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It is hard to trace why things resonate. Valtz did not explain the poem for us, but just read it, pronouncing the words blackberry and pumpkinseed with great feeling, so that even now, repeating them, I feel as if I connect to much more than their names.

Something momentous might be happening, we felt. It began to rain, and the air smelled like eucalyptus. We sat just inside the line of falling rain, next to a flower stand, watching the droplets bead inside some scarlet tulips. New American Poets. Not to make excuses for my mom, but she was basically a teenager when she left her house and really never grew up. Gabbie Neiers: I had seen people on Xanax. I had seen all that kind of stuff before, so I knew what was going on.

That was one background memory that I will never forget. And they never aired it, obviously. The stars claim that producers purposely hid the dog, though the production denies it happened. Alexis Haines : [The crew] took our dog for one of the scenes. Brian Volk-Weiss: The dog was missing. We did not create problems for them.

At one point they left the doors open, it was raining and they went looking for the dog — this ended up being a scene in the show. Alexis Haines: Production was just hiding the dog in the garage.

We knew the dog was safe with us in the garage. She ultimately found it. It was maybe 45 minutes. Sales declined interview requests. Amber Mazzola: I remember an executive at E! We have the magazine here. They checked their mail and they all gathered around really excited to read it. Gabbie Neiers: I was there in the room when Alexis interviewed with Nancy. Andrea Arlington: Nancy Jo really got into our good graces. I wrote her a couple of emails. Anytime I saw her name on a Vanity Fair article online, I commented below it and just shredded her to the best of my ability.

Despite the popularity of the first season of Pretty Wild , E! I think they were literally smoking Oxycontin. So that was part of it. So when it became a very dark drama, Chelsea was no longer excited about the show anymore.

And she let E! Alexis Haines: During the filming of the show, I was actively using every substance imaginable, but OxyContin, heroin, marijuana and alcohol were my daily habits. I am sure my addiction and jail sentence contributed to the show not being picked up.

Even though it was the hardest year of my life, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I would not have gotten sober, had all of that not happened.

It was kind of the perfect storm that inspired me to get out of that place.