I told a few of my Bravo fan friends that I was interviewing you, and every single one said a variation of the same thing: “Oh I love her. She deserves better.”
Venita Aspen: Oh my God. Yeah, I have been hearing that. “You deserve better friends.” “You deserve a better setting.” It’s hard to hear because you think you’re around people that care about you and stuff. But when you watch it back, sometimes it’s like, “Oh, wait. They might not have actually had my best interests at heart.”
How has it been watching the season back?
It’s hard to rewatch. Sometimes I’ll lean on my assistant to view it with me and take notes. I just have to try and remember that those are in-the-moment feelings, not now feelings, because we all hang out. You know what I mean? We’re all doing things normally, and then it’s like, “Oh, that’s how you really felt? Why didn’t you just say that to me?”
I’ve heard some Bravo stars say before that they have a friend or family member watch the episodes first and then give them a heads up.
Yeah, I do that with my assistant, Demi. She will literally, bar for bar, give me notes about what’s important and who said what about me. With the whole Molly thing, for example, once I started watching it, I was like, “I can’t finish this” because I felt so bad about what I said. And then I was like, “Jesus, I can only imagine how she felt.”
Watching the scene with Molly, as a viewer, it struck me how quick you owned up to it. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen such a fast apology on reality TV.
I’m a person that, if someone calls you out for something, what am I supposed to fight you on? I hurt your feelings, and that’s what you’re telling me. So I’m sorry for hurting your feelings and for speaking about you when I shouldn’t have. Why would I put up a fight against that? I’m not catty in that way. There’s no point. I love my friends. If they tell me I’m doing something wrong, I want to fix it to save the friendship. I don’t want to drag it on longer, and then we have this stupid fight for no reason.
How has it been watching the Salley and Craig of it all this season? When I talked to my friends, the general consensus was that Salley’s not being a “girl’s girl.”
It’s been a little hurtful because I don’t know why it was so hard to understand that I was just trying to make sure that she wasn’t going to get hurt by someone I didn’t deem worthy of her time. I know people are like, “Why do you care so much?” That’s my best friend. You don’t want to see someone close to you get hurt or be with someone you don’t think is worthy of their time. Sorry.
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