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Frankie Reveals Keyshia Cole, And More
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The second season of Atlanta R&B singer Keyshia Cole’s BET reality series, “The Way It Is…” hits stores tomorrow, but here’s what’s in the special features, today.
There’s “Meet Keyshia’s Glam Squad” - a less-than-three minute introduction to her manager (already prominently featured in the show), and the people who do her hair, make-up and styling. (Thanks).
The deleted scenes are pretty good - especially the moment where Cole’s sister Neffe meets with her ex-husband, and he rather unemotionally tells her, to her face, he wants a divorce.
But as anyone who’s seen the show would expect, “Frankie Reveals” is just jarring. Cole’s recovering crack addict mother discusses what it was like to see herself in the first season, when her daughters visited her in prison. (“I wanted to throw a hammer through [the television]”…Everybody know how you look when you’re f-, tore up”). She talks about how she expected her superstar daughter to treat her. (“I knew she was going to roast me like a Planters peanut)”. She goes into their tenuous relationship now, and how she sometimes feels “she don’t love me, she feel sorry for me”. And in one of the more hilarious moments - actually in the deleted scenes — Frankie returns to the corner in Oakland, Cal. where she and her friends used to get high. Or as the often comical mother puts it, they were “smoking like broke stoves”.
Have you followed Cole’s reality show from the start? Think it was an honest portrayal of a family, or somewhat exploitive? Hope there’ll be a third season?
Comments
By VoiceOfReason
April 28, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this
Yes, can’t wait for a third season. This is probably the most HONEST reality show out there. They certainly wouldn’t make this stuff up. Love you ladies!
By Fulton
April 28, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this
No, not for a second. All of these shows are drama fueled & exploitive, therefore a hail no to the last question.
By Michelle
April 28, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
UMMMMM Dumb Blog!!!!!
By Csquared
April 28, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this
i’d rather have the flu than watch this series. I even fell on this site by mistake…..
By JJ
April 28, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this
Just another no-named celebrity with a reality show…..
By Ginger
April 28, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this
NOOOOO! It all about money and ghetto.
By Sandra
April 28, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this
Yes! It is a great show! A lot of families have the same problem but would be very afraid to put it out there to the public. I say “Kudos” to Keisha Cole to put her life out there front and center and she is very humble and not arrogant like most so called stars that forget where they came from when they make it. I am proud of her! Thank you, Keisha
By Kimberly
April 28, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this
Since when is Keyshia Cole a “no-named” celebrity?! Anyway, I think the show is pretty bold. I’m not so sure I’d want the world all up in my business. Overall, I think the show is great. It’s much better than quite a few reality shows that are on now…I’m not going to say any names.
By Pam
April 29, 2008 1:03 AM | Link to this
Keyshia is a beautiful lady inside and out. I thank her for her courage to display the truth about her family. I am sure her intentions are to help someone by showing, there are diamonds in the rough. It is not where she came from but where she is actually going. Thanks Keyshia for keeping it real.
By Mo
April 29, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this
No name celebrity?? JJ what cave have you been in since 2005? You really should get your facts straight before you comment!!!
By Mo
April 29, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this
No name celebrity?? JJ what cave have you been in since 2005? You really should get your facts straight before you comment!!!
By Mo
April 29, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this
No name celebrity?? JJ what cave have you been in since 2005? You really should get your facts straight before you comment!!!
By Rahneshia
April 29, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this
OMG!!!! I love you kc, n i love your show i wish i could really meet you but i proabaly would just cry. n yes u r the real deal.
By Rahneshia
April 29, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
OMG!!!! I love you kc, n i love your show i wish i could really meet you but i proabaly would just cry. n yes u r the real deal.
By Lataghia
April 29, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this
Hi!!!!!!!! my name iz Lataghia and i am yo favorite fan. i admire all of your work. my mom does to. i wish you could come to Decatur IL. I WOULD GIVE YOU MY ADDRESS but other people are on this web site. I don’t mean to be all up in yo ( BI ) but iz your mom back on drugs? if she iz, ask her “what made her get back into it”? i listen to yo music everyday. you do really work hard to keep your fans happy. your # 1 fan Lataghia Harper. p.s. my mom said hi.
By Melia
May 1, 2008 12:39 AM | Link to this
I love the show ladies I really do,please tell me there will be a third season.
I understand everything that is going on in you guys family believe my family is the same way and it’s just so nice hoe Keyshia took eveyone in and put a roof over your heads some family memebers wouldn’t have done that. I just want to say Keyshia you are blessed and so is your family. I wish I could meet you one day. Keep up the good work and please give us a season three please.I love you all.
GOD BLESS
By Melia
May 1, 2008 12:40 AM | Link to this
I love the show ladies I really do,please tell me there will be a third season.
I understand everything that is going on in you guys family believe my family is the same way and it’s just so nice hoe Keyshia took eveyone in and put a roof over your heads some family memebers wouldn’t have done that. I just want to say Keyshia you are blessed and so is your family. I wish I could meet you one day. Keep up the good work and please give us a season three please.I love you all.
GOD BLESS
MELIA FROM ERIE PA
By makayla
May 9, 2008 7:51 PM | Link to this
waz up girl this is your # 1 fan makayla
By Brenda
May 10, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
This show should be called, “Hot Ghetto Mess.” I hope Keisha Cole is saving all her money because she has messed up the little ghetto career she had. She always look like a sad sick puppy or is a act to get people to feel sorry for her ass. Keisha will fade off into the moonlight like so many other prior to her. Sad, Sad, Sad,. The mother and the sister are but ugly from the inside out.
By ENEISHA
May 11, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this
THE SHOW WAS ABOUT REAL LIFE..WE ALL HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS THAT ARE “FRANKIES”UNFORTUNATELY FOR ME MY MOTHER WAS A “FRANKIE” SHE WASN’T ON DRUGS, HOWEVER MY MOTHER IS BI-POLAR AND I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ASHAMED OF HER ACTIONS..I WISH I HAD THE COURAGE OR THE HEART TO FORGIVE AS KEISHA DID FRANKIE…I WAS RAISED BY MY GRANDMOTHER AS MY MOTHER WAS UNCAPABLE OF MOTHERLY DUTIES TO TO HER MENTAL ISSUES..IT’S SO MANY THINGS I COULD TELL EVERYONE BUT IT’S NOT ENOUGH SPACE..KEISHA THANKS FOR INSPIRING ME..AND HELPING ME FORGIVE MY MOTHER..YOU HAVE TOUCHED MANY LIVES AND BROUGHT MANY FAMILIES IN TOUCH WITH THERE OWN REALITIES!