The amazing Kate Casey. Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with KKC. I hope that you're having a

great week and I know that so many of you watch with me last night the Bravo special episode of

the aftermath, the aftermath of course of the West and Amanda scandal. So many of you have DM'd me.

We've talked about it in the grocery line.

Everywhere I go, I feel like the last two weeks,

people are eager to talk about this scandal.

And I think a lot of it is because, in some small way,

you identify with one of the people in the center of this story.

I've also been thinking about why the story in

particular became a thing that swallowed reality TV as a whole, why it crossed over from

Bravo drama into mainstream news, why people who have never even watched a single episode of

Summerhouse have suddenly had an opinion about it. I've come to realize it comes down to four things.

Now, the first is the betrayal of a friend. Amanda betrayed Sierra. West betrayed Kyle.

These weren't strangers. They weren't people in the periphery. Amanda was Sierra's best friend.

Wes was Kyle's close friend. And the betrayals happened simultaneously in the periphery. Amanda was Sierra's best friend. West was Kyle's close friend. And the

betrayals happened simultaneously in the same relationship to two people who had to sit across

from them at a reunion and process it on camera. And that kind of double betrayal is rare,

and it's the thing that hooks people emotionally, because again, in some small way,

it may mirror some part of your life.

Second, we watched a couple date, fall in love, get engaged, get married on TV, and then find out

at the reunion that they were essentially roommates for the entirety of their marriage.

Four years,

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