Shaunie O’Neal claims she is embarrassed by the catfights shown her VH1 reality show “Basketball Wives”.
“When I started the show I really just wanted to follow this group of ladies around. We all have a common bond; we understand each other’s lives. It started as that. Since then, it’s taken on a life of its own,” O’Neal said. “I never imagined it would be a group of ladies fighting and arguing that way that they do. That was never part of the plan.”
She continued,
“I hate that it has to be a fight or an argument that gives us 4.2 million viewers. I hate that, but it’s something where I’m working as hard as I can to show some type of balance, because it is there. We do know how to act, we do charity work. I would love a little more balance and we’re going to try to do more of that in season 4,” she said. “I know that people love the fighting and the arguing, but I do want to have some positive in there somewhere.”
But it doesn’t seem like we will be getting many positive moments from “BBW: LA” when it debuts in August. Shaunie seems to be taking a negative stance towards those chicks.
“I feel like that show, from what I hear in certain production calls and stuff like that, is turning into ‘I have slept with a basketball player at some point of time in my life, so now I’m on Basketball Wives’. That’s definitely not what I brought to the table and not what I would be proud of having my name on. I think that’s a whole different show that I wouldn’t produce.”
We hear Shaunie’s frustrations….but…..she’s still going to be cashing those “BBW: LA” checks so……
She ended her interview saying, “A change needs to be made somewhere in these reality shows.” And she said this could be done by “…showing some balances.”
