We’ve spent this week talking about Brandi Glanville, LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian, because apparently we’re all stuck in 2009. To recap… LeAnn did what she always does, which was post a ton of photos of Eddie and Brandi’s sons onto her social media over the holidays. In a radio interview this week, Brandi admitted that the happy-family holiday photos drive her crazy and make her really sad. Brandi said she had asked Eddie and LeAnn to lay off the social media photos around the holidays, but they had ignored her. Eddie responded by going to People Magazine and calling Brandi a “liar” and making it sound like his ex-wife was an unhinged nutjob desperately clinging to LeAnn’s enormous fame (er…).
So, of course Brandi had to react. First she did some tweets-and-deletes, writing: “Sad that my ex has to go to the press &call me a liar when HIS LIES broke up our family. He knows I cud just share our emails& be vindicated…1last note. What mom wouldn’t want HER kids full time? They have been with me since birth. Im glad they have Leann to support them cuz u cant.” Then she deleted those tweets and wrote this:
I deleted a couple tweets I really don't want to start this new year feuding with my baby daddy ❤️let's stay positive (me included)
— Brandi Glanville (@BrandiGlanville) January 7, 2016
Still, the damage had been done. And by “damage” I mean that Brandi’s email to Eddie somehow got “leaked” to the site RealMRHousewife.com – you can see a shot of the email here. The site notes that they asked Brandi for a copy of the email & she provided it… BEFORE she tweeted that stuff ^^ up there about not wanting to feud with Eddie. And here’s the text of the email, which was apparently to Eddie, not LeAnn. I’m making some minor edits/paragraph breaks just to make it readable.
“My call this morning was not to fight with you but clearly anytime I need to have a conversation with you, you use it as a time to unleash any and all anger you have going on in your life on me. Eddie first know Im not mad and these aren’t old antics and I am happy that my children have a loving stepmom so don’t think that has anything to do with this.
Im not pissed Im not mad Im hurting yes I have emotions and holidays ESPECIALLY are so hard for me when Im not with my kids. I never thought I would be missing out on half of my children childhood and I never wanted that but unfortunately that is what has happened. As you are very aware I do not have family in town and when the holidays roll around and its your turn to have the kids I struggle,Im lonely for them, I cry I miss them sooooooooo much. Yes even 6 years later I will never get use to not having my baby on every holiday but those are the cards life has dealt me. It will forever be painful to send them off to your house half day on Christmas or allow you to have them on my Halloweens because I know all of their friends live in your neighborhood not mine and they will have more fun and they are the most important thing in my life.
I have a RHOBH google alert on my phone and to last night see your wifes social media post of her blended family it cut like a knife. It made me realize yet another year has gone by where I have missed half of my children lives. Its hard enough not seeing them on the holidays but then for you to pour salt in my wound is just mean and unkind please don’t. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE just stop the holiday family posts any other time my children step mom has my blessing to snap their picture I get it I made cute kids they are perfect and they are mine.
I will forever have trust issues with men thanks to you and I will forever only see my kids grow up half the time thanks again to you but what Im asking is for you to be a better ex-husband. If there is a concert and your their first saving your parents front row seats save me one too IM THERE MOTHER and its the nice thing to do. If I allow them to spend my Halloweens at your house because their friends all live in your neighborhood possibly invite me to trick or treat with them or Jake.
You and I don’t have to be friends we don’t have to like each other but we will forever have 2 people in common and I really would like you to think about them not me but them. Im begging you to be thoughtful and kind to what I go through especially around the holidays that is it- don’t want to fight and I really do hope that one day you and your wife can experience having a baby of your own that you will have full time and never have to share. thats it B.”
[Brandi’s email to Eddie, via RealMRHousewife]
I’m sad for Brandi on a lot of different levels. She was feeling emotional, she was feeling sad and she was really trying to say something larger about how dysfunctional it is to coparent with Eddie. It also sounds like this email came after Brandi and Eddie had some huge blow-up over the phone in which Eddie unloaded on Brandi. God. These two. What I keep coming back to is this: if Brandi is crazy, it’s because she’s been dealing with the fact that her ex-husband is lousy at co-parenting AND he married a woman who wants to wear Brandi’s skin, Buffalo Bill-style. Also: what do you want to bet that LeAnn reads all of Eddie’s emails so of course she read this one too?
Photos courtesy of WENN, Instagram.
And now LeAnn is too “busy” to do a rebuttal on Nik’s podcast. Because who’s got time for the truth when lies have got all your attention?
Brandi is divorced. You have to co-parent. It comes with the territory that if you have kids and the relationship doesn’t work out, you my have to split time with them. It sucks, but as a child of divorce she is being petty here.
Asking her ex not to post holiday family pictures with the kids is unreasonable. Her dealing with loneliness and making new connection/traditions to move on is HER RESPONSIBILITY.
I don’t see Eddie and LeAnn being evil here, when this is the reality of blended families. Brandi has to deal with her emotions like an adult.
I agree with you 100%. This is exactly my take on the situation.
I totally agree w/ Greyson, Brandi has family (mother father, siblings), and friends she should visit w/ them during the holidays when her sons are w/ their Dad.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable at ALL to not want someone else to post pics of your children on social media.
It is when the person doing the asking posts pictures of the children on holidays… in their underwear… and posts questions indicating that a 12 year old should know if his date is a virgin.
Grayson nailed it. Nothing in this makes me feel sorry for Brandi. The statue of limitations on my empathy ran out several years ago. She is immature and naecisstic. That closing that it’s about the kids is pure BS. THE ENTIRE email is a woe is me, pity party……and to close on that “it’s about the kids” crap is dribble.
They may be your children but they are human beings — not accessories or possessions. You co parent. You share. You create a life and plans when they are with their other parent. This wench needs to volunteer at a soup kitchen, a hospital or a homeless shelter and get a grasp on real problems. Be grateful their stepmother loves them and they love her in return.
I think LeAnn is batsh*t crazy, and Eddie is a slimy douchebag, but Brandi is at least as an awful a person as both of them are. Expecting them to save her a seat at a concert (how about you get your ass there on time so you can get a seat?) or invite her trick or treating with them is next level trolling
I am not a fan of any of them but Brandi really needs to let all of it go and move forward. If she let all of it go, she would not let the holiday posts upset her so much. These kids are Eddie’s too. And she should be grateful that LeAnn adores her children as much as she does because it could be far worse with that crazy lady. Far worse. I can’t tell you how many stories my friends have of their stepmothers doing horrible things to them from starving them to molesting them to beating them. LeAnn is crazy but she hasn’t done one thing to harm those kids or we would have heard about it from Brandi. I can see why she would get upset at LeAnn for calling her kids her bonus kids.. but this.. come on. Let it go already.
I agree with Greyson completely!
Sorry, but I am completely team Brandi. My stepmom was just like LR, insecure & just plain crazy. My stepmom always had something against my mom. I mean my parents were never allowed to be in the same room. My parents never co-parented the way my sister & I needed them to. Fast forward many many years & the damage has been done. Now she feels terrible about how she handled the situation, but It’s far too late, you can’t take back years of ensuring I’d never be able to have celebrations with both my parents. While two birthdays, two Christmas, two everything sounds ideal, it never was for me. My nieces call my stepdad grandpa & we celebrate him for Father’s Day, but she will never be called grandma nor be celebrated by us.
Too bad Eddie doesn’t realize the damage he’s doing to his children. His children will one day resent him & he’ll be the one left out years later.
I disagree I think she is being reasonable. She is asking for him to be a co parent. To respect one request and to remember her as their mother, sounds like she is willing to do the same for him as its in the best interest of the boys. There is zero reason to post holiday pictures zero, especially if it is causing issues in the co parenting relationship.
Sorry I find all three terrible but based on that email it really sounds like what Brandi is asking for is respect from the father of her children and that isn’t out of line.
The only people being selfish are Eddie and Leanne, because they can’t respect and partner. Brandi isn’t asking for anything crazy.
I really do feel for her. She’s not perfect, but he did start all of this and plays these two women like fiddles. He basks in the attention and Brandi has no choice but to give it to him because of their kids.
Oh yes – he clearly gets off on playing them off each other and uses the kids to make it all about him. Leann clearly and desperately wants to be a mother with a family of her own but she shouldn’t take someone else’s. Leann should also show some respect to their mother (thou someone needs to explain the difference between there and their to Brandi). But then again with these 2 you reap what you sow.
He’ll do to Leann what he did to Brandi when he gets bored enough or someone younger with more money and fame comes along.
I totally agree Betti!
and she recognizes that LeAnee does contribute and is a stepmom.
is Eddie working??? he needs to be instead of giving his mess to People magazine.
or did Lee impesonate him, LOL!
what a crazy mess.
Yeah, this made me empathize with her more. I think people who have been through divorces with kids will understand this better than those who haven’t. Her emotions are not uncommon.
I empathize with her pain as well…it’s not normal how LeAnne has to use those kids in her PR campaign. It would be normal to send photos to loved ones or just -be- together without the photo shoot, but to advertise this “family” is cruel, given how Brandi is publicly still in a bad place over the way it went down. It’s ok to love the kids, but why in such a public way? It’s just insensitive. I would respect LeaAnn -more- if she’d post photos of her and Brandi genuinely together in -seats saved by Eddie- at some event for the kiddos. With all that cash, can’t these people buy some peace and love moderators?
I agree that he’s playing them. As I said yesterday, he doesn’t seem bright enough to be thinking it out master manipulator style but even stupid people know what hurts and I believe he preys on both women’s insecurities.
You don’t have to be very intelligent to do that, and I don’t think he is. (I would be willing to believe that he is more intelligent than some of the other muppets in this drama, but that’s not saying much.) Most people’s insecurities are incredibly common and obvious, and some people have a knack for finding the raw spots almost immediately. He’s probably one of them and it’s what he does to get what he wants.
Gotta love when celebs drop receipts. And yea this makes me feel for her. It seems like Eddie married LeAnn which started all of this drama and let LR drag Brandi every chance she got. LR totally SWFd Brandi to the nth degree and Eddie lets her because she carried the purse strings. If Eddie was ANY kind of man he would’ve checked LR ages ago but then again he could’ve kept it in his pants in the first place.
Now that he wants to get his hands dirty I have ZERO issues if Brandi wants to drop all the damn tea online.
Re: “Brandi has no choice”… There is always a choice. ALWAYS. I feel for her having to split time with her children, but this is not the way to go about trying to feel better. Work on yourself Brandi. When your kids are with dad, go to therapy, take some art classes, writing classes…find a constructive way to express yourself. Using social media to take shots at Eddie/LeAnn will only hurt your children. Teach your boys how to be a real adult by example.
I wonder if Brandi knows she’s not the first woman to have share her kids after a divorce? These social media posts are ridiculous. These boys that she loves can read all this back and forth between their parents on line as can their friends and the world. This is what, seven years of the same crap? Enough, all three need to grow up. Cheating on a spouse is an everyday occurrence in LA. There are a lot of celebs who divorce and fight over the kids. The only difference is, they don’t post it on social media or make sure the world knows they’re not happy. This is BS and never ends because the three of them need to be relevant and stay in the spotlight at the expense of two kids.
I don’t like Brandi at all, but I feel for her on this one. Still, can you imagine what it’s like for her kids with all this stuff being made public? School must be hell for them.
Absolutely. In jr high one of my friends had a mom who sometimes wrote small news articles, just little op ed or slice of life pieces. Any time a story about him was included it was all over the school immediately. Even fairly innocuous things like him not knowing what a toaster was because they’d always had a toaster oven, were used to tease him. I can’t imagine what goes on with this story.
Probably no worse than what it was like for them when there was a reality show based on bashing their mother, or being introduced to two LR fans that had F Brandi shirts on, or having Leann brag about how she taught them the songs from Spitfire.
@jenn12 they are ALL in the wrong to be doing any of this publicly. It’s damaging coming from all of them.
I get that we’re supposed to feel sorry for her, but that’s a load of manipulative bull spit.
Grow up. You’re not missing half your kids’ childhood because they spent half a day, even if that day is Christmas, with their father and stepmother. Get some perspective and a hobby and spend some time working on yourself, because wallowing in self pity is hurting your children far more than having an over zealous step mom who wants to take their picture.
Not to be mean but it sounds like you are not a divorced parent sharing custody of children.
My friend is in a similar situation but the leann character is the baby’s grandmother.
She talks the same way as Brandi. Sounds crazy but some people love their kids that way.
That’s not love. It’s immaturity. It has been six bloody years. Stop drowning your sorrows in booze and pills and self-pity.
While I was home for my maternal grandmothers funeral, and he was in the care of the children for the first time longer than one night, my ex decided to move in a GF that had previously been unannounced to me. Talk about head exploding! Right around the holidays of course! Then we went to court and I had to deal with the whole 50/50 thing that started immediately with him having thanksgiving and Christmas that year (we had Kelly Rhutherfords first judge Theresa B. Who as we know doesn’t let emotions get in the way ) well, let’s say that was the hardest and saddest holiday season I’ve ever known. The sound that emitted while I cried was something guttural and similar to a wolf crying, such was the raw emotion inside of me connected to the pain of holidays without children.
That was six years ago. That girlfriend isn’t in the picture anymore, but you know what? It doesn’t matter. People cheat, relationships bust up. You have GOT to move on. Six years later I am definitely still single by choice, still alone for the holidays, still out here in CA while my entire orbit is on the east coast. But I am still not drowning myself in wine and crying. You know? Because that’s a victim mentality. Life happened. I didn’t plan on that. I was emotionally abused and cheated on. My ex has been diabolical in his attacks of me. It wasn’t always pretty. However, I continued to try to put my best foot forward.
While I had every intention of supporting Brandi through this, she’s simply not a nice person, and she REALLY plays the victim much more than she should. It’s like her thing. And frankly, half of the time I just don’t understand her process. She’s a drunk, and a public one at that, and it makes no sense to me. She’s also nasty, a trouble maker and then when people call her out its this HUGE sob story and victim mentality, and it’s like Brandi, you’re not the first or the last. You have more opportunity then most women! Pick it up, accept Leann and Eddie for the rats they are and just move forward. This whole public forum for the disaster is NOT making peace.
And really, six years IS enough time to be okay. If it’s not then maybe a dose of therapy is needed.
Leann isn’t changing, the kids look wonderful and pretty happy as of late. OR go back to court and try to put a stop to it legally, albeit quietly. Don’t put it out for public consumption.
Please google Maria Celeste. She is a respected and well known journalist often referred to as the Spanish Katie Couric. Her husband cheated on her and he declined to take her on her offer to work things out. He married his mistress. She decribes the incredible emotional pain it brought her. In her memoir, she describes how they have all adopted a blended family because they all care for the interest of the children that she and her ex conceived. They have family outings together and she and the now wife are extremely friendly towards each other. She explains that it was the love for her children that allowed her to forgive the situation and she decided to put the best interest of her children first. She feels grateful towards the wife that she too cares for her children as her own.
My point? Going through a divorce and under such circumstances doesn’t give a person the right to act like an ahole for the rest of their life. You have the ability to rise above the bs even when the other party is not cooperative. These two morons can always get a reaction out of Brandi because the truth is that she’s not over it no matter how much she says she is. Her responses indicate otherwise. Let it go.
If she were to find herself and then consequently find someone who made her happy and the ability to love again then I bet Leanne’s tactics would fail. Brandi could simply brush them off and only focus on her children.
I get it, but this also isn’t a new situation. Six years is a long time, plenty long enough to figure out a way to handle it without being self-destructive. To still be telling the same story, expecting the same sympathy, while also not doing anything differently six years later is immature and unhealthy.
I don’t blame it all on Brandi, though. Trying to work with Eddie and LeAnn probably feels like a frustrating and near-impossible task. They all hold each other down and nobody seems to have the maturity or balls to break out of the cycle.
Custody is split 50-50 so, yes, she really does only see them half the time. I think you got caught up in the holiday aspect, but that’s a different point.
Spoken like a person who has no children, no empathy and no concept….
…or like someone in LeAnn’s camp…take your pick.
Spoken like a smug person who thinks you have to have children to know that it’s painful to get divorced and share custody. News flash “mommies” – you’re not the only people on earth with functioning brain cells. People can watch and observe the relationships around them and see the effect it has on children even though they have not performed the miracle of giving birth. As far as I know, that doesn’t improve your brain or eyesight or insights or empathy. Some of the biggest a$$holes I know are mothers. BendyWendy is right, first of all. Second, does it ever occur to YOU, Miss Compassion and Empathy, that your words may cause pain to someone who was unable to have children? I don’t know OP’s situation, but are you seriously suggesting that she can’t have an opinion about a celebrity divorce because she doesn’t have children? Maybe you’re the one with “no concept” of how tiresome it is to have other people treat you like you’re less than they are because they have children.
@Lukie Yes. I don’t have children and even I can empathize with someone not being able to see their children everyday. Just because you accept the situation doesn’t make it any less upsetting.
No, not really. That’s too simplistic and frankly insulting. Just because you don’t have kids doesn’t mean you don’t understand human emotions and what drives people to behave certain ways.
I recently has to check myself — my kid wants to go to a summer thing that lasts 5 weeks and I was thinking of 1000 reasons she shouldn’t go until I finally realized (by having it pointed out by a friend who is not a parent) that it was me not wanting her to be away that long that was driving it. So selfishness. Sometimes those not in the thick of it can have better insight.
And GNAT–here’s a bright spot for you. Everyone (really everyone) we know is taking their kids to a Hilary Clinton fundraiser today. I might have gone, but slowed down gave it more thought because of your posts, and we’re going mini golfing instead.
I do have child, and empathy and concept and NO I am not in any ones camp. Sorry but I find Brandi to be manipulative and media hungry. She has played this “poor me” story for six years. And she will continue to play it as long as it keeps her name in the gossip columns.
Birdix, what a sweet thing to tell me! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
All of my divorced friends with children have learned to relish the time that 50/50 custody gives them. A long bubble bath. A quiet house that stays clean for longer than 10 minutes. The time to work on themselves so they can be better parents. A lot of people get wrapped in their lives revolving 100% around their kids and I think that is a bad thing. As many other commenters have noted, Brandi needs to get a life, clean up her act in regards to excessive partying, drinking (& god knows what else), and stop being such a pathetic famewhore.
I applaud you GNAT 👍🏻. Well said. I’msick of all the holier than thou moms.
Every child on this earth wants to see their mother every day! The boys like leanne but do not want to see her every day! Mothers who carry the baby for almost 10 months inside them, obviously have a connection where they want to see each other every day!
Yes, this made me less sympathetic to her than I was before. She is choosing to see the glass as half empty, choosing to have a google alert on during the holidays when she knows that the pictures will hurt her. You want to talk about missing your child at Christmas? My brother’s 18 year old son died two years ago this Dec. 23rd. He will never grow up, and there will be a hole in our family that can never be filled, so stfu Brandi.
Ugh ITA.
I love how she couches it in “think of the children!!” when really it’s all about HER hurt feelings and has ZERO to do with the kids.
These poor boys will need years of therapy to overcome the damage caused by these three incredibly-selfish individuals.
GNAT, you know I love you, but I have to disagree with you here. Just because someone else lost their child (and btw, I am so sorry for your and your brother’s loss. I can’t imagine that kind of heartbreak) that doesn’t mean her sadness and pain is less valid.
GNAT – totally agree with you. Sorry about your nephew. My daughter’s fiance passed away 2 years ago also. There is one child who will never remember her dad (she was 2 at the time) and one child who has a vague memory of his dad (he was 4). Prayers for your family as it is a hard time when a love one is lost.
@Vauvert-But that’s not what GNAT’s saying. Look, when I was growing up divorce was more common than not. I actually felt like a bit of a freak for having parents that stayed married. Brandi is far from the only divorced parent who misses her kids during the holidays. That’s not to say that she doesn’t have a right to feel sad, it’s just to say that the incessant self-pitying makes her come across as someone who doesn’t know how good her life really is. At what point do you just accept what has happened and move on?
How many Hollywood marriages with children end in infidelity on the part of one partner? How often do we hear the details being hashed out publicly? Not often.
How can anyone possibly think that this is how mature adults act? Brandi’s feelings are normal, but bringing her issues with the father of her children to social media and the press is NOT. And before anyone says it, YES I know that Eddie and Leanne aren’t any better.
Love you GNAT. As always truly spot on and echoes what I said above.
@vauvert
Feel free to disagree, and I love you back. I’m not saying her feelings are invalid. Feelings never are. I’m saying her behavior is invalid. She is handling her feelings like a six year old. Her sons need her to be the grown up here. They need to be able to go to their father’s house and sleep tight not worried about whether mommy is home crying or getting drunk and causing a scene that will be all over the tabloids tomorrow. They don’t need to feel guilty about something over which they have no control. We have all been tempted to look at things that hurt us, like pictures of her children on the holidays. The only person who can control that is Brandy, but she would rather wallow in self-pity and refuse to see how very lucky she is that her sons will be coming home tomorrow. Her ex lives in the same town. Things could be a lot worse, and she could make things tolerable for herself with some effort, but she’s too busy feeling sorry for herself.
@Little Darling,
Love you right back, and you are the example of a mature, selfless mother who puts her children and her own life first. That’s how you be good mother – you feel the pain, you deal with it, get past it and spare your children from it.
I’m not sure that I’m less sympathetic – it probably stayed about the same. I married into a divorce situation and I think those feelings are pretty normal, although I personally have witnessed it dissipate a bit over time. My husband let himself wallow in it a bit the first couple years and then when he was telling me about it (I have been friends with him since we were very young) I told him to get out and do something with that time – travel, be with friends, etc. He took my advice, has been better for it and that encouragement is part of how we ended up together. It’s sad to know that people either don’t have that encouragement in their lives or they ignore it.
She asked for a little in this email and I tend to think not posting holiday photos is easy enough, although I think in these cases maybe she should also not do it because isn’t Eddie also a hurting parent? That said, I also know that one email in a long custody case isn’t necessarily indicative of the entire situation. There are people, and I’m not saying she’s absolutely one of them but we don’t know, who every time you give them an inch want and may take a mile. I do think she’d have been better off not constantly mentioning that he was at fault for the divorce and gave her her insecurities. It’s never good to bring anything else in to a fight or a request.
Honestly, some people just don’t have the tools to handle co-parenting. My mom had a very similar viewpoint to Brandi – on the years that I was at my dad’s on Christmas morning, at some point in the afternoon while I was with my mom she’d cry and tell me how hard it was to wake up that morning without me. This was for many, many years. Some people handle divorce and custody well. Some people simply don’t and choose to let it become the defining event in their lives. Brandi is far from the only person to have this problem. Hopefully one day she gets the emotional tools to move past this, but my mom certainly didn’t.
@Bridget how did you cope with that as a kid and how do you deal with your mom as an adult? I ask because my SS is in a similar circumstance and I worry that when he’s older it’s going to make him angry and create a split with his mom. Like you said I think some people really struggle with that coping and I would like him to be compassionate but also understand that maybe she should seek help. I guess that’s where I struggle with watching this stuff – you have to know you’re not handling this well so why not get help? Why let the misery define you?
I don’t know if even to this day she realizes that it’s really not healthy how she handles things. If you try to say anything, the reply you get is something along the lines of “you just don’t understand how deeply I feel” or “you don’t get it”. It’s her choice, and a lot of it comes down to who she is as a person. She’s my mom, and I love her, and we’re fairly close, but I also at this point just accept that I have to deal with her as I would a 16 year old. It is what it is. Of course as a kid I didn’t get that, but I seem to have come out unscathed :).
That makes sense. And it sounds like you’re a rational and compassionate person who gets who she is while still loving her. Whether that’s nature or nurture she must have had a hand in it so it all worked out.
I briefly felt incredibly sorry for her. Can you imagine having the woman your husband cheated with posting photos of your kids online especially ones where they’re all playing happy family? I would actually tear my hair out. And the whole ‘well, don’t look then’ idea is incredibly glib. Someone else is posting photos of your kids on their incredibly public social media and you’re being told to simply not look and get over it? Telling a mom to just not look at photos of her own kids… be realistic.
HOWEVER!!!! Does Brandi really think she can wheel out her ‘THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! BE NICE TO ME!’ when she has dragged her kids other parent and step parent through the mud so publicly? She doesn’t get to demand consideration simply because she’s their mother when she has no problem making a career from slamming her kids dad.
Everyone in this situation is a shrieking infant with the exception of the children. They seriously need to think about it. Idiots.
@paleo I think that we all learn as we get older that are moms are just human. She tried the best she could, but isn’t perfect. I can either resent her for the rest of our lives and be miserable, or I can appreciate that she worked really hard as a single mom in the 80s and 90s, that she’s always loved me even if she sometimes didn’t really know how to parent, and that she tried her best. Though she does still drive me crazy 🙂
And FWIW, both my mom and stepmom were in the room with me when I gave birth to kid#2. (just the husband with kid #1… and what turned out to be like 5-6 hospital staff. They don’t tell you that part ahead of time!)
Bridget it sounds like you’re a great person who had a lot of support. I agree as you grow older you usually transition to seeing your parents as people. I just don’t know how kids like the Cibrians will deal with how this all played out and so publicly.
And yes it’s amazing what they don’t tell you about women’s health care beforehand!
Brandi and Eddie split 50/50 custody which means the children spend half of their time with one parent and half with the other. That is what she means by missing half of their childhood and she is correct.
@ Jayna–
ITA. I saw the reality show with Eddie and LeAnn… and Eddie REALLY does not like Brandi… at all. I know we have a lot of Brandi apologists explaining away WHY Eddie is nasty — she divorced him. I think he wants to erase her and keep the kids that is an unreasonable request.
Brandi is better off forgetting Eddie was at one point the love of her life and work on loving herself better so she can heal. Her wounds run deep. So Brandi NEVER asked LeAnn directly to stop, eh? She asked Eddie and basically he is not sympathetic to her needs ON ANY LEVEL. That my dear, is hate.
Eddie brought up a good point– his children have been with Leann and Eddie longer than Brandi and Eddie were together. Time to move on and LET GO.
I’m the same as Brandi, I’ve gone thru the same. I’m now 60, my kids are grown, with kids of their own. My ex daug in law and I are still close, my son is Ed, his wife is Leann, I lost alot of respect for my son, alot, we don’t speak. He doesn’t see his kids, and when he does it’s a few days a year, and they try to blame ex daug in law, it’s his wife, she controls him, has even sent me nasty messages, I had only met her once, once was enough. I bang my head against the wall, I try to explain to other family members it’s not me or ex daug in law, the same as Brandi try’s to explain, she has proof but no one believes her. It’s frustrating to say the least.
Your post makes me wonder what Ed’s parents think of this mess.
You are making excuses for your son. Blaming it on the daughter-in-law controlling him. Ed is not controlled by LeAnn. He hates Brandi. It’s clear. She had the fight on the phone with Ed before the email, not LeAnn. If you watched their crappy reality show, you would see that Ed is no pushover and dislikes Brandi with an intensity all on his own. Most likely it has to do with all she has said in books and the press about him, whether true or not. He has his own agenda and his own angry feelings towards Brandi.
Your son is a bad father because of himself and has attached himself to a new wife that encourages that, but he is the father and those are his kids, and it is his failure as a person,
I’m sorry to hear about your estrangement. It must be sad. I’m glad you are still close to the ex-daughter-in-law.
@janya I personal believe (plus some of my education behind this thought process) Eddie hates Brandi because he knows what he did during and after his marriage. By deeply hating and blaming her it takes the responsibility off of him. This is seen often in marriage counseling when one partner cheats and literally projects their actions onto the innocent partner almost like they did it instead, it’s a way of diverting feelings, actions, resentment etc. This isn’t coming from the books, interviews etc because this was happening long before that. Theres a whole dynamic going on we aren’t seeing here.
@Tify, I thought that was fairly obvious….. Brandi called him out on his bad behavior and didn’t act the way he wanted her to (as in, just be the good little wife and let him do as he pleased) and in his mind this is her fault. SHE divorced HIM, and how dare she! Why couldn’t she just understand him?! Nobody wants to be the bad guy and people twist themselves into all kinds of knots just to feel like they’re justified in their actions. Of course Eddie is deeply resentful towards Brandi, he probably genuinely feels like she started this mess and is the cause of all the problems. He’s wrong, of course, but I doubt he’ll ever see it like that.
We all have different feelings, largely based on on our own experiences. I am fortunate to be in a strong marriage and I know from discussions with our son about his friends with divorced parents what a hard thing it is for both kids and parents to split their lives.
Yes, Brandi is missing half her children’s lives. Everything from school pickups to Halloweens to half the holidays and half the mornings when you wake them up, tousle their hair, kiss their sleepy faces, make sure their hats and boots are on, right down to putting on band-aids and cleaning them up when they are sick in the middle of the night.
If I had to miss half of everything because the child’s father was a cheating bastard whose new wife made a point of detailing their happy, happy life with my kids on social media, I would probably take to drink too. The fact that six years have passed would just mean that I had missed half of my kids’ last six years.
I have never defended Brandi before and still think there are much better ways to make a living that being a drunken horny mess on tv. BUT as far as her feelings as a mother are concerned, I am 100% for her.
Would you hash all of it out on social media though? Or would you try to put your kids’ feelings first and handle the complications that come with a blended family privately?
These kids have been through SO MUCH sh*t due to the selfish actions of their father and his new wife. Brandi just exacerbates their discomfort and confusion by publicly posting about private matters between her and her ex. YES, I know the other two do the same thing but my point is that HOW is Brandi any better? It’s not that I don’t empathize with how difficult it must be for her, my issue is with how she handles that. Seems like everything with her–even potentially sincere emotions–turns into a ploy for publicity and press.
+1000
Not a Brandy fan, but I agree with everything you mentioned above. For me holidays wouldn’t be the biggest issue. It would be talking about their day at school, tucking them in at night, kissing boo boos, and giving hugs or snuggling when they need it. That’s what would tear me apart.
Isn’t the email an attempt to handle it privately? It is pretty measured, she even compliments Leann. Eddie/Leann/Darrell could have sent a appropriate response even if it was “no we love the children..the pictures are coming from Leann and I and we want to share the family with the fans” I don’t know something like that, but I am sure they totally disregarded this whole email, which is where the problem lies.
Look as his response to what in the end is a fairly throw away comment Brandi made – we have issues, it is hard for me to see the kids on holidays. Is that really that bad? Why come out and call her a liar, when you clearly know she isnt lying?
@JM-You mean the *private email* that was mysteriously “leaked” AFTER she did the radio interview in which she discussed this very issue? What exactly is the timeline BTW? Was that BEFORE the incessant tweets about the father of her children or did that come afterwards?
It’s honestly hard to keep track when she uses every form of media available to her to bemoan her circumstances.
@Kitten To be honest I loosely follow this, but in my mind the timeline is something along the lines of 1. Pictures posted thanksgiving 2. Email sent (I think the screenshot said dec 3–correction I checked the email and it was Nov 3 so after halloween) 3. Email completely disregarded 4. Comment on radio show – which at that point I get it….
I don’t watch RHOBH so I am missing a large part of this, but from following BG as well as LR on twitter, she seems to somewhat have cut down on the drunkenness….
Sure, fine. Feelings are great. HOWEVER. They don’t give you an excuse to engage in bad parenting, which — in my opinion — Brandi certainly is, in this instance (and many others).
As a mother, I would NEVER EVER dream of hashing this crap out in public. Let alone leaking e-mails, talking about it on twitter… It’s very dysfunctional and damaging for the kids. They don’t need to know you get fall down drunk when they’re not with you because you’re sad. Sorry, that is shit parenting, and I hate that people are backing her up because they don’t like Leann.
IMO, Your feelings don’t get to trump the emotional well-being of your children. It doesn’t matter.
@Kitten, what other choice did she have after Eddie and Leann flat out called her a liar? They knew damn well she was telling the truth too. If they had kept their stupid mouths shut, the email would have remained private.
She was asked a question in an interview and answered honestly as a mother who is hurting over missing so much of their lives and people want to crucify her for it? GTFOOH She has every right to feel sad about missing out on so much, she tried to handle it privately and from the email it would appear that Eddie, once again, chose to be a complete DICK about it.
@Onenonblonde-“What choice did she have?”
Sorry did I miss the part when she had a gun to her head? SHE was the one who initially brought it up in a radio interview (let’s not pretend that questions weren’t pre-screened) and when she didn’t like the unwarranted response from her cowardly ex-husband, she continued to engage. She put the bait out there, he predictably took it, and then she made things worse by continuing to talk about it when she had every opportunity to take the high road.
I am so tired of people defending what is clearly terrible parenting simply because this woman was cheated on SEVEN years ago.
She ABSOLUTELY had a choice. She had the choice to say NOTHING or “no comment” or simply state in the radio pre-interview that she won’t answer any questions about her ex and his wife. THAT is the right thing to do for the children. They don’t need to be the source of her mudslinging with Eddie and Leanne. Can you imagine how it is for them being involved in this tug-of-war? Can you imagine how guilty Brandi’s letter probably made them feel? They shouldn’t have to feel like they’re betraying their mother or hurting her feelings on Christmas but Brandi can’t help herself because it’s all about HER all the damn time. She doesn’t think about how this will affect her kids because she’s too worried about her own sh*t.
People will go to any length to defend this woman’s actions and it drives me f*cking crazy. Thank god my mom and pop had higher parenting standards than Brandi and her legion of supporters.
@Kitten took the words out of my mouth!
@BendyWindy
I’m sorry you are being piled on by these melodramatic “you couldn’t POSSIBLY know anything if you’re not a divorced mother” comments. My sister and brother are both divorced parents with joint custody, 50-50. To take the attitude that they are boo-hoo “missing half their children’s lives” would never occur to either of them. They work with their ex so nobody misses anything important and they suck it up and do what’s right for their children. Brandi has been whining about this for SIX YEARS. She has put her boys in the middle of this Mommy’s so sad, Mommy’s so drunk, Mommy fell down in the street because we aren’t with her for this entire time. How do you think that makes them feel? Can they enjoy their time with their father knowing that their mother can’t turn off her Google alert and deal with their being with their father? What kind of mother puts her children through that? A selfish, self-centered, immature one. Her children are healthy and ALIVE. It’s up to her to grow up and be their mother and stop using them as an excuse to get wasted.
YES and YES.
Yup. If the reactions around here are to be believed, then I guess I’m a heartless shrew. I’m usually sympathetic to Brandi, because Leann and Eddie seem like a piece of work, but this whole “wah wah half their childhood” nonsense is just not jiving with me. Duh. You’re divorced, your EX has a life that is unattached from you, and you can’t control it.
I don’t agree with how it was stated. I’m willing to give Brandi credit on one part, though: it would take someone with extraordinary confidence and emotional security to be able to successfully co-parent with those two. I don’t particularly agree with a lot of her choices, but at least in this matter I think she’s genuinely trying her best using her limited tools.
Apparently they have 50/50 custody so she is missing time with the boys. That can be especially hard around the holidays.
I know i love holidays with my daughter, she makes them way more special. She’s almost 3 and i can’t imagine not spending one of these holidays with her.
I can imagine that it would upset me a lot to miss a holiday with her. Even more if i had to see pictures of her spending it with someone else.
Brandi said she had no family in town, she was spending it alone. They could have just waited to post pictures until after the kids were back with her so she didn’t have to see them while alone.
Idk it sounds like Brandi is practically begging for a better coparenting relationship and got shut down. She mentioned giving Eddie extra time on Halloween and stuff. And wanting to do things together, all 3 of them and the kids. I don’t think that’s asking for too much.
Yeah she’s a bit self pitying. But overall she seems to be trying to work with them to do better for the kids and LeAnn and Eddie aren’t interested.
How was she not with her kids on Christmas holiday? She had them Christmas Eve and Christmas morning up until just before noon. When I was a kid we were up at the crack of dawn in anticipation of opening gifts, and Christmas Eve in our home was wonderful, almost magical with our traditions and bubbling over with excitement for Christmas morning, and we would get one gift to open the night before Christmas and would have a ball with that and would bake cookies with mom and we would all play some game together, a board game, with Christmas music playing. It’s the same in my house now.
It seems like Eddie is the one who missed the best part of Christmas with his kids.
I still get missing not having the “whole” holiday with your child, and is the sad part of divorce, but she did not miss Christmas with her kids. She was with them.
If I were her I’d go back to court for a different holiday schedule. The major ones, I guess, are Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. She’s giving up her Halloween to them, they’ve also got Thanksgiving, so all she’s getting is Christmas Eve, and a few hours in the morning on Christmas Day, because, let’s face it, if the kids gotta go to their dad’s at noon, part of that time is getting ready and traveling. So a couple hours Christmas morning. That doesn’t seem real balanced.
Anyway, it’s not just photos either, is it? It’s sending the photos to all the media and all the stories, incessant amount of stories, that Leann builds around the photos, discussing the kids in every interview now that she’s decided she’s trying to be Queen of Christmas, etc. I don’t blame Brandi for asking for it to be toned down.
Jayna- there’s no perfect balance and I know Eddie is the parent too and deserves time with his kids.
And it sounds like Brandi is willing to give. She voluntarily gave him halloween because she thought the kids would prefer that neighborhood.
In my house, we do a gift the night before, gifts Christmas morning and then spend the day together playing with the new stuff and having a meal.
I just think Eddie and LeAnn could have more sympathy when it comes to sharing happy family pictures when they know Brandi is sitting alone. Heck Brandi can’t go spend holidays with family because she needs to be there to bring the kids to Eddie, you know?
If they all matured, they could even do Christmas morning together so nobody misses out. But it sounds like Eddie and LeAnn don’t want to coparent peacefully
It’s not easy, I have friends dealing with this and it has led to fights. Growing up, my dad got us from the beginning of Christmas break until Christmas Eve night, then we went to my mom for the rest of the night and Christmas morning
You can’t just go to court and change a parenting plan if there’s no legal reason (ie danger to the children). They’re stuck with what they came up with 6 years ago, and they’d better figure out how to make it work.
@claire and @bridget I don’t know about CA but in a lot of places you could retool with a mediator. It’s much cheaper and then what’s hashed out there and recommended by the mediator goes to the court and is added like an addendum to the plan. It’s actually usually recommended to revisit your plan with a mediator every few years because as kids get older their schedules change and what worked before doesn’t work now. Plus your job and that schedule might change, additions to your family, etc.
@paleo – but the other party at least has to be amenable to that.
@bridget – I think (not 100%) sure that you could probably force that issue with the court in most states. I know my husband did because his ex wanted absolutely no changes to the plan since she was able to manipulate it very effectively. But he pointed out to her and her lawyer that it’s actually written in there to revisit it every couple years and to revisit it during life changes too like remarriage. They would have been in contempt of court. Now, that’s not exactly amenable on her part then but once in mediation she was forced to counter his suggestions and come to an agreement. Definitely not perfect but at least it means you’re not actually in court all the time or in a parenting plan that is broken. And in the long run it has made a lot of things smoother and everyone is in a better place with the co-parenting.
@ BendyWindy
I understand what you’re saying. Obviously every one on this site could have more compassion but bc of our personal experiences we pick and choose who we empathize with. It seems like a lot of commenters are mothers or women.
Anyway, I know divorcees must surrender their children, and that’s terrible. But I know that in some (ideal) blended families, exes and steps sit together as one big family, just for the holidays.
It seems like Brandi, Eddie, and LeAnn are too toxic to actually do that though.
It seems like Brandi was asking for that – to be included on some things, so she wouldn’t miss them altogether.
I totally get her. i enjoy my son sooooo much, that I wouldn’t want to miss out on anything with him. Forget giving him up for 50% of the time. Then to see some SWF stepmom on social media posting pictures, snuggling with the kids, that has to be rough.
I think in some situations getting together at once for a holiday can work but from what I’ve seen that’s highly unusual and at least one person will misbehave or make it obvious that they’re uncomfortable. A lot of times at least one parent makes the event about proving their connection to the kid(s) is the stronger one. Personally, I’ve watched this happen myself but still invited and encouraged my husband to invite SS’s mom to events. We’ve gotten a lot of refusals but the thing is if just one adult can stick to being kind, considerate and respectful then usually it can make it a little better and the kid feels supported by everyone. Eddie and LeAnn are highly dysfunctional so I can’t swear that would get Brandi anywhere but the way she’s playing this out in public certainly isn’t doing her or her children any favors.
Bravo and stop having temper tantrums and leaking emails. Instead go to therapy!!!
Put your kids first and zip it.
I get that she has every right to feel this way, although for her sake and the boys she really does need to get some counseling, because she constantly harps on the missing half their life which isn’t healthy. I also feel Brandi has every right to express this to her ex-husband and try to work on a better co-parent situation. However, where I have an issue is why release this email. Okay you showed him as a liar again for the zillionth time. Where is that getting her. I feel sorry for the kids because one of these people needs to stand up and be an adult and realize that airing all dirty laundry isn’t healthy for them.
Her comment on that podcast was a total throwaway. There was no need to go to PEOPLE magazine of all places to do an interview calling her a liar who harasses his family. Sorry, but in that event, I’d defend myself too. He could have said yeah, that happened and we stand by our decision. thanks. The End. She didn’t even insult him. In fact, out of all 3 of them, she’s the only one who ever says complimentary things.
Brandi released the email because Edy flat out called her a liar to the press. She was defending herself and she should. Secondly, Edy should be saving Brandi a seat at their child’s concert. It is common courtesy. He and LeAnn seem like a couple of jerks!
I’ll just take a seat here by claire and Shaunna. She has every right to defend herself and they overreacted because Leann can’t handle anyone questioning her behavior.
She shouldn’t have said anything in the first place. Sorry. Her feelings of sadness should be dealt with constructively, in therapy. She’s co-parenting, which millions of people manage to do everyday, without this level of high drama. Her feelings don’t trump the well-being of her children, and if she wants to get messy and complain to the media about stuff — that’s bad parenting. No sympathy from me.
I am sad that a lot of people think defending yourself is more important than her kids and that goes for Eddie too. Everyone has a right to defend themselves, but one of these parents needs to put the kids first and stop with the entire thing. At this point, I am sure both boys realize their parents don’t like each other. It would be nice if they could try to work together for the kids. I will tell you I respected the tweet she sent where she said she deleted some tweets, because she didn’t want to spend the new year arguing with Eddie. Now if she could keep that resolution and spread it to Eddie it would be good.
If I had to send my kids away for Christmas with someone else playing mom, id be a wreck. Her email seems totally honest to me, and it makes me feel for her.
I agree with your comments except that I’m irritated with her – not sorry for her. And puh-lease – you are not the first woman to go through a divorce and co parent. Get off the cross already. Someone else needs the wood.
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She is missing 1/2 her kids childhood because Ediot has the kids 50% of the time.
I defended LeAnn on this on one of the other posts, but after reading this email…nope. Brandi wasn’t asking LeAnn to quit posting on SM altogether (which would have been hypocritical as Brandi overshares about the kids herself). She really did just want LeAnn to spare her feelings during the holidays. LeAnn must be a really shitty and cruel person to use those kids to hurt their mother that way.
LeAnn established a long time ago that she is a shitty and cruel person.
I feel like a broken record here but isn’t Brandi asking Eddie? And doesn’t everyone say LeAnn worships him? So if Eddie went to her and asked her not to do it then she might not right? I feel like it’s Eddie here who isn’t caring. Either he didn’t tell LeAnn or they mutually agreed to ignore this request.
She has tweeted Leann multiple times. She has said that she has asked Leann in person (but she wouldn’t have the tangible proof for that) and then this email to Eddie, which was an easy way to give proof. Bottom line, they know this is her request and Leann has been asked, even by fans about this, on Twitter and her response has consistently been I’ll do what I want. They’re my kids too.
Leann has even said in interviews that if someone says no to her or she can’t do something, that she’s very competitive, so that will make her just do it more.
Leann’s response is consistent with Leann’s narcissism and selfishness. Without any involvement from Eddie. She’s just a bratty former child star.
Yes! Eddie is clearly the one who has been handling this all with his arrogance and stupidity. Yes Leann is obsessive and yes Brandi has impulsive reactions but when it comes down to it Eddie is the person in-between who has always chosen to keep things hostile. Brandi has been pleading mainly with HIM, and he refuses to hear her time and time again. I think that’s why her antics have gotten more and more desperate. It’s the way HE has chosen to react that aggravates this situation. He is SO shady.
I’m not saying LeAnn’s not responsible for her own actions. But Eddie is the one who was married to Brandi, who is involved in the custody case, who is the father of the kids and he’s not getting the most criticism. There are so many people going off on these boards about how LeAnn is *just* the stepmom and is so out of line but why aren’t those same people irate at the *actual* father being fine with those actions? Because at the end of the day, no matter what people are speculating about the why of it, Eddie is with LeAnn and has been for years. That’s a choice and an endorsement of the behavior.
And does anyone think for a minute that she doesn’t go through every single one of his emails? She knew about it and they both chose to continue doing something Brandi had begged them not to do. No matter how he feels, he’s not going to upset the bank account.
I wish I could be sympathetic to Brandi, but she’s so whiny and needy I just can’t.
Agreed. I don’t really feel sympathy for people who tend to air their ‘tragedies’ on repeat for years and years. My heart is cold I guess? I just wish she would spend some time in a homeless shelter or at an orphanage where children have truly been mistreated/neglected so she could get some perspective on what a blessing it is that her kids are in a loving environment whether she’s with them or their with their dad.
Except it’s not really a loving environment is it? It’s a do everything you can to destroy the kid’s mother environment at casa Cibrian. A let’s invite friends over so we can slam the ex, in front of her children and let’s leave pills laying around for the kids to get into, loving environment. Let’s get hammered again and again and let the kids amuse themselves watching 3/4 naked women make out. That’ll be a healthy, loving environment for them. She doesn’t love them, she is incapable of loving anybody besides herself. To her those kids are a godsend to destroy their mother with, make money off of, and use to make herself look good. Falcor’s love has quite the price.
Lady D, if that were actually the case, why hasn’t Brandi taken them to court? Why haven’t allegations been made? Why hasn’t CPS been called? Why isn’t she trying to fight to get her kids out of an obviously toxic environment where constant illegal activities are taking place?
Maybe bc this stuff isn’t actually happening?
The leaps in logic people are taking to defend this woman are just mind-boggling. She’s an alcoholic. Most of them are liars. I know because I have about 20 of them in my family. Its ALWAYS a pity party.
Wow that email is a tough read, right in the feels.
(Also, the spelling and punctuation and grammar suck.)
But yeah, sad.
Brandi writes like an eight year old. But, yeah, all the feels.
Eddie and LeAnn seem like terrible people; like they get joy from making Brandi upset. It’s sick.
But I am confused as to why Brandi looks at LeAnns social media? It’s not that hard to avoid. Trust me. I do it every day lol
These poor kids…
I think she explains that it came up on her google alerts for RHOBH. You could argue that she didnt have to click on the link but fact remains its not like she was cyber stalking Leann or anything like that.
Yes I saw that about the alert and that is exactly what I would argue.
She said she has a RHOBH google alert, which is still a bad idea.
I’m guessing a media outlet posted a story about the picture and mentioned Brandi so she got an alert
Why do people keep arguing that Brandi should stop looking at Leann’s twitter account when the photos that Leann is posting of Brandi’s kids are being plastered all over the internet and blogs? During Leann’s promotion for her album how many of her instagram photos ended up in her interviews? It’s not simply enough to tell Brandi to stop looking.
Because at some point you have to take responsibility for your own well being. The world will not be baby proof for you sometimes. She asked LeAnn to stop, LeAnn didn’t. Now it’s on Brandi to not look. Fair? No. But life isn’t fair.
The major problem is that Brandi can’t stop looking because those photos that Leann is posting on her instagram account are being plastered all over the place because after she posts them, Leann pays blogs to write stories about them. Stop blaming Brandi because as long as Leann keeps paying the Dailymail to write stories about the photos, the “Brandi needs to stop looking” defense, doesn’t hold water.
I wish that people who keep telling Brandi to stop looking would see the big picture. Those photos of Brandi’s kids that Leann’s posts are not being limited to Leann’s twitter account. Leann doesn’t just post the photos, she has to have a tabloid or blog write an article about “her family” too.
How many times were the photos of Brandi’s kids from Leann’s instagram account flashed during Leann’s Christmas promotion for her album? But people want Brandi to stop looking? That would mean that Brandi can’t turn on her TV or read tabloids. Or live her life in a bubble.
On the photos that Leann is posting about Brandi’s kids, her fans leave nasty comments about Brandi. 2 parents(both of these women were papped at Jaek’s sporting games with Leann, Leann was papped holding the woman’s baby, and one woman was in the clear bag storyline on Leann’s reality show) from Jake’s school are also on Leann’s instagram commenting on the photos where Leann’s fans made nasty comments about Brandi’s kids. It’s not limited to Leann’s twitter account because now parents from Jake’s school see it. It’s not enough to tell Brandi to stop looking because now parents from Jake’s school are involved.
And Brandi doesn’t have to look at those blogs either. Honestly, all you have said, to me, is “it’s hard to avoid.” I would even argue it’s not that hard..but whatever. Either way, it’s not impossible.
Plus? LeAnn is not that big of a deal. Shes not everywhere. I manage to not see or read about her almost every single day of my life, and I read several gossip sites, read the news, and watch TV. And what I do read about her, I choose to read.
I’m not defending LeAnn and Eddie by any means, they are awful. But what I cannot stand is people who enjoy being a victim. She could avoid it; she chooses not to. That’s on her at some point.
Brandi can’t avoid it. Why is Brandi expected to live in a bubble and just look the other way while Leann and Eddie continue to cause trouble for her? Brandi is the victim, just look at how Leann is on twitter right now making passive aggressive digs at Brandi using song lyrics and titles. How long it take Leann to find that song title? But of course, Brandi is expected to look the other way. This is why it’s still being played out over 7 years because no one is holding Leann and Eddie accountable for the things they are doing, instead we get people shifting the blame on Brandi and Dean and throwing hate at Brandi and Dean for still talking about how they are suffering because of Leann and Eddie.
The major difference between you and Brandi is that it’s not your children’s faces being plastered all over the place and you aren’t constantly being harassed by Leann and her staff on a daily basis.
There is no choice, if Brandi had a choice, Leann would have stopped posting the photos a long time ago. Leann continues because she knows that no one is going to stop her or in the end she can always shift the blame by telling Brandi not to look.
I don’t think it’s as easy as saying “Don’t look at the social media accounts.” I could see myself looking at social media accounts to see what’s being said.
EVERY time Falkor posts pics of Brandi’s kids those pictures “somehow” make it into The Daily Mail, within hours. And EVERY one of those articles are tagged with RHOBH and Brandi Glanville as she is mentioned as being Ed’s ex and the boys mother. These shows up as Google alerts.
This is Leann we are talking about, she isn’t just reading Eddie’s emails, she and Darrell are probably the ones who are writing and sending the emails to Brandi. Brandi gives Eddie way too much credit. She says that since the divorce that Eddie spends more time with the kids, but based on Kiki and Leann’s tweets, Eddie is rarely home. What Brandi has to realize is that 90% of the time when she thinks she is dealing with Eddie, it was probably Leann.
What most people keep leaving ou tof this story is that Leann has been provoking Brandi for months. Leann never let up. Brandi took her sons to see the Star Wars movie and a week later, Leann repeated the same thing, even going so far as to copy the same tweet that Brandi posted about Star Wars. Leann wasn’t just posting photos of Brandi’s kids she was doing a lot more than that, she was copying Brandi’s tweets, calling Jake and Mason her and Eddie’s sons, stalking Brandi’s twitter account using Kiki’s twitter account, and tweeting to Brandi’s friends who have never even spoken to her once. Not one blog or tabloid called Leann on it. It’s only when it got too much and Brandi spoke about it, that the blogs want to blame Brandi.
How can Brandi move on when Leann is still doing mean things? The blogs keep saying that it was 7 years ago and why hasn’t Brandi moved on, but they fail to see that Leann’s attacks on Brandi have never stopped. Everyday Leann is doing something nasty to Brandi. Just because the blogs aren’t writing about it, doesn’t mean that it’s not happening.
Just to add, today at 3 am someone went to JJ, created an account in my name, and spent an hour posting 15 comments on JJ in my name(they copied and pasted all of the comments I made here, in some of the comments they changed them to sound positive about Leann, and then wrote the same hateful posts about Brandi that have been appearing on this site).
I would be surprised to hear all of those things are not a crime.
You should screencap your comments and upload them somewhere, just so there’s evidence of what happened.
As for Brandi, she should make her account private, and probably put a restraining order on Leann for stalking.
@why? I’m glad I read this before posting because I totally agree, Leann & her buddy Darrell are most likely using Ed’s email account and responding to Brandi’s emails without Ed even knowing about it. I also don’t think Ed’s at the house alot of the time leaving Leann alone doing who knows what???
At this point in this 6 year long mess…
Don’t care who started it
Don’t care who continues it
Don’t need to see receipts.
All three are incredibly passive aggressive and manipulative.
All three are incredibly immature and selfish.
All three need to stop this public insanity and let these two boys live their lives without their friends, teachers, coaches knowing such intimate details of their lives.
I agree. Those kids deserve some privacy.
I still want to know who sets up the ballgame photos. If I were a parent of a child participating, I would be livid at the ongoing intrusion.
Leann has a special paps who comes and takes pics, she provides the date and time, they show up, and that why’s JJ and Dailymail are doing articles and pics of boys, NOT BRANDI. The soccer and baseball leagues and other parents have asked Leann and Eddie to stop, Leann being the bitch she is won’t listen. People have pulled their kids from playing.
Those photos have shown other children, vehicle tag numbers, etc. Terribly invasive, IMO.
If the other parents or officials wanted to push harder, they might want to point out how releases need to be signed by every individual photographed, since the photos end up used for publicity/marketing purposes.
If I had a kid on the same team I would seriously look into legal action over her staged paparazzi shoots. The other option would be to get together as a group and tell the league the rest of the kids would be playing somewhere else if they continue to allow the intrusion.
This, this, this. Spot on.
+1,000,000
As always I’m pulling hard for Team No One But The Kids
In my opinion this is one big co-dependant mess between these three ie:
– Leanne is a narcissist and obsessed with Brandi. Gross
– Eddie is a narcissist that loves the attention he gets from both. Gross
-Brandi is a narcissist who has come to validate herself through displays of public attention, mostly derived by the actions of the first two.
Wash, rinse, repeat. – the boys are hung out to dry while all of this is going on.
Someone better break this cycle.
In Brandi’s email she talks about “MISSING half of her boys’ childhoods”. I can sympathize with that for sure but what I wish she/them would realize is that all them talking about this publically, not just today, but for the past few years,(including Brandi’s own social media postings and sharing of details about her boys) is MESSING with the boys’ childhoods.
Right. It’s not that I don’t sympathize with her, but she needs to act like a mature grown-up and protect her kids. Keep private matters between her and their father PRIVATE.
But as you pointed out, self-involved people rarely think of the feelings of others.
Yup.
Absolutely.
Wow. I think she sounded very mature and honest. Not two things I usually associate with Brandi. I loved her line asking him to be a better ex-husband. I feel for you, Brandi. I really do.
He was a really terrible husband though. So isn’t there an expectation he will also be a terrible ex-husband? I just know that’s something my husband really had to work through the first few years and it helped him when he realized that his ex was always going to be unstable and her standard reactions to his normal behavior were not going to change. So he needed to work out the best way to deal with her to co-parent and accept it wouldn’t be perfect but he would have to live with his choices and that meant always just thinking about his son and NOT himself. Going back and forth about what hurts you doesn’t ever help the kid(s) and just drags out your dysfunctional relationship. Nothing moves on. So these three have been stuck in it for years.
Well that does make me sad for her. And I dislike her to a great degree these days, considering she’s a trashy, rude, attention whoring, inappropriate, drunk driving, over sharing little monster.
But STILL, I can’t imagine losing half of my child’s life because my husband cheated on me. So in that aspect I will always feel for her, as a mother.
Too bad though that all parties can’t be decent and get along so that something as simple as trick-or-treating can be a shared family experience with both parents, and not a constant source of stress for the children. I can’t imagine what those little boys will think is a normal and healthy relationship as they grow up – they don’t seem to stand a chance when it comes to learning about healthy love and respect from any of the adults in their lives.
They also won’t learn to spell or use proper grammar, from the looks of that email. Yikes!
Did you learn your spelling and grammar only from your parents? I learned it in school. From teachers.
Six years and she is still stuck on “I’ll never trust again” and “you broke up our home,” girlfriend needs a new dialog. Not to mention the “I hope one day [she] has a baby of her own…” Brandi is still right there, rolling around in the mud. These three are so codependent!
All three should’ve taken a no kids on social media oath and stuck to it. Poor kids are constantly used as pawns, broadcast to the world.
I do feel bad for her- he cheated and left her and now she’s lost half of her time with her kids. She’s a lousy person too, but that wasn’t her fault and it has to suck.
“If your their” Gaaaaahhh! She broke my grammar brain in that paragraph.
I think that email was more than fair. She made a call for some empathy with the man she is supposed to co-parent with.
I could try and picture how hard it is for her, but I’d honestly make myself physically ill if I had to try and imagine handing my children off to my (this scenario, ex) partner and someone he had cheated on me with. Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope. And to have them gloat and revel in my pain? Hell no.
I’ll be alone in this.. But I think she seriously needs to move on. Everyone posts family pics around the holidays, and those are Leanns stepkids- if she wants to post pics she should. Brandi needs to stop with the whining and accept that there is another woman in her children’s lives, and be grateful she is decent and loves them. You can’t expect people to walk on eggshells for the rest of their lives because you haven’t accepted reality and moved on.
I completely agree with what you say here but to be fair to Brandi, she has acknowledged many times that Leanne is a good stepmom to her kids. Credit where credit is due, because a lot of women in her position might not be so gracious.
I agree. Maybe if she stopped whining LeeAnn would stop posting. I remember my brothers telling me (I was an only girl with 3 brothers) that if I had ever stopped crying when they teased me they would have stopped. I will say, all three need to get over each other.
Most people post family photos for their own friends and family to see. LeeAnn posts them for the world to see. No excuse for that.
I agree completely…as a divorced mom of 2 cute children i understand that the only thing that matters is the time my kids and i are together. I closed down my social media so i don’t have the temptation to see what my kids do at their father’s place. If they have happy family pics, good for them, none of my biz. I have my own pics and memories of our times together and that’s enough for me. I hate that social media has complicated things to a point where our human weaknesses are magnified and where it is so risky to let them take over our better judgement!
I used to hurt a lot the first times i was apart from my kids, it is a real emotional rollercoaster especially after being a stay at home mom during their baby years. HOWEVER, my own mom pointed out something i hadn’t realized: my kids will grow and go live their own lives, i HAVE to build a life of my own. I can’t live my life centered on my kids anymore, they can’t be the central focus forever. They are so independant now and in a few years will be young adults. I realize my mom is SO right. She has been an empty nester for a while so i can relate to her in so many more ways now that i have been a mom myself.
I feel like i became a part-time empty nester, to put it in simplistic terms. It has been hard but i keep myself busy when i don’t have my kiddos with me. So Brandi, i hope you can find a way to build yourself a life worth living when your kiddos aren’t with you. Leave social media alone and enjoy the hell out of your time with your boys. There is a website called facebook detox, excellent blog! Hope it helps others as much as it helped me.
SNAP that is spot on advice. I’m sure that was really hard to follow – isn’t the best advice always the hardest to follow in some ways? – but it’s also made you a great mom and good example to your kids.
I just never joined the SM sites. I think of it like nutritionists telling you the place to avoid the bad choices is at the beginning in the grocery store!
Thank you for posting the email. What people don’t really want to believe, is Brandi is a good person, and an awesome mom, she wants whats best for her boys. She knows and has said it over and over, the boys love Lee, and she loves them and is good to them. HOWEVER they are shitty to Brandi on the down low, behind the media’s back. When out of frustration she makes a comment on twitter, she gets blasted thats she’s only trying to cause drama, she hasn’t moved on, yada, yada, yada. Brandi wants and has asked, read that email, a coexistent parenting relationship between the 3 of them, Leann is the one who blocks it from happening, it’s her jealousy.
People, Brandi does not want Eddie, and Eddie doesn’t want Leann, however he’s stuck with her financially, he has no prospects for work, he’s not being hired, and he can blame Leann for that. The email was sent early Nov, and it was sent only after Ed & Brandi talked on the phone, and what ever he was going thru, he took it out on Brandi, thats why she ended up doing the email.
Completely agree @Nana.
It amazes me that a man with two young kids cheats on his wife, and lies about it and yet he gets very little blame from some. Yet the woman who was the mistress gets all the blame. Granted she may also be a horrible person, but she didn’t cheat on her husband with two young kids. Sorry I think that is worse, because young kids are involved. News flash to those who think this way, when your spouse cheats its not because he was coerced by some evil woman. He did it to you. Your anger really should be at him. Until you work that out you can’t ever overcome it or perhaps get back together successfully.
Now Eddie doesn’t have Leann to blame for any of this, and if he does feel financially stuck well that is also his own doing. If Eddie’s career is in the tanker it really is his doing, not hers same with Leann’s career being her fault. They both chose this direction and could easily take a higher road if it was important to them. Most likely seven years later it would probably be a sad footnote if either of them chose that path, instead they all seem to enjoy or want this so here we are.
There were no kids, but Leann cheated on her own husband. She then decided that she was so important that she was the 3rd parent, and Brandi should move over, or, better yet, get out, so Leann could have what she wanted. Dean was lucky because there were no kids.
No, she’s not a “good person.” I can’t comment on her being an “awesome parent,” but I’ve seen enough of her behavior to say she’s not a “good person.” She’s outed very private information regarding her cast mate’s reproductive choices; she’s physically assaulted people; she’s driven a wedge behavior two sisters; she’s driven while being drunk; she’s made comments about a sexual assault on her sister; she’s moved her sons constantly, therefore not providing a stable home; and she’s exploited this situation over and over again – in print, on social media, and on television – to make money. She’s not by any stretch of the imagination a “good person.”
Neither Eddie Cibrian nor Leann Rimes seem like particularly “good people,” either. But of the three, her public behavior has been far worse.
@EOA Moving makes you a bad person? Yeah, okay.
Not providing a stable home for your kids when you should have the means to do so makes you not a particularly good person. Brandi has apparently moved 7 times in 6 years, during a period when she was getting paid both by Bravo and by her book publisher. That she apparently didn’t use that money to create a nest egg or something for housing means that she was prioritizing other things than creating a consistent stable home for her boys. So, yeah, okay, she’s not a particularly good person when it comes to one of the fundamentals of having a family – not forcing her sons to get acclimated to a new home every few months.
The frequent moving is why I am not that impressed with Brandi’s “generosity” over letting her sons spend Halloween with Eddie. They probably prefer spending Halloween with their father because they are not in the same home with Brandi long enough to be familiar with and connected to the neighborhood.
You’ve never had financial problems?
@Lady D, I’ve never been paid $500,000 for one year of work and a six figure advance for a book. If Brandi has “financial problems,” they are of her own making – and there are further proof that she is not a particularly responsible person. When I have had financial challenges, I have made sure to focus on the basic necessities like decent housing. Brandi apparently decides that being involved in a costly law suit – rather than apologizing and NOT repeating ugly accusations – is more important than providing a home for her children.
It’s really honestly okay to admit that she’s not a good person. It doesn’t mean that one has to believe that Eddie Cibrian and Leann Rimes are good people, either. They clearly aren’t. But the fact that so many people here excuse her every bad action is a bit difficult for me to understand.
@aaa You’ll forgive me for not lending much credence to your opinion, since it always seems to come with an agenda on the Brandi/LeAnn threads (the only threads on which you post). I’m not convinced you’re as “fair” or “balanced” as you purport to be.
My agenda, presumably like everyone else, is to express my thoughts and opinions on a celebrity gossip blog. And you’re incorrect that I only post in threads related to Brandi/Eddie/Leann.
I dislike all three of them equally but this email surprised me and put me straight on Brandi’s side – quite a shock for me as I find her a horrible, drunken, no filter mess who should not have a platform at all.
BUT reading this emotional, mostly articulate email changed my mind at least about one thing: she didn’t ask for much, she did it in a nice way, and no matter how long has passed… She has the right to feel all this. She has to see her kids spend half the time with their dad and stepmom, not her. That would hurt like hell. Sure, she is glad that the stepmom likes the kids, of course that is preferable to having them go to a house where they are not loved. But that will never be better than having them grow up with both their parents still being married and together in the same house.
And he is the biggest jerk of all. Having made two kids with her, how hard is it to try and co-parent in a way that is at least a bit respectful of her feelings? Him and LeeAnn are just terrible human beings.
Perhaps because you’re seeing the real Brandi for once. I can’t believe people think that reality shows are actual reality. My husband loves those Alaskan Bush people and I keep telling him, you know they’re fakes, what’s wrong with you? He’s like, it’s a good show, it’s a show, who cares if it’s fake? It’s distorted reality at best.
THEIR, THERE, THEY’RE, they’re all different! ARGH.
THANK YOU!!! Amazing that a grown adult cannot master basic grammar! Jeez it was completely distracting to me as I was reading her email!
Oh me too. The lack of punctuation made me want to sob as well. I
This is nothing surprising to me – I see this kind of grammar every day. Between facebook, instagram, twitter, comment sections, work requests from our clients – whatever/wherever. It’s startling how illiterate a big chunk of the population is.
I know people who are taking University degrees, and the only thing saving them is spell check. When you see them posting on social media, it’s damn near incoherent. It makes you wonder how much of their own work they’re really doing.
I hear you @Erinn, it really is shocking how illiterate many people are. I see it all the time with friends on Facebook, Twitter etc. Just gives me one MORE reason to be grateful for growing up in the 80s. No internet, social media and no spell check. I got an amazing high school education and went on to get my BA and then later my Masters. I learned to write analytically and I learned basic grammar and spelling. Very grateful for all those things 😉
Eddie is scum, it’s impossible for Brandi to get anything good out of him. She should take him to court and demand full custody, offer the proof of the harassment she’s been subject to in the past years, and end this once and for all.
I just feel bad for these children, having not one, but three parents constantly using them as tools for publicity. If I were their daughter, I’d feel so awkward the next Christmas knowing all the drama that was started because of simple pictures. Making a kid not look forward to Christmas. How disgusting must you be to achieve that?
I can’t believe so many people are on Brandi’s side now. Just the fact she shared that email (leaked? yeah right) goes on to show she cares about nothing more than her public persona. No kid needs a sequence of gossip articles written about their Christmas pictures. But yeah, Brandi, keep making the snowball bigger. Keep milking this 15 minutes you just got. I bet your kids appreciate how persistent you are.
Well, to be fair, the series of gossip articles of holiday photos, traditions, gifts, etc., started before that as they are part of the media campaign Leann does.
And then she joined the bandwagon because the whole world has to know how upset she is. Brandi is a reality TV star who lives off trashy gossip, just like Eddie and Leann are. Brandi may truly hate seeing those pictures, but she loves to tell the whole world about it.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall at Casa deLusion right now…
So. Many. TYPOS! This was a bit scattered as I read it, but i’m feeling sympathetic to Brandi.
Eddie seems so intent on cutting her out of his new family. When his new family isn’t exactly stable.
I wonder how much the boys pick up on this. The passive aggressive slams they overhear. The fact that if Eddie and Leann ever stop bonding over how much they don’t like Brandi they won’t have much in common.
I base this on the few episodes of their short lived reality show and the interviews they’ve given. All those 2 could talk about was Brandi and that they were above talking about Brandi…
That’s not fair, FLORC; they also have a mutual appreciation for LeAnn’s money and splashy lifestyle. I think the loss of that will put the kibosh on their time together.
Eddie is scum.
I don’t think he’s going anywhere until either the money is gone, or when the boys get older and don’t require supervision (babysitter) and/or child support payments.
More irritating to me than the grammar mistakes were the run-on sentences and complete lack of punctuation.
And the fact that their there and they’re are ALL different words! UGH
At least we know she wrote it herself? That counts for … well. Not much. But it’s a little something.
Kitten
It was all terrible. I give some slack assuming she’s very sad and maybe had a bottle of wine.
Still, there are better ways to form thoughts.
CharlotteCharlotte
Correct! There is spending her money.
That’s exactly the problem. Since he no longer has any effect on Brandi’s feelings about him, he uses their kids. This is a sick situation in which the father and the woman he cheated with want the mother out of the picture and use their refusal to coparent as power over her, as well as abuse her on social media and in public. Brandi is no angel, but who could stay silent through everything she has? The reality show, the album, the interviews, the instagram and twitter, the favoring of ugly tweets? There was a PR person who talked about how he was with Leann, Eddie, and a group of friends, and Leann had them abusing Brandi via text. Yes, protect the kids, but remember: silence is complicity. You know who liked silence? Bill Cosby.
Aside from how anyone feels about Brandi and who she is and how she lives her life, she is the mother of those two boys not Leann. Even if she does sound whiny, or emotional she has every right beacuse she carried both those boys for 9 months and gave birth to them. Even though She and Eddie don’t get along they BOTH need to respect one another beacuse they are parents. Leann needs to sit the hell down somewhere, being vindictive isnt cute. She knows exactly what she is doing. Im sure this isnt the first, second, or third time Brandi has asked this of them. I do think Leann on MOST occasions provokes Brandi. I don’t get why? She already took her husband. Its great that Leann is close to her stepsons and that they love her but she isnt and will never be their mom. I dont think Leann will learn boundaries until she has a kid of her own. You can dislike someone but still follow their demands, its called being mature.
It’s incredibly odd how invested people are in this drama. Not a criticism of anyone at all, I’m strangely intrigued by the whole thing myself and can’t work out why exactly because none of these three is actually that interesting.
I wonder if it’s because there’s something just so off about Leann and Eddie as a couple that everyone is expecting some major catastrophe in their relationship at some point. I doubt he imagined himself married to a woman like Leann when he was younger and hotter.
It’s a strange combination of boring yet fascinating.
…And watching karma work ever so slowly.
That’s the perfect way to describe it. It’s f*cking redundant and transparent as hell yet I get pulled in almost every time.
The most fascinating thing about Leann is how intensely people dislike her. I’m astonished she hasn’t had a complete mental collapse from reading the things people say about her because she’s quite remarkably unpopular. She must be living in a land of utter delusion
It’s the pull of crazy people without actually having to deal with being in their orbit. When you’re younger you get sucked into the crazy relationship or friendship because of their pull. If you’re truly sane and have other good relationships then you figure out it’s not for you. None of these fools have figured out it’s not for them and a bunch of people seem to believe at least one of the triangle is sane. Which is also fascinating.
Or concern for the boys.
I just feel sad for the kids!
Unfortunately, it may take one of the children writing a book about growing up among all these warring factions before it sinks in how much damage was really caused. The boys can easily look up the behaviour of the adults on the Internet( once it is there it never goes away) or hear about it at school
The best thing is that Leann does a great job at documenting her bad behavior. The date on Brandi’s email says Nov 3.
On Nov 3, Leann posted a quote about climbing hills and then the next day she posted a quote about kindness in words.
At 5:48 am on Nov 3, Leann said that she was up since 5 am brainstorming, but that no one was up. Later that night she said she was doing writing for her TodayIsChristmas tour.
On Nov 4, Leann, Eddie, and Kiki were papped at LAX, they were on their way to Nashville. In one of the videos Eddie and Kiki walked off leaving Leann and Leann kept trying to get Eddie’s attention.
On Nov 5, Leann posted a lovey dovey photo of Eddie and her and then wrote that Eddie was her sanity among the chaos. The blogs who posted her photo thought that she was talking about her concert or rehearsals, but now that we know about the email that Brandi sent on
Nov 3, Leann was making a passive aggressive dig at Brandi that day.
How interesting that some people are trying to distract from Brandi’s email by focusing on her grammar mistakes. First it was people claiming that the email was fake and now it’s people slamming Brandi for not writing correctly?
What’s incredibly odd are those people who visit comment sections just to complain about people commenting on a comment section!
Who is complaining about people commenting?
I think when it comes to the grammar, in my case anyway, it’s because we are all adults and just kind of expect adult grammar from our peers. I don’t think it’s a distraction tactic. JMO
I may dislike Eddie and Leann, and prefer Brandi, but I am 100% against an ex using their feelings and their kids to control any actions (aside from the court mandated ones i.e. healthcare, schooling) by their former partner or partner’s new spouse, no matter how small the action is. Sorry, Brandi. If their father is ok with them being in social media posts, you have to deal with it unless a judge makes a ruling declaring otherwise. You’re divorced. You can make the suggestion, but Eddie is under no obligation to follow it. I see this all the times with guys trying to control their ex-wives’ dating lives through the kids.
Yes he is under no obligation, but its seems more to me that this is about how they consistently disregard her feelings and that sucks…yes they can do it but she can also talk about how much it sucks
Leann handpicked the Edster based solely on his looks, not on his personality. What she wants, she gets. She’s admitted it many times. She worked hard to mess up his family life and enjoyed the results. She wanted a ready made family and she got it. The problem was Brandi had some backbone and didn’t fade away. She fought back. I’d bet a $100 that if they ever have children, and split up, Leann will do everything in her power to get sole custody and put the screws right to Ed to hurt him. All he’d want is the child support anyway. He’s nothing but a hanger-on. She supports everyone, including his parents. Imagine her saying if you leave, I’ll put your parents on the street.
But Eddie didn’t have to be gotten. Even after the initial affair, which he chose to participate in, he had so many other ways to deal with the fallout. Lots of celebs have scandalous ends to their marriages but they don’t air the dirty laundry and don’t respond to the people who do it for them. It goes away and they keep collecting paychecks. He had that choice.
Or, insist on joint custody so she can keep an eye on him and his new fling. Stalking will be so much easier and exciting! Just think of the new hairstyles, clothes, doctors, cars, homes, etc. that will come with his new fling.
I’m happy she released the email. A Mother pleading to have effective coparenting with her ex-husband who is clearly still in love with her and angry because she kicked him out.
As a reminder to those saying get over it. Her trust issues stem from him giving her an STD. My BFF sister passed away because her DOG husband was on the down low and exposed her to the HIV virus. She married him as a virgin, gave him 3 kids and the entire time they were married he was sleeping with men.
By the time she did find out, she had full blown AIDs. I’ll never forget that phone call. So to say she should get over it because it’s been six years….you get over the betrayal but you never forget. This man passed on the HPV virus to her because he was sleeping with women unprotected not only exposing his wife but unborn son. And then tried telling her she got the virus from a lollipop (read the book).
I sympathize her as a Mother and a woman. You give your entire life to a man and it was all lies from the beginning. Hell yes, I would have trust issues as well.
The boys need a lawyer of their own to step in and stop all this fighting. And to stop the posting of their pictures. Kinda like what Daniel (Kelly’s ex) managed to do for his kids.
What I don’t understand is how people can think that Brandi asking that pics not be posted on the holiday is absurd and she needs to get over it. It’s not like a regular person posting it, it’s someone who posts pictures and then the pictures are shared on dozens of sites with captions like “Leann spends the holiday with her boys”. As a mother if I saw that I would be upset. Brandi isn’t asking for anything more then them thinking about her feelings on the holidays when she misses out with her own flesh and blood. Two children she created out of love. What so the boys don’t have fun on the holidays unless it’s captioned in a pic and posted online? Why can’t those moments be private? And what’s even sadder is the lack of respect when Brandi was the wronged party? I mean let’s say I cheated with a married man and took part in breaking a family up. I would tip toe around the ex wife just for the simple fact that I did what I did. It takes a special kind of evil to not show empathy towards someone you contributed in hurting. But both Eddie and Leann look forward to the moments they can take jabs at Brandi. That’s their thing I guess!
It all boils down to the fact that this situation is what it is, and you can either bolt on a well-adjusted smile even if it kills you, or you can wallow in your own self-pity.
Because Brandi DOES need to get over it – for her children.
Can you imagine how it must feel for those kids, knowing that every minute of time they spend with their dad is a great big melodramatic dagger to their mother’s heart? The crushing guilt they likely feel if they smile too big for a picture, or are having just a little too much fun?
Eddie is a smarmy man-ho, and LeAnn is a clingy succubus from the depths of hell – BUT THIS ISN’T ABOUT THEM. It’s about the two little kids caught in the middle. Brandi needs to wrap her head around that, because every time she boards the victim train, she takes them with her.
But she isn’t telling the boys that! She’s privately asking their vindictive father to consider her feelings and to not post a pic or to include her in some activities with her children. The boys love sharing time with their parents. Just because they aren’t together doesn’t mean the boys should feel like they have to have separation between them. Eddie and Leann should get over it and include Brandi. She’s invited them to things she does for the boys. Why can’t they get over it and do it themselves. Why is Brandi always told to get over it?
Not so private when you release it to another site for publishing? I guess Brandi is told to get over it, because she is their mother and people have hope that she would be the sane one. I know I did. I mean Eddie is just mean, stupid and a liar and Leann is more than a bit cuckoo so Brandi would have to be the mature one. So far no luck though.
But it’s not private. She’s talked about it in an interview and then leaked an email.
Unless someone changed the definition of private when I wasn’t looking, releasing that email is exactly the opposite of “privately asking” for anything.
And I’m not buying that Brandi was someone forced to defend herself because this all kicked off with her. Again. Because she was talking s*** in an interview. AGAIN.
To assume those boys are unaware of this swirling around them borders on absurd. Every time Brandi dredges this up again she IS telling her sons that their happiness with their father causes her pain. Kids think in absolutes like that, especially young children of divorce who feel trapped in the middle.
It’s been six years, and Brandi is the one who will not shut up and get on with it already. So yes, Brandi is the one who needs to get over it.
Brandi only released the email when Eddie stepped up and flat out called her a liar.
They constantly tell her to get over it because clearly she’s NOT over it. Neither is dumb and dumber which makes them all pathetic. Come to term with the facts that your friend is just as dramatic as the other two idiots.
Who are we to tell anyone to get over something? I don’t get the sense her pain is from anything other than having her kids used as pawns, and the refusal to coparent. She is supposed to be perfect and never lose her temper? While being slammed in a show, while being slammed on an album about the affair that tore her life apart, and having the mistress brag about teaching the songs to the kids? Looking at interviews, social media, and Leann’s professional site, which all profit from Brandi’s sons? Look at the history: from the time Brandi and Eddie were still married, Leann was inserting herself into the boys’ lives. She still is. That isn’t love; that’s control and manipulation. She says she loves the boys, she posts pictures of them doing fun stuff, but she refuses to respect their mother? She refuses to tone down sexual behavior and skimpy clothing in front of them? That’s not love. Just one example: she had Eddie and the kids dump ice water over her while wearing a skimpy tank top with no bra, and then the boys were screaming, “BREASTS!” at her. This isn’t someone who loves them and cares about their well being. This is someone who wants to oust their mother (both of them) and calls it love.
As a mother, you have every right to be upset. As the ex, you don’t have the right to use that feeling to dictate the actions of your ex and their new spouse. There’s a small list of things that they have to agree on, but social media postings doesn’t seem to be one. Brandi can’t tell Eddie what he can do with the kids during his time because she feels a certain way about it. Eddie can’t tell Brandi what she can do with the kids during her time because he feels a certain way about it. People with a better relationship might be a bit more considerate, but they are under no obligation to do so.
She’s not telling him to not post she’s asking him. She only made it public when he called her a liar after she dared speak about the situation on a podcast. And he made a big deal about the boys not being Real Housewives and forced her not to include that part of her life yet she can’t kindly ask that they not post a pic on the holidays? Yes they have every right to tell her to go f-herself but why is she being the one wrung through the ringer when it’s them who are the assholes?
She asked. He said no. Then she went public with it when she didn’t get her way. That’s why she’s being wrung through the ringer. They’re all terrible in various ways and they all have their days when they are getting slammed in CB court for various things. Today, it’s Brandi’s turn. Eddie is an asshole for calling her a liar. Leann is a complete mess.
As to RH, that’s a legal matter. Eddie threatened to take her to court over that. Brandi backed down. Brandi could probably make an argument as to why the kids should not be featured in social media posts to a judge, if she wanted.
One email saying “TELL YOUR WIFE to stop posting pictures of my kids” does not equal proof that Brandi ever discussed this with LeAnn. Rimes is obviously a manipulative witch with major insecurity issues who probably really does post pictures just to annoy Brandi, but her real issue is with Eddie.
Leann has a history of making instagram accounts in Eddie’s name and using Eddie’s twitter account, so Eddie’s email account is probably being used by Leann too.
CK – yeah! Why hasn’t Brandi gotten her lawyers involved already if she doesn’t want her kids plastered on Leann’s social media?
LeAnn should be very concerned by the fact that Eddie still has such strong feelings for Brandi. Hate isn’t the opposite of love. Indifference is. He’s definitely not indifferent. The effort he puts into hurting her shows that HE’S in fact, not over her. No happily married man would ever act this way. He’s going to continue to punish Brandi for kicking him to the curb and bleed LeAnn dry while he does it. I honestly think that’s his agenda. He had a good thing, LeAnn was supposed to be a one of, but wouldn’t let go and now he’s going to pay her back for outing him by leeching off of her until she has nothing left but a mountain of debt, her chalkboard and the three engagement rings he ” bought” her.
I would be VERY concerned if my husband treated his ex like this. There is a truth to what CK says that essentially on your time you are doing what you want and raising the kids your way and you don’t have to consider the other person’s feelings. That said, I would worry about what kind of person I married if he wasn’t considerate for how his child would feel on behalf of his mother.
@paleokifaru You should consider the other parent to a certain extent, but they shouldn’t be dictating your every move by any means. People have different rules and parenting styles and as long as no one is being purposefully difficult and the kids are okay, it should be fine. I have a friend whose son has an extreme sensitivity to any kind of food dye and to certain additives. He can eat everything else. His Father and step-mother refuse to adhere to these dietary restrictions and it has had adverse health consequences for the kid. He’s only 6 and it’s not like he can cook for himself. They act as if my friend is arbitrarily restricting his diet and say it’s “no fun” and ” kid’s should be able to eat junk food” and ignore the medical facts that his Dad has full access to. He comes home covered in rashes, with stomach problems and other issues all of the time and no matter how nicely my friend tries to impress on them that he can’t eat what they are feeding him, they keep doing it. She now has to get the courts involved, when it should have been an easy thing to work out. Being willfully difficult or mean serves no purpose. I’d be worried how I’d get treated if we ever divorced and had to split custody. I highly doubt Eddie would be any better to LeAnn. Plus he’d be going after her for money since he’s now a stay at home Dad,
But that’s what I mean – your friend’s ex isn’t considering the child at all. A serious dietary restriction isn’t about anyone’s feelings. Take dating after divorce as an example. If all you were to think about was your ex then either you wouldn’t date at all or you’d be shoving it in their face all the time (depending on how you wanted your ex to feel). But most people move into that indifferent phase about their ex and date. From there what you’re really considering is the child. And I think if you’re really considering the child then to a certain extent you’re considering the other parent by honoring that the kid’s feelings are important. That’s not to say that the ex will agree with how you are doing it, when the child meets someone, etc. There will always be differences and a lot of that depends on if you’re the one doing the dating or not! But hopefully everyone is adult enough to see that people are trying and that the kid understands no one is being replaced. It doesn’t do anyone any good to whine about their own feelings to their ex or to pick apart every little aspect of the other person’s personal life. That’s just wallowing.
Eddie has feelings for Eddie. He treated Brandi like crap, cheating on her throughout the marriage. He doesn’t love her; he wants to control her. That’s different. He’s evil, and so is his wife.
@ Jezi
Good points, especially about how photos on LR’s accounts spread to websites.
For those who say the Brandi shouldn’t go to LR’s social media, she doesn’t need to in order to see her kids in the particular HOLIDAY photos in question, because posts on LR’s social media doesn’t just stay on her account. As a public figure, her photos are used on entertainment websites, like the DM.
So when there’s a Google Alert of her kids, it’s because these websites post them up as part of entertainment news.
I’m glad that Brandi tried to get EC and LR to see her p,o.v. Now for sure, EC and LR can’t say that they weren’t consulted about the issue and that there wasn’t a try to discuss it.
And again, for LR apologists, LR doesn’t NEED to post these particular HOLIDAY pics, especially during the same hours that Brandi is without the kids.
And again to the LR apologists, LR as a stepmother does NOT equal Brandi as a mother. LR’s choices with Brandi’s kids should be made in consideration for Brandi.
And another point that needs to be made to LR apologists who say that she has every right to post photos anytime she wants because she’s the stepmother, read the email above.
In all three CB articles thus far on this topic, it’s been pointed out that Brandi is asking that ONLY the HOLIDAY pics are the issue, not ALL pics.
That letter reminded me of my first Christmas without my kids after my divorce some thirty something years ago. Sooo painful. And all my family was here in the same city so it wasn’t like I had to spend Christmas alone alone. Even so, from time to time I went into the bathroom to let those tears out that I couldn’t hold back any longer. No social media back then, thank goodness.
I feel for Brandi regarding this issue, but she really should know to stay off all social media on holidays she doesn’t have her kids.
It seems to me the “big picture” takeaway from the photos —>SHOULD<— be that the kids look really happy.
"I made cute kids they are perfect and they are mine [SIC]" is ridiculous and infantile – even for Brandi.
Every single rambling, misspelled word in that whole disaster of an email is about HER.
Strange, where are all these Brandi haters (“Brandi needs to stop looking, grow up, move on) suddenly coming from?
It’s funny because their comments are the same things that the person wrote this morning when he/she posted those 15 comments on JJ in my name.
It’s not hate against Brandi, it’s exhaustion. And it’s not new. She had a lot of people on her ‘side’ post divorce, for years. But her own behavior has drained that support.
I do sympathize with her. But her own public behavior has become exhausting in its own way.
Since someone was up at 3 am making 15 posts in my name on another site this morning, it’s not from people being exhausted by Brandi or Brandi losing support. Leann is losing support, not Brandi. Someone from this site was bold enough to go to another site this morning and use my name to make the same hateful posts about Brandi that were being posted here, so it’s very reasonable to question the sudden appearance of these Brandi haters.
The fact that someone used my name on another site to write hateful posts about Brandi and nice comments about Leann means that Brandi still does have people on her side and that Brandi’s behavior hasn’t drained her support.
It’s annoying to learn that someone is using your name, but it’s also a huge confirmation that my comments about people using multiple names is valid! The person got so comfortable here that she/he thought that she/he could use my name on
another site!
Strange, I’ve often wondered so many people here are so willing to canonize St. Brandi, when the rest of the Internet tends to be more balanced.
Your so right. If funny how that in the last couple of posts that out of nowhere there’s a lot of new commenters ripping Brandi a new one and praising LeAnn.
Where were they when there were LeAnn stories for the last couple of YEARS. NOW all the LeAnn supports are here pretty much typing what’s been posted on her social media and the other comment section on other sites.. They’re sad transparent attempts to defend LeAnn.
And anyone who’s a regular on this site are familiar with the names of the other commenters.
Funny what I’m mostly seeing is a criticism of all three of them. I think a lot of people want them to act like adults.
All of these defenders for St. LeAnn should go buy her album, buy a chalk candle or visit a local casino. She needs the help. Only 2000 Christmas albums sold even when selling that “Happy Family” over the holidays. No worries with the 6 dates she’s already booked this year and all those new creative things (plagiarizing, borrowing) I’m sure you’ll get your chance to defend her again.
She’s such an immature piece of work. I don’t feel sorry for her i feel sorry for those kids. They should be the focus of consideration and just like in most of the custody battles I’ve seen in the past it looks like the focus is the adults egos. Did the kids look happy? Then keep your mouth shut and talk to a therapist lady. I shutter to think about the guilt, and confusion that Eddie, LeeAnne, and Brandi’s antics will cause the kids long term.
Exactly. Brandi is putting it out there that any time they enjoy being with their dad – basically 50% of their existence – it’s a betrayal of her as their mother. Guilt and confusion is right.
Leann is creating a karmic debt against herself that will take several lifetimes to pay off. Brandi should stop begging for better behavior and treatment from her ex-husband and Leann because there appears to be little hope that they are willing or capable of not being selfish idiots. Brandi can only have control over herself and her own reactions, so I would tell her to start today and be the better person and rise above her “feelings and emotions”. It is incredibly generous of Brandi to be appreciative of Leann loving and caring for her sons when they are at their dad’s house. Brandi might also consider reading a few books on how to deal with difficult people. I would especially tell Brandi to read and learn as much as possible about narcissists and sociopaths, because there are certain things one must do and NOT do, when dealing with narcissists. Good luck Brandi, and please, learn to bite your tongue and not impulsively speak about what is in your head at the moment. I would love to see Brandi clean up her act, find some peace, and stop saying nasty things to other people in person or in writing, because ugly words from her mostly make her look like an ugly person deep inside.
Yeah, Brandi needs to understand that you can be honest and forthright and kickass, without having to share quite so much. She can get her point across AND show self-restraint. She’s lost a lot of the support that she had, because she gets so brash. I mean, she’s not under any obligation to be a role model to any of us (only her children), but if you are in the public eye and looking for public support, you would be better served by being a little more self-aware.
And LeAnn needs mucho mucho mucho psychological help.
And Eddie is a scuz bucket.
I admired how B did not let L&E stream roll her in the beginning.
Later, she cried out on social media about one of the boys (maybe could not reach him and used SM as a way to get the other household’s attention). The usual barrage of pro and con posts started, which is what can happen when you place personal business on SM. She had a crude response and said the boys had two loving homes or something to that effect. So there was a crisis blasted on SM, and she gets mad at the public(???). It reminded me of the boy who cried wolf.
I still think L&E are both childish, passive aggressive messes, but I never assume B isn’t crying wolf and then going tell everyone to F themselves because the other two are just great after all.
It’s all just a mess.
Yes, exactly. Learning how to deal with the nightmare that is a narcissist will help hugely. You’re not dealing with your every day person. Or, in this case, people.
Gotta say I feel for her. Yes she leaked this email but putting up with Leann Rimes would turn anyone crazy. I’m not usually a fan of hers and I’m not particularly maternal either, but knowing that this was sent prior to Christmas and then to know Leann ignored it and posted pics anyway then got Ediot to lie…. Just shows what she is putting up with for six loooooong years. I kinda hope Leann has a kid one day so she knows what it feels like when Ediot leaves her and she has to share her kid, but then again, I wouldn’t wish Leann as a mum on any child.
“What I keep coming back to is this: if Brandi is crazy, it’s because she’s been dealing with the fact that her ex-husband is lousy at co-parenting AND he married a woman who wants to wear Brandi’s skin, Buffalo Bill-style.”
Honestly, I can’t believe how many people believe this. No, if Brandi is crazy, it is because she’s crazy. If Eddie Cibrian is a jerk or Leann Rimes is a narcissist, it is because they are those things, not because Brandi has made them be. None of these people – including Brandi – are “good people,” but Cibrian and Rimes are no more responsible for Glanville’s crazy than she is for theirs.
Intentionally or not, Eddie is the puppetmaster. Both women have allowed him too much control, in different ways. And, Brandi plays into LeAnn’s hands when she acts up or admits feeling hurt.
I am perfectly happy to believe that Eddie Cibrian is manipulative – and yes, of the three, his behavior has been overall the most damaging. But Brandi Glanville has repeatedly demonstrated her propensity for manipulation. So I have a hard time believing that Leann Rimes, as damaged as she clearly is, is the demon manipulator, hurting poor St. Brandi, as many (though clearly not all) here do.
I have to say, I feel for her. I’m not a mother or a divorcee but I can only imagine how much she’s hurting missing out on special events with her children. I won’t say “she needs to get over it” because I hear a mother’s bond with her children is an incredible one. Just because I’ve never experienced that and most likely won’t doesn’t mean I don’t acknowledge that.
I did roll my eyes when she started going in on Eddie still being the reason why she has trust issues with men. THAT she definitely needs to let go. It’s not easy and I’m a bit like her in that I get traumatized and it stunts me however what she needs to let go of is telling him this. This gives him power and satisfaction. This is why he continues to enable Leann. Furthermore, that wasn’t the issue at hand. From my experience people like Eddie take this ONE comment and use it against you, completely missing the overall point. Brandi does the same with others so I won’t call her an innocent victim here but she needs to smarten up and realize that she’s being played yet again. Of course she’s not over it! She continues to let him play her.
I feel like it really bothers Eddie and Leanne that people sympathize with Brandi. Which is why Eddie clearly lied. I think they thought that horrible show was their chance to show the “real” them. And nobody cared…which for people like them must have been a really big deal.
I’m not a huge fan of people putting children on social media so it seems like the obvious solution would be for Leanne to just not do so…even if Brandi is a hypocrite and puts their pictures up at the end of the day they aren’t Leanne’s kids. I’m a little confused as to why Leanne doesn’t just have kids of her own if she derives such a large part of her identity from being a mother.
Get over it! Brandi is a mean girl crying about someone being mean to her.I would probably have more empathy for her if I hadn’t seen her on Real Housewives.Bye Girl
LMAOOOO get your head out of the TV and reality world. Brandi played a character in a TV show, that is not real. It’s a scripted/reality show, that is edited, sliced and diced and put together to fit in along with commercials in an hour slot. They are payed to bring drama.
Word to the wise B, next time journal those feelings or call your therapist. E & L love your pain. Don’t share it with them. Why would a couple who has never shown you an ounce of sympathy or respect suddenly empathize with your situation? Learn the lesson. I’m not saying it’s fair but it’s time B changes her expectations.
Absolutely agree.
Well said, and true.
Here is my takeaway on this . Glasses don’t make everyone look smart.
This situation is explosive for the fact that there are three narcissists in this situation. None of them have empathy or sensitivity. As for the 6 years is too long to be fighting because of divorce, I divorced a Narcissist 6 years ago and it is still not finished. He refuses to do anything the court orders. Google divorcing a narcissistic. It is incredible what damage they can do.
As a divorced Mom who also shares custody of my son I can really feel for her! It makes me count my lucky stars that A) my ex and I are once again friends and co-parent peacefully and B) as of the moment there is no step Mom involved. I remarried but my husband is very respectful about being a step parent. Brandi is crazy and such but I really empathize with her regarding her divorce situation.
Eddie and Brandi are both crappy parents. If you don’t love your kids enough to stay civil….then you aren’t a good parent.
Those poor kids.
I have a friend who’s ex is crazy vindictive bitch who my friend tries desperately to be civil to. Someone else’s meaness doesn’t define YOUR parenting
Yes, exactly. Brandi tries to be civil; it shows in that email. Her ex enjoys the control her frustration brings him. My friend’s ex cheated on her, treated her like crap, and now uses their child as a tool, no matter how hard she tries. He blames her for throwing him out, which means “how dare you take control of your own life”.
Now, for a moment of deflection — A ‘source’ now claims a surrogacy is planned.
It’s officially Groundhog Day. Same stories, over and over. This ‘maybe a baby’ storyline gets rolled out every time there is a need for extra attention or (in this case) deflection. A denial should occur next week. Rinse, repeat.
Leann is still on the attack, but of course all these people telling Brandi to move on, don’t want to talk about how Leann constantly uses twitter and instagram to attack Brandi.
This is what Leann just posted on twitter( she also posted a quote about how there is nothing wrong with herself or nothing that needs to be fixed about herself)…
Brandy’s “Begging and Pleading” on repeat @4everBrandy #sogood #soulsista
@WHY?, I saw the Twitter reference to the song lyrics too, and that is a classic LeAnn move right there. Make a dig at Brandi in a passive aggressive way that can’t be PROVEN to be about Brandi.
Don’t you just know LeAnn is enjoying every minute of this? In three days, she has had hundreds of commenters on CB alone dissecting her behavior. She doesn’t care that the attention is negative. It’s attention, and this week she has gotten more attention than she normally does. I’m sure she’s as happy as a pig in slop.
You know, even if I was struggling with someone, if that person earnestly approached me and said, “I know we have our issues, but, for whatever reason, I am really struggling with XYZ. Can you please refrain from doing it?” I honestly believe I would stop doing it. Because, at the end of the day, that person is human and I am human. When you strip it all down to the basics, we’re all just here to walk each other home. Heck, I’d even walk LeAnn home. I might swing her by a psychiatrist first, just to get her some fine-tuning, but I would eventually try to get her to her front door.
Even though Leann is getting attention from this, she is still troubled by the fact that it’s not positive attention or working out in her favor. You know that Leann isn’t happy with the outcome, when you learn that one of her fans was so enraged by my lack of support for Leann that this morning he/she went to another site and posted 15 comments in my name-hate posts about Brandi and positive comments about Leann, copying and pasting the posts I made yesterday and changing them to support Leann. I can understand 1 or 2 comments, but 15? That should teach me a lesson about writing negative comments about Leann and her manager Darrell Brown!
Dean said it best, Leann thrives on the approval and adoration of others.
Remember how Darrell said that Brandi was using Leann for headlines, I noticed that Brandi’s name was trendy, but since this story came out, Leann’s name hasn’t trended once.
Brandi exposes Leann’s bad behavior, Darrell Brown who morphs into Eddie whenever Leann needs to fill Eddie’s absence issues a statement to People magazine calling Brandi a liar, Brandi releases the email to “Eddie”(we all know that Leann is running Eddie’s email account just like she was constantly tweeting from his twitter account, and Leann responds by releasing another miscarriage, surrogate, pregnancy story and then making more passive aggressive digs at Brandi using song lyrics.
I just saw an item about Leann’s devastation over a miscarriage. So when did she have a miscarriage without telling the entire world every blow by blow detail? If she gets a hangnail the world knows along with pictures.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Since the “Brandi’s email is fake” and “Brandi didn’t directly tell Leann to stop” lines didn’t work, Leann had to resort to the miscarriage story.
Leann had to put out that she was using a surrogate because after all those tweets about how she spent 4 hours riding a quad in the desert(Leann took Eddie, Lizzy, Dave, Darrell, and Darrell’s husband to the desert for NYE) and drinking Don Julio on Christmas Eve, she couldn’t very well put out a story that she was 3 months or 5 months pregnant.
Good call!
Now leann is going back to playing the baby card. Out of nowhere she going to get a surrogate to have a baby
Another pity play from LeAnn to distract from the tide of negative press.
She is sooooo predictable. LeAnn knows that Eddie would really head for the door.
Now she telling the press that she had a miscarriage. The woman that pee in a glass to take a pregnancy test on national TV. LeAnn would have been on every cover of every magazine if that happened.
One days those two boys will be able to go online and look up all this nonsense about their parents and Leann. I wouldn’t be surprised if they turned on their stepmother. I’m not sure if they are aware that their father cheated on their mom? Even if they are, I don’t know if they know the full extent of manipulation on Eddie and Leann’s part. Brandy is not a saint either–she has done her own trash talking but I feel sorry for her.
You never know how children will turn out. Maybe they will have a good relationship with the step-mother who has shown them love and taken care of them, and because she earns enough money to support the family, that has allowed their father, who they seem to adore, to be a constant presence in their lives rather than being an intermittent presence because he has to take lengthy out of town acting jobs.
Maybe they will have a good and loving relationship with their mother, or maybe they will resent her for making it known that she is miserable and driven to drink when they are not with her, and also that she has made public comments about them like calling her then 7 year old son an asshole who has gotten to second base “with a lot of chicks” and will end up in rehab, and also posting on Twitter a list of questions for her 12 year old son because apparently he should know whether or not the girl he asked out on a date is a virgin.
Nope. They will probably have a good relationship with all. They will not turn against their mother OR their father, and probably not Leann either. My step-kids love their drug-addled, mentally disturbed mother who has abused them.
I don’t judge them for it. They love me, too, but I am NOT their mother.
I’m the one they come to for many, many things, but they crave the love of their mother.
Brandi is a good mom. She’s a hard-working mom with friendships and a family.
Drinking too much here and there, or the occasional embarrassing faux pas means nothing in the long run.
It’s the night-time snuggles, the chicken soup while sick, and the love they will remember.
Every human being is different and will react different in the same situations. I am sure we don’t know half of the crappy treatment they have given to Brandi, so we should not be judging her so harshly, when she does finally overflow and react. This would have been over days ago had that douche, (Ediot (aka Leann$), not felt the need to respond so hateful to People Mag over a simple statement from a podcast. What is clearly shown is that Brandi has tried to quietly suggest kindness and effective coparenting and was ignored by 2 complete utter a-holes who then posted even more pics and Leann making sure to refer to boys as “our kids”. I would be livid as a Mother if I was constantly disregarded by the Father and SM. I blame them for constantly enflaming the situation.
And we also don’t know all the crappy treatment that Eddie and Leann have gotten from Brandi over the years. What I find interesting is that at the beginning of the email Brandi says, “these aren’t old antics,” and yet it seems like the heartfelt email ended up being more of Brandi’s “old antics” because she went out of her way to make a negative comment about Eddie on a podcast that aired not long after the email was sent.
Wow, so your going to go comment to comment defending LeAnn to the bite end despite the fact that there is a whole archive in Celebrity of what Leann pulled. Yes Brandi has pulled crap, but Leann has a phone book of behavior long before Eddie came along.
This is not going to matter when Eddie leaves. Because we all know Eddie is out of there. LeAnn is a sad little girl.
…”crappy treatment” though?…
Yes I think Brandi should get over it after all this time but if she wasn’t entirely pleasant in the beginning can you blame her? She’s supposed to warmly embrace the woman who had an affair with her husband?
She refers to Leanne as a loving stepmom to her boys, that’s not indicative of someone who is vengeful or spiteful towards Leanne.
@funcakes,
I was responding to a comment and I did not dispute the OP’s comment regarding Eddie and Leann doling out crappy treatment. Yes there is documentation of the things that Eddie and Leann have done but there is also loads of documentation of things Brandi has done but Brandi had a huge reservoir of sympathy, good will and benefit of the doubt so many excused and rationalized her “antics” but now that tank is pretty much empty.
@Kitten,
The thing is that Brandi will compliment Eddie and Leann one minute and the next minute she is attacking them or using them as fodder for her podcast or other public forums in less than positive ways. I know this sounds harsh but Brandi reminds me of the fable where the poisonous creature seeks help, gets help, bites the person who helps and when asked why replies, “you knew what I was when you helped me.”
I have no doubt that this woman misses her children on the holidays that they are not with her. I would be rather shocked if she didn’t, frankly. But, there are millions of other families who are managing to handle it in private…even celebrities!
All three of these “adults” are fameho’s that are CHOOSING to air their dirty laundry in public. They are all tarred with the same brush, as far as I’m concerned.
BG has made a living off of this affair and the fall-out…EC would have faded (further) into obscurity, without all this nonsense, and LR would have been popping up on an episode of “What Ever Happened To…” in short order.
So, let’s remember what all of this REALLY is to these people: profitable.
Sad for the kids.
I think this email is heartbreaking and honest, and a little bitter as well, but I can see why she’s still so bitter after 7 years…those a-holes still taunt her and seem to truly enjoy hurting her. I think Eddie resents her for leaving, even though it was justified I think he’s the type who thinks no woman could date leave him, and I think LeAnn is so insecure and on some level knows Eddie would still be with Brandi if it were up to him. I can’t figure out any other reason for LeAnn and Eddie to hate her so much, they are the ones who supposedly got their happily ever after and have some amazing connection that no one else on earth had, why are they so angry? Happy people don’t do what those two do, plain and simple.
Ahhh the good ol’ Eddie and Leann hate Brandi because Brandi dumped Eddie yarn. When Brandi told the story of how she ended the marriage, she said that she told Eddie that she was going to check into a hotel and to be gone when she got back, Well guess what devastated Eddie did, not only did he not move out, but by the time Brandi got herself settled at the hotel she got a call from a tabloid that Eddie was tooling around town on his Harley with Leann Rimes. For whatever reason Brandi did not file for divorce, rather about a month later it was Eddie who filed for divorce.
You are mixing several different events together. Eddie was still living with Brandi when the Harley story came out. Brandi said she didn’t file for divorce because she was taking advice from Lizzy. I thought that Eddie got the apartment after Brandi told Eddie that her mother was coming to stay with them.
Leann has spent her entire relationship with Eddie trying to morph into Brandi. She started going to Brandi’s dentist(who she then tried to sue claiming that he ruined her music career ) and surgeon. Yes, Eddie still has feelings for Brandi. Eddie would be indifferent to Brandi, but Eddie has an intense need to hurt Brandi. The more Leann targets Brandi with the passive aggressive tweets and photos of her kids, the more that becomes evident that Eddie still wants to be with Brandi.
@aaa: The end of a marriage is rarely as simple as “one person left and that was it forever.” All of the things you’ve mentioned can actually be true as well as it also being true that E is hurt and resentful.
Source: Ex-H still gets upset that I ‘abandoned’ him despite him refusing to give up his mistress and him being the one to file.
@why
I am relaying a story that Brandi told so if dates are mixed up it’s because Brandi mixed them up, something she is known to do to suit her own agenda. The outside information used in my comment was the part about Eddie filing for divorce a month later.
Did Brandi specifically say it was Lizzie she was taking advice from? That doesn’t make sense for her to take advice from, of all people, the wife of Eddie’s best friend.
@Cirque28
I agree your point that these things are not always simple but in Eddie’s case I just cannot buy into that Eddie is hurt and resentful because Brandi supposedly ended their relationship, what I do buy into is that Eddie (and Leann) resent Brandi because she will not keep her mouth shut and let them be the Romeo and Juliette media darlings they aspire to be.
Brandi sounds more like your ex-husband in that she is still expressing grievances against Eddie even though she also claims she left him and has moved on.
Leann’s response: put out a story she’s trying to have a baby and then this tweet:
LeAnn Rimes Cibrian @leannrimes 1h1 hour ago
Brandy’s “Begging and Pleading” on repeat @4everBrandy #sogood #soulsista
If you can’t see the type of people that Brandi has been dealing with, and you sit and talk about what a caring woman Leann is, you’re just plain delusional at this point.
There’s no desire to coparent. Their only desire, what they get off on, is hurting her.
Thanks for showing that tweet.
What kind of people react like this and I mean EC & LR? Just heartless.
Leann Rimes is the queen of passive aggressive behavior. I have never seen anything like it.
Brandi has more self control than I ever would. Can you imagine what goes on behind the scenes that we don’t have a clue about?
@ Stanley – this is my position as well. Brandi is not innocent in all of this BUT she has a lot more self control than I would have if I were dealing with Leann.
Gawd, those glasses! Yoiks!
What’s wrong with them? I think she looks kinda cute.
They are his children too. All three need to stop. The children will out mature all three of these ‘people’.
But he’s not the one posting photos. Their stepmother is.
I don’t really wish this, because kids are involved, but I wonder what would happen if Dr. Phil did a show on these three. I don’t watch Dr. Phil, but I would tune in if he could convince them to appear together as the latest “Dr. Phil Family In Crisis.” Popcorn sales would go up for sure.
Brandi wants a better coparenting arrangement, a modern one in which people can behae around each other, and include the other parent because these years go way too fast.
Soon there will be nothing to fight over, they will be grown and gone. Leann is too unsecure to ever let that happen, and Ed has to behave because Leann is boss.
So… sad all around.
Eddie is right, Brandi knew exactly what she was doing when she transmuted an email to Eddie into a direct exchange between her and Leann. By giving Leann a bigger and direct role the result was that the tea Brandi spilled would get media attention which is exactly what happened.
Her comment was a throwaway and they overreacted.
I don’t read the email proof the way you do at all. I believe she directly asked Leann, in addition to the email we’ve now seen and the multiple public tweets to Leann that people have noticed over the years and the way Leann has responded to the requests over the years. Brandi’s comment to the podcast interviewer essentially was a summary of all of that history. Because the bottom line is, she’s asked and been told “it’s my family I’ll do what I want.” Same thing Leann has said in interviews and on Twitter.
Eddie’s response was to act like she made all of it up, she’s a big liar, trying to say that the story is not a case of “we know her request and we are ignoring it and that makes us bad people.”
Brandi’s response is to show proof that they very well do know of the request and ignore it. She proved her point. Just like Leann’s tweet today shows the situation.
Brandi has made it known throughout the years that she does not like Leann involving her children in her social media postings, but the story she told on Nik Richie’s podcast was that she had a direct conversation with Leann, Brandi said, “I told her” and made a point that she was coming from a place of hurt and not anger and requested that Leann not post pictures of her children on holidays because she finds it painful, and there was a response from Leann which was to refuse Brandi’s heartfelt and humble request.
Eddie’s comment was not a blanket “she’s lying” he made a point of saying that Brandi “lies for the sake of publicity” and that there was no discussion between Brandi and Leann but that Brandi has to deceitfully “bring in [his] wife” to make headlines.
ETA:
Here’s Eddie’s comment regarding Brandi lying:
I tried to post the tweet that Leann wrote on March 20, 2011 about her and Brandi communicating, but it won’t let it post. At the end of the tweet, Leann signs it Leann and Brandi. If Brandi and Leann don’t even talk and Brandi never asked Leann to not post photos of her kids during the holidays, then how does Darrell explain Leann’s tweet?
I also think that the request to stop posting about the kids came up during their family therapy session, the one where Leann wore the high heels and eyelashes. Brandi couldn’t discuss what happened because she said she signed a CA, but based on Leann’s tweets to her fans during that time it was something that was discussed.
Subconsciously, Brandi knows that it’s Leann who is writing to her from Eddie’s email account. If you look at the quotes that Leann was posting from Nov 3 to Nov 5, you can tell she was being passive aggressive about Brandi’s email. We all assumed that Leann was just posting quotes, but now that we know that Brandi sent the email on Nov 3, Leann’s quotes make sense now.
Brandi has always been very open and honest. too honest at times. she probably reacts too quickly and with anger when provoked. both eddie and leann are proven liars. eddie lied to his wife, his girlfriend, his mistress, his publicist and the press. why would anyone believe a habitual liar over someone who is known for brutal honesty. leann’s lies are legion and there is not enough space to list them.
aaa: what part do you not get that there are public tweets from Brandi to Leann? Eddie is the one lying.
@claire,
So when this story came out a few days ago when Brandi was quoted as saying,
that people reading or listening to this are supposed to think that this plea is taking place over Twitter?
Also I don’t even understand where you are coming from with the comment “what part do you not get…” when I began my previous comment with “Brandi has made it known throughout the years that she does not like Leann involving her children in her social media postings”
Brandi and Eddie are both known liars so neither one of them gets the benefit of the doubt from me but to me the proof that Brandi provided supports Eddie’s assertion more that Brandi lies to get publicity and uses Leann’s name to get headlines.
This is similar to what happened a couple of years ago when Brandi tweeted that Eddie wanted her to pay him child support and then the proof that Brandi herself provided showed that Brandi’s initial assertion was a falsehood.
LeAnn, why don’t you worry about that book your favorite blogger wrote about you. I believe she just looking for a distributor.
Brandi looks at leanne and just thinks cooties! Brandi being a good person has to feel sorry eddie having to be around leanne
I think I know who you’re referring to and I am anxiously awaiting this book.
First it was that the email was fake and now the argument is that Brandi’s proof doesn’t count because it wasn’t directly sent to Leann? Leann has a history of tweeting from Eddie’s twitter account, so she is also sending posts from Eddie’s email account to Brandi. I think that 90% of what Brandi receives from Eddie’s email account is coming from Leann and Darrel, not Eddie. I think that Eddie spends a lot of time away from home. Like the time that Brandi said she was trying to call her kids and Eddie and Leann wouldn’t answer the phone. Leann said that they were eating dinner, but the real reason was Leann probably didn’t want Brandi to know that Eddie wasn’t home. I don’t understand why Leann is doing all of the grocery shopping, cooking, laundry, cleaning, packing, and taking care of the kids when Eddie doesn’t work and is home all day long. The only way Leann would be doing all of this is because Eddie isn’t there to do it.
The day after Brandi’s tweet, Leann posted a quote about kindness in words, the next day she was tweeting about how Eddie was her sanity in the chaos. Leann read and saw the Brandi’s email, so why didn’t she do what Brandi asked?
Leann made the decision to continue to post photos of Brandi’s kids after she was asked to stop. Brandi didn’t spill the tea, Leann and Eddie did. Notice how Leann doesn’t post very many photos of Elisa’s daughter, her fake niece, Lizzy’s kids, and KH’s kids? Leann can respect the boundaries set up by these parents, so why can’t she do the same for Brandi? Leann used to post about Elisa’s daughter a lot and then one day it stopped. You hardly ever see Leann posting photos of Elisa’s daughter even though Lizzy posts photos of her quite often.
Brandi asked Leann to stop posting about her kids many times. It happened when Leann posted the Thanksgiving photo of her leaning over the pool table with Eddie, Jake, and Mason. The family therapy session. Tweets telling Leann to put down the phone and stop tweeting about her kids. Even Leann’s fans have asked Leann to stop posting photos of Jake and Mason.
Darrell said that Brandi had never spoken to Leann, but there are tweets from Leann in 2011 saying that she communicated with Brandi.
Brandy is not perfect. But I can’t help but feel bad for her after reading this. Listen everyone experiences things differently. Just because some of you handled things differently than Brandy, doesn’t mean she’s not allowed to have certain feelings about this situation. To be fair LR does things out of spite. No one in this is an angel but I think it’s a bit harsh to say Brandy is making to much out of this.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. I believe Brandi is manipulating the situation. I don’t have children, so its difficult for me to say how I would react. But I hope I would be mature about the situation. To me it seems like she never got over the hurt of being betrayed. it seems like she’s lashing out. Those photos are of a happy family that would have been hers if Eddie never cheated. So I sympathize…but Eddie is with Leane and that doesn’t seem to be changing any time soon. Are Eddie and Leane not to celebrate happy moments. Is she the only parent allowed to post pictures. Yes, she is their mother but Eddie is their father and should be able to make and document his happy moments with his family. As much as it bothers her Leane is now part of that family. I would rather a constant step parent than multiple random girlfriends or boyfriends. At least Eddie is part of their lives and not like the countless fathers and mothers who abandon their children once the relationship is over. Listen it sucks.. but there are worse situation to have deal with when it comes to divorce. Grow up Brandi your kids seem happy and loved.
Do people pick and choose what they focus on? Brandi did not say she wants Leann to stop taking pics! She asked Eddie and Leann for consideration of her feelings for the holidays she misses with them and to consider including her so the boys get the best of both worlds and no one has to miss out. Why is that a bad thing? These two people never considered her feelings ever hence the affair but it’s obvious she’s over that, it’s obvious she has accepted Leann is part of her kids’ lives and has even gone so far as to say she appreciates Leann for loving her boys. She asks only one simple thing and it’s all “Brandi needs to accept it. Brandi needs to get over it. Brandi needs to move on. At least she loves the boys.” There is nothing negative that Brandi is asking so very kindly in that email.
I think most people are Team No One or Team Kids. Brandi got a lot of sympathy up front and everyone recognizes that Eddie is the worst and LeAnn is unstable. But at this point all three of them are contributing to dragging it out and making it public. And if it’s genuinely about the kids and wanting good co-parenting (which I’m not sure it is since she repeatedly mentioned him hurting her, her feelings and breaking up the family) then just start doing it yourself. Make a life for yourself in that 50% of the time you don’t have the kids, don’t talk about it in interviews or put anything on SM and just distance yourself. If you don’t want the drama then don’t let it in and don’t be dramatic yourself. That’s the way most of us live our lives. And a lot of us deal with unstable people while we’re doing that. It’s hard but it’s better for everyone in the end.
I may have missed it but haven’t seen anyone just extend kindness to Brandi. She’s not had the best (if any?) guided upbringing, she has seemed to me to be traumatized by life and she’s hurting.
How hard is it to just be kind to her instead of judging her by standards of healthy people others are related to who have handled things better?
Good lord. This thread has been horrific to read and I had to skip a lot because people are cruel.
@Boo then shouldn’t she be seeking help with how to deal with it? If not for herself then for her kids? I don’t think that’s an unkind thing to hope for if someone is unhealthy.
@paleokifaru – Yes totally agree. I keep hoping to see articles framed that way, with kindness, so it gets back to Brandi and she feels encouraged and supported in how to move on and heal. But everything has been bashing bandwagon and she is some emotional hell trouble here. It’s not funny. Or like she has a choice. She’s a mess of hurt and can’t figure out how to heal. Surely there is someone close to her who gets that and cares?
I totally agree Jezi. I was re-reading Brandi’s book ” tweeting and drinking” the other night and found it very interesting that since first reading the book and now re-reading it, there have been quite a few post Leann has made that seem to speak directly to comments Brandi made in the book. I would bet Leann has that book hidden in her closet and she probably reads it over and over and thinks up different ways to get digs in on Brandi. I believe she hates Brandi for writing that book as does Ed, and that’s where all the passive aggressive behavior comes from. I also noticed Brandi made a post on Christmas morning, or maybe Christmas eve about the Chaos in the house with all the gift unwrapping. Later that day Leann made a post I think on Instagram about the how during all the Christmas Chaos Eddie is her sanity.. Just one more example for me as proof that Leann is at it again with the SWF. Leann reads every word Brandi writes in my opinion and always tries to one up her. She’s such a monster.
Brandi has every right to be upset. Her feelings and requests for respect as the Mother are ignored and her role is totally discounted. She has talked directly to Leann and was told, “it’s my family too and I will do what I want”. Those pics end up being posted on multiple sites with her happy family rhetoric. Leann has x’d Brandi’s role out and pretends those are her kids and her family. Now, L actually thinks she can play the sympathy card with the ever familiar pregnancy story. Oh, and let’s up the ante by claiming miscarriage. Please, enough already from this hateful twit!
All three of these ridiculously immature people (Brandi, Eddie & LeAnn) need to grow the F**K up and stop airing their personal disagreements via social media!!! Jesus!! I too am a divorced parent. Guess what??? My ex and I decided to put away our personal differences and learn to co-parent our daughter! My ex remarried and now my daughter has a step mother. Is that always easy for me???? NO! But maturity always wins out. These three are abominations as parents and my only sympathy goes out to those boys who will learn, soon enough, how disgusting their parents were to each other via social media, etc.
What the actual f*ck did I just read? Omg I am so shocked at how callous most of you are! I’m so bummed I’m in Australia and don’t usually get to read CB later than the US CB readers because if I was first poster I would have made it an epic post defending Brandi.
So I’ll do it here but I guess nobody will read it. Oh well at least I’ll get it off my chest.
Brandi sent a nice (but borderline illiterate – punctuation is your friend Brandi) email to those two spiteful, malicious jerks and instead of acting like normal peeps and going ‘fair enough, we can do that’ they go ahead and completely go against her wishes. Make no mistake, Rimes is not only the most vindictive, malevolent, spiteful, hateful beyotch I’ve ever witnessed, she’s also the ugliest and most unfortunate looking woman too, because her soul is ugly and it’s showing on the outside. Karma has a long arm Leann and you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Anyhoo I digress. I am just getting started. These are Brandis kids and the little one is only 6 or so, yes? You feel traumatized being away from your kids when they are little, sort of like something has been ripped off you, like an arm, or a heart. It’s freaking hard and really rough. But aside from all that, Eddie flat out called her a LIAR, which where I come from is called slander. Of course BG was then going to leak the email, if nothing else, to clear her name.
I don’t care if this woman drinks too much or was on that stupid show being a moron – newsflash it is SCRIPTED. As in not real. Who knows what this woman is really like? All I know is that years of dealing with a psycho takes its toll and it’s very very difficult to keep on being the bigger person, week in, week out, especially when someone as psychotic as Rimes has stolen your husband, your kids, your style, your car, your dentist, boob doctor and lives to rile you up through your Achilles heel – your kids.
I said it before, I’ll say it again: I’m surprised Brandi hasn’t totally lost her shit at Rimes because she has been provoked beyond the point most people could possibly tolerate.
I will forever be Team Brandi and have a lot of sympathy for her. Eddie and Leann are the most f*cked up, psychotic, codependent arseholes I’ve ever seen and that’s saying something as I thought my ex took that crown.
I swear if I was in Brandis shoes I’d be doing the same thing, if only to have a timeline of events as evidence. Rimes would skin BG alive if she could. She really is a terrifying human and until you’ve had to deal with that level of psycho, how the freak would you know how you would react?
‘There but for the grace of God go I’.
i totally agree with you. i would not have been able to tolerate the crap from leann and eddie. leann’s latest tweet is paraphrased ” on repeat, begging and pleading song by Brandy”. i probably have the wording wrong but the gist is there. i don’t know how any mother couldn’t emphasize with Brandi. i understand she has problems with depression and probably self medicates but that does not make her a bad person.
Yes! Yes! And more yes!
Well said Snowpea!! Completely agree.
Thank you! The only thing I can possibly add is that if it wasn’t for their mutual obsession with Brandi Douchbag Eddie and Leann would have broken up by now.
Thank you Snowpea! Some of us see through LeAnn’s bs. She’s vindictive and is filled with jealousy anything Brandi. Why else change your entire face, teeth, hair and starve yourself trying to be a 5’10 model? People are basing their opinions from a TV show. But refuse to see that LeAnn’s antics are well documented and from her own social media. Some of us been around when all of this first started and know the real truth.
She uses those boys as a weapon against their Mother. I can’t wait for the day all of her crap will be thrown right back in her face. Kids pay attention and they talk. LeAnn’s karma is just now starting. And I’m sticking around to see when she is properly served. A black hearted, unfortunate looking, souless creature who lost it all for a lying, cheating, aging gigolo.
So nice to see you @snowpea ! Your post is spot on, thanks
Brandy Norwood responded to Leann’s tweet and she has absolutely no idea that Leann’s tweet was nothing more than a passive aggressive dig towards Brandi. I wonder how long it took Leann to come up with that? It was probably Darrell Brown’s idea. Brandi releases an email pleading with”Eddie”( Leann) to make Leann stop posting photos of her kids on holidays and then the next day, Leann tweets to Brandy praising her “Begging and Pleading” song. This is why this is still going on for so long. Leann is always on the attack against Brandi, at times she even drags innocent (like Brandi Norwood) into it.
Brandy Norwood’s single came out 2 days ago and Leann just so happens to notice the single and tweet about it a day after Brandi releases her email asking “Eddie” to make Leann stop posting photos of the kids on holidays. Leann is so evil. How can she keep saying she is happy being married to Eddie when she keeps doing all these evil things?
Im a Single divorced mom and all these feelings are normal. I just feel bad that she has to deal with a step mom like leanne, like seriously f*^%*!!
I can’t imagine dealing with a psycho like Leann, much less having no choice in my kids being around her half the time.
I dislike the fact that Brandi doesn’t say anything more/ give more details/ explain things more when she was on the Talk or other shows. I know it’s time limited, but just a short additional statement or two would make a world of difference.
I also dislike the fact that she released the email to the people she released it to. She couldn’t have sent to People too ? It’s just not getting all the press/attention that eddies statement and now that stupid surrogate story is getting.
Maybe she did and they didn’t cover it(??).
If the surrogate story is attributed to ‘sources’ instead of an exclusive directly from her, all LR has to do is deny it in a few days. This is incredibly predictable. A pregnancy story gets rolled out as a diversion or attention seeking story, then in days she’s saying it’s the 990th pregnancy story cooked up by the media.
@Baylor – Your comment is a great example of why this is still being played out in the press 6 years on. Brandi has talked in detail in the past. She has done everything you say, she has tried to NOT make things public. The more calm she achieved, the more Leanne ramped up her psychotic stalking and terrorizing via social media etc. News shows and talk shows are not going to keep covering it unless there is something new to say. And Brandi has said multiple times she is tired of talking about it and everything being so upsetting all the time.
All you need to do is google, but nobody wants to because nobody cares that much and it’s also very very very old news. You have to go back to the beginning and it’s a lot of crap to wade through, none of this is Brandi’s making or fault. This is all Leanne’s antics which got Brandi, her kids, and gossips, where they are today.
Whatever anyone thinks of Brandi, having compassion for another person’s suffering doesn’t cost you anything.
But I do think the pleading is futile on Brandi’s part. She acts like she can still reach the Eddie she used to love and find some gentleness or mercy in his heart of stone. But if Eddie was going to be kind, he would have done it already. It’s just sad.
They may yet find a friendship when his marriage tanks.
That would be nice but I don’t see it ever happening…too much water under that old bridge.
If/When LeAnn and Eddie divorce, I can see Eddie and Brandi getting along much better. I can also see Eddie making sure LeAnn sees a picture of them (B&E) together at some children’s event in the media. Just to upset LeAnn.
It doesn’t make sense to post a private remark on Twitter unless you are doing it bring yourself public attentions
Bingo!
If LeAnn’s going to play the difficulty getting pregnant/miscarriage card, she needs ro rethink what she posts about. She’s constantly shown drinking alcohol, posts about her daily, strenuous workouts. horseback and ATV riding, constant sushi eating etc. These have never let up, so exactly when was this miscarriage? Women are having difficulty getting pregnant can’t take 40 pills a day, vitamin or not. They certainly don’t, or shoukdn’t, drink huge glasses of Don Julio either. She must think that the public are as idiotic as she is.It’s a huge insult to people who are having fertility issues and great indication of what a manipulative person she is.
I can’t get over all of the people declaring that being a stepmom is the same as being a mom.
It isn’t.
I’m a mom and a stepmom.
It isn’t at all the same. I am the loving protector of my step-children. That means, as they grew, I protected them when they were in my care. During hard times and good times. That means PROTECTING THEIR LOVING FEELINGS for their Mom, too.
It means not participating in badmouthing or bashing her when they are frustrated with her, so that they can also share their joys with me when things are going well with her.
IT means being consistent.
It means being UNSELFISH.
It means understanding and facilitating their deep and abiding love for their MOM at all times. No matter what. Even though the mom in our case (not the same as in Brandi’s case) is a heroin addict and mentally addled woman with lots of issues.
I protect them. Period.
Wonderful post.
I agree. Great post mollie.
Some people try to compare being a step-parent to being an adoptive parent, which is not an accurate comparison. Your step-chikdren are very fortunate and so is rheir Mother.