The Celebreality Interview - Rayna
“I’m a bull. I’m a Taurus, first and foremost. My Chinese sign is a boar, so both of my signs have horns, which means I will ram the hell out you. Don’t cross me,” Rayna tells us. Below, she also shares her thoughts on freakum dresses, her plans for the reunion and what it was like to be the last Internet girl standing.
Were you surprised you were eliminated as early as you were?
I wasn’t. Earlier that day, I found out that my grandpa passed. It would have been the twist anyway. I had to leave, and mentally I felt like my innermost person might have snapped and I’d have to go to jail. So I had to go.
It seemed like the major problem that Flav had was Shy’s admission to Flav that you wanted to be in the Top 10. What did you mean by that, anyway?
My whole thing was that if you can make it in the house, you did good. And if you can make it to the Top 10, that gets you closer to getting a date with Flav. If you can do 10, you can do 9. If you can do 9, you can do Top 5. If I was in the Top 5, I was going to stay and go home with the prize. Now, the way Shy spun it was that I wanted to be in the Top 10, and after that, I couldn’t care less. No. There wasn’t a doubt in my mind that if I was in the Top 10, I’d make it to Top 5.
Flav then brought you in, and we saw you crying.
There was so much going on. Like I said, my grandpa passed and the fact that Bunz and I connected after Sheryl Lee Ralph had come into the house to talk to us. Bunz was telling me about her dad that passed away. And then Sinceer said something about that while they were out on the ice-skating date. Why would you say that to somebody? What would possess a human being to slap someone in the face with their dead relative? I thought that was really rude. At that point, if I hadn’t gotten eliminated, I would have left.
Well, it doesn’t seem like Sinceer is too concerned with being considerate, you know?
Yeah, she’s very disrespectful, but what can you expect from an alcoholic? The first day we walked in, she had a drink and told us, “I’m not drunk, I can do my ABC’s! A, B, C, D…” Bitch, you’re drunk. Like, OK? I can count to 1,000. That doesn’t mean I’m not drunk. It just means I’ve been drunk so many times that I now know how to do it.
Besides Sinceer, you got into it with the twins. What are your thoughts on them now?
They’re nothing. I have no thoughts on them whatsoever. I can’t wait till the reunion show. When I go there, I’m comin’ in my sweat suit, my gym shoes and my hair braided. Period. It’s a wrap.
Was there anyone else that you had negative feelings about in the house?
I didn’t. I couldn’t care less what the rest of the females thought about me. You gon’ do what you wanna do and you gon’ say what you wanna say. A punk talks about you behind your back. I can respect that whatever the twins had to say, or whatever Sinceer had to say, they brought it to my face. They were open to me, but that makes you open for an ass whoopin’, period. The rest of ‘em, I could really care less about. Y’all was hatin’ me, because y’all wasn’t me. Period! I’m fly as hell! Like I said, I would hate me, too, if I wasn’t me.
I loved that quote. On the flip side, was there anyone you bonded with?
I did. I flew out to New York to do a shoot with a magazine. I called up Bee-Ex, and she Googled the location for me. It’s love for me, Prancer, Bee-Ex, Seezinz, Bunz and Grayvee. I still get down with them. Those are the girls I know I can call. If we all got together, there’d be no beef or drama. But if you threw one of the other girls in there, it’d be a wrap, like I’m goin’ to jail. My uncle has bond money, my roommate has bond money, I’m like, “Make sure y’all have bail money before I go on this reunion show, because they gon’ have me in handcuffs.” Period! I thought I was gonna be in handcuffs when they eliminated me. I was like, yo, if Sinceer gets eliminated with me, I’m happy, but I’m kickin’ her ass in the rain.
But when you think about it, would it even be worth it to go after these people? Isn’t that below you?
You know what? It is, but sometimes, the bad outweighs the good. I’m a bull. I’m a Taurus, first and foremost. My Chinese sign is a boar, so both of my signs have horns, which means I will ram the hell out you. Don’t cross me. I’m a sweetheart if you need anything in the world, I’ll help you. I’ll do it for you. But when you cross that line, and it’s an invisible line, so nobody can see what they crossin’, when you cross that line, it’s a wrap. I’ll hold grudges for years. I’ve stopped talking to family for two or three years at a time.
You were the only Internet girl to last beyond the first night. That must have felt good.
It did. When he called me second, I was like, “Wow.” That’s when I thought I could be there for a while, and then the second night he called me last, but I just figured he saved the best for last. That little short dress I wore was out of character, but that was my freakum dress. I figured if he sent me home, I was gonna go out with a bang.
Do you have any theories as to why the other Internet girls, besides Dymz maybe, weren’t exactly Flav’s type?
It brought me back to one of the comments that someone put on my page when the whole online voting thing was going on. They were saying that I was fake, that I wasn’t real, that I stole someone else’s pictures and used them for my profile. My best friend put up video of me that was like, “Yeah, dumbasses. I’m real.” The other girls’ pictures looked cute. But then when we got there, I couldn’t tell who was an online girl. Then I realized who they were and I was like Flav: “Wowwwwwww!” It was like, you look skinny as hell online! What the f*** that come from?
That’s so funny, that the Internet-dating cliche (You look better online) came to be illustrated on Flavor of Love 3. Great point. You’re an actress and a model. Are those the things you’re pursuing most avidly right now?
I do theater. For right now, I’m not in front of the camera. If this leads me to that, cool, but my theater is rehabilitation theater. There’s a program out here in Irvine that my friend does, which is theater for kids with autism. I want to start a program with him like that, because it’s such a great stress-reliever.
Finally, how do you feel about Flav at this point?
I don’t have any negative feelings for Flav. It’s nothing but love. My only thing is that I feel like I should have stayed longer to get to know him better. But under the circumstances, I couldn’t.
Keep up with Rayna via her FlavorOfLoveWorld.com profile and her MySpace.
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