Southern Charm Cast Weighs in on JT Leaving the Show
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00:00I got to get your take on JT quitting the show.
00:03I know the two of you have had some issues.
00:07How did that take you, by surprise?
00:10The announcement was a bit, you know, grandiose.
00:17Grandiose, uh-huh.
00:21My take is that, I mean, the hypocrisy of it
00:25all is crazy.
00:31And the second that a mirror gets held in his face,
00:34you know, rather than own it and take accountability,
00:37he just runs for the hills.
00:39So it's kind of what I said at the reunion.
00:43Like, I mean, I can't wait for everyone to figure out
00:47exactly who you are.
00:49You can wear the mask that you put on last season
00:51for only so long.
00:53And it will be taken off, and you will be seen.
00:57Think he's gone for good?
00:59I don't see a path back, in my opinion.
01:03Yeah, he's kind of burned too many bridges.
01:05You know, his last one was Vanita.
01:07So, and I don't think that Vanita's
01:10very pleased with him.
01:12Some big news came out before the show even
01:15got started with JT announcing that he was quitting the show.
01:19You had the best response ever with the smallest man
01:21that ever lived.
01:22How did you know I was talking about him?
01:24I mean, um, were you shocked by that?
01:28Um, well, a little shocked, because, you know,
01:31he would run around with that idea throughout the season.
01:34And I think that he was quitting.
01:36Yeah.
01:37Like, come on, we all say that at least, like,
01:39twice a season.
01:41But, you know, I think we're going to be just fine.
01:45He seems to always impress me, but not in a good way.
01:48OK, yeah.
01:50So did he really call Patricia a bitch?
01:53You know that TVT, but I believe he did.
01:56Yeah.
01:57And either way, we get him for it.
01:59Oh, I'm sure.
02:01You don't cross that line at all.
02:03No, no, no.
02:04Yeah, was that maybe one of the reasons why he
02:06decided to take a step back?
02:09Well, I think it became more of this, like, you know,
02:11he caught the house on fire and then
02:13stepped away when everyone had a reaction, or not a good one.
02:16He was no longer wanted in the group.
02:19This is about a group of people that are
02:22friends or trying to be friends.
02:24And I feel like from the very beginning,
02:26he had a motive to be the villain.
02:28Right.
02:29Yeah, he kind of came in with that villain attitude.
02:31So he realized really quick that wasn't going to last.
02:33No.
02:34But do you hope that at least he comes back for the reunion
02:37to kind of explain himself?
02:39Either way, it will be a good one.
02:41But I, yes, please.
02:43Right.
02:44Yeah, I still have questions that I want to ask.
02:47Right, yeah.
02:47I mean, Taylor kind of said to me that it
02:49was the coward's way out.
02:50Do you agree?
02:51The Karen's way out?
02:52The coward.
02:53Oh.
02:54He's a Karen, too.
02:56Yeah, coward, yeah, for sure.
02:59I mean, that's the best way to describe it.
03:00Sure.
03:01It's like when things start to get tough,
03:03you can't just walk away.
03:05Because, I mean, that's what this show is, you know?
03:08Or any show, really.
03:09Yeah.
03:10It's tough.
03:10The Vanita thing surprised me.
03:13Yeah, me too.
03:15What did you make of that?
03:16Did you see that?
03:17I mean, I don't know if there's a romantic thing
03:19going on between them in the beginning of the season.
03:21But it kind of alludes to the fact that maybe it happens.
03:24You know, I think that the two of them, in their own ways,
03:27are flirts.
03:29But I just never saw that together.
03:32I mean, I think so highly of Vanita.
03:34And I just maybe thought a lot better.
03:37Don't think highly of her.
03:38I was just like, what are you doing, Vanita?
03:39Don't do that.
03:40Don't do it.
03:41Stay far away.
03:42But then also supporting a friend who is feeling
03:45some type of way.
03:46I'm really not the one to crush her dreams,
03:49if that's what she was thinking at the time.
03:50But I will be the one to be like, I told you.
03:53I told you that wasn't going to work out.
03:55But I'm just waiting.
03:56What did you make of him announcing
03:58that he was quitting the show?
03:59No one knew.
04:00No one knew.
04:01It was like, JT's so chaotic, which
04:03I think makes for great TV.
04:04But it's not a show.
04:07He's a chaotic person.
04:08And he kind of has no chill.
04:11It's like, if you say something to JT, I'm like,
04:13can you process it?
04:14Could you?
04:15Because I have that problem sometimes
04:17if I'm activated or triggered.
04:20It's like it goes straight from brain to mouth.
04:22And it's like, I don't even know what I'm saying.
04:24I'm just like, how dare you?
04:25And I'm like, can we give it a minute, JT?
04:28But he's so reactive.
04:30And I think he tells himself he's not.
04:33I think he thinks he's not coming
04:35from a place of reaction.
04:36I'm like, everything you do is reactive.
04:39You live in reaction.
04:42Again, I think JT's a good guy.
04:45But he gets a lot of accusations this year.
04:49And so I, to date, don't know what any of that is.
04:52And I think that that probably took a bit of a toll on him.
04:56Be it he said it, he's probably humiliated.
04:59And if he didn't, it's probably really hard
05:01to sort of live with your friends sort of just being like,
05:05you said that and everyone believing it.
05:08And all I can say is I tried to do right by him
05:12and just make sure that he had his side of the story
05:15or he was aware.
05:16Because it sucks when you're,
05:20it's never good to be in a friend group
05:21where somebody says something about you
05:23or says you're doing something or saying something
05:25and everyone believes it and no one hears you out.
05:28You know what I mean?
05:28Which, and I think the Vanita and JT of it all
05:32was complicated.
05:33I think that wore on him too and wore on Vanita.
05:37And I was, I think they're lovely together,
05:44but I don't know what happened.
05:46And last I spoke to JT, he was like very zen.
05:49He was just like, it will be what it will be.
05:50Okay.
05:51And I was like, yeah, but you can't run away
05:52from the problems.
05:53You can't just run away.
05:54Like where are you, on some mountain?
05:56Like, where are you?
05:57Are you in America?
05:58Like, I don't know, he's like a lucid character.
06:01You know, like, I don't know what's going on.
06:03And I don't know.
06:05I think post-accident, there was a lot,
06:09like he came in this year, like with a lot, you know,
06:12he was, he wasn't drinking or anything,
06:13but I think he, he's an intense dude now.
06:17There's a lot in the package.
06:18Okay.
06:19You know, there's a lot in the small package,
06:23but I do enjoy JT.
06:25I wish him the best.
06:26I wish he would, you know, come back.
06:29You know what I mean?
06:30And he shows up for a reunion.
06:31Yeah.
06:32Like, I hope he just, I told him, I was like,
06:34the last thing you want to do is just walk away.
06:36Like, you're all about be a man, you know?
06:39And like, be, you know, and, and don't lose your voice.
06:44And like, it'll all wash out.
06:46Like, it will all be fine.
06:48But you just got to stay for it to be fine.
06:51Right?
06:52So like, I don't know.
06:53Nobody really knows.
06:53It just was like, that's so JT style though.
06:56Right.
06:57It's so JT style.
06:58Just come and left, like out of nowhere,
07:02no consultation with anyone.
07:03Like, what are you doing?