Basketball Wives' Evelyn Lozada Clears Up the Rumors, From Weddings to Jennifer Williams and Wine Throwing

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This week, the New York Post released a list of the top 10 most hated people in America. Everyone from Bernie Madoff to Casey Anthony were on that list. At number seven, you will find Kim Kardashian. Say what you will about her, but the girl has taken a reality show and turned it into an empire.

And Evelyn Lozada is following in her footsteps.

It all began four seasons ago when a little show called Basketball Wives hit the small screen. From episode one, Lozada was a fan favorite. With her trucker mouth, her awesome bod, and a love of throwing things at castmates, she quickly helped the show become the highest rated program on Vh1.

Now, four seasons in, she is engaged to the New England Patriots' Chad Ochocinco. She has a spin-off show about their upcoming nuptials, her own make-up line, and as of June 12th, a series of books. In between her many ventures, we got the chance to chat with her about everything from rumors, relationships, and her castmates -- including why there is a speck of hope for her and Jennifer Williams becoming friends again.

Cultist: I have such a girl crush on you, I must admit.
Evelyn Lozada: (Laughs) Thank you. I actually think I have more female fans than males. I love it!

Do you still call yourself a South Beach resident?
Before I got engaged, I was a South Beach kind of gal. I actually live in the burbs by Fort Lauderdale now. Life changed and I had to move to the suburbs.

The burbs will be perfect for a little Ochocinco baby.
If it was up to Chad, I would be pregnant right now. I'm really focused on my career and if I was pregnant, that wouldn't make sense. People literally ask us all the time when we are going to have a child, but who knows? Maybe in a couple of years. I'm 36, so I probably need to figure that out sooner than later.

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Speaking of you being 36, you don't look a day over 26.
Stop! I love you. I haven't always had good skin. I struggled with acne my entire life. I don't spend a million dollars on face cream or anything. I have a clean diet, I don't eat meat, I don't drink soda, I work out, I take supplements, I don't sleep with make up, and that is really about it.

Reality TV star, make up extraordinaire, and now, an author. Tell me about your book, Inner Circle: The Wives Association.
It's fiction -- a series of novels. The book is going to be very juicy. It came about because I have always kept a journal, especially in my previous relationship. One day I started reading them and thought it was pretty juicy stuff. A lot of my real life stories are in these books. I wanted to share it without putting the whole truth out there. I would never write a tell-all.

So people looking for you to name names will be disappointed?
I would never name names. That's not really something I would ever do to anyone.

When I interviewed Kesha Nichols, she said she would never date another athlete. They seem to be your type.
Never say never. When you least expect it, things happen. I wasn't looking for Chad, but we met and now we are getting married in a couple of weeks. I have always attracted men of power. It's something that was supposed to happen. Thank God for Twitter, right?

Any tips for any ladies looking for a baller beau?
I met my ex out at an event and then I met Chad via Twitter. If you are meant to meet one, you will. A lot of woman are out strictly for athletes and you may meet one, but keeping one is probably slim to none. It's not easy. But what relationship is? One of my friends' husbands works on Wall Street and that is tough too. When your fiancé looks like Chad and girls are just waiting, that is hard, but it's my life. I know we love each other and we move on from there.

Speaking of girls and Chad, I know a few episodes back you guys discussed cheating. It seemed like something you as a wife would allow.
No, not at all. That conversation was two hours long and you got to see about two minutes of it. I was telling him just like how you can't control what I do out on the road, I can't control what you do. The point of my comment was that with this world that we live in, you never know what is going to happen. I would rather know than not know. People took it as that I am packing him condoms when he goes out on the road. I was just being realistic. So many women turn the other cheek -- that isn't the real world.


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Maggie
Maggie

 Something is seriously wrong with you then.

Robins Wreckingcrew
Robins Wreckingcrew

F*ck shaunie, tami & evelyn, i dont know what chad sees in that whore except for a piece of azz, she is definitely not marriage material, she slept with T.O. have some pride chad (SMDH). Jennifer is the classiest chick on the show, and like she says we all have skeletons in our closets, but just based on what we've learned on this show alone, i'd have to say evelyn has a fucking cemetery in her loft, a closet is too small for all her sh*t! Tami, you're tired, you're a bully and you have no class. shaunie, you're cute, but your attitude makes you unappealing and a bomb thrower who hides her hands once she starts sh*t! You stated you had a problem with people filing lawsuits, but you dont have a problem with ignorant bitches walking on tables, hitting people in the head with purses, throwing vases & wine bottles, or big bully bitches hitting abusing people half their size. I dont blame shaq for cheating on your azz, who knows what drama he put up with at home... PS: Tell punk azz john sally to pick on a male half his size and stop doing you, evelyn & tami's dirty work on the reunion specials. He was quick to attempt to check Jennifer but gave the rest of you trifling bitches a pass!

Sheri
Sheri

Oh, I forgot....as for the Miami hotels not filming the wedding. Be honest, it wasn't about the employees, the hotels main concern was their "imagine". I have a friend that works at one of the hotels and they have catered to many high-profiled weddings. Really, it's has to do with sponsors bailing out, the boycotts, the bullying. If you owned a 'five-star" hotel, would you want that type of publicity associated with your establishment?  I doubt it?

Sheri
Sheri

I have to give it to Evelyn and and PR.  They have reached out to almost every publication to clean up all the negativity Evelyn and her other possee (Shaunie and Tami) have created. This whole season has been a joke!!!  As for her relationship with Chad. It's going to be interesting to see how this spans out. Now, that he is a free agent....my thought are is she still going to want to be with him? Chad doesn't strike me as a person who would let Evelyn be the bread winner. I honestly believe that won't last.  Watch out ....Evelyn will be hit having to pay Chad's child supports payments, this is going to be interesting. Lastly, Evelyn is looking for sympathy. She has as Shaunie states: "a ghetto hot mess".I was really believing Evelyn was trying to clean up her act until I view the reunion when they had a surprise for Jennifer (polygraph test).  Evelyn, why surprise Jennifer in front of viewers? Did you see the on "Shaunie, Evelyn and Tammi face? (Viewer...check it out!!!) Why couldn't you take the test together(seems fair to me)  You still haven't changed and that's "SAD." Is this the lesson you really want to teach to your "Step-daughters?"  That life is about being sneaky and dishonest? 

DonnaShalalasGirlfriend
DonnaShalalasGirlfriend

No mention of  Antoine Walker or any speculation that the wedding might be off now that Chad is a Free Agent?

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