Brooks was on E! News tonight and spoke with the woman who interviewed him previously about the whole cancer storyline. He says the talked to Vicki after the reunion aired and she told him that she was exhausted after long day of filming and everyone going after her and since they are broken up and done, she wants to make peace with those people who will be in my life moving forward and so I said what they wanted me to say. Well that sounds like bullshit.
In response to questions about Brianna’s comments about him shaking Vicki so hard that her head was flying back and forth he said calls it over the top sensationalism drama by Brianna. 
He was asked about the story about Terry Dubrow. He says he has nothing to do with that. Vicki has been on a reality TV show for ten years sensationalizing drama. Sometimes she says things that makes for a better story.
He was asked about how he could go from Stage 3 cancer to Stage 2 since the stages never go backward. The interviewer reads from the American Cancer society site that says that regardless if the cancer gets worse or improves the Stage at the time of diagnosis is always the stage. Brooks says he “totally misspoke” he says he was merely trying to indicate that his numbers were improving.
The hosts of E! News as the interviewer whether she believes Brooks. After the first interview she said she was not sure. Now she says that after speaking to him for over four hours total, there are a lot of contradictions but there are also a lot of explanations. But today Brooks gave the interviewer medical documentation to prove that he has cancer. She is going to have them authenticated and will return with more details tomorrow. ARGH!
This is never going to end, is it? Will the medical records prove once and for all if Brooks has cancer? Stay tuned.
Brooks is not a medical doctor. He needs to give his records to Dr. Oz and let him have a look at them. I don’t think he is lying. People with lymphoma can live years with the disease not even being treated. I do feel sorry for Vicky, shame on these women.
I worked for a woman who had NHL, and even with treatment, she died less than a year after she was diagnosed. I don’t believe that anyone can “live years with the disease not even being treated”.
PJ wrote, he needs to give …
Brooks is in a strange place.
If he walks away without answering the false cancer accusations it could effect his future employment and life.
If he proves he has cancer it can effect his future employment/life.
Brooks is screwed either way.
OMG, I hate this man. I don’t care if he does or doesn’t have cancer at this point.
Me neither
Gosh this storyline needs to die already. Brooks needs to sail into the sun never to do interviews again.
It crossed my mind that Vicki may have decided to agree that she did all the things they accused her of dong so they would leave her alone. When she barely nodded in response to Andy’s question – are you afraid of him – I was not sure I believed her.
I DON’T believe she is afraid of him. I don’t care for Brooks but some things I flat out don’t believe. I think if he called her right now she would welcome him into her bed!
I think they had dirty, dirty, DIRTY sex I don’t even know what kind. Something demeaning..
E! is a network of NBC Universal and Bravo has been an NBC Universal Cable Network since 2002. These three media outlets are interconnected and cross network with each other. No one who doesn’t watch the RHOC wouldn’t give a rat’s ass to watch an hour long interview of Brooks. It was done to promote the reunion and it won’t end until Andy lets it end which may be a long in coming.
Andy seems very well aware that Brooks is lying or at least exaggerating because he set up this miserable storyline.
I don’t feel sorry for Vicki except like a commenter said above, I was duped in a relationship. Vicki admits to leaving Donn for Brooks. She altered her life and relationships to get together with a man who is using her for money and fame (well, housewife fame).
While most people wouldn’t question another person for proof about their cancer, the other housewives had good cause because this wasn’t Brook’s first rodeo. He was driving Vicki’s car, getting his teeth fixed, and enjoying Vicki’s generosity. Sadly, Vicki thought this was the love of her life, but I don’t think Brooks cared about Vicki in any special way. She was just one of many women he exploited. I feel sorry for Vicki if she was duped, but something about her obsession for Brooks makes it feel like she would do anything and everything to protect Brooks. Brooks is her obsession and after all these years, she is still completely consumed with him.
He drove Vicki’s car? OH. MY. GOD! Kill him! How dare he!
Since you seem to know so much, what, exactly, did he get from Vicki? A tooth? OK, that’s like $2,000 max. What else? I need dollar amounts please.
Also, what did Vicki get from him? Can’t say, can you?
You write as if you were living in Vicki’s house right along with the both of them. The assumptions and speculation are amazing.
I only commented on what was shown and stated on the same show that we all watched. The audio where he says that Ryan should hit his wife, Brianna was enough proof of his lack of integrity. If someone I was dating said that about my child, he would be out of my life. Even if it was said while drunk, it is not acceptable to me. In fact, my ex father in law was an alcoholic and he seemed to be able to say what he truly though when drunk that he didn’t have the balls to say when sober.
He didn’t get just one tooth. He got a whole mouthful of them. That has been documented, but it’s possible that the dentist’s services were free in return for Vicki and Brooks promoting his business.
@ericzku, Vicki paid for upper and lower veneers on Brooke’s teeth. They talked about it on the show and she paid over $15,000.00 for his mouth.
Vicki repeatedly said she’s not stupid. Translation, she wouldn’t let Brooks get to her money. Would Vicki stoop as low as supporting his many lies. YES! I believe Vicki is holding back on something. I don’t know if it has to do with Club Detox or not. Vicki has made some shady business deals in the past and it wouldn’t surprise me any.
The mere fact that Vicki would leave Don for Brooks who claimed he was dying of Pancreatic cancer years earlier and then it turned out to be only inflamed pancreas, is very telling. Don wasn’t filling Vicki’s love tank and gerth brooks aka Brooks the crook was doing just that, filling he love tank is what got in the way of Vicki’s sensibilities.
Many, many smart women are capable of being incredibly “stupid” when it comes to men. I do not exclude myself from that group lol
Vickie shouldnt talk or text with Brooks anymore. When you break up, if there’s emotion left with at least one party, the communication needs to stop, especially when there was a broken heart situation involved. Vickie got her heart broken and by talking to him still, the agony is being prolonged and stoked. I have gone through that before and I ended up being so sorry I ever participated and weakened to talk to him again. Youre just kidding yourself again. I told myself I needed closure and to express my feelings. The next thing I know Im brought down even worse and I have to start all over again.
Eric — I agree. So what if he needed dental work, if he got a wardrobe or drove a car. It happens in relationships and Vicky is not in the poor house.
I still can’t accept those shrews went after Brooks cancer or Vicky for being his girlfriend. Brooks did not ask for their money or help.
They had multiple opportunities to develope their own story line, the chose to continue the attack.
I might be done with this franchise also.
14 bathrooms, OMG.
Yes calipatti. That’s how I feel about the whole thing so far. At this point I’m taking it as a given that it’s a very strong possibility that Brooks and/or Vicki have been lying about something. If not lying directly, then at least stretching the truth indirectly for whatever reason. I’ve never said that Vicki’s perfect. She definitely has a bad side that makes me cringe.
That being said, my position is that even if they’re totally lying about everything cancer related, so what then? They haven’t been stealing anything from anyone. Especially not from any of their fellow cast mates. I feel that even if there’s been lying going on, that it doesn’t excuse anybody’s behavior towards Vicki or Brooks. It’s no skin off of anybody’s nose. They took advantage of this situation to treat a fellow human being deplorably. That’s what sickens me. Especially Briana. You don’t try to ruin family members for the whole world to see. That’s totally unforgivable. They’ve all gone too far.
I would never waste my time on a loser who couldn’t afford to pay for his own dental work.
and what about 13?
I agree with your assesment completly. For some reason sociopaths (Brooks seems like one in my opinion), have this effect on some people, and they become hopelessly addicted to them. The nasty texts saying youre nothing, ive got new women now, after the break up reveals his immature punk personality disorder. He looked really angry and somewhat buzzed in the interview with Andy.
Well, he said he fell out of love and is seeing someone else allready. So ,I think youre spot on Matzah60, with thinking she wasnt anything special to him. Vickie liked the attention, which is sad because it wasnt authentic, but calculated to get what he wanted. This is the way alot of men are when still dating tons iof women when middle aged. They dont work out with people because they’re not nice themselves. Im all for people doing what they want to, but be honest about your intensions. Vickie needs to learn you cant trust what a man says, unless their actions match what they say.
Vicki has some uncanny insurance/ money management acumen, but she is also very stupid. She has that open-mouthed stupid looking face, her grammar and pronunciation and general knowledge about EVERYTHING is stupid. She doesn’t know whether “Morea is a country or a hotel” and does not consider that it might be an island part of a country like Catalina. Like all housewives, she is incapable of correctly using the word “me” and always–like all of them, like everybody on TV says things like “Respect just broke down between Donn and I” or “I could talk to the median about my mother and I’s relationship.” But she was smart about one thing–You shouldn’t eat sashimi (everybody who eats raw fish has some form of internal parasite, as any doctor from “Monsters Inside Me” will tell you and ME); and the human skin is carrying up to 12,000 types of micro-organisms, fungi, larvae, germs, and parasites on it at any given time, even after a bath, so don’t double down on the pre-baptism strap-on sex party’s serving vessel of a young naked lady’s and raw fish’s liver flukes. And I’ve said this since it happened–when your mother dies, you get a year pass for full-on craziness as long as it doesn’t involve bringing actual harm to others, and then a five year private pass for sitting at your desk or standing in line at the grocery store quietly sobbing because grief is real and true and hard, and we used to acknowledge this in others when they wore black and limited their social activities for three years or more; people HONORED and respected the reality of grief and they didn’t expect each other to “get professional help, get closure, snap out of it, quit feeling sorry for oneself, and MOVE ON.” If Vicki tells terrible lies, desperately clings to a nasty lying drunk man, and is hurt that her friends are more interested in her man’s lies than in helping her get through each day of her horrible loss, I say cut her some slack and give her a year of crazy before you cut her out of your life–You’ll know the Crazy Anguish too when your mother dies if you are close to her like Vicki was. You’ve cut her off precisely when she needs your love the most.
I do give Vicki slack for the anguish she has and will continue to endure from the death of her mother. My dad died when I was almost ten on our front porch. This was back in 1963. My mother spent every minute she wasn’t working or taking care of us (I have two siblings, 7 and 8 years older than myself) in bed crying or hiding out from life. She was only 39 and my dad was 43. It is no stretch to say that she never really got over his premature death. There were periods when she rallied and periods that she sunk into a deep depression. They were married for 18 years and we’re still very loving and affectionate. When my own mother died on n 2008, (she lived with me for 10 of the 20 years I was married), I did feel like an orphan. Even though she suffered from various degrees of mental illness through the years, we were very close and I always admired and was very grateful for all she did for all of us, particularly as a single parent.
However, she didn’t go on the hunt for a man to heal her wounds, nor made herself a victim, and she always gave her 3 children top priority over everything and everyone in her life. In fact, as an adult, I think she may have given up too much of herself and her own needs to keep the family on track and moving forward. There’s not a day that goes by that something happens that doesn’t jolt my memory of her. We all have a cross to bear, so to speak, but I believe that even if Vicki hadn’t suffered the loss of her mother, she would have behaved the same way with and about Brooks. She is co-dependent person who can’t make it with constant attention from a man and even her grown children. She even made Brianna’s move to Oklahoma all about HER loss.
Looks like the documents he handed over were his medical bills. Watching the interview makes me think Brooks is trying to dig himself out of a hole. Should be interesting to see the results of this “authentication”
Malarky is a factor in this equation. Who’s been kissing the Blarney Stone?
At this point, me thinks he doth protest too much.
IDK Fivecats, maybe. If I were in his shoes, I know I’d find it extremely difficult to remain silent while being slandered across the media week after week.
I think his line “consider the source” is still applicable in this situation. I don’t think any person would go through the coffee enema or ozone blood treatments without being ill. I would maintain an injured dignified silence and sue the shit out of those women for slander. I think he is a little shady, but when someone says they are ill, I would rather err on the side of kindness.
In response to 5 cats own me, look at all the crap Yolanda has put herself through for a disease that doesn’t exist. Not saying she’s not sick but….
Yolanda probably has post treatment syndrome and calls it chronic Lyme.
Exactly fivecatsownme. Err on the side of kindness. That’s the whole point. You shouldn’t just ask someone for their medical records or go snooping around and calling places. What the fuck for?
If someone were to tell me that they were ill, even if it’s someone I DO NOT like and someone that is a known liar, I would still be polite and civil. The only response to an announcement of a serious illness is: “I’m very sorry to hear that. I wish you the best of luck.” AND THAT’S IT. No more, no less. Unless the allegedly gravely ill person is asking you to pay their medical bills, you have no business inquiring about medical diagnoses and documentation. Period.
What do you think TT?
He’d have to be a maniac to finally give the records to E! and it be a lie KNOWING they are going to see if they are authentic.
This leads me to believe that he is telling the truth but he knew that to get more money for interviews with Entertainment tonight, E!, Bravo that Satan (the OC girls, OC viewers) love confusion and that it will lead to the big reveal with more money in his pocket.
For all the crap they put him through I don’t blame him but
I HOPE TOMORROW ENDS IT.
This might have something to do with Vicki’s comments on twitter about being stronger than ever after part 3 wrapped.
I want Vicki to come out on top on this not because she’s my fav (because, Lizzie OBV) but those evil trolls deserved to get their butts handed to them.
If it confirms he’s lying…he needs to be committed.
I really hope he gave the reporter medical records and not another scan. You can get imaging scans for anything. I just hope whatever he put out there is irrefutable evidence. Finish this once and for all. If those reports definitively prove he has cancer and had cancer while filming then a lot of people owe him apology. Maybe he was just sitting back and letting the women hang themselves before pulling out the proof.
Brooks is trying to be clever by giving scans and now a copy of a medical bill (doesn’t he work in that area?) but he knows that they can’t be authenticated – the ET interviewer can’t ring up the hospital and ask if the bill is genuine – no one will discuss a patients medical information with a third party and Brooks knows that. Notice he doesn’t give anything specifically signed off by an oncologist, nothing with a name on it. Isn’t it interesting that he claimed in his first E interview that he had a physician friend accompany him to chemo and that friend was frustrated by not being able to back Brooks up? Why can’t that friend step forward or join him in an interview?
Agree, either the friend give an interview w/Brooks or ask the treating doctor to write a letter – any doc would be glad to do that. Heck, they write off-work and workman’s comp letters all the time when asked by patients and if asked by Brooks, especially after what he’s been thru this season, would be happy to dictate one saying Brooks was in his care and being treated for NHL.
Should Brooks have to do that? No, but if I was in his shoes and had everyone questioning me, I’d be doing everything I could to shut down the attacks on my credibility. But, I also am not an attention seeker and would never be on a reality tv program.
Well lets see if he does that or not. Or if they are legit and not something fake or doctored again. The guy needs money to me, most all the other men who have broken up with a housewife have rode off without giving a bunch of interviews. This show has never helped his image and yet he kept coming back for more. I dont mind that hes cashing in, and I want to hear what he has to say. Perhaps Vickie will see this relationship for what it was, and take her blinders off.
The thing about a sociopath is: They always believe they are the smartest person in the room-it almost always contributes to their downfall. Psych 101.
It’s funny how most of us have rallied to Vicki’s side even though, in the past, many of us disliked her intensely. I think seeing someone bullied and singled out makes you feel for them, to want to protect them. I wonder how many of us will still be rooting for her in a year..
This is what irks me, Pie. Bravo yanks us this way and that every season. I thought Shannon was a hoot last season and if you had told me she would be reviled this season I would NEVER have believed you. We’re all being manipulated to support or despise someone new each season. Except for Tamra. Even “finding Jesus” couldn’t make her likeable.
Who is the bigger sociopath, Brooks or Andy?
All of this does he doesn’t he only his hairdresser knows for sure is truly miserable t.v.meanwhile, back at the ranch house a loved one moves on to morphine. Hideous broadcasting. Shame on ya’ll.
Why does he keep doing interviews? ?
At this point it is just so much back and forth in the press. I don’t know what to think but all of these “characters ” keep giving interviews! One would think he would just eventually stop and just go on. Same to Shannon, Tamra, Vicki and Briana. All of them. And damn Megan always with her snotty comments. New Jersey housewives did this a lot and it pretty much ruined their show. Slinging mud in the press. The audience kind of gets sick of of it.
My 2 cents.
I agree. Megan’s mouth dropped open when Brooks said “fuck off”, like she was shocked he uttered those words. I would of said, “bitch, you can go fuck yourself”, or even more. This self inflicted drama is tiresome. Same format, season after season. You know before you even view the show, your blood pressure I going to rise. You don’t walk away feeling good, it lingers for awhile…and that’s what their aiming for.
I see the new season for the ATL will start soon, and I don’t even want to watch these vapid women anymore. Read that Kenya and Nene are at it again…sighs…what else is new? Like NJ, this formula is not working anymore, at least not for me. So tired of the fighting, the scandals, one trying to oust the other, friends one season, enemies the next. I don’t believe half of the nonsense they are trying to peddle. Tamra, as far as I am concerned, probably sits home during the off season, and plans whom she will seek to destroy, and the other women who want her approval and are desperate to be her BBF’s (Heather & Shannon) just go along with the “mean” girl, to be in the cool click. Vicki is not immune either, she has been involved, and behaved as a mean girl herself. Now that Shannon…with all her outrage, and weirdness, this show isn’t even watchable. They need to can it like they did to NJ.
Teresa. yes yes
When reading your comment I felt a underlying sadness and tiredness of it all, I do also.
The meanness is not what I signed up to watch.
Can anyone explain why these women flock to Tamra? I really don’t understand the attraction. She speaks horribly, she comes across as uneducated and crass, she is mean spirited, she doesn’t appear to be an “exemplary” mother. Can someone enlighten me?
What is left for him to say? Brooks was clearly agitated at Andy during his interview. He was sucking down that water every time he needed to respond to a question. Now more of his lies on BravoTV November 12th. Can’t wait. He’ll be totally cured by then.
Yes because I always misspeak on my OWN illness which is causing me to FIGHT for my life. Ugh. He needs to fade away…
what i find so sad in all of this.. if you are struggling with any type of illness.. positivity is a MUST and its hard… so if this man truly has been battling… to think that these shrews went and made a storyline against a guy.. they truly DON’T KNOW… i can’t even imagine the stress of it all… truly… and i don’t think the men get paid? did he need to be subjected to these witches?? I hope for the best for him.. and pray that he lives a more peaceful life.. out of the limelight and in truth i don’t blame him for doing as many interviews as he could.. they character assassinated him.. and i wouldn’t be giving my medical records to anyone of these people.. to prove i’m sick.. the heck with them!! i stopped watching this show.. and won’t see the reunion.. i read the recaps from Tamara.. but i hope they all go into oblivion! geeshhh…
MAKE IT STOP, TAMARA, JUST PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!
Sigh. I really just don’t give a Flying Wallenda anymore.
If these people were playing parts on a dramatic tv show there would not be a reason to question their honesty with the script. They are play acting. Well, I don’t think these housewife type reality shows are much different. They may have started out pretty real, but they have jumped the track and are a train wreck. Especially after 10 seasons, what do people have going on in their day to day lives that 2 million people will watch? They make up stories based on a kernel of truth. Few completely scripted shows last 10 years.
What I found interesting was Brook’s appearance on ABC network 20/20 show several years ago. I think the whole hour may have been dedicated to his shenanigans with previous girlfriends. I doubt he would have come to their attention without first being on RHOOC. Although he is a sleazy guy, I was amazed he was their worst example. More amazing even that he did the show and Vicki continued to be associated with him afterwards. I could not handle that negative notariety. Obviously, I am not a fame or love whore.
The shrews will find something weird about the records he shows and the screeching will continue.
He showed bills and one looks like it was lifted off the web and cut and pasted to a different template. However he got the drugs right.
I don’t watch this show but it’s comical and a bit tragic that someone has to give interviews to prove they have cancer! Whether he has it or not why is this so important? Now documents have to be authenticated? My gosh! I blame kim and Brandi! We know at least one of them claimed they had cancer!
Good Lord, please make him go away! I really don’t care anymore. He’s shady and his 15 minutes is up. To me, the only question that is left is why Vicki felt the need to participate in this blown up story line in the first place. Money? Fame? What?
If Vicki did just tell the ladies what they wanted to hear, that’s not going to help mend fences because they’ll see that as lying for the sake of convenience again.
She just needs to be truthful and authentically herself! If they can’t accept that, screw them, but she can’t keep changing her stories and opinions to suit her audience and then expect people to genuinely believe her and have friendships.
This is so convoluted 🙁
I don’t know if Brooks has cancer and I don’t especially care if Vicki spends her money on him or anyone else. What I do care about is how those women acted towards a so-called long time friend in a very public way. Shannon especially was horrid and nasty. Vicki did stand by her during her affair problems and she had her back. Shannon’s screeching and whining was so annoying and so off the charts that I have to believe that it is she who is hiding something. She got way too heated over the Vicki thing. Heather loves drama and had absolutely no story line except for accusing Vicki and building a mausoleum so I see why she joined in with the bashing. Her skin care line is not interesting at all so she needed something. Meghan wanted to make her mark on the show and even said that she hoped to come back because she enjoyed herself so much. Enjoyed trying to destroy another person? Enjoyed watching her husband’s ex-wife die? Enjoyed “mothering” a bratty Hailey? As for Brianna…I don’t believe all of what she has to say and I think that she is deflecting because of her husbands behavior and the fact that she didn’t want any focus on his nastiness. Brooks was the perfect patsy to get attention off of her own horrible, abusive husband. She was awful to her own mother no matter what Vicki lied about or denied…that is her mother and she was so anxious to jump in and crucify her. Also, Brianna siding with her BFF, Tamra was disgusting. She knows Tamra’s past history and how she has behaved. I was very disgusted by this whole season and it was a perfect picture of how Andy Cohen thinks because it was nasty and showed women at their very worst. Shame on all of them and I hope that Brooks proves that he hasn’t lied about having cancer just to make them all look like the shrews that they were and are.
Yes,yes,yes to everything MZU!
Dawn, 20/20 RETRACTED the story. How many times does that have to be stated?
When did they retract the story??
Google 20/20 retraction Brooks and it comes up. Of course the segment was on national TV but the retraction was only posted online. TT also posted some of the verbiage awhile back…
Please stop teaching idiots how to google here. It’s annoying that someone does it in every comment section. If people don’t know how to google they won’t be able to under what they see in the results.
what if he does have cancer? yes he is an asshole, but how would you feel if you had cancer and no one believed you? put this one to bed already even wendy’s talking about it.
If you didn’t lie about having it prior, I doubt anybody would’ve questioned him later on, though. He isn’t guiltless in why people doubted him.
The way I was raised and common decency would prevent me from ever calling a person out on whether or not they were sick, and giving them benefit of the doubt- unless, of course, they’re asking me for money or I have direct involvement that gives me pause.
But I bet if you if Terry Dubrow suddenly announced he has cancer nobody would question him because he doesn’t have a track record of shadiness on the topic or in general.
I find it rather funny that here at the end of 2015 you still here people say they can’t believe that Vicki provided such minor things to a man she was in a relationship with such as dental care and use of a car. Didn’t we ask for equal distribution of rights in all aspects of our lives. Does that not include a relationship. Isn’t that kinda what it’s all about. If one person can provide more in one part then they pick up the slack somewhere where they are lacking. For many years I was more financially stable then my husband. Did he balance that with being a completely loving and supportive partner, yes. Did it make him less of an intricate part of how our family is run,no and never did it make him less of a man. Do I feel cheated because he couldn’t flood me with expensive gifts not at all because he flooded me with love and respect. Early on in our relationship he became disabled and was not able to work. While he awaited his disability benefits to come thru many family members and friends suggested that it was to much for me to take on while he couldn’t work. Many just like with Brooks doubted that he was even sick because he didn’t look at all sick and never did it cross my mind to not stand by his side or provide proof to anyone. Now 22 yrs. later and still going in our relationship most of those who doubted us have divorced or had multiple relationships. When it did become more apparent of his illness later on in yrs. they were the ones left looking like idiots. You don’t know someone else’s struggles so it’s best not to judge them especially without the facts. Whether Brooks is truthful or not I’m not certain but what I do know is if I were Vicki I would never be friends with any of them again for not being supportive along the way. What was going on with Brooks was not their business it did not affect any of them one way or the other.
It’s not so much what Vickie paid for, but what was the line of credit that she extended. Something was keeping her locked in to the relationship as she throwing good money after bad money. I can’t help but wonder what one of life insurance does she have on Brooks. Of course, Vickie believed he had cancer… She was bet on it.
If you have chemotherapy do you not usually have a port that stays in until the end of the therapy?
It depends on the # of rounds of chemo that are expected, but usually, yes a port is put in and stays in until they’re sure no more treatments are necessary. However, not all ‘chemo’ is thru an IV. My sister took an oral form of chemo for her stage 4 melanoma (in addition to IV chemo thru a port). I’ve no idea what treatments are usually used for N-HL like Brooks supposedly has.
I missed E! News, did he provide the medical records today?
My 2 cents, for what it’s worth… When you’ve left a good husband, went to war with your grown kid over a man you dig your heels in and hang on with all your worth waiting on the day when you can let out a big sigh and say…. this is why I stayed. You overlook or deflect all the red flags because otherwise you see what you’ve thrown away looking for the greener grass. Top off losing your Mom (I Know I lost mine) you cannot take it mentally or emotionally to tally up all your losses on a gamble that wasn’t worth betting on. As a friend to a person in that kind of situation, when it all blows up they need to know they can come to you, fulling trusting and know it will stay private and be able to tell you what a mess their life is. How broken they are and KNOW that friend will get on the floor with you not only to pick up the pieces but help them put the pieces back together. No “I tried to warn you or told you so’s” …just super glue, tissues and endless love and support. For me personally, I have those kind of friends. I am blessed…….No McMansion, we budget everything and s’times fail miserably BUT I am so so rich where it really counts.
I didn’t see the E interview yet and only watched part 3 of reunion yesterday. The whole time Andy was speaking with Brooks I was so uncomfortable. He was about to jump out of his skin. (Brooks I mean) He was extremely agitated and very very angry. That could be because he is sick of being questioned about his truthfulness or because he got caught. I don’t care anymore. I feel like I am perpetrating fraud myself by watching this show anymore or any of the housewives. I feel dirty sometimes. Like if I feel this way why do I keep doing it. It isn’t fun or entertaining it’s like reading the National Enquirer on TV or even worse one of those tabloids that claim aliens are invading earth. OMG maybe they were right and that’s what these housewives are! That would explain so so much. 😛
For the most part, I’ve stayed on the sidelines of this whole RHOC season and the cancer debacle. OC has always been my least favorite, and of course the topic of discourse didn’t do any favors towards gaining my viewership.
That being said, I’ve still been firmly planted in the middle of the cancer scandal. Before I started reading here, I was definitely among the majority that could sense Brooks lack of authenticicity (him ‘buying’ Vicki a fur coat and ‘surprising’ her grandiosely after rumors he was using her financially, etc.)
For whatever reason TT decided to uphold Brooks as a gentile southerner who had been unfortunately victimized by Bravo editing, it kind of dawned on me that her unwavering support of him – a topic I otherwise didnt really care to have an opinion on – has definitely influenced me over this season.
The evidence has continued to mount, and with it, lessened the opportunities to make excuses for him. It’s kind of interesting to see the collective shift from “how fucked up they would even consider he’s faking” to “well, it doesn’t matter if he was faking or not, their actions were inexcusable”
The “chemotherapy bill” comparison thread is all anyone needs to know the truth.
Brooks has gone out of his way to contact third party media entities to talk about his cancer situation, and still hasn’t managed to produce a single document that didn’t look like it was thrown together by a 12 year old practicing Photoshop for Tumblur.
Shannon is still insane. Meghan is still one of the worst recruits of all time. But their actions, in retrospect, don’t seem so invalid to me anymore (EXCEPT Meghan). Can you imagine everything that went on behind the scenes that we can’t even begin to fathom?
This man literally faked cancer to gain national sympathy, got caught, and still to this minute is producing offensive excuses. It’s just as orchestrated as the fur coat, except on a much larger and much more problematic scale. I don’t even want to think about Vicki’s involvement, and the implications of them trying to shill this club detox.