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 Slutsker. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. I know it was the first week of school for many people.

Some started school a couple weeks ago where your kids started school recently. So I'm hoping

that everything has been going well and easy and there's no crying kids coming home. I know it can be

kind of stressful. I think it's been a great week in the Bravo

universe because we can finally celebrate the fact that Brittany filed from divorce from Jacks.

And you know it's a really bad relationship when the world collectively, like, breathe a sigh

of relief just hearing that you filed for divorce.

I'm hoping Brittany is able to get a lot of support from her friends, from her family, from

everyone, because I feel like she was raised to kind of forgive people, maybe a little bit too

much, maybe to a fault. And I think she'd forgiven

Jacks so many times and he never really changed. And I do feel for Jacks, I do feel like he's

dealing with serious mental health issues. I think he's got some serious problems. And I feel for him

definitely. But Brittany and certainly their son should not

have to suffer because of what Jacks is going through. And it's clear that he really takes it out

on her. So I'm excited to hear about that, although I know it's a very sad thing when people

go through divorce. I'm also really interested in seeing

how this all plays out on the valley because, you know, are the guys kind of going to take

Jackson's side or the girl's going to take Britney's side? Are they going to be able to film together?

You know, are they going to be talking custody battles? Like, I don't really

know how this is going to look. I don't think we've ever seen a show where both people and a couple

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