There has been a lot going on with Phaedra Parks this week. So many little things that I want to address and now this insane story in People. But first I have to discuss Page Six. Page Six used to be a credible source of primarily New York gossip and social events. At that time they used undisclosed sources that involve actual people with inside knowledge of situations that would later become common knowledge. Now they just make shit up. This week they posted two totally fake stories, one about Phaedra and another about Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacreast. Both are utter horseshit. Yet, I keep seeing sites quoting information. The thing that bothered me was the ridiculous “source” that claims that the housewives have a “morality clause” in their contracts and that Phaedra was fired for violating it. That is such a ridiculous statement I don’t see how anyone believes it. As someone who has had a morality clause in every employment contract for the past decade or two, this may be the dumbest fake news ever written. The Real Housewives franchise is completely the opposite of morality. I’m wasting my time with this topic but I just can’t get past how many people believe that a show that could be call Moral Turpitude in Atlanta would have a morality clause and that Phaedra was the first person in history to get fired for breaking it. I JUST CAN’T.
Moving on to TMZ who is reporting all sorts of things about Phaedra. This is probably a good time to point out that Phaedra has reportedly fired her PR person and hired a new firm. My last conversation with her PR guy was about her non-divorce. I had to explain to him that Phaedra was not in fact divorced and the she is a lying liar who was lying to him and he should start requesting receipts. He may have finally just had enough and ended the relationship himself. Someone, perhaps the new PR person, has told TMZ that Phaedra is being bullied and harassed daily and that her kids are getting harassed. Other than being blasted by social media for her behavior, none of this is true. The first thing I thought of was a chat I had with one of my friends who happens to be her neighbor. Just before 8 p.m. last night, Phaedra was out in her front yard planting flowers and seemed just fine.
Now on to the People interview. I have pulled a sample of quotes that are screaming for purple pen treatment.
Phaedra lies to People saying essentially she doesn’t know if she has a contract or not, but “I would love to continue. Obviously the show documents your journey, and every journey has its ups and downs.”
Is it in The Pathological Liars Handbook that using the word “journey” a lot makes your lies seem more credible? Is it somewhere in the Bible that knowingly, falsely accusing someone of planning to drug and rape someone is just one of lifes little ups and downs?
“It’s not always accurate, of course,” she added.
It is never accurate. Because you are always lying.
“But for the moments that they capture something that’s real — like being a mom,
Like the completely staged moments when your boys leave their caregivers to pretend to make cookies or open a new toy? Oh I forgot another fun fact from my friend who lives in the hood. I think it was the Saturday night before the reunion aired. Our good Christian southern belle had overnight babysitters from a new company spend the night so that she could stay out all night at some dude’s birthday party. She and all of the other female guests wore lingerie. The people who sent me the photos described the event as ratchet and ghetto. I opted not to use the photos. You’re welcome.
helping someone out, having a very sensitive moment on television that turns into something beautiful — that’s the legacy that counts when it comes to reality TV. The moments that change people’s lives.
When the hell has Phaedra done anything nice for anyone ever, or had a sensitive moment that turned into something beautiful. Her legacy is that she tried to ruin her former best friend by accusing her and her husband of criminal intentions and trying to block her business permits for OLG. Her legacy, if reality TV actually had them rather than being completely forgotten about as soon as they are off the show, is that of a fraud and a pathological liar.
Even more insanity from the People article.
I really want to show that you can be well-educated, you can be a professional and you can solve conflicts without being ratchet, You can be a lady, you can have dignity in your dealings — whether it be personal or professional. I think sometimes as black women, we’re stereotyped in categories of being overly sexualized, of being the aggressive black woman and of being this ratchet sort of character that doesn’t know how to behave herself.”
“I want people to know that there is definitely a real kind of black woman who conducts herself in a certain way,” Parks added. “She’s not out here screaming and cursing and acting crazy. She does things differently, and people love her for it.”
“We have to show more images of that,” she said. “So that people don’t believe that the only way you can be successful and be on TV is by fighting and being a crazy character of a person — versus being very real and saying, ‘Hey, at a certain age you don’t have to raise your voice. You can think before you speak. You can articulate a problem. And you can either agree to disagree or you can resolve it.’ You don’t have to go to extremes every time you have an issue.”
I do not even know how to respond to this. The woman was just fired for trying to ruin Kandi’s life. She was publicly humiliated on national television! And her response was to hit the media? One of my contacts told me the other day that Phaedra was trying to get interviews with social media outlets and asked if I was interested. After I stopped laughing I said that would not work for the client or for me. It is clear that some things have been restricted from the interview process. There were no questions like, “What did you hope to gain by destroying the life and brand of your former best friend?” or “How does it feel to be exposed on national television?” or even “How do you reconcile your behavior with your religious beliefs?” or “How will you support yourself now that everyone knows where the bodies are buried?”
It really says a lot about Phaedra’s mental health that she is our doing interviews about her legacy in the reality TV world.
I’ll say this Andy, Bravo and Carlos fake ass got something coming if this isn’t handled properly. Carlos, Phaedra and Porsha tried to destroy Kandi and even though Carlos is being protected from this for some reason, Kandi could honestly Sue all three of them for defamation of character. Porsha should either be fired or demoted to a friend and the petition to keep Phaedra is bs also. People really think this isn’t that serious but it is.
I agree
People keep talking about Kandi suing Phaedra, but it has been repeatedly stated that the housewives have it in their contracts that that cannot sue one another. If that’s true, then no, she cannot. TT, is this right?
If I was Kandi I would test that “no suing” clause in court. A judge can throw provisions of a contract out if he finds some legal flaw. I think Kandi could make a case that Phaedra’s actions were so eggregious that she shouldn’t be afforded the protection in the contract. Goes for Bravo airing it too, but might be harder to make that argument.
Phaedra got her karma and more is to come. Porsha is next ! She will have no one to play victim of this upcoming season .
Love your purple pen. Amazing that Phaedra is trying to spin this in her favor and thinks people will still believe her. As usual with these reality shows, I feel bad for the children.
When Bobbie Brown says his former lawyer Miss Parks was a media whore, You know you have reached rock bottom. Keep spinning Phaedra, it will not help. You are a despicable excuse for a human being.
Yeah, a friend quoted him as saying every time she represented him, he went to jail. Lol. Something like that. A whole lotta folks have known she was a fraud for years and I have a feeling she has finally cooked her own goose. I do hope the Feds are looking very carefully into absolutely everything she has ever done. She is loathsome. It will be interesting to see if anyone in the world is willing to align themselves with her any longer, yet it seems she has some sort of clout to be able to g t Kandi’s opening delayed.
I feel bad for her children too. One day they’ll see all of this on tv. But by then they will have already form an opinion of her by what she does (or doesn’t do) as a mother.
Phaedra needs to cut her losses, figure out how to live in her means and focus on being a single mother. Once Apollo is out, maybe he will split time with the boys to help her out.
NY really misses Liz Smith.
NAA, today Liz Smith writes a column for NY Social Dairy
I loved Liz Smith!! I just looked her up and she’s 94!
Fix it Jesus, that has got to be the most dishonest and delusional interview every published.
Does Phaedra get paid for these bs interviews? Pay per lie = big bucks ?
Yes. My understanding is that People and Daily Mail pay well. Other places like TMZ do not pay, but the housewives have them on speed dial trying to get discussed there.
Eeww, once again, Phaedra made me throw up in my mouth.
And sadly people will believe her crap.
Does Phaedra really believe her lies? Why would anyone hire her to be their attorney. She apparently doesn’t even know if she has a contract or not with Bravo or what could be in it. Wow! She will play the victim even though it was shown she was the one who lit the fire that destroyed her house of cards. Wonder what her mother the minister thinks? Poor kids. She’ll be the type of mother who sees her children doing nothing wrong even if they’re Jeffrey Dahmer or Adolph Hitler. God forbid the worst happens though, and they’ll rise above their parents’ actions. They’re among the victims in Phaedra’s mess.
Phaedra’s a narcissist. Those boys will be lucky to make it out of childhood without being severely damaged. She sees them as a nuisance
I read that article. When she started mouthing off about how she didn’t want the stereotype. She wanted to show people (black women) that you could face conflict and adversary and handle it with dignity and class (not her exact words but the gist of it). Fool, all the wonderful, amazing black women in the world do not need the likes of Phaedra Parks telling them how to live. I just can’t with her. She really is mentally ill or something. She lives in one of those fabricated planets where history is written anew each day along with the circumstances. It’s all just crazy.
Other than the first 15 minutes of part 4 of the reunion I haven’t watched this show for years, I read the recaps occasionally but I’m done. As a life long Atlantan I just want to say that none of these women, including Kim Z and NeNe are true representatives of this wonderful city. I’m so ashamed of what others may think because of these women.
AAL…I’m sorry to say that after watching this show on and off over the years I must say that this show had turned me off to ever visiting Atlanta but after reading how you feel about Atlanta I will consider a visit there sometime…I once heard someone say that they had never seen so many millionaires making 50K a year, living in Atlanta.
Please don’t come to Atlanta. We are full. Thanks in advance.
I went to Atlanta for a competition and didn’t realize how dangerous it is. I didn’t care for it at all. If I can’t drive down a street without getting my car pummeled just for being white, no thank you.
You got pummeled for being white in Atlanta????
I bet Angela Stanton’s book sales have increased lately. I know I just bought the book.
She kind pf reminds me of Jac from rhonj who lied about her financial dealings or rather pretended they didn’t exist. Then there is Vicki crom OC who lied about her boyfriend. But Phaedra takes the cake for profiting off her double life. I think she will make a couple of apperances next season to tie up storyline and to get read by some housewives. It will be too many alpha females with Kim and NeNe possibly returning. xoPJ
Is the word ‘legacy’ in that sociopath/psychopath bible as well? what is this obsession these fools have with their ‘legacy’? Sheree in another one that blathers on about how building that obscene monstrosity is important for her ‘legacy’. I keep hearing this word bandied around. Can someone explain? We’re not talking about the pharoahs here and i don’t get it.
Some housewives say to themselves that’s a leg I see. Now I’m going to pull in hard as I can.
Nothing really has brought her down yet. Some people are just able to pull off being a lying fraud, and some people are too concerned how it affects them to rock the boat. I guess. That’s what I’ve come up with.
“I want people to know that there is definitely a real kind of black woman who conducts herself in a certain way,” Parks added. “She’s not out here screaming and cursing and acting crazy. She does things differently, and people love her for it.”
We know, and we do love her for it.
Her name is Cynthia Bailey.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this response. I read that too and I was flabbergasted. I couldn’t believe that after all that went down she had the nerve to say such things.
Great comeback.
When it comes to lies all the journeyers keep telling us to don’t stop believing when some never bought into their bullshit. When the night goes down and you’re shitty.
Does anyone know what Phaedra did to try to block Kandi’s restaurant permits?
You can give the office workers fifty bucks to lose an application. Or make a phone call the the office reporting some sort of violation.
I don’t know about Atlanta, but whenever you see a “Public Notice” on a piece of property that is about to be developed, that is actually letting you know that there is a window of opportunity for the public to submit comments, objections, etc. If something came up to mess with the construction improvements, or had to be reviewed for the business license application or health department inspections – that would delay the opening at least, if not block the permits, and it would all be legal.
My neighbors and I objected to a development in my neighborhood once (we were in the midst of suing our builder at the time, and they approved a new project for him). It went to a hearing. We lost, but construction was delayed by a significant amount of time.