May 31, 2024 • 16 mins
Bethenny gives a blow by blow breakdown of the sh*t show that resulted in her getting denied from the Chanel store in Chicago.Plus, on a brighter note, Bethenny reveals what’s got her SO looking forward to the Summer!
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Okay, So the summer has started for me, and I
bought a house on the beach in the Hamptons, and
I'm feeling so grateful. I'm feeling so grateful. There aren't
enough things that make me stop when I'm doing them
and say thank you to myself, to universe, like in
(00:34):
a very spiritual centered way. And yoga's like that. If
I finish a yoga practice, I will say thank you.
It's like the nam a stay of it all. And
it sounds cheesy, but it's not even something I tell
myself to do or something that is because of the
end of a practice. It's because it's what I feel.
So I finish yoga and I'm like grateful to myself
(00:55):
in the universe. And it happens when I go on
a nature walk, but it really happens when I go
in to be So I really don't exercise, and it's
not like phishing for compliments because I know that people
think I exercise a lot because it's always this. It's
always this, like you know, it's usually mad's men and women,
but like, oh my god, you must work out all
(01:16):
the time, Like you work out NonStop? What's your workout?
I'm like I don't really work out, and then wait what,
And then it's a whole conversation back and forth, and
then I say, like I walk on the beach when
I can, and I feel like I'm lying because it's
such a I get that I look fairly in shape,
you know, fit. I think that that's from years ago
(01:37):
of maybe spinning and yoga, or maybe it's genetics. I
mean people would say it's genetics, but I think it's
a combination. And I have a good relationship with exercise,
meaning if I don't do it every day, well that's
a joke. Like some people have a bad relationship where
they are counting. I was sitting with this guy yesterday,
and I have a friend who's the same, Like they
(01:58):
count their steps and they're obsessive about it, and then
they count the calories they get with the steps, and
of course you would eat five bites of cake and
have the calories back. And I just feel like it's
all a bad relationship with exercise and food and calories
and all that. It's like super noisy, I call it.
So for me, I like to have a good relationship
with not only food but exercise also in that when
(02:22):
it's like, do what you can when you can. And
for me, my favorite thing to do is beach walk
And during the summer, I make an effort and I
drive to the beach and as much as I can,
I do it. If it's chilly or windy, I don't,
or sometimes you don't want to drag yourself to go.
If I'm away on a vacation in summer warm, I'll
make sure I walk on the beach every day. If
I go snowboarding, I'll make sure I try to snowboard
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a couple of days. But I haven't had a really consistent,
like all year round exercise regimen in years. And I
also think the past couple of years, I think I've
been not I haven't been unhappy, but I haven't been
like fully happy. I've been in a little bit of
like purgatory. And I feel like when you're not fully happy,
you don't always realize it, because when you're miserable, you
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realize it, and when you're really happy, you realize it.
But when you're kind of just like going through the motions,
and you sometimes think is it your age, is it
that we're boring, is it that you're married, or whatever?
The thing is so I think it also always it
affects exercise, and you're like, it's like almost like a
low grade or middle grade depression. It's not clinically depressed.
(03:28):
You're just a little blah. So I haven't had an
exercise practice in kind of years besides these beach walks,
et cetera. And so around the time my mother passed away,
I started doing these nature walks in my in my
neighborhood in Connecticut, and I've felt good about it, and
I've been longing for the summer because that's when I
do my beach walks. And I was on a beach
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walk with britt at the end of last summer or
in the middle of last summer, and I said, one day,
something's gonna happen in my business, or Mommy, I'll have
something happen and we'll be able to get a beach house.
Because some people want to be on the water, which
is great. People are boat people, which is also great.
I don't necessarily care about either of those. I care
(04:12):
about sand, like a walkable beach that's obviously on the water,
so you could walk on the beach and I'd have
to drive. And that's like my therapy it's just a dream.
I mean, there are some people I've been in a
relationships with people who don't even like their feet touching
the sand. They don't like to walk on the sand,
And to me, it's like what. Or people who live
near the beach and then they walk on like a
boardwalk or cement, I'm like what, because I just feel
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that your feet touching the earth like it's proven to
be therapeutic. And I think there's like I don't know
if it's called ions or something from the water in
the ocean. So I said this to Brin in the summer,
I said, I one of these days, meaning years to come.
So I would look at the middle of the night
(04:52):
and I would look up listings anywhere from Westhampton, which
is like the closest to New York City, but not
where all my friends and people I know live all
the way out to Montalk, which I don't want to
live in Montalk or Eastampton Ramagansta because it's so far
from New York City. So it's like limited, and the
Hampdens is a fortune beyond and being on the water
and being on the beach isn't impossible. So for whatever reason,
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I don't know why I'd said this. And days later
a house came up with a couple that were getting divorced,
and they like were firesale getting divorced, like wanted to
get out of it. Real estate. It wasn't bad, but
it wasn't good. It wasn't like the pandemic where everything
was overpriced and crazy, but it wasn't like cheap. It
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was just because of interest rates, people weren't really buying,
so things were just sitting. So I had that in
my mind. And then you had this house that was
being sold by this divorced couple and that they needed
to get rid of it. And I walked into this
house and it's on miles of sand on the water,
and it's like it's right by the opening of the
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ocean and the water's moving and it's clean, and it's
like a sand beach, like it's a real sand beach.
And I went to the house and it had problems.
And I love a house that has problems because I'm
not I'm not I love doing work. I'm not afraid
to do work, and I have vision, so I immediately know,
and that's when you can get a good deal, make
a good investment. Like you go in and buy something
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that's like a you know, McMansion and perfect. Obviously there's
no money to be made because they're charging top dollar.
It's turnkey. So my house manager, Garrett, who found it,
is also a real estate broker, and I looked him
and I know he's gonna get a good commission. He's
a young kid, he's like in his twenties. I go, listen,
you want to do this. You promised me this thing
I'll be done by by the spring. And it ended
up being a gut renovation like plumbing and kitchen and everything.
(06:40):
And I'm like, the last thing I love my house
in the Hampton's. It's a great house in New Hampton.
It's the last thing I needed. I just bought a
place in New York City. I just bought a place
in Florida. The last thing I needed was to buy
another place in the Hampton's. But I was like, I'll
never my whole life get on the beach. I'll never
get on the beach. This is like a weird, magical
unicorn house. And I was like, am I dreaming? I
keep thinking there's like a dead body or like cocaine
(07:02):
under the floorboards, like why and I'm in this house
and I literally this morning was I woke up and
I six o'clock in the morning, I was on the
beach walking in pajamas because it's also private. There's no
one there. I'm in such shock right now. My life
has got made like I literally you could go take
every watch, piece of jewelry, everything I own, leave myself
(07:23):
and my daughter to paddleboards and some you know, some
hydration packets and the freaking house in the Hampton's on
the beach. It's all that I need in my life. Like,
I'm in shock. So I have a house in the
Hamplets on the sand. I'm freaking out every day. I
need to talk to new people because I have to
(07:44):
tell new people like I can't say. Every day I'm like,
is this real? A mine of dream? What's happening? How
is this real? And the house is stunning? Like this
is I did it, and I nailed it. It was
exactly all the problems I made into intentional. I love
home design, but I'm just and I feel like resentful
to have to leave there, like I just anybody wants
me to do anything, I'm like, I feel like it's
(08:05):
a violation canceled a trip to go to Belmont Steaks
in Saratoga, felt like offensive to think about having to leave.
Canceled a trip to Sanchrope find me on the beach. Honestly,
it's all I want.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
My dream has come true.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Okay, so let's talk about Chanel. Might If you're living
under a rock, you might not have heard about it.
But I mean, I don't know anybody who hasn't heard
about it. Everyone comes up to me and stops.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Very much Chanel.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So I was in Chicago last week. It feels like
ten years ago because it's been five hundred videos, but
I was in Chicago last week and I was in
playing clothes. I was I got to Chicago to do
a speaking engagement the following day, and I was having
dinner with a friend on the fight. So I wanted
to get there early enough. And it's that thing where
you check into the hotel but like, you're not you
(09:06):
didn't bring a whole other outfit. It's not a full day,
and what are you gonna do. You don't have a massage,
you're not going down to the spa. I guess a
lot of people would work out. I was like, I
want to walk. I just want to see and we
weren't staying right in the middle of the city, which
we had changed at the last minute, and I was
sort of like a little annoyed by that because we're
out of the way. So I said, let me just
see where we are. And I'm already gross from the plane,
(09:29):
so I'm gonna it's eighty degrees in Chicago's so I'm
gonna get gross. So I'm not gonna change. Not that
I had anything to change into anyway I look like,
but I didn't make myself look cute. I I was
off the plane wearing a T shirt and Jean Cargo
soft pants, and I had like a cashmere sweater that
I'd had for the plane that was on my waist
that had a water per like water bottle, and I
(09:50):
had gone to do the lord's work at Garrett's Popcorn
and so I was just walking, just walking, wanted to get,
you know, some steps in and then passed the Chanel
store and I saw something in the window that I
had seen online, this like striped T shirt dress, and
I just wanted to see what it looked like inside,
and so I saw it right through the door, like
there's a display right through the door. So I just
wanted to go and he's like, look at it and
(10:11):
then leave, and I there was just a dismissiveness by
the man by the door. And now that I remember,
I think he was a younger person. I'm not even
gonna blame him. We'll get into that after, but I
want to make sure because I don't know who that
person is, and I didn't know this was going to be.
You know, it's probably it's definitely over, like fifty million,
could be one hundred million views on all the platforms.
It's bananas. What went on? So I walk up to
the front door and the guy doesn't fully you know,
(10:33):
when like someone comes to answer the door, like it's
girlscot cookies or they're selling encyclopedias or something, or like
vacuums in the fifties and you open the door literally
like hi, and you like bend over, lene over. So
the guy was like, hi, do you have an appointment?
Not a person outside online, not a person inside. I
was looking there was I didn't see one person. Of course,
there could have been people on the other floors, but
I'm just saying I've seen when it's crazy. It was
(10:55):
not so the guy goes, hey, do you have an appointment?
I said no, and he said, yeah, you have to
have an appointment. There's like I'm paraphrasing, but it was
pretty much, yes, you have to have an appointment. Sorry,
but like super dismissive. And there was just something about
it that was demoralizing and degrading. And I don't know.
I wasn't like I don't care, but there was just
(11:15):
something about the way that they think that they can
speak to you because there's been this whole superiority complex
with luxury brands. That's really the headline. Like luxury brands
have become this like you I'm up here, you're down here.
You're we're better than you. You have to be on
a list, you have to go buy things to bait
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us and to you know, they call Burke and bit
like there's a whole gamification of watches and bags and
it's like, wait, my money's not good here. So I
just ranted about it on the street. I look like
a mess and I did not. I just was talking.
I had no idea this would be like this, like
but it was like, I look like the lighting wasn't good.
I realized that I had a stupid filter on like
(11:57):
why this went crazy? It just like hit nerve. It
struck a chord. And this video of me talking about
this guy and how he spoke to me, So this
thing starts going viral. Okay, Wow, I've a viral video.
I've had viral videos before, but it's flying. Okay. So
the next day I do the appearance and I'm dressed decked,
and it just so happens that I'm wearing a very
(12:21):
Chanel centric outfit, Like it's just the black and the
white and the gold and the whole thing. It's just
what I packed. It's weird that I pack that. Very strange.
So the next day I get glam and I'm going
to this appearance, which is thirty minutes out away from Chanelle,
away from a city closer to the airport. So we
finished the appearance, and my assistants like, we have to
double back if you want to go to Chanelle, because
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I told her earlier we should go back to Chanelle
and I should see if I could get in dressed
like this, if they're gonna be if it's gonna be different.
So she's like, you have to double back. I'm like,
I don't care. We're going to Chanel, so we double back.
We don't have a ton of time, and I get
out of the car and I just talk to my
audience and say, like yesterday I was hearing this happened,
and if they let me in because of what I
look like, Christmas is canceled. So I come out, I
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tell my assistant to stand back, and I go walk
up to the front. There are three security guys, which
there weren't the day before, because I had done a
summarization of the day before, clarifying for people that it
wasn't because of crime per se. Maybe it's because of
crime that they have appointments. But being rude and dismissive,
you could say that three different ways. You could have
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said you have to have an appointment. I'm so sorry, Jane.
You can talk to her at these hours, like there's
a way to say something, which is a lesson in
life anyway, by the way, and I've made that mistake myself.
There are multiple ways to say something. I could think
exactly of the example in my mind of me not
saying something right and it being a disaster for me.
I'm sure you could too. So we've all made this
mistake but it was the way that it was set
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and the way that it made me feel, and it
started a lot of people started talking about their perspective
and how they feel. So the next day I go
up and there are three security guards outside and they
don't It doesn't seem like they know who I am,
which is good. I'm not asking for special treatment. I
don't think someone should know who I am. This is
just me being a human being, so either way, so
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I guess they said something to somebody inside, and then
they let me in. I walk in past them for
a nanosecond, make a U turn, come right back out.
I'm like a little different today. So that breaks the Internet.
That goes viral, and then the press starts picking up
all of it, and then I'm engaging with the audience
and I'm in shock by what this is doing. This
is crazy. So then I shoot with my assistant and
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some strangers in a parking lot, a scene recreating the
Julia Roberts Big Mistake. Huge. Well, then I go off
and it's now a series, and now we are peeing
our pants, crying, and everything is making us think of this,
and everything is a creative idea, and we start this
like Chanelle skit series on Instagram and TikTok, and the
thing has been so psychotic, it's been the views have
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been psychotic, like insane, and it's an inside joke and
everyone except for a few people are laughing. But I
mean people are crying. It's just so entirely unnecessary. It's
there are no stakes, it's not hurting anybody, and and
it's it's gone on and on and on for what's
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almost a week, and then some people are so mad.
They're just so mad enough they're following me, they're taking
the time to comment enough now okay, mom. Like people
are so irritated by it, and it's because it's viral,
so it's bothering them. Like people get really crazy on
social media when someone else goes viral, particularly on TikTok,
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it makes them very upset. There's one girl on TikTok
who like bought her own house in the Hamptons and
she's young, and you never saw people more angry. They're
just all angry at her because like why not me?
Like pick me? And it's just people get mad and
they're just so transparent, like let's do an investigative report,
deep dive on Bethany and why she keeps talking about
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Chanelle You fucking crazy? Why because it's hysterical?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Why?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Why because it's so hysterical, Like what else is there
to do? What else is there to do but laugh,
have fun, not take yourself seriously. And it's just creative.
And I love creativity, and I love skits, and I
love comedy, and I love satire and I love parody
and I just love humor and I love comedians and
I love just wackiness. So it's been amazing. That the
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best time ever. Like we're crying,
Okay, So the summer has started for me, and I
bought a house on the beach in the Hamptons, and
I'm feeling so grateful. I'm feeling so grateful. There aren't
enough things that make me stop when I'm doing them
and say thank you to myself, to universe, like in
(00:34):
a very spiritual centered way. And yoga's like that. If
I finish a yoga practice, I will say thank you.
It's like the nam a stay of it all. And
it sounds cheesy, but it's not even something I tell
myself to do or something that is because of the
end of a practice. It's because it's what I feel.
So I finish yoga and I'm like grateful to myself
(00:55):
in the universe. And it happens when I go on
a nature walk, but it really happens when I go
in to be So I really don't exercise, and it's
not like phishing for compliments because I know that people
think I exercise a lot because it's always this. It's
always this, like you know, it's usually mad's men and women,
but like, oh my god, you must work out all
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the time, Like you work out NonStop? What's your workout?
I'm like I don't really work out, and then wait what,
And then it's a whole conversation back and forth, and
then I say, like I walk on the beach when
I can, and I feel like I'm lying because it's
such a I get that I look fairly in shape,
you know, fit. I think that that's from years ago
(01:37):
of maybe spinning and yoga, or maybe it's genetics. I
mean people would say it's genetics, but I think it's
a combination. And I have a good relationship with exercise,
meaning if I don't do it every day, well that's
a joke. Like some people have a bad relationship where
they are counting. I was sitting with this guy yesterday,
and I have a friend who's the same, Like they
(01:58):
count their steps and they're obsessive about it, and then
they count the calories they get with the steps, and
of course you would eat five bites of cake and
have the calories back. And I just feel like it's
all a bad relationship with exercise and food and calories
and all that. It's like super noisy, I call it.
So for me, I like to have a good relationship
with not only food but exercise also in that when
(02:22):
it's like, do what you can when you can. And
for me, my favorite thing to do is beach walk
And during the summer, I make an effort and I
drive to the beach and as much as I can,
I do it. If it's chilly or windy, I don't,
or sometimes you don't want to drag yourself to go.
If I'm away on a vacation in summer warm, I'll
make sure I walk on the beach every day. If
I go snowboarding, I'll make sure I try to snowboard
(02:46):
a couple of days. But I haven't had a really consistent,
like all year round exercise regimen in years. And I
also think the past couple of years, I think I've
been not I haven't been unhappy, but I haven't been
like fully happy. I've been in a little bit of
like purgatory. And I feel like when you're not fully happy,
you don't always realize it, because when you're miserable, you
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realize it, and when you're really happy, you realize it.
But when you're kind of just like going through the motions,
and you sometimes think is it your age, is it
that we're boring, is it that you're married, or whatever?
The thing is so I think it also always it
affects exercise, and you're like, it's like almost like a
low grade or middle grade depression. It's not clinically depressed.
(03:28):
You're just a little blah. So I haven't had an
exercise practice in kind of years besides these beach walks,
et cetera. And so around the time my mother passed away,
I started doing these nature walks in my in my
neighborhood in Connecticut, and I've felt good about it, and
I've been longing for the summer because that's when I
do my beach walks. And I was on a beach
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walk with britt at the end of last summer or
in the middle of last summer, and I said, one day,
something's gonna happen in my business, or Mommy, I'll have
something happen and we'll be able to get a beach house.
Because some people want to be on the water, which
is great. People are boat people, which is also great.
I don't necessarily care about either of those. I care
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about sand, like a walkable beach that's obviously on the water,
so you could walk on the beach and I'd have
to drive. And that's like my therapy it's just a dream.
I mean, there are some people I've been in a
relationships with people who don't even like their feet touching
the sand. They don't like to walk on the sand,
And to me, it's like what. Or people who live
near the beach and then they walk on like a
boardwalk or cement, I'm like what, because I just feel
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that your feet touching the earth like it's proven to
be therapeutic. And I think there's like I don't know
if it's called ions or something from the water in
the ocean. So I said this to Brin in the summer,
I said, I one of these days, meaning years to come.
So I would look at the middle of the night
(04:52):
and I would look up listings anywhere from Westhampton, which
is like the closest to New York City, but not
where all my friends and people I know live all
the way out to Montalk, which I don't want to
live in Montalk or Eastampton Ramagansta because it's so far
from New York City. So it's like limited, and the
Hampdens is a fortune beyond and being on the water
and being on the beach isn't impossible. So for whatever reason,
(05:13):
I don't know why I'd said this. And days later
a house came up with a couple that were getting divorced,
and they like were firesale getting divorced, like wanted to
get out of it. Real estate. It wasn't bad, but
it wasn't good. It wasn't like the pandemic where everything
was overpriced and crazy, but it wasn't like cheap. It
(05:35):
was just because of interest rates, people weren't really buying,
so things were just sitting. So I had that in
my mind. And then you had this house that was
being sold by this divorced couple and that they needed
to get rid of it. And I walked into this
house and it's on miles of sand on the water,
and it's like it's right by the opening of the
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ocean and the water's moving and it's clean, and it's
like a sand beach, like it's a real sand beach.
And I went to the house and it had problems.
And I love a house that has problems because I'm
not I'm not I love doing work. I'm not afraid
to do work, and I have vision, so I immediately know,
and that's when you can get a good deal, make
a good investment. Like you go in and buy something
(06:17):
that's like a you know, McMansion and perfect. Obviously there's
no money to be made because they're charging top dollar.
It's turnkey. So my house manager, Garrett, who found it,
is also a real estate broker, and I looked him
and I know he's gonna get a good commission. He's
a young kid, he's like in his twenties. I go, listen,
you want to do this. You promised me this thing
I'll be done by by the spring. And it ended
up being a gut renovation like plumbing and kitchen and everything.
(06:40):
And I'm like, the last thing I love my house
in the Hampton's. It's a great house in New Hampton.
It's the last thing I needed. I just bought a
place in New York City. I just bought a place
in Florida. The last thing I needed was to buy
another place in the Hampton's. But I was like, I'll
never my whole life get on the beach. I'll never
get on the beach. This is like a weird, magical
unicorn house. And I was like, am I dreaming? I
keep thinking there's like a dead body or like cocaine
(07:02):
under the floorboards, like why and I'm in this house
and I literally this morning was I woke up and
I six o'clock in the morning, I was on the
beach walking in pajamas because it's also private. There's no
one there. I'm in such shock right now. My life
has got made like I literally you could go take
every watch, piece of jewelry, everything I own, leave myself
(07:23):
and my daughter to paddleboards and some you know, some
hydration packets and the freaking house in the Hampton's on
the beach. It's all that I need in my life. Like,
I'm in shock. So I have a house in the
Hamplets on the sand. I'm freaking out every day. I
need to talk to new people because I have to
(07:44):
tell new people like I can't say. Every day I'm like,
is this real? A mine of dream? What's happening? How
is this real? And the house is stunning? Like this
is I did it, and I nailed it. It was
exactly all the problems I made into intentional. I love
home design, but I'm just and I feel like resentful
to have to leave there, like I just anybody wants
me to do anything, I'm like, I feel like it's
(08:05):
a violation canceled a trip to go to Belmont Steaks
in Saratoga, felt like offensive to think about having to leave.
Canceled a trip to Sanchrope find me on the beach. Honestly,
it's all I want.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
My dream has come true.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Okay, so let's talk about Chanel. Might If you're living
under a rock, you might not have heard about it.
But I mean, I don't know anybody who hasn't heard
about it. Everyone comes up to me and stops.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Very much Chanel.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So I was in Chicago last week. It feels like
ten years ago because it's been five hundred videos, but
I was in Chicago last week and I was in
playing clothes. I was I got to Chicago to do
a speaking engagement the following day, and I was having
dinner with a friend on the fight. So I wanted
to get there early enough. And it's that thing where
you check into the hotel but like, you're not you
(09:06):
didn't bring a whole other outfit. It's not a full day,
and what are you gonna do. You don't have a massage,
you're not going down to the spa. I guess a
lot of people would work out. I was like, I
want to walk. I just want to see and we
weren't staying right in the middle of the city, which
we had changed at the last minute, and I was
sort of like a little annoyed by that because we're
out of the way. So I said, let me just
see where we are. And I'm already gross from the plane,
(09:29):
so I'm gonna it's eighty degrees in Chicago's so I'm
gonna get gross. So I'm not gonna change. Not that
I had anything to change into anyway I look like,
but I didn't make myself look cute. I I was
off the plane wearing a T shirt and Jean Cargo
soft pants, and I had like a cashmere sweater that
I'd had for the plane that was on my waist
that had a water per like water bottle, and I
(09:50):
had gone to do the lord's work at Garrett's Popcorn
and so I was just walking, just walking, wanted to get,
you know, some steps in and then passed the Chanel
store and I saw something in the window that I
had seen online, this like striped T shirt dress, and
I just wanted to see what it looked like inside,
and so I saw it right through the door, like
there's a display right through the door. So I just
wanted to go and he's like, look at it and
(10:11):
then leave, and I there was just a dismissiveness by
the man by the door. And now that I remember,
I think he was a younger person. I'm not even
gonna blame him. We'll get into that after, but I
want to make sure because I don't know who that
person is, and I didn't know this was going to be.
You know, it's probably it's definitely over, like fifty million,
could be one hundred million views on all the platforms.
It's bananas. What went on? So I walk up to
the front door and the guy doesn't fully you know,
(10:33):
when like someone comes to answer the door, like it's
girlscot cookies or they're selling encyclopedias or something, or like
vacuums in the fifties and you open the door literally
like hi, and you like bend over, lene over. So
the guy was like, hi, do you have an appointment?
Not a person outside online, not a person inside. I
was looking there was I didn't see one person. Of course,
there could have been people on the other floors, but
I'm just saying I've seen when it's crazy. It was
(10:55):
not so the guy goes, hey, do you have an appointment?
I said no, and he said, yeah, you have to
have an appointment. There's like I'm paraphrasing, but it was
pretty much, yes, you have to have an appointment. Sorry,
but like super dismissive. And there was just something about
it that was demoralizing and degrading. And I don't know.
I wasn't like I don't care, but there was just
(11:15):
something about the way that they think that they can
speak to you because there's been this whole superiority complex
with luxury brands. That's really the headline. Like luxury brands
have become this like you I'm up here, you're down here.
You're we're better than you. You have to be on
a list, you have to go buy things to bait
(11:36):
us and to you know, they call Burke and bit
like there's a whole gamification of watches and bags and
it's like, wait, my money's not good here. So I
just ranted about it on the street. I look like
a mess and I did not. I just was talking.
I had no idea this would be like this, like
but it was like, I look like the lighting wasn't good.
I realized that I had a stupid filter on like
(11:57):
why this went crazy? It just like hit nerve. It
struck a chord. And this video of me talking about
this guy and how he spoke to me, So this
thing starts going viral. Okay, Wow, I've a viral video.
I've had viral videos before, but it's flying. Okay. So
the next day I do the appearance and I'm dressed decked,
and it just so happens that I'm wearing a very
(12:21):
Chanel centric outfit, Like it's just the black and the
white and the gold and the whole thing. It's just
what I packed. It's weird that I pack that. Very strange.
So the next day I get glam and I'm going
to this appearance, which is thirty minutes out away from Chanelle,
away from a city closer to the airport. So we
finished the appearance, and my assistants like, we have to
double back if you want to go to Chanelle, because
(12:43):
I told her earlier we should go back to Chanelle
and I should see if I could get in dressed
like this, if they're gonna be if it's gonna be different.
So she's like, you have to double back. I'm like,
I don't care. We're going to Chanel, so we double back.
We don't have a ton of time, and I get
out of the car and I just talk to my
audience and say, like yesterday I was hearing this happened,
and if they let me in because of what I
look like, Christmas is canceled. So I come out, I
(13:05):
tell my assistant to stand back, and I go walk
up to the front. There are three security guys, which
there weren't the day before, because I had done a
summarization of the day before, clarifying for people that it
wasn't because of crime per se. Maybe it's because of
crime that they have appointments. But being rude and dismissive,
you could say that three different ways. You could have
(13:27):
said you have to have an appointment. I'm so sorry, Jane.
You can talk to her at these hours, like there's
a way to say something, which is a lesson in
life anyway, by the way, and I've made that mistake myself.
There are multiple ways to say something. I could think
exactly of the example in my mind of me not
saying something right and it being a disaster for me.
I'm sure you could too. So we've all made this
mistake but it was the way that it was set
(13:49):
and the way that it made me feel, and it
started a lot of people started talking about their perspective
and how they feel. So the next day I go
up and there are three security guards outside and they
don't It doesn't seem like they know who I am,
which is good. I'm not asking for special treatment. I
don't think someone should know who I am. This is
just me being a human being, so either way, so
(14:09):
I guess they said something to somebody inside, and then
they let me in. I walk in past them for
a nanosecond, make a U turn, come right back out.
I'm like a little different today. So that breaks the Internet.
That goes viral, and then the press starts picking up
all of it, and then I'm engaging with the audience
and I'm in shock by what this is doing. This
is crazy. So then I shoot with my assistant and
(14:34):
some strangers in a parking lot, a scene recreating the
Julia Roberts Big Mistake. Huge. Well, then I go off
and it's now a series, and now we are peeing
our pants, crying, and everything is making us think of this,
and everything is a creative idea, and we start this
like Chanelle skit series on Instagram and TikTok, and the
thing has been so psychotic, it's been the views have
(14:59):
been psychotic, like insane, and it's an inside joke and
everyone except for a few people are laughing. But I
mean people are crying. It's just so entirely unnecessary. It's
there are no stakes, it's not hurting anybody, and and
it's it's gone on and on and on for what's
(15:19):
almost a week, and then some people are so mad.
They're just so mad enough they're following me, they're taking
the time to comment enough now okay, mom. Like people
are so irritated by it, and it's because it's viral,
so it's bothering them. Like people get really crazy on
social media when someone else goes viral, particularly on TikTok,
(15:40):
it makes them very upset. There's one girl on TikTok
who like bought her own house in the Hamptons and
she's young, and you never saw people more angry. They're
just all angry at her because like why not me?
Like pick me? And it's just people get mad and
they're just so transparent, like let's do an investigative report,
deep dive on Bethany and why she keeps talking about
(16:01):
Chanelle You fucking crazy? Why because it's hysterical?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Why?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Why because it's so hysterical, Like what else is there
to do? What else is there to do but laugh,
have fun, not take yourself seriously. And it's just creative.
And I love creativity, and I love skits, and I
love comedy, and I love satire and I love parody
and I just love humor and I love comedians and
I love just wackiness. So it's been amazing. That the
(16:30):
best time ever. Like we're crying,
Host
Bethenny Frankel
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