With the premiere of Basketball Wives, season 4 to air at the end of this month, we were lucky enough to sit down with one of the stars from the show, the beautiful Ms. Royce Reed.
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Although for the past few seasons Royce has seemed to find herself in the midst of all the drama between her castmates, she has tried to shed her bad girl image and separate herself from the disputes and gossip to just focus on her acting career.
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In a two-part interview, Royce dishes on past beefs, how she’s grown as a person from being on the show, which cast member she feels supports her most, and her thoughts on the BEEF between Jennifer and Evelyn!
Check out part one of the interview below!
Having your past beefs with many of the cast members on the show, what is your current report with them now?
I’m just at a point in my life now where I try to steer clear of the drama, although I know it’s there and I know somehow, some way I’ll be brought into it, and not knowingly put myself in it.
But just being around this group of women I’ve learned how to deal with certain situations and even people. It’s definitely personalities, where if I wasn’t on the show, it’s people I probably would have never met or become friends with or just even hung around period.
But I think that’s the joy of being on the show. It’s a love/hate relationship with it. Because you realize you actually can become friends with people you never thought you would.
Who from the Basketball Wives cast has been most supportive of you and your new ventures?
Definitely Tami and I say that because she has been in entertainment for many, many years and she has a great, vast resume.
And speaking of her she’s extremely supportive, as are some of the other cast members. But I think Tami being in the same genre as I am, she‘s definitely been the one pushing me and sending me the supportive messages.
What do you have to say to people who only look at you as a basketball wife and nothing else?
I’m focused on business and my life outside of this show. I chose to do the reality show so I could pursue my career in the future, because the image that was put out there about me a few years ago was definitely not something that was positive. I felt like it was hindering my chances of really pursuing my dreams.
I didn’t think that people would really be willing to work with me if the image that certain people put out there was so untrue, but so negative. I needed to find a way to put myself out in the limelight and show people who I really was. And although I did make my mistakes and there’s certain things I watch and I cringe and wish I would’ve done differently, I did grow from them and I did learn from them.
With experience comes knowledge. I think now when people see me they see that I’m a completely different person than they thought and they give me a chance.
You’ve made it very clear how you feel about Jennifer and Evelyn. But how do you feel about the recent Jennifer and Evelyn beef?
I get this question a lot and I always answer the same way. A lot of people send me Twitter messages and say, ‘I bet Royce is LOLing’ … and I’m not.
Yes, I did make the statement that I thought they were fake friends. But I didn’t mean that to be evil or mean. I meant that in the sense of, I never felt that they had a very strong bond and just because you’ve known someone for 10 years doesn’t necessarily constitute them as your best friend.
I know with my friends we can tell each other any and everything, we can talk about any subject big, little. We can tell each other when you’re right, wrong, being a bitch, being a bougie … you know you might get upset but you know that’s what you need to hear.
We tell each other if you have a booger in your nose or if your breath stinks. So, I just never felt like I’ve ever witnessed or heard of them having a conversation that was extremely deep or that wasn’t one-sided. I just don’t feel you can be mad at someone for having an opinion and it be taken that far.
I’m not saying either is right or wrong. I think they are both right in some instances and wrong in some instances, but if they were that close they should’ve been able to mend it and not threaten one or the other with, ‘I know all of your business, you better be quiet because I’ll put you out there.’
That’s not something I would threaten a friend with. And I’ve fallen out with friends in the past and that’s not even something we ever fathom in our heads. We may not speak, but we still respect each other.
