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Brandi Redmond and Stephanie Hollman appeared on the podcast of Savannah Chrisley, the place they opened up about their time on The Actual Housewives of Dallas.
After showing on the entire indefinitely canceled Bravo actuality collection’ 5 seasons, Brandi and Stephanie shared some behind-the-scenes secrets and techniques earlier than admitting they’re a lot completely different in terms of how they deal with their funds and revealing what they felt was the “hardest half” of being on the present.
“What’s loopy is, I felt like I used to be all of the drama somewhat bit, however it’s since you’d be sitting at a dinner desk and be like, ‘Okay, we’re not gonna get to go away till one thing occurs.’ And I’m like, ‘I’ll do it. High-quality,’” Brandi admitted of the pressures to “carry out” on RHOD on the January 10 episode of Unlocked With Savannah Chrisley.
Even Stephanie seemed again on moments during which she watched Brandi take recommendations from producers.
“The producers… they’d have their cellphone like textual content message [us] what they’d need us to say. And poor Brandi, she would at all times take the bait,” Stephanie famous. “She’d be like, studying what they stated, after which an entire struggle would begin. I’m at all times like, ’Nope, not gonna do it.’ Individuals get mad on the people who find themselves most dramatic, however you’ll be able to’t depart. So that you’ll be there until like 3 am till one thing attention-grabbing occurs.”
Whereas Brandi typically did what she felt she needed to with a view to preserve the present transferring, she reached a breaking level after welcoming her fourth baby, daughter Brilynn Mari Redmond, with husband Bryan Redmond.
“Even after manufacturing wrapped the final season and I simply had the newborn, they wished to come back in and get some strains, and I used to be like, ‘I simply don’t really feel proper with this,’” Brandi recalled.
Though Brandi wasn’t on board with the thought of filming, particularly because of the difficult start of Brilynn, throughout which she had quite a lot of blood transfusions, the producers confirmed up anyway.
“They present up, they usually need these strains, and I’m so out of it, I learn the strains, and all it did was make me look extra of a horrible particular person. I used to be like, ‘I might’ve by no means stated that,’” Brandi shared.
Because the RHOD solid members spoke to Savannah, whose mother and father, Todd and Julie Chrisley, had been lately sentenced to 12 and seven years behind bars, respectively, for wire fraud and tax evasion, they couldn’t assist however gush over the Chrisley household.
“Going by my deepest, darkest hours, your mother and father had been there for me and reached out. You’re simply an incredible, stunning household,” Brandi instructed Savannah as Stephanie added, “Your complete household is so good.”
Though Brandi and Stephanie have so much in widespread, the women made it clear that their spending habits are very completely different.
“I didn’t develop up with the finer issues in life. Bryan will likely be like, ‘Why don’t you splurge and go do that?’ However I’ve at all times been very conservative with my cash although we’re effective,” Brandi defined.
In the meantime, Stephanie stated, with amusing, “I’m not [conservative].”
When Stephanie was then requested in regards to the largest false impression individuals have of her and Brandi, she stated it was their bathroom-forward banter.
“Everybody at all times thinks we love to speak about poops and farts, they usually’ll come up and inform us that they should go poop proper now. It’s actually humorous. We at all times chuckle at that. Individuals at all times inform us when they should toot. It’s so humorous and so random,” she shared.
Individuals additionally falsely assume that Stephanie is “depressed on a regular basis.”
“I discuss despair on the present, and I’ve handled it my complete life, however I’m not at all times depressed,” she clarified. “I’d like for individuals to know that I’m doing effective, however… Individuals fear about me so much, they usually’ll at all times message me. If I don’t put up for a couple of days, they’re like, ‘Are you okay?’ I’ve ups and downs, however I do have my ups, and I don’t suppose individuals actually perceive that. Individuals at all times suppose I’m like in my room crying.“
As for the scariest a part of RHOD, Stephanie stated the women of the present are typically “faux good” to 1 one other.
“It’s like highschool. Everyone seems to be operating for promenade queen, everybody needs a middle diamond. And a few individuals will do something to get it, and that’s the scary half — when any individual has nothing to lose, and you’ve got a household and kids,” Stephanie said. “I by no means wished to really feel like I had a remorse of fully destroying any individual, however I really feel like among the individuals didn’t care.”
The Actual Housewives of Dallas started airing in April 2016 and concluded in Could 2021.