You know what would be great? Yet another story about Brooks and his cancer! Well not really. But this from an interview with US magazine so I feel like we should take a look at what he is saying.
Brooks talks about the motivations for the bitches on the show doubting his illness. “It creates drama and relevance for them to be able to challenge somebody else’s illness. I simply wanted to share with people that you can survive a relationship in the public eye and be there to nurture each other — Vicki through the loss of her mom, me battling cancer for a third time — and it turned into a circus.”
I don’t really see how any relationship could withstand all of that.
It seems that Brooks has sent Meghan a cease and desist that she mocked online. “Meghan has scoffed that ‘Oh my God, Brooks is threatening to sue me.’ But what people don’t know is I have sent her a formal letter from my attorney…demanding certain things, and I do have significant grounds if she doesn’t change her ways and she’s got an opportunity to do that. [This is] defamation. I’m hitting back. She has a chance to make it right and we’ll see if she does or not.”
Don’t hold your breath, Brooks. Although, she hasn’t defamed you on Twitter since the reunion.
Ayers explained to Us he’s stopped chemotherapy and has since opted to go a different route to fight his Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. “I decided I would go and try to attack my body in a natural way with not just Resveratrol, a whole host of other things as well, and then I would keep it in check and monitor it just like I normally would do. And what would I have to lose? At that point when I made that decision, after my third round of chemo, four months of treatment and eating healthy and diet and doing the infrared sauna and all the other things that I was doing…my numbers had not gotten better. It may be against my oncologist’s advice because he’s Western medicine, but this is my body and it’s a practice of medicine, and I did my own research, lengthy research, much more than Meghan could have ever done or does.[She] doesn’t really care about me sincerely, she cares about being relevant on the show. And that saddens me, and that’s immaturity on her part. But my numbers have improved and my inflammations are gone. I’m not out of the woods, it doesn’t mean my cancer is gone, but I’m heading in the right direction.”
I think everyone has to do what is best for them. After three bouts with the same cancer, clearly chemo was not having any lasting result. Why does anyone care what treatment plan he chooses?
Brooks hardly speaks to Vicki these days. He says, “I’ve talked to her once in the last couple of weeks. We’ve emailed and texted on occasion. Today [at the reunion] will be the last time Vicki has got to deal with it in front of the ladies. They’ll move on to next season, and they can pick on somebody else, and manufacture some drama. I care for her, I wish her well, it just didn’t work out [for] us.”
Ah well, you win some you lose some I guess.
Brooks sounds like a smart, nice guy. Were we really all so wrong about him?
I think TT has always liked him. I never thought he was that bad, but I like Southern guys.
He sounds intelligent but I’ve always felt that was something smarmy about him. He’s had a serious of bad relationships ( like a lot of us) and a history of failing to pay child-support- to the extent he was briefly jailed, his previous partners have claimed he doesn’t see his children very often, quite a few have been left bitter and feeling used by him. I dunno, he sounds like at least 3 men I dated in my twenties (thank you Jesus, we didn’t have children). A lot of women sign up for men like this, knowing about their past, but they think, “I will be the one to change him!” but it never happens.
He is busted. He was just trying to promote his Club Detox pyramid scheme with Vicky, and it blew up in his face. The producers at bravo found out he wasn’t sick and said who will run with this and Tamra said, “I will!” which is how it got introduced to to the show and snowballed from there. Does anybody really think Heather would join the Brook’s is lying club if she weren’t certain? No. Neither would Shannon. Brooks is a cfon man and a grifter to the end. Very disappointed in Vicky, however. Unless she was duped.
I have been fast forwarding through the juicing segments so I didn’t realize that Vicki was promoting Club Detox. I just went to their site and there is a big picture of Vicki and a video of her promoting the club.In the video she says she joined in January 2015 and it has changed her life….and the best decision……
Vicki is wealthy, has a successful business and doesn’t need the money but would do anything for Brooks. I don’t get it….Doesn’t she remember the Vodka line?
I think some people are really good cons, so thats why appearences can be so decieving and fool so many people. They can mimic all the stuff we want to see like sensitivity, humour, intelligence and understanding. But scratch below that surface and its a whole other person thats not so nice at all. Theres a hidden agenda and that facade is a means to an end. Thats the deal with Brooks that I see. I remember a scene with Vickie and him in a car and she’s blubbering desperatly “what are we?”, and Brooks doesnt even look at her and says “I dont know but were going to make alot of money together”. The fact that he encouraged her to leave her marriage for him and then cheated on her also tells me he didnt care about imploding her life. I love a southern accent too, but it doesnt blind me to what I see. For me with Brooks it isnt any one thing, its all of it and some of it.
I personally would love to see Meghan publicly humiliated and I’ll take any way I can get it…
Ditto!! I agree she needs a good kick assin I can’t take her fake ass self talking like she knows cancer wtf?? U know how many different cases n diagnosis there are of cancer? STFU already! My husband died of osteosarcoma a rare kind for an adult he stopped chemo knew it wasn’t helping millions are frustrated at the end knowing chemo is killing a better life lived even if its for 6 months to live he was happier and died at peace. Every individual has a choice. I can’t fkn take her shit!! FO already!
I’m very sorry about your husband. Sometimes quality of life is more important than quantity. Chemo is so hard on the body and many people want to spend their remaining time with their friends and family rather than sick and bedridden from chemotherapy. Cancer is very personal and nobody should judge someone else’s journey. I can’t take Meghan’s crap anymore either. Too much
Hburnett6612 condolences on your loss. My Daddy died 5 yrs ago by the time docs found the cancer it had spread to his lungs ,brain,liver & spine needless to say the prognosis was grim even with chemo he was given less than 3 weeks so he opted to come home no chemo or radiation we lost him in 3 weeks Meghan has no clue . As yo said and I agree Daddy was home with us and passed away in peace surrounded by the people who loved him. Everyone is entitled to their decisions.
I’m really sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing your husband story.
There are things a lot worse that death.
I so agree with this sentiment. She has rubbed me the wrong way from her first appearance on the show. To me she represents the self-entitled brats that I see so often these days and that I believe are dumbing down the country. I Don’t care what the supposed reasons for her “research” were, what she did was cruel and disgusting. Brooks is a human being and she had no right to demean him or call him a liar without proof that anything she believes is even remotely true. How dare she claim that he doesn’t have a deadly disease when she knows nothing about him and has only met him on a few occasions? This woman (along with her cronies) have single handedly wrecked this show and I will not watch in the future if she is a part of it. You’d think that supposedly mature women like Heather and Shannon would have the brains to think independently without following the lead of an immature brat who fancies herself an expert on something that takes years of training and knowledge to deal with. Her arrogance is breathtaking. I hope that Brooks does well no matter what his medical condition is currently and I don’t think that he would expose himself to public ridicule if he was lying about having cancer. The women and this show showed themselves for the ugly human beings that they really are and I hope that they are all shut down once and for all. Shame on all of them. Shame on Bravo and Andy Cohen for allowing this to happen. And shame on me for watching this fiasco.
I’m with you on that one Katimir2. I don’t think she was a good fit for this group. Whomever dropped out at the last minute saddled us with Meghan.
:(. I’m sad for Vicki, because no matter what anyone’s opinion of Brooks is…it only matters what she thinks and she seemed really happy & at peace with him.
I agree! I can’t imagine how she feels right now.
She has been through hell this year and the only thing she was asking for was true friendship. MEK is a joke, and irrelevant. I wish the people that Vicki supported would show her the same respect.
This just all makes me so sad. Sad that this played out the way it did, sad that people think they should tell others how to treat their illnesses, sad that Vicki and Brooks went through so much. They just seemed good together and happy. Frankly, OC has gotten so negative and even more tabloid then the others. What happened this year was disgusting on so many levels and just like N.J. I think I am done with the show. All I need to know I can find here. There is enough REAL drama going on in our country and world with people I look to TV to be entertained and to laugh. Blessings to Brooks and Vicki, I hope they both find love, peace and happiness.
I like your comments and agree with you.
This whole thing is some sick shit. I watch because, well, I love train wrecks and misery, apparently. But, my Bama breeding will just not let me past how sick all this shit is. Leave the man be. Seriously.
This is what happens when you let a 30 year old take the reins. Heather, Tamra, and Shannaon drank the koolaid and all look foolish. I hope Vicki slayed those girls at the reunion.
Sware84, I think you are insulting most 30-year-olds. This is what happens when you let an IDIOT take the reins, regardless of age.
This is so sad. I agree with everyone that’s posted that things this season went too far and it got too dark. Andy Periscoped this morning from LA and he said that in the OC Reunion they had a surprise guest and that a lot was revealed. He said that they “got close to the truth” when someone asked if Brooks had cancer. Andy entertaining this bullshit makes it all the more dark and nasty. He’s really made it a sideshow and it’s shamefully sad.
Close to the truth Andy? Really? Why watch?
Wow, what a waste of a season. I wonder how many viewers Andy lost over this stupid story line, perhaps enough that they can’t recover next year. Why are the “powers that be” so slow on realizing their Housewife Series is going down the tubes. Everyone seem to enjoy New York this year. Have they ask why? Because it was like the original seasons, the girls were friends and they had fun! The formula seems pretty easy to me. Who would think that at the end of the season we’d be saying, “Poor Brooks!”.
I just find Meghan so offensive and dislike her. She was not well brought up.
I want to add one more thing. The original shows were not packed with advertisements. I think the sale of anything should be abolished because it causes friction between the women. They have to fight for a storyline so they can hawk their wares. The shows have lost any common thread for the women to work toward, instead they are all pushing themselves and what they have to sell. It’s ruined the commradity that holds the show together.
Excellent point Jewels50!
I agree with Jewels50 also. Way too much product advertising! If I wanted that, I would watch Home Shopping Network. RHONY was fun to watch this season, I’m enjoying Ladies of London and looking forward to the craziness of Vanderpump Rules. I quit watching OC because I couldn’t stand the women any longer. TT’s recap is all that I can handle.
What Meghan has done to Brooks and Vicki is despicable, and I have no respect for Jim for staying married to a person who is so cruel as to constantly hound someone with cancer, thereby adding to their stress. Then again, tegarding his marriage to Meghan, Jim comes across as very bi-geographic.
Wow poor Brooks and Vicki. Meghan can Fuck all the way off. Has Jimmy dumped her unfortunate looking ass yet?
I know some people still doubt Brooks, but I do see where he is coming from. I do know someone personally who is on their third cancer diagnosis also, and chemo is just not working. They are now taking a homeopathic route also. I would imagine that there is only so much chemo one can do. My dad had colon cancer and went through two rounds of chemo and two round of radiation before and after surgery. He is very clear that chemo would be on the bottom of his list of treatment if the cancer comes back. Meghan and all the doubters should take many seats, since this is not their cancer journey.
If you take a close look on Tivo of the “PET scan results” Brooks (whose real name is David Brooks Ayers), you will see that they were past results of a CAT scan and probably the result of a scan done in prior years when I do believe he had NHL and went into remission, but I don’t believe he had it this season. I think that Vicki and Brooks went in together on a financial venture with Club Detox and used a ‘relapse’ of the cancer as a way to promote the club for their financial gain. The Club Detox lady was almost as present in each episode as the rest of the cast. A CAT scan uses contrast dye and a PET scan is a nuclear test that uses radioactive sugars that when injected into the body, attach to cancer cells. Juices have tons of sugar as does alcohol. Why would a cancer patient add unnecessary sugar to their diet.
I .agree Matza. I wondered why Vicki contradicted herself throughout the season about Brooks’ treatment.
Everyone can hate on Meagan but she is getting to all the lies. Further, Meagan is helping true cancer patients not buy into the bull treatment Brooks is espousing. Anyone with any life threatening illness will find hope in a fabricated treatment.
It it walks and talks like a duck….it’s Brooks. He has been known to fabricate. This is his worst yet. Vicki is to blame. She needed her love tank filled and meanwhile viewers have gotten their bull crap tank filled.
So when you say past, do you mean 4/8/15? Because that is the date on the PET scan summary sheet. And no – I don’t think that’s too far in the distant past when compared to the timeline of filming.
PET scans are absolutely used to determine stages of cancer, location, size etc.. you’re not adding sugar to your diet. Not like you are ingesting and metabolizing. It’s a very small amount of radioactive glucose. CAT scan is a good amount of radiation and comes with its own set of risks, and nowhere near the imagery of a PET scan for this purpose.
I know a few people who have had PET scans and they have had cancer. Their doctor wanted to see if it had spread to the rest of their body. Each kind of cancer is different, each case is very unique so I don’t think we can judge or determine anything because we are not doctors or the patient.
Sounds like Meghan backpedalling but no I actually go along with TT. The timeline of him mentioning cancer was during off season. By the time filiming began he was probably in remission and had to “re-enact” which happens quite often on these housewive shows when it comes to phone calls and even when Khloe K got arrested long time ago for a DUI there was a reenactment to go along with the storyline.
I love how the yoga/ disease expert counselor lady who took Vicky and Brooks to their pesticide-sprayed grass in order to absorb the earth’s electrolytes had fake boobs. Matzah60 said it better than I ever could. Which storyline is more despicable, the I banged my mother-in-law story or this one?
Does Brooks realize that if he sues Meghan it opens up all of his medical records in the discovery phase? That would be worth Bravo filming. I would tune it to that. “The Unraveling of Brooks” Tuesdays at 8!
What Meghan has done is pretty crappy, does Brooks have cancer, I am not him or his doc so I can’t say for certain. He does look not himself, he has lost weight, his hair looks thinner and more frazzled and his color is off. I have never cared for him, I have always thought he was shady and a piece of crap looking for a sugar mama and he wouldn’t even pay his child support. Men who do not support their kids are disgusting, and yes that includes Slade. Most of the time i cannot stand Vickie, she grates on my nerves and is way to self absorbed and controlling. She begs for attention from her kids and men and that is very sad. How she could ok this storyline is beyond me. she has enough money to not have filmed if this was a condition of filming. Be careful the fame you seek, it could undo you.
Agree!
He does look a bit off, like hes got rosacea or broken blood vessels on his cheecks and nose like heavy drinkers get sometimes. Other times ive thought he looked good.
In the US interview that Tamara recapped, Brooks says, “I simply wanted to share with people that you can survive a relationship in the public eye and be there to nurture each other — Vicki through the loss of her mom, me battling cancer for a third time — and it turned into a circus.”
Today, he posted on his twitter post in response to a question from some followers:
“Correct. Totally got forced into filming because I was dating Vicki. #manufactureddramaforrealitytv”
This itself is a contradiction from what he said to US. He’s now saying that he was forced to film for the show. So exactly “just how big was the gun” they used that forced him in front of the camera?
The two women who used Brooks for their storyline were Meghan and Vicki.The rest of the ladies just seem confused by the information Brooks put out. Whether Brooks has cancer or not is on him and not to be determined by Meghan or anyone else, but Brooks gave this story life by his posts on his Twitter account and the many press interviews he did. He is the only one responsible for this horrible, non-ending storyline.
Your assessment sounds ridiculous. He is not the only one responsible.
If something has happened to him personally he is allowed to address it. If he and vicki agreed to address it camera that is fine. What he is NOT responsible for is Meghan acting childish and foolish to the point of not only persuading the other girls to doubt his cancer more but her actually claiming that he does not have cancer.
THAT is who is responsible for this non ending storyline. All the ladies had to do was respect it and move forward. None of those ladies are even close with him. The real problem is that Meghan and her brat step daughter and her husband who probably cares more about the sex than the marriage if them hooking up while he was on marriage #2 is true and that wasn’t enough to make people like her. She thought “JUSTICE” was going to be the ploy to make her likable especially after they reamed her out for not being with her husband most of the time and crossing the boundaries of a stepmother.
She thought this was her saving grace and with the snapshots from the reunion with Vicki grinning ear to ear with Andy and Brooks continue to proceed forward with potential legal action…this will all look bad on megan. Andy and Bravo will protect Vicki if this was for a storyline that needed to be reenacted on tv. If Vicki and Brooks completely lied then they would wash their hands of it.
This did NOT have to play out this way but meghan chose to be on a justice crusade and it will blow up in her face.
I noticed throughout the OC season was how uneducated, uninformed and clueless these women are.
Vicky not knowing that blood can be removed, treated and returned to your body has been done with numerous treatments and surgeries for many years.
Shannon and her quackery medicene, omg that woman is a idiot.
Did Tamra graduate middle school?
Has she ever read book without pictures.
Meghan was the leader in cool mean girl group, knows fashion and how to hire people. idiot.
Heather oh Heather. She has a brain but she does not know how she comes across with needing the biggest house. That house is for show not her family.
Brookes is lucky he escaped without killing one of those women.
Vicky got played by Brooks in this whole storyline, her daughter knew best.
Ryan is still playing brianna, she needs to concentrate on that.
I think so too. Thats why there were so many break ups and tears and drama. It was never a genuine relationship, it was Vickie being played by someone who is a practiced womaniser and oppourtunist. Sure Vickie seemed over the moon happy at times when she thought she was getting what she wanted. But theyre not together now, yet again. If a man really loves you he doesnt keep leaving. Thats behaviour of a player. Some people dont think Eddie is legit. That one I see differently. Eddie is into Tamra and is a nice man to me. Theyve never broken up, he married her and to me he looks at Tamra with love in his eyes.
Putting myself in Heather and Shannon’s shoes, once I heard what Tamra’s psychic said and what Megan “researched” – it couldn’t be unheard. But I would do more of what Heather did – approach Vicki ONCE, do it from a calm place of caring (her approach of wanting to make sure Brooks wasn’t being scammed was a good one – I would have also offered to mention it to Brooks directly if that was what she wished or thought was best) then back off.
I don’t think Shannon is getting it as to why Vicki is so mad… it really doesn’t matter WHAT the topic was at lunch. Vicki was asking, with TEARS in her eyes, to stop and change the subject. I’m realizing why I was bothered a bit by Shannon last season and this season – she’s not a good listener, and b/c of that, sometimes jumps to conclusions or ignores her part in something. Also, sometimes being a good friend means you back off and give someone some space.
Yes exactly. She doesnt know how to listen, its her, her, her all the time. If she listened to david and how frustrated and unloved and hounded he felt, maybe just maybe he wouldn’t have strayed. Honestly the only person shannon listens to is dr. Moon.
Sidebar. If shannon is sooo into new age and home remedies and shoving tons of vitamins down her childrens throats. bs, why cant she accept that brooks would like to try a homeopathic approach to his cancer. Hypocritical much
It’s called respecting one’s wishes.
Two things stand out for me.
How everyone hated him for saying he is “a hugger”.
What has happened to the sentiments in the greeting cards he used to hide for Vicki, sometimes in her purse.
Let me preface this by saying Meghan is wrong.
That being said, after the Vicki’s Vodka scam and lawsuit, and Brooks being on tape saying sometimes you need to hit your woman to keep her in line, and Brianna’s reticence regarding all things Brooks, yes, I’d take everything he has said with a huge grain of salt.
Good people get cancer. Bad people get cancer, too. And having cancer does not magically make you innocent.
I don’t know Brook’s diagnosis. I’d fall on the side of believing him simply because I can’t believe someone would like about that, especially someone who is having large chunks of heir lives recorded.
Heather did what I’d do: talk to Vicki once and then concentrate on something more substantial (which, lets face it, could be anything but in this case it was Terrys Magic Cream) than these silly people with their ridiculous lives.
Just sayin’: Bravo sunk low on this one. When the we are collectively waiting for conman/hooker Jax Taylor as a source of Bravo reality gravitas, somethings wrong
Brooks is a lying I don’t think he has ever told the truth ever. I feel sorry for his kids and father and mothers it’s sad to have a father and a son that you can’t tell what is true and what’s not.
Aren’t you going to feel bad about saying that when you finally realize that he has cancer?
I am done talking about the Brooks shit. Honestly it is played out to a point for me where I just don’t care anymore. However, gessiewtf pointed out some interesting things I did not know about.
Anyway, just wanted to say I am watching all of the OC reunions right now. Season 1 – current. Not the episodes. Just the reunions.
What is blowing me away is in Season 2 (which is where I currently am), Vicki looks exactly, I MEAN EXACTLY like Brianna. It’s uncanny.
Kind of hilarious to rewatch these, if you have the time. All of the women look very different in the early years. Mucho plastic surgery has transpired.
General Gentle Suggestion: If you are going to insult the character of someone you have never met and know very little about other than being a minor personality on a reality show, you should at least know how to spell the insults you are hurling, and what those words mean.
Meghan is awful and I don’t think Brooks is as terrible in all the ways people make him out to be. That said, I can never fully be a fan of any dead beat parent. I do wish him peace and health tho.
I have NEVER been a fan of Brooks, nor will I ever. But with that said, other than him and Vicki making “The Cancer” a story line and then trying to pull it back in…its really none of my business to judge. At least, on that one. I have many many OPINIONS on how Brooks likes to portray himself. I have found his actions and behavior since day one creepy and weird! IDK. Brooks is in my Jim box. The Creep-A-Zoid Box ?
I remember Brooke’s on Judge Judy being sued by his ex-wife and 17 yr’s (?) daughter for her bedroom suit.
She wanted it back out of the family home which the Mom and three children had moved out of, he said no.
Brookes wanted to keep it saying it would help the house sell faster.
The Mom and daughter were classy and spoke well. They did not look like his league. I think they got the bedroom furniture back.?
I think you might be imagining the Judge Judy thing, Calipatti…IJS
Vicki has had a hell of a year, but going through trials like this will strengthen her. I lost my father suddenly and left a serious relationship of several years the following month. It was a major shakeup in my life, but when you finally push through the worst of it it gives you perspective. She has her business, her family, and hopefully some peace after all this brooks drama is put to bed. I think she will turn it around for the better eventually.
Regardless of my feelings about Brooks’ behavior in earlier seasons, I hope he is able to recover and be well. Nobody deserves to be sick and have a wench like Meghan hounding them 24/7. Awful human being.
Jim, or any sane human, being should be mortified by Meghan’s ontinued behavior. I have no idea how he brings that woman out in public with all the embarrassing/rude/childish shit she does on national tv.
The scenes with “Jimmy” and Meghan are every bit as cringeworthy as the scenes with the Beadors – and that’s a lot of cringing. I’d rather watch both of these couples than Tamra and Eddie. Vicki needed to be rid of Brooks. He’s way too shady.
I have to admit if I were Brooks I’d be drinking alcohol too! He told Vickis daughter he had pancreatic cancer (really the worst cancer anyone could get), he told Nicolette (his baby momma) that he had nose cancer (20/20 interview where it’s discussed the child support issues, and now he tells Vicki he has non-Hoskins. He is one lucky/unlucky guy…
Non-Hodgkin, darn phone.