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It's Kelly Killar and Benson, and one of your celebrity mentors.

And today I'm catching up with one of the stars from The Valley, Persian style.

So she's been stuck in the middle of a lot of conflict on the show this season.

And now she's going through a divorce. I can't wait to catch up with her and see how she's coming through this difficult situation. Please help me

welcome Mercedes MJ to the pot. Hi, how are you, Kelly? It's good to see you. I know it's so good

to see you. I know that you've been going through a lot, but I want to tell you, your show was fantastic and you are a baller. I'm so proud of you with, you know, changing your narrative, raising your son, you know, everything that you've been through with your ex-husband. We're going to get into that. The real estate business, you've been doing so well. I am so proud of you on all fronts. Let's get started. Okay, so this season's been, we've been seeing a lot of things playing out between you and your soon-to-be ex-husband, Tommy. And the tension with you guys, you caught in the middle, what was that like for you? It's very hard because, you know, we're doing it with this big cast of friends and instead of six people who are now 12.

I find a lot of the episodes to be hard to watch the scenes between Tommy and I.

I close my eyes. I turn it off. I just, you know, I was with him for 10 years, married seven,

very in love with no intention of following the footsteps of a divorced family, same age as when

my son, as my son is, is when my parents got separated. It's the worst thing ever and I hate it and I never really got any

closure with Tommy. So we're just a married couple going through communication breakdowns and then

like you always want to have a healthy conversation to follow up things and that's how it feels when you

don't get to do that. I really like what you just said about communication breakdowns and I think

that that is such a big, big, big thing that happens in relationships, especially you guys have

been together for so long and you've been through so much together. It's just obviously wildly serendipitous that this happened at the same time as, you know,

your parents, so I'm so sorry for that.

So this season, your ex-Tommy, he was involved in filming the show less than when you guys

were on Shaws of Sunset.

Was that an effort to save your marriage?

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