Side note: Can you please tell me the story of the Monster energy drink fridge in your kitchen?<\/strong><\/p>\nNumber one, I would like to shout out the production team, because they got that cleared so easily. I was like, did Monster just immediately say yes? But they did, which is amazing, because I was like, what am I going to do? I would have to literally cover up the logo, it would make it very hard. But it’s actually one of my prized possessions. I got it in 2020, during the pandemic. There were a lot of convenience stores going out of business or whatever. I got it for like $200 and it was brand new when I got it, and when we looked it up, it was $1,600. I like energy drinks, Diet Coke, I have Celsius, then all your mixers for your drinks. I love it, and it’s such a cool, fun thing to have. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s this time capsule effect that the show creates, where you film, and things get wrapped up and discussed, and then you have this big chunk of time to go about your rest of your lives off camera, and then all of this gets resurrected. Has that been challenging for you at all?<\/strong><\/p>\nIt’s a little challenging in the fact that you have to relive basically every situation week to week. This season was a little different, because when Nia and Kristen got pregnant, they had to move up our reunion as everybody knows. Everybody’s like, what? Why are they having it after episode three?<\/p>\n
I was curious about this, but please continue.<\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s because they’re pregnant, and obviously they have to be at the reunion. There’s no way you can have a reunion without them. So it was like, do you want to have it after you have the baby? Absolutely not. Like, who wants to do that, you know? So take an entire season of emotions, of ups and downs, and then condense it. You go through all of them, and then you have the reunion. I’m not gonna lie, it was very, very hard to be able to do it. I’m glad it’s done and we can move forward. And sometimes it does suck because it brings up stuff you’ve already really healed from, and then you have to talk about it, and it makes that emotion raw again. But luckily, I think we all understand \u2014 well, some of us understand \u2014 that we should move on to the next thing instead of rehashing the past. But some of us can’t.<\/p>\n
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With the reunion, did you feel excited that you got the seal of approval? Because a lot of viewers wanted one the first season.<\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s exactly like you said, it’s a seal of approval.\u201dYour show is a hit, you’re doing something, right.\u201d And so that was great. I will say, I came into this reunion, like, let’s go! I was like Muhammad Ali, \u201cFloat like a butterfly, sting like a bee.\u201d But unfortunately, I should have actually asked Kristen and Brittany, definitely not Jax, but Kristen and Brittany. \u201cWhat are some tips? Or, what is it like?\u201d Because I just had an assumption of how it would play out, and it is much different than what I thought. So that was a little overwhelming. But in general, I had a great day at the reunion, and for the next reunion, I will be ready.<\/p>\n
The show being a hit is such an important narrative this season, outside of the show itself. You guys had a legacy that you were being compared against. I know people who never even watched <\/strong>Vanderpump Rules<\/em><\/strong><\/em> that are tuning into <\/strong>The Valley<\/em><\/strong><\/em>. It\u2019s garnered its own separate audience. How does that feel?<\/strong><\/p>\nI mean, anytime you’re being compared to another franchise, because you’re a spin-off, it\u2019s hard. Because you aren’t the same as what you’re being compared to. We only had three of the same people, and we have 12 people, so it’s not like it was going to be a carbon copy of that. I think that I’m very lucky that people gave us a chance, and I think that having Vanderpump Rules<\/em><\/em> as our lead in did help, because then people are like, \u201cOh, well, I’m already here watching Vanderpump Rules<\/em><\/em>, so I’ll watch The Valley<\/em><\/em>.\u201d Because we are such a great group, and people really got invested in us individually, they stayed. That is really a testament to how our group is, because we’re all crazy in our own ways. It makes good television, because we are all dramatic. We all are our own characters and personalities \u2014 some of the hugest personalities are on this cast. Let’s be real! Somehow it all works together. But what’s so funny is, before the show even started, we were this dramatic off camera. If I even remotely began to explain the situations that have happened the two years prior, or seven years prior, to us being on camera, you’d be like, why weren’t cameras on you all seven years ago, eight years ago? It really is that crazy. Bravo did the right thing by putting the cameras on us, and we did the rest.<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
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If I could give a note to Alex Baskin, it\u2019s that people love feeling like they\u2019re being inserted into a friend group. Because everyone watching these shows are nosy, right? Humans love to gossip! When it\u2019s a bunch of people that don\u2019t really seem like they know each other off camera, it can feel like, \u201cWhat are we watching?\u201d On that note, going back to season one and then now, have you formed relationships, or deepened relationships, you wouldn\u2019t have expected? Were relationships tested in ways that surprised you?<\/strong><\/p>\nOh, absolutely. We are all friends off camera. We hang out all the time. It\u2019s not like the Housewives<\/em><\/em>, or some of these other shows, where it\u2019s like, \u201cOkay, we\u2019re done now.\u201d These are people I see every single day, whether we\u2019re filming or not, and it\u2019s funny, because my friends back home, before the show, they\u2019d be like: Why are you guys so dramatic? Like, what is wrong with you? So I knew going in that we would have the perfect amount of drama for it. <\/p>\nBut when you\u2019re on camera and when you have to go through these scenarios that maybe you wouldn\u2019t have to go through outside of filming a show, it can test relationships. Like season one, Kristen is my best friend. Brittany, obviously, is my best friend too, but Kristen and I are with each other 24\/7. Our relationship was really tested, and some stuff went down season one. But through it all, it strengthened our relationship and made us even closer. And season two, it\u2019s the same with Brittany. There were some things going on, and Brittany and I were on very rocky ground, but coming out of it, and hopefully going into season three\u2026 well, we haven\u2019t been picked up yet. <\/p>\n
Let\u2019s be serious\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\nOkay, good. I\u2019m glad you\u2019re with me. <\/p>\n
I have a few more questions. It\u2019s interesting watching you and Jasmine on the show. I say this with love, because I relate to you most on the show, being a girl who doesn\u2019t really know heterosexual drama like that. I feel like there\u2019s a fish out of water element with both of you sometimes, being around these straight married people with kids. Did you feel that at all, being in the group?<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is just what our friend group is, and so it makes the most sense. It\u2019s kind of funny, because I\u2019m always with Kristen, and I always joke that I\u2019m going to burn her ally card if she doesn\u2019t come out with me to at least one pride event. <\/p>\n
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She would shut the party down! The gays would go crazy if Kristen showed up.<\/strong><\/p>\nTrust me, I know! I know! But obviously, I feel like this group, what makes it so special, is it\u2019s almost like a view into how millennials are at our age. How we\u2019ve grown up, to where its mainly straight people, but also gay and lesbians, and you get this dynamic, and diversity, that you might not have in other generations. We\u2019re really getting to highlight what makes our group so special, and the fact that there\u2019s diversity, and you can have me being single and not having kids, them having kids, it still works out. They still want to party, and I still will go to the kid\u2019s birthday. So it\u2019s really cool. I think it\u2019s the most special part, that you get to see how we\u2019re all the same, and we can all relate. It\u2019s a very special millennial type of view that you haven\u2019t seen in a show like this before. <\/p>\n
Especially at a time when things feel so segmented. Now, I have one last question I have been dying to ask you since season one \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\u2014 Please don\u2019t ask me about my hair, I swear!<\/p>\n
No, I think you might be eager to answer this question. It\u2019s not really about you, but one of those moments from season one my friends and I still talk about is Janet in the woods on the girls trip, acting like you were a serial killer. [<\/strong>Laughs<\/em><\/strong><\/em>] I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m laughing, which is so unprofessional, but it was hilarious! How did it feel to watch that back, seeing how heightened her emotions were?<\/strong><\/p>\nI don’t feel like it was edited to be any more heightened dramatically than it was. That’s how she feels. She feels that way about a lot of things. I would say she takes things maybe to the extreme. I probably shouldn’t even be saying this, but afterwards, when we joke about it, I\u2019m like, you made it seem and feel like I was literally in the woods. I’m not gonna lie, I almost\u2026 me and Kristen almost did a photo shoot with pine trees. We went as far as to find out where pine trees were in LA, so that we could go film next to them. Also, oh, I shouldn’t be whatever. I can’t say that. Okay, well, maybe I can. Can I say something from behind this? Well, something that we just thought about but didn’t do, sure. I did tell Jasmine, hey, go print out a picture of me and put it in a tree. She didn\u2019t do it, obviously, and we laughed about it. <\/p>\n
This is incredible, thank you.<\/strong><\/p>\nAlso, I did turn off my location, because we all share locations. Not me and Janet, but Scheana, Kristen, Brittany, Jasmine, Nia. I think those are the only ones, enough that people would know. I was like, I know exactly what Janet is gonna do. She\u2019s gonna say, \u201cWhere\u2019s his location?\u201d So I turned off my location before I posted my story, because I knew they would look and then they\u2019d be like, \u201cOh, he doesn\u2019t have his location on.\u201d Then that would heighten everything. So in essence, I did know what I was doing, but it was all in good fun. The thing is, Janet and I have been very close for a long time, we\u2019ll go through ups and downs, and we\u2019ve been down for a while. But that doesn\u2019t mean we won\u2019t go up again.<\/p>\n
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