The Slap Heard Round the World



Nia Crooks sat down with VH1 to discuss her thoughts on the reunion special and her portrayal on the show, namely slapping BBW Jennifer Williams. Her sidekick Evelyn Lozado was also there and chimed in her thoughts on Nia's character.

Peep the interview from VH1 below:


What’s life been like for you since you appeared on the show?
Hell. I could never imagine being in this predicament over something like that. And a person that I used to love is now just somebody I knew. It’s hell.

Have people been mean, how have you been treated?
Yeah, they don’t know me and I get that, I’m part of this story, but I’m just a person that walked in a room and sat down and said something to a person and got up and smacked her. So it looks like I’m bullying someone who welcomed the smack. She said “I wish you would.” She cut the conversation off because she doesn’t want anyone to know who she really is. She’s a total different person outside of this. Being a celebrity is not for everyone, some people’s heads get inflated, some don’t. And if you have new people around you in your life, and it’s not the people you’ve been around forever, that says a lot about a person.

If you could do this over, would you have never appeared on the show?
I just wish my reaction wouldn’t have been that. I can’t take that back now, but that’s the way I was raised, that’s how I grew up, that’s a normal reaction of mine.


Evelyn: Can I just say I have known Nia for years, and I have never in all those years seen Nia cry — you know I cry at the drop of a hat — and ever since all the negativity and the lawyers and everything, I have never seen her cry like this until now and it’s tough. Nothing can ever prepare you for being in public and having a million people have an opinion about you on a daily basis. She’s just been thrown into this.


Nia: It’s not easy.




Let the spin cycle begin....

The core of why people are having such an issue with this Nia chick is that she feels justified in putting her hands on Jennifer because Jennifer uttered the phrase "I wish you would". 

Nia isn't owning her part in this situation. In the real world not "reality tv" world when you hit someone there are consequences some involve an @ss whopping and then others involve the law.

Seriously....Cry me a River