1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: Hello, gorgeous. It's La La Kent. Welcome to untraditionally Laala, Hello, 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: my loves. I just want to say I had the 3 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: best time at Bravocon. So I'm currently recording this on 4 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: my phone in a closet in Hawaii, because you guys know, 5 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 1: for the past three years I bring my family here 6 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: for two weeks. It's filled with no makeup, it is 7 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: filled with hair being everywhere, no shoes. It is the 8 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 1: time of our lives. These are the best days of 9 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: our lives. But I will say there was something so 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: amazing for me about Bravocon this year. And I can't 11 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: quite put my finger on why it was so amazing, 12 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: but it just felt for me like there was no pressure. 13 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: You guys know, I'm not some like fashion girly, you know. 14 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: I like my I like feeling sexy, I like feeling cute. 15 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: But the pressure of it because you've got, you know, 16 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty plus Bravo lebs that are showing 17 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: up to be like the most fabulous and stunning and 18 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 1: snatched people you've ever seen in your life, and so 19 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: there is an element of like me feeling, I guess 20 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: anyone feeling. I talked to many of the housewives. Just 21 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: a little bit of pressure, you know, wanting to look good, 22 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: but also it being a very long day, and you 23 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,479 Speaker 1: you want to be kind to everybody, but it's also 24 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: exhausting you want to say the right thing. I got 25 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 1: a lot of people saying to me, you know, on 26 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: the panel where it was announced finally that Schwartzy and 27 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: I will be full time cast members on the Valley, 28 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: that I needed to own the stage, and I seemed nervous. 29 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: And although I had a wonderful Bravo con and I 30 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: didn't feel much pressure for that panel, I think once 31 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: I sat down it did hit me. Like the last 32 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: time I had done a panel about the show that 33 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: I was on, which was vander Pump Rules, I felt 34 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: a bit suffocated by it. I was very nervous. I 35 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: obviously knew what had happened season eleven, but the audience 36 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: did not, And so I knew going into this Valley 37 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: panel and people asking questions or knowing that I was 38 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: a full time cast member, it was going to ruffle 39 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: some feathers. I know that a lot of you love 40 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: that show, and you know you may or may not 41 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 1: have wanted to see me up here. So if you didn't, 42 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: you shouldn't watch, because I'm definitely on it and I'm excited. 43 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: I had a heyday. I was worried that I offended people, 44 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 1: like on my cast, that's weird to say, wow, on 45 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: my cast of The Valley, that still feels so weird, 46 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: you guys, with what I said saying that they weren't 47 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: a well oiled machine. And I didn't mean that as 48 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:17,279 Speaker 1: a bad thing. They're two seasons in. It's a strange 49 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: thing to pinpoint how you're feeling and being black and 50 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: white and trying to avoid the gray of life and 51 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: then having a camera crew capture everything and being called 52 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: out on details. So I just felt like that's what 53 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: I meant. I just felt like they only had two 54 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: seasons under their belt, and you know, usually I well, 55 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: the one case going on to vander Pump, I was 56 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: the well oiled machine with the Valley, but going on 57 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: to vander Pump, it was a well oiled machine. So 58 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: I was kind of taught by the fucking best. But 59 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: I had such a great time filming The Valley. I 60 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: think you guys will really like the season. I know 61 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: that season two was really dark, but that was life. 62 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: I mean, these shows capture what's really happening in our lives, 63 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: and there will be a very different vibe for season three. 64 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: I feel like there is lightness and pettiness and all 65 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: the things that make us all obsessed with reality television. 66 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: With that, I want to say that someone I had 67 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: heard rumblings about this Q and A that Jeff Lewis 68 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 1: and Andy Cohen did, and this man stood up and 69 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: talked about his sobriety journey and how he bought a 70 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: ticket to Bravocan because he felt like he wanted to 71 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: celebrate his recovery, and unfortunately he did not make it 72 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: to Bravocn, meaning in his recovery, and so he wanted 73 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: to punish himself and not go. And then he listened 74 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: to untraditionally La La, the episode where I talk about 75 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: my sweet dog Lily and how she got me through 76 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: the hardest moments of my life and kept me sober 77 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: for many moments of my life, or I guess in 78 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: the seven years that I've been sober. And he said 79 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: once he listened to that, he said he could relate 80 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: because he also has a dog who's gotten him through 81 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: many tough moments. And he decided to come to Bravo Khan, 82 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: and he also praised Andy and Bravo for casting people 83 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: on these shows that people can relate to and at 84 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: times save lives, you know, in his case. And I 85 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: want to say this first. Hearing that is so humbling 86 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: to me. You know, there's so many moments, whether it's 87 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: us in recovery or us wanting to change things in 88 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: our in our lives, or how we are as people 89 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: and going God, I really wish I wasn't like born 90 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 1: this way, Like I wish that I didn't hold onto things, 91 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: and I wish that I could, you know, get out 92 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 1: of my own head, whatever it may be. And we 93 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: think that the answer is to punish ourselves and that 94 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 1: tomorrow doesn't exist because we're so in it. And I 95 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: know that feeling better than anybody where you're like, I 96 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: just am. I'm in it. I can't see the light 97 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: I'm in I'm in guilt and shame and anger, and 98 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,919 Speaker 1: you start looping and spiraling. And I just want to 99 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 1: say to this guy and I acknowledged him on Instagram, 100 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: but hopefully he listens to untraditionally Lalla each week so 101 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 1: that he knows that I see him and I hear 102 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: him and for him to stand and shared that part 103 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 1: of his life and what he struggles with. I mean, 104 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: I wasn't in awe and I just found that to 105 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: be so beautiful. And I hope that this does not 106 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: come off as cheesy, but it's moments like that that 107 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: made me go wow, Like all of the mean things 108 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: that people say about me, like this one moment makes 109 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: being on TV and sharing my story and my authentic self, 110 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: it makes it all so fucking worth it. So I'm 111 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: so appreciative for you that you stood up and shared 112 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: that part of yourself. It helped me. So often I 113 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: feel alone and I know that that probably sounds shocking 114 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: because we're all just viewers right from the outside. We 115 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: don't know what someone's really going through. But you know, 116 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: life can be extremely isolating, so you made me feel 117 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: less alone. I am wishing you all of the best 118 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: in your recovery journey. Just know that if you have 119 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: a slip up, it's all good. You can get back 120 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: on the horse. Do not give it up. This journey 121 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: is worth it. And I'm thinking about you, I'm praying 122 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: for you, I'm sending you so much love, and in 123 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 1: the moments of weakness, I hope that you can sit 124 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: back and take a moment, because it always passes. Rough 125 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: moments are not forever. And then to follow up what 126 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:43,199 Speaker 1: Jeff said, where people in recovery or I guess he 127 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: said if you're in recovery, you shouldn't be at Bravo con. 128 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. I attended my first Bravo 129 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 1: Con a year into my sobriety, and a year is nothing, 130 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: especially in an environment like Bravo Con. I've never been 131 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: to Bravo Kan without being a person in recovery. Like 132 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,439 Speaker 1: I love Jeff Lewis so much and he's so funny. 133 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: I was deeply saddened and hurt and offended by that 134 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: comment because bravocon is for people who fucking love Bravo. 135 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: We all love it. It's amazing, it's fun. It's not 136 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,559 Speaker 1: a place where you only come to get fucked up. 137 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: It's where you come to quote all of the most 138 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 1: iconic housewife lines and relate to the woman who talks 139 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: about you know, her son who's struggling, or me, the 140 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: person in recovery. Like that's the core of fucking Bravocon. 141 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: So I don't want anybody for the next one to 142 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: feel like they don't belong because they may be in recovery. 143 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: I'm right there with you, babe. It's a lot, it's intense, 144 00:09:55,760 --> 00:10:00,439 Speaker 1: but we got this. I just wanted to make this 145 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: quick little episode voice note. I don't know to tell 146 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: you guys that I love you so much. I'm so 147 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: so happy that you guys share your stories and make 148 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 1: all of us feel like we're in this together. It 149 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: truly does make putting our lives out there worth it, 150 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: and it makes it so much easier to silence the 151 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 1: noise of the hate. And I'm really really excited to 152 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: be back on your guys's TVs. Even for those of 153 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: you who may not want it. I'm here, baby, I'm 154 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: not going anywhere. I told you. I told you. If 155 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: you don't want it, you better close your eyes and 156 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: plug your ears. I love you, guys. Thank you for 157 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: listening to untraditionally La La. I hope whoever came out 158 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: to Vegas for Bravo Con had the most lit time ever. 159 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: I know I did. I even cracked open an energy drink. 160 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: That's when you know it's a party for La La. 161 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 1: I will catch you guys next week. Have the best 162 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: day ever. Love you, Bye.