With the week we’ve had, we’re undoubtedly all for locating solace in sisterhood!
This week Peacock premiered their three-part sequence Eat Slay Love which follows Nivea, Eva Marcille, Tammy Rivera and London Hughes on a 3 metropolis tour throughout Vietnam to rejoice Nivea’s birthday and discover the peace and achievement they’re searching for.
BOSSIP Sr. Content material Director Janeé Bolden chatted up Eva, Tammy and Nivea forward of the sequence debut this week to debate their expertise, beginning with why they selected Vietnam as the right vacation spot for soul looking out and sisterhood.
“Why not?” Nivea instructed BOSSIP. “Critically it was simply someplace that was so form of international to us, as being not explored, we’ve by no means been. It’s fairly a big place and we wished to expertise the tradition and you already know, why not?”
“Nivea is a maverick, she is a unconventional and to not go towards the grain, however she beats to her personal drum and he or she makes superb music in order that melody slaps,” Eva added. “She is her personal factor, so Vietnam it made sense it was it was very Nivea, it was very like, ‘Let’s go discover!”
“And it was arduous to discover a place that none of us have ever been to, there’s plenty of locations that we’ve been, so it was like narrowing it down was powerful,” Tammy continued.
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“I need to say it was much more surprising as soon as we obtained there,” Nivea defined. “Like — this was good. We didn’t anticipate to present what we obtained out of it and inside and outside. Simply to the expertise and what we obtained to see and do, it was simply good.”
Each Nivea and Tammy Rivera have skilled excessive profile divorces — [Nivea was married to singer/songwriter producer Terius “The Dream” Gesteelde-Diamant, previously known as Terius Nash, from 2004-2008 while Rivera is the former spouse of rapper Waka Flocka Flame, aka Juaquin Malphurs. They were married from 2014-2022.] All through the episodes, the ladies are there to assist Eva Marcille, whose 2023 divorce from legal professional Michael Sterling was very contemporary on the time Eat Slay Love was filmed.
“The Massive D!” the three girls chimed, almost in unison, when requested about divorce being the widespread thread they share and what it was like doing a ladies journey whereas therapeutic.
“I hold utilizing the identical phrase however — cathartic,” Eva Marcille instructed BOSSIP about trekking Vietnam after ending her marriage. ” It was very wholesome for me. I’m an individual the place I don’t wish to mislead myself so I’m not going to mislead others and this was a really troublesome time, however to cope with it and to attempt to get via it I needed to be trustworthy.”
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“I used to be really shocked by your stage of openness,” Tammy Rivera interjected.
“Me too,” Nivea added. “I simply didn’t suppose you was gonna be that open both. She was able to pour it out and share with us.
“As a result of it’s both that or don’t come as a result of that is my life, that is what I’m going via,” Eva continued. “And I used to be like I used to be going to be far more non-public however then I spotted that you simply guys have been via a few of my actuality. It was an trade happening. I imply exes, who’re like very well-known, you lived your life within the public earlier than divorce and elevating kids, yeah so I really feel like if anybody might really relate to what I’m going via after which attempt to assist me reconcile these emotions it was Nivea and Tam as a result of they simply they get it.”
To date every little thing on this interview has been spoiler free — so we wish to protect a few of that for the parents who haven’t watched all the episodes but. For the parents who’ve watched, or who don’t care about spoilers, hit the flip to search out just a little perception concerning the surprising tradition conflict the ladies skilled whereas filming Eat Slay Love.