It's been 10 years since Pretty Wild graced our screens and provided us with iconic gifs. Aand with Alexis Neiers new podcast 'Recovering From Reality' - we are reintroduced to Andrea, Gabby, Tess and Alexis who discuss their time on the show and what was actually going on during it.
- The show was never meant to be about the Bling Ring. It was just about the girls living it up in LA. But when the cops banged down the door the first day of filming they completely changed the show to make it about the robberies. They even restaged the whole scene with fake cops etc so what was seen on the show wasn't the actual thing.
- Alexis stresses how much Andrea was not a good mother in the sense that she would involve her in all her problems (e.g. let a kid Alexis know all the money problems they were having, so it would stress Alexis out too) and how she was acting like a BFF rather than a mother, there were no boundaries etc. Notes that she's worried for the new generation of mothers who love social media and want to portray them and their daughters as best friends.
- Says her going to jail was the best thing that ever happened to her, despite the fact that the first day of rehab she was searching every floor for a way to escape and get high
- Her and Tess were completely wrecked on heroin during the filming of the show. Alexis says she started smoking oxy to block out sexual abuse from her past and it escalated, her and Tess would enable each other.
- The crew filming Pretty Wild would push the two to the absolute limit knowing how high they always were to create more and more drama. For example the iconic scene of Alexis speaking to Nancy Jo was filmed multiple times to get Alexis to a breaking point of screaming at everyone else.
- Speaking of Nancy Jo, the whole Vanity Fair article was completely conspired by the Pretty Wild film crew who told Alexis it was going to write her in a good light, when they knew the whole time it wasn't.
- They also arranged Paul Oakenfold to turn up at Gabby's party, telling Alexis that he hadn't been robbed in the Bling Ring so there shouldn't be any issues. (Alexis was only there during Paris's house robbery) and so when he turned up and yelled at her it was completely unexpected.
- The whole second half of Pretty Wild filming Tess and Alexis weren't even living at Andrea's anymore, they were in a small apartment constantly doing heroin, only showing up to film what the crew wanted them to film. Andrea tried coming to the apartment one day, Alexis opened the door with only a Subway sandwich on the bench and said to her mom "I like to bake, you cunt."
- It took her and Tess a long while to get on again because when Alexis was getting sober, Tess was still shooting up and Alexis just wanted her to get better. Says she didn't want them to become their mothers (Tess and Alexis's moms frequently smoked weed together around the kids until Tess's mom bailed and left her with Andrea).
This is most of the info I've gathered listening and watching a lot of Alexis's videos and insta posts. She's currently sober with two little girls and a husband, and is basically super against the toxic life of the LA crowd and how it ruined what should have been the fun times in her life.
- Gabby didn't have much to say, but she's married now. Andrea apologizes for not being a good mom. and treating Alexis like an adult when she was only a kid.
You can listen to Recovering from Reality on Spotify and iTunes. Also this post is dedicated to
junhyosungs who asked me about this (and I was shocked that no one on ONTD had been keeping up with queen Alexis) which inspired me to make the post.Source: Recovering from Reality, my ears and my eyes.