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?

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