The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (2020) s01e05 Episode Script

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[housewife] Previously on
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
[cheering]
Too much vulva!
You're gonna go with Mary,
who [bleep] her grandfather?
Jen got upset at Meredith.
And me. Apparently, she hates me.
She called me a "grandfather MFer."
-Dad, how long are you here?
-I'm outta here tomorrow.
-Tomorrow?
-Yeah.
Build the business.
I'd love to be out here more,
but this is a once-in-a-lifetime deal.
Seth and I have been separated
on and off for a little while.
-I'm gonna cry.
-Don't cry!
I'm starting over at 63 years old.
I look at it as a blessing.
Heal! Heal!
I like events that are intimate.
I'm gonna throw a luncheon,
and the girls will, like, iron stuff out.
-Thank you. [gasps]
-Amazing!
Does everyone have
their own personal Vuitton box?
-Yes, you do.
-Fabulous.
-Hi.
-Bon appétit.
[voice breaking]
My dad grew up with nothing.
I know what it's like to be at the bottom
and have to climb to the top.
And I'm sorry for yelling "eff you."
Where's my apology?
[mellow music playing]
I don't even know what happened here.
-I didn't know.
-It's a very different way
of communicating than I'm used to. Um
Meredith is like the First Lady
of the United States.
She's like, "Yes."
I'm, "[bleep] you! What the [bleep]?"
I do appreciate her explanation.
I appreciate that she made an effort.
I appreciate an apology.
I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful.
I know I have a very hard exterior,
and I will eff you up and down,
sideways, backwards,
but, like, I just want you
to know why I do that,
it's because I care so much.
But sometimes that can come across,
and words can be just as deadly.
I will say what all y'all are thinking
but don't wanna say. I'll say it.
I don't agree with me thinking
you'll say what I say.
I'm just saying. I'm just
No, I'm not saying that.
I'm not saying you would use
-I know Miss Mary wouldn't say what I say.
-Never.
Okay, but that's you and not me.
That's what I'm saying. We're different.
Your way's not better,
and my way's not better.
I don't think anybody at the table
would say the things you said, sweetheart.
Don't wink. We're all different.
Yeah, well, nobody at the table
would say the things you've said.
Okay, open your eyes
one more time at me like that
-Like, don't.
-Open my eyes like what?
They wouldn't. I wouldn't.
I'm telling you the reason
that I'm saying those things
is because how I was brought up.
We were brought up
very [bleep] differently.
Don't curse at me. Don't do that.
Don't wave your finger at me then.
-Don't curse at me.
-Don't wave your finger.
-And don't open those eyeballs up.
-And don't get ghetto.
Ghetto? How?
I didn't wanna invite you.
So, Mary, the way you act
is better than me?
Why do you keep coming at me?
Why are you so angry at me?
Because you're coming at me.
You asked us to open ourself.
I tried to do that,
and then you're over here insinuating.
-Listen to your words.
-So that's why you keep coming at me?
How am I constantly? I haven't
even talked to you since the party.
I don't wanna talk to you ever.
-[scoffs]
-[Heather] Mary, you do.
-I don't.
-You wanna talk to her.
-That's why we're having this luncheon.
-I have my own experience.
-Do you know how hypocritical?
-I can't do this.
-I have people I care about.
-Because you asked me to
-You asked me to say something
-Oh, Lord.
That you didn't know,
and then you're over there going,
"Exactly. We wouldn't say
the things you've said."
-Bye, Jen. Jen, bye.
-No, but you just asked me.
-Have a good day. Bye.
-Mary, you want her to stay.
-You wanna talk through this.
-No, I do not. Bye, Jen.
-We just said this is why we're here.
-You're at my table.
I have no idea how it ended this way.
It started so amazing.
I mean, we had a red carpet,
Beefeater guards,
betta fish, Louis Vuitton,
Twenty-year-old wine. I got a journal,
a nice pen with my name on it.
Everyone was being nice and kind
over amazing food.
I mean, I came for the pasta.
-You know where the door is.
-Hey, Mary.
Open your mother[bleep] eyes
at me one more [bleep] time.
-You wanna know the truth?
-What are you gonna do, whup my butt?
-If you No, absolutely not.
-I'm not scared of you, girl.
-See the door? Exit.
-Sit down.
I am sitting down. What you think?
-Is she serious?
-Yeah, I'm serious. I feel
Don't have a party and then say,
"Open up yourself to talk"
-Okay, but you know what?
-And then this is what
she always does, though.
This is what she always does.
No, you know what? I feel terrible.
I don't like this feeling right now.
I'm fine.
-Mary, you don't
-I promise, I am.
-You guys have to accept me too.
-I know. I'm gonna just follow her out.
-I'm not taking that.
-I don't want anybody to be upset.
We don't want you to take that.
We want you guys to work it out.
This has got to stop between Mary and Jen.
Yes, Mary said that Jen
smelled like hospital.
My aunt just got both legs
amputated at the last minute.
You said,
"It smells like hospital in here."
I did say it. I sure did say it.
Jen called Mary a grandpa [bleep].
You're gonna go with Mary,
who [bleep] her grandfather?
At this point, the score is settled.
Forgive, let it go, and let's move on.
I know that you weren't trying.
-Whitney, it doesn't add up.
-Okay, so
When somebody call you
a grandfather MF'er
-Come on, Whitney.
-I know.
When Jen said those words
at the 1920s party,
I was cringing inside,
and I know what's going
through Mary's head right now.
She's thinking,
"That's what they all think about me."
"That's what they all think,"
and that's 100% not true.
Come back in and talk to her.
Open up and tell you
about your background?
I know. It doesn't make sense.
Then I do that,
and then she wants to roll her eyes?
When I first met Mary I was so excited
because she's a female minority
that grew up in Utah like me,
so I thought, she's gonna relate to me.
This is more of a letdown
than anything else
because I just expected so much more.
[Mary, voice breaking] We all have pain.
Don't sit there and curse me.
Don't you dare do that.
I think where your pain is coming from
is there isn't resolve there.
When you see her explaining
to Meredith how she's sorry,
and it's not coming to you,
that is hurtful,
because you're like,
"Say sorry to me. Feel bad for me."
I don't tolerate that.
Like, acknowledge you hurt me.
There's no reason for someone
to speak disrespectfully.
-It's not an excuse.
-And every time we have dinner with her,
everyone goes home hurt.
-I'm forcing Jen to come back in.
-[under breath] Jesus Christ.
I know the intention of this lunch.
It was not to end this way.
I wanted us to dress up today,
feel like princesses,
come together,
and maybe go away with something.
But the problem is she brought that brain
and that mouth with her.
We have to sit down,
and we have to dive in,
and we have to do it respectfully.
-We have to do it calmly.
-Why are you telling me?
-I'm telling everyone, because we invited
-I don't want to address it. I don't care.
us here to open up and to share
hard parts about ourselves
and, like, you came at her.
-It's not true.
-I'm taking Sharrieff's advice.
I'm gonna rise above.
I'm gonna be the better person.
I'm not gonna react to what
Mary's saying, no matter what.
-You criticized her.
-That's not true.
-That's what I saw. I saw that she
-Well, it's not true.
You have to accept
You have to accept what I say.
[Lisa] When Jen was explaining herself,
like, I got it.
I understand what you were saying.
-Thanks.
-And I think there's unresolved feelings,
and I think resolve is super important,
especially when you're
a closely knit group of friends.
I wouldn't be here if I didn't care,
which is why I'm here.
-I believe her.
-I believe her.
I know it's true.
It's hard for me to open up,
and I felt like,
you know, you're like, "Open up,"
and then you just, like,
took my legs out from under me.
-I didn't mean to do that.
-I'm not talking about you. I'm saying
That wasn't my purpose, and that
I'm saying I know not everybody
is like I how I am.
I'm trying to explain to you,
which is what I thought
you asked us to do.
But I didn't know
I wasn't allowed to comment.
Let's just talk but one at a time.
-Okay, yes.
-I'd rather not nobody chime in.
I-I didn't know that.
I just said my opinion.
It's It's dismissive,
and it's it seems hypocritical
-to say, "Open up."
-Don't call me hypocritical.
-Don't do that.
-I said it seems hypocritical.
-I don't care what you seem.
-Mary, just let her finish.
You seem very hypocritical too.
-Open up and I say
-I can be nasty.
I don't care what you say right now.
That's why You got two faces.
-I'm trying to manage this.
-Well, I need to know one of 'em,
'cause you have very many faces
and Lisa was with me
What have I done that shows a two face?
I can't I don't want this around Valter.
He's very upset right now.
[tense music playing]
Sorry, Valter.
And I'm friends with Valter,
too, and Arturo.
You're not the only one that knows them.
Listen, hear me out, okay?
The timing of it was Jen
was trying to explain to you why
she reacts like that. The way
-Okay
-No, let me talk.
The way that you don't like
when she reacts
she's trying to help you understand
-why she reacts like that.
-Okay, let me tell you
-Let me share this with you.
-And but I know.
-Let me finish.
-This is important.
-But hold on.
-No, after she finished,
-you kind of didn't accept it.
-Whitney, I have to
Let me That's not true.
Don't tell me how I feel.
-You're 30. You don't even
-I know.
My age doesn't I'm here at the dinner.
I am 30, and you're all old as [bleep]
and acting like you're ten.
If you're gonna act like this,
I don't need hoodlums to be around.
-Oh, I'm a hoodlum?
-You are to me.
So you don't respect the way, what I've
gone through, and that's the whole point.
No. I think you're a hoodlum. Done.
Is she for real right now?
Mm-hmm.
I don't use those words
"ghetto" or "hoodlum"
because if you look at the history,
those are used in a derogatory manner
to make people feel less than.
Don't do that. You're not better
than anybody else, Mary.
-That's your opinion.
-It is my opinion,
-and I will stick with it.
-I don't know you.
'Cause I will you don't know me.
-I don't know you.
-I don't wanna know you.
When you tell me,
"Oh, when there's Black people
in front of a 7-Eleven,
I go somewhere else," you're Black.
-I am Black.
-Just a reminder.
-Okay.
-A few months ago,
I invite Mary over to my house,
and she makes this weird comment about,
"Oh, if I go to a 7-Eleven
and I see Black people,
I go to a different 7-Eleven,"
and I'm like, what?
I'm bringing it up now,
because after all these things,
I need to connect the dots,
and I need to know
who are you, Mary?
-Why would you say something like that?
-Because to this day, Black people
If you see Black people at a 7-Eleven,
you go to another 7-Eleven?
-Girl, shut up. Shut up.
-Represent your people.
Convenience stores, hospitals.
I just have a fear of 'em.
My mind just automatically goes violent
when it comes to convenience stores.
Hospitals I can't take the smell.
I cannot bear that smell, and it
I can't.
So
-Whitney, I tried, baby.
-I am trying too. I know. I'm
-I love you, guys.
-Hey.
-I don't need this. I can't!
-Mary, Mary
Ladies, I love you. Whitney.
-Bye, Jen.
-Okay, bye, girl.
Thank you.
So that's it. I tried.
But can you give me my AirPods?
-'Cause I want 'em back.
-Oh.
[upbeat music playing]
I need music, beat it up, yeah.
I need music. Try to make me some.
[beatboxing]
Okay, you're in the house.
-I don't wanna spit.
-That was good, though.
I was ready to start rapping.
[light music playing]
How was your luncheon thing
or whatever you went to
on whatever day that was?
It was a little volatile.
First time I saw Jen.
She basically apologized.
What does "basically" mean?
She either said sorry or she didn't.
Did she say she was sorry?
Basically, the bottom line was, you know,
"I only get upset because I care."
She only yells at people she cares about?
Pretty much.
Your birthday, we're gonna
celebrate twice next week
one time up in Park City,
then the next time,
on your birthday for your party.
-Okay.
-Are you a ventriloquist?
[light music playing]
Ash, what time did you tell
Jaydon to come over?
I think he just left,
so in 15, 20 minutes.
Okay. Come down and help us.
Mom, your hair looks so cute.
I took Georgia to ballet.
Do you need me to help?
You can just hang for a minute.
[packaging rustles]
-[sizzling]
-Ooh-hoo-hoo.
No microwave today, kids.
Being a divorced mother of three daughters
has its challenges,
but my ex-husband Billy
has always financially provided for us
to make sure that our lifestyle changed
as little as possible.
He wanted our girls to have a mom
that was 24/7 available to them.
-[car rumbling in distance]
-Oh, I hear Jaydon!
[all] Ohh!
-[muffler rumbling]
-There he is.
Oh, I hear his car.
Mad respect for that.
Although I think our neighbor does not.
-I'm like choking [coughs]
-[knock on door]
-Can you grab that?
-Yeah.
My daughter Ashley
has been dating her boyfriend Jaydon
for almost two years.
In the Mormon community,
you don't allow your daughter
to go to more than dance in a row
with the same boy
because that could lead
to a serious relationship
which could lead to [whispers] sex.
-Hi.
-What up?
-I heard you arrive.
-[laughs]
But I let Ashley go out with Jaydon
because I trust her,
and I want them to be carefree
and young and in love.
What are you doing the rest of the day?
Going to his basketball game,
and then we're going
on a double date tonight?
-Double date?
-Yeah.
Ooh. You guys always do really,
like, thoughtful planned dates.
I love that about you.
She had a boyfriend before.
I just had to drive her
to his house to watch movies.
And make out.
Um, I might be getting home
really, really late,
so I'm not waking up for church
unless you guys wanna for sure go.
I mean, if you're skipping,
there's no reason I should go.
-[laughs]
-Okay.
When Billy and I got divorced,
I was most worried
about how it would affect my daughters.
It doesn't matter
that we still have money.
It doesn't matter that I'm still
showing up to church every week.
Suddenly, they're not going to the same
birthday parties they were going to.
Suddenly we're not part
of the circle of families.
So because of all that,
my daughters aren't really
that into being Mormon anymore.
If we keep putting it off,
I feel like once we go back,
-they're gonna be like
-Yeah, that's the thing.
I'd rather skip another week
and just have it be one more week.
I'm just scared to go back. They're gonna
be like, "Where have you been?"
That doesn't matter.
You don't go for them.
You go for you. If you wanna go,
you feel like you wanna go, we'll go.
Yeah.
They're so judgy about that.
That's why I don't like going to church.
-I know.
-Sinners!
[laughs]
[energetic music playing]
-Hi!
-[singsongy] Hello!
The first time
you've ever come to pick me up.
That is not true.
-I missed you.
-I missed you too.
-Get in the car.
-You want me to get in the front
-or the back or sit right here?
-I want you to sit right next to me.
All right. I'm nervous.
I haven't seen you in so long.
-Way too long.
-I feel like we're on a first date.
Oh, good. Treat me like it's a first date.
-That would be lovely.
-Really?
-Yeah.
-I don't even know how to do that.
-First date.
-Hi.
Seth has been working
between Chicago and Ohio,
so I have not seen him in a few weeks,
and the last time we were together
was a bit tense and volatile.
You would never hand me your phone.
Because I think that's wrong.
-I don't belong
-Because you're hiding something.
So I'm hopeful and optimistic
that this will be
a bit more smooth,
but only time will tell.
-So are you enjoying Ohio?
-I love it.
I'm a blue collar guy. I love it.
People are amazing.
Everyone's so friendly.
When the ski season's over,
are you gonna come live with me
in Canton, Ohio?
No. We're not living in Canton, Ohio.
What do you mean? Fine. Akron.
No, we're not living in Ohio.
So where you live is more important
than who you live with?
No, I'm living with you and
Okay, and I'll be
in Canton, Ohio, working.
You want 99 reasons
to love Akron and Canton?
-No.
-Does it matter where you live?
Yes, Seth, I have uprooted
our family and moved
every couple of years for you.
You would've never been here
if we didn't do that.
-Okay, great.
-How much do you love it here?
You opened a store.
Seth is in the closeout
and deep discount retail industry
and needs to go hunt for the deals.
Because of that, we moved,
you know, to Toronto
and back to Chicago and then,
when we were in Chicago,
Seth was commuting every day to Dallas.
And then we moved to Park City,
and I was running my business
on top of it.
There definitely was some hostility
that that caused in my marriage for sure.
-What are you thinking?
-I'm aggravated.
I would move anywhere for you.
-No, you wouldn't.
-Yeah, I would.
No, you wouldn't.
You would have been here, then,
this whole time.
The corporate headquarters
is in Canton, Ohio.
Okay, well,
my corporate headquarters is here.
The reality is that when my oldest son
graduated from high school,
I was so busy relocating
our family once again,
I never got to emotionally digest,
and so in a certain way,
being asked to move again by Seth,
it's just a trigger for me.
Do you think it's easy to uproot
a business every couple years
and have to hire new people
and redo everything
and move your family of five every time?
Where I'm at,
we have over a hundred employees.
I-I don't wanna talk
about this anymore right now.
I'm aggravated now.
This was supposed to be date one,
not, like, discussing
life-changing issues right now.
You said, "What are you gonna do?
Where are we gonna live?"
Okay, I take it back.
I don't wanna talk about it.
Okay.
[electronic music playing]
[Mary] I look like a guy.
[Robert Sr.] Put your beret on then.
I'll just wear this hat,
'cause it match my jogging suit.
Does look better.
-The hair.
-Mm-kay.
I don't care if it doesn't.
-What I was going to say
-You don't compliment.
-That's That's the thing.
-No.
-No, you don't compliment.
-You said, "Does it look better?" and
-What were you gonna say?
-Oh, Lord, I can't take it.
-I like it.
-You like it like that?
Well, don't pay no attention to me.
You know I don't
[laughter]
I can't do you with all this energy.
[Mary] Will you page her
and tell her to bring my tray?
Yeah.
[buttons beep]
[long beep]
Hey, uh, Charlin,
bring Mary's tray, please,
wherever you're at.
[light music playing]
Charlin, thank you.
You're welcome.
So let me tell you what's going on.
-Jen keeps picking on me.
-Oh.
And I don't know why.
[cellphone rings]
-[chimes]
-Hi, baby.
Hi, sweetie.
How's practice today?
Busy. Busy. But I'm happy to see
your face. I love you.
Thank you, baby. I need
to talk to you about something
that's really bothering me.
Yeah, what's going on?
So remember I went to Mary's luncheon?
-Yes.
-Babe, it
This was one of the most
horrible experiences
in my life.
Honey, that one one of
the most horrible experiences
Yes.
My event was actually beautiful.
They had leather books
with their names on it.
I gave 'em Louis Vuitton earbuds
and wrote 'em little letters
because I wanted them to know,
like, this is who I am.
-When I care about you, I care.
-Yeah.
It was so much love.
Anyway, we get to Jen.
Mary says, "Hey, I would like
all of us to share an experience."
When it's my turn, I say,
"You know, I say things
that a lot of you probably think
but wouldn't say."
I said, "You don't say nothing
I wanna say."
"There is nothing that comes
out of your mouth
-that I would ever say."
-Mm-mm.
And then it blew up from there,
and I told her to get out
'cause I wanted her to go.
Mary all of a sudden freaks out and says,
"I would never say the things you say.
You're a hoodlum."
-I'm so sorry, honey.
-I was like, "What is wrong with you?"
"Like how you you say,
'Oh, if I go to a 7-Eleven,
and there's Black people,
I go to a different 7-Eleven'?"
Baby, I was so hurt, 'cause guess what?
That's my son, my nephew,
my family that's at that 7-Eleven
that you won't go to
because you're too good,
and I couldn't sit there anymore
and listen to this bull[bleep].
I'm so hurt by Mary's comments,
because my whole family's Black.
If my family's standing
in front of a 7-Eleven,
you're not gonna go into that 7-Eleven,
gonna go to a different one?
Yeah, no, I got a problem.
I-I have a big problem.
Baby, that's so unfair. That was hurtful.
-I'm so sorry.
-I don't understand.
Like, I went there to support her,
and then she does that?
Because intraracial issues are real.
There are Black folks that don't like
other Black folks and say racist comments.
Don't internalize it and say, "Gosh,
what did I do, as a woman of color,
trying to befriend
another woman of color?"
"I was on your team."
If somebody did that to Reefy or Omar,
I would literally beat their ass.
You probably wouldn't want to,
and then we would
-No, I would.
-No, you wouldn't, baby.
I ain't gon' let you.
Our response is up here.
I'm gonna kill her with kindness.
-That's what I'm gonna do.
-Yes.
Like, I'm just real.
I don't care what people think.
She's screaming,
"Mary, the grandfather M" Okay.
Mm-mm. Can't do that.
I don't need to explain it to nobody.
Everybody knows, uh, our situation.
You're not my blood.
You're not my blood grandfather.
I could care less what people think.
Yeah, right.
I don't care what they think
about us, whatever.
-But I'm supposed to sit back
-That's why they're doing it.
Because she's telling them,
"Oh, she's married to her"
Like, trying to make me a mockery.
-Like, it's okay to
-Please. Please.
They can't deal with you.
I don't care. That's the problem.
I don't care. The problem is the whole
It's like me against them, the whole team.
This is not about you,
so don't internalize it like it is.
This is about her having views
that don't align with yours,
and the thing
that we can control is our response.
-Yeah.
-I love you and I'm proud of you always.
-Thanks, baby.
-Always.
-Of course.
-[sniffles] Okay.
-I love you.
-I love you too. Bismillah.
Bismillah, baby.
Just nothing but a whole bunch
of stinking jealousy,
and I know that.
I trigger her. I've never had anyone
that angry for no reason.
None.
Jen Shah's behavior is not healthy.
It's toxic.
Don't worry about it.
It's almost like a tree
with a bad apple in it.
If you don't get it out,
it's gonna spoil all the other apples.
Not healthy for the group.
We gotta send a bodyguard with you?
Nothing's gonna happen to me,
'cause when I cut you off, I'm done.
So I'm done.
[bright music playing]
-Hi, Will.
-It's nice to see you.
I haven't seen you since Thanksgiving.
-Yeah, how's it been?
-It's been pretty good.
Will is my brother,
and he and I grew up
with a very special bond.
We were best friends
from the time we could walk.
Will has never left my side.
Even when I felt like other people
were turning their back on me,
Will was right there.
So I should just step in?
-So if you just stay there
-Okay.
It's just a shot like
He's been working on Jiu Jitsu
the last five years.
So he is not someone you wanna mess with.
-Oof!
-[laughs]
I taught you well, young Padawan.
Ooh.
Whitney, I gotta get you
in here full time.
I've wrestled a lot of people,
and you've got the talent to do this.
Thanks, brother.
-That was fun.
-Yeah, it's always fun.
Have you heard from Dad at all?
No, I haven't heard him.
-When's the last time you saw him?
-At Thanksgiving.
He's committed to go to sober living.
-Oh, he is?
-Yeah.
So what stage did he stop doing that?
So he did detox for seven days,
and then he went up to that rehab
up at Brighton Ski Resort for 30 days.
And after the 30 days,
he was supposed to go to sober living
-and do a five-day-a-week program.
-[mouthing] Five-day-a-week.
So he's actually committing
to what he was supposed to do originally.
After my dad completed rehab,
he didn't go to sober living right away.
He took off to California
and started having withdrawals so bad,
he was on the verge of a relapse.
The last thing a dad wants
is to call his daughter
and tell her, "I'm a drug addict."
"You know, I got problems."
It's easy to be sober in rehab
when they're drug-testing you every day,
and you're in therapy
and classes every day.
This time, he's gonna pay for it.
I'm not gonna pay for it.
You've covered him
until this point, right?
Yeah, we're tapped out, we're done.
So I feel like I'm his only person.
Yeah, you are. You're the gatekeeper
-Yeah.
-Between him and us.
So my mother, from her first marriage,
had two boys, Brayden and Will.
My father had a boy and a girl
with his first wife, Curtis and Kelli.
They married and had me
and my sister Shaylee.
It is a huge burden
because after the divorce,
it was, like, hard 'cause I did have
a good relationship with him
even though it was dysfunctional.
Like, we were buddies.
We'd ski, we'd golf, play tennis.
And just over the years, I've lost that.
Us siblings really latched on together
and got along well.
When my mom and dad divorced,
all of the sudden,
it was mom's kids against dad's kids.
So when my dad became addicted
to painkillers,
and I wanted to support him,
that made the divide even bigger.
We feel bad.
A big burden was put on you.
If you need anything, let us know.
So hopefully
Actually, it'd be super helpful
just sending him, like,
encouraging text messages.
And I have a couple times.
-He doesn't respond?
-He doesn't respond,
but that still doesn't mean
he doesn't read 'em
and appreciate them.
I just really appreciate you
getting over everything
and forgiving him,
and he's not even
your biological father, you know?
So I really appreciate you always
being there for me and for him.
I'm not asking anyone
to be his best friend again.
But I just want people
to support me doing it.
-Does that make sense?
-For sure, 100%.
What's next for him?
He's supposed to go check in
to sober living on Tuesday.
Then we should all really push
love towards him and
-Yeah.
-Acceptance and have him be a part
of our lives again
if that's what he wants,
and that's what we want.
It's so hard 'cause, you know,
our family dynamic's being so split up.
It's amazing that we, like, survived.
We have good family, like, good people.
Do you ever just dream
of having, like, parents
that would, like, I don't know
-Be normal?
-Yeah, be normal.
[laughs]
[bouncy music playing]
[cheering]
[music continues]
[Lisa] Who's ready for Henry's party?!
Are you guys ready? Go, Henry, go, Henry.
Oh, my gosh. I love them so much.
You guys are, like, falling off.
[ball thuds and rolls]
-Ohh!
-What?
-Strike! Strike!
-Whoa, whoa, whoa, Henry!
-Henry, be careful. Come on.
-I just got a strike!
Amazing! Yay.
With Sundance coming down the pipeline,
I have to think, like,
what can I do for the kids now?
How can I make them feel special?
And birthdays are a big deal.
This is the one time I can say,
"You've got 100% of Mommy's attention."
"What do you want?
I'm gonna give you everything."
I love you so much. Happy, happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
It's amazing. I'm happy he's happy.
I'm a worm!
He's so funny.
Yuh! Yuh!
So remember how I told you
about Meredith and Seth separating?
Yeah. Do you have any idea
what started everything? Is it
"I'm in my 40s. What do I accomplish?"
They're in that phase.
Everybody goes through it.
Especially when you've been married
as long as all of us have.
I get it.
To me, marriage is sacred,
and when you get married
in the Mormon Church,
it's not "Till death do you part."
It's for eternity.
Nobody has the perfect marriage,
but you pick a partner
and you choose to make the best of it.
-It's normal.
-So are they
Like, we do this.
You and I do this constantly.
Like, some days, I'm like,
"John, tell me how much you love me."
"Tell me how obsessed you are with me."
-When do you say that?
-Every day. [laughs]
I need more attention.
-Any day that ends in "Y."
-Every day.
When John and I got married,
I think one of the greatest things
was that our base was the same.
We both had a core love of God,
core love of Jesus,
and a core love of family
and building something together.
And then the LDS Church
helped build on that,
because there's such an emphasis
on eternal marriage
and the eternal family.
Like, that's why I always feel
good with you 'cause I know,
like, we're in everything together.
They're the same way.
She's saying it's all positive.
I believe her.
In all marriages, there's times
when you feel out of sync with each other.
I mean, I have thrown John's Rolex
out the car window.
There are days he makes me very upset,
and I'm sure I make him very upset.
But it's like, let's work on this.
[producer] Did you guys
go back and get it?
He went back and got it.
Took forever to find it.
Literally landed in a snowbank.
There's a lot of people
that get married for the wrong reasons.
There are some girls that, like,
they marry for something.
-Yeah.
-Like, in our marriage,
I don't need to perform services
for presents.
Like, I deserve presents for nothing.
Just for breathing.
You ever wanna perform services, though
-John Barlow.
-I'm just saying.
[stirring music playing]
-You ready?
-Yeah.
I snatched those almonds too.
Is that cool?
[laughs] Yeah. I'll just have to blame you
when Bobbie's like,
"Where's the chocolate almonds?"
[upbeat music playing]
My stuff's getting soaked back there.
-I know. [laughs]
-[laughs]
Your suitcase
isn't gonna bounce out, right?
No. It's all right.
Dropping me off in sober living.
My dad realized that he needs the program,
the Breathalyzers, the drug tests,
the group therapy, the one-on-one therapy.
I can't provide that for my father,
and sober living can.
When I got out of rehab,
I was doing great,
then reality hits you in the face.
All of a sudden,
you start to feel withdrawal again.
It's like, I wasn't ready.
So going back here, I feel safe
because I'm gonna deal
with my addiction more.
Now I get to go back for three months,
get back into treatment
and just give it more time.
We've been through
this situation in some form
so many times over the last ten years.
It's been a struggle
and has taken a huge toll on me
emotionally, financially, and spiritually.
But this is the first time
I've ever seen my dad
take accountability and responsibility,
and he's choosing to go to sober living.
This is the best I've felt
about your situation
since you arrived here.
-Really?
-Yeah.
I know this is the right thing
for you, the key.
It's the thing
that's gonna get my dad back.
[mellow music playing]
[Steve] Well, we're here.
-[Whitney] All right. Let's do this.
-[doors close]
-Hello?
-Hey, Elsie.
-How are you?
-Good.
-You remember me?
-Yes. How are you?
-Good. Good.
-Thanks for letting me come back.
I'm Amberly. Very nice to meet you.
-Thanks for the help.
-Of course. I'm glad you're back.
-I know. I needed to. Hey.
-Isn't this amazing?
-I knew you'd come back.
-Whitney knew it all along.
-She's been a total support for you.
-Yeah, she warned me.
She let me do my thing.
I lasted, what, six weeks?
-Yeah.
-So it's good to be back.
I really hope that my dad
can just let go of the past,
let go of all the bad choices he's made,
utilize the resources in sober living,
because I truly believe
that that's what's gonna help him
in the future to stay sober.
-So proud of you, Dad.
-Aw, babe.
-You ready to rock and roll tomorrow?
-Yeah, let's do it. Let's get to work.
[energetic music playing]
Mer, you know I'm taking off, right?
Now?
I gotta go to work. I can't
be living this Park City dream with you.
So what's your plan?
I don't have any plans.
It's been a hard couple of weeks,
a lot of arguing.
As much as I want you here,
I think that we need a little room.
-Space isn't a bad thing.
-So you don't want me here?
-Well, it's been
-Okay.
-Really volatile.
-You want room, I'll give you room.
I
Maybe me being
out of the picture for a while
will help you find what you want,
and maybe I'm not in the picture.
[softly] I don't disagree.
[zipping bags]
It's not that I wanna separate,
but sometimes you have to work
things out individually
in order to be able to come back together
as, you know, a happy couple.
I don't know.
I'm just calling it how it is.
I don't know if we're gonna make it.
We're just gonna move forward
and see what happens,
speak on the phone.
I think it's fine to just leave it
as we are still separated.
I don't wanna do this.
-Do what?
-I don't wanna separate.
Twenty-five years.
[quiet music playing]
[Steve's voice breaking]
I don't wanna do this.
I know it's the right thing.
[Meredith whispers] I do love you.
[whispering] I do love you.
[quiet music continues]
[energetic music playing]
Hi! My name's Chelsea.
Do you wanna get started with a drink?
-I'll wait until my guest gets here.
-Your friend comes?
-Yeah.
-Okay.
-Hi.
-Oh, my gosh.
You look so good.
The last time I saw Mary,
things got a little heated.
You got two faces.
I'm trying to manage this.
Well, I need to know one of 'em,
'cause you have very many faces.
Even though she says I have two faces,
I really want Mary to know
I can be her friend independent
of my relationship with Jen.
-How have you been?
-I've been good.
I love her, and I'm here for her,
and I can be loyal to both of them
at the same time.
Do you wanna get a cocktail?
I normally just get
Tito's and water with lime.
-What are you thinking?
-Still water, though, for me.
-I don't do
-Just still water? Okay. Then
Because that carbonation
hardens your ovaries.
Carbonation affects your ovaries?
That'll be a double
sparkling water for me.
No more kids. Thank you.
-Thank you to this tonight.
-Yeah.
You gotta look me in my eyes,
to bless our lives seven years.
-Okay.
-Cheers.
I spoke I learned it in
[Italian lilt] in Milano.
-Va bene.
-Bene.
-That's delicious. Thank you.
-It is good.
So let's talk about the luncheon.
What are we gonna do about you and Jen?
I don't know what we're gonna do.
Her problem with me,
that anger and that rage comes at me
out of anyone in the group
because she resents the fact
that she's not the top.
Do you feel like she was triggered
by, like, what you have?
She is triggered by what I have.
I feel like she's not used to it
because of my color.
Like, it's a Black thing?
My color, my style, me.
Whatever I have,
I feel like she has to be the best.
What is Mary even saying?
Why does being Black have anything to do
with Jen's jealousy of her Chanel purses?
I just don't like to live
and wobble in pain.
And so Jen she never apologized
about anything she's ever done to me.
All that nasty stuff she says
behind my back
she screams, "Yeah, go ahead
and choose the grandfather MFer."
You're gonna go with Mary,
who [bleep] her grandfather?
So she attacked your marriage.
So my grandmother, in her will,
she wanted me to take her place.
Basically, my grandmother
passed everything on to me,
and literally she wanted me to also marry
her her second husband,
which was my step-grandfather.
It was different to me.
That was weird. Like
But he is not your blood grandfather.
-No. That's incest.
-No, I'm just asking
because a lot of people
don't, you know, like, get it.
He is not my blood at all, and that's
Oh
[voice breaking] And I did marry him.
I didn't want to, Heather.
I didn't want to.
That's weird to me, but she wanted it.
She really did, and so I obeyed her,
because I trusted every word.
If she managed to bring
this church this far,
then she has to be right,
and look at my life.
You-you think I'm
this high fashion Louis Vuitton?
-And maybe I am.
-You are. You can own that.
Maybe I am, but because I chose right.
It took us two years to actually marry.
The reason why it took me two years
I had to be certain.
As it goes on, I started to pray myself.
I started to seek, you know,
higher help, myself.
And when I did that, I felt peace with it.
So I married him.
I chose what the man upstairs
told me to do.
I feel so bad for Mary.
I feel deep empathy because
I think everyone understands
choosing faith over love.
I got married for my family
and for my religion.
Big difference is
I never had to call Billy "Grandpa"
or even "Daddy" for that matter,
and her situation was a lot different.
I'm glad you shared it with me.
And because that I'm blessed,
I care about other people.
I-I don't, but when I'm done, I'm done.
Listen, there's a lot
that you have in common with Jen.
-I agree.
-You guys have a lot in common.
And there's more that brings
you together than apart.
Nothing you could say
that would change my mind.
-I'm not here to broker any sort of peace.
-No, no, I want you to be clear.
I like clarity. She's damaged, damaged.
She's burnt the bridge.
I don't want your friendship.
I don't. I'm done.
I'm so done.
[dramatic musical sting]
[housewife] Next time on
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
[all] Happy birthday to you ♪
[cheering]
While some people are doing
house parties during Sundance,
I'm running Sundance.
All right, everybody,
five minutes till doors open!
Have you even seen your mom recently?
I saw her last night.
During Sundance, Mommy is MIA.
Should we try calling her?
Oh, she declined it.
-[alarm wailing]
-Oh, my God.
-What's going on here?
-I can't do this right now.
[dog barks]
The very first Park City Fashion Week.
Is Brooks your youngest in the show?
He is.
It's disheartening that Dad isn't coming
and he can't support my first show.
This is a big deal for Brooks,
and I'm really sad that Seth and I
cannot be there together to see it.
There were things that you did
that hurt me.
You started screaming things at me.
No, I didn't.
Hi! You came!
So I was born and raised in Park City.
My ex is from Park City.
-Are you in a relationship now?
-No.
I promise, I'll have him back
to you by, like, 5:00 a.m.
-Where's Heather?
-Heather left with a guy that she met.
Together.