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Basketball Wives: L.A.’s Jackie Christie has been all over the internet discussing the past first season of VH1′s hit show. She’s been granting interviews with different blogs to get her side of the story to fans. Recently, she spoke with The Urban Daily to talk about her co-stars, what it’s like to be a true basketball wife, and of course, that crazy Hawaiian vacation.
The Hawaiian trip proved to be the breaking point for the ladies and Jackie. Jackie recalls, “They were like you have to leave the island. I said, ‘How can you vote the island off the island? I am the island. You guys dont have any pull. I am the island you guys are playing in my territory.’” She continues, “As for what the girls are doing in Hawaii, that wasn’t real. They really weren’t being upfront or honest about what they were doing and saying. I think the girls know what they’ve done and that all the dishonestly will come back and bite them and I explained over and over again it doesn’t matter what you do and say on TV, you have to address it.”
As for what really went down, Jackie continues to maintain, in a very roundabout way, that everything she told Imani Showalter that Laura Govan said (and vice versa) is true. “I really don’t want to knock the other cast members. People are always trying to make each other people look bad and that’s not what I’m here to do. I will just say I am being honest, I was very honest on the show. I don’t have any motives or any reason to make these girls go against each other.” A very different perception from what was shown, eh?
She explains, “My truth is what was said, was said to me! Like I told Laura ‘you said all these things about me that I’m overweight but second of all you said my hair was ugly’ and I thought we were friends. What I told those girls in Hawaii is what I said in their face. They know their truths and on the reunion it is going to be really really surprising.”
What about that much anticipated reunion? Jackie teases that a few juicy tidbits will be revealed, saying, “There will be some explosive information shared at the reunion, VERY BIG. It’s going to be very interesting. I think a lot of people will be shocked. I think a lot of people who swayed one way will probably take a second look at the way they feel or are thinking. I think it’s going to say a whole lot about who we are as people.”
Jackie has some things to say about a couple of her fellow castmates. As for Draya Michele, Jackie disputes any conjecture that she was ever mean to the new girl. As she remembers, “When I met Draya I adored her, I took her out for ice cream. I told her right off the bat that you seem to be combative. I took her under my wing off the bat, I didn’t judge her. When I found out about her and whatever happened with her son it was from one of the other cast members at the pamper party. I tried to tell the girls we’re all here, let’s all talk about it. I’ve always liked Draya.” Seems like her recollection as an instigator and mine as a viewer are maybe a little skewed.
Jackie also discusses the only other lady who, like Jackie, can actually call herself a basketball wife. Of Malaysia Pargo, she says, “I tell Malaysia ‘you’re the last person I want to have beef with. You’ve called me a million of times, you told me you don’t trust any of them’ so for you to sit there now like you are apart of this group all happy – you were the first one to get in a fight with all of them. You need to sit down and fall back!” Yikes!
While Malaysia and Jackie share the common bond of holy matrimony, only Jackie knows how hard it is to be Jackie. She won’t say the other women are jealous of her… however, she will not say it either. She muses, “I would hate to use the word jealous,but I don’t know what else it could be. I think I’m strong willed and determined, I have a path in life and you know maybe that’s what it is. Maybe they’re all still figuring it out. And they’re like who are you to tell me…” She continues, “Starting out they sung my praises, once it started going and things started coming out, colors started being shown. I can be your best friend or your worst enemy, and I said that. ‘Don’t cross me!’ I don’t know if its jealousy, I hope not.”
Finally, Jackie dishes on the break-up between Gloria Govan and fiancé Matt Barnes, “I think, even on the show it shows that we are good friends. We went out and Matt shared a lot of stuff, Gloria was even touched as well.” She says, “I’ve known him for about seven years. They are really respectful of one another. I was really shocked with that whole thing. I honestly don’t believe this break-up is permanent. What I think may be wrong is that sometimes you lose that communication and there isn’t that much intimacy where you sit down and really open up to your mate. I would love to advise them on that. Gloria seems like she has everything under control.”
Does Gloria? Those sneaky Matt Barnes and Eva Longoria rumors won’t seem to go away. TMZ is reporting that on Tuesday, Eva did something that screams “relationship,” well at least according to When Harry Met Sally. She picked up Matt from the airport. While sources continue to claim the pair’s relationship is nothing but platonic (and I tend to agree with them… they seem like an odd pairing), tongues continue to wag. And why not? Eva is a well-known TV star reportedly dating Penelope Cruz’s younger brother, and Matt is in a relatively high profile break-up. Sources say that the friendship is one based in both “celebrities” love of charity work. There’s certainly nothing wrong with that!
Not to jump back to Jackie’s interview, but I think she sums up this blog post so eloquently when discussing the cast of Basketball Wives: L.A. Jackie matter of factly states, “I feel like all of them are cooky.”
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT JACKIE’S RECENT INTERVIEW? DO YOU BELIEVE THE HYPE BEHIND THE EVA LONGORIA AND MATT BARNES RUMORS? THOUGHTS ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK WILL BE EXPOSED DURING THE REUNION?
I believe the other girls were gossiping about each other to Jackie. However it wasnt Jackie place to play both sides, so they put it all on her!
I watched only one episode and even I know that Jackie is nutz.
I can’t wait for the reunion. It’s going to be a hot delicious mess.
CAN NOT WAIT FOR MONDAY!!!!
Wow! Talk about Photoshop – I didn’t even realize at first that pic above is Jackie!! It has been so retouched it looks like like a cross between Jennifer Hudson & Iman.
I can’t really comment on this story because Jackie talks so much & says so little on the show, that I tend to tune her out. She just goes round & round in circles and never gets to the point. I do think she is an instigator though & we have witnessed that firsthand on the show.
Reunion should be interesting.
I beleive what happened was the girls DID say comments about one another behind eachothers backs….HOWEVER
I believe the comments were said BECAUSE of what Jackie was feeding into thier ear saying the other person (ex: Laura) was talking about them (ex: Imani) badly which caused them to in turn say comments which jackie manipulated into what she wanted them to be
Basicly JACKIE us the ROOT of why anything was ever said
Well atleast we might find out, who is sleeping with who. Jackie is crazy n off the charts with her endless talking.
As far as Eva & MAtt….idk i kinda believe there may some prrof to the rumor now
I mean we have NEVER seen or heard of these two being that good of “friends” before his break-up & the proof is in the puding with those airport pics.
If it IS true I feel bad for Gloria…I mean he upraded BIG TIME…I mean EVA LONGORIA!
If it’s revealed that Gloria is the filthy, dirty, nasty thing that could sleep with her sister’s man, my head may explode!
@ Tarina, Downgrade for Eva. You would think she learned her lesson after Tony. *smh*
I hope they cancel this one after the reunion.
@USED2B718 Right! Eva has had her shair of Ball Players…Matt is her Ex Husbands Colleague as Gloria said
This woman needs to be muzzled.
Jackie, STFU………..
Jackie is silly, crazy, and immature!
Eva is only a status upgrade. Industry women do not make better wives to men like that, Those men want a woman that needs them and needs to rely on them, Not a shot caller. Plus men do not like to compete , who the bigger star is. Gloria will be just fine, although Im sure many people are hoping she wont be.
Gloria an Eva actually look a lot alike
Bottom line is this, with Salley hosting the show, look for a back and forth, he said she said sh*t with nothing solved. I just hope Draya doesn’t end up the fall gal, in all this…as for Jackie, me thinks she’s trying to do a little damage control now that the season is over…and good for her…because all season she came off as an sad bitter insecure housewife desperate to control everybody and everything and failed miserably at everything.
Jealous of what? Becuase you have a husband???? Whoopie! Who gives a shit? Millions of women have husbands, and??? Jackie is that dumb idiot that thinks she’s so much better than the next girl simply because she has a husband. She’s a shit-starter. If the girls were talking smack, it wasn’t her place to inform them because that just makes her an instigator. What a mess she is
im sorry but eva slept her way to the top. that soap guy, nsync dude, tony p, and now matt barnes. and how does them being together sound weird when she was married to an nba player. her show is being cancelled and they are for sure boning.
ps that pic of jackie is so beyond photoshopped! that bitch is BUTT ugly
@19 Tam.
OmgI couldn’t have said that better myself.!!! NO ONE is jealous of Jackie. She is old bitter and her husband is atrocious. Like she thinks she is sooo special for having him as a husband as if she is the only one in the world who has one. The other girls show they can stand on their own WITHOUT a man.!!
Did anybody notice how many scenes were done at Beso?
#6- im with you. You nailed it!
Jackie is a crazy, dumb ass bitch!!!!!!!!!!!! Looks to me like she’s the one with the jealousy issues. She talks so damn much but doesn’t say a phuckin thing!!!!!!!!!! cannot stand her!!!!!!!!!! I would take a 100 Drayas over 1 of her, thats for damn sure!!!!!!!! Jackie, please just go away. far far away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even if they are in the beginning stages of a relationship, how f’n cares?? It was Gloria who wanted out and wanted her own space to “find” herself. That Eva is good friends with Mario Lopez. She was always showing up to support him on Dancing with The Stars when he was a contestant and she was on his reality show a few times helping him to surprise his pregnant fiancé, etc. you could tell it was strictly platonic in nature and can’t blame her, I have better friendships with some men then females, as long as you keep it platonic with no mixed signals they are actually very fulfilling friendships just the same:) as for that f’n lunatic Jackie! WTF is her deal?? She needs to take some meds and go lay the fuck down….maybe hibernate until after winter and be re-evaluted! What does that husband see in her!! I’ll will never understand why the nice guys/women end up with the most nastiest, sluttiest, bitchiest, meanest significant others. Why can’t they just find each other and let all these nasty fuckers chew each other up and spit each other out!!
Gloria azz wasn’t the one who wanted out. Please. Matt agreed to play along to leave her with some dignity after she had been bragging about her relationship.
Jackie is nuts, plain and simple. She is however going to bust everybody, the Hovan sisters bubble. Gloria been sleeping with everybody. And Jackie, it is alledge, is going to tell that Gloria was sleeping with Laura baby daddy. (Nasty) matt should have never got with he in the first place. She was sleeping with his teammate when he played for the GSW. The teammate dropped her and Matt picked her nasty behind up. Matt did right by getting rid of her. Gloria looks just like her moma. And moma hasn’t aged well at all. Matt knew in a few years Gloria going start to crack and wrinkle and he didn’t want to spend a furtune on botox. Gloria already showing the signs of aging. She got some big bags under her eyes already.
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I will have popcorn and soda ready for the reunion. Wonder if Royce going stop by and tell Gloria she will never be a wifey either. LMAO.
@28 Ladylove,
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Oh yeah this reunion looks like it will be juicy, it’s going to give up the bleeped goodies, I hope, I will be front and center with glass of wine being very careful not to take a sip when Jackie speaks
@23 USED2B718
Your right I did notice that! The final confrontation with Jackie was at Beso (Eva’s Restaurant)
Jackie get help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I knew Jackie was crazy after just watching 2 episodes. Ugh, I don’t understand how someone can talk so much shit and be so sensitive at the same time. I won’t be mad if she wasn’t on the show next season. But, I know she will be for rating purposes.
@32 Carnelita,
I don’t see how they can have a season 2 with this cast, with Laura’s move, Gloria’s separation and no one in their right mind willing to film with Jackie this show is toast! Too bad Jackie couldn’t hold in a little of her craziness.
Those snarky b*tches made themselves look worse than Jackie with their pathetic gang-up. DumassSkanks, all of ‘em.
This is why Jackie is a delusional crazy nutjob. She actually believes that having a few scandolous truths come out justifies her behavior. There is no doubt hese girls were messy and there is no doubt they talked about the others but… when a old azz woman goes around instigating and is constantly gossiping and trying to play one person off against another it is ugly behavior. I don’t care what comes out on the reunion show it will not justify Tacky Wacky Jackie acting like a cray cray B*!(#
No matter who started what or who said what the bottom line is Jackie showed absolutely NO CLASS AND NO MATURITY. Who in their right mind would ever seek or take advice from you on any subject? She is delusional if she can clean up her image with all these lame interviews. The truth is in the footage.
Can’t wait for tonight, I wonder if Jackie will lose her cool and call them all “sneaky m-fer’s” I for one will be listening to hear any and all names dropped!
@ 37 Just Me1
Me too, I really looking forward to it.
@38 Lena1,
I heard that we will see Laura fight again on the reunion? Don’t know if it’s true but I’ll be watching!
Do these women (and I use that word loosely ) know how to speak proper English? It seems the majority or African American women can’t speak a proper sentence. Its embarrassing for them. If these are the upper class of their race, there is no hope for the others.
Mimi, are you implying that the Basketball wives represent the majority of African American women? And your sentence “Its embarrassing for them.” needs correction: It’s embarrassing for them. (by an African American Woman)
jackie is nuts and she is the sh** starter but her big mouth trys to overshadow the other girls. even that episode in hawaii with doug he gave her a strange look, like wtf is wrong with this woman,she has got him so wrapped its pathetic, get some balls doug , she would not b spending my hard earned money every yr for a wedding, by the way isn’t this her 3rd marriage, she needs a show with the exs to see why they left her.
Jackie really needs to take her old, crazy,bipolar ass somewhere… Gloria is a pathetic, lame ass bitch..Gloria needs to stop acting like she came from money. You did’t have NADA boo. She needs to tell her FAT ASS sister to get a facelift also, she looks like a brick…
fall back bitches I am talking about those two sisters they are the real hood rats.always trying to talk about the sisters hair. Oh yea next time Laura decides to fight a person let them know it. I do not have any respect for her. Malaysia needs not to trust laura she will wait until her back is turn to jump her. malaysia kicked Laura ass Ha Ha you are the biggest rat Laura
All i could do was laugh as i watched the reunion… i felt a little sorry for Jackie but she couldnt place blame on anyone but herself…… I could see that the rejection from the other cast members hurt her, and this I dont give a F*ck attitude is a BIG FACADE!!! She cares but its just a little too late……. Maybe next go round Jackie…..
I use caution when making judgement on any relationship, because every relationship will have ups/downs/turnarounds.
But, Jackie Christie shackles and imprisonment is definitely a sign of a unhealthy marriage.