- Previously on...
- Michael and I were trying to think about a baby.
My goal was to stop drinking for good when I turned 30.
- Right. Are we having a baby?
Are we having a Corona? Like, what are we doing?
[overlapping shouting] - We were partying
until 4:00 in the morning,
and I remember hearing, out of Michael's mouth,
"Yeah, I would suck his dick."
[music winds down, stops]
I'm just gonna forget that I heard that and move on.
- We just buried Daddy, and it hasn't been more than 60 days.
I don't think I can get my mind off it.
- Pops is turning 80,
so I'm going to New Orleans,
and I want to share that with the other ladies.
- ♪ We're going on a trip, hey ♪
[upbeat jazzy music]
[all whooping]
[indistinct shouting]
- When I asked you about your business you said,
"Oh, stay tuned." A stranger
is introduced to you... - Where is this coming from?
- And you answer all the questions.
- What's your price point? - 7,999.
It's the House of Hugor.
- Gizelle didn't know any of this.
Damn! Me and Karen ain't friends.
- You know that's not true.
- 'Cause I don't know nothin'
about what's going on in her life.
- I am a little tired of the bullsh--.
I'ma get some fresh air. - Karen, please don't leave.
- Oh, gosh.
[dramatic chords] - Karen, where you going?
- Karen. - She's just having a moment.
- Don't do that. Don't follow me.
- So you feel like Karen doesn't trust you?
- Right. You know, it's the fact
that she asked her the same question two days ago,
but she wouldn't answer 'em, and then she's answering them
to a total stranger. - Got it--I understand
what you're saying. - Friendship
is a two-way street. - Right.
- Are you okay? - Yes.
- You're good? - Oh, no, no, no. Listen,
it is about respecting boundaries.
- Okay. It is.
- And I don't discuss business with Gizelle.
- Right. I don't talk about my business eith--
- No one does. Why--
- Yeah, no one does.
And it seems like she wants every detail
which, you know, I'm not gonna do that.
No business person does that. - Right.
- Why would I share anything about my business with Gizelle?
She constantly comes after me.
She constantly makes fun of me.
- Here I chewed up [indistinct].
- Love that. - So Karen just needs to
get this and put it in her living room.
I was gonna ask you about your perfume line.
- It's coming along, thank you. - What stage are you in?
- What stage is your makeup in?
- I'm in business. - Ooh!
You say you've changed, and old Gizelle
shows back up at dinner once you get an audience.
This is why I don't trust you.
Why introduce me... - Yeah.
- If you're gonna bring it back to the group
like there's a problem?
There's no problem. That was a setup,
and I need them to respect boundaries, though.
But I'm cool--let's go eat our dessert.
Thank you for coming out.
- Yes. - I appreciate that.
♪ ♪
- Karen, I'm not here to hurt you.
I just don't want you to feel like...
- My thing with that is-- - You can't talk to me--
- Listen, as far as my business goes--
- I don't care about your business, Karen.
- Okay. No, no. I need to put this out here.
As far as my business goes, there are some things
I'm not gonna talk to you about.
Maybe one day we'll get there.
- Um...
have you been watching what Gizelle has done
with her business, and you were impressed,
and so when she introduced you...
- I'm very proud of her. - To the branding person,
you were actually respecting what she did.
- Thank you--she didn't have to introduce me to anyone,
so thank you for that opportunity.
I thought that was huge of you, and I truly enjoyed it.
Never thought it offended you though.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think that it offended you.
- I want us to be friends. - And I appreciate that.
- See? Dug deep, Karen. - That was good, right?
- Yes. I've been working hard for this compassion nonsense.
- Yes. You still need to--I still
was very serious about you connecting me
with your therapist, because I need a therapist.
- Yes. Okay. - Are you okay?
- I mean, I'm fine.
I just feel like when you grow up in a home
with a therapist, it's like-- - You need therapy from your--
- You need therapy from a therapist.
- What's in your head? Where's your head?
I don't know how you think.
Your brain must be, you know, twisted in backwards.
- And now you're insulting my brain.
You want to belittle me. You want to disres--
I'm still-- - [indistinct]
- I remember sitting at the table,
and being diagnosed at, like, ten.
Like, "Yeah. You're bipolar,"
and it was exhausting. - Oh, God.
Go ahead and get some more alcohol, y'all.
- Right. - [laughing]
- Candiace's mom needs to have her medical degree revoked,
because I don't know who on Earth would ever diagnose
their children with something as severe as bipolar.
It's pretty heartbreaking.
- So just the other day, we got into an argument.
- You and your mother?
- Yes. - Okay.
- And she said that I was
embarrassing her, so I said,
"Well, you embarrass me too,
"like when you talk about my dad
and talk about all the things that he does."
So she says to me,
"You are a dumbass bitch," and she hung up.
- You're a--what, what, what? - Yeah.
- Her mom said that to her. - And then hung up in her face.
- She said you a dumbass bitch? - It's happened.
- Stop, babe. This can't go on, Candiace.
- I mean, this--
- Oh.
- This is a pattern of behavior
that my mother has built.
If I don't figure out some remedy,
the cycle will continue,
and that--that freaks me the (BLEEP) out.
Like, do I even want to have kids?
I don't know.
- Go ahead, let it out, because you know what?
In order to break the cycle,
you have to do something different.
I know Candiace and her mother love each other,
but I also know what it's like to be on this Earth
without a mommy now, so I don't want them
wasting precious time, you know, with this.
- Her mom reminds me a lot of my mother-in-law.
Moms in the South-- - Thank you.
- You speaking how you feel about something
to them is disrespect.
- Yeah. - You know?
- And then it's gonna keep happening.
It's not gonna change until you do something drastic.
[laughter] And then hang up on her.
- Listen, you can't return disrespect with disrespect.
- No. This works. Then it makes it all even.
- All right. We're leaving now. - ♪ Let's go ♪
♪ ♪
- Oh, my God. - Whew!
- You stink, you're a farter. - I'm good!
- It's not me!
- I don't want to sit next to you, at all.
- Oh, my God.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, I'm so happy to be back.
- I just wanted to see what was happening up in here
in the presidential suite. What y'all doing?
- What do you think?
- We're just being presidential.
- This is so precious. - Humble abode.
- It's very precious. - She's Barack,
and I'm Michelle, and we're just--
- Yes. - This is so cute.
- Right, right, right. - You have a piano!
- Yes. - Should I try to play again?
- Do you play piano? - A little bit.
My teacher used to get mad,
'cause I used to love to get my nails done,
and you can't have nails. - And then you're like,
"click, click, click."
- And I would do this, and she hated it.
- So really, y'all were separated at birth.
Candiace, I'm glad that you came up, because...
- Yes. - You seem to have
some insight with Karen.
- A little bit. A little bit. Yeah.
- And I wasn't coming from a shady place,
but it just went left.
When it comes to Karen, I should be kind of mad at her,
'cause she's the one that fooled me.
I ain't fooled her. Did I?
- What'd I do?
- [whispering] Oh, yeah.
Yeah, my--
[laughs] Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay.
- Oh, yeah. Next question.
[laughter]
- We all should understand that Karen is
in a very fragile place.
- Right.
- I've talked to her quite a bit.
I think the bottom line should always be--
come from a place of understanding,
and I think the issue is you are more open.
- Right, right, right.
- It's been two months, to the date,
that I lost my father.
I thought I was ready for this trip,
but it may be too soon for me.
[solemn music]
♪ ♪
- You have to respect where you are as a friend
and also respect where Karen is as a friend.
And love each other through the differences.
I think that's the key. - Okay.
But she's very defensive. - She is, but Karen is--
- That was like solid therapy advice,
and you're like, "Whatever." - But I feel like
Karen is always defensive. She's always been like that,
and I think, in normal life,
it's fine to challenge that.
But I think, in this space, where she's mourning...
- She's grieving? - She's grieving...
I think it's okay to not challenge her
and to allow things to not make sense.
Let it just kind of, like, simmer.
- I can get with that, but it's not the basis
for a friendship, but okay.
- That's such good advice, and then she also looks so hot
when she's saying all of it. I don't know.
- Does she really? - I appreciated it.
[clapping]
- Okay. - [laughing]
- Did you guys get the feeling that Ashley's knocked up?
- You think she's knocked up? - That bitch ain't knocked up.
She's drinking like she is thirsty.
If I wanted to get pregnant--
- No. If I wanted to get pregnant,
I would be out drinking water, like cucumber water...
and strawberry water, and mint water.
- No, no. In all fairness,
if you're trying to get pregnant,
drinking does not stop that.
- Yeah. If I knew that I had a cold "uterus,"
and I had, like, issues with miscarrying,
and I was seeing Chinese
and Japanese doctors... - Right.
- I would be very cautious. - But you don't think
she's trying to get pregnant is what you're saying?
- Not at this moment in time, no.
- Hmm. Well, Goddamn. - That's my thoughts.
Ashley, you say you want to cut back on your drinking,
but I'm watching you drink.
[pop] - Whoa!
- And let us not forget her good old husband Michael
wants to be out here putting his mouth on people's penises.
She ain't trying to get pregnant no way.
That's that on that. - That's that on that.
Okay.
- Coming up next...
- You are a nice looking man. Yes.
- Now, don't you think I know that?
- That is Gizelle's daddy right there, if I overheard.
You don't believe that I'm trying to get pregnant?
What the (BLEEP)?
[dramatic chords]
[energetic music]
- Yes. There's nothing like a good old biscuit, honey.
Biscuit. Ha.
Katie!
Katie, there's some food out here
if you want something.
- [snoring] - Katie?
[snoring continues]
- It's a turban kind of day.
- Well, I got my period this morning.
[cymbals crash]
- Yeah.
Even though I'm really disappointed
Aunt Flo came to town,
I'm gonna kick my shoes off
and get down New Orleans style.
And then when I get home,
it's right back on it for Michael and me, honey.
I'm gonna ride him like a wild gator.
Well, crocodile. He's Australian.
- I love a good old fatty breakfast.
I got to stop, though. - Mm-hmm. I know.
- Because I've been eating what I want, and I'm not pregnant.
- Look, I can't even eat what I want.
- No. You're eating what the baby wants.
- Yes. It's dictating everything about my taste buds.
- Oh, girl, and you just walk around,
"Oh, it's no big deal. I'm carrying another baby."
- I'm just like, you know. - I'm like, "Oh, my God."
- Third time I've been this far along.
- Okay. - So you know,
just trust in God, and I'll be fine.
- You were so strong during that moment.
- Thank you. - And I think, you know,
we could have done a better job rallying around you.
- No. You were awesome. - I expected more
from everyone else. - I think we both have
been there for each other. - Yeah, yeah.
- And that's why the trust is there, yeah.
- I agree, honey, I agree. - I was actually on the phone
earlier, getting everything together for the rainbow party.
- Are you excited? - I'm really excited.
After I had the miscarriage and then became pregnant again,
everybody was saying,
"Congratulations on your rainbow baby."
- Yes, awesome.
So I looked up what a rainbow baby was,
and it's a baby that is born after a miscarriage.
So I was like, "Wow. Okay.
I'm pregnant with my rainbow baby."
The rainbow party is us closing the chapter
and allowing a new one to unfold.
I have all of my family coming in.
- Yeah? - All of Chris's family
coming in. - His mommy?
- Everybody. - That's beautiful. Good.
- And they're all staying at the house,
so it's gonna be... it's gonna be a weekend.
Everybody's been to the house before,
except for my mother-in-law, so this'll actually be
her first time coming to see us in Potomac.
- If you can endure-- Everybody can't endure.
That's a marriage.
- She's never apologized to me for anything,
but I just do whatever I need to do
for the sake of my husband's relationship with his mom
and my children's relationship with their grandmother.
Oh, man. Like, over here, it's stuffed.
[jazzy music]
♪ ♪
- Hi, ladies. Hi, ladies. Good morning.
- Hi. - Good morning.
- Good morning, good morning, good morning.
- Karen and I had our moment, but today,
I'm learning about my history, so Karen drama aside.
- Bonjour. - Bonjour, bonjour.
The flowers have arrived.
- Ha ha! I had to make sure and brighten up your day, baby.
- Yes! Well, good morning, Candypants.
- Hey, what's up, girl? - Yes.
- Where are your pants, honey? - I know, right?
[laughter]
- Who wears cootchie-cutting yeast infection shorts
to the plantation?
This is not a time to air your cheeks out.
- Okay, guys, I appreciate the fact that y'all
are doing this with me. I really, really do.
- No, no, this is you taking us to the plantation.
- Yes. - Yeah, and this is
where your roots are. - Yes, yes.
Okay. Let's roll out. - All righty, Candy-no-pants.
- Candiace, I can see your pants, little sis.
It's okay. - How you doing?
Good morning. - Good morning.
Oy vey! - I got the big bootie seat
back here. - Yes.
- How did everybody sleep last night?
- Excellent. - Wonderfully.
- It was great. - Now, Gizelle,
how do you feel about this? This is emotional for you.
These is your people. - Right. I don't know.
I don't know. I feel like...
I'll know when I get there. - Yeah.
- I think it's pretty amazing
that you can actually, like, pinpoint--
- Yeah. - Trace your roots.
- Like, you can trace your roots there.
- My dad--he's very proud of the fact
that he's able to trace his lineage
right to this specific place.
This plantation--what they did
was they wanted to be made from the slave perspective.
- Oh, wow. - That's moving.
That's powerful.
- And your dad was really involved
with Dr. Martin Luther King? - Yes, and he was, like, yeah,
highly involved with politics. He was one of the first blacks
to be in the Texas House State Legislature,
and shortly thereafter, we moved to D.C.
- Okay. - Yes. He got out of politics.
My father lives in Atlanta.
My dad is somebody that I'm so super proud of.
He's done so much for black people.
He's done so much for me.
And I'm very excited to learn more about my history,
'cause I have to be able to share this with my kids.
- I think it's pretty cool. Like, it's a wake-up call
for all of us who live in the present day
to see what our ancestors-- what they dealt with.
How they lived. How far we've come.
Like, I think it's so easy for us to forget all of that.
- Did you do like a test? You tracked your lineage?
- I did. Yeah. I did my ancestry.
- What did you find?
- Hmm. Um...
I am African and European.
- Okay.
- With a higher percentage European than African.
- Really? - Yeah.
Which was surprising to me. - What was the percentage?
- Yeah. Break it down.
- 59%. - Wow.
- That doesn't mean anything. - Whoo!
- Science does a lot. - But science is one thing,
but how I was raised-- - That's true.
- How everyone before me identifies themselves
is either black or mulatta.
Katie's situation is like completely different.
Katie has a black mother and a white father.
I have two black parents that have European ancestry.
You know why? Because their great-great-great
great-great-great grandfather was a slave master.
And it's really cool, because when I look
at the ancestry thing, it says I descend from African slaves
that migrated to North Carolina.
And my mom is from North Carolina.
- Wow. - And all of the family.
- Oh, my God. That's so crazy.
- Yes, it's so crazy how like on point it is.
Like...wow. - Dang.
- That is so crazy.
♪ ♪
- So we won't talk about it, at all?
- But we just know that it's his birthday.
- Yeah.
- Thank you.
- Hey, hey, hey. - Hey, hey, hey.
How are you? Good to see you.
- How are you? - I'm wonderful.
- How are you doing? - Hi.
- Hello, hello. How are you doing?
- My name is Karen. Very nice to meet you.
- I'm glad you got a chance to meet me also.
- That's Ashley. - Hello.
- I'm Ashley. - Good to meet you.
- Nice to meet you too. - Great, great.
- Hi. I'm Candiace. - Hi. How you doing?
And this is our pregnant lady.
- Yes. - Nice to meet you.
- How you doing? Good to see you.
- Happy birthday. - Happy birthday.
- So we're gonna get
a great tour... - Okay.
- Of the plantation, and you'll get a chance
to meet your great-great grandparents--
both of them born on this property.
all: Wow.
- Okay, we're gonna go in. - Yep. Okay.
- Thank you so much.
- She wants you to know you're a nice-looking man.
- Now, don't you think I know that?
[laughter]
- I get Gizelle.
Like, she is explained 200%.
The humor. The confidence. The arrogance.
That's your daddy. He cannot deny you, honey.
- This is Dr. Ibrahima Seck.
He's the main historian for the plantation.
- It's nice to meet you. Thank you.
- Come this way, ladies. Come this way.
The significance of this plantation today is that
this is the only plantation museum
in the United States that has been dedicated
to the pain and the suffering of slavery.
- Wait. This right here--did they have to wear those?
- The collar. Right.
- They wore that around their necks?
- As punishment. Right.
There is even one plantation, the Laura Plantation,
that has a box for punishment.
You were put in that box and kept there for days
sitting in your own waste, so you didn't want to run.
- Wow. - That is crazy.
Like, that's a part of the law.
- A part of the law.
So we are still going through a lot.
- Yeah.
- Coming up next...
- This memorial is dedicated
to children who died in slavery.
[somber music]
- I can't even imagine.
[mellow guitar music]
- Gizelle. - Yes.
- Yeah, here you go. Get a little closer.
- Okay. - I want to introduce you
to your great-great grandfather
Victor Haydel,
and this is his wife
Celeste Haydel.
- So Haydel is his mom?
- Right, so let me give you the lineage.
Gizelle, me, my mom, my mom's dad,
and then Victor.
This property was run
by the master Marcellin
and his wife Azelie Haydel.
Had no children,
but Victor--he was a child of a rape
by Azelie's brother.
And in the case of Celeste,
Celeste's mother was living on this property.
And the master of the next plantation over--
he must have come over once a week,
because she had eight children for this one man.
- My ancestors were violated. They were raped.
They were treated as if they were not human.
That's hard to swallow.
- Azelie, who was the mistress of the plantation,
lost her husband in the 1850s?
- No. 1839.
- So this woman ran the plantation
by herself for 20 or so years.
- 24 years. Yes. - 20 years.
Somewhere in there she needed to borrow some money,
and when you needed to borrow money
you have to put up your collateral.
You know that, Karen, huh? You know that, Karen. Okay.
[laughter] You got to put up
your collateral to borrow the money.
- Why you calling Karen out? Like, this shows me
where Gizelle gets her pettiness from.
Apple don't fall far from the tree, I see.
- The slave registry was written
where Victor and Celeste were the two top names,
and beside only their names she wrote "cannot be sold.
"These are my family.
I don't intend to give them up."
From these two people came a mayor of the city,
a first lady of the city, Gizelle...
[laughter]
- Yes. No, you, yes. - Me. Me.
- So I might be the President of the United States one day,
just because it's in my blood.
- It's in the blood. - It's in my blood.
- It's in the DNA. - Yes.
- That's where we're gonna end right there.
Here we go. Out this way, ladies.
- To really see and hear firsthand my history
makes me grateful for where I am,
and it really makes me proud of my dad.
- Mount up, ladies. - It gives me inspiration
to fight for all of us black people.
That's the only thing I think that's gonna get us ahead.
- Y'all ready? - Yep.
♪ ♪
- Is this where the slaves-- - Yep. Slave cabins.
- Oh. - These were doubles,
so you had maybe ten people
on the one side and ten on the other.
- In one small house? - In one small house.
- This is a carriage house. It's recreated,
and then the building that's made out of brick?
A scene from "Django Unchained" was filmed
in that blacksmith's shop.
- Amazing. - Wow. That's crazy!
- This is the big house. - Wow.
- It was built by slaves. - Mm-hmm.
- Joy, this building was built in when?
- Early 1800s.
- This is crazy, and what's this here?
- This is one of the more touching things
on the whole property. - Oh, wow.
- This is the Field of Angels.
This memorial is dedicated
to children who died in slavery.
In the middle of the field, we have an angel
with African and female feature
coming down on the plantation to take a dead baby to heaven.
The theme is going home.
So here, you have 2,200 names
of children who died in this parish alone.
Many of them were stillborn,
because while mommy was pregnant,
she had to work under the hot sun
fron sunup to sundown.
Many died also because of the epidemics
like malaria, cholera, and yellow fever.
And you see those children over there?
You see how beautiful they are?
And you can see in their eyes
that they are dreamers.
But they had to drop their dreams.
- I'm picturing my own children being forced
to be on a place like this,
and, like, they're being robbed of their childhood.
You know, they just want to be kids.
- Childhood ended at age ten. They can put you to the plow,
and they can sell you like an animal.
- Oh, my God.
- These little children were just raised
to become beasts of burden.
- It's important that you see your history.
- Mm-hmm. - Or you will relive it.
- Yeah. - You've got to appreciate
your history. - Follow me.
- We ladies go at it all the time,
but there's so much loss here.
It sort of puts things into perspective.
[clanging]
- When the day was over, that's the way
the slaves were called from the field.
- Wow. - With a bell.
- And here, you see 107,000 names
of people who were enslaved all over Louisiana,
along with testimonies,
what they call the slave narratives.
- These are heartbreaking quotes.
- Yeah. - Oh, my God.
- If a woman was pregnant, they would dig a hole,
put her stomach in the hole, and still whip her.
- They would lay her down. - Lay her down,
put her stomach in the hole, and whip her back.
- Wow. - And damage the baby.
Being pregnant...
there are no words.
I can't even imagine.
- Guys, we gotta chop-chop. It's gonna rain soon.
- Oh, they're ready for us. - Okay. All right.
- That's disgusting. Like, that's like--wow.
- It's so inhumane. - I can't even imagine.
- I just--I said my prayers.
[solemn music]
- Daddy? - Yeah.
- I just really want to thank you,
and this has meant everything to me.
- Thank you very much. - Thank you. Thank you.
- Now, here's where I get full.
I've been wanting to do this with my children since day one,
but you know, it didn't mean nothing to a child.
But once you're an adult, then you start appreciating
exactly what's going on.
And she's got three girls who are growing,
and they need to appreciate it also.
- Gizelle's letting us see a different side of her.
- Thank you, thank you, thank you, sir--it's an honor.
- She just put the shade on pause
just for, like, five minutes.
- Well, I enjoyed every second that I spent with you ladies.
Anytime I have beautiful women around me, I'm a happy man.
[laughter] - Such a charmer.
- A charmer. Good-bye, Daddy.
- See you tomorrow. - Love you.
- Take care. - Happy birthday.
- Thank you. - I could listen to your
daddy talk all day long.
[laughter] - Whoo!
- No, but he's really nice.
- Coming up next...
[dance music]
♪ ♪
all: Ahh!
[jazzy music]
♪ ♪
- Hello? Chris?
You're frozen.
- Katie, tonight we're gonna dress up a little bit,
so we're gonna do, like, boas or a mask.
- I'm kinda thinking maybe this.
- Perfect. - Do you like that?
- I've got to run and see the other girls.
- Okay.
- [knocking] I know it's not Mardi Gras,
but we are in New Orleans,
so we will act as if Mardi Gras is going on tomorrow, baby.
- Yes.
- Let's get the boas. Let's get the masks.
- Here, here. Let's do this. - Perfect. I'm out of here.
It's time to turn up.
- Okay. This is what I'm wearing.
- What? Do you know Angel, my daughter?
She's 12. That's what she would wear.
- Angel's not wearing this, baby.
- Good-bye. I have to get dressed.
Wear your kiddie romper.
- It's gonna be cute, girl. - See you soon.
- It's gonna bring all the boys to the yard.
- Oh!
- If I do say so myself.
- Hey, honey.
- Hey, baby. Well, you looking good.
- You just love my Afro-centric look.
- I haven't seen too many platinum cornrows.
- Well, I... - That's special.
- Thank you. - So how you feeling?
- I'm okay. I'm okay.
You know, Gizelle had a really powerful day
planned for us today.
We actually went to visit a plantation
where her descendents were enslaved basically.
- Oh, wow. Okay. - So it was very, very heavy.
I just think I pushed myself, because I'm still mourning.
It'll be too months tomorrow, since I buried Daddy.
I am absolutely drained.
It was just too much death around me.
I don't think I should go out tonight.
- Oh, okay. - Honestly, it's just--
I want you guys to have a good time.
I'm sitting here thinking it might be too soon, you know?
- Okay. - Okay?
The girls are headed out again tonight,
but I told them--I said, "Look, go have a great time,"
'cause I don't want to be the wet towel
or wet rag in the room.
- But I mean, you know, you're in a, you know,
still a little bit of a vulnerable period
and time, so... - Yeah. It's hard.
- Hopefully, they'll be respectful.
- You would think so, but I'm gonna get some sleep.
I love you. - Okay. Love you too.
Take care. - Oh, yes.
- I just tried this on two days ago, and oh, my God.
Like, I definitely grew since I've been here.
- Is that right? - It's a little tight.
Everybody's getting along really well, actually, so--
- Did you just burp? - Yeah. Just burped again.
- "Excuse me" would be appropriate.
- Excuse me. Ha ha ha!
- [laughing]
- [sighs] Where are the rest of these people?
- I don't know.
I love that bustier.
- Do you like it? - Yes.
[laughter] - It was really hard for me
to corset on myself. - Hey!
- Where are the beers? - Oh, goodness.
- Whoo! - Look at you.
- Yes, and I like the piece of cloth.
Do I see butt crack?
- It's cheek, girl, not crack.
- What's happening?
- It's a party everywhere I go, girl.
I like your hair.
- You do? - You're giving me--what's
that movie with Bruce Willis?
- "Fifth Element." - "Fifth Element."
- Oh, okay. - That's the vibe.
- I thought I was giving you "we're in New Orleans."
- She's Russian.
She's gonna kill some people. - Oh.
She kills people, but she has a good heart.
Okay. I'm gonna start texting these girls
and tell 'em to get down here.
- We're the only ones who are ready to rock.
- Oh, Karen's on Instagram Live right now.
♪ ♪
- Oh, really? Let's watch it.
- But when I've answered you I've answered you move on,
and then you don't need to take it any further,
because it's about respect and growth.
"South Africa loves you." I love South Africa.
- Tell her we love her. - Let me contact her.
- How about I let that one go? - Okay.
I said, "Hi, Karen. We are waiting for you downstairs."
- Is she gonna respond?
- That's-- - [Karen murmuring]
- I'ma say, "Really?" So this is why
she didn't want to go out with us?
If you weren't gonna come out with us, just say you wanted
to go on Instagram and talk to strangers.
As opposed to saying, "I'm grieving."
This is how you grieve? - Mm-hmm.
- Do you know people in South Africa, Karen?
No you don't, but you want to chit-chat with them,
instead of going out with the friends that you do know
and that you came here with.
"Why is she ignoring Gizelle?" I want to know too.
- Ooh, someone asked that? - Yeah.
First you won't tell me about your business.
Now, you lied about the reason why you don't want to hang out.
- "Gizelle's stalking." - Yeah. Sure am.
Sure am.
With your broke down Bo Derrick hair?
Yeah, no. I'm not here for it.
- Mm... [dramatic chords]
- Coming up next...
- I'm drinking my beer, okay?
- Drink your beer. That was your beer.
Have this too. - Okay.
- Have it-- - If I wanted to, I would.
[lightly dramatic music]
[dance music]
- Yay. I'm not the only one with booty shorts on.
- Hi. - Hey.
both: What's up? - What's going on?
- Why did Karen say she wasn't coming tonight?
- She said that it was just kind of heavy for her today.
- Well, she's on Instagram Live right now
just chatting with her... - Huh?
- Yeah. Just chatting with strangers,
so clearly she's not concerned about...
- Wait. - Death, life,
or anything in between.
- Oh, she just ended the Live.
- Probably because I was on there stalking her.
- Gizelle. She was trolling.
She was like, "Karen, where are you?"
Dot, dot, dot. Exclamation. Question.
- Hey. - Oh, here comes Candiace.
- Yoo-hoo! - Let me tell Robyn
we are on the bus.
[line ringing]
- Hello? - Are you walking down?
- Not at the moment.
- Okay, so I'll text you the address,
and we need to see your face in the place.
The Big Easy waits for no one,
so Robyn was gonna have to track us down
when she gets her little self in gear, and that's fine.
Robyn's used to it. Pop these bottles.
Give me some drinks, drinks, drinks, drinks.
- Are we just passing the bottle?
- Okay. Okay.
- That looks like you're sucking a dick.
- That's a classy chick right there. Get it, babe.
- Whoo! Whoo!
- Yeah. There you go. - Ooh!
- No. You didn't even get any. [laughter]
- Now we driving real fast.
- It's gonna help you get in there.
- Okay. - This could be
the last time that I get to go out,
before baby Darby's in the oven.
- Guys, come on. Let's go. Let's go.
- I remember that from France. [chatter, laughter]
- What's this? - Oh!
- Oh, yeah. The Spotted Cat, guys!
- Yes.
- Well, well, well.
To the bar. - To the bar!
- What are we drinking?
- Are we doing shots or, like, drinks?
- No. I promised Michael I would not do any shots.
- Oh, boo.
- Don't tell him I did a shot okay?
- I won't.
- Okay. Hi! - Four shots.
- That's not a shot, girl. That's a drink.
- It's a drink.
- I'm living vicariously through y'all.
I'm pregnant. I can't drink.
- Cheers!
- But how can you go to New Orleans
and not have a good time?
So I'ma have fun watching them have fun
and making a fool of themselves.
- Uhh!
- Are we doing another one?
Promise you won't tell my husband.
- I swear I won't.
Like, do you want to have a baby?
Do you want to be a mom?
- Cheers!
- Or do you want to be a drinker?
Which is fine. I'm always drinking.
But I'm also not trying to have a baby,
so there's that.
Robyn!
[all cheering]
- It is nice to be out with my friends.
♪ ♪
Even Monique is having a good old time
with her pregnant self. And Karen would just rather
sit in her room and be on Instagram Live.
♪ ♪
- All right, ladies. I've got to get this child home.
[upbeat jazzy music]
♪ ♪
- Hey, hey, hey, hey!
Oh, give it away!
♪ ♪
- I think we gotta move.
♪ ♪
- Uh-oh.
- Ladies, we're gonna go back to my room okay?
We're gonna have all kinds of shots
and champagne and drinks.
- We're doing shots? - Yes.
- Shots, shots, shots!
♪ ♪
- Oh, we have arrived in this beautiful room.
- Yes. - I am here!
- This is my suite. - I am your suite.
- Is this an urn? - Yes.
- This is Gizelle's shweet.
- Is this an urn? - This is an urn.
There's a dead man in here.
- There's some ashes in here? - There's a dead man.
- Whatever you break you buying.
Whatever you break you're buying, okay?
- There's a dead man in there. - This is my shweet.
- Your shweet. - Yes.
- It's a sweet shweet, Gizelle. - We have not drank this much
since Ashley's uncle's birthday party.
On a scale of, like, one to ten--
You all are so energetic. I mean--
- Who is? Me? - Yes.
- You needed another Honey Jack, Robyn.
Candiace and Ashley are probably at, like,
a ni-- eight of drunkenness.
- We have drinks? - Yes, yes, yes, yes.
I'm going to get the drinks.
- Robyn, you have the most Mardi Gras boa.
- I sure do, girl.
- Oh, yes! - Oh, what is that?
- Is that tequila? - Who is drinking all that?
- Me. - Okay.
- (BLEEP) bitches. Get money.
- That's very original.
- I say toast to the edges. - Yes.
- And then the edges. - Yes.
- There you go.
- The crinkly, nasty booty edges.
- Don't talk about my edges. - Whoa!
Are you looking for a job, 'cause we're hiring at Oz.
- No, but I have plenty of beads.
- Ashley should go first. - I'm throwing 'em, y'all.
- Whoo! Ahh!
[laughter]
- Yes.
[chatter, laughter]
Yes. - I saw the boob!
I saw it. It happened.
- Oh, my God. - Katie, take that--
- Ahh!
- I like this Katie.
I thought she was prim, and proper, and, like, uptight,
but she's letting it all hang out--literally.
- Why are we looking at that?
- This was the morning after our wedding.
- Aw, that's so cute. - [laughing]
- When they make love
the friction smells like burning rubber.
- Who said that? - This one.
Like, I was like--
- Well, they're using a condom.
- Who does that when you're married?
- I don't want a baby yet.
No. I don't believe in that. I'm a fertile Myrtle.
- Everybody's fertile, at your age.
- No. Some people are not.
- Did you ever test Michael's sperm?
- No. We haven't yet. - But you know--
- He told me he really wants
to have his sperm tested the other night.
♪ ♪
- You don't believe that I'm trying to get pregnant?
- Who doesn't?
- Candiace doesn't believe
that you're really trying to get pregnant.
- You don't believe that I'm trying to get pregnant?
- Who doesn't?
Okay, so I believe that--okay.
This is what I'll say. I think that you are not sure.
- Right, because you're not sure
if you want to have a child... - And that is true.
- So now you're project--okay. That's fair.
- I am not, but that was my personal assessment.
I felt like--
- Are you pulling a Dorothy on me right now?
- It might be a little Dorothy. - Okay. Yes.
- Maybe a little bit, but I feel like,
if you were really trying to get pregnant,
would you be drinking this much?
- What does that have to do with anything?
- What does "this much" mean?
- Well, because you've been to the Chinese doctors.
- He told me I can drink.
- Oh, he did? - Yes, he did.
- You can still drink while you're trying to get pregnant.
- Okay. See, I didn't know that.
- It's once you get pregnant, you need to stop.
I done seen crack heads pregnant.
Like, come on. Are you kidding me?
- But who said that drinking
has anything to do with getting pregnant?
- I don't know what one has to do with the other.
- I know. I've never heard of that.
- Is my husband trying to impregnate me right now
while we were sitting here, in New Orleans? Is he--
- No, but drinking causes a residual effect, like--
- Do you know this, Candiace? Have you studied this?
- Yes. - Do you have MD
behind your name? - I have an honorary MD.
Father. Stepfather.
Mother. Stepmother. Yes.
- Okay. Well, honorary does nothing for me.
Candiace thinks that she has an MD,
but what it really stands for is "madly delusional."
- I got to go sleep. - Okay. All right.
- So I'm sorry. I'm so hammered.
- Good night. - It baffles me as to how
she could ever say that she cares about me,
because this is something
that I've really been grappling with
that has really affected my life.
And I just lost a baby.
- I just feel like we need to respect
each other's journeys. Like, when Chris and I
were trying, we still were having glasses of wine.
- Right. - Like, if I'd go out
socially one night, I would still have fun.
So I just think that everybody has their own path.
I don't think it's really that serious.
- I think what you're saying is you don't think she
really wants to have a baby.
- I don't know that I think she's making it up,
but if I wanted to have a baby, I wouldn't be drinking, at all.
And every time that I've been with you, you are drinking.
- You're passing judgment. - Maybe it is judgment.
- But I don't do that to you.
Who made you the judge, the jury?
I don't know who made you the person to make that--
This really is my journey, Candiace.
- You don't? - No. I do not.
- You don't. - No. I do not.
- Ashley, you always have something to say,
in general, about everybody. You generally pass judgment...
- So you are the mouthpiece for everybody
in the whole group now, instead of us talking?
Instead of you representing yourself?
- My mouth speaks on whatever it speaks on.
- How about it speaks for itself?
How about your mouth speaks for itself?
- Whatever it speaks on it speaks on.
But what happens is my eyes--my eyes see.
- Okay. How about your eyes see for themselves?
- My eyes see the bullsh--. - See for themselves.
- My eyes are sniffing out the bullsh--,
and they sniff the bull.
- Do you? - And the bull is, Ashley,
you constantly have something to say
about what everybody is doing.
- While Ashley is getting a taste of her own medicine
I know what that feels like, to be in that position.
It's literally like deja vu.
- Candiace, I'm trying to be nice.
- You're talking about Robyn. You're talking about Monique.
- Same Ashley. New leaf. - You're talking about Karen.
- Same Ashley. New leaf. Same Ashley. New leaf.
- You're always running this mouth.
Your mouth is always running like this.
- Ooh. And you don't?
- In addition to everything else that I'm thinking,
in the back of my mind, I'm also holding on
to this little nugget of salacious information
about Ashley's husband
and what he claims to like to do
to other men's body parts. It just makes everything
that I'm saying more real in my head.
But I don't want this to turn into a "crucify the Darbys."
So I'm just keeping quiet.
- You don't even know if you want to have a family...
- I don't. - And I have been fighting
to have a family. And so, for the fact you
are really ----ing digging at me like this
really shows me that you have no consideration
for me as a person at all.
The fact that you want to judge me
and all of a sudden have all of these,
"Oh, you should do this or not do that"--
it's so unfair.
- How is it unfair? - Who are you, as a woman?
I've had a marriage, and so if you think
that it's okay to do that to me,
as a woman who's had a miscarriage...
what the (BLEEP)?
- Next time, on "The Real Housewives of Potomac"...
- Da-da-da-da!
- Yes!
- Oh, y'all ain't ready for the second line.
Da-da-da-da.
♪ ♪
- Whoo!
- Cheers to the Creole Queen.
- Whoa! - Oh, hell!
- Whoo!
- Do you see any little people in my future?
- On one of my ocean cards.
- That implies there's a problem.
- I'm not telling you anything about Sherman.
- No. - Boundaries.
- You're being defensive right now.
- Okay.
- I asked you a simple ----ing question.
Never ----ing disrespect me again.
You understand? Stay in your ----ing place.
Do you get that?
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head to bravotv.com.