Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us.

I'm your host, Mandy Slutszer. Let's get to it.

So, hi, everyone. I hope you had a fantastic week. So I am recording this early because I am heading

to Minneapolis to celebrate my niece's second birthday. And so I'm not going to be covering

Beverly Hills or Miami this week, but we'll definitely get to it next week for sure.

Today's guest is so fun. I have Ashley Baker.

She is part of the duo that runs Taste of Reality, which you guys know from Instagram,

but they also have a great website with lots of articles and things like that.

Before we get into my chat with Ashley, I just wanted to share a couple of things.

One is that I don't think I articulated myself very well this episode when I was talking about Wendy and NECA.

I believe that both are in the wrong, basically in this situation. I think Wendy came in too hot. She got so

offended that Nekka said that she knew her when she didn't know her. But I think Nekha just meant

she knew who Wendy was, but Wendy and her family took it as, oh, they used Wendy's name to get on the show.

Whatever it is, I just feel like both of them are kind of upping the ante to make it worse.

And NECA in particular, the type of stuff she's saying about Wendy's family, about Wendy's mom,

putting a curse on her, what was it like witchcraft,

voodoo, whatever it is, worshipping to a shrine. All of it, I think, goes back to that

claims of Wendy maybe being Osu and that is pretty low. That being said, I think it's really

inappropriate that Wendy's mom called

NECA. Like, stay out of her business and the business of the show is basically how I feel.

I did look into it a little bit further, though, because the woman who writes the vulture

recaps for the Real Housewives of Potomac is Nigerian.

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