August 4, 2023 • 11 mins
Bethenny is setting the record straight on her life threatening allergy once and for all!
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
So a lot is going on. There is stupidity and
minutia in my social media where I'll talk about lip
gloss or eat seafood in a hotel room that goes viral,
and then there are macro issues. So let's start with
some micro issues. I ate seafood in a hotel room
(00:32):
in Atlanta and it became international news. I mean, it's insane.
Years ago, my daughter had these pajamas that were very
big on her. They were Hello Kitty pajamas, and I
put them on and it became Pajamagate. It was an
international news scandal. We were laughing. Everyone saw it. It
was the view was talking about it, it was on
(00:53):
news channels, it was everywhere because it was violently irresponsible,
Megan McCain said, because I had my daughter's pajamason and
it was the wrong message. And okay. So and that
was funny because that was right in the beginning of
social media for me. It was the beginning of Instagram
for me when my friend said I needed to get
into it and I needed to post more. So I
posted that and exploded. So the modern version of that
(01:16):
for me is I was in a hotel room in
Atlanta and I ordered in food. I looked at one
of those food apps and the thing it said twenty
to twenty five minutes at the top. You know how
it gives you like the shortest time was seafood, and
I felt like and it said it had like Old
Bay or it was Cajun, and I know it wasn't
New Orleans, but it felt like, oh, this is Atlanta,
(01:37):
and so they'll be great at seafood, and like it
just felt like the type of place that that would
be good. So I ordered it in from this place
called Old Town and I remember because it was like
that song Old Town Road. And they had these amazing options.
You could get Dungeoness crab or Alaskan King crab or lobster.
But every time you ordered on something and then added
items which I didn't totally understand, Like do you want
(01:58):
to get corn? Sure? Do you want two corn and
one potato or two potato? One corn? I want one potato,
two potato, three potato four, So I wanted sure, I
would like some corn on the side grape, And then
do you want some shrimp? Do you want to try
the muscles? So I tried to like get the combo
platter thing that seemed like I had the most things,
then do just a couple of add on. So it
was like forty nine dollars for like the crab, which
(02:20):
was my main star, and then a couple of side things,
and then the potatoes and the corn are extra okay,
So I was excited. So I'm in a hotel room, right,
So I don't have forks and knives, and I don't
like transacting, so I don't want to call downstairs and
ask them for forks and everything. So it's it's just
like I'm ortaring in food. It's gonna calm, I'm gonna
be happy. So what arrives in a brown paper bag
(02:44):
is a plastic bag of liquid. Now I don't understand
like that as a model anyway, just because like one
thing happens and the liquid of Old Bay seafood could
be everywhere. But lo and behold, it's literally a brown
paper bag and a plastic not a thick bag, just
a normal plastic bag like tied with those like garbage
(03:07):
bag old little wiry ties, and in it is a
bag of liquid with like corn and potatoes and crab
in it. And I'm thinking, what the fuck am I
gonna do with this, and it did have two pairs
of chopsticks. So I so now I'm like, have two
chopsticks and a plastic bag inside a brown paper bag.
What the fuck am I doing in a hotel. I'm
(03:28):
not gonna be like, hotel, can you bring me a
big bowl and can we whatever? And by the way,
I didn't want to be fishing. Oh. It came with
a bib and two plastic gloves, like very thin plastic
gloves like the ones that come with hair collar attached
to the to the directions. So I'm like, what now,
what the fuck? I don't even know what I would
ask for a downstairs? So I look around my room
like mcguiber and I find a champagne bucket. No, there
(03:49):
was an ice bucket and like a wine bucket whatever,
So I water the buckets already had ice in it,
So I took the bag of ice out and put
it in like the smaller little one bucket vehicle, and
I took the ice bucket that was gonna be my
like put the plastic seafood bag inside of it, so
that became my like seafood bucket. And then there was
(04:12):
a round tray that was over by the mini bar
coffee area that had like the coffee station stuff, those
like little sweetener packets and stuff like that. So I
took everything off of that, and that became my sort
of base on this coffee table because I had this
coffee table that was like a vinyl or leather, so
it wasn't even hard where I could just wipe off
whatever this like fucking shellfish juice was. So I was
(04:32):
proud of myself. And wait till you, I mean the ending.
This all was in a social media post that broke
the internet. I mean, millions of people watched me seafood
and are making fun of it, and plastic dolls that
looked like me, like holding little plastic lobster's like a
lot of work in detail has gone into the mockery
of this. Comedians. It's been a whole thing. Page six
only wrote about it twice. Everyone picked it up, you know,
(04:52):
this whole thing. So I get this round tray and
I take like another you know how there's like those
plastic bags inside the wine the ice buckets that they
give you. I don't know why there was one in there, oh,
I guess because I don't want the ice to touch
the bottom. I don't know. Oh, because it's gonna be liquid.
I don't know the reason. So there was one of
those little cheap old plastic bags. I put that in
(05:13):
the bottom of the tray and then I ripped open
the bag and that was like my work surface for
arts and crafts. I put the bib on my body.
I had eyemasks on because I had been shooting and flying.
I was shooting a show and I had been flying,
and I was dehydrated. Of course, I was now gonna
eat all this this salt. But salt actually helps you
(05:34):
hydrate because it holds onto water. So I'm good with salt.
So I put the under eye puffy like little gel
pads under my eyes, and then the food came. I
didn't think this was going to be something I was
going to film, so I kept the eye patches on
because I was living my own life as a grown
ass woman of fifty two years old in a hotel
room in Atlanta by myself. So I put the tarp
(06:06):
down on the tray, and I had my little bucket
to the left, and I put on one of the gloves.
People in the comments were wondering why only one glove,
And I literally was like, ohja with the if the
glove fits, you must have quit. The reason for the
one glove is I don't feel like I can navigate
and like just work. What if I want to mess?
What if I want to post you guys, what if
(06:27):
I want to pick up the phone. I'm not a
two glove person. I need one glove, like just I
just am a one glove kind of gal because the
other hand, even in the winter, sometimes you want the
one hand for your phone. You're drinking a drink, you know,
it's like you're the fucking Hamburger helper Man. I can't
navigate with two myts. So I had one glove on
the left hand because that was gonna be the fishing
hand to go into the bucket to get the crab.
(06:48):
And that's where the hand's like gonna really dunk in there.
I can handle the other hand like touching a little
seafood or using the fork like, but I'm doing the
big crab holding and the crab fishing and the muscle
open on the left. Okay, that's my like holding hand,
that's the stability hand. So that's to answer that big
breaking question. Waiting for Dianeariot to call and do follow ups,
(07:11):
Gonna do a walk and talk on dateline NBC very soon.
I'm just I'm getting a seafood seafood publicist. I'm just
I'm very busy, and it's been a lot, you know,
obviously this is a very big deal for me. So
then I start relaying this story on TikTok. Now I
ate every of course, some other person, some housewife, said like,
(07:33):
she's not gonna eat. Oh no, she's gonna throw it up,
which was also got further pickup of this amazing story.
And yeah, I did, not, in fact throw it up.
If I were gonna throw up food, it definitely wouldn't
be that. If I were to throw up would be
white rice and plain bagels, not even everything. I'm not
looking for me see it's all over the place or
any kind of weird smells. So I ate every bit
(07:56):
of it. It was so good. The crab was good.
The muscles were meh. The crawfish was just like nice
because it was like I was eating crawfish. I felt
like it was a specialty. It was a gimmick. The
corn was fine. I don't love corn like soaked in liquid.
It just like gets like weird and like more chewy.
And I'm a person who likes to cut my corn off.
I had no choice to hear. I had two chopsticks,
you know. And the taste was good. The potatoes are fine.
(08:20):
It's like soaked like potatoes, just like in there. I
think they should give you a potato on the side.
I know it's a crab boil, but this is a
great thing for a party like at your house, Like
put it in a big sort of trough or bucket,
put everyone outside, hose them down outside, push them in
the pool, and go with God. It seemed fairly reasonable
for all the seafood you were getting. It was really,
really lovely, and at the end I was able to.
(08:41):
I was very neat. I peeled off my gloves, sort
of like when you color your hair. I peeled off
the gloves. I put them inside the the bag that
had been inside the bucket. Not one drip was even
in the bucket. It was all so like together. I
was so proud of myself. I then took the brown pip. No,
the brown paper bag was fairly intact. I ripped it open,
was enough intact to fold it over so than any
(09:02):
like plastic in front of me. And the chopsticks and everything.
I put all inside that one bucket bag and I
tied it all up and I put it back in
the brown paper bag and I rolled it all up,
and I kept the white rice because I just wanted to, like,
I wanted the calming and the cleansing of the pal
for the white rice. And I rolled it up, but
I put it outside, and I just like, it was
(09:23):
so immaculate and clean, and it wasn't even in the
bedroom because this was a room that was a suite
that has a separate room. So it was a wonderful
seafood experience. I documented it on TikTok. I became famous
for it. I am not allergic to seafood. I have
to answer twenty comments each post about it. It is,
(09:44):
it will be on my I don't have anything that
I have to clarify more in my entire life than
on my tombstone. It must say Bethany Frankel. She died
while in a terrible drowning accident in a back of
Old Bay seafood liquid with an asterisk maybe like a
(10:05):
lobster risk, like a little lobster. It's like she was
not allergic to seafood. She was allergic to fish, not
allergic to crustaceans, allergic to fish, not allergic to Fruti
di mari, allergic to fish. So a lobster is not
(10:27):
a bronzeno any more than a cow is a chicken.
The ocean is bigger than the earth, and these creatures
live in the ocean together. I live on the property
with two dogs, and I just saw two deer, and
I've seen chickens before in the neighbor's yard, so we're
(10:47):
all living together. It doesn't mean you're allergic to all
of us. You may be allergic to me, but you're
not allergic to the chickens or the deer. So I
am allergic to shellfish. I am a grown So yes
cross contamination. There can cross contamination between a cat and
a cow in a restaurant. They both are in that
same refrigerator. They both died for, you know, possibly good causes.
(11:10):
If you're allergic to broccoli and you're not allergic to cilantro,
it doesn't mean you can never eat cilantro. Like, get
your fucking lives together. Okay, I can eat tuna in
a can that I cannot eat tuna, but I can
eat tuna in a can It is. It is somehow
the canning process, whatever that takes, has removed all the
fish properties that I am allergic to. You don't have
(11:31):
to like it. You don't have to like me. You
can cancel me over seafood. This would be the first
seafood cancelation. But I'm okay with it. Are we good?
So a lot is going on. There is stupidity and
minutia in my social media where I'll talk about lip
gloss or eat seafood in a hotel room that goes viral,
and then there are macro issues. So let's start with
some micro issues. I ate seafood in a hotel room
(00:32):
in Atlanta and it became international news. I mean, it's insane.
Years ago, my daughter had these pajamas that were very
big on her. They were Hello Kitty pajamas, and I
put them on and it became Pajamagate. It was an
international news scandal. We were laughing. Everyone saw it. It
was the view was talking about it, it was on
(00:53):
news channels, it was everywhere because it was violently irresponsible,
Megan McCain said, because I had my daughter's pajamason and
it was the wrong message. And okay. So and that
was funny because that was right in the beginning of
social media for me. It was the beginning of Instagram
for me when my friend said I needed to get
into it and I needed to post more. So I
posted that and exploded. So the modern version of that
(01:16):
for me is I was in a hotel room in
Atlanta and I ordered in food. I looked at one
of those food apps and the thing it said twenty
to twenty five minutes at the top. You know how
it gives you like the shortest time was seafood, and
I felt like and it said it had like Old
Bay or it was Cajun, and I know it wasn't
New Orleans, but it felt like, oh, this is Atlanta,
(01:37):
and so they'll be great at seafood, and like it
just felt like the type of place that that would
be good. So I ordered it in from this place
called Old Town and I remember because it was like
that song Old Town Road. And they had these amazing options.
You could get Dungeoness crab or Alaskan King crab or lobster.
But every time you ordered on something and then added
items which I didn't totally understand, Like do you want
(01:58):
to get corn? Sure? Do you want two corn and
one potato or two potato? One corn? I want one potato,
two potato, three potato four, So I wanted sure, I
would like some corn on the side grape, And then
do you want some shrimp? Do you want to try
the muscles? So I tried to like get the combo
platter thing that seemed like I had the most things,
then do just a couple of add on. So it
was like forty nine dollars for like the crab, which
(02:20):
was my main star, and then a couple of side things,
and then the potatoes and the corn are extra okay,
So I was excited. So I'm in a hotel room, right,
So I don't have forks and knives, and I don't
like transacting, so I don't want to call downstairs and
ask them for forks and everything. So it's it's just
like I'm ortaring in food. It's gonna calm, I'm gonna
be happy. So what arrives in a brown paper bag
(02:44):
is a plastic bag of liquid. Now I don't understand
like that as a model anyway, just because like one
thing happens and the liquid of Old Bay seafood could
be everywhere. But lo and behold, it's literally a brown
paper bag and a plastic not a thick bag, just
a normal plastic bag like tied with those like garbage
(03:07):
bag old little wiry ties, and in it is a
bag of liquid with like corn and potatoes and crab
in it. And I'm thinking, what the fuck am I
gonna do with this, and it did have two pairs
of chopsticks. So I so now I'm like, have two
chopsticks and a plastic bag inside a brown paper bag.
What the fuck am I doing in a hotel. I'm
(03:28):
not gonna be like, hotel, can you bring me a
big bowl and can we whatever? And by the way,
I didn't want to be fishing. Oh. It came with
a bib and two plastic gloves, like very thin plastic
gloves like the ones that come with hair collar attached
to the to the directions. So I'm like, what now,
what the fuck? I don't even know what I would
ask for a downstairs? So I look around my room
like mcguiber and I find a champagne bucket. No, there
(03:49):
was an ice bucket and like a wine bucket whatever,
So I water the buckets already had ice in it,
So I took the bag of ice out and put
it in like the smaller little one bucket vehicle, and
I took the ice bucket that was gonna be my
like put the plastic seafood bag inside of it, so
that became my like seafood bucket. And then there was
(04:12):
a round tray that was over by the mini bar
coffee area that had like the coffee station stuff, those
like little sweetener packets and stuff like that. So I
took everything off of that, and that became my sort
of base on this coffee table because I had this
coffee table that was like a vinyl or leather, so
it wasn't even hard where I could just wipe off
whatever this like fucking shellfish juice was. So I was
(04:32):
proud of myself. And wait till you, I mean the ending.
This all was in a social media post that broke
the internet. I mean, millions of people watched me seafood
and are making fun of it, and plastic dolls that
looked like me, like holding little plastic lobster's like a
lot of work in detail has gone into the mockery
of this. Comedians. It's been a whole thing. Page six
only wrote about it twice. Everyone picked it up, you know,
(04:52):
this whole thing. So I get this round tray and
I take like another you know how there's like those
plastic bags inside the wine the ice buckets that they
give you. I don't know why there was one in there, oh,
I guess because I don't want the ice to touch
the bottom. I don't know. Oh, because it's gonna be liquid.
I don't know the reason. So there was one of
those little cheap old plastic bags. I put that in
(05:13):
the bottom of the tray and then I ripped open
the bag and that was like my work surface for
arts and crafts. I put the bib on my body.
I had eyemasks on because I had been shooting and flying.
I was shooting a show and I had been flying,
and I was dehydrated. Of course, I was now gonna
eat all this this salt. But salt actually helps you
(05:34):
hydrate because it holds onto water. So I'm good with salt.
So I put the under eye puffy like little gel
pads under my eyes, and then the food came. I
didn't think this was going to be something I was
going to film, so I kept the eye patches on
because I was living my own life as a grown
ass woman of fifty two years old in a hotel
room in Atlanta by myself. So I put the tarp
(06:06):
down on the tray, and I had my little bucket
to the left, and I put on one of the gloves.
People in the comments were wondering why only one glove,
And I literally was like, ohja with the if the
glove fits, you must have quit. The reason for the
one glove is I don't feel like I can navigate
and like just work. What if I want to mess?
What if I want to post you guys, what if
(06:27):
I want to pick up the phone. I'm not a
two glove person. I need one glove, like just I
just am a one glove kind of gal because the
other hand, even in the winter, sometimes you want the
one hand for your phone. You're drinking a drink, you know,
it's like you're the fucking Hamburger helper Man. I can't
navigate with two myts. So I had one glove on
the left hand because that was gonna be the fishing
hand to go into the bucket to get the crab.
(06:48):
And that's where the hand's like gonna really dunk in there.
I can handle the other hand like touching a little
seafood or using the fork like, but I'm doing the
big crab holding and the crab fishing and the muscle
open on the left. Okay, that's my like holding hand,
that's the stability hand. So that's to answer that big
breaking question. Waiting for Dianeariot to call and do follow ups,
(07:11):
Gonna do a walk and talk on dateline NBC very soon.
I'm just I'm getting a seafood seafood publicist. I'm just
I'm very busy, and it's been a lot, you know,
obviously this is a very big deal for me. So
then I start relaying this story on TikTok. Now I
ate every of course, some other person, some housewife, said like,
(07:33):
she's not gonna eat. Oh no, she's gonna throw it up,
which was also got further pickup of this amazing story.
And yeah, I did, not, in fact throw it up.
If I were gonna throw up food, it definitely wouldn't
be that. If I were to throw up would be
white rice and plain bagels, not even everything. I'm not
looking for me see it's all over the place or
any kind of weird smells. So I ate every bit
(07:56):
of it. It was so good. The crab was good.
The muscles were meh. The crawfish was just like nice
because it was like I was eating crawfish. I felt
like it was a specialty. It was a gimmick. The
corn was fine. I don't love corn like soaked in liquid.
It just like gets like weird and like more chewy.
And I'm a person who likes to cut my corn off.
I had no choice to hear. I had two chopsticks,
you know. And the taste was good. The potatoes are fine.
(08:20):
It's like soaked like potatoes, just like in there. I
think they should give you a potato on the side.
I know it's a crab boil, but this is a
great thing for a party like at your house, Like
put it in a big sort of trough or bucket,
put everyone outside, hose them down outside, push them in
the pool, and go with God. It seemed fairly reasonable
for all the seafood you were getting. It was really,
really lovely, and at the end I was able to.
(08:41):
I was very neat. I peeled off my gloves, sort
of like when you color your hair. I peeled off
the gloves. I put them inside the the bag that
had been inside the bucket. Not one drip was even
in the bucket. It was all so like together. I
was so proud of myself. I then took the brown pip. No,
the brown paper bag was fairly intact. I ripped it open,
was enough intact to fold it over so than any
(09:02):
like plastic in front of me. And the chopsticks and everything.
I put all inside that one bucket bag and I
tied it all up and I put it back in
the brown paper bag and I rolled it all up,
and I kept the white rice because I just wanted to, like,
I wanted the calming and the cleansing of the pal
for the white rice. And I rolled it up, but
I put it outside, and I just like, it was
(09:23):
so immaculate and clean, and it wasn't even in the
bedroom because this was a room that was a suite
that has a separate room. So it was a wonderful
seafood experience. I documented it on TikTok. I became famous
for it. I am not allergic to seafood. I have
to answer twenty comments each post about it. It is,
(09:44):
it will be on my I don't have anything that
I have to clarify more in my entire life than
on my tombstone. It must say Bethany Frankel. She died
while in a terrible drowning accident in a back of
Old Bay seafood liquid with an asterisk maybe like a
(10:05):
lobster risk, like a little lobster. It's like she was
not allergic to seafood. She was allergic to fish, not
allergic to crustaceans, allergic to fish, not allergic to Fruti
di mari, allergic to fish. So a lobster is not
(10:27):
a bronzeno any more than a cow is a chicken.
The ocean is bigger than the earth, and these creatures
live in the ocean together. I live on the property
with two dogs, and I just saw two deer, and
I've seen chickens before in the neighbor's yard, so we're
(10:47):
all living together. It doesn't mean you're allergic to all
of us. You may be allergic to me, but you're
not allergic to the chickens or the deer. So I
am allergic to shellfish. I am a grown So yes
cross contamination. There can cross contamination between a cat and
a cow in a restaurant. They both are in that
same refrigerator. They both died for, you know, possibly good causes.
(11:10):
If you're allergic to broccoli and you're not allergic to cilantro,
it doesn't mean you can never eat cilantro. Like, get
your fucking lives together. Okay, I can eat tuna in
a can that I cannot eat tuna, but I can
eat tuna in a can It is. It is somehow
the canning process, whatever that takes, has removed all the
fish properties that I am allergic to. You don't have
(11:31):
to like it. You don't have to like me. You
can cancel me over seafood. This would be the first
seafood cancelation. But I'm okay with it. Are we good?
Host
Bethenny Frankel
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