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We can all have bad days, but when Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville had a particularly rough night, it was caught on camera. On Friday, April 12, she got a little too drunk while out with friends — even “shwasted,” in her words — and the paparazzi snapped plenty of pics. But after facing online backlash for her sloppy night, she’s addressing the whole mess on her podcast, “Brandi Glanville Unfiltered.” In the episode that dropped Friday, April 19, she opened up about just what she’s been going through and how the whole situation got so out of hand. Check out the gallery below to see what Brandi had to say about her “mid-life crisis.”
But once the podcast started, Brandi, 46, dove right in. “It’s been a long weekend,” she told her co-host, stylist Salvador Camarena. “I didn’t have the best weekend. … I’m super nervous even talking about this.”
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Her friends were visiting.
“My two best friends, actually my three best friends are in town with their husbands and boyfriend. And one’s from Dubai and one’s from San Diego, and we don’t ever really get together anymore. … They used to be my friends when I was married. And it was just so nice to sit with them, and we were kind of reminiscing and I’m there by myself. And it was just a little bit, it was a little sad.”
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She was thinking about the old days.
And reliving what her life was like when she was happy and married and had couple friends sent her into a little bit of a spiral. “I went out and I got hammered, shwasted. I drank for seven hours straight, basically, and did tequila shots. And that was my choice. No one — When I’m wasted, no one can tell me what to do.”
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But when you’re famous, the cameras follow you.
She and her friends went to a restaurant called Mr. Chow for dinner, and that’s where things really started to fall apart. “There’s always paparazzi on the outside. … So I was like, ‘Keep it together, keep it together,’ because I’ve been so good for so long. Unfortunately, when I came out, I was very drunk and it was on film and it was really ugly.”
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Things got bad, fast.
“The [photographer] kind of followed us. I think I was trying to run away from him, like, in high heels, which is not a good idea. And I think I thought I hid in a corner? I don’t know what I was doing. My friend Jay got me an uber and I went home and I felt horrible. … This is early. This was at 11 because we started at 5. We were just like hanging by the pool at the Waldorf. You know, just hanging out. And so yeah, I got wasted. … And I own that. I have no excuse for that. And I’m embarrassed.”
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We’ve all had a rough night.
“Unfortunately for me, there’s cameras there,” Brandi said. “I was just hoping that nothing would happen. So on Saturday, I stayed in. I was waiting for the Google alert. I was like, ‘There’s nothing! Yes!’ I was like about to go to bed at 10:30 [when] the Daily Mail puts out this horrible article (where they say I’m 47 and I’m only 46, so just for your knowledge). But I just looked horrible and they talk about how horrible I looked and how drunk I was.”
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Things got worse from there.
“I was just really embarrassed and so I didn’t sleep the whole night. Well, I did, eventually. I had to take a Xanax. I was just very worried that it was gonna go further, and I should’ve probably just not responded or done anything. But I was just so ashamed that I had to tell the boys. I was a mess. And so I didn’t know what to do.”
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She didn’t want her kids to see her struggling.
“I just switched my antidepressants and I’ve gained some weight. … I have some issues already. It’s not like I’m always tough girl and happy. I put that facade up because I have to be for my kids. I can’t be a mess in front of my kids. … For them, I’m their mom. I’m their dad. I’m their chef. I’m their chauffeur. I’m their house keeper. I’m everything. So they never see me cry.”
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It’s hard to be vulnerable.
But she decided to share a video explaining herself. “Stupidly, I videotaped, ‘Please leave me alone. I’m ashamed already,'” the mom-of-two shared. “I think it was only up for like 10 minutes max. I just took it down. … I thought why do I care what strangers think? … But then you’re getting all of these, ‘Are you OK?’ [messages] from people … you haven’t talked to in, like, 10 years. And all of a sudden you’re like, ‘Are you really concerned if I’m OK?’ Or are [they] just saying, ‘Haha, I saw this.'”
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She’s not interested in anyone’s faux concern.
But she did care about what her family thought. “I was worried about my friends and my family and my children first and foremost. Because those are the people that actually do worry. So if they’re sending me those messages or calling me, I’m just like … I’m more ashamed. And then I have to explain that I’m OK and that … You know, I’m not really OK right now. There’s a lot going on that no one knows about.”
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She’s having a bit of a mid-life crisis.
“It’s really hard to have my baby, my baby turn 12. It’s so crazy. He’s my little one. And they’re just getting to be so independent. I have an almost 16-year-old and a 12-year-old,” she shared. And having her kids get older is a trial. “It’s like I’m alone again in a way,” she admitted.
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It’s not easy to be alone.
“With all my friends and their happy husbands and they get to have their kids full time, I just start thinking about how I already missed half of their life because of the divorce,” Brandi continued. “And when they leave, am I just gonna grow old alone? A lot of it just hit me. … It just hurt.”
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She’s feeling left behind.
“It’s horrible. I want them to stop growing. It’s just they’re little men now. I see babies, I just want to steal them. I gotta get a baby. Give me your baby,” she joked. Time passes fast when you have kids, and she’s not ready to have an empty nest just yet.
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But she’s trying.
“I am very like go on, brush your shoulder off. I’m that girl. But every once in a while, I have a moment. And I feel like it’s kind of a mid-life crisis.” Sometimes, everything gets to be too much all at once — and breakdowns happen.
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Her family has her back.
“I appreciate everyone who texted me and called me,” she admitted at the end, despite worrying that some people didn’t mean it. “At one point, I started to get annoyed, but then I realized how dare me because that’s just — that’s really sweet that everyone’s reaching out. So that is my story.”
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We get it, Brandi.
It’s okay to be weak sometimes — and it’s okay to fall apart, even in public. We’re all human, and not everyone has to contend with having every low-point caught on camera. But now that Brandi’s addressing it and ready to talk openly about it, we know that she’s strong enough to get through everything she’s dealing with.
