August 29, 2025 • 40 mins
Renee Graziano, the unforgettable star of VH1’s Mob Wives, joins Michelle Barone RED for a raw, unfiltered conversation about life in the spotlight and beyond. Known for her fiery personality and unshakable resilience, Renee opens up about navigating fame, family ties to the mob, personal struggles, and her powerful journey of survival and transformation. From her most explosive TV moments to her path of healing and self-discovery, Renee shares the stories behind the headlines—and the wisdom she’s gained along the way. This is Renee like you’ve never heard her before: vulnerable, bold, and unapologetically real.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to rid Red.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's Michelle Barone and Ashley McPherson.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
What is going on?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I like your shirt ed things like your pants.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I feel like we're like yeah, I mean we're aligned
for sure, and you know, always having our favorite wava we.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Used to not match.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Ever, we actually used to get on them, like arguments
about like what we should be on the podcast because like.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I just felt like you should know my vibe and
just should show up with the same.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Thing like my thing is like I love to communicate,
like what we're gonna wear, Like are we bringing like
a prom dress or are we wearing like some jeans
dressed down.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
We've finally got it down there.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We finally got to got it. You know what else
we have right over there is from Orphan a Millionaire.
Our really good friend Steve created this incredible book and
it shares his story about him coming from Columbia. Unfortunately
his family was gone down and he was the only
one surviving in the end, and it's very fitting for
(00:53):
our guest today who's from mob Waves.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
How you doing, girl.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
I'm good and I wish Steve all the best in
the world. Was not prepared for that intro. I was
not prepared for that, so I'm gonna wabb it.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Hey, guys, before.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
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Speaker 4 (01:39):
Honestly, it's pretty amazing seeing how mental health actually affects people.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I mean the guests that we've had on the show.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
We've talked about mental health in almost every episode, and
it's a serious topic.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
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Speaker 2 (02:45):
So we have Renee Grasiano in the building and I'm
so excited for you to be here. I have heard about,
you know since I started this podcast, and I've worked
with so many people to get guests on the show.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Every single one of them is like, you gotta have
a night, Like oh no, I want to have her,
so yes, so thank you and yes.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Our boy Steve is okay, amen, And he was fine
is old when this happened, and he didn't do so
bad for himself.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Look at a million that's right, right, he did a
good job. Yes, all rightyes, so.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Steve, we love you, Steve, and you can purchase his
book on Amazon.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So thank you very very much. Gabby.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
All right, so all those millions babies.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So Renee Grasiano, you know on VH one's hit show
Mob Wives. If you haven't watched her, you are missing out.
She just kind of brought the life to the show.
She was willing to say do anything.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Girl.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
How did it all go down? Like, how did you
get on the show to start?
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Okay, So, my sister Jennifer is the creator as well
as the executive producer, and she had originally decided it
was it was when reality show was just like popping off.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
She thought of a scripted series.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
However, she looked at her friends, which was Dreta and Karen,
and she said, I have a show. Obviously she left
me out, and she did until the very last minute.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
She was like, do you have any friends?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
So I introduced it to Carla and I was like,
you know, I could do wardrobe on the show.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
She's like, no, I don't think so. True true story.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I literally had my tongue hanging out and then like,
I think it was like three days before we would
going to California. She's like, I mean, come on, really,
I was like, I knew you couldn't do it without me,
and I made her pay for that. Ever, since that's
what sisters do. Yeah, yeah, except she blocks me Friday.
We have a thing like, don't quoller after five on
(04:37):
a Friday or before Monday morning. I don't bother me
on the weekend. However, we see each other on the weekend.
So I don't really understand that rule just yet. If
I talk about work, it's very it gets very ugly quick.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Yeah, so I it's a balance. I don't believe in them.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I broke them all, but I think, no, it's scary. However,
this time around, I think for me and I say
that this time with getting sober in twenty three, I
think I've learned not all the boundaries, but I've learned some.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well, what made you get to that point? Because I
know you know which point. Getting sober is not easy?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Oh no, no, it was a lot easier. It was
a lot easier to get high than it is to
get sober.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
What was it?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Well, I know I didn't want to. I mean, there's
always My story is about that. However, when my father
passed away in nineteen, things took a turn for the
worst for me. And as much as I tried to,
I always got sober and couldn't remain sober.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
And that's what it was.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
But this time, I just it felt like the darkest
time in my life in twenty three and something terrible
happened to me in September of twenty three.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I experienced in od and I just didn't.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I think I was done, like with me, Like it
wasn't like I want to get well.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I was just done.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Like I was just really exhausted. I've exhausted my own self.
Moved from Florida to Texas for a very short period
of time. Made a phone call to my son one
night and I was just like, listen, it's never going
to be a plan of mine, but if something ever
happened to me and it.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
He said, where are you?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
I told him, he said, sit there, and he made
that phone call for me and he called his name
is is Phil O'Hara. And Phil has been a saving
grace for me. And I went right into treatment. I
went right into recovery and plugged in Texas and then
I transferred to Vanity, which was lamar Odin was involved
(06:48):
with in January, and I tried to I was like,
I just want to stay in treatment, just leave me here,
like they're like, Renee, you can move on, you can
go to Nope.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I just want to stay a little bit longer, a
little bit longer. And I did.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
And this time it just he said stuff like how
could you want to do this to me? And I
remember saying like, it's nothing, it has nothing to do
with you. He's like, but you're leaving me in my
and it just something clicked And then I just tried
harder and I did better, and I focused more and
I removed everyone and everything from my life.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That's amazing. Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Yeah, it's lonely.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
It's very lonely when you're getting sober and you're the
only person in the click that has to get sober.
You know, my friend, I was never a drinker, so
mine was party cocaine growing up. And then I got
involved with prescription mitigation and it wasn't like off the street.
It was from a doctor and it was because of
(07:47):
a very bad one. So long story short, it just.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Sorry.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
I kind of just like felt it for a second,
like the whole feeling of like, holy shit, I'm here.
It's gonna be twenty months on the second of July,
and I couldn't even make like I made six wow,
six months, but then like six months and one day
was no good. It just always it never was enough.
But the more I try, the better I do.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Well.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You can see it online and you can see your growth,
and I'm gonna cry because Mental Health America is a
big support of our show, so we hear a lot
of stories like this, and just watching your growth and
seeing how much better you look and how much healthy
you are and stronger you are. It's just I get
emotional too, because you know, feeling someone's story, it's it's
it's real, and so many people can relate to it.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
So thanks for.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
It's really that you're welcome in it. I don't think
a lot of people hide it.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Yep. And it's such a shame because it is.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I did it for so long and I was in
so much pain, like so much pain that I would
just be like, oh, take another pill, it'll go away.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
And I have physical I wanted to do. Was well.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
There was physical because of domestic violence, but it was
more mental and emotional and I just want to to
sleep it away. And I thought I could sleep it
away and that you know, some very unfortunate situations happened
to me in two thousand and seven, so I wanted
to bury more and more. And then losing my father,
(09:14):
I felt like like, well, what good is it?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Now? I have to do life without him? How am
I gonna survive?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Like Who's going to take care of me? And I'm
dead serious when I said who's going to take care
of me? And I'm almost fifty, but my father was
that one who always shook care of me.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
And my son.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
So I think for anyone who is going through it,
we're still in the month of here we are yeh.
June is men's mental health Awareness.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Oh, shout out to the men. Yes we love, shout
out to the man.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Yes, yes, absolutely, I think you know, keep pushing and
never quit. Yeah, well quit doing drugs, but never quit
trying to get well.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
That's right about that. One got to make a joke
whenever there's pain.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So with your you know, your son and when he
pulled on your heartstring, you know what what I know?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You said something clear for you? What does he feel like? Now?
Does he feel like that he's a big part of
the reason and does he.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Know how He doesn't.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
He'll never fully understand it because he's he's not an addict,
but he does see it, like he'll see if I'm
a little bit more moody one day, he'll be like,
is everything all right?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
He slept a little long today? Is everything? Like?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I know, my son, Yeah, But there's times like my
grandson made his communion on Saturday, and he walked into
church and I had white slacks on with it just
you know, a white church, and he walked in and
he goes, mom, you look really pretty. And I don't
think i've I've heard my son say that, and I
don't even know how long like it just he said
it before he even said hello. He noticed that I
(10:41):
looked together and that I was there for him, because
there was a point that I missed one of my
grandchildren's baptisms because I was away, and I don't think
I was very much welcome at that particular point.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
He just like, get well. I just want you to
get well. It wasn't like you can't come. It was like,
get well.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
And I saw it in his face. And the fact
that my grandkids climb on me and they love me.
I mean, granted, they chie me up and try to
like burn me at the stake at the same time.
But you know, I get sleep bo is and we
go to the boardwalk.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Me and my grants.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I do more with my grandson because he's older and
it's boys are a little bit easier for me than
the girls. You know, we whine and complain. Well not us, Yeah,
I'm talking about the little kids.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We want to.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Yes, yes, I'm sober.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
I don't whine anymore now, making jokes, making jokes. I'm
just grateful to I get to show up, yep, and
like even today, I got to show up the whole day.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Yeah, that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Well, you know what we're because can you show up
in a big way? You know, we walk in the
room and you know, you never know what to expect
from somebody because you see him on TV and you
see their whole life and their whole reality life and
all that, and you expect one thing, and sometimes they're
flat or whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You're funny, your show.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Everything out of your mouth is a joke. So to
think that you were in pain, I just can't even
see it.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Well, that's what most people do.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
And you know what's funny is I was talking to
Tony and he said, well, what's your hobby? And I
was like, I really, I said, all I ever wanted
to be was a comedian from like the youngest of years.
I can remember if I can make you laugh, I
could take away your pain. That's all I remember. And
believe it or not, it was Kevin Hart that when
(12:28):
I was going through a really dark time with what
my ex husband did, Kevin Heart would get me out
of it. And I remember meeting him and being like,
oh my my son was like calm down. I was like,
you don't understand, and I told him and he I
think when you can meet a person, you can feel that,
you know what I mean, Like you made me laugh
when I didn't even want to breathe, you know. And
(12:50):
and if I can make people laugh, I could change
their mindset, even if it's for a few minutes. Something
you could remember and be like she's crazy, but say
it in a laughing way.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Then God gave me a good job.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well, I have to tell you something else you did
a really good job at today was a TikTok.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
We did oh, and God we gave her the line
what was? It showed me the what was?
Speaker 6 (13:11):
I have to tang my doctors, all of them.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Doctors did you need? I mean, you have a nice ass.
But it didn't only take one, two, three?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
What we got here?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Well, the first one we know what happened. Yeah, so
we won't Yeah. And it was the second repair, and
then there was a third, and then I wanted hips,
so there was like four.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Oh my god, well that's why it looks so good.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
No, no, no, it was really big until I lost
all this weight and everybody would say, can you.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Please get that fixed? It looks terrible.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
I swear to god. I was at the point where
like I didn't even want to come out. I looked
my body just didn't look right anymore. However, Manjaro, yep, Wava, yes, Wava,
let's go.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Wava. I look amazing you.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And that's what I mean, Like, I didn't know if
you were going to bring it up, but the first
picture you posted after a while and you looked phenomenal,
I was like, that's my girl. You know clean, you're healthy,
you look fantastic, And now I feel like it's another
part of your life you're going to live to the
fullest and.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
It's definitely another life, like I get. It's not even
like a new chapter. I get like a whole new book,
because I even know I'm a different mad yep. Like
I recently said sorry to somebody and I wasn't one
hundred percent wrong and I was going to hold his
guards till the day I died.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
I know I was, but I.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Was like it was actually I was having a conversation
with Jennifer, mutual friend, and she made something in my
head click, and I was just like, yeah, I can
own what I can own and just get it, because
what's the sense of carrying this huge bag of bricks
around that I don't have to carry I'm wrong for
(14:56):
what I'm wrong And if the person, the other person
doesn't want to admit it, it has no you do
with me.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I did.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Look, they don't do it again.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
However, I did it, and I was in the person's
company recently, and it was just like, what was I
hold Like a year and a half, I did this
nonset for what?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Right?
Speaker 6 (15:14):
So yeah, I'm I'm getting better.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yep, and that's important.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
No, Okay, what were the most iconic moments for you
on the show? You know?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I know that there had been so many, but to
you personally.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
You mean in general happy or the most that most
ones that have wrecked my life.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Well, okay, so let's say, okay, so.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
What's funny is Season one I'm not a fighter like
physical Season one, I'm the first one to have a
physical altercation that was shocking.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That put you on, that made you you, that was that.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Made everybody be like, who is everybody? Remember nobody? I'm
not a fighter like I can. I can do this
with my mouth all day, but to physically have to
get it's very rare. And I come out of a
you know, a domestic violence marriage where I didn't pick
my hands up because I knew better. So it's very rare.
So I would say season won that one. Season two
(16:15):
I'm I'm scorn between I was dead and he ratted yeh.
Then there's the horrible Vegas Yes, and then there's yeah.
Though I think that's what sticks at Vegas is the
worst worst.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Thing I think I've ever done on television. It's Vegas.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
I think maybe wearing that fluorescent color yeah, yeah, like
let's not.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Yeah, would you do it again? Wear that again? Now?
I would never wear that again.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I wanted to ask you that. I have to be honest.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
I was so high I.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Didn't know what I had on. He's the role again,
clothes on? Well, I guess I'm lucky they were filming.
I was.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I was like, if I interview her, that's a question,
I'm asking why did you wear it?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
I I have no idea what was going on? All right, Well,
at least we know now, Yeah, we know that.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
I didn't know, and.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
It would never happen again.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
No, they'd be in the tub before I ever would
follow me. I think, And I had said this earlier.
If there is a like a commercial, but don't do
drugs because you can.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Look like this use it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, that's not funny.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
It's not funny. It's disgraceful.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
And I know one day my grandson's going to be
old enough and be like, what was wrong with my grandmother?
It could be a company, you know what I mean.
I'm trying to have it white. I'm trying to have
a wipe. It doesn't it's not going my wife, it's
not going my waye.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
So those documents who call, you know, contracts you signed,
those getting the way a little you know.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
The one time.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
It's just for me like that. I think that.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Oh and of course what happened between Angela and I,
that's another terrible, terrible, terrible one. The one thing I
can tell you is I was not coherent and either
one and if that could save me in any way,
I'll take it. But at the same time, I have
to own the fact that I wasn't cool here, and
that's on me, nobody else. So, I mean, these are
(18:14):
some reasons people should stay sober on television, yes, or
if you can't handle if don't do drugs, don't do drugs.
Watch season four of Mob Wives, Renee, and don't ever
wear a fluorescent pink ever again with a bikini bottom.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Never.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Now, you know everybody's going to reference that, and I'm
going to be punished.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
For right now, we're just bringing it back the worst.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Well, maybe someone to show it to the kid and
they want to do drugs?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
No, seriously, seriously. All right, So you want to play
the game.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
The game? All right? Oh god, all right?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
So today's game is mob life or my Life. So
basically how it works is I'm going to read a
situation or scenario to you guys, and Renee, you have
to say mob life meaning oh yeah, that sounds like
some mob or my life meaning yep, this is actually
real and I've lived it, or if you want a dish,
you can say both if I if they're both my
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mob life perfect yeah, yeah, alright, alright ready so mob
life if oh yeah, and then my life.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
If you've if you've lived it, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Okay, and but you can play you can play on
this too.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
I probably a little complicated.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
All right, all right, we'll see what I'm v got
down happen to al right, okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Getting a call that starts with we need to talk privately.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
My old day every day.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
That's my biggest nightmare. That doesn't give you, guys anxiety.
Oh my god, someone text me we need to talk.
She texts me, we need to talk. My heart's racing
until we talk.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That just gives me.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
That's more my life. That's my life. I never heard it.
I mean, I've never had a conversation with anybody.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, that's my life.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, okay, my life, all right. Having someone follow you
to make sure you're.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Safe, my mob life.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
This one's definitely my life. I'm scared of everything. Yeah,
I have people.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
They probably followed me and sometimes I'm glad they did
because I was safe.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
True.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Maybe yeah, yo, that's your life because you had security
walking you into American trees?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Was it the American girl doll store? It was her
daughter's fourth birthday party?
Speaker 6 (20:35):
No stop, just stop, Hey, let's go on as long
as you're sing.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, safe, all right? Deleting text before someone else sees.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Them, that's my mob life.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Mob life.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I erase everything out of my phone and I have
no reason to. It's just like kind of like, we'll
have a conversation, but I just have this thing with
clear ring my phone.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That's mob life.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
It probably is, but I don't think we had phones,
did we.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
We didn't have cell phones back then.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Really mind, but you got to hide the evidence of everything.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Yeah, even when there is no evidence, even when you're
not even doing anything wrong. I supposed to be like,
can you go back to that text message? I'll be like,
I erased it.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
She'd be like, but for fucking what it was your schedule.
I'd be like, because it was a time and a place.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
All right.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Family dramas turning into a full un screaming match over dinner.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
That's my life.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
That's your life.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Really, we fight every day I know what Italian does
not fight my life? Yeah, I mean yeah, mob life
not so much because you really couldn't act out, just take.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Care of it. You no fight.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
You just sat there and if something was being dang
gare of you just kept eating. Yeah, it's all right,
all right, all right, that's the mob life, all right.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Forgiving someone but never forgetting.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
That's that's my mob life. That's both.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That's both.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Yeah, I'm never gonna forget.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
I'm petty as fuck too, Like I'll do stuff that
makes you remember.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
A yeah I gave you.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
That's how you will greet and I'll show up like
a leprecha. I'll do something.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Yeah. Yeah, that's my mob life.
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Speaker 6 (24:58):
That's all right there as well as we laughed.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Happy, Yes, all right. Someone showing up uninvited to a family.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Event never gonna happen. No, never, you know, I'll be
honest with you. You we lived on a cul de Zac,
and if you didn't have a reason to be on
that block, you were not on that block. Except that
one time that when all the Feds were following the
other car and the whole I swear to you, I
(25:29):
don't want to say what it was, but everybody had
a tail, So I swear the whole block had mob
cortail mob cart.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, yeah, it.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Was very interesting. Well that other time I was playing, Yeah,
it happened a few times. People now know, Well, nobody
knows why.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I love.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
That's that for me is really personal.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Yeah yeah, I'll see you yeah there right at the dina.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I feel like that might be our life. People are
always showing up uninvited.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Really, Oh, kids don't care, kids don't My house is
like the house the parents, the kids, my friends were
there dead. I wasn't I know, I got wait have
you ever No, see, we don't. I'd never go to
somebody's house unannounced.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
No, I think she invited them, she just isn't.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
That don't count.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Actually, I mean we say.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Up because like I feel like some people are like
my family, like we're friends. Now, if I showed up,
you wouldn't be bring you freaking you know, it would
be nice.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
However, people don't show up. It's just very I wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I wouldn't be mad that you showed up, but it's
very odd you would that people show up.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
I don't know announced the next door neighbors. I remember
this one time.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
So I moved to Jersey in seagirt, where you know,
everybody lives a block from the beach in their noses,
and somebody bought a pie. And I was married at
the time. It was a really long time ago, and
they were like, Hi, where the smith's from?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Next door? I was like, what do you want?
Speaker 5 (27:00):
And my.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
What is this? They was? They came over to bring
a pie to say hi, and we were like, what
do you want? It's obviously no they're you know, you
don't you just don't come to the hand.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
It's weird, all right, so you can't show up anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
So I'm not I'm gonna have new weekend plans loading.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Okay, all right, trust your gut over facts.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Mmmmmm.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
I wish I would have trusted my gut in my life. Okay, over,
I oblig that that particular one time. I have a
lot of one times.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
One me. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I I think sometimes I ruminate too much. So then
I go down a path and I'm like, they did this,
this and this and none of it even happened, and
I should have got the facts.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
See, sometimes you make believe.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Oh my god, she like makes up like the people
are mad at her, and then she's like freaking out
over this time.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I'm like, oh my god, I'm mad at me.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
I like you, when's your birthday?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
With everybody?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
When's your birthday?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
March e?
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
What does that mean?
Speaker 6 (28:13):
You're confused? I swim up and down.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
The swim up and down.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Yeah, you're you go both like that, you go both.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I'm just saying you this way. I have to make chokes.
It's just the thing with me, Please, don't we love
My nieces are the seventh and it's you. You're either
swimming this way or that way, so you're never really
in the middle. You're never like a scorpio, no like
like like no dead senna, no like you think ages.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I'm I always a wishy washing but if the facts,
it's better for me because then I know how to
be Like. I'm a decision maker quick, so I like
to know the facts. We can make a decision to
move forward.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
I yeah, I prefer to know the truth, even if
it's a little hurtful. Just remember, I'm petty, I'm a cancer,
so I'm a hot mess with fact.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
So no, it can't be true, but it's right there
in front of me.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, all right, okay, all right, we got two more.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
I don't know what we will, but it was our lives.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
You guys answer, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Cutting someone off forever for breaking loyalty, that should be cool.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
I've done it in real life. It's supposed to be
a part of mob life.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Some people can't do it, I.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Think my life.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, sometimes you're just like if if someone doesn't deserve
you because they did you wrong multiple times, like it is,
but you said multiple.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Times this was once right? So where so here we go?
Speaker 5 (29:47):
What a science, we kind of like wash it with
the tide and go back out. Sometimes we'll forgive you,
and then other times we'll.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Just be like yeah, yeah, okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I don't like to dead people though.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
No, don't make a couple of people I'd like dead.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
But oh I'm in dead dead the relationship. Oh, I'm sorry,
classic mistake. I got its thinking.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
That's true. I don't wish it. I don't. I truly
don't know.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
No, no, no, I don't wish anybody death. I wish
them a hundred angry renees.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Right, I just want them to be miserable forever.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Imagine, imagine too angry. I don't.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
I'm angry and I can't handle me. I'm like big,
shut up talking o, drink will, let's time for a walk,
all right, we got my god, I gotta know I
have so bunch drunk, sober, bunch drunk.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
All right, A boyfriend getting interrogated by your family. Has
this ever happened for you, guys?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Iget your boyfriend every day?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
My god, it's.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Getting turnicated by the feds.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Okay, yeah, yeah, always, oh my yeah, your life, everyone's life,
and yeah, any good parents life with that? So if
you're not questioning you daughter's boyfriend, you should see.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
The thing with her is like you bring someone over
and like nearly the first question is like, so do
you love her?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
And it's like, oh my god, Like, let me start
with what's your last name?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Like I don't know what intention? Like are you thinking
long term? Like she's got a lot to ship to do? Here?
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Okay, I go, where's your mother work?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Yeah, so what does your father do? Oh? And you
live on which corner? I will get old?
Speaker 5 (31:36):
And you don't know you're getting questioned at that point.
Really do you know?
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Oh? Your father does what for a living? Lay cement?
So do we?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
No?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
I'm not very Yeah, I love my son. Thank god
my son married the girl that he did.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Andrea, I am so grateful for it because I would
run if I was I would I would not know
how to handle.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Some of the things that come Outam you got to
get to her boyfriend because I need to know like
the root of them.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I think you could get there because she questions him.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Family parties with like one hundred people in the room.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Oh no, no, no, you gotta do it. You gotta
be slick.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You don't have to do it him under a spotlight either.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
I think we can.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I don't have time to waste.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Yes, but if you want the answer, you don't hit
them right away, because then I then you're scaring them
into an answer.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Got to gain the trust first.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Yeah, you gotta be like, where's your parents live? Yeah,
we're going to if this ever happens.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
You know what would happen?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
What?
Speaker 6 (32:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (32:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Yeah you know what friends? You know that crazy girl
from Mob Wives?
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, she knows where you live. Hate them
on crazy things.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
They don't even know. They'll start trusting you, like, oh,
please protect me from her.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Oh gosh, Well I gotta go give him a heads up.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
So now.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Get ready baby, all right, you guys got to kill
that game.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Thanks, Yeah, I killed it.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I don't want to get on your bed.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
It's him that might might have a problem.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
For as long as you got me, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I want to know one last thing. You know, what
is going on in the future. I want to know
what's going on.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
I wish I knew what is going on in the future.
I can tell you at some point I will be
back on TV. Yes, I know that at some point.
The book that I'm working on will you know be
able to be read by more than just me.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
We'll read it.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Yeah, No, you know what it's it's a memoir, so
it's it's a lot of it's a beautiful story. Awesome,
it definitely is because it doesn't end. So for me,
it's that's probably the greatest part is that there's a
there's blank pages at the end because my story goes on.
(33:57):
So for me, yeah, yeah, I think you really really was.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
It was yesterday that I did. But it's true we
can talk like that.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
It is because I think I still get to write
my story and I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
You know.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I'm also twenty seven months on celibate. A lot of
things in my life have changed, you know, so I
think for me.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
And you're still okay with that part of it.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
No, I didn't say I was okay with it.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
So wait a moit are you single?
Speaker 8 (34:28):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Here she goes, I'm celibate, and I'm yeah, I will
only has thing?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
What are you looking for?
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Okay? His mother's address, where's fall? The works?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
No?
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Whoever the next person in my life is I'd like
for him to be the last, and I don't mean
like I'm going to offer them or anything. I just
mean like I just I just don't want to.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
I'd rather be read thinking that I don't know. That's
my Oh we're not playing the game. Oh my dad.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
No, I just you know what my grandson said. You know,
I want a grandpa and it kills me. Like, you know,
I can do a million things.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
But what are you looking for? What are you looking for?
A guinea?
Speaker 5 (35:14):
I mean, come on, uh, if the boat you yeah, no, no, no,
no no no. It's not that they have to be
a little they have to be Yeah, I'd like an American.
I'd like an americantcha an Italian American. All right, Yeah,
I would like for him to have a good job
with a four zero one K life insurance.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Yeah, he could have kids. They have to be fully
grown and it will take care of themselves.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
No, no, no, no, you all getting aside. I would
like a grown man. He could be anywhere between forty
eight and sixty. Okay, okay, he has to be able
to handle me.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Listen, we gotta find you something.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Good luck, good luck, because I've been looking.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
This is her.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I love to find I love to match make Listen,
this she.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Hasn't been good out yet.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Boot practice on the money, I'm not the one to practice.
I went on a date for the I went on
a date, my first date in twenty seven months, and
it just so happened to be on my wedding anniversary.
It was just this May fifteenth that just passed. Why
do you talk to me about his ex girlfriend? By
the end, I said this, pay me, this is a
(36:28):
life coach.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
Pay me.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
I don't want to hear about your ex girlfriend. Are
you out of your mind? If this is what I
have to do to go on a date to a dash,
it works way better.
Speaker 6 (36:37):
Like I can eat home. There's nobody you feel about.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Like two people with a pulse, like you have a pulse.
They have a pulse.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Let's make it happens kind of her thing.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, a pulse.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
I mean they have to be alive. You did that.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
That's the requirement requirement. I'm working for it.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
I understand that it depends where they're pulsing from.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Like you know what like a twenty seven year old.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
Never get no, no, no, maybe last year, but no, no, no, no, no,
I'm not that that's really young.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
That's really young.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
What about like a seventy seven year old.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
No, come on, that's too old.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
She has you said it was the last.
Speaker 6 (37:20):
Yeah, but not his last leg or his last threat.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
I don't want it to be his last brain do No,
that that would be that would be my excuse me, girls,
I don't know, but I'm gonna say this, that would
be my fuck?
Speaker 6 (37:34):
All right? All right?
Speaker 8 (37:37):
And no, no, you are so funny. I can't no
you date. I've been here for so long. I'm like
ready for you. Like, I'm like, yeah, what are we
gonna do?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
He was killed?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Like?
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Where are we going with this today?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
We're going listen, red hot date. We're gonna take you
on a date.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Renee. Anybody looking for love? Who?
Speaker 6 (37:56):
No, no, not anybody, it's not anybody? Know you know
you want to see my dms? Do you want to
know the sickness that goes on on?
Speaker 1 (38:05):
I gotta say this, actually pull it up.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Let's see what you got in there? Read me one.
Let's read one of your dms from a guy before
we wrap this up. No pun intended.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
What I got it's in the call. It's double ply wrapper.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Okay, so wait a second, but I thought these would love.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
And they say dirty things they say things that I
wouldn't even I wouldn't even say, like disgusting stuff like
there are people that actually safe say things that I
used to threaten them, and I swear to God, I
used to be like, shut off your location. Now I
just block them because I can't understand how people could
(38:44):
say certain.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
Things to other people.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
We're gonna find you somebody.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
I'm hot. Now you're hot.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
You've always been hot, and you know people will come
at you for that because that's what everybody wants.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
But at the end of the day, you know, you
know the red flags?
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Well now I do. Now I do.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
I didn't before, you know, I think I was at
a point in my life where I let a lot
of things go because I wasn't okay with me. Oh
it must be no. Now now I know after the
first date that guy told.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
You, But no, you can't call me no more. No,
I'm good good. Red flags don't mean carnival, it means stop.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
I should write that We're gonna end it here.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
We love you, Renee, you are finally here.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
I've been wanting to have you on.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
The show since we started. Renee Graziano check her out.
Watch mob wives. It is amazing, so much fun and
uh so glad that you were here.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
With us today. I can't wait to see you on
TV again. She's getting hot over here. If you're single,
make sure you hit her up.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
Not the id, Janet. I'm not going to snap.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Anybody with a pulse.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I mean no, you heard her requirements. We'll chat you,
We'll chat Berts.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
No, not a Berts, a palsy Berts.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Where can people find you online, Renette?
Speaker 6 (39:54):
They can't find me. I'm Renee Graziano.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
We love you, girl, Thank you so much, thank you,
Welcome to rid Red.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's Michelle Barone and Ashley McPherson.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
What is going on?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I like your shirt ed things like your pants.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I feel like we're like yeah, I mean we're aligned
for sure, and you know, always having our favorite wava we.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Used to not match.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Ever, we actually used to get on them, like arguments
about like what we should be on the podcast because like.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I just felt like you should know my vibe and
just should show up with the same.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Thing like my thing is like I love to communicate,
like what we're gonna wear, Like are we bringing like
a prom dress or are we wearing like some jeans
dressed down.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
We've finally got it down there.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We finally got to got it. You know what else
we have right over there is from Orphan a Millionaire.
Our really good friend Steve created this incredible book and
it shares his story about him coming from Columbia. Unfortunately
his family was gone down and he was the only
one surviving in the end, and it's very fitting for
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our guest today who's from mob Waves.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
How you doing, girl.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
I'm good and I wish Steve all the best in
the world. Was not prepared for that intro. I was
not prepared for that, so I'm gonna wabb it.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Hey, guys, before.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Today's episode, I want to talk to you about something
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Speaker 4 (01:24):
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Speaker 1 (01:33):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
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helps so many people with so many problems.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Honestly, it's pretty amazing seeing how mental health actually affects people.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I mean the guests that we've had on the show.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
We've talked about mental health in almost every episode, and
it's a serious topic.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
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Speaker 2 (02:45):
So we have Renee Grasiano in the building and I'm
so excited for you to be here. I have heard about,
you know since I started this podcast, and I've worked
with so many people to get guests on the show.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Every single one of them is like, you gotta have
a night, Like oh no, I want to have her,
so yes, so thank you and yes.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Our boy Steve is okay, amen, And he was fine
is old when this happened, and he didn't do so
bad for himself.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Look at a million that's right, right, he did a
good job. Yes, all rightyes, so.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Steve, we love you, Steve, and you can purchase his
book on Amazon.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So thank you very very much. Gabby.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
All right, so all those millions babies.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So Renee Grasiano, you know on VH one's hit show
Mob Wives. If you haven't watched her, you are missing out.
She just kind of brought the life to the show.
She was willing to say do anything.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Girl.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
How did it all go down? Like, how did you
get on the show to start?
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Okay, So, my sister Jennifer is the creator as well
as the executive producer, and she had originally decided it
was it was when reality show was just like popping off.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
She thought of a scripted series.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
However, she looked at her friends, which was Dreta and Karen,
and she said, I have a show. Obviously she left
me out, and she did until the very last minute.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
She was like, do you have any friends?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
So I introduced it to Carla and I was like,
you know, I could do wardrobe on the show.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
She's like, no, I don't think so. True true story.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I literally had my tongue hanging out and then like,
I think it was like three days before we would
going to California. She's like, I mean, come on, really,
I was like, I knew you couldn't do it without me,
and I made her pay for that. Ever, since that's
what sisters do. Yeah, yeah, except she blocks me Friday.
We have a thing like, don't quoller after five on
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a Friday or before Monday morning. I don't bother me
on the weekend. However, we see each other on the weekend.
So I don't really understand that rule just yet. If
I talk about work, it's very it gets very ugly quick.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Yeah, so I it's a balance. I don't believe in them.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I broke them all, but I think, no, it's scary. However,
this time around, I think for me and I say
that this time with getting sober in twenty three, I
think I've learned not all the boundaries, but I've learned some.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well, what made you get to that point? Because I
know you know which point. Getting sober is not easy?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Oh no, no, it was a lot easier. It was
a lot easier to get high than it is to
get sober.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
What was it?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Well, I know I didn't want to. I mean, there's
always My story is about that. However, when my father
passed away in nineteen, things took a turn for the
worst for me. And as much as I tried to,
I always got sober and couldn't remain sober.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
And that's what it was.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
But this time, I just it felt like the darkest
time in my life in twenty three and something terrible
happened to me in September of twenty three.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I experienced in od and I just didn't.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I think I was done, like with me, Like it
wasn't like I want to get well.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I was just done.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Like I was just really exhausted. I've exhausted my own self.
Moved from Florida to Texas for a very short period
of time. Made a phone call to my son one
night and I was just like, listen, it's never going
to be a plan of mine, but if something ever
happened to me and it.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
He said, where are you?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
I told him, he said, sit there, and he made
that phone call for me and he called his name
is is Phil O'Hara. And Phil has been a saving
grace for me. And I went right into treatment. I
went right into recovery and plugged in Texas and then
I transferred to Vanity, which was lamar Odin was involved
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with in January, and I tried to I was like,
I just want to stay in treatment, just leave me here,
like they're like, Renee, you can move on, you can
go to Nope.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
I just want to stay a little bit longer, a
little bit longer. And I did.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
And this time it just he said stuff like how
could you want to do this to me? And I
remember saying like, it's nothing, it has nothing to do
with you. He's like, but you're leaving me in my
and it just something clicked And then I just tried
harder and I did better, and I focused more and
I removed everyone and everything from my life.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That's amazing. Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Yeah, it's lonely.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
It's very lonely when you're getting sober and you're the
only person in the click that has to get sober.
You know, my friend, I was never a drinker, so
mine was party cocaine growing up. And then I got
involved with prescription mitigation and it wasn't like off the street.
It was from a doctor and it was because of
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a very bad one. So long story short, it just.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Sorry.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
I kind of just like felt it for a second,
like the whole feeling of like, holy shit, I'm here.
It's gonna be twenty months on the second of July,
and I couldn't even make like I made six wow,
six months, but then like six months and one day
was no good. It just always it never was enough.
But the more I try, the better I do.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Well.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You can see it online and you can see your growth,
and I'm gonna cry because Mental Health America is a
big support of our show, so we hear a lot
of stories like this, and just watching your growth and
seeing how much better you look and how much healthy
you are and stronger you are. It's just I get
emotional too, because you know, feeling someone's story, it's it's
it's real, and so many people can relate to it.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
So thanks for.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
It's really that you're welcome in it. I don't think
a lot of people hide it.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Yep. And it's such a shame because it is.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I did it for so long and I was in
so much pain, like so much pain that I would
just be like, oh, take another pill, it'll go away.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
And I have physical I wanted to do. Was well.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
There was physical because of domestic violence, but it was
more mental and emotional and I just want to to
sleep it away. And I thought I could sleep it
away and that you know, some very unfortunate situations happened
to me in two thousand and seven, so I wanted
to bury more and more. And then losing my father,
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I felt like like, well, what good is it?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Now? I have to do life without him? How am
I gonna survive?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Like Who's going to take care of me? And I'm
dead serious when I said who's going to take care
of me? And I'm almost fifty, but my father was
that one who always shook care of me.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
And my son.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
So I think for anyone who is going through it,
we're still in the month of here we are yeh.
June is men's mental health Awareness.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Oh, shout out to the men. Yes we love, shout
out to the man.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Yes, yes, absolutely, I think you know, keep pushing and
never quit. Yeah, well quit doing drugs, but never quit
trying to get well.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
That's right about that. One got to make a joke
whenever there's pain.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So with your you know, your son and when he
pulled on your heartstring, you know what what I know?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You said something clear for you? What does he feel like? Now?
Does he feel like that he's a big part of
the reason and does he.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Know how He doesn't.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
He'll never fully understand it because he's he's not an addict,
but he does see it, like he'll see if I'm
a little bit more moody one day, he'll be like,
is everything all right?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
He slept a little long today? Is everything? Like?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I know, my son, Yeah, But there's times like my
grandson made his communion on Saturday, and he walked into
church and I had white slacks on with it just
you know, a white church, and he walked in and
he goes, mom, you look really pretty. And I don't
think i've I've heard my son say that, and I
don't even know how long like it just he said
it before he even said hello. He noticed that I
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looked together and that I was there for him, because
there was a point that I missed one of my
grandchildren's baptisms because I was away, and I don't think
I was very much welcome at that particular point.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
He just like, get well. I just want you to
get well. It wasn't like you can't come. It was like,
get well.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
And I saw it in his face. And the fact
that my grandkids climb on me and they love me.
I mean, granted, they chie me up and try to
like burn me at the stake at the same time.
But you know, I get sleep bo is and we
go to the boardwalk.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Me and my grants.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I do more with my grandson because he's older and
it's boys are a little bit easier for me than
the girls. You know, we whine and complain. Well not us, Yeah,
I'm talking about the little kids.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We want to.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Yes, yes, I'm sober.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
I don't whine anymore now, making jokes, making jokes. I'm
just grateful to I get to show up, yep, and
like even today, I got to show up the whole day.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Yeah, that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Well, you know what we're because can you show up
in a big way? You know, we walk in the
room and you know, you never know what to expect
from somebody because you see him on TV and you
see their whole life and their whole reality life and
all that, and you expect one thing, and sometimes they're
flat or whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You're funny, your show.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Everything out of your mouth is a joke. So to
think that you were in pain, I just can't even
see it.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Well, that's what most people do.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
And you know what's funny is I was talking to
Tony and he said, well, what's your hobby? And I
was like, I really, I said, all I ever wanted
to be was a comedian from like the youngest of years.
I can remember if I can make you laugh, I
could take away your pain. That's all I remember. And
believe it or not, it was Kevin Hart that when
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I was going through a really dark time with what
my ex husband did, Kevin Heart would get me out
of it. And I remember meeting him and being like,
oh my my son was like calm down. I was like,
you don't understand, and I told him and he I
think when you can meet a person, you can feel that,
you know what I mean, Like you made me laugh
when I didn't even want to breathe, you know. And
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and if I can make people laugh, I could change
their mindset, even if it's for a few minutes. Something
you could remember and be like she's crazy, but say
it in a laughing way.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Then God gave me a good job.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well, I have to tell you something else you did
a really good job at today was a TikTok.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
We did oh, and God we gave her the line
what was? It showed me the what was?
Speaker 6 (13:11):
I have to tang my doctors, all of them.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Doctors did you need? I mean, you have a nice ass.
But it didn't only take one, two, three?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
What we got here?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Well, the first one we know what happened. Yeah, so
we won't Yeah. And it was the second repair, and
then there was a third, and then I wanted hips,
so there was like four.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Oh my god, well that's why it looks so good.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
No, no, no, it was really big until I lost
all this weight and everybody would say, can you.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Please get that fixed? It looks terrible.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
I swear to god. I was at the point where
like I didn't even want to come out. I looked
my body just didn't look right anymore. However, Manjaro, yep, Wava, yes, Wava,
let's go.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Wava. I look amazing you.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And that's what I mean, Like, I didn't know if
you were going to bring it up, but the first
picture you posted after a while and you looked phenomenal,
I was like, that's my girl. You know clean, you're healthy,
you look fantastic, And now I feel like it's another
part of your life you're going to live to the
fullest and.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
It's definitely another life, like I get. It's not even
like a new chapter. I get like a whole new book,
because I even know I'm a different mad yep. Like
I recently said sorry to somebody and I wasn't one
hundred percent wrong and I was going to hold his
guards till the day I died.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
I know I was, but I.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Was like it was actually I was having a conversation
with Jennifer, mutual friend, and she made something in my
head click, and I was just like, yeah, I can
own what I can own and just get it, because
what's the sense of carrying this huge bag of bricks
around that I don't have to carry I'm wrong for
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what I'm wrong And if the person, the other person
doesn't want to admit it, it has no you do
with me.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I did.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Look, they don't do it again.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
However, I did it, and I was in the person's
company recently, and it was just like, what was I
hold Like a year and a half, I did this
nonset for what?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Right?
Speaker 6 (15:14):
So yeah, I'm I'm getting better.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yep, and that's important.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
No, Okay, what were the most iconic moments for you
on the show? You know?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I know that there had been so many, but to
you personally.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
You mean in general happy or the most that most
ones that have wrecked my life.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Well, okay, so let's say, okay, so.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
What's funny is Season one I'm not a fighter like
physical Season one, I'm the first one to have a
physical altercation that was shocking.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That put you on, that made you you, that was that.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Made everybody be like, who is everybody? Remember nobody? I'm
not a fighter like I can. I can do this
with my mouth all day, but to physically have to
get it's very rare. And I come out of a
you know, a domestic violence marriage where I didn't pick
my hands up because I knew better. So it's very rare.
So I would say season won that one. Season two
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I'm I'm scorn between I was dead and he ratted yeh.
Then there's the horrible Vegas Yes, and then there's yeah.
Though I think that's what sticks at Vegas is the
worst worst.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Thing I think I've ever done on television. It's Vegas.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
I think maybe wearing that fluorescent color yeah, yeah, like
let's not.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Yeah, would you do it again? Wear that again? Now?
I would never wear that again.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I wanted to ask you that. I have to be honest.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
I was so high I.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Didn't know what I had on. He's the role again,
clothes on? Well, I guess I'm lucky they were filming.
I was.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I was like, if I interview her, that's a question,
I'm asking why did you wear it?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
I I have no idea what was going on? All right, Well,
at least we know now, Yeah, we know that.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
I didn't know, and.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
It would never happen again.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
No, they'd be in the tub before I ever would
follow me. I think, And I had said this earlier.
If there is a like a commercial, but don't do
drugs because you can.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Look like this use it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, that's not funny.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
It's not funny. It's disgraceful.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
And I know one day my grandson's going to be
old enough and be like, what was wrong with my grandmother?
It could be a company, you know what I mean.
I'm trying to have it white. I'm trying to have
a wipe. It doesn't it's not going my wife, it's
not going my waye.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
So those documents who call, you know, contracts you signed,
those getting the way a little you know.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
The one time.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
It's just for me like that. I think that.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Oh and of course what happened between Angela and I,
that's another terrible, terrible, terrible one. The one thing I
can tell you is I was not coherent and either
one and if that could save me in any way,
I'll take it. But at the same time, I have
to own the fact that I wasn't cool here, and
that's on me, nobody else. So, I mean, these are
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some reasons people should stay sober on television, yes, or
if you can't handle if don't do drugs, don't do drugs.
Watch season four of Mob Wives, Renee, and don't ever
wear a fluorescent pink ever again with a bikini bottom.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Never.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Now, you know everybody's going to reference that, and I'm
going to be punished.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
For right now, we're just bringing it back the worst.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Well, maybe someone to show it to the kid and
they want to do drugs?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
No, seriously, seriously. All right, So you want to play
the game.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
The game? All right? Oh god, all right?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
So today's game is mob life or my Life. So
basically how it works is I'm going to read a
situation or scenario to you guys, and Renee, you have
to say mob life meaning oh yeah, that sounds like
some mob or my life meaning yep, this is actually
real and I've lived it, or if you want a dish,
you can say both if I if they're both my
(19:11):
mob life perfect yeah, yeah, alright, alright ready so mob
life if oh yeah, and then my life.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
If you've if you've lived it, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Okay, and but you can play you can play on
this too.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
I probably a little complicated.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
All right, all right, we'll see what I'm v got
down happen to al right, okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Getting a call that starts with we need to talk privately.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
My old day every day.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
That's my biggest nightmare. That doesn't give you, guys anxiety.
Oh my god, someone text me we need to talk.
She texts me, we need to talk. My heart's racing
until we talk.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That just gives me.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
That's more my life. That's my life. I never heard it.
I mean, I've never had a conversation with anybody.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, that's my life.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, okay, my life, all right. Having someone follow you
to make sure you're.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Safe, my mob life.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
This one's definitely my life. I'm scared of everything. Yeah,
I have people.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
They probably followed me and sometimes I'm glad they did
because I was safe.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
True.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Maybe yeah, yo, that's your life because you had security
walking you into American trees?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Was it the American girl doll store? It was her
daughter's fourth birthday party?
Speaker 6 (20:35):
No stop, just stop, Hey, let's go on as long
as you're sing.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, safe, all right? Deleting text before someone else sees.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Them, that's my mob life.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Mob life.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I erase everything out of my phone and I have
no reason to. It's just like kind of like, we'll
have a conversation, but I just have this thing with
clear ring my phone.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That's mob life.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
It probably is, but I don't think we had phones,
did we.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
We didn't have cell phones back then.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Really mind, but you got to hide the evidence of everything.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Yeah, even when there is no evidence, even when you're
not even doing anything wrong. I supposed to be like,
can you go back to that text message? I'll be like,
I erased it.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
She'd be like, but for fucking what it was your schedule.
I'd be like, because it was a time and a place.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
All right.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Family dramas turning into a full un screaming match over dinner.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
That's my life.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
That's your life.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Really, we fight every day I know what Italian does
not fight my life? Yeah, I mean yeah, mob life
not so much because you really couldn't act out, just take.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Care of it. You no fight.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
You just sat there and if something was being dang
gare of you just kept eating. Yeah, it's all right,
all right, all right, that's the mob life, all right.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Forgiving someone but never forgetting.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
That's that's my mob life. That's both.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That's both.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Yeah, I'm never gonna forget.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
I'm petty as fuck too, Like I'll do stuff that
makes you remember.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
A yeah I gave you.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
That's how you will greet and I'll show up like
a leprecha. I'll do something.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Yeah. Yeah, that's my mob life.
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Speaker 6 (24:58):
That's all right there as well as we laughed.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Happy, Yes, all right. Someone showing up uninvited to a family.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Event never gonna happen. No, never, you know, I'll be
honest with you. You we lived on a cul de Zac,
and if you didn't have a reason to be on
that block, you were not on that block. Except that
one time that when all the Feds were following the
other car and the whole I swear to you, I
(25:29):
don't want to say what it was, but everybody had
a tail, So I swear the whole block had mob
cortail mob cart.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, yeah, it.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Was very interesting. Well that other time I was playing, Yeah,
it happened a few times. People now know, Well, nobody
knows why.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I love.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
That's that for me is really personal.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Yeah yeah, I'll see you yeah there right at the dina.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I feel like that might be our life. People are
always showing up uninvited.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Really, Oh, kids don't care, kids don't My house is
like the house the parents, the kids, my friends were
there dead. I wasn't I know, I got wait have
you ever No, see, we don't. I'd never go to
somebody's house unannounced.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
No, I think she invited them, she just isn't.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
That don't count.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Actually, I mean we say.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Up because like I feel like some people are like
my family, like we're friends. Now, if I showed up,
you wouldn't be bring you freaking you know, it would
be nice.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
However, people don't show up. It's just very I wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I wouldn't be mad that you showed up, but it's
very odd you would that people show up.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
I don't know announced the next door neighbors. I remember
this one time.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
So I moved to Jersey in seagirt, where you know,
everybody lives a block from the beach in their noses,
and somebody bought a pie. And I was married at
the time. It was a really long time ago, and
they were like, Hi, where the smith's from?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Next door? I was like, what do you want?
Speaker 5 (27:00):
And my.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
What is this? They was? They came over to bring
a pie to say hi, and we were like, what
do you want? It's obviously no they're you know, you
don't you just don't come to the hand.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
It's weird, all right, so you can't show up anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
So I'm not I'm gonna have new weekend plans loading.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Okay, all right, trust your gut over facts.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Mmmmmm.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
I wish I would have trusted my gut in my life. Okay, over,
I oblig that that particular one time. I have a
lot of one times.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
One me. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I I think sometimes I ruminate too much. So then
I go down a path and I'm like, they did this,
this and this and none of it even happened, and
I should have got the facts.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
See, sometimes you make believe.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Oh my god, she like makes up like the people
are mad at her, and then she's like freaking out
over this time.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I'm like, oh my god, I'm mad at me.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
I like you, when's your birthday?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
With everybody?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
When's your birthday?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
March e?
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
What does that mean?
Speaker 6 (28:13):
You're confused? I swim up and down.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
The swim up and down.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Yeah, you're you go both like that, you go both.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I'm just saying you this way. I have to make chokes.
It's just the thing with me, Please, don't we love
My nieces are the seventh and it's you. You're either
swimming this way or that way, so you're never really
in the middle. You're never like a scorpio, no like
like like no dead senna, no like you think ages.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I'm I always a wishy washing but if the facts,
it's better for me because then I know how to
be Like. I'm a decision maker quick, so I like
to know the facts. We can make a decision to
move forward.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
I yeah, I prefer to know the truth, even if
it's a little hurtful. Just remember, I'm petty, I'm a cancer,
so I'm a hot mess with fact.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
So no, it can't be true, but it's right there
in front of me.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, all right, okay, all right, we got two more.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
I don't know what we will, but it was our lives.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
You guys answer, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Cutting someone off forever for breaking loyalty, that should be cool.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
I've done it in real life. It's supposed to be
a part of mob life.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Some people can't do it, I.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Think my life.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, sometimes you're just like if if someone doesn't deserve
you because they did you wrong multiple times, like it is,
but you said multiple.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Times this was once right? So where so here we go?
Speaker 5 (29:47):
What a science, we kind of like wash it with
the tide and go back out. Sometimes we'll forgive you,
and then other times we'll.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Just be like yeah, yeah, okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I don't like to dead people though.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
No, don't make a couple of people I'd like dead.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
But oh I'm in dead dead the relationship. Oh, I'm sorry,
classic mistake. I got its thinking.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
That's true. I don't wish it. I don't. I truly
don't know.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
No, no, no, I don't wish anybody death. I wish
them a hundred angry renees.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Right, I just want them to be miserable forever.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Imagine, imagine too angry. I don't.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
I'm angry and I can't handle me. I'm like big,
shut up talking o, drink will, let's time for a walk,
all right, we got my god, I gotta know I
have so bunch drunk, sober, bunch drunk.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
All right, A boyfriend getting interrogated by your family. Has
this ever happened for you, guys?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Iget your boyfriend every day?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
My god, it's.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Getting turnicated by the feds.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Okay, yeah, yeah, always, oh my yeah, your life, everyone's life,
and yeah, any good parents life with that? So if
you're not questioning you daughter's boyfriend, you should see.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
The thing with her is like you bring someone over
and like nearly the first question is like, so do
you love her?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
And it's like, oh my god, Like, let me start
with what's your last name?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Like I don't know what intention? Like are you thinking
long term? Like she's got a lot to ship to do? Here?
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Okay, I go, where's your mother work?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Yeah, so what does your father do? Oh? And you
live on which corner? I will get old?
Speaker 5 (31:36):
And you don't know you're getting questioned at that point.
Really do you know?
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Oh? Your father does what for a living? Lay cement?
So do we?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
No?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
I'm not very Yeah, I love my son. Thank god
my son married the girl that he did.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Andrea, I am so grateful for it because I would
run if I was I would I would not know
how to handle.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Some of the things that come Outam you got to
get to her boyfriend because I need to know like
the root of them.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I think you could get there because she questions him.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Family parties with like one hundred people in the room.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Oh no, no, no, you gotta do it. You gotta
be slick.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You don't have to do it him under a spotlight either.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
I think we can.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I don't have time to waste.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Yes, but if you want the answer, you don't hit
them right away, because then I then you're scaring them
into an answer.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Got to gain the trust first.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Yeah, you gotta be like, where's your parents live? Yeah,
we're going to if this ever happens.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
You know what would happen?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
What?
Speaker 6 (32:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (32:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Yeah you know what friends? You know that crazy girl
from Mob Wives?
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, she knows where you live. Hate them
on crazy things.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
They don't even know. They'll start trusting you, like, oh,
please protect me from her.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Oh gosh, Well I gotta go give him a heads up.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
So now.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Get ready baby, all right, you guys got to kill
that game.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Thanks, Yeah, I killed it.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I don't want to get on your bed.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
It's him that might might have a problem.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
For as long as you got me, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I want to know one last thing. You know, what
is going on in the future. I want to know
what's going on.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
I wish I knew what is going on in the future.
I can tell you at some point I will be
back on TV. Yes, I know that at some point.
The book that I'm working on will you know be
able to be read by more than just me.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
We'll read it.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Yeah, No, you know what it's it's a memoir, so
it's it's a lot of it's a beautiful story. Awesome,
it definitely is because it doesn't end. So for me,
it's that's probably the greatest part is that there's a
there's blank pages at the end because my story goes on.
(33:57):
So for me, yeah, yeah, I think you really really was.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
It was yesterday that I did. But it's true we
can talk like that.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
It is because I think I still get to write
my story and I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
You know.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I'm also twenty seven months on celibate. A lot of
things in my life have changed, you know, so I
think for me.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
And you're still okay with that part of it.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
No, I didn't say I was okay with it.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
So wait a moit are you single?
Speaker 8 (34:28):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Here she goes, I'm celibate, and I'm yeah, I will
only has thing?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
What are you looking for?
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Okay? His mother's address, where's fall? The works?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
No?
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Whoever the next person in my life is I'd like
for him to be the last, and I don't mean
like I'm going to offer them or anything. I just
mean like I just I just don't want to.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
I'd rather be read thinking that I don't know. That's
my Oh we're not playing the game. Oh my dad.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
No, I just you know what my grandson said. You know,
I want a grandpa and it kills me. Like, you know,
I can do a million things.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
But what are you looking for? What are you looking for?
A guinea?
Speaker 5 (35:14):
I mean, come on, uh, if the boat you yeah, no, no, no,
no no no. It's not that they have to be
a little they have to be Yeah, I'd like an American.
I'd like an americantcha an Italian American. All right, Yeah,
I would like for him to have a good job
with a four zero one K life insurance.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Yeah, he could have kids. They have to be fully
grown and it will take care of themselves.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
No, no, no, no, you all getting aside. I would
like a grown man. He could be anywhere between forty
eight and sixty. Okay, okay, he has to be able
to handle me.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Listen, we gotta find you something.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Good luck, good luck, because I've been looking.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
This is her.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I love to find I love to match make Listen,
this she.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Hasn't been good out yet.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Boot practice on the money, I'm not the one to practice.
I went on a date for the I went on
a date, my first date in twenty seven months, and
it just so happened to be on my wedding anniversary.
It was just this May fifteenth that just passed. Why
do you talk to me about his ex girlfriend? By
the end, I said this, pay me, this is a
(36:28):
life coach.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
Pay me.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
I don't want to hear about your ex girlfriend. Are
you out of your mind? If this is what I
have to do to go on a date to a dash,
it works way better.
Speaker 6 (36:37):
Like I can eat home. There's nobody you feel about.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Like two people with a pulse, like you have a pulse.
They have a pulse.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Let's make it happens kind of her thing.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, a pulse.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
I mean they have to be alive. You did that.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
That's the requirement requirement. I'm working for it.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
I understand that it depends where they're pulsing from.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Like you know what like a twenty seven year old.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
Never get no, no, no, maybe last year, but no, no, no, no, no,
I'm not that that's really young.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
That's really young.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
What about like a seventy seven year old.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
No, come on, that's too old.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
She has you said it was the last.
Speaker 6 (37:20):
Yeah, but not his last leg or his last threat.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
I don't want it to be his last brain do No,
that that would be that would be my excuse me, girls,
I don't know, but I'm gonna say this, that would
be my fuck?
Speaker 6 (37:34):
All right? All right?
Speaker 8 (37:37):
And no, no, you are so funny. I can't no
you date. I've been here for so long. I'm like
ready for you. Like, I'm like, yeah, what are we
gonna do?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
He was killed?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Like?
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Where are we going with this today?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
We're going listen, red hot date. We're gonna take you
on a date.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Renee. Anybody looking for love? Who?
Speaker 6 (37:56):
No, no, not anybody, it's not anybody? Know you know
you want to see my dms? Do you want to
know the sickness that goes on on?
Speaker 1 (38:05):
I gotta say this, actually pull it up.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Let's see what you got in there? Read me one.
Let's read one of your dms from a guy before
we wrap this up. No pun intended.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
What I got it's in the call. It's double ply wrapper.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Okay, so wait a second, but I thought these would love.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
And they say dirty things they say things that I
wouldn't even I wouldn't even say, like disgusting stuff like
there are people that actually safe say things that I
used to threaten them, and I swear to God, I
used to be like, shut off your location. Now I
just block them because I can't understand how people could
(38:44):
say certain.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
Things to other people.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
We're gonna find you somebody.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
I'm hot. Now you're hot.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
You've always been hot, and you know people will come
at you for that because that's what everybody wants.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
But at the end of the day, you know, you
know the red flags?
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Well now I do. Now I do.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
I didn't before, you know, I think I was at
a point in my life where I let a lot
of things go because I wasn't okay with me. Oh
it must be no. Now now I know after the
first date that guy told.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
You, But no, you can't call me no more. No,
I'm good good. Red flags don't mean carnival, it means stop.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
I should write that We're gonna end it here.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
We love you, Renee, you are finally here.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
I've been wanting to have you on.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
The show since we started. Renee Graziano check her out.
Watch mob wives. It is amazing, so much fun and
uh so glad that you were here.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
With us today. I can't wait to see you on
TV again. She's getting hot over here. If you're single,
make sure you hit her up.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
Not the id, Janet. I'm not going to snap.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Anybody with a pulse.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I mean no, you heard her requirements. We'll chat you,
We'll chat Berts.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
No, not a Berts, a palsy Berts.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Where can people find you online, Renette?
Speaker 6 (39:54):
They can't find me. I'm Renee Graziano.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
We love you, girl, Thank you so much, thank you,
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