I looked on YouTube for how to look better on Zoom.
[dog barking]
That’s also very bright, isn’t it?
Let’s do it.
Life has been very interesting.
I got my own place now.
It’s only like 500 square feet
but it feels like a mansion to me.
All included about $1700.
I met Elvis downtown.
He’s not the real one.
People were asking me for money
to buy Dior shoes.
I was like, “I think you messaged the
wrong person here. I think this is for Kane?”
In case you didn’t know, check out my LinkedIn.
It says, “Gucci, Prada, Chanel.”
During Covid, there was no shopping, no nothing.
Having a friend like Anna…
nothing’s shut down.
Like Gucci, we’ll just stand in the window
and the Gucci girl will be like…
“Do you want this one?”
And then Anna’s like
“This, this, this, and this.”
You know, it’s just Anna.
It’s just Anna.
The way you see her on the show
is the way she is in her day-to-day life.
Being me is me, so...
that I can’t help.
Anna does not give a fuck about anything.
It’s just Anna. I love that about her.
Ah, you’re really going to ask us that question?
Team Christine right now, because I need
a present this year from you Christine.
I would say both?
I’d have to say Team Anna.
I’m going to go for the underdog
so I’m going to go for Christine.
It’s just Anna’s world
we’re all just living in it.
Love them both.
Team Anna or Team Christine?
Both.
Anna.
You know, can’t we all just get along?
[Christine] It's already done, the dinner?
-[Anna] Yeah. -But this is your party.
-Thanks, Anna. -[Anna] Yes.
I just follow your timing, your lead.
Okay.
Anna's invite says 9:00 p.m. start.
That bitch gave me the wrong time.
The joke's on me.
[laughs] The joke's on me, again.
When I’m watching Anna play games
changing my seat
or telling me the wrong time to show up
watching it replay, it hurts still a little bit now.
I do know Anna’s heart
and I respect her.
It is what it is.
I didn’t feel
that certain people were really real.
You see someone like Christine
it is very very hard for me
to take her seriously.
When I first met her she was very
different than she is now.
Anna and I have had dinner together
and you know
we’ve exchanged texts.
No.
That is a simple
no I do not talk to her.
Viewers are talking and they’re reacting.
But personally speaking I feel that
the show only showed one layer of me
and one aspect of who I really am.
She’s the queen of couture.
Like, she can just
say and do what she wants and own it
and that’s what I love about her.
She is who she is and I think she's just a badass mom.
I was very nervous to see how some of my playful
mischievous side would come out on screen
and the dramatic like, cat and mouse game
I had with Anna.
So I do regret the way I came off.
I hope that if we get more seasons
fans will get to see a fuller picture of my life
and things I value.
You know the fun side of Christine.
She has a penis pump!
What?! She has a penis pump in her shower!
Uh, the penis pump.
Here’s the thing
with the whole penis pump.
It’s kind of an infamous
iconic scene I feel like.
It was pretty entertaining, I’ll tell you that.
That moment was just hilarious.
It was almost like.
I literally was shocked.
My reaction, what you say, was
I’m shocked. I was like, "What is that thing?”
Kim is very, very nosy.
I was like, “throw it out! It’s like
it’s all dripping and stuff.”
And then she has to be so loud and scream.
[laughs]
She’s very boisterous.
She’s very obnoxious.
I was just in shock. Like, "You’re really, you're mad?"
"Like, you’re really, really mad at me for that?"
If they went up there
they went up there for a purpose.
Then Kim was like, you know
“Throw it out there!” Okay, let’s just have fun.
This is supposed to be fun.
I don’t know how people do this.
Some of the cast members, like Jaime
a lot of them don’t even know what a penis pump is.
Alright, I’m going to look up
what a penis pump is
now since I haven’t done it.
It's...
It doesn’t look like the—
these look smaller than the one that
the one that was at Anna’s...
house.
I have my own penis pump right here.
[laughs]
This is my personal penis pump.
I better clear my search history.
[laughs]
Kim’s actions suprised me, like
just going through Anna’s house
so that scene I was like
“Whoa, Kim— I’ve never seen that side of you.”
Yes, that was wrong for me to
go through someone’s house.
When you put me and Kim together
we’re kind of like double trouble.
I feel like when I’m around Guy
he brings out this immature childish side of me.
There are some people that are mad
that I would do something like that to Anna.
Guy.
Why would he go upstairs
just to see my shampoo?
I did it one time
I’ll never do it again.
My hairdresser
doesn’t even do that.
It was harmless but
unfortunately to a lot of people out there
they’re like, “That’s the most disrespectful
thing" and I understand that.
I now embrace it because it’s part of
you know
history, I guess?
We’re so busy arguing about a penis pump
where the most important question is
who does it belong to?
Whose penis pump was it?
Initially I thought it was Kevin’s.
I’m like, “Is that how he’s getting all the Dior?
The penis pump? Like—"
[laughs]
Maybe Florent’s?
Kevin?
It think that was Florent’s penis pump
that maybe he left there by accident?
Probably Florent’s.
Well, not mine I’m telling you.
That’s all what I’ll say.
[laughs]
I still want to know where my security was
now that— thinking about this.
Like, where were they?
Let’s be honest.
Let’s get the elephant out of the room.
The relationship that changed the most
since filming
is definitely my relationship with Andrew.
With the Kelly and Andrew situation
that’s another story that really surprised me.
After watching the show
I didn’t know he was like that.
What I heard in Paris
unbelievable.
[Andrew] I would never— Would you want me
to do that to you? Yes or no?
[Kelly] I don't— The things that you—
[Andrew] Yes or no?
[Andrew] I don't want to hear anything but "yes" or "no."
I wouldn't care.
[Andrew shouts] Yes or no?
You know, you should never
talk to a woman like—
or anybody, you should never talk to anybody
like that, you know, so I was like really shook.
I didn’t know what the word gaslighting mean
but, until like now
I actually had to look it up, I'm like
"What does that mean?" You know?
So I definitely see where
the audience was coming from.
They saw a period, a really dark period
of our relationship.
And with Andrew’s behavior
I don’t excuse it at all
and I think it’s 100% wrong.
After filming, we took a good
I would five month or six month break
where we just both focused on ourselves.
I feel like I’ve grown a lot.
Filming felt like, like I guess one
of those plants that was, I was
in the light
and then the construction crew came over
and put the concrete
and it went dark
but now I feel like that I’m plant that you see
when you go running through
who's bursted through the concrete.
Going to therapy individually
and just learning about
ourselves.
And I’ve been able to resolve so many issues
that I didn't even know that were
still open, like a wound.
You know that we're back in communication
and back and seeing each other
it’s just been
it's night and day.
We are together today.
Stronger, happier
than we ever have been.
The anger issue, honestly is his darkest secret
and now that it’s out in the world
hopefully we can just
you know, only go up from here.
People change.
And people forget that he will change too.
And he will become better and he will
learn from all of this stuff and—
people aren’t always like that.
The more that we can expose
the more that we can grow
not only behind the camera
but in front of the camera.
For Andrew and my relationship
if it’s engagement
if it’s moving back together in the same household
if it’s having a baby
everybody’s life is different.
So for me, I think
whatever happens is supposed to happen
and I’m just living in the present
and I’m really grateful for that.
Do I have any advice
for
Kelly and Andrew?
I tried. I did the best I could.
But don't play into his game.
Yeah.
If he has issues, don't put it onto her.
There ain't no dick that good.
I wanted to ask her, is it the sex?
But then I thought that’s a little
too intrusive so I said “listen.”
There ain’t no dick that good.
Ain’t no dick this good.
There’s no dick that good.
I was like, okay.
That was my favorite
it’s like hands down the best.
Like— I don’t know why
I just thought it was hilarious.
How do I react to Anna’s line saying
“There ain’t no dick that good?”
I react to it like this.
[laughs]
You have a great sense of humor.
We make memes out of each other.
The memes.
I don't know what they are.
I have no idea how to work these.
And then, Twitter.
She’s trending on Twitter because
if you see like the top one.
It’s like “Anna Shay, reality gold.”
I'm like, fuck. Like, you know, I mean she
didn’t expect this and she didn’t want any of this.
There ain’t no dick that good.
Do I still stand by it?
Yes.
When we watched it for the first time
I definitely probably used up all that tissue
in the tissue box.
[Doctor] Open your eyes. And look down.
[Doctor] Here comes your baby.
Oh my god
[baby crying]
[Doctor] Thank you.
[Cherie] Just to see this little baby breathing and
and healthy, and happy, and
I can’t be more grateful I mean he
he saved me. Really, he did.
I am all about women empowering women.
Will you love me forever?
Yes, of course.
And?...
[laughs]
What?
And will you marry me?
[crowd erupts]
We definitely don’t have a date.
We don’t want to have a Zoom wedding.
We don’t want to plan and have a small wedding
have people get sick.
Like we don’t know anything yet.
[laughs]
Yeah, nothing, nothing’s set in stone yet.
Oh my gosh, you look really cute.
Well, watching the series for the
first time was very tough.
Actually I was very emotional.
Yeah, he—
That the next morning. I don’t know why—
He cried on the way to the gym. I was like, “what?”
Okay, well you didn’t have to say that.
Especially a lot of
scenes I had to do with
you know, Cherie dealing with her mom's
mom passing.
I think that was very tough for us.
It's really hard because I miss her a lot.
We light this for your mom, and offer it to Buddha for your mom.
And I think she's in a much better place.
This meant so much to me
and this year, like I, I understand how
important it is to have good friends.
Anyways—
but anyways
To me the best part is being able to share
with audiences a little bit of our lives.
And I think, considering the filming and what we have gone through
hopefully seeing that and we can touch other
people and comfort audience in their own way.
-[Kim] Hey, listen. [chuckles] -[Kevin] What's up? What's up? [chuckles]
[laughs]
How can we never be serious, ever?
-I don't know. -[Kim] Look at me with a straight face?
I'm trying, but you make me smile. I don't know.
As far as Kim and Kevin goes they already fight like a married couple.
How do you know this?
[laughs]
Me and Kim’s relationship has changed a lot.
People are like, “do they get along or do they get along?”
I think
it’s actually brought us closer.
Me and Kim talk about relationships a lot.
For some odd reason I’m like his “go-to person” when it
comes to his relationships and I’m like you know giving him advice.
Is there an attraction, I don’t know
and we’re trying to like
I don’t know!
Maybe I’ll flirt with him here and there, but
I don’t know.
She’s hot you know?
Like how could I not?
Wait, what? I didn’t know you said that about me.
I think maybe I got mad at him. I unfollowed him, he unfollowed me.
Kim and I do not follow each other on Instagram.
Yeah, I don’t know why we still have that little, like social media like rivalry thing.
It’s funny he’s one of those people like
“Hey I’m following you. You better follow me back.
Oh you’re not following me back?
Okay, I’m going to unfollow you.”
He didn’t give me a chance. So I’m like, “Okay.”
If I follow you first
but you don’t follow me back
does that mean now, you?
I like you more, like?
I’ll follow him now if he follows me maybe.
It’s a commitment following her now, this time.
Oh yeah, he’s all up on my page.
She watches every one of my stories.
Okay…
I think if Kevin had like twenty million dollars
there might be a relationship that’s about to happen.
But at the moment, he has like twenty bucks.
So, I don’t think that’s going to happen anytime soon.
[laughs]
Why is he so upset?
Because it's your penis pumper?
[laughs]
Like, let me go in her house and do
all this shit, you know?
Who raised you, wolves?
What'd you say?
Who raised you, wolves?!
My favorite quote.
You can say anything to me
but when it comes to my mom and my dad I’m very protective.
When I found out about my father passing
I needed a lot of time alone to, to heal.
Possible Tony's calling.
Tony.
[woman] I am Tony's wife.
You're Tony's wife.
-Oh, my— -[Kane] Where's Tony?
Where is Tony?
[Tony's wife] He died.
-[Kevin] He died? -[Tony's wife] He died two years ago.
[Kevin] Oh, no!
I actually reached out to Marilyn, my father’s wife.
She actually asked me, “Would you like to have his ashes? I can send it to you.”
It got, maybe more emotional.
I asked her, “You know, I haven’t seen him in so long if you can send me any photos of him?”
She’s a wonderful woman. She had a really great relationship with my father which made me really happy.
When Kane and I went to South Carolina I knew it was a violation of her privacy.
There was so much fear in doing that, like, “Oh my gosh, she’s going to kill us.”
You know, but I came from a place of compassion and I think, you know, it’s like, you know what?
I think she’s going to be understanding.
I wasn’t too happy about it, but I know Kane and Kevin’s intention wasn’t bad so you know I was like, "I appreciate it."
You know and if it wasn’t for them going out of their way to do that, I probably wouldn’t have the closure I wanted.
Watching the show definitely brought all the emotions back but I’m so grateful it happened.
You know it makes me really sad that people think I’m a name dropper.
I started noticing a different Christine
that felt that she had to name drop.
We go to Dolce Gabbana Alta Moda
and then we'll take the boat around the coast.
But she has nothing to prove to me.
My kind of circle is very fashion engaged so
so, fashion talk, names of houses, that’s in our everyday vernacular.
Her fashion sense and her knowledge in fashion, you have to credit her for that.
-Have you ever heard of Mellerio? -[Anna] Who?
-Mellerio. -[Anna] Uh-uh.
-It's the oldest, um, high jewelry house… -No. Boucheron.
-…in Paris. -Boucheron is.
Mellerio is.
So I would say, both were right in some ways
cause Boucheron is actually the first maison that was on Place Vendôme in Paris.
And in any case, I would say that in Anna’s heart Boucheron is number one.
So...
So, you're a jewelry expert, right? -Yes.
What's your assessment on everyone's jewelry at this table?
[laughs]
[Christine] Thumbs up, thumbs down, all the way around.
[Florent] There is, uh,
one fake. [chuckles]
Fake?
[Florent] Yeah, I suppose.
[laughs]
You can tell?
I mean, literally a five year old can tell that was costume jewelry.
Did I say that? Did I really say that?
I also think that you don’t really need real jewelry all the time to look good.
Kelly…
Vérité alternative.
Alternative truth.
[laughs]
Hi Siri, who has the worst style?
Kevin Kreider.
[laughs]
He doesn’t even wear a shirt so what are we talking about.
I have the worst style.
Shirtless?
Is that a genre?
I never thought you’d ask!
[grunts]
[laughs]
What's going on?
Everytime you take off your shirt Kevin, you lose money, because that’s his money, that’s how he makes money right?
Who has the most interesting style is Guy Tang. He looks like he’s from some action movie like—
They’re gauntlets.
These are Guy Tang ones.
These are Guy Tang custom ones, yeah.
Baby G loves his Target fashion.
I mean I can fill his closet with as much Dolce and Gabbana and Versace but he’s going straight to Target
The kid likes comfort, what can I say?
I do kind of regret, I didn’t have access to my full closet.
I brought like 1/50th of what I actually have so
1/50th of everything that I have.
But yeah that was the only thing that was a bit tricky.
Since filming I don’t think we've had any additional discussion about adding to the family
but
I’ve gotten a ton of solicitations to be our surrogate from all over the world.
Maybe we’ll have to reopen that discussion.
Regrets, I was obviously, I think Kelly is going to get a lot of anal memes
about you know me talking about her like anal, so—
Oh my goodness, Kane, Kane, Kane, Kane, Kane.
I have no idea where he got the anal thing from.
Kane.
You know she didn’t say that.
I don’t know, hopefully she gets some endorsements, anal endorsements, and—
she’s a business woman so I’m like, “Take it in, Kelly! Take it in.”
So I would like to set that straight, where I never ever ever told Kane that I like anal.
Yeah! It's like, what?
[laughing]
The Asians are here!
-We're here to buy your property! -We're here, bitches!
-[Kane] We're here to buy your houses! -[Kevin] Whoo!
[woman] You really scared them away. They've never run so fast.
[Kane] Did the Asian people scare them?
At the end of the day, I hope the message taken away is, heart, and family
community and unity which is very much an Asian value.
This show means everything to me when it comes to Asian and Asian representation.
Bling Empire means so much to me when I was actually watching it, through
I think when I was in the midway episode four, I was like, “fuck.”
This is an all Asian cast on a global streaming network.
I think for Asian American representation I think Bling Empire shows
a rare vulnerable perspective of a culture that generally is devoid of emotions.
We’re no different than any other human being.
There are many different types of Asians, and I hope that the show was able to show some of that.
Bling Empire, it’s something that I wish that I had growing up.
My whole life, I never had that.
Or at least representation in a way that I aspired to want to watch on TV or become.
And so hopefully that, we will get an opportunity to expand the
narrative to showcase more of the Asian culture and community, in the future which is definitely a goal.
The best part of the show coming out is having Korean adoptees actually reach out and say,
“Our stories are finally being told.”
You know that— this is a great group.
We all as a group talk often. We have a group chat.
Ooo, who would I drop from the group chat?
Nobody.
Okay no, I’m lying.
Jaime.
I would drop Jaime from the group chat.
Jaime cause she never responds.
I would drop Jaime from the group chat.
Jaime because she’s so busy influencing she never responds.
641 unread messages so…
Sometimes people just text so many your phone’s like dinging a million times.
Also it’s super difficult to type with long nails.
Who would I drop from the group chat?
Well, I would need to be in the group chat to drop someone.
I would like to get in the group chat, first.
It’s been amazing, I don’t know how to put it into words. I’m just really grateful.
It’s not up to us whether the show is successful
it’s up to people that watching this and watching this and just
following us on social media. So I’m super thankful for that.
Thank you guys so much.
Thank you.
Thanks for making me cry.
Bye!
[ANNA] Do I click off? [INTERVIEWER] We can take care of it. Don’t worry.
Oh, thank you!