Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody. Welcome to the latest episode of Amy
Speaker 1: and TJ. I'm sitting next to my riding partner, Andy Robot,
Speaker 1: who is wearing the dopest riding boots you have ever seen.
Speaker 1: I wish I could show them to y'all. It is
Speaker 1: just amazing. So I am not kidding. You think I'm joking.
Speaker 1: You're rocking it. Today's uh huh.
Speaker 2: This is funny because this morning when I put the
Speaker 2: boots on. Please tell our listeners what you said to me.
Speaker 1: Look, everybody would have had the same reaction if you
Speaker 1: saw the boots come on in Manhattan at noon. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: what'd you say? I said, I didn't know we were
Speaker 1: riding horses up to the studio.
Speaker 2: But I laughed. I laughed. I think I might have
Speaker 2: said touche.
Speaker 1: But it's a look, right, they are awesome. Maybe no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is not a joke. You look great today.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: It's very simplest get up. You know, those are my
Speaker 1: favorite jeans that you wear.
Speaker 2: I do know that. Yes, I put them on when
Speaker 2: I need to. You know what, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: feel like maybe your mood could be lifted up a little.
Speaker 2: I put these jeanes on. Did you know I did that?
Speaker 1: It worked?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you did. Your mood, you're it completely lifted up.
Speaker 1: You just you were dragging me a little bit this
Speaker 1: morn I was, and I was because there's been so
Speaker 1: much March madness. I think I've talked about this plenty,
Speaker 1: but when the NCAA tournament starts, my every day is
Speaker 1: starting from noon to midnight. I am sitting in front
Speaker 1: of two three four screens watching every single game that's on.
Speaker 1: And I've been doing that for the past several days.
Speaker 1: So I'm dragging a little bit because the games have
Speaker 1: been great.
Speaker 2: That's true, and I do want to give you props here.
Speaker 2: I think we've seen almost every single game together, except
Speaker 2: for the last game last night, which apparently it was
Speaker 2: a shame that I missed because it was so good overtime.
Speaker 2: But you did take out I just want to say,
Speaker 2: thank you. You did take out four hours of prime
Speaker 2: March madness viewing on Saturday to go to my seventeen
Speaker 2: year old daughter's school fundraiser. Isn't that where everybody wants
Speaker 2: to be on a Saturday afternoon with basketball playing?
Speaker 1: So thank you, Uh, don't thank me. I told you
Speaker 1: even if Arkansas was playing in the tournament, my alma
Speaker 1: mater I would have gladly gone to Analysea's fundraiser and
Speaker 1: be there and support. On the other hand, it turns
Speaker 1: out this was more entertaining than the NCAA. Yes, we
Speaker 1: had some BLUs.
Speaker 2: We always find a way to have fun, even at fundraisers.
Speaker 1: It was an absolutely great time. But that's what we've
Speaker 1: been up to. And look, my mood has changed. And
Speaker 1: I am on this podcast often. We have had people
Speaker 1: on and it turns into a therapy session. We don't
Speaker 1: mean for it too, but it turns into not just
Speaker 1: the therapy for us, but therapy for the listener oftentimes
Speaker 1: and a group therapy session for us all Doctor Gardier,
Speaker 1: America psychologist Jeff Gardier was on and that was a great,
Speaker 1: great episode.
Speaker 2: We didn't even mean for it to be therapy. It
Speaker 2: turned into therapy.
Speaker 1: We didn't know how much help we needed, but apparently
Speaker 1: he helped a lot of people in that respect. We
Speaker 1: had Maddie with Jacamo, the Peloton instructor, very popular. We
Speaker 1: had a great chat with him about a lot he's
Speaker 1: been going through. And we had also Gavin Fastl.
Speaker 2: He was amazing and it was what I think is
Speaker 2: so cool when you can have people on and it
Speaker 2: unexpectedly becomes some incredible learning, growing experience where you learn
Speaker 2: things you didn't know. I think we're all so quick to,
Speaker 2: especially if someone's famous or has made headlines of some sort,
Speaker 2: to think the worst or to think of them through
Speaker 2: the lens of the worst thing we heard they did.
Speaker 2: And it's so nice when you get to actually sit
Speaker 2: down and talk with people and learn where they're coming from,
Speaker 2: what they've been through, and what they learned from those experiences,
Speaker 2: and then that you get something out of it. And
Speaker 2: I've just really enjoyed being able to do that with
Speaker 2: so many of our guests.
Speaker 1: And we're able to do it again today and this
Speaker 1: has helped my mood as well, because I am always
Speaker 1: right if I described you. So we just had a
Speaker 1: little chat in the green room with our guests today
Speaker 1: and we got to talking about kids in life and
Speaker 1: relationship and you're able to connect with folks. So when
Speaker 1: I hear someone who had a twenty four year marriage
Speaker 1: right ended up divorced, but had a twenty four year
Speaker 1: marriage and has four amazing kids who are doing amazing things, right,
Speaker 1: she's an entrepreneur. She is a television star. To hear
Speaker 1: the story of the life, I am dying to get
Speaker 1: information from somebody who is who has that type of resume. However,
Speaker 1: for everybody else out there, possibly who is not exposed
Speaker 1: to our guests the way we have now been, they
Speaker 1: only see her as a headline.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: They only see her as a controverse. They only see
Speaker 1: her possibly as something scandalous.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, we are talking about the amazing Larsa Pippen,
Speaker 2: who is here in studio with us. iHeart studios. First
Speaker 2: of all, think it is so nice to meet you
Speaker 2: in person. Hi. Hey, she's a bit round of applause.
Speaker 2: And it's true, you know, your most important I'm sure
Speaker 2: the the proudest job you have is being a mom
Speaker 2: to your four children, and one of whom is here,
Speaker 2: by the way, in the studio with us. So we're
Speaker 2: happy to have Sofia with us.
Speaker 3: Sophia's with us. She's on spring break. So we're here
Speaker 3: to shop and hang out in New York.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that's what moms and daughters should be doing
Speaker 2: on those fun trips. But you're also here working as well,
Speaker 2: and that's what you've been doing you've been an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2: I actually was looking at your jewelry line really like
Speaker 2: some of your stuff. I might have to go back
Speaker 2: in there a little bit later. I actually like, Wow, I
Speaker 2: like this stuff. It's really beautiful and elegant. But you
Speaker 2: know that you have been in the headlines and some
Speaker 2: of it you put yourself out there. You are a
Speaker 2: big franchise. You might have heard of it, The Real
Speaker 2: Housewives of Miami. Larsa is the star of the show.
Speaker 2: Let's just be honest, and that often comes sometimes with
Speaker 2: some nagging headlines. But I want to see if we
Speaker 2: can get a headline out of you because we have
Speaker 2: been reading about season seven. It's been renewed, but the
Speaker 2: cast has not been named. Is there anything you can
Speaker 2: tell us about it?
Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't know. I feel like you know, with
Speaker 3: these brands chizes, every few years, I like to switch
Speaker 3: it up and add someone new. So I guess they're
Speaker 3: just going to probably replace.
Speaker 1: Someone someone someone, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean I don't think it'll be me though. I
Speaker 3: don't think me. I mean I hope not.
Speaker 2: Have you heard from them.
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, of course, I talked to the product
Speaker 3: I love our production company. I have a great relationship
Speaker 3: with them. I love Bravo, I love Andy Cohen. I
Speaker 3: feel like for me it's like family. If I've ever
Speaker 3: had a problem, I reach out to them and they
Speaker 3: always They're always there for me. So I've never had
Speaker 3: any complaints about the network or you know, my bosses.
Speaker 1: As we sit here, you do or don't know whether
Speaker 1: or not you'll be in the next season of Real
Speaker 1: Housewives of Miami.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure I would be back.
Speaker 1: Okay, what would the show be without you?
Speaker 3: Probably nothing. I mean, you know, you guys, you know
Speaker 3: what it is. You guys, Like I feel like if
Speaker 3: we don't talk about certain things and people don't want
Speaker 3: to watch, and if it's just super flatline, then it's like,
Speaker 3: who wants to watch that? So I think sometimes you
Speaker 3: have to shake things up and cause a little bit
Speaker 3: of stir.
Speaker 1: And and you're happy to do so.
Speaker 3: But you know, it's all in good fun, you guys,
Speaker 3: It's all in good fun. I feel like the girls,
Speaker 3: we all know what the show is, you know, and
Speaker 3: when you spend a lot of time with these strong
Speaker 3: independent women, you're gonna butt heads. So but I think
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, we always make peace.
Speaker 3: We're always fine. And you know, when you're on television,
Speaker 3: small things get magnified.
Speaker 2: And I'm curious because I have watched and I think
Speaker 2: to myself, I don't have that in me. I can't
Speaker 2: imagine even if it is, yes, you're doing it to camera,
Speaker 2: Yes you understand what your role is. That people are
Speaker 2: looking maybe even to you, so that their lives don't
Speaker 2: seem so awful. Oh, at least I don't have to
Speaker 2: deal with that toxic situation. But are you ever at
Speaker 2: a point where like I just can't be in this
Speaker 2: environment or do you enjoy it? Do you get a
Speaker 2: thrill out of it? No?
Speaker 3: I you know, I feel like I have a whole
Speaker 3: nother life outside the show. So I think when I'm
Speaker 3: in the like Housewives vibe, I feel like I'm really
Speaker 3: focused on that, and when I go home, I'm really
Speaker 3: focused on my businesses, my kids. You know, my kids
Speaker 3: take up a lot of my time. I have four
Speaker 3: kids that plays for the Memphis Grizzlies. I have my
Speaker 3: other son who's a junior in college at LMU. I
Speaker 3: have my son who's a senior that's being recruited to
Speaker 3: like nine schools. Like No, I really wanted him to
Speaker 3: go to like an Ivy League school, like I wanted
Speaker 3: him to go to Stanford. He has a scholarship to Stanford,
Speaker 3: but he really wants to play basketball, and so I
Speaker 3: feel like he's he's looking at other schools as well.
Speaker 3: And then I have Sophia, who's my little twin and
Speaker 3: my little mini me. So I feel like that to me,
Speaker 3: I think, if you have a life that's totally fulfilled
Speaker 3: at home, and then it's okay. I don't just live
Speaker 3: for housewives. It's not my goal in life, you know.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's fun for me, and when it
Speaker 3: stops being fun, I'll do something else.
Speaker 2: I know it's technically unscripted, but is it scripted to
Speaker 2: an extent? Are you acting a little bit when you're
Speaker 2: doing this? When you're playing No No, and it's just
Speaker 2: you unfiltered it.
Speaker 3: You know? I think, like I said, if you're with
Speaker 3: you know, I have a sister, So I feel like
Speaker 3: when my sister comes to stay with us, we fight.
Speaker 3: It's just normal when you're with another woman all the time,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have disagreements. Like it's just normal. It's just
Speaker 3: magnified sometimes because you know, we're hungry. I don't know.
Speaker 3: We've been in the same room for a long time.
Speaker 2: We're hungry.
Speaker 1: Well, why why is it you think you're dehumanized? We
Speaker 1: always feel that way, that you become fodder. It's easier
Speaker 1: to make fun of or talk about someone, or talk
Speaker 1: trash about someone when they're not talking about you as
Speaker 1: what you just said. Your mom your mother to four
Speaker 1: pretty wonderful, accomplished kids. But that's rarely the headline that
Speaker 1: I see.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's because my kids don't want to
Speaker 3: be in the public eye. You know, my kids are
Speaker 3: very private. I think they're more like their dad. Their
Speaker 3: dad is very private in his life. And I feel
Speaker 3: like I signed up to do the show, and I
Speaker 3: don't want to ask my kids like, do you guys
Speaker 3: really I don't put pressure on them. If they want
Speaker 3: to shoot, you know, the show with me, then it's
Speaker 3: like great. But if you don't. I feel like they're
Speaker 3: thriving in what they do and I don't want to
Speaker 3: mix it two if they don't want it. I kind
Speaker 3: of let them make their own decisions. And I feel
Speaker 3: like from the time they were like sixteen, all of
Speaker 3: my decisions have always been based like on our mutual, Like,
Speaker 3: you know, we agree on every decision I've ever made.
Speaker 3: And I think a lot of people don't know that.
Speaker 3: They probably think, like, oh, she's doing all this, you know,
Speaker 3: all these things. Their kids are probably so upset, And
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, my kids are there because we talk
Speaker 3: about everything, and we discuss every small thing and we
Speaker 3: come up with the answer together. And I feel like
Speaker 3: when you raise good solid kids, by the time they're
Speaker 3: sixteen eighteen, like they are built pretty solid. And I
Speaker 3: trust her judgment, so I kind of go with that.
Speaker 1: We were talking about this a short time ago. Somebody
Speaker 1: else in Hollywood's in Hollywood and headlines a lot. When
Speaker 1: I was having an interview, I was started talking to
Speaker 1: her about all her accolades and how people viewer and
Speaker 1: the first she almost got on to me like like,
Speaker 1: you didn't mention that I'm a mom. You didn't mention
Speaker 1: like that's the thing she wanted to be known for.
Speaker 1: What is it do you think people think of you
Speaker 1: when they first when I say Lars of Pippen, And
Speaker 1: what's the first thing you think comes out of their
Speaker 1: or to their mind?
Speaker 3: But I kind of feel like it's the people that
Speaker 3: the guys that I've been linked to it's probably the
Speaker 3: number one thing my personal life. But for me, honestly,
Speaker 3: like I have, like I'm so fulfilled with my family,
Speaker 3: with my businesses that like, I'm not consumed with men
Speaker 3: that I've never been boy crazy my entire life, and
Speaker 3: so literally when I date someone, I don't take it
Speaker 3: so like you know, this is the guy for me.
Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, we're having fun as long as, like
Speaker 3: you know, I'm making you do while you're making me
Speaker 3: do well, as far as our businesses and our stuff
Speaker 3: and our growth, that it's great. And if it's not,
Speaker 3: it's okay because I have a whole I have so
Speaker 3: much love at home that I don't necessarily need to
Speaker 3: be with someone that like consumes my entire heart.
Speaker 2: I'm curious you mentioned you have discussed everything with your
Speaker 2: kids before, because it is a very public thing that
Speaker 2: you do. And in terms of co parenting with your ex,
Speaker 2: had there ever been a moment, Has there ever been
Speaker 2: a moment where like, please don't do this or we
Speaker 2: don't want you to do this. Has there ever been
Speaker 2: a disagreement about your choices or how you want to
Speaker 2: live your life?
Speaker 3: You know what, Honestly, my ex is great. He is
Speaker 3: a great guy. He co parents, you know, we co
Speaker 3: parent amazing together. Not really, we don't really discuss us
Speaker 3: our personal lives. I feel like the decisions we make
Speaker 3: are based on our kids, like where Justin wants to
Speaker 3: go to college, or like who's you know, if he's
Speaker 3: going to go look at the school with him, or
Speaker 3: I'm going to go. It's not necessarily based on our
Speaker 3: you know, the people that we date.
Speaker 1: Where do you want him to go to school? Again?
Speaker 1: You want him to go you want to do Stanford?
Speaker 3: You know, he's really My kids are really academic and
Speaker 3: they're really smart. They all play the piano, they all
Speaker 3: speak multiple languages. You know, my kids were in the
Speaker 3: chess club when they were like four years old. So, like,
Speaker 3: I want him to go to Stanford because I feel
Speaker 3: like he would thrive there. But he wants to go
Speaker 3: to like a really good basketball program.
Speaker 2: So I feel like he's just trying to get you
Speaker 2: to narrow down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm from the University of Archite rank.
Speaker 2: The colleges that he'd like to go to.
Speaker 1: If he wants to go to Arkansas, we're known as
Speaker 1: the Harvard of the South.
Speaker 3: I've got to an Arkansas game by the way.
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh wow, how is that experience?
Speaker 3: I've actually gone with with Tyson Chicken guy. Oh, I've
Speaker 3: gone with what's his name?
Speaker 2: We know?
Speaker 3: So John used to invite us to Arkansas when I
Speaker 3: was with my ex. Every summer we would.
Speaker 1: Go and spid like a week with him. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: you've just spent some time.
Speaker 2: We have a mutual.
Speaker 1: With him.
Speaker 2: It's been a tough couple of days here. You have
Speaker 2: announced that you have split from your boyfriend, and you
Speaker 2: had a podcast with him, and uh, I just want
Speaker 2: to give you the opportunity to to just set the
Speaker 2: record trait. I know there's always speculation, people always point
Speaker 2: to this or that, but this has been probably a
Speaker 2: pretty tough couple of days for you. How have you
Speaker 2: Or maybe it hasn't. Maybe I'm putting words in your mouth.
Speaker 2: How have you been? You know?
Speaker 3: I feel like I just I just finished, I just
Speaker 3: wrapped shooting the show, and I spent time away from
Speaker 3: him and everyone else. I was there for like two weeks,
Speaker 3: and it just kind of gave me clarity when I
Speaker 3: was alone. And I think when you're alone, you kind
Speaker 3: of really either miss the person or realize maybe you're
Speaker 3: not my guy. And I feel like that made me
Speaker 3: realize that I don't think he's my guy.
Speaker 2: Marcus Jordan is who we're talking about. Everyone. If you
Speaker 2: google your name and his name, the age gap comes
Speaker 2: up the sixteen years. Did that play a role in
Speaker 2: any of the relationship issues.
Speaker 3: No, No, I don't think so. I just think we're
Speaker 3: just on a different journey, you know, And I feel
Speaker 3: like I have to be true to who I am,
Speaker 3: what I'm doing, and what he's doing.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I want him to be happy. He's a great guy,
Speaker 3: but I just don't feel like it's from me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that sometimes doesn't have to have.
Speaker 3: A different Why do I dated guys are way older
Speaker 3: than me that we're way more immature than him. So
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's I don't think it's the age.
Speaker 3: I just think it's where we are right now, you know.
Speaker 1: And where you are right now relationship status. This is
Speaker 1: a single woman we're talking to. Is that right?
Speaker 3: Single? Ready to mingle?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you not ready to mingle?
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, not right now, but I think
Speaker 3: I you know soon probably what.
Speaker 1: You know what we don't like? She just mentioned your
Speaker 1: Google and the names and this and that pop up.
Speaker 1: But we all been through breakups before, and they don't
Speaker 1: feel good. It's how are you? How is your heart
Speaker 1: these days? A breakup is difficult with somebody you love
Speaker 1: the way that you profess to love this man, you know.
Speaker 3: I feel like spending time away from him made it easier.
Speaker 3: And I feel like when I was stuck doing this
Speaker 3: other show, it kind of made me like just be alone.
Speaker 3: And I think it's hard sometimes to break up because
Speaker 3: you're so used to living with the person. We had
Speaker 3: our podcast together, we worked together. I had them on Housewives,
Speaker 3: and that was hard because we were used to being
Speaker 3: together all the time. And when I went and shot
Speaker 3: this other show, I just realized that, you know, Larsa,
Speaker 3: You're okay, Like you're fine.
Speaker 2: It's so interesting because the name of your podcast was
Speaker 2: Separation Anxiety. Yeah, and when you finally did separate just
Speaker 2: for work reasons, you realize you weren't that anxious.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I'm good. I'm like, no, I'm good.
Speaker 2: Teacher just took a big sip of water and it
Speaker 2: almost came out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm scared.
Speaker 2: Eve.
Speaker 1: He goes to the bathroom, but she might forget about me.
Speaker 3: No, I just feel like you guys, I just really
Speaker 3: feel like for me, my number one priority is like
Speaker 3: my kids, my businesses, you know, my show, and being
Speaker 3: with someone that I can grow with. And if I'm
Speaker 3: not growing with you, like we kind of have to
Speaker 3: be at the same place in order to grow together,
Speaker 3: you know, so I feel like that that's kind of
Speaker 3: what I want.
Speaker 1: Does this is what's all? This following and unfollowing? We've
Speaker 1: been subject to this as well, but every little thing
Speaker 1: you do on social media is now dissected, but the
Speaker 1: following and the unfollowing of each other? Where are you
Speaker 1: on that? I guess what's you all? Not your status?
Speaker 1: But how are you all now? Or you can touch
Speaker 1: every day? Or have you completely closed that door? What
Speaker 1: happens when you do get back in the same area neighborhood,
Speaker 1: city and you have a chance to see each other
Speaker 1: and you don't have that distance you talked about that
Speaker 1: helped get clarity.
Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, we're friends. We were friends
Speaker 3: for three years before we started dating, and I feel
Speaker 3: like we're gonna be friends eventually, but right now, I
Speaker 3: just feel like it's you know, we're cool.
Speaker 2: And it was interesting too. We saw that you all
Speaker 2: had met in twenty nineteen. But obviously anyone can can
Speaker 2: figure it out if they haven't already. Marcus is the
Speaker 2: son of Michael Jordan, and of course your ex husband
Speaker 2: Scotty Pippen and Michael Jordan played together. But you your
Speaker 2: world's never crossed before then. That was interesting to me
Speaker 2: because it would seem like you all would have somehow
Speaker 2: met or known. I mean, no, you knew of each
Speaker 2: other but had never met before.
Speaker 3: When I met my ex, I was a senior in college,
Speaker 3: and so they only played together for the last year.
Speaker 3: That's what we were together, was the very last year, and
Speaker 3: so I never met his mom. I never met the kids.
Speaker 3: You know, I was in college. I was twenty one
Speaker 3: years old. And so the following year, Scottie signed to
Speaker 3: Houston and we moved to Houston. And they weren't I
Speaker 3: think people want to pretend they were best friends. They
Speaker 3: were not friends. They were not best friends.
Speaker 1: They were not It was never that were you disappointed
Speaker 1: because you know, of course your X so well, But
Speaker 1: maybe you didn't even watch the Last Dance that documentary.
Speaker 1: Did you get a chance to see that on Netflix?
Speaker 1: That was about the whole the last. Yeah, Okay, do
Speaker 1: you think your ex was wrongly depicted in that? Because
Speaker 1: I know he was upset about it, but you watching
Speaker 1: from a distance that you were but also having insight,
Speaker 1: did you look and say that they didn't do him
Speaker 1: right on that?
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know. I feel like, you know,
Speaker 3: he like Scotty, knows how he feels. I'm sure he
Speaker 3: feels a certain way because you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's something I don't really think about.
Speaker 3: To be honest with you, Yeah, I feel like if
Speaker 3: he was hurt by it, I'm sure there's a reason
Speaker 3: why he was hurt by it.
Speaker 2: So if you go back, but it sounds like when
Speaker 2: you go back to season seven on the Housewives, how
Speaker 2: much of what's happened in the last few weeks are
Speaker 2: you willing to share? I mean, how much do they
Speaker 2: ask you to share? Is it up to you?
Speaker 3: Oh, they ask you to share everything. They ask you,
Speaker 3: they want everything, And you know, for me, I'm like
Speaker 3: private when it comes out of my relationships. I feel
Speaker 3: like I'm not one of those people that leaves their
Speaker 3: relationship and like puts everything out there. It's just not
Speaker 3: something I do. I feel like you know. I can
Speaker 3: tell you we just you know, we grew apart or
Speaker 3: stuff like that. But I'm not one to, like, you know,
Speaker 3: dissect entire relationship because I feel like if I've spent
Speaker 3: time with someone like that wouldn't be fair. I don't like.
Speaker 3: I don't like when people break up and they just
Speaker 3: start bashing each other to look good. I feel like
Speaker 3: I've looked like the villain, you know, when my breakups
Speaker 3: with certain people in the past, because I don't really
Speaker 3: like I don't really defend myself. But that's because I
Speaker 3: don't need to. Because the people that know and I
Speaker 3: that I care about, the people that I love, know
Speaker 3: the story. I don't really care to like have other
Speaker 3: people be mad at whoever I spent time with because
Speaker 3: they didn't me wrong or whatever that I'm not like that.
Speaker 3: I feel like I learned from it, and I appreciate
Speaker 3: the time we've spent together, and I'm ready to move on.
Speaker 1: What's what's something you can think of now that you're
Speaker 1: just you would love to correct, right. I know you're
Speaker 1: used to so many headlines and foolishness and father and
Speaker 1: tablet all this, But what is one thing you can
Speaker 1: think of that just drove you crazy, Like, I can't
Speaker 1: believe they're saying that that it's so wrong that you
Speaker 1: wish you could have cleared up.
Speaker 3: I think, well, the thing about you know, people assuming
Speaker 3: that I knew Marcus and his family before, which I
Speaker 3: did not, or the fact that you know stuff like that,
Speaker 3: I feel like that's so not true.
Speaker 1: What's off limits? You just mentioned that the producers wanted
Speaker 1: you to put everything out there? What for you would
Speaker 1: be like, I'm not going that far. What's what's the
Speaker 1: line for you of going too far?
Speaker 3: I think I don't want to cross the line of
Speaker 3: someone that I love or I care about it. I
Speaker 3: would never want to make someone not look good, you know,
Speaker 3: and have it be my perspective. I don't really talk
Speaker 3: about people in lessy're in the same room where they
Speaker 3: can defend themselves. I don't think it's fair for me
Speaker 3: to like batch someone, you know, because I felt they
Speaker 3: did me, you know what I mean, not the right way.
Speaker 2: You mentioned being vilified. Do you think that people think
Speaker 2: of you as a villain.
Speaker 3: I think people don't like whoever the bigger star is.
Speaker 3: So for instance, when my ex and I broke up,
Speaker 3: whoever the bigger star is people think, like you must
Speaker 3: have done something wrong too leave him, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: it's not that, Like, you know, we just grew apart.
Speaker 3: And I think sometimes people like it's so much easier
Speaker 3: to hate on a woman. It is so much easier
Speaker 3: to hate on a woman that it is to hate
Speaker 3: on a man. And it takes you know, it takes
Speaker 3: two people to make a relationship work. It takes two
Speaker 3: people to make a relationship fall apart. So it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, if you're not doing what you're supposed to
Speaker 3: be doing, and then I'm not going to do what
Speaker 3: I'm supposed to be doing. So I definitely take responsibility
Speaker 3: for the things that I didn't do one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: But I'm also a cancer, Like I'm a lover, so
Speaker 3: I love hard, you know, that's just my personality, and
Speaker 3: that's kind of how I am.
Speaker 1: Where along that I'm always fascinated by this because we've
Speaker 1: talked here, Like I think back to certain parts of
Speaker 1: our lives, all of us, Like you were dating this
Speaker 1: person at this age and this age, But if if
Speaker 1: you had met that person now where you are, You're like,
Speaker 1: I would never have been interested. I never would have
Speaker 1: gone that way. What from that college young lady who
Speaker 1: met your ex where along the lines that you feel
Speaker 1: like you matured or changed to a point that you
Speaker 1: don't think that relationship would have been something you would
Speaker 1: have been interested in, or you think maybe you all
Speaker 1: would have always been compatible along the way.
Speaker 3: I you know what, I think like people grow differently,
Speaker 3: and I feel like people grow at you know, different
Speaker 3: speeds and where they are. I would never change one
Speaker 3: thing about anybody that I spent time with. I feel
Speaker 3: like I learned from it all. It was a great experience.
Speaker 3: I just feel like at the end, like it's hard
Speaker 3: to be married to an athlete. When they retire, that's
Speaker 3: like a very hard time for athletes because they're so
Speaker 3: used to being the man. They're so used to, you know,
Speaker 3: just being this big life. And then I think a
Speaker 3: lot of them when they retired, they just don't feel
Speaker 3: as good as they used to, and so it's hard,
Speaker 3: you know, it's challenging. Yeah, I hear girls tell me
Speaker 3: all the time, like, oh, set me up with this
Speaker 3: athlete or set me up with that athlete. I'm like,
Speaker 3: you have to be built to be able to be
Speaker 3: with an athlete because their lives are so stressful. You know,
Speaker 3: every game you have people, there's critics to talk about
Speaker 3: your game, and you're always on the road and you
Speaker 3: have to like it's just so many things that you
Speaker 3: have to have in order to make it.
Speaker 1: With an athlete as all right, now, would someone be
Speaker 1: challenged in dating you? Like you said you would warn
Speaker 1: a woman about dating a pro athlete with some wou
Speaker 1: A guy need to be warn like, hey, you're getting
Speaker 1: into it. Laarsa here she has to deal with this
Speaker 1: and this and she's here and that.
Speaker 3: No, I'm so easy.
Speaker 1: No, I am your cancer. I told.
Speaker 2: I's a lover, A lover.
Speaker 3: I am the I've never dated a guy that has
Speaker 3: not wanted to marry me ever, guy that I've ever dated. Literally,
Speaker 3: you guys gets obsessed with me. Maybe it's my cooking,
Speaker 3: Maybe it's I have good vibes in the morning. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I just feel like I have good energy.
Speaker 2: We've heard about your sex life, so maybe that's it too.
Speaker 1: I'm from you though we didn't hear it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm just saying I have good energy, and I
Speaker 3: feel like people like good energy.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. I'm curious. Just having watched Scotty as you
Speaker 2: mentioned go through the ups and the downs, dealing with fame,
Speaker 2: dealing with the critics, dealing with all of that. Do
Speaker 2: you think you learned some of what he went through
Speaker 2: and applied it to your own life now in the
Speaker 2: public eye.
Speaker 3: I think so. I think, like, yeah, you know, I
Speaker 3: feel like I'm not really phased by like the noise
Speaker 3: because I feel really solid on the inside, and I
Speaker 3: feel like that's the most important thing. You know, surround
Speaker 3: yourself with people that love you, that want to see
Speaker 3: you win. And I think as we get older, you
Speaker 3: start realizing that there are people in your circle that
Speaker 3: don't want to see you win. And I feel like
Speaker 3: I've let a lot of those people go, and I'm
Speaker 3: so much happier without them. Every time something every time
Speaker 3: something bad has happened in my life, it's really showed
Speaker 3: me who my real people are. And so for me,
Speaker 3: I feel like that is that to me, is like
Speaker 3: the best experience of life.
Speaker 2: I feel you, Larsa, because yeah, anytime you go through
Speaker 2: something where maybe not everyone's going to agree with your
Speaker 2: choices or agree with how things happened, do you end
Speaker 2: up with not a smaller group of friends sometimes? And
Speaker 2: that's not a bad thing. Have you had that experience?
Speaker 3: I used to think. I used to think that I
Speaker 3: had like a thousand best friends. I'd be like, that's
Speaker 3: my best friend, that's my best friend. And then I
Speaker 3: realized when I went through my divorce, when I went
Speaker 3: through certain things in my life, that those people were
Speaker 3: the biggest haters and so I am so much happy
Speaker 3: without them, Like God has blessed me time and time again.
Speaker 3: I feel like when you have good energy, you get
Speaker 3: good things. And I, you know, I feel like I'm
Speaker 3: killing it, killing it.
Speaker 1: You thought you had a thousand best friends? What are
Speaker 1: you down to now? How many?
Speaker 3: Now I'm down to like a hundred?
Speaker 1: Okay, wow?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a people person, you guys. Some people collect friends.
Speaker 1: We're best friends now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I have you as all the time. Yes, I love, like,
Speaker 3: you know, hanging out with good people and having good
Speaker 3: times and making great memories like I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that too. I think that that's part of life.
Speaker 2: And I'm a big people person too. I love I
Speaker 2: love having friends to share things with. It makes life
Speaker 2: more fun. But it can be problematic, especially when it's
Speaker 2: all displayed for everyone to watch as their entertainment. Have
Speaker 2: you ever been in a situation in the Housewives franchise
Speaker 2: where you thought, I don't want to do this anymore,
Speaker 2: this isn't worth it, this is too much. Not recently,
Speaker 2: but initially.
Speaker 3: I feel like when I was on fourteen years ago,
Speaker 3: my exit and like the show, and I didn't want
Speaker 3: to cause waves in my relationship, and my kids were younger,
Speaker 3: and so I felt like it wasn't right for me.
Speaker 3: Then I didn't contribute as much just because I felt
Speaker 3: like I had to protect my kids, I had to
Speaker 3: protect my ex. But now, no, I feel like I'm
Speaker 3: in a great place. I love sharing my life. I
Speaker 3: would do it anyway on Instagram and everything else, kind
Speaker 3: of like an open book. So you know, so it's
Speaker 3: working out for me right now.
Speaker 2: Do you edit yourself at all on the show or
Speaker 2: do you just say whatever you think?
Speaker 3: No, I think I need to do a better job
Speaker 3: of editing myself, by the way, really, just because I
Speaker 3: feel like sometimes you say things and you don't mean
Speaker 3: them the way they you know, yet seen to the public.
Speaker 3: You know, I feel like a lot of times like
Speaker 3: things that I've said have come back to bite me
Speaker 3: in the ass, but it's it's not meant that way.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You know how you can
Speaker 3: take things out of context.
Speaker 2: I feel like, do you have an example? No, I
Speaker 2: like to not be repeated, so you're editing your.
Speaker 3: No, I'm no, I'm so real, you guys. I was
Speaker 3: saying I need to start like not not doing so
Speaker 3: much of that and being a little bit more closed off.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm learning. I'm learning every days, a learning,
Speaker 3: you know, experience.
Speaker 2: Do you watch the show's back?
Speaker 3: No? I when they send it to us, I watch
Speaker 3: it and I never look back at it again. Oh really,
Speaker 3: And my kids don't really watch a show.
Speaker 2: They don't know why, they just don't.
Speaker 3: They don't. My kids don't really. My kids are athletes,
Speaker 3: they're busy. Sophia has a model like they don't.
Speaker 1: What is it you do that? The kids are like,
Speaker 1: hell yeah, I'll go to that. Oh yeah, I'll check
Speaker 1: that out. Do they ever get into our reap some
Speaker 1: benefits of mama?
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, it's crazy. I used to beg my
Speaker 3: kids to go to concerts with me, and I'd say, hey,
Speaker 3: so and so on by it us. He's got a concert,
Speaker 3: let's go. And my kids would be like, we're good,
Speaker 3: we're gonna like we're gonna go get like shoot, you know,
Speaker 3: go shoot some basketballs, or like I'm gonna go work out,
Speaker 3: or My kids are not party kids, like my son.
Speaker 3: I have a son that's twenty three, twenty one, eighteen,
Speaker 3: and Sophia's fifteen. But I have the greatest kids in
Speaker 3: the world. They don't drink, they don't like smoke, they
Speaker 3: don't go out. They're very focused on school and sports,
Speaker 3: and so I'm really thankful for that. They're not into
Speaker 3: like the music world, like the rap world. They don't
Speaker 3: want to go to concerts, they don't really like going out.
Speaker 3: They're just like the perfect human.
Speaker 1: Sounds like my kind of people. That sounds it does sound.
Speaker 2: Like you're kind of people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're like great kids. And for me, that's
Speaker 3: like the number one thing. That's kind of how I
Speaker 3: judge people based on their kids, And like the time
Speaker 3: and energy that you've put into your kids, that's you
Speaker 3: know what you reap you so and I feel like
Speaker 3: I put so much love into my kids that they're
Speaker 3: like the best kids in the world, are my best friends.
Speaker 3: I enjoy them every single day, and so that's that's
Speaker 3: my pride and joy.
Speaker 2: You can tell you can tell by the way you
Speaker 2: speak of them that that's that's all true. And so
Speaker 2: I know that you've got a beautiful road ahead of you.
Speaker 2: What do you want in the future? What where do
Speaker 2: you see your career headed? I mean, what are your
Speaker 2: hopes and dreams?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I feel like that is such a
Speaker 3: good question. I don't know. I feel like I just
Speaker 3: want to keep building, like my Larcemary jewelry line. I'm
Speaker 3: working on a tequila called Alujo. I'm just working on
Speaker 3: different things, things that I love and that I'm passionate about.
Speaker 3: I feel like I only want to do things that
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 2: I like that tequila and jewelry can Who.
Speaker 3: Doesn't like diamonds and who doesn't feel like we need
Speaker 3: a shot? It's like the best of both worlds. It's
Speaker 3: so good.
Speaker 2: Drink the dahuila first and then go shopping online for
Speaker 2: your jewelry. That might be a good combo for you. Exactly.
Speaker 2: What about in terms of you believe that there is
Speaker 2: someone out there for you that you're going to grow
Speaker 2: old with, You believe in that soulmate thing I do?
Speaker 3: I do. I feel like I really like being married.
Speaker 3: I feel like I do like having a partner. I
Speaker 3: feel like I do like having someone that I'm always with. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think so. I think I have someone out there
Speaker 3: that's like perfect for me. I'm sure they're scared of
Speaker 3: death because of Housewives, but they're like, I don't want
Speaker 3: to be on that show.
Speaker 2: Do you think that that would genuinely impact your ability
Speaker 2: to maybe find that perfect person because they might not
Speaker 2: want to be in the spotlight.
Speaker 3: Well. I was talking to one of my best friends,
Speaker 3: Caroline Stanberry, who lives in Dubai, and she's on the show,
Speaker 3: She's on Housewives of Dubai, and she's like, I have
Speaker 3: this perfect guy for you. He's amazing. She's like, but
Speaker 3: he's going to be so scared when I tell him
Speaker 3: that you're on housewives, And I was like, really, so,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I feel like sometimes it's a lot
Speaker 3: of guys don't want to put theirselves.
Speaker 2: Out there like that.
Speaker 1: You know, But what is dating like for you?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: How do you meet have to be introduced to someone?
Speaker 1: If people sliding into you DM like, what's happening? How
Speaker 1: do you go about dating? Are you on dating apps?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I think for me, I meet people through friends and
Speaker 3: I kind of be like any person I've ever been with,
Speaker 3: I've kind of been friends with for a long time,
Speaker 3: and then I just kind of you know, talk to them,
Speaker 3: figure out everything about them first, you know, know they're
Speaker 3: dating history, and then I kind of like decide if
Speaker 3: I want to like jump in.
Speaker 2: The water, describe your perfect man.
Speaker 3: I think my perfect man would be really smart, really driven,
Speaker 3: like a workaholic because I love to work, and someone
Speaker 3: that's really nice and charitable, because I feel like living
Speaker 3: a life of purpose is like way more important than
Speaker 3: all the other stuff.
Speaker 1: Now, robot, describe your perfect man.
Speaker 2: Wait, oh, you're asking me. Oh well, I'm sitting right
Speaker 2: next to it.
Speaker 1: Wow, she played. Wow, Yeah, it was not a good.
Speaker 2: The truth is, I actually was surprised you were turning
Speaker 2: the table onto me. I was like, wait what Oh,
Speaker 2: So it took me a second to real and I
Speaker 2: was supposed to answer that question. But actually what you
Speaker 2: just said is true. I mean someone who works hard,
Speaker 2: someone who makes me for me. It's someone who can
Speaker 2: make me laugh, who I can laugh with, who I
Speaker 2: can be silly with, who I can We just said
Speaker 2: this earlier, but Tita has an amazing quote, and I
Speaker 2: think this describes our relationship and what I think made
Speaker 2: me realize that we were going to be amazing together
Speaker 2: for a very very long time. Everyone's always looking for
Speaker 2: that person to grow old with, but some would suggest,
Speaker 2: and I would concur that if you can find the
Speaker 2: person to stay young with, that's the person you can
Speaker 2: actually get through some tough times with, because if you
Speaker 2: can laugh and you can play, and you can have
Speaker 2: that childlike enthusiasm with that partner. And I want a
Speaker 2: partner too. I'm a big believer. I want a life partner.
Speaker 2: I don't know that everyone does, but I do. And
Speaker 2: I can see that in you as well. I mean,
Speaker 2: you had a twenty four year marriage, and we all
Speaker 2: got married young. We all were believers and dreamers. I
Speaker 2: got married at twenty three, twenty three, how you were
Speaker 2: twenty two. And I do think that that's the that's
Speaker 2: that speaks volumes do your belief in love and your
Speaker 2: belief in finding that partner and wanting that even at
Speaker 2: that young age.
Speaker 3: I grew up like watching my parents. My parents are
Speaker 3: still married, they're obsessed with each other. My mom and
Speaker 3: dad do everything together, and so I kind of feel
Speaker 3: like I want that.
Speaker 2: Oh he just gave me chills mine too, and his
Speaker 2: like yours are how many years over fifty years? And
Speaker 2: I think I took for granted that that was just
Speaker 2: something that was a given. You know, it obviously takes work,
Speaker 2: but it's also about finding that right person totally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, does that have Does that play your watching your parents?
Speaker 1: Does that play into your life, and that there's a
Speaker 1: standard now that you won't accept anything less than I
Speaker 1: think so.
Speaker 3: I think, like watching it, my mom takes care of
Speaker 3: my dad like she adores him, and I feel like
Speaker 3: I'm normally like that with the guys that I'm with,
Speaker 3: So I feel like I definitely kind of mimic that,
Speaker 3: you know. I just feel like I haven't met a
Speaker 3: person that's like like my dad.
Speaker 2: So we'll see, that's a that's a tough that's a
Speaker 2: tough bar, right to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my mom, kid, my mom. I remember one day
Speaker 3: she was like, you need to be with this kind
Speaker 3: of guy, and you know, she was like, I would
Speaker 3: you know, she was saying something like if she didn't
Speaker 3: have this, she would leave my dad. I'm like, where
Speaker 3: would you go? Like there's no guy better than my dad,
Speaker 3: Like you can't even she was trying to give me
Speaker 3: an example, and I was like, by the way, there's
Speaker 3: no one better than my dad, Like, they.
Speaker 1: Don't make my kid.
Speaker 2: That's so sweet. Do you have a celebrity crush?
Speaker 3: No, not really, like no.
Speaker 1: She didn't even hesitate.
Speaker 2: No. I wish everyone could have seen her face.
Speaker 1: You know what it is.
Speaker 3: I feel like a lot of times when people think
Speaker 3: that like this person's great on paper, and then you
Speaker 3: actually meet them and they are.
Speaker 1: So not the worst.
Speaker 3: That happens to me all the time because I feel
Speaker 3: like I've met people that I thought were like, like
Speaker 3: the greatest soccer player on the planet, and then when
Speaker 3: I started talking to him, I was like, that's it,
Speaker 3: that's it, no thanks. And then like I've talked to
Speaker 3: people that are in the music world and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: he's so cool when he's on stage, but then when
Speaker 3: he would like get off stage, I was like, you
Speaker 3: were so much cooler on the stage. So it's hard.
Speaker 1: Who was it, Larsa? Who was? I know you're not
Speaker 1: gonna say, but I.
Speaker 3: Do feel like I want to date like a business guy.
Speaker 3: I feel like that's kind of like where I need
Speaker 3: to be, like date someone that's very business savvy, and
Speaker 3: you know, I think I like that.
Speaker 1: What's your advice maybe to your daughter, but also to
Speaker 1: young women who watch the show who often they describe
Speaker 1: him as these guilty pleasures. Oftentimes they or all kinds
Speaker 1: of things that describe him as it's not something we're
Speaker 1: supposed to take seriously. It's just supposed to be entertainment.
Speaker 1: But what could you say to a young woman watching
Speaker 1: the show to take from it, to learn from it,
Speaker 1: to be empowered by Do you see that type of
Speaker 1: I guess service if you will, that some of these
Speaker 1: shows still can provide. You're a strong, successful woman who's
Speaker 1: got four wonderful kids that should be highlighted. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like oftentimes it is when we talk about
Speaker 1: these shows.
Speaker 3: You know, I feel like a lot of people are
Speaker 3: in miserable relationships. And I think if you look at
Speaker 3: I was married for such a long time, you know,
Speaker 3: I was a stay at home mom. I raise my kids,
Speaker 3: and I feel like a lot of times when you
Speaker 3: watch housewives, you see like these women are entrepreneurs, they
Speaker 3: have a second life, Like your life is not over
Speaker 3: because you are not with that person, or you can
Speaker 3: be who you want to be. I'm a firm believer
Speaker 3: of that, like you can wake up one day and say, hey,
Speaker 3: guess what I am going to be this today, and
Speaker 3: you put all your energy into that and you basically
Speaker 3: can grow like that. So, you know our show, I
Speaker 3: feel like there are so many women that have done
Speaker 3: so much with their platform. I use my platform to
Speaker 3: basically show what I'm doing as far as my business
Speaker 3: stuff and you know, my kids and just feeling good.
Speaker 3: You know. It is a little bit of cattiness, of course,
Speaker 3: but it's really fun, you guys, it's fun to shoot.
Speaker 2: I was so I saw you just smile, and he said, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's some cattiness. Do you enjoy that part of it alone? No?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not confrontational, I promise.
Speaker 2: How should you describe yourself?
Speaker 3: I'm a cancer, I'm a lover. I'm super nice. I'm
Speaker 3: very generous, and I think that probably is bad because
Speaker 3: I think when you give, when you're a giver and
Speaker 3: then the person is not giving back what you give,
Speaker 3: you kind of get a little resentful, you know.
Speaker 2: Do you stand up for yourself?
Speaker 3: Yes? I feel like if I baby doesn't like to
Speaker 3: be put in a corner, so I don't want to
Speaker 3: be put in a corner.
Speaker 2: You know, what do you do when someone puts you
Speaker 2: in a corner?
Speaker 3: I handle my business. No. Now, I just feel like
Speaker 3: I'm a lover you guys, and I feel like sometimes,
Speaker 3: you know, being on this show, do you know what happens?
Speaker 3: I feel like being on these shows. I was just
Speaker 3: with Teresa Judas last week and she was telling me
Speaker 3: how people pick on her because she is like the franchise,
Speaker 3: like she is a big person, and I was thinking,
Speaker 3: that's probably why they pick on me too, because then
Speaker 3: they have a like, you know, it makes press. So
Speaker 3: it's like, if you have nothing going on in your life,
Speaker 3: pick on Larsa and then it's like a story behind it. Now,
Speaker 3: because I don't ever talk about anyone on our show,
Speaker 3: I have a great life. My life is so full
Speaker 3: that when I'm on the show, I want to talk
Speaker 3: about all the great things I'm doing. I don't want
Speaker 3: to talk about what you're wearing, like you know, it's
Speaker 3: my mind is not on that. But but then you
Speaker 3: have to defend yourself because someone is talking about you,
Speaker 3: and then you know, that's kind of where the cattiness
Speaker 3: comes in at.
Speaker 1: Who is the real Housewives of Miami villain? Who's the
Speaker 1: villain on the show.
Speaker 3: Do you really want me to answer that?
Speaker 1: Yep, Well, I know it's not you because you're the
Speaker 1: cancer and you're a lover and you don't like the cattiness,
Speaker 1: So it's not you. Ry Larsa, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's really a villain on our show.
Speaker 1: Now we have Andy here, who is a huge, huge
Speaker 1: Real Housewives. He loves the franchise. He loves Real Housewives
Speaker 1: of Miami. Now, Andy, if I asked you who was
Speaker 1: the villain on Real Housewives of Miami, who would you say?
Speaker 2: You can be honest, I would say you moved the
Speaker 2: story along. But I think Adriana is the real.
Speaker 3: Villain, right, Okay, yeah that makes sense, just.
Speaker 1: Being honest, But she moves a story along, as you say, I.
Speaker 2: Think there's necessary things that are that you bring up
Speaker 2: that moves things forward.
Speaker 1: But not the villain. She's not the villain. Well, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say the main.
Speaker 3: I mean I feel like for me, I just listen
Speaker 3: if I don't say the things I say, like who's watching,
Speaker 3: I'm the kind of person. Just if you see this
Speaker 3: cup and it's full of water, I'm gonna say, who
Speaker 3: left this cup?
Speaker 1: You're full of water, Like that's where it starts.
Speaker 3: It's there. So it's like I just pointed out and
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: You mentioned that you made the mistake. And I've done
Speaker 2: this before too, and I have admitted it, and it's
Speaker 2: been awful of reading comments Sometimes do you make a
Speaker 2: point not to read comments? And when you have done it,
Speaker 2: what has that been like for you?
Speaker 3: I mean, I normally do not read comments, but you know,
Speaker 3: I feel like it's the one percent of people that
Speaker 3: have nothing going on in their lives that are writing them.
Speaker 3: But the majority of the people don't think like that.
Speaker 3: The people that are that I care about, that are
Speaker 3: busy with their lives, taking care of their businesses, their kids,
Speaker 3: their their minds, they're not doing that. They're not writing
Speaker 3: all those bad, you know things on Instagram. But I
Speaker 3: don't really I'm not really phased by it, to be
Speaker 3: honest with you. And I don't really read them because
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I feel like this is.
Speaker 2: Like getting that place i'd like to get. I'm not
Speaker 2: there yet. How do you get to a place where
Speaker 2: you don't care?
Speaker 3: You just have to start thinking about the people that
Speaker 3: matter and the people that care. And I feel like
Speaker 3: the people that genuinely are happy in their lives want
Speaker 3: to see other people happy, and the people that are
Speaker 3: miserable in their lives want to make you miserable and
Speaker 3: want to see misery on you. So for me, I'm
Speaker 3: not I'm not doing that. I'm killing it. Why would
Speaker 3: I even deal with those people? If anything, I'd actually
Speaker 3: want to hang out with them to help them, because
Speaker 3: I'm like a girl's girl or like, you know, I
Speaker 3: could help you. But I'm not necessarily like a hater.
Speaker 3: I've never been jealous of anyone. I've never like, I
Speaker 3: don't talk about anyone that's not my personality. I'm always
Speaker 3: ready to like uplift other women and like help any
Speaker 3: which way I can. So I feel like if you
Speaker 3: knew my real life, like I think on this show,
Speaker 3: it's hard because you're put with these women that you're
Speaker 3: really not best friends with and so and you know,
Speaker 3: things come up, and I think everyone's trying to stay
Speaker 3: on the show and do whatever they have to do
Speaker 3: to maintain their position on the show. Whereas for me,
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm just living my life. I'm just living
Speaker 3: my life and that's all I can offer.
Speaker 1: You make a good point there. That seems very difficult.
Speaker 1: It's almost like everyone in the show. If you're not
Speaker 1: friends already, then you're showing up almost with strangers to
Speaker 1: a certain degree who are all competing. Stay on the
Speaker 1: show totally. That is a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 3: Well, that's what it is, and that's what you And
Speaker 3: then you have people that just watch that and they're like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I love her. I'm like, if you
Speaker 3: only know our real life, you probably.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't Oh my god, So who are you friends? Who
Speaker 1: would you say? If you don't want to name names,
Speaker 1: that's fine.
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like I'm really close with
Speaker 3: Lisa Justina. We've been friends, like from before I came
Speaker 3: back on the show. We've been friends for over a decade.
Speaker 3: I feel like we we hang out off the show.
Speaker 3: That's like, really, my really good friend.
Speaker 2: And how often when you all are filming, when you're
Speaker 2: together in groups and things get a little contentious, is
Speaker 2: alcohol involved.
Speaker 3: I'm not really like a heavy drinker. I'm like a girl.
Speaker 3: I probably have like one drink and I probably like
Speaker 3: babysit that one drink all night. I don't feel like
Speaker 3: on our show. There's not our show is not really
Speaker 3: that kind of show. I feel like some of the
Speaker 3: other franchises they have issues with alcohol. Our show not
Speaker 3: so much.
Speaker 2: Because I always wonder if people just get that liquid
Speaker 2: courage to say whatever they want.
Speaker 3: There's a couple of girls I like to drink. They
Speaker 3: like to drink, but I don't. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like for me, I don't really like drink
Speaker 3: like that. So I'm never like out of character.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what comes out of your mouth? You are
Speaker 2: intending I.
Speaker 3: Double down on it.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
Speaker 3: Are bad? I double down on it without alcohol. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I said, I'm sorry, but can we be friends tomorrow?
Speaker 1: You double down not on alcohol. What do you do
Speaker 1: on the alcohol?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. I probably just fall asleep.
Speaker 1: Oh are there folks? And this again not putting you
Speaker 1: in a position to name names if you don't want to.
Speaker 1: But you said you don't know who's coming back for
Speaker 1: the next season of the show. Are there some people
Speaker 1: you would really hope don't come back, that they don't
Speaker 1: have back, that you wouldn't have to work with again?
Speaker 3: You know? I feel like when I think of a housewife,
Speaker 3: I think of someone that has a family, kids, a
Speaker 3: husband and ex husband, businesses are something like that. This
Speaker 3: is what I would want to see because I'm like, look,
Speaker 3: I want to see you know this lifestyle, and some
Speaker 3: of the people on our show don't necessarily have all that.
Speaker 3: So I feel like that to me is like when
Speaker 3: I think of a housewife, I think of you have
Speaker 3: these certain things, you know. So that's kind of my opinion.
Speaker 2: Well, I want to ask you one other thing too,
Speaker 2: because just with being in the headlines and everything that's
Speaker 2: been said and written about people, do you think you're
Speaker 2: misunderstood one thousand percent? And what are people getting wrong
Speaker 2: about you?
Speaker 3: I think they don't really know who I am, and
Speaker 3: I think they judge me based on my exterior and
Speaker 3: I think they think that like I'm a certain way
Speaker 3: because I'm not one of those people that's like I
Speaker 3: don't like to like play victim. That's not my personality.
Speaker 3: I feel like I would never play victim. My kids
Speaker 3: would never play victim. We're like built tough, we're built good,
Speaker 3: you know. So I feel like I can cry up
Speaker 3: a storm and tell you the worst things that I
Speaker 3: feel like some of the other people would do it,
Speaker 3: but I'm just not like that. I feel like I'm
Speaker 3: the kind of person that like can overcome anything and
Speaker 3: move on and do it in a way where I
Speaker 3: look good doing it, and that's kind of my personality.
Speaker 3: So yeah, if people want to hate on me based
Speaker 3: on how I look or how I dress or things
Speaker 3: they don't know about me, then that's okay. You know,
Speaker 3: they have a right to their opinion. I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1: As tough as you are that had to come through
Speaker 1: a lot of experience.
Speaker 3: Well, being married to an NBA player tw two years old,
Speaker 3: I feel like you're used to it, You're built like it.
Speaker 3: I've been in this lifestyle for a long time, and
Speaker 3: i feel like I'm not like one of those people that, like,
Speaker 3: you can say the worst things about me, and I'm
Speaker 3: not really a phased by it because I feel like
Speaker 3: I look at my kids, I look at my businesses,
Speaker 3: I look at my friends that are there like they
Speaker 3: would do anything for me, and I feel like that
Speaker 3: to me makes me feel good. I don't really care
Speaker 3: to like portray an image. There's so many celebrities that
Speaker 3: portray this image of like they're amazing and they're great
Speaker 3: because they have this big PR company and then when
Speaker 3: you really know them, you're like, they're a bunch of losers.
Speaker 3: They're losers. I'm like for me, I've literally every single
Speaker 3: year have like given back to charity since I was
Speaker 3: twenty one years old. My kids do stuff for charity.
Speaker 3: We love to give back. I'm very generous with my
Speaker 3: friends and my people. So to me, as long as
Speaker 3: I am living a life that's like fulfilled and like
Speaker 3: you know, that's all I care about.
Speaker 1: I wanted to use that word you don't get phased
Speaker 1: by it, but there have to be moments where you
Speaker 1: do get phased by something. What gets you there has
Speaker 1: to be I mean, you have friends and people you
Speaker 1: can lean on and talk to. You Do you do therapy?
Speaker 1: Where do you run? What is it that? Yeah? You no?
Speaker 3: I work. I don't believe in therapy for me because
Speaker 3: I'm like Middle Eastern, So I feel like my mom
Speaker 3: is my therapist. I have like a big family. I
Speaker 3: come from a family of five. They're in all my business.
Speaker 3: So I can't do one thing without my entire family
Speaker 3: calling me and saying why did you do that or
Speaker 3: what are you doing? So for me, that's like that's
Speaker 3: my safe zone. It's like my family my kids. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I feel like I work out every day that probably helps,
Speaker 3: and I strong myself with people that are strong, you know.
Speaker 3: I think it's like your tribe if you have a
Speaker 3: tribe of strong, independent women and men, and you know
Speaker 3: my family, my dad's really educated. I feel like, so
Speaker 3: if I need business advice, I go to my dad.
Speaker 3: If I need advice on my kids, I go to
Speaker 3: my mom. Like I have a great support system, and
Speaker 3: I think that's what like a lot of people lack.
Speaker 3: I think if you don't have a good support system,
Speaker 3: then you not going to feel good and you're going
Speaker 3: to feel like you're alone. And there's nothing worse than that.
Speaker 3: But for me, I feel like I have the best family.
Speaker 3: I have the like my friends are amazing, my business
Speaker 3: partners are amazing. I just I find myself like in
Speaker 3: places and I put myself in places with people that
Speaker 3: uplift me, and that to me is like my safe place.
Speaker 2: Do you think that there is strength in showing weakness
Speaker 2: sometimes though?
Speaker 3: Or No. I don't believe in weakness. I don't believe
Speaker 3: in that, Like I'm just not that person.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I feel like you can overcome almost anything and you
Speaker 3: can be someone that you want to be tomorrow. And
Speaker 3: for me, I'm just like, be who you want to be.
Speaker 3: You know, That's kind of how I live, That's how
Speaker 3: I train.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I've taught my kids that they could be heard, or
Speaker 3: my son can have a game that's really bad, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, it's fine, you play your ass off. Tomorrow's
Speaker 3: a new day, go back tomorrow and we'll get it going.
Speaker 3: We don't really like, we're not one of those people
Speaker 3: that harps on losses. We don't do that. We're just like,
Speaker 3: all right, let's go to the next what's the next problem,
Speaker 3: what's the next goal. And that's kind of how if
Speaker 3: most people thought like that, people being much happier. I
Speaker 3: don't look back at like, you know, things in my
Speaker 3: past that didn't work out for me. I look at
Speaker 3: it like I make decisions. Even if it's the wrong decision,
Speaker 3: it's okay. I learned from it. So as long as
Speaker 3: I'm learning from it bettering myself than i'm winning.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're you've been in this training since
Speaker 1: you were It sounds like a family thing. It sounds
Speaker 1: like it's just your upbringing. I have to read self
Speaker 1: help books, right and I was forty plus before I started.
Speaker 1: Some of the things that you're saying now make sense
Speaker 1: to me. If I was thirty four, I was like,
Speaker 1: what is she talking about? How does she do that?
Speaker 1: But it sounds like it's from but do you have?
Speaker 1: You don't have a guru, you don't read certain authors,
Speaker 1: you don't listen to certain podcasts, do nothing, nothing.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I just feel like I'm like that. I'm very like
Speaker 3: positive and I feel like I just focus on positive
Speaker 3: things and God keeps blessing me just because I just
Speaker 3: have Like you know, I'm letting. I'm open to the
Speaker 3: universe with positive energy, not necessarily like, oh poor me,
Speaker 3: I didn't have a great relationship or my marriage failed.
Speaker 3: I don't look at it like that. I look at
Speaker 3: it like it was a great experience. I have four
Speaker 3: amazing kids. He's killing it. He's happy. I'm killing it.
Speaker 3: How we're big family, we're all killing it.
Speaker 2: Let's still kill it. I mean you're inspiring me, all right,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean I do. I do appreciate that,
Speaker 2: not wallowing and self pity and whymy and poor me,
Speaker 2: but instead taking it and saying how can I do better?
Speaker 2: It sounds like you are a hopeful person, which is
Speaker 2: an amazing thing to be able to have and to
Speaker 2: and to invest in and to give to your children.
Speaker 2: And I you know, Lord knows, you haven't had just
Speaker 2: this easy, blessed life where you've just been sailing through.
Speaker 2: You've been working your ass off, you've been dealt setbacks,
Speaker 2: but you just keep building it and going forward. And
Speaker 2: that's an incredible thing to be able to do and
Speaker 2: to give to your kids. So and thank you for
Speaker 2: sharing it with us. I love your attitude.
Speaker 3: It's not about the end. It's about like the journey,
Speaker 3: you know, And I love the journey. I'm really excited
Speaker 3: about the journey.
Speaker 1: And the next stop on the journey. He said, you're
Speaker 1: not sure, you don't know what's next on this.
Speaker 3: I'm on this and I love it and I'm happy
Speaker 3: and I like where it's going.
Speaker 1: Now we talk. We started this now, and we know
Speaker 1: your relationship status is single now by the time we
Speaker 1: actually post this podcast, is there any chance your relationship
Speaker 1: status it's going to change again, Larsa, and we're going
Speaker 1: to hear that you all have reunited, is there?
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 3: I'm not one of those people that says never because
Speaker 3: I never say never. But I don't know, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I feel like right now I'm happy,
Speaker 3: like alone. I feel like I'm good. I just want
Speaker 3: to work on all my stuff. I just finish shooting
Speaker 3: another show. I shot three shows this year, so I
Speaker 3: feel like I'm busy. You know. I'm finally now like
Speaker 3: free to hang out with my kids, you know, spring break,
Speaker 3: and my twenty one year old son wants to go
Speaker 3: to like Italy, So I'm like, I'll take you to
Speaker 3: Italy's and the school's done. Like, I just want to
Speaker 3: hang out with my kids and focus on my family
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: I like that, But the door sounds like there's a crack.
Speaker 3: Never say no, he's a great guy. It's a great guy.
Speaker 3: I don't want to talk negative about him. I just
Speaker 3: feel like I'm just focusing on things that are like
Speaker 3: going to make me better, and you know, that's where
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 1: The last podcast you all did together was four months ago,
Speaker 1: and he said, actually, hence the title of our podcast,
Speaker 1: Separation Anxiety. We always want to be together. And you said,
Speaker 1: we're just used to being all over each other all
Speaker 1: the time. Now I heard that. If i'd heard that
Speaker 1: four months ago, I felt differently about it, but to
Speaker 1: hear how we go from that just a short time
Speaker 1: ago to not just a breakup, but you have a
Speaker 1: piece about the breakup in that four months that you
Speaker 1: go from that, because that sounded so great and hopeful
Speaker 1: in my forever, Like I was like, how do we
Speaker 1: get from there to here?
Speaker 3: You know, I think my personality is very what's the word.
Speaker 3: I think it's very forgiving. So I forgive and I forgive,
Speaker 3: and I forgive and I forgive until I realize there's
Speaker 3: no more forgiving. So, you know, I just feel like
Speaker 3: I'm in a place of like that's probably why, Like
Speaker 3: I'm like a relationship person with my friends, all my
Speaker 3: friends I've been from for over twenty years. Like I
Speaker 3: don't really have like, you know, friends that I don't
Speaker 3: have a relationship with. That's not my personality. I feel
Speaker 3: like I work on all my relationships and I always
Speaker 3: try to see the best in everyone. But at some point,
Speaker 3: Larcia's got to think about Larsa, and I felt like
Speaker 3: I was giving up too much of me, you know,
Speaker 3: And so that's kind of what it was.
Speaker 1: Are you hearing rogues The way I heard it is
Speaker 1: that it sounds almost like you stayed longer than you
Speaker 1: should have, Like there were things you saw, probably and
Speaker 1: probably yeah, you were trying, like you said, I tried.
Speaker 3: I really tried. I really tried. I tried for all
Speaker 3: the right reasons. And I feel like, you know, I
Speaker 3: really like I'm a romantic, like I want to make
Speaker 3: sure that, like you know, I communicate really well and
Speaker 3: I make sure everyone's good and you feel good. I
Speaker 3: do this with my kids every day and we have dinner,
Speaker 3: I'm like, how do you feel? Do you feel good?
Speaker 3: Do you feel solid? What can I do to make
Speaker 3: you feel better? What can you do to make you
Speaker 3: feel better? And so I feel like and I like
Speaker 3: to uplift people, but I feel like if I'm not
Speaker 3: getting it back, then it's you know, I just don't
Speaker 3: like it.
Speaker 2: So that's thus the piece, because you're at peace with
Speaker 2: with your decision, and maybe we'll see the larcinator, right,
Speaker 2: is that the larcen the larciness, Sorry, I said larcinator.
Speaker 2: L Oh my god, that's so funny. That's the larseness,
Speaker 2: the larsonest. I love that. But you know that I
Speaker 2: can feel that energy coming back. Stop laughing at me.
Speaker 2: I do this all the time. I say the wrong word.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I feel like I'm the larceness when I
Speaker 3: need to be. I'm like the bear that's always sleeping.
Speaker 3: We don't poke the bear too much.
Speaker 1: I had another question, but I'm afraid I might poke
Speaker 1: the larcinator.
Speaker 2: Feel free to use that. It's okay, I mean, it's fine.
Speaker 2: Don't have to credit me.
Speaker 1: We are going to get a patent on that. As
Speaker 1: soon as this it's over. We are going to trademark
Speaker 1: the hell out of that one. Oh my goodness. Really
Speaker 1: it is. It's a pleasure to get to talk to
Speaker 1: you and to meet you outside of a headline, because again,
Speaker 1: we all we know of you is what the headlines
Speaker 1: oftentimes read. I haven't tell you truth. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: all the seasons of the real high spots of Miami,
Speaker 1: so I didn't get a very good handle on you know,
Speaker 1: who's the villain and what role you play. But it
Speaker 1: is so amazing, and we love, love love doing this here,
Speaker 1: to bring someone in here and talk to them as
Speaker 1: a human being, as a mom first, as a business
Speaker 1: person first, and not as a caricature. And it's just
Speaker 1: it makes such a difference. And look, I would hate
Speaker 1: to think and I don't think you are. And you
Speaker 1: don't have a PR person in here. We have so
Speaker 1: many coming here.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1: Sure people are sitting in the corner, just making my
Speaker 1: attorney right here. Yeah, I'm got Sophia right here, she's
Speaker 1: in the corner. But it is, it is a treat
Speaker 1: and it has absolutely been a pleasure to be able
Speaker 1: to talk to you in this way.
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys, Thank you so much for being with us.
Speaker 3: Lara, thank you for having me