What a whirlwind, interviewing Rachel, going viral, breaking the internet, so many rumors,

so many press articles, and it's unsettling to be honest. She's gotten a lot of hate in the world,

and I'm taking on a lot of that hate now. It's been really interesting because I'm proud of myself

for not caring really that much, like just people that I really respect in the entertainment industry,

and politics, and government, and business, and people I just interact with on a day-to-day

are all saying to me, you're doing the right thing, and change scares people. And I'm totally on

the right side of history, that I've had five documentarians reach out to me to want to do

documentaries. Just the swirling press shows that I struck a chord and a nerve, and there are

so many different things that people want to say and talk about. So let's break it down.

First, some people say to me, oh wow, is Andy mad? You're doing this. Have you spoken to him?

And I say, I have not, but I'm sure he is. And this is not a target on Andy. This is not a

target on Bravo. This is about a systemic issue in the entertainment industry. People have

common said, oh, aren't you a hypocrite? I'm a hypocrite because there was a show that I was talking,

I was never talking to Bravo, by the way, I was talking to a production company. I spoke to

Andy one time, but he wasn't even working on this project. And I spoke to a production company,

and Bravo was the most logical place that this project would live about Connecticut. And a

couple of months ago, I decided I didn't want to do it anymore. I just backed out of the project.

And it wasn't really that well thought out. And I didn't know that I would even talk about this

quote-unquote reality reckoning or have a problem with exploitation. I didn't really think about it.

I didn't allow myself to be exploited because I also was in a power position. When you are a

rainmaker, you make money, you make ratings, you're not as exploited as other people who don't

really have a vote and a voice. So there were things, though, that happened with vote incidents,

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