What’s Spanish for “shade?” New friend and recording artist Demetria McKinney invites the girls to Puerto Rico for her concert — but the ladies bring their Atlanta rivalries along with them. The lines in the sand are clearer than ever: Upon their arrival, Kenya Moore declares her supergroup of friends Claudia Jordan and Cynthia Bailey the Beauties…while others (ahem, NeNe Leakes) are considered the Beasts. Ay yi yi!
Claudia’s Impossible Feet
To prepare for the big trip, Claudia visits a podiatrist to take care of her feet. For a beauty queen, she admits that her toes look like “snow-capped mountains”…and Kenya, who tagged along for the adventure, calls them “bear claws!”
“You don’t need to take barnacles to the beach. They already have them there!” Kenya jokes.
The podiatrist tells Claudia that her corn and bunion-speckled feet are totally fixable with surgical removal. Claudia decides against it for the moment as she doesn’t want to walk on the beach with a surgical shoe.
“I guess I’m just going to have to bury my toes in the sand like I’ve been doing,” Claudia sighs.
Kandi Makes Amends
Kandi Burruss meets Demetria for dinner…and to make an apology. Though last week’s epic revelation wasn’t Kandi’s fault completely — her friend Gocha told Demetria that she dated Roger Bobb (while Demetria was still with him!) in front of the other girls at Kandi’s sex party last week — she still feels the need to clear the air.
“My issue was with the presentation,” Demetria admits. She continued that she felt like she was “set up to walk into a bad situation.”
Kandi is grateful that Demetria handled the drama gracefully, and that the two girls didn’t come to blows. Demetria says that she has too much respect for Kandi to do so. She accepts Kandi’s apology and tells her that she’s followed her career for a long time…and wants in on the Kandi Koated empire.
“I want to work!” Demetria tells Kandi. Though flattered, Kandi says that she vowed to avoid working with anyone in their circle. Don’t be tardy for the…well, you know.
Phaedra Throws Shade
Phaedra Parks and NeNe meet Demetria at a recording studio to discuss Gocha’s big reveal. Surprisingly, NeNe is sympathetic towards Demetria…err, in her special NeNe way.
“Look, I’m girl power. I hate it when you walked out…I wanted you to get all the information so you can hit [Roger Bobb] over the head with it!” NeNe tells Demetria.
Demetria says that she did let Roger know how she felt, and that Roger had tried to tell her about Gocha before. Gocha and Roger happened to date when Roger and Demetria were on one of their many breaks, so all is well — in Demetria’s eyes, at least.
“If it hadn’t been on a break, we would’ve been a problem,” Demetria says.
For some reason, Phaedra decides to sink her claws into Demetria and launches a barrage of questions about everything from her relationship to her career. Demetria mentions that she’s always wanted to sing.
“Why didn’t you do it when you were more of a tulip…a fresher little flower?” Phaedra (who’s older than Demetria!) asks.
Another thing that bothers Phaedra? Roger’s hesitance to commit.
“What’s he waiting for, a liver transplant?” Phaedra asks after Demetria says she wants a commitment only when Roger knows he’ll be able to stick around. “How long does it take?”
Demetria also mentions that she played a crackhead on Tyler Perry’s House of Payne.
“Have you ever done crack, though?” Phaedra questions. Demetria manages to keep her cool and maintain an Oscar-worthy front. But in Puerto Rico, Phaedra continues her stream of shade against the seemingly-innocent new girl. She and NeNe arrive to their hotel to greet Demetria, already in full glam courtesy of her makeup artist and stylist.
“Now this you’re on point with,” Phaedra tells the stylist. She later tells Porsha Williams and NeNe that she didn’t necessarily agree with some of his other style choices for Demetria, like the “Rihanna meets monsoon” look at her music video release party.
Ugh. Fix it, Jesus!
Laying It All On the Table
After everyone arrives at the resort and meets for dinner, Demetria finally decides that she’s had enough of Phaedra’s snide comments.
“I want to make sure that if it is shade, that I address it,” Demetria says. “I thought that [asking if she’s ever smoked crack] was shady. I thought that asking about my age was kind of wack…I’m younger than you!”
Demetria tells Phaedra that her opinions on her career, her age and her relationship are all unnecessary and unwelcome.
“Why do you talk about it if you don’t want to make it a topic of discussion?” Phaedra asks. Demetria warns her not to start trouble. “You don’t know me, sweetheart,” Phaedra responds.
“The only thing that we have in common right now is the number eight,” Demetria reminds Phaedra. “Yours is going. Mine has been here for eight,” she cracks, in a low-blow nod to Apollo Nida’s imminent eight-year sentence in the slammer.
NeNe Meets Her Match!
Shortly after Demetria and Phaedra fall out, the focus switches to NeNe and Claudia. Claudia defends Demetria and asks the girls if they care about resolving the issue.
“Ask Rickey Smiley,” NeNe snipes of Claudia’s boss.
“I’ve never seen women act so immature,” Claudia says. “There’s nothing wrong with her…putting it on the table in front of everyone. That’s not being shady. That’s…discussing it like grown women, instead of being bitchy and catty.”
NeNe says that she’s surprised that Claudia has her own brain to speak out.
“From the woman that is the puppet master?” Claudia questions.
“I’m a puppet master on these jobs, though,” NeNe retorts, circling back to her favorite thing to brag about: her money. Claudia acknowledges NeNe’s wealth and says that she, too, can pay her own bills — without getting “on a pole.”
The two continue to throw insults at each other, (“When you were my age, you had edges!” Claudia snaps) and NeNe hits below the belt — literally.
“You’ve been f—–d by everybody in Hollywood. They done wore that out,” NeNe says. “What you got, this half-breed s–t? That’s not in Atlanta. They ain’t looking for you. You’re a whore, you done slept with everybody. Your clit has left your body!”
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