I put a link to this Brandi Glanville interview in yesterday’s afternoon links, but it’s worth some coverage today now that I’ve had time to read the whole thing. Brandi sat down for an utterly exhaustive interview with Buzzfeed – you can read the whole thing here. The first half is all Real Housewife stuff – who Brandi is fighting with, who is on drugs, why she runs around throwing verbal bombs at everyone. The second half is more interesting to me (because I don’t watch RHOBH) – it’s about LeAnn and Brandi’s book and stuff. There’s a TON of stuff. Some highlights:
Where Brandi is with LeAnn & Eddie now: “At this point, now that the book is out, this is my last chapter on this front as far as dealing with this publicly. I really want to put this public war with LeAnn and Eddie behind me, and I want to communicate with them privately. If they’ll have me. And move past this conversation.”
Working on co-parenting, honesty: “In the past, I’ve had [LeAnn and Eddie] over for Easter to my house. They were fully making out. It was an Easter egg hunt. I wrote this book knowing full well that one day my kids will read it. As a child, my parents gave all the information — like, way too much. I’m kind of that way with my children. Mason and I have a really honest, open relationship. We talk about everything. So I know that one day I would tell them everything in this book too. People are like, “Don’t you think about your kids?” I’m like, “Of course I think about my kids. I think about putting them through junior high and high school and college.” There’s no promise that Eddie’s going to be able to do that. That’s all I think about. And I don’t mean that in a rude way, but I need to think about my responsibility as a parent and not be dependent on him since he’s not my husband anymore.”
Who has really talked more about what happened? “Eddie and LeAnn have done numerous sit-down after sit-down after sit-down. For the past four years, tell-all interviews — the crying, the “we love each other,” the 20/20, the Katie Couric, the whatever her name is…Giuliana Rancic. It’s, like, enough already. I’ve never done that. Do I have an answer if people ask? Yeah, I tell them to suck it. But I’ve never, ever put my side in full detail. So this book is my side of the story. The only reason it continually gets talked about is because they continually do these sit-down interviews about it. It’s something that’s four years old. And they need — I think we both need — to step away from it now. After the book and everything. Put it behind us and move on. Hopefully, they’ll have a child of their own and she’ll understand better what a proper boundary is for a stepmother and a mother.”
She’s on Lexapro and she loves it: “I do! I tried to go off it recently and realized I’m a big fat baby and I can’t get off of it. I tried! I started to get snappy and — I’m always bossy, but I was like, “Ooh, did I just say that?” Back on. Maybe I have a chemical imbalance, and I need it as part of my daily life. I find I’m a better person and a better mom. If a pill can make you better and healthy and happy, take it. Unless it’s Ecstasy. Then don’t.”
On the Us Weekly cover story claiming she cheated on Eddie: “I wish. I’ll take any of them on right now. I’m like, “Oh my god, they’re so hot.” They’re so stupid, because all it does is give my book more publicity. I just liked the picture, I was just happy to be on the cover. I was like, “Wow, that’s amazing!” Why now? Why four years later? I think it was a last effort to discredit me before the book came out. If these were true, they would have been out years ago. Like I said, I’ll have any of those guys — they’re all really hot. I’ll take ya! Call me!”
On living frugally now: “I’ve been very frugal. I now have a business manager who tells me what I can spend, what I can’t spend. I’ve got all the right people around me. And I’m doing pretty well now. We have a lot of other amazing business opportunities; I don’t even know what I can say yet. There are so many great things going on. A second offer for book number two just came in.”
Ideas for a second book: “I think it’s going to be really raunchy, for sure. I want to go with the Drinking and ___. Like a Drinking and Dating. Dating, the game has changed. It is so different than it was when I was single. I want it to stay along the same lines: funny, but serious, and then a good message. Ultimately, I think this book-writing is amazing for me. I love it. I hate downtime. That’s when I pick at my face. What do I do now? Get the needle and the tweezers! It’s so f–ked up. That’s what I do. That’s what I did yesterday. It’s nice to have responsibilities.”
There’s a crapload more if you go and read the whole thing – Brandi talks about her vadge and how she’s kind of tired about talking about her vadge. She talks about her kids and what they think of her and what they think of Eddie and the whole situation. It’s an interesting interview, and it gave me a fresh perspective on Brandi. I don’t think I realized before now that she’s sort of pleasantly neurotic! I also didn’t know she’s on antidepressants. This piece was full of gems!
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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