February 26, 2026 • 29 mins
On this episode of The Latest with Loren LoRosa, Loren checks in behind the scenes of the grind as she prepares to celebrate her grandmother’s 88th birthday — a milestone that sparks a deeper conversation about legacy, sacrifice, and the people who shape us.
From reflecting on how her grandmother helped her bet on herself during uncertain career transitions, to honoring the wisdom that built the woman she is today, Loren opens up about family, financial growth, and what it really means to prepare for rainy days.
She also reacts to Iman Shumpert’s emotional interview on Club Shay Shay with Shannon Sharpe, where he vulnerably discusses grief, fatherhood, and life after divorce from Teyana Taylor. Loren unpacks what his reflections reveal about love, loss, and redefining marriage on your own terms.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Tis.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm a homegrowd that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody who I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
If you don't lie about that, right, Lauren came in. Hey, y'all,
what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's Lauren Rosa and this is another episode of the
Latest with Lauren de Rosa. This is your DELI dig
on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and all of
the conversations that shake the room. Baby, So checking in
behind the scenes of the grind, y'all, I am on
a count down. My grandmother turns eighty eight, literally in
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less than twenty four hours, so I'm preparing for that,
getting everything ready to you know, just go hang out,
have a good time with my grandmother and family and
whoever pops out for her this weekend. I'll also briefly
be in Baltimore this weekend for the CIAA weekend. I'm
hosting a cheerleading competition and then bringing them my behind
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right on back the Grams and into the family. But yeah,
I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I was.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I was talking to my grandmother that morning. First of all,
I thought my grandma was turning. And I don't call
her grandma, I called her my mom. I thought my
mama was turning like eighty five, eighty six, And today
I was talking to her and she was I was like,
my mom, how old are you turning? And she was
like eighty eight And I was like, yo, like that's crazy.
My grandma was almost ninety years old. But you would
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never know.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Baby. Let me tell you all something.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Okay. You know how they say black don't crack. Black grandmothers,
they're timeless, like they just are. My grandmother gives sixty
five years old. I promise you, she's gonna tear somebody
up in space this weekend. It's gonna be a great time.
We're gonna have good food. I gotta She don't even
know how I'm about to do it up for her.
And I couldn't tell her because she'd be like, say
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your money, save your money, and I am saving my money.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I am.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And we were talking about that too. I'm doing such
a good job of saving my money and just kind
of preparing myself. We were having that whole like I
won't be here forever conversation, and you know, we were
talking about a lot of things. But I was telling
my boy friend when I sent him just you know,
some of the things we were gonna be doing this weekend.
He was like, he was like, okay, big Mama, because y'all,
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I'm so excited. I'm excited for her to see the
house that we're gonna do our staycationing. I got catering
coming through. I wanted to surprise her and do like
nails and all that in the house, like have somebody come.
But I caught her to day and she was on
her way to the Nelson line.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
She did.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I try to get her to stay and sit still.
I'm like, it's going snow, just stay in the house,
and she's like no. But I was telling him, like,
you know, literally, without my grandmother, I wouldn't be here,
like you guys would not be hearing from me. I
mean literally, right, I wouldn't be here because my grandma
had to have my mom in order for my mom
to have me. But I mean, like just career wise,
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me and my grandmam are really really close. My dad
was you know my dad, he's not I was gonna say,
he's not in my I don't know how you described
me and my dad's relationship, Like I know my dad
of course, and me and my dad yet like it's
it's all love, but my dad wasn't in the household.
My dad wasn't you know, super consistent all the time.
So so my second parent was my grandmother, like my mo.
Mom has been like my saving grace so many times
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all of my life. And when I decided to leave
TMZ and I decided to leave LA, I didn't have
any money, but I didn't have really a choice. My
grandmother actually had had a slight heart attack, and when
that happened, it was already pressure on me because I
was just you know, after my mom had battled cancer
and she was good, I still didn't feel okay with
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being so far because just everything I realized that had
changed because I'd been in LA for years and then
now I'm home in Delaware, you know, taking care of
my mom for this year, and that time my pop
pop passes away, and you know, my mom gets better,
and my Grandmam's chilling, she's cool this whole time that
I'm in Delaware. But I just begin to notice how
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much I was missing, like the small things I was missing,
and just the things that they needed because they were
getting older. And I'm like, yo, I can't be here
twenty four seven, but at least I need to figure
out being closer.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And I'm not the best now.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Like you know, I do as much as I can
when I can, but with work picking up, I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Always have the time to always be there.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You know what I'm saying, Like I'm doing a lot,
but it's better I'm closer. But I say all that
to say my grandmother when all of that, when I
made those decisions to come this way, because of everything
I just described, I didn't have a job, like I
was still working at TMZ for some time. I had
taken leave, tried to go back to LA, tried to
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move my mom to LA with me. Just was too much.
When I decided like, yo, okay, this doesn't work anymore
for my life, for my mental for nothing. Literally, I
was in Delaware. We had an event space that we
had opened. Shout out to anybody that was, you know,
supporting me during the event space era. The event space
was called the Spot thrill Tube was in Delaware, and
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I was just doing as much as I could with
that and just you know, I had picked up a
few projects. I was working with Escape ESPN. I wrote
for them a bit, I hosted a little bit. I
was just doing anything I could to like have money
coming because I wasn't getting money from a leave or
anything like that. And I quit my job, so I
wasn't getting any unemployment like y'all. I was figuring it out.
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And my grandmother and my mom, they've always like done
property related things like ownership right. And my grandmother, I
remember her one day we had a conversation and she
was just like, look, I think you're at a position
where you need to lean on yourself and employ yourself.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
She gave me a few instructions. She told me what
to do.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
She told me how to basically, like you know, take
some things that she had put aside to me, put
aside for me, use it, reinvest in myself and basically
just set myself up financially where I could at least
have money coming in or money available when I needed
it and be able to pay my rent. I was
still living like very like hand in hand, like you know,
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like it was.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
It was.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It was a very different time, especially because I've always
been working and always been doing things.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
But I was just figuring it out.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And in the midst of that, I was guest hosting
at the Breakfast Club, and then I moved to New York,
and even then she held it down. You know, if
I need a little rerint money before you know, a
job picked in or whatever. She she has always held
me down. So now and we've always talked about me
getting in a position where I was able to save money,
I was able to consistently do for myself. She used
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to just my grandma always says to me, I know
you're gonna be fine, honey.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I know you're a star. I know you're gonna be good.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I know you're gonna figure it out before that's before
she lectures me about not saving money or or something
like that. Right, And we've always literally talked about what
life would look like when I got to that point
where like I'm able to provide for myself consistently, because
even in La it was such a fight because I
was so far and things are so expensive and it
just money was just different over there. So now that
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she sees that I'm in a space were like, I'm
doing so much, but it's benefiting me and I'm getting
further in my career. She told me today, like I'm
just so proud of you, Like I'm so proud of you.
You're doing everything that you talked about you were going
to do. You're you know, you're getting better at understanding that,
like you got to prepare for rainy days.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So I told you, know Bee, I'm like, look, I
would I literally would not be here. You wouldn't even
hear of me or know of me. And that goes
for you guys too, as the low rider, as if
it wasn't for my grandmam and her prayers. But listen
in her holding me down and let me borrow that
money and do all the things that I've needed to
do so she gonna get the fruit to my labor period,
like hands down, Like she has been the biggest hurt
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in my mom. But you know my grandmother has like
even when my mom didn't understand it at one point,
my grandma didn't understand it either, But she never asked
me any questions. She just always supported me always, and
I mean big girl support sometimes like coming through with
the with the checkbook and not even as financially just
like you know, we're also really close, so like I
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can call her, we talk about everything.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
She's just taught me so much.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So I want this, I mean I always want my
mom and my grandmother's lives to feel like they've worked
so much and now they can just kind of enjoy,
you know, what they've built, and that me and my
brother we got it. But with this birthday, I mean
every birthday special, but this this year, this birthday, eighty
eight is a big number. She on our way to ninety,
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y'all's official. She on our way to ninety, then on
our way to one hundred. And her biggest thing is
like she just wants to spend time. Like she's always
telling me, like, you need to make sure you schedule
more time to spend time with us. So that's what
we're doing this week, and we spending time. It's going
to be amazing. I can't wait until she walks in
and she sees the house, because that's another thing too,
Like we were talking about me buying a house, and
she can't wait for me to buy a house that
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I actually live in. And at one point she wanted
it to be in Delaware so bad. But I think
she's realized now that for work it really can't be.
But this week is going to feel like that. It's
going to feel like we're all living in a house together,
having a good time doing all the things.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
So I'm excited. So you guys will hear more about that.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Monday, because yeah, we're getting into it. I always say,
we don't have a lot to talk about behind the
scenes of the grind and then to be a whole thing.
Right now, let's get on into the latest because there
is a lot to talk about. So Amon Shemperd, who
you know, NBA player at one point, big NBA player
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at one point actor. Now you can watch him on
the Shy also was married to and share children with
Tianna Taylor. Sat down for an interview with Shannon Sharp
on Club Shash and this. Watching this interview, wow, it was.
It was such an emotional interview. But watching this interview,
I think for me because you know, I don't I'm
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not like a sports fan. Of course, I know Iman
Shumperd because of Tianna Taylor and having reported on him,
you know previously, even before that situation, but within the
that situation as well too. I met him at the
Black Effect podcast. So I don't know if you really
care for me too much now because of some of
the reporting I did on him and Tianna Taylor's divorce
when it was happening. But nonetheless, I have no issue
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with anybody. I'm literally always just doing my job whether
people understand it or not. This interview really made me
like I was kind of in awe of his ability
to like be as vulnerable in this space because I
feel like I've seen interviews with him before and even
when I watched I used to watch Taana Taylor and
Dea Mon Shampir's reality show they had about their marriage
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and everything that they had happening, and you know, I
feel like you knew him a bit, but you didn't
really like know him for real. But when he sat
down with this interview with Shannon Sharp, I was like, wow,
like he is being very vulnerable. So straight out the gate,
you know, Shannon Sharp asked him how he's doing, and
then he mentions the fact that Iman Shepherd's father passed
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away not too long ago, and it gets very emotional.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Do you remember the last conversation you had with your father?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
My bad? My bad dog? He really I want bad,
So he really wanted me to uh. He liked when
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I uh, but I would wear the suits full soup.
He liked when I wear a shirt and tie stuff.
He always got dressed for the office every day, wear
a shirt, shirt and tie and uh our last cowbo.
He just was like, man, you look good at them
uh and them suits, man, like I like that you're
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taking jobs now that you you're wearing that suit. And
then he told me, don't come home finished filming because
we was filming the podcast. I have to come home
finish filming. He gotta go in the hospital. He be
right back. Yeah, that was the last one.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
But did you know your father was that sick?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
He never showed, he never shared that. I mean, I mean,
I knew he had to go in the hospital. I
thought he just had some like you know, people get older.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, being there a couple of days and he'd be
right back.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah. And then knowing him, I just you know, I
would have been I guess I naturally worry more about
my mom because yeah, I ain't never the dude don't
ask for help. He don't. Yeah, even in the last
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couple of months. Man, it was like hard to help him,
you know what I mean, we ain't know what was
going on for real, but it's like the help we
thinking we're doing. We just like, yeah, Dad, like you
could ask us for anything, Like you know what I mean, like,
but I ain't even like notice that that he's going
out his way to say thank you, because it's.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Like, now, that's one of the things that.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I'm talking about my grandmother, and I'm talking about eighty
eight and like, you know, all these years to come,
and I swear man, like, my biggest fear is being
without people that I love, that that have been a
part of my life for my whole life. My grandmother,
my mom, my brother, like everybody, like my family, like y'all.
It's I know that living forever is not a real thing.
And you know, as people get older. I don't know
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about you guys, but the older people in my family,
they talk about not being here forever as if it's
something that they are just okay with at this point.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
And I think it is.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
One of them things where you get older and you
come to terms with, like, you know, life, you've lived
your life and all of that. But I just don't
know what I would do if I couldn't pick up
the phone and call my grandmother and you know, be
excited about her birthday and you know, all these things,
or my mother or whoever. But I know that it's
going to happen one day, you know, hopefully twenty plus
years from now. Hearing him in this space and talk
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about all of that, it just made me think about
that fear in what that looks like, you know, life
posts people living their fullest life and getting up, getting up,
getting up on.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Out of here.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
What does life look like? And how am I preparing
today for that to happen? And I don't think you
really can ever prepare, if I'm being honest with you,
But I do think that there are things that you
can do to make it where it's like I'm I
have a peace of mind that I poured into that
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person or in that relationship as much as I could.
And that's the sense that I got from Iman Shumper
when he was talking about his dad and his relationship
with his dad, because there was one point in an
interview where Shannon Sharp even asked him like, if your
dad was sitting here right now, what would you say?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
And this is what he mon said.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Your dad was at me this chair today, it's been
going a year and you could have a conversation with it.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
What do you think he would say to you?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
And what would you want to say to him? Yep,
I don't know if my dad held back anything for me,
so I don't think he had much to say. He
probably just reflect on whatever I'm going through at the moment.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And to me, I'm like, you know that read, I
would have nothing else to say. We talked every day,
We've said everything that we've needed to say. At this point,
I would just be in all of his presence and
I would just want to feel that, And I'm like, man.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
That.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Unk Shayshae in waste.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
No, they weren't even an hour into the interview and
it got this like deep and his vulnerable, like emon
had to take a second to get itself together to
even get through the interview.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And I mean this just recently happened.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
His father passed away back in October of twenty twenty five,
so you know, this is very fresh. And again you
could tell us that was very impactful in his life,
so he's still dealing with that. But what I also
thought was interesting was to hear him talk about his
views on marriage now. And the reason why I segue
from the father conversation and family and you know what
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that instills in you and them not being here one
day is because what I've been having conversations with myself
about is the biggest thing I can do to prepare
myself for after the people that I love are not
here anymore, is take everything I can from them wisdom wise,
even the things that they do that I don't want
to repeat in my life, right like, take all of
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the good, the bad, the ugly, and just be in
a space where like I'm living a life that they
will still continue to be. Like I'm proud of you
know what I mean, and really being true to myself
and that and I mean, it seems like a mine
has gotten to the point, he says, you know, him
and Tianna Taylor, they're in a good space. Everything is
cool now that at some point And I told you,
I don't think. I don't know how her mom feels
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about me. I don't know if he cares for me
too much. And the last time I talked to him,
he was cussing me out. But they've gotten because of
the different because the divorce, there was a lot happening.
There was a lot of like tense moments that were
being talked about and replayed the media.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
And I understand it.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It's something sensitive to people, like I get it. But
he says, they're in a better space and that things
are good, which is really important when you're raising kids.
But his take on marriage after the fact, like post marriage,
right post divorce, I thought was interesting because it seems
like he's really gotten to a point where he understands hisself,
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at least for now, right because things change, people change.
You meet somebody that can change your whole, you know.
But it seems like he's in a space where he
really understands what he wants, what he doesn't want.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
And why.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And that's important as you're you know, healing from things,
as you are figuring out who you are post various things, divorce,
losing people you love, you know, trying to instill what
they've taught you every day in your life.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Let's take a listen. What about this marriage.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I don't know if I'll do it legally, Like I
don't want to sign papers and all that, Like we're
gonna do a contract. We're gonna do a contract owning
something that we both trying to do. Anyway, I'd rather
the contract be about a business. If my mama at
the wed and we got married, if my.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Mama was there, it happy, it happened, for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But this whole they get to be a part of
it now because we went to the house and now
we gotta do this now, I gotta I don't even
doing all that.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Look, I mean, I might not necessarily agree because for me,
I want the paperwork. I want to do the whole shebang,
you know what I'm saying. But I think I've always
known because I'm very inquisitive, and I I've always said
I don't believe in divorce. I don't want to divorce,
you know. I want to figure it out. I want
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to work it out. But prior to having to figure
it out and work it out, I want to make
a really good choice. And not that Amoun Intiana Tay
didn't make a good choice in choosing each other. They
have two beautiful babies that have come out of it.
But what I'm saying is that I want to make
a choice of like, even if the person that I
choose to be with is not the best situation for
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me because of something that is happening, we can get
to a point where we choose each other to figure
it out. And it doesn't happen for everybody, but that's
just what I want for myself. And I saw another
interview David Man, who they lowriders, y'all they listen to
the podcast. So David Man and Miss Timila Man were
on Jamal Bryant's podcast at Him and his wife do.
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The podcast is called Let's be Clear Now. They're having
a conversation about all of the things and they get
into the marriage conversation. And one thing I love about
David Man and mister David Man and Miss Timila Man's
relationship or their marriage, let me get it right, their
marriage is that their union is so strong.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
And I don't say that.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They said that they've never gone through things, know and
I don't know, you know them, things have ever got
them to the brink of being like, uh, nope, we
ain't doing this no more. But they figured it out.
They've been together for thirty eight years and I learned
today that they've never had a separation.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Let's say a listen, how many years.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Years? Wow?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Yeah, no separations, come on, she said.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
No separations.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Loving it. We work through it. It don't mean I
wasn't mad.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
At them, but we were listener now being in a marriage, like,
they got the union so strong and y'all both celebrities,
I know it come with it. Come with some task.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Child.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I know it do because let me tell y'all something
every single day, like now and then, I'm in a
relationship and I'm in a relationship with a man, Honey,
I mean, okay, I'm in a relationship with a person
that makes me want to do better, It makes me
want to figure it. I'm not perfect, and my mouth
is still crazy. I will pause that, but you know
I don't have to. It's still crazy, you know, so
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every now and then, and it'd be like a hold
on all right, who you talk and vice versa, Like
you know, there are tough moments, and even though our
relationship is new, I feel like when I when I
hear the men have a conversation about what their marriage is,
that's what I envision my marriage to be. And now
dealing with a person who you know, I wouldn't be
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opposed to marrying, I wouldn't be opposed to doing like
very permanent things with I always think about what is
it that I can do to just ensure that, you know,
like it's like you really just want to you want
to hear the person, even in moments where I'm like
I don't want to hear that, not like you know what,
I'm trying to put on my best, like like standing
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ten toes down eleven if I have to. You do
want to hear the person out. You do want the
person to be happy because you want to be happy.
You want to be heard out. So I've had to
learn a lot about enforcing boundaries that I didn't even
know I had to learn. If I'm being honest with y'all,
I thought I was so good at like armslength, don't
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play with me. I'm showing up I work, I go home,
respect me, and I'm not going to beg you for it.
But like I thought, I was really good at that,
and I think I do do a really good job
because I respect myself, so people respect me. But when
you're dealing with now, I wouln't even say people in
the limelight because he's not in the limelight. He's behind
the scenes. And I still feel like there are certain
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things that I have to chin check boundaries on and
it's just it's a very touchy space and I think
it's taboo, like people would love to act like you
never ever ever have to feel a way about anything,
Like jealousy is never a thing, and security is never
a thing like Miss Timmlerman says she had to tell
(22:54):
somebody like hold on, back up, off my man at
a meet and greet.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Let's take a lisk.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I had a lady the other day coming full frontal
hug around the neck, and I say, ma'am, you can't
do that.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
And what he was like, why, I said, because I said, no,
that's right. I say, you bold enough.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
To do it.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I'm voting. I know that's right. Get off of him.
I know that's right. What if you weren't even fresh,
I know that's right. Give me fifty baby. I mean
that Coogar was.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Like, oh yeah, people love to act like these real
moments don't happen, And now I'm learning like, no, they do.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
But y'all just find a way.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
First of all, you set your boundary as she did,
and as I'm sure he will move it forward period.
But also you just find a way to like not
let that throw away everything else until that moment, and
you move forward better like that is the goal. And
that's what I took from Emmon's conversation, the conversation that
you know, I watched Jamal Bryant and his wife have
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with the man's as well, as like, all of these
things will come.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I don't care if you did.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
You're the most blessed, sanctified holy water on the you
know what I mean, the white cracked and the cranberry juice,
all of the tongues and the stomping. I don't care
how all of that you are or the complete opposite.
These things will come in a relationship and what are
you doing to deal with it? And y'all, I'm like,
really up, grown up at this point because now.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I know, I be like before I used to know
I was on BS and I wouldn't care.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I'm like, I don't care whatever now in this news space, baby, Okay,
we might be on we might be on BS a
little bit every now and then. I feel like you
got to do just a little just a little razzle
dazzle so that you know, talking about sertain boundaries, so
that you know, Bay knows, don't play with me. But
a lot of accountability, like you know, it's happening in
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this era of my life, a lot of it, and
I'm happy about it. It's not always easy, but I
am happy about it though, because I feel like it's
not even about for the other person or maintaining a
relationship for myself. I'm always in a good space when
i'm accountable because I'm like, all right, and even if
the accountability is hard, because I'll fight you to the end,
I'll defend something to the end. But sometimes in what
(25:19):
I'm learning now, even when I do that, I'll come
back and be like, Okay, this was wrong, this was right.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That helps me personally because I'm learning a lot about
myself in my weak spots, the spots that I need
improvement on, that I could do better on, that I
can maybe get a little help with, you know, like
you know, therapy, whatever the case may be. Like, I'm
learning so much about the things that aren't perfect about me,
and it helps me so much navigate my relationships with people.
(25:47):
So now it's like, you know, everything is in somebody
else's fault, and that has changed my life a lot.
It's made some things harder because you want things to
be somebody else's fault sometimes because it's just easier to
get through.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
But that has really changed my outlook on so much.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
In life in general, just for myself, and of course
going back to the you know, the relationship and not
even just like a relationship boyfriend, girlfriend, but even in
my friendships, and it also in my work relationships and
also to like, I think one of the things that
I do a lot of, you know, as the oldest
kid in my family, the only girl, it's like, you know,
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the eldest daughter is like it is a beautiful thing,
but it's also traumatizing as hell because you are put
in a position where, like, life hits and you just
have to figure it out so many times, and sometimes
from a very early age, and.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
It builds you to this strong person that like.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Just is so like, ain't nobody, ain't no stop being
a snaw. Oh you heard it, you heard the little harmony,
you heard it? Okay, it builds you into one of
those types of people. But at the same time, behind
the scenes, you're exhausted, you burnt out, your miser you're sad, sometimes,
you're lonely, you're they're all these things that you feel.
(27:05):
And I'm getting to a space where I'm learning to
not take a lot of those things on, to just
deal with things as they come, be okay with the
cars that were dealt to me, and not internalize a
lot of things because some of it just really ain't
my fault now, the stuff that is my fault, I'm
able to better identify now, and I'm getting even better
at it.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I'm at the beginning stages. But don't worry.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
We're gonna put this baby in sport because it's always
an AMG Okay, we always AMG line over here. But
until I get to the full force of what that
looks like. Just even in these beginning phases, it's really
been helpful to be able to look internally and understand
what I should digest, what I should hold onto, what
I should be accountable for, and which just really, like god,
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am I control for real? Like period Like, there are
some things that are just out of my control and
it's nothing I could do about it.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
So I'm taking all that in.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I'm learning all of that as I go through these
different phases of life and people get older and I
get older, and I'm talking about buying I can't believe
I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
You know, marriage and you know all that.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I can believe it, But I just don't feel that
age yet. Like you know, I always thought when I
got to like the ages that I used to think
were old, you would feel it. I feel like just
yesterday I was walking on to my college campus, like
trying to figure out life, and now here I am
Latest with Lorna Rosa. The podcast eight million audio downloads later,
(28:30):
The Low Riders y'all are here and we talking about marriage, accountability,
therapy and me wanting to get my together because I
love people. I'm not mad at it. It's a journey
and now look we're just starting. Okay, we are just starting.
So hold me accountable, but like you know not, don't
hold me too long. Take your girl off for a
drink or put me down to take me off for
(28:50):
a drink a little bit in there, but still hold
me accountable. This has been another episode of the Latest
with Lauren Rosa. I'm your host, Laura l Rosa, and
I tell you guys every episode my Lowriders. Listen, y'all
could be anywhere with any old body, but if you
choose to be right here with me, I appreciate you
guys for that. I'll see you in my next episode.
Tis.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm a homegrowd that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody who I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
If you don't lie about that, right, Lauren came in. Hey, y'all,
what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's Lauren Rosa and this is another episode of the
Latest with Lauren de Rosa. This is your DELI dig
on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and all of
the conversations that shake the room. Baby, So checking in
behind the scenes of the grind, y'all, I am on
a count down. My grandmother turns eighty eight, literally in
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less than twenty four hours, so I'm preparing for that,
getting everything ready to you know, just go hang out,
have a good time with my grandmother and family and
whoever pops out for her this weekend. I'll also briefly
be in Baltimore this weekend for the CIAA weekend. I'm
hosting a cheerleading competition and then bringing them my behind
(00:54):
right on back the Grams and into the family. But yeah,
I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I was.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I was talking to my grandmother that morning. First of all,
I thought my grandma was turning. And I don't call
her grandma, I called her my mom. I thought my
mama was turning like eighty five, eighty six, And today
I was talking to her and she was I was like,
my mom, how old are you turning? And she was
like eighty eight And I was like, yo, like that's crazy.
My grandma was almost ninety years old. But you would
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never know.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Baby. Let me tell you all something.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Okay. You know how they say black don't crack. Black grandmothers,
they're timeless, like they just are. My grandmother gives sixty
five years old. I promise you, she's gonna tear somebody
up in space this weekend. It's gonna be a great time.
We're gonna have good food. I gotta She don't even
know how I'm about to do it up for her.
And I couldn't tell her because she'd be like, say
(01:43):
your money, save your money, and I am saving my money.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I am.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And we were talking about that too. I'm doing such
a good job of saving my money and just kind
of preparing myself. We were having that whole like I
won't be here forever conversation, and you know, we were
talking about a lot of things. But I was telling
my boy friend when I sent him just you know,
some of the things we were gonna be doing this weekend.
He was like, he was like, okay, big Mama, because y'all,
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I'm so excited. I'm excited for her to see the
house that we're gonna do our staycationing. I got catering
coming through. I wanted to surprise her and do like
nails and all that in the house, like have somebody come.
But I caught her to day and she was on
her way to the Nelson line.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
She did.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I try to get her to stay and sit still.
I'm like, it's going snow, just stay in the house,
and she's like no. But I was telling him, like,
you know, literally, without my grandmother, I wouldn't be here,
like you guys would not be hearing from me. I
mean literally, right, I wouldn't be here because my grandma
had to have my mom in order for my mom
to have me. But I mean, like just career wise,
(02:43):
me and my grandmam are really really close. My dad
was you know my dad, he's not I was gonna say,
he's not in my I don't know how you described
me and my dad's relationship, Like I know my dad
of course, and me and my dad yet like it's
it's all love, but my dad wasn't in the household.
My dad wasn't you know, super consistent all the time.
So so my second parent was my grandmother, like my mo.
Mom has been like my saving grace so many times
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all of my life. And when I decided to leave
TMZ and I decided to leave LA, I didn't have
any money, but I didn't have really a choice. My
grandmother actually had had a slight heart attack, and when
that happened, it was already pressure on me because I
was just you know, after my mom had battled cancer
and she was good, I still didn't feel okay with
(03:29):
being so far because just everything I realized that had
changed because I'd been in LA for years and then
now I'm home in Delaware, you know, taking care of
my mom for this year, and that time my pop
pop passes away, and you know, my mom gets better,
and my Grandmam's chilling, she's cool this whole time that
I'm in Delaware. But I just begin to notice how
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much I was missing, like the small things I was missing,
and just the things that they needed because they were
getting older. And I'm like, yo, I can't be here
twenty four seven, but at least I need to figure
out being closer.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And I'm not the best now.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Like you know, I do as much as I can
when I can, but with work picking up, I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Always have the time to always be there.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You know what I'm saying, Like I'm doing a lot,
but it's better I'm closer. But I say all that
to say my grandmother when all of that, when I
made those decisions to come this way, because of everything
I just described, I didn't have a job, like I
was still working at TMZ for some time. I had
taken leave, tried to go back to LA, tried to
(04:34):
move my mom to LA with me. Just was too much.
When I decided like, yo, okay, this doesn't work anymore
for my life, for my mental for nothing. Literally, I
was in Delaware. We had an event space that we
had opened. Shout out to anybody that was, you know,
supporting me during the event space era. The event space
was called the Spot thrill Tube was in Delaware, and
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I was just doing as much as I could with
that and just you know, I had picked up a
few projects. I was working with Escape ESPN. I wrote
for them a bit, I hosted a little bit. I
was just doing anything I could to like have money
coming because I wasn't getting money from a leave or
anything like that. And I quit my job, so I
wasn't getting any unemployment like y'all. I was figuring it out.
(05:20):
And my grandmother and my mom, they've always like done
property related things like ownership right. And my grandmother, I
remember her one day we had a conversation and she
was just like, look, I think you're at a position
where you need to lean on yourself and employ yourself.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
She gave me a few instructions. She told me what
to do.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
She told me how to basically, like you know, take
some things that she had put aside to me, put
aside for me, use it, reinvest in myself and basically
just set myself up financially where I could at least
have money coming in or money available when I needed
it and be able to pay my rent. I was
still living like very like hand in hand, like you know,
(06:00):
like it was.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
It was.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It was a very different time, especially because I've always
been working and always been doing things.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
But I was just figuring it out.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And in the midst of that, I was guest hosting
at the Breakfast Club, and then I moved to New York,
and even then she held it down. You know, if
I need a little rerint money before you know, a
job picked in or whatever. She she has always held
me down. So now and we've always talked about me
getting in a position where I was able to save money,
I was able to consistently do for myself. She used
(06:31):
to just my grandma always says to me, I know
you're gonna be fine, honey.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I know you're a star. I know you're gonna be good.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I know you're gonna figure it out before that's before
she lectures me about not saving money or or something
like that. Right, And we've always literally talked about what
life would look like when I got to that point
where like I'm able to provide for myself consistently, because
even in La it was such a fight because I
was so far and things are so expensive and it
just money was just different over there. So now that
(06:58):
she sees that I'm in a space were like, I'm
doing so much, but it's benefiting me and I'm getting
further in my career. She told me today, like I'm
just so proud of you, Like I'm so proud of you.
You're doing everything that you talked about you were going
to do. You're you know, you're getting better at understanding that,
like you got to prepare for rainy days.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So I told you, know Bee, I'm like, look, I
would I literally would not be here. You wouldn't even
hear of me or know of me. And that goes
for you guys too, as the low rider, as if
it wasn't for my grandmam and her prayers. But listen
in her holding me down and let me borrow that
money and do all the things that I've needed to
do so she gonna get the fruit to my labor period,
like hands down, Like she has been the biggest hurt
(07:43):
in my mom. But you know my grandmother has like
even when my mom didn't understand it at one point,
my grandma didn't understand it either, But she never asked
me any questions. She just always supported me always, and
I mean big girl support sometimes like coming through with
the with the checkbook and not even as financially just
like you know, we're also really close, so like I
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can call her, we talk about everything.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
She's just taught me so much.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So I want this, I mean I always want my
mom and my grandmother's lives to feel like they've worked
so much and now they can just kind of enjoy,
you know, what they've built, and that me and my
brother we got it. But with this birthday, I mean
every birthday special, but this this year, this birthday, eighty
eight is a big number. She on our way to ninety,
(08:28):
y'all's official. She on our way to ninety, then on
our way to one hundred. And her biggest thing is
like she just wants to spend time. Like she's always
telling me, like, you need to make sure you schedule
more time to spend time with us. So that's what
we're doing this week, and we spending time. It's going
to be amazing. I can't wait until she walks in
and she sees the house, because that's another thing too,
Like we were talking about me buying a house, and
she can't wait for me to buy a house that
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I actually live in. And at one point she wanted
it to be in Delaware so bad. But I think
she's realized now that for work it really can't be.
But this week is going to feel like that. It's
going to feel like we're all living in a house together,
having a good time doing all the things.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
So I'm excited. So you guys will hear more about that.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Monday, because yeah, we're getting into it. I always say,
we don't have a lot to talk about behind the
scenes of the grind and then to be a whole thing.
Right now, let's get on into the latest because there
is a lot to talk about. So Amon Shemperd, who
you know, NBA player at one point, big NBA player
(09:33):
at one point actor. Now you can watch him on
the Shy also was married to and share children with
Tianna Taylor. Sat down for an interview with Shannon Sharp
on Club Shash and this. Watching this interview, wow, it was.
It was such an emotional interview. But watching this interview,
I think for me because you know, I don't I'm
(09:55):
not like a sports fan. Of course, I know Iman
Shumperd because of Tianna Taylor and having reported on him,
you know previously, even before that situation, but within the
that situation as well too. I met him at the
Black Effect podcast. So I don't know if you really
care for me too much now because of some of
the reporting I did on him and Tianna Taylor's divorce
when it was happening. But nonetheless, I have no issue
(10:17):
with anybody. I'm literally always just doing my job whether
people understand it or not. This interview really made me
like I was kind of in awe of his ability
to like be as vulnerable in this space because I
feel like I've seen interviews with him before and even
when I watched I used to watch Taana Taylor and
Dea Mon Shampir's reality show they had about their marriage
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and everything that they had happening, and you know, I
feel like you knew him a bit, but you didn't
really like know him for real. But when he sat
down with this interview with Shannon Sharp, I was like, wow,
like he is being very vulnerable. So straight out the gate,
you know, Shannon Sharp asked him how he's doing, and
then he mentions the fact that Iman Shepherd's father passed
(11:02):
away not too long ago, and it gets very emotional.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Do you remember the last conversation you had with your father?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
My bad? My bad dog? He really I want bad,
So he really wanted me to uh. He liked when
(11:33):
I uh, but I would wear the suits full soup.
He liked when I wear a shirt and tie stuff.
He always got dressed for the office every day, wear
a shirt, shirt and tie and uh our last cowbo.
He just was like, man, you look good at them
uh and them suits, man, like I like that you're
(11:53):
taking jobs now that you you're wearing that suit. And
then he told me, don't come home finished filming because
we was filming the podcast. I have to come home
finish filming. He gotta go in the hospital. He be
right back. Yeah, that was the last one.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
But did you know your father was that sick?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
He never showed, he never shared that. I mean, I mean,
I knew he had to go in the hospital. I
thought he just had some like you know, people get older.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, being there a couple of days and he'd be
right back.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah. And then knowing him, I just you know, I
would have been I guess I naturally worry more about
my mom because yeah, I ain't never the dude don't
ask for help. He don't. Yeah, even in the last
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couple of months. Man, it was like hard to help him,
you know what I mean, we ain't know what was
going on for real, but it's like the help we
thinking we're doing. We just like, yeah, Dad, like you
could ask us for anything, Like you know what I mean, like,
but I ain't even like notice that that he's going
out his way to say thank you, because it's.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Like, now, that's one of the things that.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I'm talking about my grandmother, and I'm talking about eighty
eight and like, you know, all these years to come,
and I swear man, like, my biggest fear is being
without people that I love, that that have been a
part of my life for my whole life. My grandmother,
my mom, my brother, like everybody, like my family, like y'all.
It's I know that living forever is not a real thing.
And you know, as people get older. I don't know
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about you guys, but the older people in my family,
they talk about not being here forever as if it's
something that they are just okay with at this point.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
And I think it is.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
One of them things where you get older and you
come to terms with, like, you know, life, you've lived
your life and all of that. But I just don't
know what I would do if I couldn't pick up
the phone and call my grandmother and you know, be
excited about her birthday and you know, all these things,
or my mother or whoever. But I know that it's
going to happen one day, you know, hopefully twenty plus
years from now. Hearing him in this space and talk
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about all of that, it just made me think about
that fear in what that looks like, you know, life
posts people living their fullest life and getting up, getting up,
getting up on.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Out of here.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
What does life look like? And how am I preparing
today for that to happen? And I don't think you
really can ever prepare, if I'm being honest with you,
But I do think that there are things that you
can do to make it where it's like I'm I
have a peace of mind that I poured into that
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person or in that relationship as much as I could.
And that's the sense that I got from Iman Shumper
when he was talking about his dad and his relationship
with his dad, because there was one point in an
interview where Shannon Sharp even asked him like, if your
dad was sitting here right now, what would you say?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
And this is what he mon said.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Your dad was at me this chair today, it's been
going a year and you could have a conversation with it.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
What do you think he would say to you?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
And what would you want to say to him? Yep,
I don't know if my dad held back anything for me,
so I don't think he had much to say. He
probably just reflect on whatever I'm going through at the moment.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And to me, I'm like, you know that read, I
would have nothing else to say. We talked every day,
We've said everything that we've needed to say. At this point,
I would just be in all of his presence and
I would just want to feel that, And I'm like, man.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
That.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Unk Shayshae in waste.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
No, they weren't even an hour into the interview and
it got this like deep and his vulnerable, like emon
had to take a second to get itself together to
even get through the interview.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And I mean this just recently happened.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
His father passed away back in October of twenty twenty five,
so you know, this is very fresh. And again you
could tell us that was very impactful in his life,
so he's still dealing with that. But what I also
thought was interesting was to hear him talk about his
views on marriage now. And the reason why I segue
from the father conversation and family and you know what
(16:11):
that instills in you and them not being here one
day is because what I've been having conversations with myself
about is the biggest thing I can do to prepare
myself for after the people that I love are not
here anymore, is take everything I can from them wisdom wise,
even the things that they do that I don't want
to repeat in my life, right like, take all of
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the good, the bad, the ugly, and just be in
a space where like I'm living a life that they
will still continue to be. Like I'm proud of you
know what I mean, and really being true to myself
and that and I mean, it seems like a mine
has gotten to the point, he says, you know, him
and Tianna Taylor, they're in a good space. Everything is
cool now that at some point And I told you,
I don't think. I don't know how her mom feels
(16:53):
about me. I don't know if he cares for me
too much. And the last time I talked to him,
he was cussing me out. But they've gotten because of
the different because the divorce, there was a lot happening.
There was a lot of like tense moments that were
being talked about and replayed the media.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
And I understand it.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It's something sensitive to people, like I get it. But
he says, they're in a better space and that things
are good, which is really important when you're raising kids.
But his take on marriage after the fact, like post marriage,
right post divorce, I thought was interesting because it seems
like he's really gotten to a point where he understands hisself,
(17:30):
at least for now, right because things change, people change.
You meet somebody that can change your whole, you know.
But it seems like he's in a space where he
really understands what he wants, what he doesn't want.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
And why.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And that's important as you're you know, healing from things,
as you are figuring out who you are post various things, divorce,
losing people you love, you know, trying to instill what
they've taught you every day in your life.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Let's take a listen. What about this marriage.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I don't know if I'll do it legally, Like I
don't want to sign papers and all that, Like we're
gonna do a contract. We're gonna do a contract owning
something that we both trying to do. Anyway, I'd rather
the contract be about a business. If my mama at
the wed and we got married, if my.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Mama was there, it happy, it happened, for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But this whole they get to be a part of
it now because we went to the house and now
we gotta do this now, I gotta I don't even
doing all that.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Look, I mean, I might not necessarily agree because for me,
I want the paperwork. I want to do the whole shebang,
you know what I'm saying. But I think I've always
known because I'm very inquisitive, and I I've always said
I don't believe in divorce. I don't want to divorce,
you know. I want to figure it out. I want
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to work it out. But prior to having to figure
it out and work it out, I want to make
a really good choice. And not that Amoun Intiana Tay
didn't make a good choice in choosing each other. They
have two beautiful babies that have come out of it.
But what I'm saying is that I want to make
a choice of like, even if the person that I
choose to be with is not the best situation for
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me because of something that is happening, we can get
to a point where we choose each other to figure
it out. And it doesn't happen for everybody, but that's
just what I want for myself. And I saw another
interview David Man, who they lowriders, y'all they listen to
the podcast. So David Man and Miss Timila Man were
on Jamal Bryant's podcast at Him and his wife do.
(19:37):
The podcast is called Let's be Clear Now. They're having
a conversation about all of the things and they get
into the marriage conversation. And one thing I love about
David Man and mister David Man and Miss Timila Man's
relationship or their marriage, let me get it right, their
marriage is that their union is so strong.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
And I don't say that.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They said that they've never gone through things, know and
I don't know, you know them, things have ever got
them to the brink of being like, uh, nope, we
ain't doing this no more. But they figured it out.
They've been together for thirty eight years and I learned
today that they've never had a separation.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Let's say a listen, how many years.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Years? Wow?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Yeah, no separations, come on, she said.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
No separations.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Loving it. We work through it. It don't mean I
wasn't mad.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
At them, but we were listener now being in a marriage, like,
they got the union so strong and y'all both celebrities,
I know it come with it. Come with some task.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Child.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I know it do because let me tell y'all something
every single day, like now and then, I'm in a
relationship and I'm in a relationship with a man, Honey,
I mean, okay, I'm in a relationship with a person
that makes me want to do better, It makes me
want to figure it. I'm not perfect, and my mouth
is still crazy. I will pause that, but you know
I don't have to. It's still crazy, you know, so
(21:09):
every now and then, and it'd be like a hold
on all right, who you talk and vice versa, Like
you know, there are tough moments, and even though our
relationship is new, I feel like when I when I
hear the men have a conversation about what their marriage is,
that's what I envision my marriage to be. And now
dealing with a person who you know, I wouldn't be
(21:30):
opposed to marrying, I wouldn't be opposed to doing like
very permanent things with I always think about what is
it that I can do to just ensure that, you know,
like it's like you really just want to you want
to hear the person, even in moments where I'm like
I don't want to hear that, not like you know what,
I'm trying to put on my best, like like standing
(21:51):
ten toes down eleven if I have to. You do
want to hear the person out. You do want the
person to be happy because you want to be happy.
You want to be heard out. So I've had to
learn a lot about enforcing boundaries that I didn't even
know I had to learn. If I'm being honest with y'all,
I thought I was so good at like armslength, don't
(22:12):
play with me. I'm showing up I work, I go home,
respect me, and I'm not going to beg you for it.
But like I thought, I was really good at that,
and I think I do do a really good job
because I respect myself, so people respect me. But when
you're dealing with now, I wouln't even say people in
the limelight because he's not in the limelight. He's behind
the scenes. And I still feel like there are certain
(22:33):
things that I have to chin check boundaries on and
it's just it's a very touchy space and I think
it's taboo, like people would love to act like you
never ever ever have to feel a way about anything,
Like jealousy is never a thing, and security is never
a thing like Miss Timmlerman says she had to tell
(22:54):
somebody like hold on, back up, off my man at
a meet and greet.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Let's take a lisk.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I had a lady the other day coming full frontal
hug around the neck, and I say, ma'am, you can't
do that.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
And what he was like, why, I said, because I said, no,
that's right. I say, you bold enough.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
To do it.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I'm voting. I know that's right. Get off of him.
I know that's right. What if you weren't even fresh,
I know that's right. Give me fifty baby. I mean
that Coogar was.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Like, oh yeah, people love to act like these real
moments don't happen, And now I'm learning like, no, they do.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
But y'all just find a way.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
First of all, you set your boundary as she did,
and as I'm sure he will move it forward period.
But also you just find a way to like not
let that throw away everything else until that moment, and
you move forward better like that is the goal. And
that's what I took from Emmon's conversation, the conversation that
you know, I watched Jamal Bryant and his wife have
(24:04):
with the man's as well, as like, all of these
things will come.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I don't care if you did.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
You're the most blessed, sanctified holy water on the you
know what I mean, the white cracked and the cranberry juice,
all of the tongues and the stomping. I don't care
how all of that you are or the complete opposite.
These things will come in a relationship and what are
you doing to deal with it? And y'all, I'm like,
really up, grown up at this point because now.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I know, I be like before I used to know
I was on BS and I wouldn't care.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I'm like, I don't care whatever now in this news space, baby, Okay,
we might be on we might be on BS a
little bit every now and then. I feel like you
got to do just a little just a little razzle
dazzle so that you know, talking about sertain boundaries, so
that you know, Bay knows, don't play with me. But
a lot of accountability, like you know, it's happening in
(24:56):
this era of my life, a lot of it, and
I'm happy about it. It's not always easy, but I
am happy about it though, because I feel like it's
not even about for the other person or maintaining a
relationship for myself. I'm always in a good space when
i'm accountable because I'm like, all right, and even if
the accountability is hard, because I'll fight you to the end,
I'll defend something to the end. But sometimes in what
(25:19):
I'm learning now, even when I do that, I'll come
back and be like, Okay, this was wrong, this was right.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That helps me personally because I'm learning a lot about
myself in my weak spots, the spots that I need
improvement on, that I could do better on, that I
can maybe get a little help with, you know, like
you know, therapy, whatever the case may be. Like, I'm
learning so much about the things that aren't perfect about me,
and it helps me so much navigate my relationships with people.
(25:47):
So now it's like, you know, everything is in somebody
else's fault, and that has changed my life a lot.
It's made some things harder because you want things to
be somebody else's fault sometimes because it's just easier to
get through.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
But that has really changed my outlook on so much.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
In life in general, just for myself, and of course
going back to the you know, the relationship and not
even just like a relationship boyfriend, girlfriend, but even in
my friendships, and it also in my work relationships and
also to like, I think one of the things that
I do a lot of, you know, as the oldest
kid in my family, the only girl, it's like, you know,
(26:28):
the eldest daughter is like it is a beautiful thing,
but it's also traumatizing as hell because you are put
in a position where, like, life hits and you just
have to figure it out so many times, and sometimes
from a very early age, and.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
It builds you to this strong person that like.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Just is so like, ain't nobody, ain't no stop being
a snaw. Oh you heard it, you heard the little harmony,
you heard it? Okay, it builds you into one of
those types of people. But at the same time, behind
the scenes, you're exhausted, you burnt out, your miser you're sad, sometimes,
you're lonely, you're they're all these things that you feel.
(27:05):
And I'm getting to a space where I'm learning to
not take a lot of those things on, to just
deal with things as they come, be okay with the
cars that were dealt to me, and not internalize a
lot of things because some of it just really ain't
my fault now, the stuff that is my fault, I'm
able to better identify now, and I'm getting even better
at it.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I'm at the beginning stages. But don't worry.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
We're gonna put this baby in sport because it's always
an AMG Okay, we always AMG line over here. But
until I get to the full force of what that
looks like. Just even in these beginning phases, it's really
been helpful to be able to look internally and understand
what I should digest, what I should hold onto, what
I should be accountable for, and which just really, like god,
(27:47):
am I control for real? Like period Like, there are
some things that are just out of my control and
it's nothing I could do about it.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
So I'm taking all that in.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I'm learning all of that as I go through these
different phases of life and people get older and I
get older, and I'm talking about buying I can't believe
I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
You know, marriage and you know all that.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I can believe it, But I just don't feel that
age yet. Like you know, I always thought when I
got to like the ages that I used to think
were old, you would feel it. I feel like just
yesterday I was walking on to my college campus, like
trying to figure out life, and now here I am
Latest with Lorna Rosa. The podcast eight million audio downloads later,
(28:30):
The Low Riders y'all are here and we talking about marriage, accountability,
therapy and me wanting to get my together because I
love people. I'm not mad at it. It's a journey
and now look we're just starting. Okay, we are just starting.
So hold me accountable, but like you know not, don't
hold me too long. Take your girl off for a
drink or put me down to take me off for
(28:50):
a drink a little bit in there, but still hold
me accountable. This has been another episode of the Latest
with Lauren Rosa. I'm your host, Laura l Rosa, and
I tell you guys every episode my Lowriders. Listen, y'all
could be anywhere with any old body, but if you
choose to be right here with me, I appreciate you
guys for that. I'll see you in my next episode.
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