♪ It's a jungle It's wild terrain ♪
♪ Stay out of trouble when playing the game ♪
[Jackie] In this realm,
success only comes to those who dare to dream big.
Mama, yeah!!!
[Evelyn] The tables have turned.
I'm back, and they don't know what's gonna happen.
[Jackie] Anybody that said negative things,
let's just forget about it.
Water under the bridge, we start from here.
-Yeah, you think? -[Jackie] Okay?
You think she's bull[bleep]?
I don't trust her promises
and I don't trust her.
♪ I'm on the rise ♪
[Jackie] Because the world out there is a battlefield.
I don't give a [bleep] what you do!
Oh, [bleep]!
[Woman] Take your phone and go on!
[Jackie] And there's always someone ready
to steal your peace.
So, who do you know? Why are you here?
Why are you here?!
[Jac-eil] It's so hard for the WNBA.
They don't make money like the NBA.
Girl, I don't know if she knows her boyfriend.
Okay, wait, before you say another word,
do you have any champagne, wine, somethin'?
[music]
[Jackie] The court of life presents boundless prospects
for those who seize them.
I don't wanna just exist, I wanna live my life.
I'm like the runaway bride.
Right, where's your ring?
You're not wearin' it.
[cheering]
♪ I'm on the rise ♪
[music]
Ooh, tonight is not goin' accordin' to plan.
♪ I'm on the rise ♪
[theme music]
♪ Feelin' like a million bucks, all one, one ♪
♪ You say I'm a baddie and I know it, don't I know it ♪
♪ I just got my hair curled, nails done ♪
♪ If I get to flirtin', don't you blow it ♪
[Brooke] I have done lots of magazine spreads,
I have done covers of magazines.
This is my comfort zone.
This is where I get to escape my reality
and be creative.
And it just makes me feel like
all of the problems that I might have in life
and my everyday struggles
just goes out the window for a little while,
and I'm living in my own personal dream world.
-♪ Let's toast to success ♪ -[Man] Tilt your head up.
Nice, yes.
Perfect.
I've had a crazy year,
startin' off with my divorce and my daughter passing.
But my daughter was full of so much light.
[Man] Gorgeous.
She always would be givin' me words of encouragement,
and making me feel good.
And I know that she wants me to live my life,
and not just exist here in the world.
♪ You say I'm a baddie and I know it ♪
[music]
[Jennifer] Hold on, what size is this?
I am in a really good place in my life.
I feel so fulfilled, and I am just happy.
Zen Jen is in full effect.
Ooh, handcuffs?
And they're pink, how cute.
I'm in a new relationship.
I have never felt this way.
Hi, babe.
I am on my way home. I have a few surprises!
It's just different when you are with somebody
that you don't get tired of being around.
We're gonna have a good time tonight.
That's the only clue I'm gonna give you.
I'm just in a place in my life where
nothing is really gonna affect me and get me all riled up.
It's like...
It's just fallin' off of me, I'm, I'm, I'm too fulfilled.
Can't wait, see you soon. Love you, bye.
[music]
[doorbell ringing]
Coming!
-Hey, mama! -Hey, how are you?
I'm good, you finally get to come to my humble abode.
I've got everything in this world
I could possibly want.
I've got the dream home, the dream car,
the dream relationship, the dream husband.
Everything, but my fitness is where I struggle.
I have a history of modelin' and bein' in shape,
and I miss that.
Alright, so I brought some stuff.
-You got your juicer. -Okay.
[Jackie] Yes, I got it ready. What'd you bring?
-Some stuff for us for juicing. -[Jackie] Okay.
I met with Vanessa back in the day,
'cause our husbands played against each other.
She is a wife as well, married to Isaiah Rider,
who was a known basketball star.
Vanessa's in the fitness industry,
and she's offered to get me fit.
So, I'mma take her up on her offer.
I got some ginger, spinach, lemon...
-[Jackie] Carrot? -[Vanessa] Yep, carrots.
Okay. What, what's this?
Oh hell, girl, no.
No, no, no... [gasps]
-What?! -[Vanessa] Girl...
-I can't drink? -[Vanessa] No, you're, no.
-Oh my gosh. -Girl, what the hell?
[Jackie] I gotta have somethin'.
-[Vanessa] No, it's tea... -I know we're gonna have...
-Tea? -[Vanessa] It was tea,
water, and the juices.
So, no wine?
It's, it's only 11 o'clock.
Oh my God.
Vanessa's my sister, and I love her.
And I wanna do this fitness thing.
But don't touch my brown.
This is, like, one of my favorite belts
-my husband bought me. -Okay.
The problem is I can't fit it.
Okay.
[Jackie] See? It only goes to here.
-Oh, I love it. -[Jackie] So if it works,
should be able to put this mother[bleep] on.
[Vanessa] See? Look at this.
-Prance like a horse. -[Vanessa] Oh yes, babe.
But you have to be honest with me,
and, and there's no Hennessey at, at 11 A. M.
[Jackie] Ice cream.
[Vanessa] No candy.
[Jackie] Okay, but low-fat ice cream, right?
That's my thing at three in the morning
when I can't sleep and I'm havin' a nightmare.
I love sweets.
I think it's definitely gon' be harder for me to give up candy.
It calls my name.
Vanessa, I gotta fat bust. Bust the fat.
[Vanessa] Yes, but you have to,
you have to cut the sugar and the alcohol.
-That's, that's the main thing. -[Jackie] I don't know
if I can do the alcohol, I'm not gonna lie to you.
But I do drink apple cider vinegar.
That don't work?
[music]
[Jackie] Oh, [bleep].
[music]
Such a beautiful day to be in this park.
Like, it's nice to be back home
and hang out with the family all the time.
-How cute is your bodysuit? -Let's grab somethin'...
I mean, seriously, you're like the poster child.
Hey, it's your girl, Evelyn Lozada,
the original OG of all the OGs,
and I'm back in the building, bitches.
So, how's Lavon doing?
-Lavon! -Lavon.
Lavon is good.
Lavon is in Atlanta.
I really like Lavon.
-He's a great person. -[Shaniece] He's a good man.
I am engaged to Lavon,
we actually met on a dating show.
So, Lavon, he's different,
and I think that that's what attracted me to him initially.
I was just like, "He's a good guy,
he's smart, he's educated, he has his own business."
And he just seemed like a true gentleman.
Some of my exes weren't that nice.
Anyway, I'm happy to be back.
Brooke is throwing me a welcome back party.
-Okay. -All the girls are invited.
Do you think they'll have drama with anybody?
I hope not.
But then, Jennifer, I'm trying to move past
anything that transpired.
Jennifer and I, we stopped being friends
because it came to me
that she was saying negative comments
about my daughter.
Did you say anything about Shaniece to anyone?
I, I don't know what the [bleep] she's talkin' about.
I never [bleep] said that [bleep].
On my mother[bleep] mother.
Who was I talking [bleep] to?
Talkin' about my [bleep] kid!
-Okay. -You don't got [bleep] kids!
-You was talkin' about my... -You don't [bleep] kids!
You don't know what the [bleep] [indistinct]!
You stupid bitch! I will [bleep] your ass up!
[bleep]!
Jennifer denies ever saying
anything negative about Shaniece.
But a part of me feels like there's some truth
to what was told to me.
At the end of the day, I'm always gonna be protective
of my kids.
If she did say it and she's kind of believing her own lies,
it's kinda like cuckoo a little bit.
-Right. -So, I don't think that's fair
to me.
-It's not. -[Shaniece] Whether she said it,
whether she didn't say it, whether she wants to admit it.
Like, that was, like, I mean, I still get comments about that.
Over things and, that I didn't even do or say.
-Right, right. -[Shaniece] It's...
-That's not fair. -Right.
-So, that's why I think I'm so,
I'm, like, over it.
I, I don't deserve it at all.
[Jackie] Coming up on Basketball Wives.
I put a bug in his car.
I put, like, cameras everywhere.
It was no denying it. Oh my God.
I don't need to address [bleep] with you!
What I'm not gonna allow for you to do
is come paint a picture of me that is not true!
You're actually embarrassing.
[music]
♪ If I was born to be a winner ♪
♪ Then I'mma grow up to be go-getter ♪
♪ Blood, sweat, and tears written in the flex of kings ♪
♪ One in a million, the billions, they have to sing ♪
[music]
-Hey, Vanessa. -[Vanessa] Hi.
[Jackie] I'm gettin' to know Vanessa,
and I like her.
And we are basketball wives, we are family.
We're alumni. It's a sorority.
I talked to Isaiah earlier on Facetime,
and he said to tell Doug hello.
Definitely, and tell him he said hello back.
-How's Doug doin'? -He's doin' really good.
They're in San Francisco right now.
You know, this was his first full year of coaching.
It's exciting, and I love that he's livin' his dream.
Yeah, my husband's workin' with kids.
We've had our program for nine years in Arizona.
You know, I know you got the gym.
I am a real basketball wife.
We own a basketball facility in Arizona,
we have multiple AAU teams.
My husband coaches,
and I am out here in Los Angeles expanding the brand.
And it's crazy, because in the basketball world,
amongst the wives,
I would say that there is a hierarchy.
-There is a hierarchy. -So it depends, like,
who you're married to, right?
-Yep. -[Vanessa] And how long
-you've been married. -Yep.
And that how the pecking order goes around here, right?
Yes, that is exactly right.
You're like... Right?
'Cause, I mean, you've been married forever.
28 years, yes.
Finally, someone gets it.
And she actually understands my role and who I am,
and where me and my husband stand in that order.
Yeah, and me and Isaiah met at 18,
-I met him in LA. -[Jackie] Yeah.
But we didn't get married until 14 years ago.
It's hard to, you know,
keep a marriage together that long.
You used to do the balls check?
Not anymore.
'Cause, like, I do that.
-[Jackie] You do? -Yeah.
Tell me, what do you do?
So, like, if somethin' has happened,
like, I know, like, they're like...
-He did? -So, it was, like...
...during, like, the pandemic.
-[Jackie] Okay. -I started gettin', like,
suspicious.
Oh my God, Lord Jesus.
And so I put, like, cameras everywhere.
I put, like, a bug in his car, and I caught him.
So, you heard it and it was no denying it.
-Oh my God. -[Vanessa] Right.
I ran that bitch outta Arizona.
You're kidding me!
Don't let the bangs fool you.
A misdemeanor for a good cause is worth it.
Oh, and she's gone?
-Out of Arizona? -Changed her name, yeah.
You put her in Witness Protection Program?
She went in the Witness Protection, girl.
[Jackie] Vanessa and her husband,
if it works for them, then I'm all for it.
Some people go to therapy,
some people put trackers in cars.
Who am I to judge?
Yeah, I think you're gonna enjoy,
enjoy Los Angeles, Vanessa.
[Vanessa] Yes, I'm glad to be back.
[laughter]
[music]
What's up, baby?
I got us some champagne.
Oh my God, you know exactly what I need.
[Christian] How you doin'?
How you feelin'?
I'm good.
Christian really is my best friend.
Although he's young, he's mature.
I never, in my entire being,
felt so connected to someone so quickly.
It just has been magical.
But we blessed beyond measure.
I know, I, like...
Just keep doin' you, baby. I'm proud of you, always.
I'm proud of you too, babe.
-Absolutely. -So, what else is goin' on?
So, this girl Vanessa reached out to me.
She knows somebody that knows me,
so she wants to go to lunch.
And I'm like, "Oh Lord, I don't need no new friends.
But let me be nice."
Listen, there's enough drama goin' 'round
because Evelyn is, like, back into the fold.
So, Brooke is doin' a party for her.
I've not seen her in a while.
-[Christian] Yeah. -As it's been, like,
just a history of a lotta ups and downs.
It's just, you know,
people sayin' all kinds of [bleep]
like I said [bleep] about her daughter,
and I'm just like,
I've known that girl since she was six.
-[Christian] Right. -You know me as a person.
Like, I'm not even that type of...
Even if I'm not cool with you.
Yeah, for sure. I know that for sure.
It's no secret that Evelyn and I
have had our back-and-forth moments.
So, I don't know if Evelyn's gonna be in a raw state,
or it's just be like, "Girl, how are you?"
It could go either way.
You know, it's just like a whole rocky road of bull[bleep].
You know, [bleep] happens. You know what I mean?
-So... -Right.
Maybe y'all can hash that out. I hope y'all can.
I haven't seen Jackie either, I think she's gonna be there.
Again...
It's been a year.
I'm not in the same space.
Will our relationship be the same?
Mm, probably not. But...
You know.
I really wish you could go with me and be my...
...comfort, and my...
...my safety blanket.
Yeah, I guess there's a lotta, like, lingering things poppin',
and I don't want you, like, around any bad energy.
So, I'll let you know how it goes.
[music]
[Jackie] Hey!
Hey, beautiful!
-[Evelyn] Hey, girl! -I love this outfit.
-[Evelyn] Thank you! -Look at our hair matchin'.
-[Evelyn] I know. -Yours is better, though,
-'cause yours is real. -Twins-ing.
-'Cause yours is real. -[Jackie] Yours is comin' out
-the scalp. -Girl...
[Jackie] I feel good gettin' coffee with Evelyn.
Back in LA, we together,
we can catch up on everything we got goin' on.
-What's up? -[Jackie] Oh my God.
We got so much to catch up on.
-I know. -[Jackie] And I can't wait
to see who captured your heart.
What is he like? I mean, tell me everything.
Girl, he's outgoin'.
I think sometimes I'm the one that's, like, really stuck
in my ways.
Girl, he came for three weeks recently,
and girl, I needed a minute.
[Jackie] You needed a minute...
Bitch, I needed a minute.
I needed a minute.
I'm not used to bein' up under a man for 24/7.
This is a huge adjustment for me.
So, Brooke came up with this idea to, like, do a party
-for me now that I'm here. -[Jackie] Okay.
-So, I wanted to invite you. -Okay.
-You can invite... -[Jackie] Whoever I want?
-Whoever you want, yeah. -[Jackie] Okay.
[Evelyn] Brooke, she invited a few people.
Even Jennifer's coming. You know, she invited her.
I don't have any issues with Jennifer.
Oh, you don't have any issues with Jennifer?
I'm glad to hear that.
I'm surprised that Jen and Ev
gonna be in the same room together,
because I know it really hurt Evelyn's heart,
all the stuff that her and Jen has been through.
Tell me where you're at with Jennifer.
Where do I begin? I'll just sum it up like this.
I don't have an issue with Jennifer.
I think she has an issue with me.
And how 'bout with Brooke?
Like, what, what, what's goin' on with that?
I don't have a problem with Brooke as far as I'm concerned.
'Cause this is a mother.
I will never understand what it feels to lose a child.
When my daughter passed away,
you showed absolutely no support.
First of all, I didn't know what to say.
-And I am so sorry... -Most people don't.
How you gon' apologize,
but you didn't know what to say then?!
Nothin' I say is going to be the right thing to say.
-Yeah. -[Jackie] And I just feel like
I don't want no issues with none of these girls.
-I know that... -Same.
You know this new young lady named Vanessa
that I want you to meet.
She don't know anybody out here,
so this'll be a good way for her to meet everyone.
Girl, she's friends with Amy, Carl's first baby mama.
I don't wanna call her baby mama,
-'cause she's amazing. -Oh, wow.
But I know that they were friends,
or they are friends.
-[Jackie] Oh wow. -Yeah, so, that's the only thing
I know, yeah.
Amy and I, we have a great relationship.
I'm actually very proud at how we co-parent our kids.
I'm thinkin' Vanessa and I, we're just gonna hit it off,
and it's gonna be cool, and I'm open to that.
She shared with me, she was like,
"You know what? My husband, he had infidelity."
She says she has cameras all in the house.
Why you wanna live like this?
She said, you know, she just does it for her own comfort.
She was like, "I, I do the whole bug thing,
do the ball check and everything.
I be like, 'drop 'em' type."
-You know, type of situation. -Oh my God.
If they look empty, then it means they...
-Where did the semen go? -[Evelyn] Girl, they...
-Where did it go? -No, that's not true.
I think they look full and empty depending on...
-[Jackie] If they worked out? -How warm it is or not.
Evelyn... I don't judge.
I couldn't personally deal with it.
If Doug did it, I don't wanna be together.
Would you be with your man if...?
No, I dealt with it before.
-With Antoine, he cheated. -No!
Then I got with the [bleep] next fool after that,
-he cheated. -Oh my God.
And by the time I got to my ex Carl,
it happened once, I was like, "I'm done."
As a grown woman,
if I need to do a [bleep] ball check,
or I need to put cameras in your car,
we don't need to be together.
Thank God I found Lavon
and I don't need to worry about that bull[bleep].
I'm not judgin' nobody, but I just feel like...
-Yeah. -Why live like that?
No, and you ain't gon' have to.
-Go ahead, bye. -[Jackie] There it is.
-Bye, I want you to. -[Jackie] Buh-bye.
-Bye. -[Jackie] Go.
Yeah.
[Jackie] Coming up on Basketball Wives.
[Vanessa] I have some concerns about Evelyn.
There's some things there between her and
some of my family members.
Oof. Child.
Man, this [bleep] is goin' to hell, man.
[music]
-Hi. -[Vanessa] Hi.
-[Jennifer] How are you? -Good, how are you?
-Nice to meet you. -Nice meeting you, too.
I like your jacket.
[Jennifer] Thank you so much!
[Waiter] Hi, ladies.
-Welcome, welcome. -[Jennifer] Hi, how you doin'?
[Waiter] Can I get you guys started with somethin' to drink?
I'll have a Sauvignon blanc.
And can I also have bottled water,
-still with lemon? -[Waiter] You got it.
I was at dinner with Jackie the other night,
and I'm still breastfeeding my baby.
And I had two drinks, girl, and went home, just...
-Oh no, okay. -[Vanessa] So I can only have
-one. -Water.
-[Vanessa] None for her, please.
Sangria. Yeah, I'll take that.
-[Waiter] You got it. -Thank you.
-So, you met Jackie. -[Vanessa] Yes.
-How was that? -It was good.
You know, we have a lot in common,
and she invited me to an event tomorrow.
-Yeah. -[Vanessa] Are you going?
I am going.
-[Vanessa] Okay. -Yeah.
Yeah, and I guess it's Evelyn's event?
That's what I was told, yeah.
We're, we're not really involved in each other's lives, so...
To be honest, I had some concerns about Evelyn.
You know, I don't know her personally,
but there's some things there between her and
some of my family members.
Oof. Child.
[Waiter] Alright, ladies.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Girl, what's the tea?
I'm, like, intrigued now. What is goin' on?
Her...
ex...
and one of my best friends...
Whoa, girl. Which one?
Oh right, exactly. Eenie, meenie, miney, mo.
The baseball.
Oh, okay...
Carl,
-that she has her son with. -[Vanessa] Yeah.
-[Jennifer] Okay. -Yeah, so,
you know, my family member
had been holdin' him down for 12 years.
Mm.
I honestly don't understand why Vanessa feels the need to
feed me all this information that...
has nothing to do with me.
You know, women that doesn't respect men
that are in relationships,
or don't respect family...
or marriages.
Then we'll have a problem.
Mm-hm.
I'm all about, like, my, my family.
-Okay. -Everyone that knows me
and my family, they call me the bill collector.
[music]
Ooh.
Well, I don't wanna owe you no money, girl.
So, I am loyal to a fault.
I will ride to the end for what I feel is right,
and for my friends and my family.
The other nickname is Griselda.
Mm...
My family calls me that.
Griselda is the Black Widow. She does not play around.
She has killed two of her husbands,
and it's just kinda like a, a funny,
but it's a very real thing.
Evelyn, if you got a problem with people that I love,
then we got a problem.
Wait, who you got behind you? Is the...
Wait a minute.
Girl, [indistinct]...
You're safe. We're good.
-[Jennifer] Okay. -Yeah, we're good.
[music]
[Man] Atta boy.
Good job, Leo.
Mom, it's your turn!
[music]
[phone ringing]
Hello.
[Isaiah] [indistinct]?
¿Como estas?
Friday we have,
we're going to look at two warehouses.
One is in the Culver City area,
and one is in the Chatsworth area.
I used to have a little spot in Culver City, but...
Oh, did you?
[Isaiah] Chatsworth, Chatsworth.
You had a little spot?
Yeah, yeah, I kept a little spot
-for [indistinct]. -A little spot.
Mm-hm.
[music]
[Jackie] I just wanna make sure I'm doin' this right,
'cause it feels awkward, it don't feel like what we do.
So, can you see me?
[Jackie] Down...
It doesn't feel right. But just keep doin' it?
[Trainer] Go!
[music]
[Brooke] Did I keep you waiting?
[Brooke giggling]
[Brooke] I am so excited to see Jennifer in person.
We have been talkin', textin', Facetimin'.
But now I get to see her in our element.
Our favorite thing to do is to have a spa day
and some champagne.
-I'm so happy to see you! -I know!
I feel like it's been forever.
-I know! -I haven't seen your face.
You look beautiful.
-Thank you, thank you! -[Brooke] You're glowing, too.
So, let's move on to the new boo, 'cause...
My whole heart. He really is.
Like, he's just a protector. I feel safe around him.
Yeah, aww!
And he's like, "It's so crazy how much I love you."
-Aww! -[Jennifer] So...
I don't know, but I think he's...
He has somebody doing a ring for me.
Are you serious, Jen?
[Jennifer] Yeah, even his mom asked him, like,
"Did you start pickin' out stones for her?"
No!
Yeah. We're, like, soulmates.
This is kinda feelin' like déjà vu, baby.
Jen, honey! You movin' fast!
So, I will believe it when I see it.
So, are you definitely comin' to the party?
Oh my gosh, so Vanessa, I met Vanessa.
I haven't met her yet.
So, I was like, "Well," you know, like,
"What about Evelyn? Did you meet her?"
She was like, "Well..."
Hold on, 'cause I don't wanna put no words in nobody's mouth.
Please get this right.
She was like, "No, I haven't met her."
But I don't know exactly what words she used,
but she definitely said along the lines of, like,
she has a issue with her
because Evelyn had done something to her family.
[music]
The girl that Carl was with prior to Evelyn...
-[Brooke] Mm-hm. -is who she's talkin' about.
She was like, "Look, if you [bleep] with my family,
you have a problem with me."
And I was like,
-"What do you mean?" -What?
She says she's very much a protector,
and they call her the bill collector.
And my face dropped like, "I'm sorry, what?"
I don't know why she felt comfortable to tell me.
And you don't even, right, know her.
[Jennifer] Literally.
I was, like, eating a salad, like...
She was like, "Yeah, well, I'm gonna have to address it.
I just think, I need to figure out
when's the right time, and how to do it."
I don't even know wanna know any of this, like...
I'm kinda over here like, "Why am I hearin' this [bleep]?"
I really don't wanna know.
I was just like, "Ooh, girl, it's givin' too much."
I don't feel the need to go run, tell Evelyn
because I'm just, like, not really in that space.
But I do wanna give her a heads-up.
I'm passin' it. Ping-pong, you got it.
-You think that I have... -[Jennifer] No!
-the mind space for this? -[Jennifer] No!
Like, I'm not tryin' to be the bearer of bad news.
-[Brooke] Right. -I'm not sayin'
she's comin' from a bad place, but she definitely...
Well, she said 'bill collector' and [bleep], child.
Yeah, I don't, I don't know where this is gonna go.
[music]
[Jackie] Coming up on Basketball Wives.
I had a conversation with Jen,
and she disclosed some things that you had said to her.
I don't really appreciate, you know, homewreckers.
[music]
Hi, Renea?
Hi, I'm Brooke! How are you?
-Good! -Good to see you.
Oh my goodness, everything's lookin' beautiful!
[Renea] Thank you so much! Thank you!
[Brooke] Today is the day of Evelyn's party.
She hasn't been around in the group for a few years,
and I am really excited to get out and about with the girls.
I am a little nervous.
I'm nervous because I'm thinkin' about me and Jackie.
I'm nervous because I'm thinkin' about Evelyn and Jen,
and Vanessa's comin'.
So, I don't know, child.
We are fabulous!
[music]
[Brooke] Hi! How are you?
You look so pretty!
Thank you!
This is Renea.
Look at the beautiful job
-that Renea did. -I know.
This is beautiful.
[Brooke] I am so happy that Jac'eil is here at this party.
Jac'eil is a friend of a friend, I think she's super amazing.
I want her to meet new people, and so does she.
Wanna order a drink?
Yeah, I want a drink, yes.
Woo!
[Brooke] Yeah, I'm waiting for
some of the other ladies to get here
so I can introduce you.
Okay, I'm excited.
-Look at my beautiful baby! -Hi, baby!
[Jennifer] Thank you.
-Oh my God, you look amazing! -How are you?
You do, too! You know I love a good fur.
-Thank you, this is Jen. -Hi, I'm Jen, I'm Jac'eil.
-How you doin'? -Nice to meet you.
-Good to meet you. -Everybody has pink purses.
-[Brooke] I know! -I know!
[Jennifer] What are you drinking?
[Jac'eil] You gotta listen to the menu, girl.
[Brooke] This is Evelyn's cocktail menu.
We have the Hollywood & Soda, we have the LA sour,
and we have the non-mother[bleep]
factor lemon drop.
[laughter]
You look good, you look good.
Today is my six month anniversary,
so I'm in, I'm in a great space.
Is it? Congratulations!
Can I ask six months of what?
Dating my, my new man.
-Ooh, congratulations. -Thank you.
That's how I feel about my fiancée.
I love her so much.
She's playin' ball right now.
-She's travelin' right now. -Okay wait,
your fiancée is a...?
WNBA player, Natasha Howard.
-Okay! -Yeah.
Hello world, I'm Jac'eil. I'm from Mississippi.
M-I, crooked letter, crooked letter, I,
y'all know the rest.
I'm engaged to Natasha Howard. WNBA player for Dallas Wings.
Three-time champ, has so many accolades.
And she is the love of my life.
Well wait, how long have you been engaged?
We, I, hold on, as soon as we got together,
she wanted me, baby.
I got three rings three months later.
So, I have three engagement rings.
Well, that's the trick.
Right?!
♪ When I step in the room, I'm the best dressed, flexin' ♪
♪ Add another body to my ex list ♪
♪ Blowin' up my phone, if it ain't about the money ♪
[Jac'eil] Hi!
How are you?
You look so beautiful.
[indistinct]
[Evelyn] I haven't seen Jennifer
in a really, really, really long time.
But time definitely doesn't heal all wounds
because when Shaniece saw Jennifer,
her energy was definitely thick.
[Jac'eil] Diamond, let me see the diamond!
So, I haven't seen the ring.
[Jac'eil] The diamond is beautiful.
[indistinct]
[Jennifer] Congratulations!
Thank you, thank you!
[Brooke] You know, Jen and Evelyn,
it's still a little bit awkward for them.
But they also have a 20-year history of friendship.
And I feel like even at that level,
with them not seeing each other for a while,
that they can get back into the groove of things,
and we can all just have a really good time.
-You gotta lemon drop me. -Okay.
[Person] And you got the margarita.
[indistinct] lemon drop. That, girl!
-What you get? -Wait, so you guys met already?
Yeah, we just met.
-Oh, today, just today. -Yeah, yeah.
This was mine, thank you.
Is Jackie here?
[Brooke] She's over in the corner,
all the way in the back.
Okay, oh, okay. I'm gonna go to the back.
Wait, did you put her in the back?
She's at the table in the back.
She's enjoying herself.
-In the back. -You know.
-In the way back. -In the way back.
I haven't seen Jackie since New York.
I am over it.
And I'm just like, "I know who you are.
I see you.
I'mma keep you here, and you're still blocked."
-Hey, mamacita! -[Evelyn] Hey, I heard you was,
I heard you was back here!
Look at my sexy sister!
-Oh my God! -[Evelyn] Jennifer's
-there, too. -[Jackie] Oh no,
where's Jennifer?
[Evelyn] She's up there by the bar.
[Woman] Why didn't we see her at the bar?
Oh, she hidin'. 'Cause I ain't seen her.
You don't wanna come say hi?
No.
It was quite surprising that Jennifer chose to hide from me.
I don't know why.
[music]
♪ You're sweet like honey, honey, honey ♪
♪ I'mma make my money, money, money ♪
It's yours.
[Evelyn] I know you ain't just walkin' by.
It's givin' [indistinct].
So, Brittany and I,
we have been friends on social media
for many, many years.
She gets a bad rap,
but there are a lot of layers to Brittany,
not just her writing a book about...
[bleep] ballers.
How's the baby, is he here now?
[Brittany] No, he's not.
-[Evelyn] Okay, got it. -Yeah, you know how...?
We gotta, we gotta talk.
My son's father is PJ Washington, Jr,
and he plays for the Charlotte Hornets.
I have joint custody of my son.
People have no idea what I've been going through
behind the scenes with my child's father,
and the only thing that he could do at this point
that would surprise me is actually be nice to me.
My baby daddy is just, he's my biggest hater.
Me and my son's father, we've had bumps in the road,
and you get to a place where you're good,
and you're like, "Thank God for that."
-You know? -Yeah.
Brittany definitely reminds me of my younger self.
Like, she was in the media not long ago
for throwin' a drink in somebody face.
I'm like, "Yup, did that a few times."
And I wanna take her under my wing.
[music]
We are in the midst of the beautiful party,
but I know I have to pull my girl Evelyn to the side
to tell her all the BS that Jen downloaded on me
what Vanessa said.
[music]
Excuse me, can I please have everyone,
all of our guests, come and join us in this area?
I wanna thank everyone for coming today,
this is a nice party.
Everyone's mixing and mingling, having great drinks.
You know Evelyn is newly engaged.
[cheering]
[Brooke] Congratulations.
And although this is not an engagement party,
you know this is my good friend,
and I really wanted to do somethin' really special
and nice for her.
When I see Evelyn, all these feelings are comin' up
because she caused a lot of pain to people that I love.
So I'm, I'm not really feeling Evelyn at this point.
And you know, I'm really tryin' to keep Griselda in check.
Thank you, I mean, for you to have done all this,
for everything that you've gone through
and you're going through, I'm forever grateful.
Have drinks, have fun, have a good time,
and it's up.
♪ You, you've got your, got your hands all over me ♪
♪ If I tell you all my dirty fantasies ♪
♪ You won the lottery ♪
Oh, I didn't even see you!
Listen here, girl.
-Hey, how are you? -[Vanessa] Good, how are you?
I'm good, I'm good.
I got to actually sit down with Evelyn,
I really adore her.
So, I wanted you to meet her tonight.
I don't really wanna go into the details with Jackie,
because her and Evelyn are friends, obviously.
But I do have this issue that I have with Evelyn
that I'm going to have to discuss.
This is so beautiful.
-I'm so happy that you're happy. -[Evelyn] Yeah, it's good.
Like, I feel so welcomed.
I hate to change the vibe,
because we're having such a great time.
But I went into the spa and had a spa day with Jen.
And...
You know, she knows that you and I are really close,
so she confided in me.
She went and had lunch or breakfast or something...
...with Vanessa, and...
I thought you were about to say Jen said somethin'.
I'm like...
"What? What am I missing?"
-Right, right, no. -[Evelyn] Okay.
[Brooke] So, apparently,
Vanessa has some type of problem with you,
because you have attacked her family in some sort of a way.
I'm not really sure what the attack was.
I don't even know her or her family.
-What is the attack? -I don't know. She said that
she's the bill collector.
Oh, is she?
Uh-huh, and she's here to collect.
Oh. Is she?
I'm lost.
I'm like, what [bleep] world does this weirdo live in?
First of all, I don't even know you...
So, you, you know of her. You just never met her.
I know that she's friends with Carl's first baby mom.
Mind you, her and I have a great relationship.
Right.
So, this is a one-sided beef.
You know?
Whatever transpired between your friend
-and our kid's father... -[Brooke] Right.
-I can't control that. -[Brooke] Right.
-Honestly... -So, what is her problem?
Her problem is she bored.
Nobody comes to my party and badmouths me.
I need to go over to Vanessa to see what this is all about.
[Brooke] I haven't met you yet. You're Vanessa, right?
Hi, nice to meet you, I'm Brooke.
What's up?
[Brooke] And you know Evelyn. Right?
-[Vanessa] Hi. -Hi, how are you?
-I'm Vanessa. -Good, nice to meet you.
[Brooke] So, I don't know, I got some information...
Let's sit here. Let's, let's sit down.
[Brooke] Let's sit and talk.
I'm like, "What is happening?"
[Jackie] What is the situation here?
I had a conversation with Jen,
and she disclosed some things that you had said to her.
So, we just wanted to kinda get some clarity.
This beef with Vanessa and Evelyn
has nothing to do with me.
It indirectly has something to do with me
because she told me,
but it's not my beef, I'm out of it.
Yeah, to figure out what's up.
So, when Jackie told me we might be around me...
-Uh-huh. -I just said, you know,
"We have to come to some sort of understanding
as far as what happened between Amy and Carl."
I don't really appreciate, you know, homewreckers.
Homewreckers?
Man, that [bleep] is goin' to hell, man.
[music]
When Jackie told me that we might be around me...
-Uh-huh. -I just said, you know,
"We have to come to some sort of understanding
as far as what happened."
I don't really appreciate, you know, homewreckers.
Homewreckers?
So, let me just say this.
You need to update your software,
because we are ten years past whatever happened.
What I don't appreciate is you calling me a homewrecker.
Because at the end of the day,
I can't control how Carl handled her at the time,
and also me.
When this man and I started dating,
they weren't together,
-according to him. -[Vanessa] According to him.
-I understand... -[Evelyn] Okay, so,
-leave it there. -That doesn't mean didn't know.
You can't leave it there, Evelyn.
-Because you didn't, no. -You can.
-You can, you said... -There's children involved.
Sit up here and call me a, a, a homewrecker is [bleep].
'Cause what I'm not gonna do is allow for you to change
what my reality was during that time.
Did you not know that he was havin' a baby?
No, I knew that he was havin' a baby.
He was honest with me.
He was like, "Listen, I'm havin' a baby with my ex."
How are they an ex, Evelyn? It doesn't even make any sense.
-He said ex! -She held him down for 12 years.
I don't know that!
That home was wrecked,
and that home was wrecked according to him.
Girl, how is the home wrecked? Think about it, Evelyn.
-Use your brain. -I'm thinkin'!
-No, you use your brain! -[Vanessa] They have a whole
ten-year-old,
and then she's havin' another baby.
At the end of the day,
this don't got nothin' to do with you!
I don't need to address nothing with you.
You are a nobody in my life!
Had I known that Vanessa felt this way about Evelyn,
I absolutely would've left her off the invite list.
Honey, if you're gonna be around me...
Girl, I'm not gonna be around you!
I don't need to address [bleep] with you!
What I'm not gonna allow for you to do
is come into this situation tryin' to paint
a picture of me that is not true!
Vanessa, you have been introduced to Evelyn,
and that bitch don't play no games.
You're actually embarrassing.
Yeah right, Evelyn.
-You're not gonna... -[Evelyn] You should be
-embarrassed. -A one-sided narrative.
It's not one-sided! I'm giving you my side.
Exactly, ten years ago. Our children are ten.
-[Vanessa] Right. -We've moved on,
I'm engaged in a whole 'nother relationship.
Right, because every time something gets sticky,
you hop onto the next situation, Evelyn.
That's what I'm sayin'.
Yes, it was ten years ago,
but this was all something that I needed to address
before having a relationship.
I, I don't, I'm not gonna fake kick it around her.
You're nasty and you're disgusting
at the fact that you would bring this bull[bleep],
and you're sittin' here talkin' about this!
[music]
[cheering]
[Woman] Wait a minute!
[Jackie] You've got a bunch of alpha women,
and you got some newbies,
they wanna make they presence known.
And I see her out to dinner with Sean's baby daddy.
It's gonna be real hot in here.
[Brooke] We're going to Arizona, baby!
[Jennifer] Somebody about to have a bachelorette.
I feel like it's you.
Bitch, you got the ring!
This is triggering, the whole wedding.
How about if we just wanted to be together,
but without the marriage?
[Vanessa] Girl, I don't know if she knows her boyfriend.
He did ten years in prison.
No he didn't, no he didn't. Stop.
I'm in a nasty child custody battle,
and it's been two years.
[sighs]
This situation has broken us apart.
You can't say somethin' to hurt my feelings.
Bitch, I lost my whole daughter.
♪ I'm winnin' right now, I can't lose ♪
♪ I keep movin', movin' ♪
If you get into it with these girls,
I will fight for you.
That's just what it is.
I don't give a [bleep] what you do!
[bleep]!
Brittany Renner, she's so problematic!
I don't think these ladies have a clue.
I'll be your best [bleep] friend until I'm not.
There's two sides to every story,
and then there's screenshots.
I done stuck up for you, bitch, that's a slap in my face.
Stop callin' her.
I'm gonna [bleep] call her! She's with my son!
Damn, that ain't a night you wanna have.
[music]
[Evelyn] Bitch, I got your mother[bleep] wig!
[music]
[whoosh]
[music]