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 Sleutzer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you're having a wonderful week. It has been so busy in the Bravo sphere,

and I have a lot of time today with my guest to talk about, you know, what's been going on with

Tamara and, you know, Katie Maloney's new boyfriend and like some of those things. But something

that has happened since we've recorded is that

Mia from the Real Housewives of Potomac has gone on the offensive against her ex Gordon,

basically telling a very different story and painting a very different picture of the entirety of

their relationship and what that was like from Mia's perspective,

then what we've seen on camera.

And so she's essentially saying that Gordon prayed on her when she was very,

very young, convinced her to be with him and that he would get her all these nice things

and make her a businesswoman and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

and how she really wasn't in love with him and he wasn't treating her well.

And she found out that he really didn't have the money and would spend it all.

And then she would have to work to clean up the mess.

And then she reconnected with her ex from long before her first love, Inc, and that he's really the mess. And then she reconnected with her ex from long before, her first love, Inc,

and that he's really the one that's been there for her. And Gordon has been terrible and blah,

blah, blah, blah. And this just reminds me so much of the Erica Jane situation. Not in that,

you know, there is some terrible criminal stuff

happening, but in that we were told a very different story and we were introduced to her a very

different way. She's like, yes, this is my husband. He is like 30-something years older than me. We are in

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