anyone else. Yes, because she and I aren't really
Speaker 3: chatting right now. Yeah, sadly, we were really good friends.
Speaker 3: I am trying to think. I mean, I think Angie
Speaker 3: and Sean have something really special, right, Yeah, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: And lastly, but certainly not leastly, you are headlining your
Speaker 2: own cabaret show called What About Me and Evening with
Speaker 2: Brittany Bateman December fifth and sixth in New York.
Speaker 1: Go tell us about it.
Speaker 3: Well, we sold out December fifth, and we opened up
Speaker 3: the second night because the venue happened to have the
Speaker 3: night open.
Speaker 1: We opened it up.
Speaker 2: We're almost sold out of that too, am I invented?
Speaker 2: By the way, will you please come, I'm only over
Speaker 2: the bridge?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding?
Speaker 2: You to come.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, okay, okay, some YouTube both come please, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm reserving seats for you.
Speaker 1: Then, okay, which tell me about it? Which night do
Speaker 1: you want to? Well, it's it's literally all about me.
Speaker 3: It goes from my childhood singing with my parents and
Speaker 3: their band when I was four learning and our.
Speaker 1: Peggio in the crib. La la la la la la la.
Speaker 1: You know I could do that.
Speaker 2: I do see you, and I see you on TikTok.
Speaker 2: Your voice is incredible. Thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 1: That's so sweet.
Speaker 2: And then you know, it goes to my Broadway days
Speaker 2: to I mean, I just it just spans my whole
Speaker 2: career and it's going to be fun and funny.
Speaker 1: I love it. And you know some some housewife references. Yes,
Speaker 1: we may.
Speaker 3: We're having very many special guests. I love it that
Speaker 3: I'm not announcing.
Speaker 1: Ahead of time.
Speaker 2: Deals have to be there to see. I'm so excited. Okay,
Speaker 2: So Jennifer and Jeff Fessler, what thank you? The fifth
Speaker 2: or the six We'll talk about it after the pod,
Speaker 2: but we'll be there. I have to look and you
Speaker 2: guys catch Britney please. It sounds like it's going to
Speaker 2: be the best, so fun. Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm so grateful. Thanks to you.
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