NARRATOR: Orlando, Florida, the City Beautiful.
Orlando is home to many elite athletes,
along with countless moms to future star players.
[music playing]
(SINGING) Yeah, let's go.
NARRATOR: Orlando feels like a small town,
because everyone is connected. (ON) MULTIPLE VOICES: Hey!
Hi!
NARRATOR: But when relationships are threatened--
- People aren't respecting me right now?
- I don't think so.
NARRATOR: You must fight at all costs to hold on.
- What we know for certain--
- What we know for certain is you
and he were not in a relationship.
- The name of the game is keeping it together.
- Cheers!
NARRATOR: The players may change,
but the rules remain the same.
This is Basketball Wives Orlando.
[music playing] [music playing] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We going down our way for the drama.
We putting on our coats for the come-up.
We outside.
MEHGAN JAMES: I am Mehgan James.
I am 30-something years old, and I just moved from Los Angeles
to Orlando.
[music playing] Headed on up, baddie real bad,
now I'm up now.
My younger days living in LA were filled with drama.
You upgraded from a hoe to a porn star.
[yelling] [[bleep]]
No, no!
But I'm finally ready to press pause on the LA fast life
and start over fresh.
[music playing] If it was me, I pull on the scene,
I pull up anything.
Even though this is a fresh start for me,
one thing will stay the same--
my connection to the basketball world.
I have been linked to multiple basketball
players, a couple agents, and even a referee or two.
But I'm not going to drop any names.
The quieter you are, the more money you get.
Now that I'm here in Orlando, I'm
ready to meet some like-minded ladies to help me
start this new zen Mehgan life.
And so I reached out to someone who
could help me figure out who to talk
to and give me all the tea.
[music playing] I'm the queen bee.
I'm the queen.
- Hello!
- Hi!
Thank you so much for coming.
(ON) SHAUNIE HENDERSON: Of course.
- Good to see you.
Good. It's been so long.
- It's been a very long time.
New city.
New stuff. Right.
- I didn't know I needed this.
- I met Shaunie years ago, back in the circle
of LA Basketball Wives.
She's not only an OG Basketball Wife,
but she lived in Orlando for years
when she was married to Shaq.
So who better to introduce the new and improved drama-free
Mehgan to Orlando than Shaunie?
- So you're here full-time now?
MEHGAN JAMES: Yeah.
Like, I'm in my 30s now.
I want to, like, shed my bad-girl image.
(ON) SHAUNIE HENDERSON: And what are
you doing career-wise nowadays?
- I have my podcast.
I started a podcast.
SHAUNIE HENDERSON: Oh, I've seen that.
- Yes.
During the pandemic I started the Hollywood
Groupchat podcast.
I got ass shots. I don't care.
I'll tell anybody. (ON) WOMAN: Let me see.
- I mean-- (ON) WOMAN: Come on.
- It looks like a bootie for real there.
- Oh.
- I get almost 100,000 views weekly,
and I have plans to grow my viewership and my bag
while I'm here in Orlando.
So what brings you to Orlando?
(OFF) SHAUNIE HENDERSON: My daughter
is about to be a senior, and this is her last AAU run.
They're going to, like, the championships
by the end of the weekend, so.
But I'm so glad you called.
MEHGAN JAMES: Yeah, thank you so much for coming.
I'm just like, I just got here.
So I haven't, like, really met, like, any friends here yet.
(OFF) SHAUNIE HENDERSON: I mean, I
do know some people that are still here,
of course, from that basketball world.
You know, like, some wives and ex-wives and things like
that that are entrepreneurs and just
really into their families.
MEHGAN JAMES: I do follow some girls that are moving here
soon or that already live here, that are kind of, like,
in the basketball world. (OFF) SHAUNIE HENDERSON: OK.
- So I'm thinking about just reaching
out to them on Instagram to, maybe,
invite them to a little brunch or something.
- I think you should absolutely
hone into that group of women, because they
know, like, support, and supposed to be a sisterhood.
And we know how that can get sometimes.
- Yeah.
- Because you're the new girl coming
in town, try to stay neutral.
You don't know how everybody feels about each other.
You don't know what the back story is.
So just keep yourself a priority and your peace a priority.
So don't let anybody disturb that or anybody else's drama
disturb that, because I'm sure there's
always something unfortunate.
[music playing] If I go now, if I go now, if I go now,
ain't nobody do it like me.
I'm doing big things.
ASHLEY SNELL: My name is Ashley Snell.
I'm an entrepreneur, and I made my first million at 28
years old.
(RAPPING) I got that big, big energy.
- My latest passion project
is my athleisure line, ASC, which stands
for Ashley Snell Collection.
- Hi.
- Hey.
- How are you?
ASHLEY SNELL: ASC is available at my store in Winter
Park, which happens to be one of the most affluent
neighborhoods in Orlando.
I'm thinking I want it probably on this wall.
We're going to have to scoot some stuff over.
And when I'm not calling the shots at ASC,
I'm supporting my man on the court.
But let's be clear.
I was a baller before I bagged mine.
Nice.
I've been married to Tony for two years.
We have a great life, a gorgeous house, and two beautiful sons.
Come on, Carter.
You want to play basketball?
Oh!
Look at daddy.
There are 24 hours in a day, and I
choose to spend mine focusing on my family, my success,
and making my next million.
You gonna do it?
You got to shoot the ball.
There we go!
[music playing] Juicy, classy, super nasty.
- Hey, guys.
It's Mehgan James.
Some of you guys know me really well.
Others of you don't.
I'm finally, officially in Orlando,
and I'm having a garden party brunch to get to know
you guys a little bit better.
Let me know if you can make it.
[music playing] I do it.
I do it like this 'cause I can.
It's the lifestyle for me.
[bottle pops]
- That happened fast.
[music playing]
(SINGING) I like to hit him where it hurts.
So don't be calling for me.
(OFF) MORGAN BLEDSOE: I'm Morgan.
I'm a mother first and an entrepreneur second.
(SINGING) Don't be running from me.
MAN: Hey, Morgan.
- How are you?
- I'm good. Nice to see you.
I'm glad you made this your first destination.
- I'm excited to look.
I'm here in Orlando, looking for a spot
for my flagship beauty school and salon suites
for More By Morgan.
I plan on becoming the queen pin of the beauty
industry of Orlando, Florida.
- This would be the boss's office.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: I love the chandelier.
- And also the bathroom, too.
- So the queen of the lair gets her
own a bathroom, too, at work?
I like that.
As seen all over the internet, my ex-husband
is a former basketball player.
We share three amazing children together--
Ariana, who is 12, Ethan who is eight, and Emory,
who is just about four.
CARITA: You gotta put the feet in.
You gonna join me, girl?
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Yes.
Oh.
CARITA: It is beautiful here.
- It is beautiful, right?
I've been coming to Orlando now for the past few summers,
and the kids and I just love it here.
I'm considering relocating here permanently, not only
for a good opportunities for the children,
but socially with my friends.
It's plenty of business opportunities,
and as a single mom, that's quite important to me.
Is your water gun working?
- Yeah.
- Whoo!
- Don't squirt my mama in her face.
- You're lucky I didn't pack my water gun.
[laughs]
MORGAN BLEDSOE: I was out the other night.
I've been getting eyes, looks, left and right.
- You get it from your mama.
- I get it from my mama.
Maybe we could go out together.
- I don't know about all of that.
- We can find stepdaddy and granddaddy
in the same setting.
[laughter]
My mom is definitely my rock.
I can always count on her for laughs, advice,
and absolutely when I need her most.
I can talk to my mom literally about anything, from A to Z,
and no judgment will be passed.
Not having you around and trying to do
the whole single mom thing by myself
has been eye-opening, for sure.
CARITA: Yeah, I'm willing to come down and help as much
as possible, but you know I still
need to go and do my nanny circuit on all
the other grandbabies, too. (ON) MORGAN BLEDSOE: I know.
CARITA: But it seems that you have a little bit
of a support system.
You were telling me about some of your different friends and--
- Yeah.
Do you remember Ashley?
From Milwaukee? (ON) CARITA: I do.
- You know, we
were like really cool friends, like we
traveled everywhere together.
But then, when I got down here, we, like, fell out.
As a basketball wife, there's an absolute code we live by.
But Ashley broke that code by bringing
women around my husband to sleep with him
and many other players.
ASHLEY SNELL: You wanted to ask
if my friends [bleep] your man.
So I'm letting you know, my friends did not [bleep] your man,
but he tried to contact them.
- Yes, you were
like, I don't have to put my friends on your man,
your man [bleep] whoever.
So obviously, from that, we've fallen out.
Hopefully, we can just get past where we are.
I don't think we'll ever be friends again,
but it's obvious that we're going
to be around, like, the same settings,
the same social groups.
I'm supposed to see her in a couple
of days at a brunch and--
- A brunch is a good spot.
And that's in public.
- I'm not really excited to
speak, though.
I know that I can coexist with Ashley in the same room,
but her being able to handle my presence in her face
with no problem, I'm not sure.
- Well, if you don't have anything good to say,
don't say anything at all.
You can nod. Mm-hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
CARITA: That says a lot sometimes.
Mm-hmm.
- [laughs] Your face says it all!
[music playing] Everything golden, can't hold me down.
Steady rolling, see my aura shine.
I'm golden, feeling golden.
Don't I look good today.
Sunshine, my body bronze, hit like that ricochet.
- So Mehgan invited me to brunch today.
And this will be the first time I'm
seeing a lot of the ladies since last summer, including Morgan.
(RAPPING) Already cornered the market.
I'm just getting started.
Ain't hit my stride in this warmup.
I'm just gettin' started, I'm just gettin' started.
Everything golden.
Can't hold me down.
Steady rollin'.
See my aura shine.
ASHLEY SNELL: I invited Parnia,
one of my closest friends.
So I'm just going to give Morgan a little space
until the other ladies get here.
But I'm definitely keeping a close eye on her.
Thank you so much.
Cheers. (ON) PARNIA: To positive energy.
- Positive, yes.
And leaving the gutter rats in the gutter.
OK. [laughter]
[music playing] Rolling in the dough, baby.
That's a bet.
I'm confident, not cocky, baby.
That's a flex.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Nique, girl, come over here!
Across the room there, that body is so bosto.
Nique is my girl.
I haven't seen her since last summer,
so we have a lot of catching-up to do.
Nique is a big influencer with almost 4 million followers.
- What's up, you guys?
- It's your boy, Kaiser.
- And it's your girl, Nique,
and we're back with another video, you guys.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: What's T, baby?
- I'm having a warm summer.
You know, I'm outside and I'm inside,
but my man let me do what I want, so.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: That's right.
- Let me be outside.
- When you walked into the room,
you owned it. (ON) NIQUE BROWN: Oh, thank you.
- That's why I did you va, va, voom.
- I've been dating my boyfriend
Dwayne for two years, and he is a professional
basketball player.
He has two kids with his ex, Mackenzie, who's
also supposed to be here today.
Mackenzie and I got into it a bit last summer.
Like, and I feel like you always throwing shots.
It's always the girlfriend this, the girlfriend that.
Oh, you and your girlfriend--
- I don't speak on you, though,
ever, though.
So if that was, like, maybe back in the beginning,
because me and him barely even speak.
- I think we finally
came to an understanding, so hopefully,
today, we can keep the peace.
[music playing]
(RAPPING) I'm feeling myself.
I'm feelin' it, I'm feelin' it.
Yeah.
I'm feelin' it, I'm feelin' it.
- Oh, my goodness!
Hi!
Oh, my gosh!
Hey!
- I feel I know you from pictures.
- I know! You, too!
- I just caught a couple of looks
from the bar.
Look at her.
Botox is fresh.
- Ah!
[laughs]
[music playing] Hear all the noise, I'm coming 'round.
Turnin' heads, so watch me now.
MEHGAN JAMES: I'm here, and I'm
ready to see what these ladies are all about
and start off my new beginnings on the right foot.
Ladies, grab your glasses.
Come have a seat.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Mehgan, it's very nice to meet you.
MEHGAN JAMES: You, too!
I follow all you guys on Instagram,
and I'm just really excited to get to know
each and every of y'all.
Because, like, I don't know nobody here.
Actually, I know Nique. (ON) NIQUE BROWN: Hey, girl.
- I met her through Mulan, who is not here.
- So what brings you to Orlando?
- Well, I've been living in LA for 10 years.
But after the pandemic, I was just like,
I just want to start over.
So I'm really excited for new city,
new adventures, new friends, new everything, period.
ASHLEY SNELL: Welcome!
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Thank you, baby.
- Let's make a toast
to new everything, period.
ASHLEY SNELL: New everything.
Welcome.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Toast to everything.
MEHGAN JAMES: Thank you.
Cheers.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: I'm, like, on my fourth drink.
- Oh, my goodness.
This is my first.
- [laughs dryly]
NARRATOR: Coming up on Basketball Wives Orlando.
MEHGAN JAMES: Ashley and Morgan got into it.
- Don't talk to me.
- OK, we don't need to talk.
Don't grab me like that!
MEHGAN JAMES: Did I make a mistake by having this brunch?
Because I don't even know if these girls like each other.
[doorbell rings]
- Hey.
(ON) MACKENZIE HYATT: Um, actually,
can we talk for a second?
MORGAN BLEDSOE: I am hosting a golfing event.
This would be a good opportunity to get to know each other.
MEHGAN JAMES: Morgan, I know for a fact
that Ashley be talking to your ex-husband, like, a lot.
Let's make a toast to new everything, period.
MACKENZIE HYATT: Cheers.
Cheers.
- I'm, like, on my fourth drink.
- Oh, my goodness.
This is my first.
- [laughs dryly]
- Did I make a mistake by having this brunch?
Because I don't even know if these girls like each other.
ASHLEY SNELL: I need a drink.
She wants to be all [bleep] tough, man.
It's a joke.
(ON) MACKENZIE HYATT: I'm confused,
because it seems like it's just drama going down,
like, between the two of you.
And I'm like, where is it coming from?
- When your life is boring,
drama just happens to come up.
I believe that Ashley tries to show
that she's above it all, because she's older than all of
us here.
But unfortunately, she lives in a fake world
where everything in her life is fake.
Like her bags.
MEHGAN JAMES: What was the energy
between Morgan and Ashley?
- They've had issues for a while,
but I'm friends with both of them.
So I try to stay out of their business as much as possible.
On a more positive note, you look great.
MEHGAN JAMES: Thank you, friend.
Thank you.
I got a wig girl and a natural hair girl.
- I need a natural hair girl, for sure.
I'm trying to go with a little natural.
I'm trying to take a break from the wigs,
because they were taking my edges out.
Yes!
- So what you been up to?
- Nothing, just chilling.
I'm here with Dwayne, so--
- Wait, Dwayne is from Lakeland, right?
- Yeah, he from Lakeland.
But you know Mackenzie.
Mackenzie's his baby mama, so.
Girl, we neighbors.
She lives three houses down.
- Honestly, though.
Like, how-- like, how's it being cool with your boyfriend
baby mama?
NIQUE BROWN: I wouldn't say cool.
Maybe cordial.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Why are you looking at me crazy?
- Morgan, this is my guest.
Can you please?
MORGAN BLEDSOE: You looked at me crazy.
- Listen, we are grown women.
This is so ratchet.
We are grown women.
- Oh, [bleep].
Morgan got up for a second to get a drink,
and next thing I know, there's some type of tension going
on with her and Ashley's guest.
And I'm not sure what's really going on, because they
don't know each other.
- Aren't you a business owner?
You're a business owner. You're a mom.
Like, there's no reason to be acting like this.
- You're trying so hard.
I really don't know why this girl is giving
me crazy looks from the bar.
But once I noticed she was with Ashley,
it's making a whole lot of sense now.
Ashley showed up with a bodyguard
just to stir things up.
- I don't even know who you are.
- No one's worried about you.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Yo, you worried about me a lot.
Be quiet.
- Put your hand in my face.
- A lot.
- Put your [bleep] hand in my face.
Stop.
- My hand is there.
- Stop, Morgan.
- So don't talk to me.
- Morgan, stop.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Don't touch me.
NIQUE BROWN: I thought this would
be a brunch for Megan where I got to meet
other high-class ladies.
But woo, child, what did I get myself into?
- Let's talk--
- Don't talk to me.
- Morgan, stop.
- And that's my last time telling you,
my hand in your face.
Don't talk to me.
- OK, we don't need to talk.
Don't grab me like that!
Morgan and her temper is so draining.
I get that you missed me and wanted to say hi,
but you don't have to put your hand in my face.
Girl, your whole life is a joke.
- My whole life is real.
Yours is a facade.
- Based on the brunch,
these ladies will not be helping me accomplish
my goal of turning a new leaf.
They're crazy.
They're worse than me.
- What the [bleep] was that?
ASHLEY SNELL: That's Morgan, the divorcée.
[music playing]
(SINGING) Keep it moving, keep it standing.
I'll play with y'all.
I'm a live wire.
- You couldn't put the inside gym?
- I'm trying to get a tan.
NIQUE BROWN: Oh, my goodness.
MULAN HERNANDEZ: Hi.
- How you look like this,
trying to play basketball?
- Because I have
to do some content afterwards.
- You want me--
I'm the content taker?
- Yup.
I'm about to teach you how to play basketball.
You could try.
I'm just big for nothing.
My name is Mulan.
I'm a college athlete, basketball influencer,
and all-around bad bitch.
I would describe myself as a hustler.
Like, I turn anything into money.
I was previously in a relationship
with Bol Bol, who was one of the tallest basketball players.
We were both very young, and I feel like we both just
needed time to mature.
It was a timing thing.
- So why you left me high and dry
at the damn brunch?
- Because I was out of town.
The food good?
- No.
We barely got to eat.
I met Mulan about three years ago in Houston.
And ever since then, I could say we just clicked.
A lot was going on at the brunch, girl.
The vibes was entertaining.
- What happened?
- Girl, Ashley and [bleep]'
Morgan had done got into it.
- [chuckles] They always gettin' into it.
I'm not surprised that it got heated between Ashley
and Morgan, because they have underlying issues that
haven't been faced and settled.
So you know, things happen.
[music playing] I'm a sad bitch, so far from average.
Wear a big crown which shows I'm a maverick.
Then, look who it is!
- Hey, ladies.
- Hi!
(OFF) MORGAN BLEDSOE: How are you?
- She's glowing.
Glasses on. Look at us.
We're sweaty.
- We are so sweaty.
- How y'all doing?
- Good.
- Just catching up.
Talking about what happened yesterday.
- Yesterday was wild.
- I want to hear from your perspective,
because she told me a little bit.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Well, there was a girl standing over
at the bar, and she gave me, like,
a really stinky, stanky face.
And I just was like, I don't even know you.
MULAN HERNANDEZ: Right.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: So I walked up to her
to ask her, like, why are you staring at me like that
from across the room?
And Ashley just came out of nowhere
like a little chihuahua.
That's my friend!
Don't talk to her!
That's my friend!
Well, that's your friend?
Why is she looking at me crazy?
That explains a lot, but why would
you bring a friend to brunch?
How you bring a plus one and you're a plus one?
So you came looking for bull [bleep].
Ashley is not someone who can fight her own battles.
Of course she bought a bodyguard.
Plus, any time I've met with her, whether it's in a group
setting or a one-on-one, she's always come looking
like she's looking for drama.
And me, I'm cute, as I always will be.
I saw Mackenzie talking to Ashley.
- Oh, my goodness!
Hi!
Oh!
- I don't have a problem with Mackenzie.
But as long as she's besties with Ashley,
I don't know how that's going.
Well, I am hosting a golfing event, kind of like a redo
for the brunch event.
We're supposed to learn how to golf.
So maybe that'll be a good situation for everybody to sit
down and hash out some things.
NIQUE BROWN: Who you got coming?
- Everybody.
- Why we got to do everything outside?
Y'all want to play sports and golf and [bleep].
I hate the sun, child.
[laughter]
It's getting hot out here.
Can we go?
NARRATOR: Coming up on Basketball Wives Orlando.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Ashley has been communicating with my ex.
Do you talk directly to him, yes or no?
- Sure.
- When you came to Milwaukee,
who was cool with you? Don't answer.
Nobody.
I had your back through everything we
ever been through.
One of us is going to have to go.
[music playing] Uh, is this love?
All I know is what I like.
And I want you every night.
And I want you in my life.
Don't stop, baby, baby, don't stop.
Don't stop what you're doing to me.
Don't stop, baby, baby, don't stop.
Don't stop what you're doing to me.
TONY SNELL: Fly, my little bird.
- There you go. Thank you, love.
Whew!
Date night.
Tony and I try to have date nights as often as possible.
Because during the season, he's not as available, so we have
to take advantage while we can.
What have you seen Carter do lately?
TONY SNELL: Oh, just talking a little bit more.
Like, he's starting to put two words together, instead of one.
- Have you seen how Kenzo,
like, will hold his hand?
TONY SNELL: Yeah, that's like you.
- [laughs]
- So how did brunch go?
- The group of girls
that I've been connecting with, a lot of them
have just kind of moved here.
- Oh, yeah.
- They came, and then Parnia came with me.
And I hear Morgan, like, kind of, spouting off.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Why are you looking at me crazy?
- Listen, we are grown women.
This is so ratchet.
We are grown women.
Yeah.
So I jump in.
I'm trying to get Parnia to the bar,
but she started, like, walking towards Parnia,
and then, like, comes to me, puts her hand in my face.
- Really?
- See, I didn't tell you any of this.
- No, you did not.
- I don't need any problems with people.
If we're in a group, there's no reason
to not be cordial, as long as she's being respectful to me.
But there's no, like, us being friends.
And when all is said and done, like, if there's a fight that
breaks out, like, I can get--
- Yeah, that could ruin everything.
For what?
- So anyway, all of us as women
are, like, coming together.
So just brace yourself.
- Well, I'm here with you.
- Brace yourself.
- I'm right here with you.
At least you have somebody to vent to.
See, some of these other girls, they don't really have
somebody to vent to like that. (ON) ASHLEY SNELL: Yeah.
And I just need to be able to be in the same room.
TONY SNELL: Right.
And it just keep it-- agree to disagree.
- Yes.
So that's where I'm at on that.
TONY SNELL: Proud of you.
So proud of you. (ON) ASHLEY SNELL: Thank you.
I can't speak for everyone, but I'm
very happy and secure where I'm at in my marriage,
and I make no apologies about it.
Misery loves company, and I want nothing to do with it.
Cheers.
This is really good wine.
[music playing] Every time we come around, they turn.
With those sigh, watch it and learn.
Glammed up everything.
I'm that girl.
I'm a home boy, yeah.
(OFF) MACKENZIE HYATT: So bright.
We should have grabbed your sunglasses.
Here we are, baby.
Dwayne travels a lot during the basketball season,
and he misses out on a lot of quality time with the kids.
I rented a house three doors down from him in Orlando
this summer so him and I can work on
our co-parenting relationship.
Plus, Nique.
[doorbell rings]
We had a lot of drama last year, and I just
really want to smooth things over
for the sake of our children.
- You know I'm in a relationship with Dwayne.
Stop attacking him.
- It's Dwayne's fault, though,
and you guys are one.
He's insinuating that I'm mad and I'm
being bitter and holding my kids because he's with you.
That's boldface lies.
- Hey.
You can go in.
Love you.
See you in a little bit.
- All right.
(ON) MACKENZIE HYATT: Um, actually,
can we talk for a second?
- Mm-hmm. (ON) MACKENZIE HYATT: OK.
Yeah.
NIQUE BROWN: Let me close it.
MACKENZIE HYATT: So last summer, it was kind of a lot.
So if there's anything that, you know,
you're not comfortable with or it's still bothering you--
- I feel like just last summer,
it was just so much [bleep].
I don't like the fact that you was taking your anger out
on me when it had nothing to do with me,
like trying to make it seem like I'm a home wrecker.
I feel like that's kind of tarnishing my name by saying,
oh, well, this is somebody that he was messing with while we
was together, when I had no clue that y'all was even, like,
together or messing around or y'all had
just finished each other.
At that time, I feel like I didn't respect you, because you
was really disrespectful to me.
- Yeah.
Me and him were together at that time.
And obviously, you don't know.
You know, he might have said, no, we weren't, or whatever,
and all you can do at that time is
go off of what he was saying.
And so I understand where you're coming from, 100%.
I feel like men do this.
Like, they try to, like, lie and downplay stuff.
I had no idea about any of it.
NIQUE BROWN: At the end of the day,
I just want us to respect each other.
(ON) MACKENZIE HYATT: Yeah, same.
And I do. I respect you a lot.
- I would love to, like,
have a blended family.
I would love to do [bleep] that my mom and my sister's mom does,
you know what I mean? (ON) MACKENZIE HYATT: Mm-hmm.
100%.
- Growing up with a blended family,
it was just great to see that women
could grow up and kind of coexist
and put their past behind them.
So I hope that Mackenzie and I can grow a stronger bond
for the kids, and it won't be super awkward
when we're around each other.
But you know, we'll see.
I'm glad we had this conversation, girl.
I got to get out of this sun, go back in the house.
- I know. I'm sweating.
I'm melting.
NIQUE BROWN: See you later, I hope.
MACKENZIE HYATT: Bye.
[laughs]
NIQUE BROWN: Coming up on Basketball Wives Orlando.
- So am I the only one at the table
who's friends with Ashley?
- Clearly.
When you came to Milwaukee, who was cool with you?
Don't answer. Nobody.
You said you didn't have [bleep] to say,
so shut the [bleep] up and listen.
[music playing] - Mehgan's brunch
isn't the best representation of myself
or how I plan to welcome her to Orlando.
- Hey.
- Hi, beautiful.
I've been learning to play golf now for fun,
and as a business woman, it's a great way
to form relationships. (ON) LYNDZIE CHERRY-MARBLE: Hi.
- How are you?
(ON) LYNDZIE CHERRY-MARBLE: Good.
How are you? (ON) MORGAN BLEDSOE: Good.
So I thought this would be a great way for a lot of us
to get together and have a civilized conversation.
- Oh, I have a little surprise.
I'm preggers.
(ON) MACKENZIE HYATT: Oh, my gosh!
[laughter]
Oh, stop.
- Isn't that so crazy?
- Y'all look so cute
in your golfing outfits. (ON) MACKENZIE HYATT: So do you.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Thank you.
(ON) LYNDZIE CHERRY-MARBLE: I'm excited.
I'm ready to learn how to golf.
- And which way are we hitting?
This way?
- We actually hit this way.
Over here. Right away, I'll fix your grip.
- It's all about the grip.
- It is about the grip.
- You got to have a good hand job, OK.
- All right. Here we go.
[laughter]
- Mackenzie!
- All right.
[laughs] OK.
[thunder rolling]
[screaming]
OK.
- Run, girls.
- OK.
[screaming]
Hurricane!
- Where am I going?
- Hurricane!
[laughter]
- Who's driving me?
[r&b music playing]
- Jesus Christ.
- Oh my gosh.
If I didn't know how Orlando's weather changes in an instant,
I would for sure think that Ashley--
a.k.a.
the Wicked Witch of Orlando--
definitely said a curse over here.
Orlando tried it, but I still plan on getting together
with the ladies, rain or shine.
- I'm so happy that I didn't
get to go out there, though.
I feel like my face is going to melt.
You ain't got no makeup on, bitch.
I got a big face.
- That's why I didn't wear any makeup.
It's 110 degrees.
- You got to look good at all times.
(ON) LYNDZIE CHERRY-MARBLE: Hi, ladies.
[all exchanging greetings]
- I'm definitely happy that the golfing
party got rained on, child.
I did not want to be outside in the first place.
So it seemed like God was answering my prayers.
- That's so exciting.
Yes.
- How's your mocktail?
Are you feeling woozy?
- OK.
I'm not mad at that.
[all exchanging greetings]
- Speaking of the devil.
I brought Nikki.
- Hello.
How are you guys?
- I'm glad to finally
meet the rest of the ladies.
And no, I did not invite Nikki here today to be my bodyguard.
- I was kind of excited about it, though.
Look, I have my gloves and everything.
NIQUE BROWN: Was anyone not excited to go?
It's hot as [bleep] outside.
- So I'm sorry we got rained out.
But now we're just going to enjoy some food,
get some drinks, and just have some good girl time.
- Well, I just feel like this
is a big group of people.
And I think there are like a lot of smaller groups of people.
And there's stuff being said, but not being said.
So we just need to put it all out there.
- I'm sorry.
Honestly.
So Mackenzie, just to be 100% keep it real.
- Oh, well, I actually
was talking about you had something that you
maybe needed to say to Morgan.
[suspenseful music]
- I don't know you.
You was not even invited to the brunch.
Who are you?
And how do you know my business?
Lyndzie is a messy pregnant lady.
Since Lyndzie brought it up, I used to talk to Eric.
And we went on two group dates.
[dramatic music]
- Ooh, child, the world is too small.
Meghan going out with Morgan's ex?
Everybody for everybody.
[dramatic music]
- I was planning to tell you,
but I didn't want to talk about your husband's situation
in a group setting of ladies, because I didn't think it
was the right time to do that.
I never [bleep] him, though.
Never [bleep] him never.
If you feel a way about it, I'm sorry,
but I didn't know about you.
- I actually learned about everything
during my divorce.
- Oh.
[dramatic music]
- In this industry,
it's kind of common for people to kind of date
the same people and date around.
So I'm not surprised.
But that's Morgan and Megan's business.
And I ain't got nothing to do with that child.
- I didn't know
if y'all were sexual or not, but honestly,
it's irrelevant to me.
I would love to welcome you to Orlando.
I welcome you with open arms.
- Thank you.
I just met most of these ladies.
So this is definitely not where this should be addressed.
But Morgan handled it better than most.
And Lyndzie, you really tried it.
And you didn't expect me to be honest
with Morgan, now, did you?
I got a question.
What's the status of you and Ashley?
Because at my branch, it was going up.
- [bleep] Ashley.
And that's the status
- Oh.
[laughter] (ON) MULAN HERNANDEZ: Womp womp.
- Womp womp womp.
[laughing]
Ashley and I were actually-- we've
been friends for a long time.
But when I got here to Orlando, I
heard that she put girls around our men
to [bleep] them on the road.
- She did that while y'all were friends?
- Yes.
And from then, we just kind of been feuding since.
- I was there.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: You were there?
[dramatic music]
- Last summer,
I witnessed Ashley mock Morgan about her husband cheating.
- He just was confused
on the motive of you saying.
Plenty of your friends, you were like, you
can whatever you want--
- Yeah, there's plenty.
- He was trying to [bleep] my friends.
MULAN HERNANDEZ: As a matter of fact,
Eric has slid in the DMs of certain people.
It's been a year since I spoke to Ashley.
We started off cool.
But then I found out she befriended
somebody who was my enemy.
I now know how to move with her, so we're OK.
But I do keep her at arm's length.
When I first met you, I already had had a perception of you
because of what I was told.
But then when I was put in the same predicament
you were put in, it's like ain't nobody safe.
[dramatic music]
[thunder rumbling]
[dramatic music]
- When I first met you,
I already had had a perception of you
because of what I was told.
But then when I was put in the same predicament
that you were put in, it's like ain't nobody safe.
- So am I the only one at the table
who's friends with Ashley?
[dramatic music]
- Clearly.
- I can go to the bathroom, or something,
but I'm a little uncomfortable because I'm like--
- Don't be uncomfortable.
Because you don't go to the bathroom when Ashley
is sitting and discussing me.
(OFF) MACKENZIE HYATT: When was that?
- All the time.
So there's no way--
(ON) MACKENZIE HYATT: OK, Morgan.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: --you can say that you be around Ashley--
MACKENZIE HYATT: I'm just saying--
- and that she doesn't discuss me, though.
MACKENZIE HYATT: --it's a whole--
I was just wondering. OK.
All right.
Let me just drink my water.
- So drink your water, and enjoy it.
- Listen.
Next time, she should just be here.
- She was invited.
This was an open invitation to everyone.
She chose not to be here today because she didn't want to.
- I'm feeling a little
uncomfortable just because me and Mackenzie
are working on things.
But Mackenzie aligning herself with Ashley like this
might mess up her situation with the other ladies.
- Mackenzie, I know
that you and Ashley are close, or whatever you want to say.
But I feel like there's some truth to what they're all
saying, because you brought up the situation
between me and Eric.
- And you know her ex?
- I know who Eric is.
- Do you know him personally?
- Yeah, I met him through a friend in LA.
(ON) MACKENZIE HYATT: But you guys
like never dated or anything?
- No.
I don't know how you found that out
or who told you that, because nobody
knew that except for Eric.
But I know for a fact that Ashley be talking
to Eric on the phone a lot.
[dramatic music]
So I believe that Ashley told you that Eric told her
that me and Eric used to talk.
[dramatic music]
Years ago, I was out in a couple of group settings with Eric--
Eric being Morgan's ex-husband.
It's something that was not a big deal,
but Eric is in a new relationship,
and Ashley is friends with the girlfriend.
So I don't know why she wouldn't think that this has Ashley's
hand all up in the mix.
- That has nothing to do with me.
I don't know what they talk about.
- I wouldn't be talking
to nobody ex-husband period.
- I wouldn't talk
to nobody's husband period.
(ON) LYNDZIE CHERRY-MARBLE: Or just man.
- Especially, if you have a problem with me,
because where is your man?
Where is your husband?
And why is he OK with you communicating with so many men?
- Ashley and I are new friends,
but we have grown very close.
Ashley's not even here to give a chance to defend herself.
And I don't think this whole dinner should be about Morgan's
sob story with Ashley.
OK.
I'll leave.
And then when this Ashley stuff's done, I'll--
- Mackenzie, we're not
asking you to stay to listen.
If you don't want to listen, the doors are there.
What Megan is saying about Ashley definitely
lines up with her past.
That bitch throws rocks and hides her hands.
And I don't like that [bleep].
I for sure need to have a one-on-one conversation
with Ashley, because if she thinks
she's going to stick her nose in my family business,
she can think again.
[r&b music playing] Let you go.
I'll let it go.
I don't have time for any haters, yeah, you know.
Already know.
I don't have time for any haters, yeah, you know.
Ashley going and befriending my ex-husband and his girlfriend,
it's not only disrespectful to me,
but it's disrespectful to our supposed "friendship."
I'm team Ashley, girl.
- No, honestly, though.
I appreciate you.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: But of course, the signs that she was
a backstabber was always there.
They don't know you, but they know me, because I've
been around longer than you.
- You've been around longer than me.
It worked out for you so well.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: I'm dying to hear
the truth from her, because I've heard it from everyone but her.
[r&b music playing]
ASHLEY SNELL: When I got the text from Morgan to meet up
tonight, I had my doubts on whether I should even show up,
especially on how she carried herself at Megan's brunch.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Don't talk to me.
- OK.
Well, you don't need to be-- don't grab me like that!
I don't think we can ever go back to where we were.
But with this group of women, we're
going to have to figure out how to coexist, or one of us
is going to have to go.
[dubstep music playing]
- What's up?
How are you?
- I'm good.
How are you?
- Perfect.
- That's good.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: I know for a fact
that Ashley has been communicating with my ex.
And I don't know.
Maybe she just doesn't realize how
that has been affecting my life, my family, and my livelihood.
You got something you wanna say?
[dramatic music]
- I actually don't.
- You should.
You got so much to say behind closed doors.
- Like what?
- You have so much to say to Eric.
- I don't directly.
- You don't?
- No, I talk to Brianna.
- Baby.
You're a liar.
- So that's why you brought me here today?
To talk to me about communicating
with your ex's new girlfriend?
Well, how else am I supposed to get
to the bottom of your bull [bleep]?
- Do you talk directly to him, yes or no?
- Sure.
- It's a yes, because you're
a snake-ass bitch.
I was always there for you.
I had your back through everything we
ever been through.
When you came to Milwaukee, who was cool with you?
Don't answer. Nobody.
But who was, though? I was.
- I don't deny that.
- You can't deny it.
I gave you a chance to talk.
You said you didn't have [bleep] to say.
So shut the [bleep] up and listen.
ASHLEY SNELL: I'm done.
- You know that's right.
ASHLEY SNELL: I'm going home.
I came to this dinner to have an adult conversation with Morgan.
But obviously, she wants to act like a child.
So I'm going to leave her here in time out and go home.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: I thought that men
and children were off limits.
You're a fake-ass bitch.
I never did nothing to you.
You decided to bring bitches around my man.
- I never brought women around your man.
- What?
It came out in our divorce.
Everything came out in our divorce!
You're sticking your nose in something
that don't have anything to do.
But we're talking about my children.
- OK.
I will leave that alone.
- You will leave us alone.
- Happy to.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: Unfortunately,
being in this basketball world, you
do experience fake friendships, as Ashley has portrayed.
But also, I am a woman of strength,
and I will stand 10 toes down.
Bitch get on my nerves.
[bleep] her.
ASHLEY SNELL: No one's going to talk to me like that.
NARRATOR: This season on Basketball Wives Orlando.
ASHLEY SNELL: I'm my own person.
I'm an entrepreneur.
MORGAN BLEDSOE: I am a woman of my word,
and I can stand on my own two feet.
WOMAN: I am everything that a basketball
wife really represents.
[upbeat music]
ASHLEY SNELL: It's the grand re-opening of my store.
Hello, ladies.
WOMAN: Mommy is about to start playing basketball again.
You know I was a star, too.
Chasing your dreams is inevitable.
How are the numbers on TikTok?
20,000 followers.
In our lives, it's basketball and business and babies.
I got her a Barbie for each team that Dwayne has played on.
Oh my gosh!
MAN: Is this a pregnancy test?
WOMAN: Boy, here!
Take it.
- We in Orlando, and we here to stay.
- Let's turn up.
Look pretty for the camera.
WOMAN: Hey, you guys.
Oh, it's some bad juju in here.
- He made it clear to me that y'all are
not in a relationship. (ON) WOMAN: He lied.
WOMAN: You wasn't there for me as a mom.
- What do you feel can make the situation better?
You owe me some respect.
I'm just going to go. OK.
- My mom died.
We lost a baby.
So it's just like everything I have can be taken from me.
- Now what we've been through is not who we are.
WOMAN: We have been through way
too much to keep misplacing our anger towards other women.
- When they go low, we go high.
I go to the mother [bleep] depths of hell.
- You're a mean girl.
WOMAN: Bitch, what's up?
Orlando is too much!
- I want you to conduct yourself like a lady.
- We'll see.
MAN: Watch out.
- No, my name is Ashley Snell.
There's a girl here who's been threatening to kill me.
[radio chatter]
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