♪
- But she called me a see you next Tuesday
behind my back. - You told me that
she said I'm a beggar. - I have no respect for you.
You're a liar.
- My friendship with you is all bad.
♪
- I'm here, darling, for a funeral.
I'm not here to play with no bitch!
- I'm so tired and jetlagged. My flight was not good.
- Pumped.
- Are you ready? - Yes, I'm ready.
- I'm nervous. - How are you?
Nice to see everybody.
- Good morning, darling.
[laughter] - I know.
- I just need to not call anybody a bitch today.
But these bitches do be bitching.
Look at you. Victim again.
Professional victim.
- That's the worst part--
- Professional at playing the victim.
- At least if I'm pointing... - There you go.
- ... I'm gonna point with this. - There you go.
- So I can point with a million dollars on my finger.
- I love it. - Brooks works really hard.
But, you know, she also is a single woman with men.
- Don't say men.
- In Bali, you were talking about Shrek,
saying this is your sugar daddy! - I never slept with that guy.
- Guys, I've been dreaming about this day for months.
- How are you feeling about seeing Lesa?
- Who?
- Yeah, Ozempic that you introduced me to.
You were on it-- [screams]
- We're fighting about Ozempic right now?
- Yes. - I'm feeling good.
I mean, I'm still a little anxious, obviously.
[laughing]
- This woman is a liar. - No, you're a liar.
- A pathological liar. - You're the liar.
Let's clear the air on Taleen thinking that
that I would ever wear her f---ing fashion.
She doesn't have anything for me to wear.
She returns all her clothes.
- Was there also a part of you that was like,
I went so hard for her?
- Well, hell, yeah.
It was the most disloyal, two-faced.
I have never seen some sh-- like that in my life.
- I'm feeling good.
- Have you seen Brooks? - No.
- Have you talked to her? - No.
Her behavior has been very off.
And no matter how much I love you as a friend,
I would never lie.
- She was on the floor crying,
and me and Sara had to come over and console her.
- Okay. - Do you remember?
- Not on the floor. but she was crying.
Yeah, she was crying. Yeah.
- Like, she was crouched down, hysterical.
- Hysterical?
- Ready when you are.
[laughing]
- I wanted to be fashionably late
but I'm here first. - Wow, you're so understated.
- I know, I know.
It's taking the whole cast, but it's me.
And I'm not wearing an underwear.
So if I flash you, I'm sorry. - Okay, good. Okay.
I can just kind of cozy up right here.
- You look so good in red.
- Well, hi there. - Of course she did.
- Hi, how are you? I'm just cozy here.
Great to see you. - And you, Andy.
Who knew we would be on this side together.
- Who knew? - I love it.
- I love it, too.
- You said you were going simple.
- I did. - You look beautiful.
- How are you? - Nice to see you.
- Oh, my God. Sexy. - Wow.
- Are we in Dubai or New York? This is amazing.
Is it gonna be a bloodbath? Is that why we're all in red?
- It's gonna be a love fest.
- Oh, here comes your bestie. - Ugh!
- Wow! I love it.
- Yeah.
- Ooh-la-la. - Wow.
- Hi. - Beautiful.
- Thank you.
- Let the fun begin, darlings.
- I think we're good.
Excellent. Final places.
- Ahlan, Andy.
Ahlan. - Ahlan, like--
- Ahlan. - Yes.
- I'm not gonna get it. - Stand by.
Cue mic in three, two, one.
- Welcome to the "Real Housewives of Dubai"
season two reunion.
I'm Andy Cohen, joined by the luxurious ladies of Dubai,
who took us on a journey from Beyoncé to bonsai trees,
to Bali, and back again.
We have transformed our set into these stunning Palm Jumeirah.
The scene of the infamous Beyoncé concert
and the sight of Ayan and Stanbury's makeup.
Hopefully, we can squash the beef in this group
and end the evening by saying Salam.
We have so much to dive into.
But first, let's welcome The Real Housewives of Dubai.
Hi, ladies.
[collective] Hi, Andy.
- Ayan, are you in VVIP tonight?
- Honey, I am always in VVIP.
- You know, I would like to make a bold declaration and say
that it seems like you all had great seats for Beyonce.
- No. We're not giving up on that.
- Okay. Yeah, it seems like you're not.
- Yes.
- Hi, Stanbury. - Hi, Andy.
- How are you? - I'm really well. Thank you.
- I need to say, you look outstanding.
- Thank you. - Full face lift or half?
- They didn't actually lift my eyebrows.
But it's called a full. So I don't really understand it.
- She looks younger than me now.
- Well, I am younger than you now.
- Well, that's debatable. Hi, Taleen.
Welcome to your first reunion. - Hey, Andy. Thank you.
I'm happy to be here. - When you joined the show,
I'm sure you wouldn't have imagined
that you would be sitting anywhere but next to Brooks.
- I know. There's a lot to unpack,
for sure. - Yes.
Um, hi, Sara. - Hi.
- How did I do on my first words?
- Yeah, I mean, 'A' for effort. B-- B-plus I'd say.
- What's your prayer for this group today?
- Just to stop all the nonsense, all the negativity.
But also to shed the light on the truth.
- Okay. Hey, Brooks.
Great to see you. - Hi, good to see you, too.
- Did you fly private? - Flew Emirates.
- Well, that's-- - It's pretty much--
I mean, almost the equivalent. - I was gonna say.
Hi, Lesa. - Hello.
- You look fantastic. - Thank you.
- Are you wearing Alexander McQueen or Alexander Shein?
Your BravoCon read was epic.
- Oh, I get asked about it all the time.
- Who's most likely to have fake designer duds in their closet?
- I'm gonna say, Sheree. - Are you--
[laughter]
- Alexander McQueen or Alexander Shein?
[cheering]
- You Dubai women do not play around,
when it comes to reading people.
- No, no. We live in Dubai.
- Well, Lesa and Ayan,
we're gonna get more into this later,
but we're just coming off your explosive fight from the finale.
I can only assume everything is still pretty raw.
- Definitely. - Are things any better now
than they were when we wrapped filming?
- No, it's not good.
And it's, like, sad, you know?
- Yeah. Sad for you too? - It's sad. Yeah.
- How long were you two as tight as you were?
- I was pregnant with Sebastian when we first met.
- Wow. - And Sebastian is eight now.
- The saddest thing for me is missing the kids.
I really love them so much. - Aww.
- I miss picking them up from school.
And I miss going on vacations with them.
- Are your husbands still buddies?
Have they maintained their friendship?
- Not really. - They keep in touch.
- Not really. - That's a bummer.
I know you're feeling especially raw
because you just watched the finale last night.
- Yeah. - I did, too, on my flight.
- Did you just-- you did, too. - Yeah.
- Can we set an intention to leave the day
in a better place than you are right now?
- Yeah, absolutely. - Yeah.
- Okay, well, we have a ton to discuss,
so let's get right into it.
All right? - Yeah, let's get into it.
- Much like the pineapple Ayan gifted Stanbury this season,
these two former frenemies went from prickly to sweet.
And while they hit a major speed bump in Bali,
it didn't take long for these two queens
to take a big swing back in the right direction.
Watch.
- How are you, my love? You okay?
- Very good. - Good.
Brought you a gift. Just like you,
there's so much sweetness and juices
and deliciousness in it.
- That is the biggest compliment she's ever paid me.
I will take it.
- I heard you guys had a nice lunch.
- Yes.
- We had the best time, actually.
- Don't steal my best friend. [laughing]
Why do you have to hold hands?
- Because you can see. - Lesa is so jealous.
- It's like this, Caroline.
You're British. You should know this.
[laughing]
I would never have thought we would be loving each other
like this. - Long may it last.
- Ayan, Katie, from Grand Rapids, says,
"Chanel and Caroline are the iconic duo
that I never knew I needed."
Chanel, what made you wanna be friends with her
after not being able to stand her last season?
- When we left here last year,
we were stuck on a plane for 16 hours together.
- Like, stuck. - Stuck.
- Not far to run. - So we sat, we had a drink.
We started talking, and then we just were like,
you know what?
Let's try to see if we can actually try.
- Also, because we are in a friend group.
It was awkward all the time.
It was horrible for us.
It was not fun for anyone involved.
- Um, Ayan and Stanbury, Jesse from San Francisco says,
"You two seem so different,
but look like you have so much fun together.
What do you have in common and like about each other?"
- We li-- like, she's funny.
Like, she's really, really funny.
She makes me laugh. You know what I mean?
And I like her str-straightforwardness.
She doesn't play with bullsh--. She tells you how she feels.
- I think the same.
I think our kids going to college
and going through all of that is quite similar.
And the way we were brought up, oddly.
And although it seems ridiculous.
Ayan went to her own form of boarding school
and didn't live at home.
I went to maybe a more privileged one.
But, you know, we-we laugh about it
because it makes you very strong, very independent.
I now understand all the things that irritated me to death
about her.
I understand where it comes from.
- So you told me that after last year's reunion,
you had a drink with Ayan
and you didn't tell the other women.
Why didn't you tell the other women?
- I just felt that I wanted to see if there was any route
to a better relationship, without anyone's opinion
as to who she really was.
- Did Ayan tell you about the drink when it happened?
- No, but Ayan used to tell me all the time, like,
hey, she's calling, we're talking.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- And I was always fine with it.
- Yeah. - Um, Taleen,
Cindy from College Park said,
"Brooks and Lesa called out each other
for being jealous over Ayan and Stanbury's friendship."
- Brooks and Stanbury were fine when Ayan and I
were still feuding with Stanbury.
But the minute she found out
that we're actually getting along,
all of a sudden, she's mad.
- Lesa is a projector.
Out of everyone in our friend group,
Lesa is the most bothered.
- Who do you think is more bothered by this friendship
and why?
- I think Lesa and I think Brooks enjoys that.
Brooks loved seeing the demise of their friendship.
And I think Brooks was like a cheerleader about it.
- Brooks, what do you think of this friendship?
- I don't care about it. - Really?
Sure about that? - Okay.
- Yeah, I think he's talking to me, not to you.
- Were you-were you happy that it appeared to be
coming between Ayan and Lesa's friendship?
- I-I actually got a little bit of comedic relief,
but when I realized it affected her emotionally,
it bothered me, too.
And I tried to bring them back together.
- I had no issues with the two of them becoming friends.
Because it was not-- - Okay.
You called them desperate on "Watch What Happens Live".
- Yeah, I disagree. - Yeah, I did.
I think Ayan and Stanbury are the desperate duo.
- Okay. - Not dynamic.
While they were getting to know each other
and they would go out and they would have things,
Ayan would message me, complaining, not happy.
So I never felt the need--
I never felt like it was a threat.
- So when me and Stanbury started hanging out,
yes, I did say to you,
"It's gonna take me time to get to know her."
- But the messages were more like, "I feel so uncomfortable."
- No, I never said I feel uncomfortable.
Please show it. - Sure.
- Yeah, please, show where I said I feel uncomfortable.
- Okay. - Here.
I can't move my arms too much. - Okay.
- But this is the message she first sent me.
One of the messages. - And this is Ayan.
"We are trying to find something in common,
but I don't know what." - Mm-hmm.
- "Like, she acted like I grew up in a village.
She grew up in a mansion. I was shocked."
- Yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
- Well, you both just kind of argued for that.
- Yeah, but-but that was when we meeting.
Lesa said forever. I told you that.
And you're trying to use it against me.
Like, what the [BLEEP] is wrong with you?
- I'm using it against you? - You are.
- She's not.
- Okay, you, victim again. Professional victim.
- Lesa... - She's not a victim.
- Professional victim again.
- Chanel, don't bow to it. - Professional victim again.
- That is the worst word you can use to me.
- Not the villain playing the victim.
- That is the worst word you can use to me.
- Not the villain playing the victim.
- You're calling me a victim.
And you know that's the worst word you have used on me.
- Ayan.
- Not the villain playing the victim.
- That is the worst word you can use to me.
- Not the villain playing the victim.
- You're calling me a victim.
And you know that's the worst word you have used on me.
- Ayan. - You're a professional victim.
- It's not worth-- This is--
- That's the worst word you can use on me.
- You love to play the victim.
- Let's move on. - Don't call me a victim.
- Okay, moving forward.
Ayan, @yoloforlife says, "I love your relationship with Taj.
And I love seeing him as the face of Ayan Beauty.
- Is he still pursuing modeling?
Has he worked for any other cool brands?
- Yes, actually, he worked for Burberry.
- Wow. - He's shot for Fendi.
- Wow. - He's with IMG Models.
Every week, he's working. - Someone's gonna retire soon.
- Yes. - That's great. That's great.
Um, Ayan, Ginger Bush says,
"Ayan's age comes out when she dances."
- Ginger Bush? - Ginger Bush?
- Jesus.
- Mama's about 53. I've seen you.
In Bali, it was revealed you are between 45 and 50.
So what age do you think you actually are?
- To be honest, my bones are very weak.
I really believe I'm over 50.
- Oh, you think so? - Yeah, I think so.
Because I really-- - She's the 50 year old.
I'm noticing that. - Yeah, I am.
I am. - Oh...
Ladies, how old do you think Ayan is?
- Five. - How old do you--
You've known Ayan for a long time her.
- Her age. She looks it.
- Okay. - S-she looks so young.
She looks like she's in her late twenties.
- I mean, I look so fabulous. - I would say 38.
- I was really grateful that she's older
because there's a lot of ageism in this group.
- Okay.
- Because you guys don't act your age.
- How old are you, Stanbury? May I ask?
- 48. - That seems a bit young
to do The Full Monty, no?
- I have been doing filler and Botox since I was 26,
and I think after a while, you begin to look a bit odd
and you need to stop melting it.
It's like filler on top of filler,
and I was beginning to look like that.
How do you ladies think Stanbury looks?
How does she look?
- I think she looks really fresh.
- How does she look?
- She looks great. - She looks okay?
- I love it. - Yeah.
- I love-- Babe, keep doing whatever you do.
- Ayan, we saw most of the ladies cheering you on
at your Ayan Beauty event,
but you seemed upset on social media about Brooks,
uh, solely crediting your partner, Toni.
- Yes.
- Toni Malt put on a beautiful event.
I'm really proud of Toni for what she did for Ayan.
And I'm proud of Ayan Beauty by Toni Malt.
I don't think it was rude for me to say congra--
I like Toni Malt, and I feel like--
- No-no, Brooks. - But it takes all the--
- I don't think it was rude. - No, Brooks.
- Because I actually-- - Brooks, you--
- I'm talking.
I actually was one of the first people
from our cast to fully support her.
It was funny shade to me-- - Funny?
- Because I-I actually really love Toni.
I really love Toni Malt.
- You were giving credit to her partner.
- Yeah, I love Toni Malt. - That was not-- guys!
Did you guys-- - By discrediting her?
- By discrediting all the work of my life?
- Yes, you did. - I didn't actually mention--
- What are you talking about? - You discredited Ayan.
- I mentioned [indistinct]. - You said it was Toni's event.
- Shut the [BLEEP] up.
I'm not talking to you! - Don't-- but--
- Shut up!
- Okay, I'm moving on. I'm moving on.
Um, @Jillycakes says Ayan, it was nice to hear you
open up more about your FGM experience.
Has there been any more backlash from your community?
- Uh, so, Andy, when it aired,
I went into the darkest depression.
You cannot even imagine it.
I was in a----ing bad place.
Andy, it was the worst experience ever.
- Do you regret sharing it now?
- Now-- Like, now, because a few countries in Africa
are saying, let's bring it back because it's normal.
Now, I'm like, no, of course not.
But when that time happened, Andy, I regretted it.
I didn't want to go outside because I didn't think,
like, people would see me for who I am.
Like, the funny girl, the silly girl.
They're just like, oh, she's circumcised,
you know what I mean?
And kids from Taj's school asking him about it, you know?
Every single day, everybody's asking me about it.
Like, what part of your vagina you lost?
They're bullying me about it. They're joking about it.
Like, it was-it was hard.
Like, I don't want to be attacked
because I'm trying to save young girls.
That's why when somebody says you're a victim,
you're a victim, you're playing a victim.
- No, Ayan, that has nothing to do with this.
- Lesa, I'm telling you-- - Ayan, in our situation--
- Lesa, as my friend, you know that victim is the worst word
you can say to me. - No, you-- but, Ayan,
you're playing victim in our situation.
- Because when Sara said that, it hurt me so bad.
I literally----ing opened up to you about my story.
Then I see you calling me a victim
- ing going everywhere.
I have literally cried to you, saying,
Oh, my God. This bothers me so much.
- Ayan, in our situation-- in our situation--
- You saying it, you know it's gonna hurt me
because you know. - In our situation,
you do play the victim.
Not anything to do with your FGM.
Nothing to do with FGM. - No one-no one on this couch,
and I swear to God, no one on this couch,
can say that I never, ever loved you,
cared about you. - That's not what's in question.
- And fought for you to death.
And I'm going to say it-- - She's the most ride--
the most ride or die for you, Lesa.
- I was loyal to you. - And I wasn't?
My issues with her stem because--
- What issue do you have? - You never liked me.
- What do you mean? That's not true.
- Okay, we're gonna have a full conversation about this.
- Honestly, are you gonna cry?
- We're gonna have a full conversation about this.
- I'm not gonna cry. Are you?
- No. - Okay.
- Side effect of Ozempic is always crying.
- Yeah, Ozempic that you introduced me to.
- Yeah, because you asked me. - Because you were on it.
- You don't-- - You were on it,
and you introduced me to. [screams]
- We're fighting about Ozempic right now?
- Yes.
- Coming up next...
- In Bali, you were talking about Shrek,
saying this is your sugar daddy.
- Oh, my God. I never slept with that guy.
Listen! - You were with someone
that you referred to as Shrek?
- Side effect of Ozempic is always crying.
- Yeah, Ozempic that you introduced me to.
- Yes, because you asked me. - Because you were on it.
- You don't-- - You were on it,
and you introduced me to. [screams]
- We're fighting about Ozempic right now?
- Yes.
- Okay, I'm moving on. Ayan--
- This is too much. I need water.
I'm so dry-- dehydrated. - Okay, all right.
Okay, okay. - We can tell.
- I need water, please.
- Okay, um--
- Besties over there.
- Well, Brooks and Stanbury may share a first name,
but Taleen learned the hard way
that they're not amazing at sharing friends.
Let's take a look at Caroline versus Caroline.
- Guys, let's talk about Beyoncé.
- It was a great time.
- Sergio saw your vagina, and he loved it.
- Oh, great, I love it. - What?
- The fall was not that serious. Like, a little topple.
What are you trying to do here?
Are you trying to humiliate Taleen, or what?
I've gonna have Taleen's back no matter what.
It's not for her to go and tell everybody
that Sergio saw your female anatomy.
- I definitely did not say it the way she's repeating it.
- Listen, if it's coming from Brooks,
you cannot believe it.
- Brooks is 100% out to have an issue with me.
Clearly, it's not just a joke about Taleen.
- Caroline's saying that your [BLEEP] hole was showing.
- Not the hole.
- This is a lot of tension about my vagina.
- But why would Stanbury just leave?
Let her go because she's a----ing dumb [BLEEP].
- No, don't say that. - Let her go.
- There's more going on with you and Stanbury.
- That's kind of how I feel,
'cause the way how close they were.
- Yeah.
- Loyalty is a friendship, which is two ways.
You called me a See you next Tuesday.
- If I did call you that, that is so out of line.
- I don't see myself trusting her.
She says one thing to my face, and another behind my back.
- All right, it seemed you were more offended
about the vagina line
than Taleen was.
Why do you think Brooks received it the way she did?
- Um, I don't know.
First of all, the only person that
talked about it to everybody was Brooks.
- Okay. - I-- you know, she's saying
that I embarrassed her friend,
yet I wasn't the one talking about it.
I was talking to her once on the phone,
going, Sergio almost saw vagina.
- Almost? - Or whatever, saw a vagina.
- Yeah, but you told all of us.
- All of-- Yeah, and Nina too.
Stanbury said, if this is any indication
of how she is,
then basically she doesn't belong on this show.
And that then triggered me.
- She said that? - Yeah.
To me, Nina and Sara.
- So your initial reaction to the comment
was what, Taleen?
- I was upset. It was messed up for sure.
- Okay, Brooks,
Jesse from Silver Springs wants to know
why you kept repeating the story about Taleen's vagina
if you were so offended by it.
It felt like you were making
a bigger deal about it than it was.
- I was angry.
- But you could have spoken to me
and, you know--
- I could have maybe called her and had--
- Well, you were meant to be my friend.
- That's true. - So I would have thought
that that would be the normal thing to do.
- I could have maybe called her and actually talked it through.
But I did actually say in the moment to her--
I do remember saying to her, no, give her a chance.
- So when she-- - Forgave me.
- ...decided, I'm gonna let this go and forgive Stanbury,
it seemed like--
- I kept going? - Yeah.
- But that's not what happened. - And it seems like that
pissed you off even more. - She didn't actually say,
I'm gonna let it go. That was after the fact.
We were on Taleen's balcony--
- The balcony where I was "hysterically crying".
- Hold on, I'm gonna-- Oh, my God.
- Okay. - Because I know where you're going with this.
- Can we not do this? - Okay, let her--
let her talk and then-- Let her talk.
Okay, all right. - Okay.
- It's her first reunion, but, Andy,
you're gonna have to tell her how to--
- All right, I just did. - She doesn't have to--
- Get off your high horse, Lesa, please.
- You're gonna speak first, and then you're gonna speak.
- You are allowed to speak, Taleen.
- Go on, all right.
- On her balcony, when me and Sara went over there
that day when I was like, Stanbury's a----ing bitch.
I was so angry. - Yeah.
- It was because right moments before that,
she was on the floor crying
and me and Sara-Sara had to come over and console her.
- Okay. - Do you remember?
- Not on the floor, but crying.
Yeah, she was crying. - Like, she was crouched down,
hysterical. - Hysterical?
- She was. She got down, do you remember?
We had to go over to her? - No.
Sergio saw her privates.
- But sometimes people wanna get under your skin.
- No, like, that's not okay. - No, it's not okay.
No, that was so mean.
No, it was so mean.
- That makes me [indistinct]. - And that's the reason why--
- No, no, no, no, You're not, you're not.
- ...I was so pissed.
Do you understand, Tal? - You're not.
- That's why I went off on her.
- Was I on the floor hysterical?
- Not on the floor. - I got emotional.
- Not hysterical, but you were crying
and you were hurt.
- If you really had an issue
with the whole V-gate thing,
when Stanbury said it to you,
you weren't fighting that off-camera.
- Didn't I say that on that call with Nina and S--?
- I'm not-I'm not talking to Sara.
Stop looking to other people.
- Don't----ing tell me what to do.
Shut the [BLEEP] up. - I asked--
You've been telling everyone here what to do.
- Put your finger down. Nobody's afraid of you.
- Don't---ing tell me what to do.
Shut the [BLEEP] up. - I asked--
You've been telling everyone here what to do.
- Put your finger down. Nobody's afraid of you.
- Here we go.
Caroline always someone next to her.
- Nobody-- okay! - I'm talking to you.
- Let me hear from Sara. - That was a moment, Taleen.
Congrats, that was good. - I wanna hear from Sara.
- Stop with your moments. - Can we hear from Sara?
- Okay, I wanna hear from Sara.
- The comment was rude. She was hurt.
She dragged it too long.
I-I-I love you, but I'm going to be honest,
on the phone, she said,
Don't talk about my friend like that.
- But who kept bringing it up and up?
- She did.
- She said she held onto it too long.
She agreed. - Your question was,
why didn't I address it in the moment?
I did.
- Was there also a part of you that was like,
I went so hard for her,
and now she's making up with Stanbury?
Was there a part of you that was, like,
I brought her onto the show? - Well, hell yeah,
It was the most disloyal, switchy, two-faced.
I have never seen some sh-- like that in my life.
- So you felt, maybe, betrayed by your friend
who you had brought on the show? - Yeah, yeah.
- Okay. - It wasn't that serious.
- Okay, fine, but that's how she took it.
- It was a joke. - How I took it,
and I feel you-- - And I'm just understanding
where she came from.
- I agree with Brooks, and I feel like
anyone would feel that way.
- Sara, Stassi on Facebook says,
I was surprised to hear the words vagina
and See You Next Tuesday being thrown around
so lightly in Dubai. What was your reaction?
- It was too much. - It was a lot.
- It was three or four episodes of Taleen's vajay.
- It was a lot. - Yeah, it was--
- That became the rising star of the show.
[laughter] - I know.
- And do you see me saying it in any of the other scenes?
- No. - No.
- Brooks, I want to get into your state of mind
for the first half of the season.
You had opened a business six months earlier.
- Yeah.
- You were working night and day at the business.
- Yeah.
- You're raising your boy alone.
- Yeah. - That's a lot.
- Yeah. - Is it fair to say
that when you came into this season,
you were--? - Overwhelmed.
- Right. - For sure.
- Do you think the way that you were taking in alcohol
was not beneficial to you?
- I would say, obviously, no, I'm not proud
of the way I behaved while I was drinking.
I need to gauge how much alcohol I consume.
- How did you take in the other women
saying you're drinking was partly to blame
for your behavior?
- I think that they said I was an alcoholic.
- She's so fake.
You're an alcoholic. - Come on, babe.
- I don't know what she's on.
Looking at her made me want to be
stone cold sober for the rest of my life.
- Okay. - She's actually a lightweight.
One drink, and she start slurring.
- I guess you can have four drinks if lightweight?
- Taleen, you've been friends with her for ten years.
I mean, do you think it's unfair to call her a drunk?
- I do not think Caroline is an alcoholic.
We both love to have a good time.
I'm sorry that I said you're an alcoholic, Brooks.
I think you can be messy,
but I do not think you're an alcoholic.
- Okay. - No, and I even told her,
Don't drink, because once you drink,
you don't look good on camera.
- Sara said one drink is okay for you.
Once we pass one, I don't like it.
- Apparently producers told you that too.
- They did. - Yeah.
- They did, they-they observed
after one drink, I'm still in the clear.
But when we head to two or three, it's going
downhill from there. - It's bad.
Um, Lesa, you told me on Watch What Happens Live
that Brooks needs to dial it down.
What did you mean by that?
- I mean, I was commenting on the whole thing with Taleen,
and the See You Next Tuesday,
the holes and all of that.
I thought it was a bit too much.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- Dre on Twitter says, I love Sara,
but Brooks's behavior doesn't get a pass
because she was stressed.
What do you say to that? And as a non drinker,
is it ever hard for you to be around the ladies
when they're drinking heavily?
- No, it is hard to be around them when they drink heavily.
Every time Brooks does anything,
everyone calls me,
and they're like, have you seen Brooks's behavior?
I'm not Brooks's mom.
- You did kind of take that on. - You did.
- Yes. - No, it's called friendship.
That doesn't mean I agree with Brooks's behavior.
- Okay, um, Brooks,
tell me about the healing journey.
- I love my healing journey.
- Brooks, yours is too fast.
- But be happy she's happy.
- I have to say, I agree with you.
- Uh, yeah, it's too-- - Like suddenly
you're like a changed woman. - It's too fast.
- One.
- Did you do more than one session?
- No! - No.
- She tried to sue the healer.
- I never sued the healer. - No, but you asked--
You asked for your money back.
- Only Brooks would sue a healer.
- Okay, but she didn't sue a healer.
- No. - She didn't.
- Asking for a refund is not a lawsuit.
- They said that that was the first time
they've been asked for a refund in 30 years.
- Why did you get the refund? - 20 years.
- Because I didn't go back after one.
- Did you get the refund?
- Yeah, yeah. - Yeah.
- Yeah, she didn't want to finish.
- Okay, uh, Brooks, Sasha in Indiana said
you recently claim that Caroline's friend Michael
is her sugar daddy,
and allegedly he pays her mortgage,
clothing, bills, et cetera.
How do you know this? - Well, okay,
so Stanbury's group of friends
were at Atlantis The Royal with Ayan,
and Michael was getting wasted.
Ayan had called me,
and she was like, Michael's drunk ass
just literally said he pays all of Stanbury's bills
and he's sick of Sergio.
She said, But don't say anything.
She didn't have to actually mention it to me.
He repeated it again.
- I remember back in the day, too,
you ran into him at The Maine,
and he also said that to you.
- He was talking about he was not happy with Sergio
because he said you and Sergio
were fighting a lot in the house.
Okay, but-- - That's not about what happened two years ago.
- Can I say what happened?
- Yeah, but tell the truth. - Okay, thank you, let me--
Yeah, I'll say the truth. - Yeah.
- And then he say to me, you know what?
I need them to leave because I'm tired
of paying for the house
of the maid, and the food
and the stuff like that.
That's what he said.
He cannot afford to pay her life.
Dubai is so expensive.
- Nobody pays my life.
- Okay, Stanbury, what's your response to this?
- The way he's said it to me. - Yes.
- Is he made a poor joke about paying my maid
and the bills while I was living--
I overstayed my welcome. - Okay.
- Three months, yeah. - That was clear.
- If that was the context, Andy, fine.
But that's not how he said it.
- And he was fighting with Sergio.
- Yeah. - And he said to me,
Ayan, I want Serg--
I want them to move back to their house.
I'm done with paying for the maid.
- Uh, Stanbury, Lana from Texas wants to know,
where do you get all of your money?
Do you work?
- Me? Of course.
I work really hard. - Yeah, she works her ass off.
- Yes, I work my ass off.
I've had a huge business my whole life.
- Yep.
- I run multiple businesses now.
I just don't bring it onto the show.
- Did you get a big settlement from your ex?
- Of course I got money.
- I also--
I'm assuming that you grew up with money.
- Yes. - Yes.
You responded to Brooks's claim,
saying Brooks was talking about herself.
Who's paying her bills?
- I do believe Brooks works really hard,
but like, at the same time, you know,
she also is a single woman with... men.
- Well, not men. I had-- you knew my--
You know who my ex is,
and you know how long we were together,
so don't-don't say "men".
- Taleen, you mentioned on Watch What Happens Live
that Brooks dates a lot of wealthy men.
- Who do you think has more money in her bank account?
- Well, Brooks sleeps with a lot of men who have money,
so I don't know.
- You later apologized online.
What did you mean,
and why did you feel the need to apologize?
- That was a poor choice of words to say
that you sleep with wealthy men.
You don't-you don't.
But do guys give you cash and buy your stuff?
- Why wouldn't my boyfriend give me cash and buy me stuff?
- In Bali, you were talking about Shrek saying,
this is your sugar daddy. - I never slept with that guy.
- I'm in Bali a little bit drunk with my friends.
Okay, call you back later.
- Questionable looking man.
- Yeah, I saw that mother----er--
I got Shrek in the window, and I'm like,
that mother----er is Shrek.
- Well, that tells you he's ugly.
Well, that tells you he makes six figures a month.
I ain't complaining.
On my birthday, he flew me private.
It was really lovely. - Yeah.
- Every two weeks or whatever, I get, like,
a nice exotic bag that I want.
I'm not going to deny it.
Like, I don't give a [BLEEP] that somebody pays my bills.
They can pay it.
- You were with someone that you referred to as Shrek.
- He was so ugly, and I was never with him,
never had sex, never kissed him.
- Did he buy you stuff?
- Nothing. - Oh.
- It's not okay for you guys to say
she sleeps around with different men.
- I don't like bullsh--. I like honesty,
I-- Lesa, you said that about her too.
- Yes! - What?
- You always say that, and you're sitting here
acting like you've never said that.
- When did I just say that? - She says that all the time.
- The horrible things they both said about each other--
- Okay, mind your business. - Lesa, I feel sorry for you.
- Okay.
- It's not okay for you guys to say
she sleeps around with different men.
- Lesa, you said that about her too.
- Yes! - What?
- The horrible things they both said about each other--
- Okay, mind your business. - Lesa, I feel sorry for you.
- Okay.
Lesa, have you been saying the same stuff
that you're accusing the others of saying?
- Listen, I've heard things and I've brought it up,
but I would never bring it to this platform
and do that to embarrass her.
- Okay, I'm going to move forward.
This year, a new housewife named Taleen emerged in the desert,
and while she and her pal Brooke started off thick as thieves,
accusations of begging, borrowing,
and one Caroline stealing her from the other
led to quite the sandstorm between besties.
Watch.
- We're here. - Let's have fun.
- Nobody look at my cooch.
- Let's go, donut. Wow, wow, wow.
- Can you turn around?
Yeah.
- What's your background? - I'm Armenian.
- Okay.
- But born and raised in the States.
- So you guys met in the States,
or you guys met in Dubai? - We met here.
- Oh, Dubai. - Yeah.
She was my first friend here.
- Taleen is one of my closest girlfriends in Dubai.
I've known her for almost a decade.
- Da-da-ling-ding- ding-ding-ding.
- I'm from Virginia.
- Da-da-ling-ding- ding-ding-ding.
- We are crazy.
- Who needs a side? - Who? Ha!
- Who needs a shot? Not them.
- Brooks, I get the 2:00 AM calls from her
being like, "She said this, she said this."
And I hate that.
You can instigate.
- Really? - Behind the scenes.
You said, "You know, Stanbury was talking sh-- about you."
- That's my opinion. Because that's--
- But don't you feel like that's stirring the pot of this?
- No, that's me being direct.
- Okay.
- Taleen is going to believe her friend of ten minutes
over her friend of ten years.
- You're not letting me talk.
- But I don't care about this.
- Well, if you don't care about this,
then we're not as close friends as I thought.
- And that's fine.
- Brooks said, she was like,
"Apparently I called her a beggar,
"but that's because she is."
[screaming]
- Taleen begged me to be on television.
Honestly, it's what she begged for.
I don't want to say the show,
but, like, that's what she begged for.
- I've seen a side of Brooks that I have never seen before.
- What do you wanna do? you wanna-- you wanna do this?
- He's----ing sticking up for me?
Where's your husband? - And?
- Stop it.
- Get off me.
Taleen, you----ing begging-ass bitch!
You're a beggar. - You're a beggar!
You wore my wardrobe last season, bitch!
- I can see the root of your friendship
- Yeah. - And how the two of you
actually do have a lot of fun together.
- Yeah. We do, we do. - Yeah, we do.
- Um, Taleen, you got a lot of positive feedback from fans.
Rick Z. said, "Taleen is one of those rare newbies
"that instantly feels like a seasoned housewife.
"She's interesting, funny.
"I love she can hold her own at the table."
Is the response what you expected it to be?
- I really had no idea what I was walking into.
I just wanted to be myself and I've been so grateful
for the fans and the response and I really appreciate it.
- Brooks, how did you prepare Taleen before she started?
- Not really much preparation, because as Taleen knows,
I never watch Housewives. She actually tried to get me
on her couch-- - You walked into my house
and you said to watch Beverly Hills.
- Yeah, Beverly Hills. - You are the fanatic.
- She tried to even get me through one episode.
It's not really for me. - Did she prepare you at all?
- No! - She wanted me to come in.
- And take me down. - Hating ev-- you, your bestie,
all of a sudden. You, you, not you.
She loved you, Sara.
She-she still does.
She wanted me to come in guns blazing.
- Oh, my-- yeah. All of that. - Ayan, Nala on Twitter said,
you called Taleen a hadida bird on several occasions.
- Yes.
- Maybe you should let me finish.
- You think a lot and you talk a lot.
Hadida bird.
- Has she grown on you since then?
- I actually told her today to be hadida.
Tip for you, for your number one.
Do not start the fight, but end it.
- Should I be a hadida bird? - Today's the day.
I love it. Hadida.
- So Taleen, Brooks called you after the queens dinner
to say that Stanbury was talking crap about you.
What made you decide to fact check Brooks
and call Stanbury?
- So this was a pattern. It kept happening.
I would get calls from Brooks, and I was like,
"You know what? I'm--"
Let me just get everybody on the phone.
- I actually defended her at the table,
and those two walked away to talk
because they were all wondering,
what the [BLEEP] are they over there talking about?
- Right.
- Caroline, can I talk to you for two seconds? Come on.
- What kind of problem would Taleen be having
with Stanbury? - We don't care.
- That's not sh-- talking, no. - But, Brooks,
what you relayed to me is, "Don't you get it, Tal?
"She doesn't like you, Tal." - No, no.
That's not what I said.
It was nice of her to want to have that conversation alone.
- She had said prior to filming,
"If anybody ever talks about me, you tell me."
- Got it. - I never said that, but--
- Okay. - Oh, yes. Oh, yes.
- Okay, all right. - That's what she said
in her confessional. - Brooks, Melissa from Dayton
says, "You started the season calling Taleen
"one of your closest friends in Dubai.
"But the minute she challenged you,
"you lost it on her and said you were done.
"Did you expect her to just blindly follow you?"
- No. - That's a big question.
- Not blindly follow me, but some basis of some loyalty.
- Sara, Michael V. said, "You defended Brooks
"in the desert after her fallout with Taleen.
"When you watch back, that dinner argument
"between Taleen and Brooks,
"was it what you expected to see?"
- In the desert, I was telling Brooks to apologize to Taleen.
- About what?
- Because I clearly was coming from a good place
and telling you that, and I wanted to move forward.
And you said there is no moving forward.
- Yeah.
- We saw Taleen and Brooks finally make up
at the Ayan Beauty event only to hear later
that Brooks wasn't apologizing for how she treated Taleen,
but rather for calling her a beggar.
- Apparently, 105 times you said on Entertainment Tonight,
I said, "Please, please, please, can I please be on the show?"
- You clearly wanted to be on the show.
It's not a crime to want to be on the show.
- Right, but did I beg to be on the show?
- If you were her friend, it also helped you
that she was going to bring you into the show.
- Thank you, and she also put other names forward.
I was also hesitant.
It was not an overnight decision.
- Who wouldn't want to be in this?
- Okay, so-- - But for you to go to press,
and say that I begged you 105 times,
I don't beg friends for sh--.
- But for you to go to press,
and say that I begged you 105 times,
I don't beg friends for sh--.
And she even knows that. - Brooks.
Sienna from Morristown said,
"Isn't the point of bringing someone into your friend group
"so that she integrates with your other friends?
"Did you just expect Taleen to be your mouthpiece?"
This is a big one. - My mouth--
No, I don't want her to speak for me.
- No, that was Sara this season.
- You bitch.
- If a person's coming into the show as a friend of mine,
I would expect for them to kind of have my back.
- Fair. Very fair. - I have texts of Brooks saying,
"Oh, my God, Stanbury, just put three people forward.
"We need to get you on the show."
- Okay. - So there was a motive there.
- You were working together? - Hell yeah.
We were working together.
- Taleen, Stock on Twitter said, "Taleen used Brooks
"to get on the show and then flipped on her.
"What's your reaction to viewers questioning you
"for choosing Stanbury over your best friend?"
- Look, I didn't realize-- I didn't know there were sides.
I had an issue with what Brooks was doing behind the scenes.
- Okay. - And I needed to say it.
- Okay. - All right?
And it wasn't me going-- being disloyal
or going against her to be with Stanbury.
I actually filmed the least with Stanbury.
- Okay. - I didn't film a lot with her.
- Brooks, you showed up to Stanbury's housewarming
with sage and brought an uninvited guest.
- Naughty, naughty. - Yeah, that wasn't very nice.
- A lot of viewers had reactions to that.
@girlslovebravo wrote on Twitter,
"I would have kicked Brooks out the second
"I saw sage in her hand." [indistinct chatter]
So what were you thinking?
- I don't know. It was, like, in my car.
- Oh, okay. You found it. - It was there, in the--
in the side console. - Yeah.
- I feel like it was a bit of a setup.
[overlapping chatter]
- Stanbury, which pissed you off more,
the sage or the uninvited guest? - I can't get a word out.
- Ugh. - Both. It was both rude.
- The uninvited guest, even worse, because I--
I had a chef. - You had plus one--
- Like, how? - Yes.
- No, it was a seated-- - No supper.
- It was rude.
The smudging was also rude,
but I-I won't lie to you. I wasn't her bestie at the time.
- Okay, you were being shady. - Brooks, just don't be--
[indistinct]. - I was.
- Brooks, Christy Butler on Twitter said,
"Brooks thinking she's the one due the apology?
"Delulu. She's the one that came in with the agenda
"to start the fight. Get real, Brooks."
How do you respond to that? - I don't care.
- Well, okay, but do you own the fact that you came in
kind of rearing to go? - Up, you were at 100.
- Her guns were blazed, yes. [indistinct chatter]
- I was ri-- I was riled up.
- Yeah.
- Taleen, Wanda from Texas said,
"What were you thinking, egging on Brooks,
"asking where her husband was?"
- I walked away from the situation.
- Away. - Okay.
- My husband was actually trying to de-escalate it.
If anyone here really knows him--
- She had been poked quite a lot through the dinner,
and she did walk away. - Yeah. He's-- he-he's--
- I wasn't talking to her. - Oh, you weren't talking to me.
You were talking to the air.
- Well, you were talking about her.
- Yeah. - You were talking about me,
and you were literally-- - [indistinct].
- I understand. - No, she was poking you.
- But if I was sitting here, and you were yelling things
about me, I might get upset.
- I was being poked.
Should I have said that about your husband not being there,
or where is your husband? No.
- Okay. - And for that,
I do take accountability. I'm sorry for that.
- That's how you lost me as a fan.
- I know, exactly. That's why you're not my biggest fan.
- Stanbury, what did you think of Raffi getting involved?
- I think Raffi had listened to it
and listened to it, and to be honest,
I can't believe he only got involved at the end.
Brooks, you have a longer standing relationship
with Raffi than you do Taleen
You call Raffi. You invited Raffi to your birthday party
without Taleen.
You have that relationship with him, so he has every right
to have that relationship and clap back.
- Oh, that's interesting. So--
- He has every right to have shouted at her?
- He didn't shout at her. - He didn't shout.
- He was shouting. - He walked away.
- He did not walk away. - He did walk away.
- He said, "I'm not doing this."
- Taleen, stop drinking. - Stop drinking?
- You're slurring. - Drinking?
- That's cute. - Come on.
- Yeah, what do you wanna do? You wanna-- you wanna do this?
- What are we doing? - It's my wife.
You're gonna-- you're not gonna throw my wife under the bus.
- Okay, yeah, so--
You don't speak on women's business.
- I don't give a damn about these cameras, man.
Let me tell you one thing. - Don't speak on women's--
- You better shut your mouth. - Yeah, but what you're not--
Oh, but what you're not-- - Oh, woah.
What you're not gonna do--
- Hey, you better watch your----ing mouth.
- Lesa, you even admitted to me that you didn't see,
really, what was going on. - I didn't see how it started.
- Exactly. - I didn't see how it started,
but I did see, to-- - You were looking for a moment,
and you inserted yourself. - I was not, absolutely not.
- Because that is what you do. - That's not true.
There was two on one. - Period.
- There was two on one. - Andy, did you watch it?
- Yeah, yeah, of course.
- She wasn't there in that moment.
That was really aggressive towards a girl.
- Well, my question is this-- - He's a good guy.
- Okay, my question is this-- - No one's saying
he's not a good guy, Ayan. - He's a good guy.
- But in that moment, that was really aggressive.
- I understand the male- female dynamic.
I totally get it. - Yeah.
- But if you are old buddies with him,
doesn't that take some of the-the steam out of it,
if that's your buddy?
Have you ever had an argument with Raffi like that?
- No. - Before--
- What?
Excuse me.
- Have I had an-- ever had an argument
with Raffi like that? - After my-- after my--
after my party, off camera? - That wasn't with Raffi.
That was with you. - That was with you and Raffi.
- No. Okay, we're-we're-- - You were spitting in his face.
And there were people there. - I didn't spit in his face.
- After the "see you next Tuesday" thing.
This woman is a liar. - No, you're a liar.
- A pathological liar. - You're the liar.
- Next time on part two
of "The Real Housewives of Dubai Reunion..."
- I was mortified, but the designer...
- "Suck dick." - It wasn't "suck dick."
- I have nothing against "suck dick."
- Look at me in the eye and tell me I never told you
about the voicemail. - I asked all the producers.
They said you knew. - What?
- She knew about it.
- Ayan. - Okay, drop the bombs.
- Brooks called you on speakerphone.
- Who does that? - Who does that?
- Did you trap Ayan?