Episode 397 - ‘Different Points of View and a Shared Hate’ with Kelli Williams
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.3 • 20 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Mandy has Kelli Williams, co-host of “Beyond the Blinds” and host of the “Nostalgia and Now” podcast, to share her thoughts on Bravo. While Mandy and Kelli still feel slightly differently on Carl and definitely feel differently on Luke, they have a shared love of RHORI, Summer House, Southern Hospitality, and believing Danny from the Valley is a terrible man. Plus, hear Mandy’s thoughts on the end of RHOBH and this week’s read-off on RHOA.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm your host, Mandy Sleutzer. Let's get to it. |
| 0:32.2 | Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. Happy Mother's Day to those of you who are in the U.S. and celebrate. |
| 0:41.1 | You know, it's been 11, this is my 11th Mother's Day without my mom. |
| 0:47.8 | And I think it's safe to say that it does get easier with time, |
| 0:53.9 | especially for those of you who are dealing with recent loss. |
| 0:58.0 | And I feel like I'm at a place where I'm able to feel gratitude for what I have and what I did have with my mom. |
| 1:09.6 | I wanted to share something kind of personal just because I'm something I've |
| 1:14.4 | been dealing with a lot lately in, you know, I have a birthday coming up. I'm getting older. |
| 1:21.0 | I have this fertility problem that isn't going to, it's only getting worse. And I don't think I'm going to be able to have |
| 1:30.6 | children, whether they're a biological or egg donor or even adopted. Like I just don't know if |
| 1:36.9 | that's what's in my future. And I've been grappling with it and how I do feel like there is |
| 1:42.5 | this loss in my life or like a hole in my heart is how I |
| 1:45.8 | describe it for what I thought would be and the love that I have to give. And I'm trying to figure |
| 1:51.2 | out how to fill it by focusing on my nieces, on my friends' children, things like that. And I talked to |
| 1:58.7 | my stepmom, who also wasn't, she wasn't able to have kids. And I asked her if when my brother had a baby and she was able to hold that baby and that baby started calling her grandma, if that filled a hole in her heart. And she said, no, but you did. And there were a few tears, |
| 2:22.1 | but I don't think I even realized what I as an adult woman was able to do with my stepmom, |
| 2:29.8 | which is accept her as a stepmom into my life. You know, I didn't need a mother. I already had a mother and |
| 2:35.6 | lost one. But I accepted her mainly as a friend and as a person to spend time with. And, you know, |
| 2:42.8 | I had no idea that the relationship that we built was so meaningful to her. And it just, I felt so |
| 2:50.0 | grateful for her in that moment. And it made me realize |
| 2:53.5 | that this like hole in my heart feeling can be filled in many different ways and many different |
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