How Pretty Vee Turned Faith Into Fame

Nick always told me, and I remember what he said, he's like, you're a star, you can't do no wrong. Just do you, show up. Max! Can you hear that? It's Christmas. I know you see, I know you see it. I know you see it. I used to tell him, I was like, I'm just out the way. He said, don't you stay in the way. You're supposed to stay in the way. Ooh, wee. What I'm saying? Flap! Now, Blondie, you saying a word? You know what I'm saying? You saying a word, Blondie? Let's go back in, wee. What it talk about? What it see? What it see? What it see? What it see? What it see? What's up, neighbor? OK, so Pretty V is pulling up to the house today, and she's built a loyal fan base with her viral skits that have millions of us watching. And she's always been a standout on Wildin' Out. But now, she's digging a little deeper with something that she hopes will motivate and inspire people all around the world. That's right, a new book and a one-woman show. And I bet she's the kind of person and a house guest that blesses every single room she walks into with a good laugh and leaves you with a good word. Here we are. Here we are. I have been a fan of yours for years. I have been laughing and crying along with you on social media and on Wildin' Out for years. So thank you so much for pulling up to the house. Thank you. I mean, hopping the big flight. Come on, the big flight again. OK, the spirit flight. Exit row 38. Just to come see you. See you, honey. Yes, like literally. Let me go. Literally. What does it feel like for you right now, this season of your life? I mean, you have got so much going on. Yeah. So much, though, that I know that you have prayed for, worked for, sacrificed for, fought for. How would you describe where you are in your life right now? I've used this word a lot this year, just being aware. Eyes open. Eyes open, you know, and I'm just full because I just see what God has done from 2016 on to 2025. Started in my pink robe, bonnet. Started doing my little Harlem shakes, like just all these different things in the kitchen. It went down in the kitchen. That table. Now this table. Rocking. Rock. Every day, just like, I said, oh, my God. The foot, bro. We got to put a suitcase. I need to lean it over. It was just ghetto. But just to see that I'm so full. I'm in this season of just being full, just being grateful, so much gratitude, and just want more. That's the season I'm in, just wanting more and just wanting to show up in a bigger way. I'm going to drink to that. We're going to drink to a bigger way. What that is. What you got? What you got? What you got over there? You know, a little, let's do a little V-ray. A little V-ray by East to East. By East to East. You know, something like, you know what I'm saying? A little black on. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Come on, Whitney. I've also got peach nectar, you know what I mean, if you want to make a little Bellini situation. OK. You ain't had a Bellini. I ain't had a Bellini before. You ain't had a Bellini before? I don't think, I don't know if I had a Bellini. So a Bellini is, you've got Prosecco, champagne, and peach nectar. I don't know, there's something about that sound. Those bubbles. It's something about that sound, and it's V-ray. You know? And so this is the peach nectar. OK. So then you just, you know, a little dollop of Duya. Ooh. I feel like maybe a little bit more. A little bit more, yeah. Uh-oh. $20. So this is called a Bellini. This is a Bellini. We're here, honey. Drinking to more. Drinking to more, period. Gratitude. Gratitude. Ooh! Come on, V-ray. Yeah. Ease the ease. This is good. It's very good. We've got Jamaican food on the way. Mm. You know, that's cooking up right now. Lord have mercy. What was that? That was a bug. It sounded like a bat. What the hell was that? Did you hear it? I didn't even see what it was, but it hit the thing like, boo-cup. Yeah, I seen it. It was a big bug. A big fly. That wasn't a fly that said, boo-cup. The fly said, boo-cup. Y'all heard it? Y'all heard that? You don't eat much meat right now. Is that the situation? Yes. Okay, tell me, what's the choice? Why? I mean, I do my chicken from time to time. Okay. You know, I do my lamb chops. Okay. I do my turkey. So I'm hood vegan. Hoodterian. That's what I'm calling it. Hoodterian. I'm hood vegan. It's hoodterian. We gonna say hoodterian. You said. I dip and dabble. You said, I don't eat no meat unless it's good. Yeah. That's it. That's it. And I'm definitely not doing no pork. Oh, God. Is that right? Oh, God, no. No pork, no bacon. No beef. No beef, no pork. But I'm gonna do that turkey bacon. I'm gonna do a little chicken. What about salmon? Oh, salmon. Red snapper. Not tilapia. We gonna do cod. We gonna do cod. Sea bass. Halibut. Ooh, yes. Yeah. Some, some, some mahi-mahi. What about you? You be dipping and dabbing in meat? Yeah, I eat the meat. And I'll take the swine. Beef? Pork? Bacon. Yes, a pork chop? Ooh. You said, don't do it. Ooh, God. Yeah, just bubble guts. Come on. But I also do dairy, you know. And I've been lactose intolerant since before I was born. See, my issue is, it's just the skin. I be, I'm so like, it be, you know how it is, purging out. Yeah. Some way it's gonna be your back or your face. It's true. So I just try to, in moderation though. I was gonna say, cause the skin is clear. The skin is, the skin. I know you see it. I'm like, skin, skin. I just want to bring this up because I'm so, so proud of you. Thank you. And I know, it feels kind of strange to say proud of you because I, I only know a little bit of what it took for you to even be able to pull this off. Yeah. But I know it's not easy. I remember seeing you on Tamron Hall. Mm. And just lit up the show. She was like, I have never had a guest. Well, come on. Like pretty V. What does that feel like for you? When I went on the show, again, I come from a praying mother. I'm a PK. So when I came on the show, I already wrote, was writing Tamron. And back in 2019, I said, Tamron, I'm going to come on your show. I don't care what I got to do, what it is. I'm coming on your show. I am. And she said, it was a lot going on, you know, back in that year, 2019, 2020. She was launching the show. Yeah, she was launching the show. She was like, I seen it, but look at you. And I'm like, but look at God. Because he ordained it the way it needed to be. So for me, that moment when she said, nobody came on her show and prayed. I was like, what? She was like, you did though. And prayed it down. Down. And I hope every soul was blessed by my words because I always say to God, give me the words to speak. Don't let me just speak just to seem cool. Like I know what I'm talking about. No, people would like to do all that. No, let's just talk and let the Holy Spirit just speak within and through. So then tell me, how did the pretty victory come to be? Like how did the, I mean, in particular, because what I love is that it's moments from things that we have, stories that we've heard of you online, stories that we have seen of you on other shows, advice, words of wisdom that you've been given by some of your esteemed mentors and things like that. But you got a book. I got a book. You are an author. I'm an author. Pretty victory. Let's get into it. How did you do this? How did you, how did you do this? I was writing literally in my notes every day. And then I was, I would post like little snippet of like little, little sayings, like stand on what you know. God is with you. Keep going. Delay is never denial. You know, just keep, keep allowing God to use you. You know, don't let your gift die. And I was like, okay, let me write this. Like in my notes. But then my homegirl, I wasn't thinking of a book, but my homegirl hit me. She said, you need to write a book. And I was like, well, I'm not going to talk about my life because I ain't there yet. I still got a lot of work to do. So let's get into the devotional part. She said, ooh, a devotional would sound so great. You send them out in the mornings. I literally, I would go to Joyce Meyers and I would like take a picture of her devotionals and send it out every morning to all my friends. And they're like, okay, well, that's going to be so dope on brand because you do this anyway. Just really write your story, right? What would help the people? And I decided to write, she hooked me up with, Penguin Random House, you know. Wow. So we got the deal with them and they loved it. They loved the idea. And I began to write and I put it all together. 100 day guide to recenter and find your purpose. It is a consistent reminder that you are enough. Yeah. And that while it may not look like, your dream may not look like where you are right now, you are on your way. And I remember when I was depressed. I remember when I was dealing with anxiety. Yeah. So I'm like, if I'm able to read this devotional from this person and be okay the next couple of hours, I know that my words can help a soul because I've already been healed from that space. Baby. Come on, healing. Boots on the ground. Come on. Come on. Where them fans at? Like, no, seriously. So that's why I was like, let's create this book. And I wanted people to kind of see me. I'm funny. I'm goofy. I'm this, I'm that. I'm outspoken. I'm witty. You're also tapped in. Yeah. And it came by prayer. So just, I wanted to create this to help a soul. I love it. You're doing it. Okay. So we're going to play a little game. Okay. In the spirit of the book. Okay. It's called Keep It A Hunter. Keep It A Hunter. Keep It A Hunter. Keep It A Hunter. So we've got sayings and things like that that people always say. And I want to know if you're like, yeah, I rock with that. Okay. Or no, that's not really how my life is going. Okay. Okay. So early birds get the worm. Early birds get the worm. With a block, mama used to tell you to get up in the morning. Early bird, get up. If I'm up, you up. You ready? Okay. Bam. You 100%. I'm 100%. I think 50% of the time. I think, you know, early bird gets the early worms. Okay. But there's still some more worms in there. You can get started late. Okay. Just get started. Just get started. I like that. What about you? You said 100%. I like 100% because I feel like, you know, just go get it. Just go get it. Then there's more out there, yeah, but like if you're the first in line, first become first, honey. You know, and first impression is your last. All that extra stuff, you're like, I'm waiting until six to get up and get to it. Everybody already dibble dabbing to your course. Everybody done went through the aisles and got all the shoes and the sneakers and the shirts. Everybody done got in line for what they want to do for their gifts and their success. So you could get, at the end of the day, in the afternoon, you could just relax and chill and center yourself again. When you put it like that. 100% for me, period. But if you didn't get up today at 6, you got up at 10. You still got some worms in you. It's still some worms in the ear, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But don't wait too long. Ooh, fake it till you make it. This is something people say all the time. All the time. Fake it till you make it. Okay. Mine's so ghetto. It's just whatever these little circle things is, it's just, what's the little thing with the percentage? Yeah. Okay, whatever. 50? 50. Yeah. Okay, I don't know what that one was. You see, I was trying to practice. Okay, yeah. Okay, why 50%? You know, eventually you're going to have to get out of that mindset. Yep. You know, so it's like, for me, it's just like, fake it till you make it for how long? For how long? How long are we faking? How long are we going to wear the fake jewelry? How long are we going to have the fake personalities? How long are we going to be just faking it? Faking it. Like, we got to see the real you. And also, like, we're not, the fake it till you make it part is like we're working to make it, not faking it just for the funk. Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? Like, it shouldn't just be, that's now your personality. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is the fake. But people be faking it, though. And then when they get to where they're going, then you see the real them. Right. Or they never make it to where they're going, and they're mad at you still being fake. What I'm saying? To me, it's like, it's not necessarily about faking it until you make it. It's, I do believe in that sometimes you got to, like, put it on before you really know. Yeah. Because you can start believing in it. You can start seeing it for yourself. Mm-hmm. But that's not fake. Yeah, that's not fake. That's faith. That's faith. Okay? That's faith. That's faith, baby. We're going to fake it. We're going to faith it until we make it. Faith it. We're going to faith it until you make it. That's it. Look, we can go ahead and go. You got 100% on that. Shoot. Okay. Now that is 100%. Hey, Siri, add this to the notes. To the notes. Faith it till you make it. Put it on a shirt. Can I get a strawberry? You don't have a number or a message. Okay, Petty. Petty, don't have a number for faith. Petty. That's good. Strawberries are fire. I had a dip-a-dap in there. No, no, get in there. Get in there. I have to get in there. Yeah. These are $30 strawberries. You better enjoy these. Honesty is always the best policy. Okay. Your number should be like my number. I think it's going to be the same number. Let me see. One, two, three. Huh? Yeah. Honesty is the best policy? Yeah. Why would you give it a 50? Because I think honesty without compassion. Compassion is cruelty. I think, you know, sometimes we err on the side of, I'm just being, I'm being transparent. You know, I'm just being honest. Yeah. And really, without any compassion for even what you're sharing or who you're sharing it with or in the venue you're sharing that, it can be very cruel, I think. So, no, I'm certainly not saying that, like, dishonesty is better. Yeah. I don't think only honesty is the best policy. You know, people always say, well, you know, people. They got to be ready for that. They got to, they got, that's their journey. Yeah. You know, I don't, I just don't think that that's always the way we got to go about it. And I think for me, growing up in a Caribbean household, everything was, like, not that too much of a compassion. It was, like. Like, brutally honest. Brutally honest. It's like, this is a, da-da-da, da-da-da, but, like, straightforward. Yeah. Like, go in your room, you start crying. Or go in your room, you start thinking. Like, like, dag. Like, so I think for me, I guess that's where it stems from, just growing up in the Caribbean household, knowing that, like, oh, you got to be real, you got to be raw. And it is what it is. But knowing, like you said, now it's like have some have a compassion. Yes. Some some some moments that you understand and you're able to like hear both sides instead of like always throwing it on them. And that's also the thing that like. Right. So like in my experience, people who lead with that kind of mentality, I'm just being honest, can never can never take honesty. They're never the receivers of 100 percent honesty. And how dare you come at me like that, but are the first ones to pop off. Yeah. Without just being honest. Yeah. Actually, you were being vindictive. You were being vengeful. Oh, even. Come on. And so I think that we got to add some more on to honesty. I think honesty is should still be leading. Yeah. We got to add some more today. I got to stop you for a second. Oh, that's skin. What I do. It looks so good. Oh, shit. Oh. I was like, is something on there? Is something on it? Is you the shea butter? No, the shea butter. The shea butter is getting me where I need to be right now. That whole tape line is crispy. OK, first of all. That tape line. The line. Is crispy. There's something about a blonde. Oh, Lord. You didn't nobody tell me they have more fun, but it's a lot more work. I'm looking at that tape line because whoever is your barber, we need to go get them an extra tip. Yeah, I feel like you're going to be able to fill out. I'm curious about what your take on this is. Money can't buy happiness. Mm. And I'm going to see what you're going to say because I. Ready? Not never? Because my thing is, I say this because there's so many depression that goes on. A hundred percent. You can be a billionaire. You're a millionaire. Yeah, most successful people in this business and entertainment with millions of adoring fans. When I say depressed. Are miserable people. It's happiness for a second. Yeah. Until you run dry. And then the family members. You have to go back to work. Mm. It's love for a second. It's invitations for a second. It's the, oh, I love you for a second. And once your dollar bills in your career, whoever it may be, goes dry. Where are the people that's going to come and be a destiny helper? Ooh. So for me, for a moment, because we can't die with it. Right. You know, and even people outside of the industry, lawyers and entertainers or whatever it may be. Doctors. Doctors, nurses, people working at Foot Locker. If you can't provide because you were once that machine. Machine to give. And you don't have that. People get sad and depressed and depend on you for it. And you don't have it. Right. And that's it. Or you went in pursuit of the thing to feel a thing that you never prepared yourself to feel. So you don't even know how to process that. Right. So like you're in pursuit of this dream, but have done none of the work outside of getting it. Yeah. For holding it. Mm. Or nurturing it. Yeah. Or developing it. Yeah. And so now it's like, okay, well now I have all this money. Why am I still sad? Yeah. And forget the whole money thing. You as being a creative. as well and me being a creator it's like some days we're in the home thinking about what's next yeah and we have our bank accounts full we have making sure the family's straight we're making sure our content's booming but internally you're like god why do i still feel empty you know the turmoil of like what happens if is that what happens if am i wrong is it just me is that what ifs and maybes but that's when you're like okay something has to be filled in up so now i gotta get into my word i gotta get into being having gratitude i gotta get into being centered in my secret place so now i could be filled because i gotta look at the roses the flowers the scenery i gotta know that i'm so grateful that god has brought me out of these spaces and places so why am i feeling this way it's amazing to have the awareness that you talked about where you can snap yourself into the whoa whoa whoa come on thank you for bringing my attention to this come on thank you for being my awareness to this this is an opportunity to remind myself of all of the things that i'm doing right now and i'm going to be able to do that in the future so i'm going to remind myself of all of the things that i'm doing right now and i'm going to be able to remind myself of all of the things that i'm doing right now and i'm going to thankful for wow this is an opportunity to remind myself that all of the things that i say yeah become real so instead of focusing on the what if i this goes what if this grows now blondie you saying a word you know something you saying a word not if it goes what if it grows because then you can you can put your attention and your energy into that i have not tried a chocolate-covered almond in about 15 years okay i hope it's worth it i think it's gonna be tasty i'm here so it's worth it let's do it let's do it not the hammer time i'm good at this i don't i don't know if you got this you might be good at this too because you look like you guys it says ignore the haters right one two three really yeah okay it's so funny because i almost put 70 percent yeah tell me why you said 80 i said 80 because i still pay attention to it i still feed into some things that they say because again like i'm not a combatter i don't like to go back and forth with people i go back i go back and forth with people with facts and that's what i do right so on my page i'm like you're not gonna tell me i'm not funny you're not gonna tell me i'm not qualified you're not gonna tell me i don't belong here you're not gonna do that right when i have worked my behind off you know behind off i'm funny i know what i'm called i've been on this i do this so what is the issue so i still sometimes explain myself a tad i've stopped when i walk into the new year and i haven't really told anyone about they self in a minute on them comments uh-huh i've been good you have but i do i do do a little back and forth a little bit sometimes so it's funny because i was like i'm not a combatter i'm not a combatter it is my goal to just not engage don't even see it so that i don't it isn't going right yeah but if i see it that's what i'm saying if we see if i see it if we see sometimes you feel like you gotta explain i gotta let you know i see you i see you yeah and so then i've already lost because i let you know i see you even when you know you did wrong wow and if you didn't and i let you know you did wrong and everybody else let you know you did wrong i've already lost because i you i've given you the attention yeah have you ever been you follow someone and nothing they do you like like do you follow anybody where you actually hate them but you just gotta know what they're up to so you can remind them often that you don't like them? I don't get it. That sounds like an X. That sounds like. You said actually, I think I know exactly what that is. That's an X. Ooh, forgive but never forget. Forgive and don't forget? Forgive and never forget. Yeah, I'm ready. Because, you know. Yeah. That forgiveness is strong now. It is. So is not forgetting. Ready? See, I'm going 100%. Because like, forgive and don't forget doesn't mean remind me every opportunity that you have. Yeah. It's big on the forgiveness part but it's also on the. I see you. Yeah. It's heavy on the. Got it. It's heavy on the. Clock that. When people show you who they are. Yeah. That. Okay. So you said 90. I said 90 because I'm somewhat like you. But I'm over in this space and I'm like, just forgive and whatever it is, it is. Like, true friend. And every time I see you, I'm like, I forgave, Scott, but I'm still back in my mind like, ooh, Lord, what he did was so grimy. Exactly. It breaks away our relationship a little bit. It still tenses that and it's like, I can't be my better self and best self around you. So now I got to tiptoe on some things. But if I forgive you. Like, for real? For real, for real, then everything else, I will remember but I'm not going to like, still have that cringy moment in my heart towards you. Right. So I said a little 90% of that. I'm with that. Yeah. You know what? A little cheers to the little same type of energy. To the same type of energy. I got to know where. Ooh, a little woo-woo. A woo-woo-woo. Woo-woo. I got to know where the lip came from. You got to tell me where the lip came from. Or the side lip. Yeah, when you. I got to know. Yeah. Where that came from for you. Yeah, we going to get into it. Scott, you got all these trees. Ooh, y'all, you're tensing the screen from the side? I'm at the right house. Come on now. We at the right. So, okay, what's your favorite dish? Because my favorite is Jamaican food. So clearly you. I love Jamaican food. So we've got fried chicken. We've got jerk chicken with the jerk sauce here. Fried festival dumpling. Ooh, I love like a dumpling. Like a fried dumpling. Love that. Sharon, what y'all. What else have? What else? Jerk salmon. Ooh, me love that. And I think that's just. Festival. Festival and plantains. And then rice and peas. Yeah, we good. We lit that. So before we dive in, you know I like to pray. Let's do it. Let's do it. All right, so Father God, we thank you so much for this food that we're about to eat, Lord God. We just want to say thank you so much for what you're doing and what you're about to do, Lord God. And just thank you so much for the hands that prepared this meal. And Father God, we just ask that it bring some nourishment to our body, Lord God, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen and amen. Amen. All right. Let's go. Let's go. Look, look, you see how I did that? That's what it's supposed to be. Look at my plate and look at Scott's plate. Look, don't look at my plate. All right. It was good. Y'all whipped this thing up good. Put a chef back there in-house. In-house chef. Okay. Okay. I'm so curious to know how all of this started for you. What was your dream? What was your goal? Radio. Really? I wanted to be on air. Like, you know, I worked at plenty of radio stations. North Carolina. I interned in South Carolina. I interned in Atlanta. I interned in North Carolina. And I was working for South Coast Music Group, which is a record label in Charlotte. Yeah. And I was working for Arnold Taylor at the time. And he had an artist called Baby Jesus, but now he's the baby. So I was doing their admin work. Right. So I was so grateful to have that spot because I told God, all I want to do is be in the entertainment industry. I don't care where you put me. What was it about entertainment? Like, was it the fascination like being around Miami and seeing entertainment really kind of run that city in a lot of ways? Or like, what was it about entertainment that you were like, were you always funny? Yeah, I just wanted to be in that because I was just, I just knew I wanted to be a part of it because I had something to bring to it. When did Pretty V happen? Pretty V happened in 2016. Okay. 17, yeah. Tell me why you chose Pretty V because I think it's also, it's so, what I love about it is that like, when people shorten it, they got to call you pretty. Yeah. They got to. They got to. They got to. Or they say V. Yeah, but like, mostly they say pretty. Yeah, they say pretty. They do say pretty now. They say pretty. I can't lie, you know, but I mean, I just made it up in college and I was like, It's a spider. It's a spider. It's a spider. Well, don't fold a spider over here. Do we need to kill it? I'm just trying to, I'm just going to get it. I'm going to go, you got it. I got it, you see? Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. It's just like, something about that little spider. Like, you know, so you got to get it. When you see what you've been able to accomplish, Yeah. I know that you had to dream it. I know that you had to believe it, but are you still also a little amazed sometimes at like, the, because I think also some people think that you happen like overnight. Yeah. How do you feel about what your success story is or has been so far? I feel like the work was put in before 2016. My mom had me on every audition. My mom had me in Miami when Robert Townsend used to come in. There was open casting calls. So I was already in a hustling mentality. You know, I was dancing for seven years for ballet. I played the piano. So my mom already had me in all these little, you know, activities, you know, just to get me out of the streets or get me out of being in a house or get me, out of being with the wrong type of friends. But also to make you well-rounded. Yeah, to make me well-rounded and have range and dimension. So I, for me, I just, I feel like I'm just getting started and I feel like the work literally is before the tables, before the pink robe and bonnet, before, yo, what up? Look at the, look at the whole shade, like all of that, like when I used to do all of that, like. I'm going to tell you right now though, there's, there's not much on this planet I live for more than you freestyling. Yeah. Yet to ever actually freestyle. And nothing. Say nothing. It's my favorite. Say nothing. That's my favorite character too. It's my favorite. It's my favorite. I just love to say nothing. Oh my. It's so stupid. It be hitting do's up. It be hitting. Every time. It be having some stuff in that thing though. Actually. Yes, it does. I be like, was she right? Was she right? I feel like I just been, been that child. I've been that, that curious child. I've been that child that was getting yelled at for laughing too hard, doing too much. Right. And just getting on everybody's nerves. Talkative in class. Talkative in class, being called from the front to the back. I just knew. My mom prophesied over to me too in middle school and she said, God said you're going to be in the arts. And that was before I was in middle school. Is that right? And I said, Mom, what do you mean? She said, God told me that you're going to be in the arts. And I said, Mom, what art? Am I going to be a painter? Am I going to be this? Right, right, right. She said, arts, you'll see. I was depressed in like 2016, 2017 and I got out of college 2015. I graduated from my HBCU, St. Augustine University. And I did all four years and I thought all what I was doing in school, being well-rounded, being so focused, being purposeful, driven. Everyone knew me. The opportunity was going to come right away. I'm going to graduate and I'm going to get a job. I'm going to get a job. Radio me. That's what it is. Like Ricky Smiley me. You know, like Wendy Williams me. Like that's what I want to do. It didn't happen. So I was on my face so bad. I was depressed. I had anxiety. I wasn't sleeping. I was just worrying. But my mom reminded me what the Lord said. He said that you're going to be in the arts. But in this season, he has to shape you for what's about to come. Because sometimes we get in a place of being dark and getting in our still moments and overthinking all these things. You're like, God, I know what you said and your promise has to come to pass. So what the season I'm in right now is not going to last for long because I know what you're doing. So when you give it to me, I know how to handle it and I know how to take care of it and I'm ready. So when I look back now about what he was doing, he was getting me ready for the now. Getting me ready to be on Houseguest. Getting me ready to host a pre-show. Getting me ready to be on Tamara Hawes. Getting me ready to be a New York bestseller. Getting me ready to do these things. But I had to know what I was going to do with it. Because sometimes when you pray to God for it, you do the opposite. So I really stand ten toes down on what I believe in. I haven't shifted. I haven't swayed. I haven't sold out. I haven't done anything but say his name in every room. How did Wildin' Out happen for you? Yeah, I lied to get on the show. What do you mean you lied to get on the show? I said DC Young Fly and Carlos Miller and Chico Bean was my cousins and my friends. And I ain't on nobody. I was just like, my homegirl at the time, she was like, hey, audition for Wildin' Out. It's going to be in New York. I said, okay. She said, just say DC Young Fly, your cousin and Carlos Miller, your uncle. And I said, that's going to work? And it sure enough did. I got me the audition and I went to New York. I had no money. I had to ask around, hey, can I get a flight to go to New York? And then they flew me to New York. I didn't make it. Everybody else around me made it. Jazz, B, everyone made it. What? Yeah, everyone made it. I knew when I didn't get it that, go back to me being a believer, was that that God is not a, God is an honest God. He's not going to give it to you by lying. He wants to see more of you. Ooh, whoa. So, and that's what I read when I came back. I was like, I like to get on the show. I got in. See, God will allow a thing, but he won't ordain a thing. So we have to wait on the call. And I, I was trying to go ahead of him. And I said, well, I just want to do it. I want to, I lied, da-da-da. And it happened. But he was like, no, wait till 2018. And that's when Nick and his team called me back. And it was like, hey, we want you on the show. And I didn't even have to audition this time. I just walked on the show. And I've been on the show for 10 seasons. Wow. Or ordained a thing, honey. He said, baby, you think I'm going to give it to you after you lied? Why would I want to build it on that? Ooh. Oh, snap. Did you ever tell them that that's, that the first iteration, the first opportunity for you came that way? Through these interviews. Right. They don't know. They're about to know. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Dude, Nick thought I was hilarious. Nick was like, oh, she's funny. Nick always told me, and I remember what he said. He's like, you're a star. You can't do no wrong. Just do you. show up right as your best of cat williams i used to tell him i was like i'm just out the way he said no you stay in the way you're supposed to stay in the way oh we you're supposed to stay in the way was there a particular season or episode or guest that you remember something changing like you were like oh wait i think for me 2018 i started but then i think two seasons ago and what is when i felt my confidence tell me i don't know if you've seen the rap when we was like let's go back and be let's go back and be but you're talking about what i see what i see what i get like that hey like all of that that was my moment on the show and that through covid it is my it is literally i go back to it often literally so i think in that moment for me was like oh i am seen i'm being heard they are noticing me because again you have dc young fly you have justina valentine you got chico b you got carlos smith you got b simone you got just hilarious you got all these other acts and then of course you got me so it's like you got to deal with all these personalities you got to make sure you fit into the the crew in the area so and also the legacy of the show and then you have nick so of course you got to make sure that he sees you and knowing like you're doing your job and you're doing your homework because that's a show it's building you up it's improv we're on the spot it's the it's the jokes so that moment and i think 2020 2019 was a time that i have a moment to say oh okay v you're doing a thing you're doing a thing yeah we were in miami i got to help launch rap shit at abfs how did you land that audition how did you land that role because i never forget when i saw you on that screen i was like hold up yeah it's unreal yeah and it still is i pinched myself because i'm like you having conversations with isa she's giving you the best advice what she say oh god isa's always encouraged me when i was on set with her she was just like you're doing a good job keep going you know and so proud of you you know when i took my book out she was like i hope you promote it like she has been such a sweetheart i'm so proud of you and a part of my journey yeah but how i got rap ish was it came from charlemagne actually charlemagne dm me and he was like you need to be on this show i'm about to hit isa right now like right now that's the power of relationships but again i still had to come in and perform right isa's like okay cool let's get on you know you hear you i want you to this role but i still need to know what you're doing because deja could replace right did you have to do like a self tape did you go into audition what was it like i didn't have to audition i didn't i didn't do a self tape i didn't do it but again i think my audition was the first day right a rehearsal was the conversation with isa right but the the the audition was when she said cameras up roll it roll it let's go because then you're able to say uh it was good right but we could go find somebody else in miami and actually i could find somebody from la right quick or wherever and they could come on in and fly in for deja because the show ain't out yet we just in filming you know so but she gave me a chance she gave me an opportunity she's seen my light she's seen my determination she's seen how hungry i have been for for you know to be on the screen yeah and still to this day i'm hungry for it so she's like i want to give this girl a shot people try to box you into oh you're funny on social media you're funny on instagram when literally isa ray developed her following her cut her teeth on right on aqua black girl delivered on youtube yeah you know what i'm elementary quinta quinta brunson cut her teeth on buzzfeed no she did that viral skill remember that vine video oh he got money a large and you're quinta brunson on abbott and now she got emmys now you got emmys that's why i looked at how dc youngfly was when dc youngfly did was doing all those movies and in the beginning in 2016 i'm like oh my god just for him doing these vine videos he has catapult into a whole another uh area yeah of his life and i'm like that is great to me the lip where did that lip cut you know so crazy i don't know is there somebody in your family that does that just being in miami literally being in miami it's got like literally being in it and just seeing all the girls and you know when you don't even come from the area where all the girls come from you're like oh i want to be with their friends i want to be so i want to get all i want to be this i'll be loud right then you see their mannerism you know and i take that from like because everything i do on social media is from from somebody right i've seen and i've had contact with here you got your lip the okay earl gave it to me earl said i did all right so what is what is next what is the next part of the dream for you wow whatever i put down i'm picking up and i say that and when i and when i mean by that is whatever i placed down that i was fearful of doing now i'm having i'm moving in faith with it oh i see as you're saying like the the whatever you put down for fear of how someone would react or um uh what the response would be yeah if i wanted to do a show i was so fearful of doing it if i wanted to write this i was so fearful of doing it i mean it's in your hand show is really you're gonna do it i'm gonna do it i'm gonna do my one-woman show i mean all the other great things writing my second book you know doing the hosting doing the movies doing the sitcoms that's great but i think in this season i sold out the center stage in atlanta like last year july 19th it was amazing sharon all right kill it all right but this season i'm like let's bring all six on the road you know so people could see it and i got inspired by whoopi goldberg i knew you were gonna say whoopi goldberg yeah 1984 when she did her one-woman show broadway and so i'm setting that up right now and you gotta come yes you count it done you got two of your favorite characters coming on the road we got hello chick we got the rapping lady let's go and we got sharon okay we got the lip is sharon an aunt of yours it is it's gotta be it is i got this aunt that don't care this aunt don't talk about any everybody and if you know you know let me tell you i'm not here to get mad and i'm not here to get vexed and i'm not here to fight because i'm fine now that thumb go all of you that thumb and that toe boy i wish i had my shoes on i would i would show you that big toe that crusted toe okay with that i'm ready to play a game you ready to play let's do it let's do it that's we about to act up period let's do it tell me you're a winner without telling me your name i'm the peace of players and the fans baby i'm the game oh that's my song you're not getting up you're not getting up then you gotta go this way then i gotta come around so we're gonna play a little game today so the the the connect four is like our markers that's how we're gonna track our progress love that but the game is called act up act up act up and so we're gonna get some prompts from some series it could be like a series of like uh i don't know it could be like a a moment from a talk show okay you gotta perform one okay let's do it okay you ready let's get it let's act up act up period a read from a reality show not a white refrigerator not a white refrigerator girl let me see where this now this is where you live at bitch i know that what's that nene there's nene leaks you right you get that point period snap okay well you won that first one i got that one let's see what we got going on now a shady one-liner from a comedy film oh shady one-liner from a comedy film oh you got yeah i don't ever lose hold on it's too much buzzers at your level it's too much the movie is the nutty professor it's the grandma at the dinner table and she says oh my god she says to jada pinkett's character can you wear a white wedding dress young lady one thing about that eddie he got them characters can you wear a white wedding dress that's the whole mouth and demeanor mike douglas oh mike douglas make me only white men that make me more with mike douglas pop go to weasel because we will say pop okay you got that one scott okay period give me one that i in that you can't think okay you think of one i got one okay love her tiana see tyler prairie mixed it all in it was drama it was comedy so we had to throw that in there yeah look it is do you want to give her one for that i do yes yes yes and yes you're right all right all right okay a scene from a parody film parody film a parody film oh excuse me i got it snap snap scary movie yeah out of my face out of my face oh my god regina she was so dc in that movie oh my god literally what's the other line she says scott what did she say something about the uh bam you want candy camera yeah yeah bam you want candy camera My favorite. I got you on candy camera now. Out of my face. Julie! Like, oh my God. That's your point, though. That's mine? Okay, cool. I said, look, you helped me, though. I did. But you got it. Half a blue. Half a blue. Half a blue. A viral video or meme that features a kid. It's a hint of spiciness, a hint of tomato. It's like a hint of spice. I've never seen that one, Scott. You've not seen that one? No. No? All that and ramen? Yeah, just a little hint. What's a hint? I don't know. Well, I've never heard of that. Give you the blue, babe. Give you the blue. Take it, babe. That's just on you. Yeah, take it, babe. I don't know. Because there's a lot of kids. A little thing. A scene from a movie where an actor plays a famous character from a book. Oh, my God. Jim Carrey. I got it. Max! Can you hear that? It's Christmas. Christmas. Christmas. Christmas. Marsh. Marsh. Marsh or Belle. I got it. Let's get it. I got it. Wait, is that The Grinch? Yeah, The Grinch. You actually went a little Jim Carrey just then. I love Jim Carrey. The Mask. The Mask. Easily one of the best movies on the planet. Tale of Babbage. I don't know. Yes, Ventura. Fiegel is Einhorn. Einhorn is Fiegel. Fiegel, Einhorn, Einhorn, Fiegel. A character from a popular sketch. From a popular sketch. A sketch. Hi, I'm Deborah. What is that from In Living Color? In Living Color. The aerobics instructor. This is how you do it. You point out your chest here and you get it out. Yeah. Yes, with the pigtails. Hi, I'm Deborah. Yeah. Like what? My favorite one from In Living Color was Wanda. That Wanda? I was about to rock your world. Mine is Kim Wings. I love Kim Wings. When she played Miss Bernita, the gossip lady. Now, y'all didn't hear it from me. You didn't hear it from me. But you know, I think she was about to rock my life. We playing Connect Four, we just not good at it. Is that your way of telling us we got to do better at the game? I think I did it. Blocked you, right? For folks, you know, who've never played Connect Four out there, we're trying to connect four of our player dots. And I ain't getting it right. Me either. A classic moment from a talk show. Ooh, from a talk show. Classic moment. We just did that one. Hold on, no. Catch me outside. How about that? Catch me outside. How about that? But then her mom was like, she's saying for people to catch her outside. She's ready to fight. You said my audience is a bunch of hoes. Yeah, yeah. How about that? How about that? Catch me outside. How about that? That's a good one. Okay, now you got to try to connect four. Okay. So you got some three dots and you got a random lone dot. A lone wolf dot. A lone wolf dot. See, so we can't. Yeah, you can. We can do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We can do that. We can do that. We can do that. A celebrity viral moment. Oh, um. Celebrity. Why can't I hear? Let's go back in, V. Let's go back in, V. What it talk about? What it, what it see? What it see? What it see? What it see? What it see? What it see? What it see? Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I can't connect. Ah! Do, do, do. Now you trying to connect four. I am, but I can't connect. No, you right. You right. You right. You right. No, you right. You right right there. I can't connect it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. A moment from a singer that turned into a meme. Okay, go ahead. Where are my background singers? Come on, honey. Where's the next card? I don't know the words. This Christmas. You're an idiot. Patrick. Patrick. Patrick. Patrick. Oh, Patti LaBelle. Oh, Patti LaBelle. Was she in DC trying to do the, I think it was the Christmas tree lighting or the caroling at the monument, and she didn't know the words to the This Christmas song, and the baby on the card wasn't moving fast enough? She was going through it. Okay, here we go. Okay. You got that there. Okay. You see how I'm going? Yeah. Okay, baby. It ain't going to work, though. Come on with the next one. An actor who does a lot of physical comedy. Oh, my God. Jim Carrey. That's just what it is. Yeah, but what's one? You got to do one. Hold on. Why you holding on? Hold on. Hit that subscribe button so you don't miss nothing that ever happens on the show. We release new episodes every other Friday. You still holding on? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, literally. Okay, no, that's you. That's you. That's you. You got that one. You got that one. And where you thought she was going? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. That's you. You got that one. You got that one. You got that one. You got that one. Okay. A moment from a celebrity that became a reaction gift. That's Marseille Martin. But I got another one, too. I got another one, too. Okay. I love that. Okay. Here we go. Here we go. Who's that? Chrissy Teigen at the Oscars. Oh. Oh, yeah. Okay. That's me. That's me. That's me. That's me. That's me. That's me. That's me. That's me. A moment from a music award show. Ooh. Music award show. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh, no, no. Okay. A death scene from a movie or TV show. Death scene, death scene, death scene. Um, death scene. I did it first. You got one? I don't know. Hold on! I got one. Okay. Uh-oh. Jack. Jack Petty! You Petty! You Petty! You Petty! Jack! Come back! Come back! Meanwhile, she lifted his hands off the door. And then that. She was like, well, I guess if you already dead. Yeah, like, like, it's like, girl. And then he goes like, come back, come back. Jack. That's terrible. Girl, Jack gone. Jack gone. Trash. You ain't right. You ain't right. But you know what? I'm a drink to that. I'm a drink to that. And I'm a drink to you. We cannot wait for this one-woman show. Do not miss it. When's the first date? September 19th. Woo-wee! September 19th. In D.C.? In D.C. Let's go. Clock that, clock that, clock that, clock that. You were the bomb. This was amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Scott. You've been killing it. I love you. Yes. Oh, shoot, come on. Hold it. My booty don't look. Look at my booty. Camera man. Look at my booty, camera man. We out. Here he is. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Oh, no. Oh, my God.