In this YouTube clip, host Karamo moderates a heated conversation between Dr. Bonita Parker and Dana about feelings of exclusion and jealousy within their friendship. Dr. Parker accuses Dana of deliberately leaving her out of a stage play and later bridal‑related events, describing the experience as hurtful and a pattern of repeated exclusion. Dana counters that not everyone can be included, claims she did not choose the participants, and insists the exclusions were not intentional. Karamo repeatedly asks probing questions—how the exclusion happened, how it felt, and why decisions were made—while both parties repeat their positions. The dialogue showcases interpersonal conflict, emotional reactions, and attempts at understanding the underlying dynamics, ending with Karamo prompting viewers to subscribe.
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You were watching backstage, you heard what she had to say.
How do you feel? Yes, so I'm jealous? So let's be clear, let's be clear. Bonita Parker, Dr. Bonita Parker, and jealousy don't even belong in the same sentence anytime, anywhere, anyhow, ever, okay? So let's start there. Second of all, I tried to support you in your stage play. You were the one who took it upon yourself to invite all of your friends, all of your other friends, mine you know. No, no, no, you listen this time. You took it upon yourself to invite all of your friends to be a part of your stage play except for me. I was the one that had to— No, no, no, no, no.
It was a reason for that.
I was the one that had to buy a ticket and sit in the audience like a stranger.
So I'm gonna ask you, so at this point, why did you exclude her?
I'm gonna tell you why. It wasn't excluding her.
It was excluding me.
It was not excluding her.
Everybody can't be a part of shit. Everybody knows she considers a close friend. Friend was either in the play or behind the scenes making the play happen. Okay, okay, okay.
And everything is not for everybody, so that's just, that's just the truth.
Did that hurt your feelings?
Absolutely, absolutely.
Let me tell you why. Everything is not for everybody, just period, when it comes to life. All of the people that are part of it were there from the beginning. She came in my life like 7 years ago.
Guess what? In that 6th year of us being friends, what did you do? You reached out to me and was like, hey, do you think you can help me get sponsorship for my stage play? Yeah, sure, Dana, send me the script so I could be up on it. You had the meetings with all of those people. So I was included already.
But that's something totally different.
No, it was the same exact thing.
No, it's not. Working backstage, you did not know anything about the theater.
Did anybody else? I could name But I'm not gonna name a couple of people who didn't know anything either, but you gave them a spot.
What do you mean a couple people who didn't know?
I'm worried about it, okay.
Do you feel like she's excluded you or not?
She definitely excluded me, and that's not even the first time. That's not even the first time this happened, Karamo. She was getting married. During her planning her wedding and her bridal shower, guess what? All of those same friends that was on the stage play were the ones planning her bridal shower.
But that has nothing to do with me. To plan my bridal shower has nothing to do with me. You picked those people. I didn't pick them. Oh my God.
Yes, you did. No, I did not. And then guess what? When we had a conversation about it, when we had a conversation about it, guess what you said? Oh, I thought you were gonna be busy. Oh, I didn't wanna bother you because I thought—
That is so not true.
When it came to your engagement or the wedding party, did you say, well, I thought you'd be busy? Did you say that?
I don't even remember saying that, but I did not pick the people to give me my bridal shower. I didn't pick those people.
So I can understand that you didn't pick the people, But once you knew that the people that decided to do it didn't invite your best friend, why did you feel that way?
She was invited.
I was invited to the bridal shower.
I was invited.
I showed up to the planet.
To sit in the audience.
'Cause I had nothing to do with that. I have other things going on in my head. I wasn't worried about the bridal shower, let me say that.
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