The Celebreality Non-Interview – Buddha

We were all ready to discuss Buddha’s short, memorable and infuriating-to-most stay on I Love Money 2 this week. He agreed to talk, we set a time…and then he watched this week’s episode and changed his mind. So instead of giving us phone time, Buddha has prepared a statement regarding his time on the show. It is essentially an essay on the nature of his self-sacrifice. Really! It may not cover as much as we wanted to, but seriously, it’s revealing all the same. Mars attacks below…

“Honestly things went as I’d initially expected them to go. My biggest motivation in joining this show was to get from under the ‘Buddha from ILNY2 show’ and just be known as ‘Buddha’ and I believe that mission was over-achieved. I honestly never expected to win because prior to coming on the show I knew 1.) the hate was going to be too thick and inevitably intolerable 2.) the weak/impressionable competitors would inevitably combine to eliminate me by any means possible. It’s said, ‘Nothing would unite the warring earthlings like an attack from mars,’ and such was the case with me.

Enemies put their differences aside to combine their hate power and project it toward a greater force than themselves and there was nothing that I could do single-handedly against them (within the confinements of the rules).

Contrary to how production edited the show, I actually picked 20 Pack because he was the only person I knew would 1. Be a good leader 2. Send me home. For the good of the team I wanted to quit a couple challenges prior but given the silly nature of the rules I couldn’t without having my teammates suffer the repercussions (the ’1 quits another follows’ rule) so I stuck it out.

I do know that all those that used me as an excuse for their failure and/or disloyalty were simply using me as a convenient scapegoat and excuse for their personal shortcomings and individual weaknesses. I just wanted to play the game the way the game should be played and most others just didn’t want to play in a game where they knew they’d inevitably have to face me 1-on-1, and I can’t blame them for recognizing an obvious ‘no win’ situation. From brains to brawns its undeniable that no one in the house would have defeated me individually.

In the end, I just didn’t appreciate the feeling of being the only adult forced to play in a sandbox full of juvenile delinquents and I still believe that me deciding to leave was the best decision at the time. It was only a matter of time before I was disrespected again and to the extent that Trailer Park Trash (aka Buckwild) and The Mouth (aka Entertainer) did and when that happened, once more, I’m sure I would of gone home immediately except under much different and far more violent circumstances. Every man has his limit and I’d certainly reached mine with the big mouths in the house. The real strength in a man is not in his muscles or his intellect but in his decisions… And deciding when to fight and when to walk away is always one of the great decisions in life and I have no regrets. If you’d like to keep in contact with me feel free to visit http://www.heybuddha.com/ or www.myspace.com/ezramasters.”

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 11:45 am

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37 responses to to The Celebreality Non-Interview – Buddha

Lyesha February 25, 2009 at 1:44 pm

Is Buddha saying that he would hit Buckwild in this interview? He really is a self-important jerk!

Aurelius February 25, 2009 at 5:25 pm

this guys head is shoved so far up his *)#`#`#+%+(^()% It’s sad…

Chris February 25, 2009 at 5:51 pm

what a jerk

Yvonne February 25, 2009 at 7:10 pm

The man is a legend but only in his own mind.

dat gal February 25, 2009 at 7:52 pm

BDDHA SUCKS!!! HE THINK HE’S BETTER THAN EVERYBODY. I DONT THINK SO, HE’S JUST AN A.S.S AS EVERYONE ON THE SHOW. I JUST DIDNT SEE HIS CONTRIBUTION ON THE SHOW AND HAD TO GO, SINCE HE WAS DOING NOTHING. HE DOENST REALIZE HE’S THE BIGGEST MOUNTH THAN THE ENTERTAINEMENT WITH THAT LONG HEAD. U’RE NOTHING MAN JUST GO SIT UR BUTT DOWN AND STFU

alibuuuuu February 25, 2009 at 9:13 pm

not even gonna read the rest. budas a self-centered egotistical %(^^^&^+(*^~(!) and a pathetic failure. maybe if he didnt have his head shoved so far up in his %(^^^&^+(*^~(!) people might have actually liked him, but no one does. he came on this show cause his acting “career” has gone absolutely no where, and will continue to cause hes a LOSER

Shanny February 25, 2009 at 9:45 pm

I love buddha. All them people on that show was haten on him. He was a team player,people just hella fake. Buckwild wanna be black ^`$$!!&&)%*+**_ She needs to stop she is not black…

ColleenMachine February 25, 2009 at 10:13 pm

What a tool. Seriously, he thinks he’s so important and self sacraficing? What a douche. I’m so glad he didn’t even come close to winning.

epifanee February 25, 2009 at 10:34 pm

Buddha is a self-righteous douche bag. How is he a motivational speaker when he is nothing but a narcissistic bully? I mean does he motivate kids to whoop @$$ or how to get restraining orders filed on them? That was the lamest, most self-absorbed interview…if “the real strength in a man is not in his muscles or his intellect but in his decisions” then why is he so quick to put his hands on somebody? Puh-leeze…if he had such integrity and wanted to quit…WHY DIDN’T HE DO US ALL A FAVOR AND PUT HIS NAME IN THE GODD@%N BOX SO HE COULD HAVE BEEN VOTED OUT?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry Buddha, we’re not that stupid…

green_bird February 25, 2009 at 10:54 pm

Er…question. If Buddha considers himself to be so mature, then why is he doing reality TV? If you like the fame Buddha fine, that’s your thing, but stop acting pretentious.

Danielle February 26, 2009 at 3:05 am

Sounds like a bunch of sour grapes to me.

I lost…so I never wanted to really win.

MsE February 26, 2009 at 5:04 am

Well Mr Buddha sounds like mommo jommo. This is a competiton for $250,000. You could have build strong relationship with the other teammates. Use that male power you have. How you gonna allow Entertainer to be the man of the house. Unbelievable! All that you have you don’t even know how to use it. Are you afraid of girls? what can I say about Buckwild. Still tryin to be black. Look Becky not working.

scifiwritir February 26, 2009 at 9:00 am

Dang! For a spiritual person, he’s got to be the most arrogant, judgmental, deluded, self-aggrandizing person I’ve seen on television in a long while. Oh, oops! I forgot. Pride isn’t a sin. It’s a major spiritual trait.

-C

Channie February 26, 2009 at 10:53 am

Oh wait, what was that? Yeah, my B.S. detector just blew up!! That was the most self-dellusion CRAP I have ever read in my life. What’s wrong with you, Buddha? Why is it that whenever you get humiliated on national television you tell a bunch of lies, and pretend that it was all in your plan to do so in the first place? No one’s buying the crock you’re hacking, so please stop. Take your embarassment as a REAL MAN and stop making excuses for why YOU are the perpetual failure on national TV.

“I did I Love New York to show the world how a real man should act.” “I did I Love Money to stop being known as the Buddha from I Love New York.” I’VE NEVER BEEN MORE ANNOYED IN MY LIFE!! GET OVER YOURSELF, YOU OVER COMPENSATING, SELF-GRATIFYING, DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR HAVING DOUCHEBAG!!

JUST STOP IT!! You’re embarassing yourself… I FEEL EMBARASSED TO WATCH YOU, AND I DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU!! UGH!!!

missy February 26, 2009 at 10:57 am

Get over yourself!!!What a loser!!!

Bruline February 26, 2009 at 11:41 am

Ezra… Ezra.. Didn’t your mom every teach you not to raise you hand to a woman… Punk..

mois2cute February 26, 2009 at 12:02 pm

What a jerk…I agree. Kicked out, so “I didn’t want to win”. I just saw him on Gay, Straight or Taken…(he was the Straight…hah – thought he’d be the Taken since he is sooooo great in his mind) and he did a Hell Date too. So, his “career” is reality TV – and that will really get him far and noticed by real producers and all. He might be good looking, but his attitude and stuck-up-ness is ugly. As for Becky, she is what she is, but at least it’s real and not an egotistical jerk!

saxylady February 26, 2009 at 1:53 pm

I love Buddha and have followed him via myspace since ILNY 2. He is a very intelligent and well-educated man, who was a successful model prior to competing on reality tv. The problem is that the majority of the competitors as well as viewers are too ignorant to even understand him. The truth of the matter is they were intimidated by his size but more so his intellect. He is not one of the weak-minded people who can be easily manipulated. The Entertainer went after him from day 1 because he was a physical threat. His lame, 27 and living-in-his-partents-basement,ass is a complete loser and total failure, who has nothing going for himself. He knew he could not compete with Buddha. By the way, Buddha has been able to obtain a “real” acting job on an HBO series.

YELLA GIRL February 26, 2009 at 3:17 pm

I HOPE THE ENTERTAINER LOSES AND LIVES WITH HIS PARENTS FOREVER HE TAINTED EVERYONE AGAINST BUDDAH SINCE DAY ONE I THINK HES JEALOUS OF BUDDAH AND AS FAR AS BECKY GOES HOW CAN YOU HAVE A NAME LIKE BUCKWILD AND YOU ARE AS WHITE AS THEY COME WHEN YOU CRY YOU’RE WHITE AND WHEN YOU’RE HAPPY OR ANGRY YOU TRY TO SOUND BLACK SHE HAS NO MIND OF HER OWN AND ACTS LIKE POOR WHITE TRAILOR TRASH MILF IS JUST A &@*#$)$~*_`()%%() SHE TO HAS NO MIND OF HER OWN SHE IS EASILY MANIPULATED AND THERE IS NOT A CHANCE IN HELL THAT SHE COULD WIN AND THE ONLY REASON SHE DIDNT LIKE BUDDAH IS BECAUSE HE DIDNT WANT HER NASTY $!#$^_*%)&@+#$# AND TWEED SORRY BROKE AND UGLY SEE HOW FAST YOU TURNED ON BUDDAH AND WHAT IT GOT YOU VOTED OFF BY THAT BIG MOUTH $_`!%@#!~%@`^~$)^!@ FRANK WITH HIS UGLY $!#$^_*%)&@+#$# AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST SAPPHIRE I USED TO LIKE YOU I WANTED YOU TO WIN CHARM SCHOOL VOTED FOR YOU THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH EVEN THOUGH YOU SEEMED SO DUMB I THOUGHT YOU DESERVED TO WIN BUT NOW IT SEEMS YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT YOU LEARNED AT CHARM SCHOOL YOU ARE MANIPULATIVE AND EASILY MANIPULATED I NEVER THOUGHT THAT ONE PERSON CAN HAVE BOTH YOU ARE JEALOUS OF BUDDAH AND YOU WERE JEALOUS OF LEILENE YOU WANT PEOPLE TO BELIEVE YOU ARE A LEADER BUT YOU ARE FOLLOWING THE ENTERTAINER AND TRUST ME NEITHER YOU ARE HIM IS GOING TO WIN BUDDA YOU ARE SEXY AND THE ONLY REASON YOU WERE KICKED OFF IS BECAUSE FRANK THE ENTERTAINER IS JEALOUS AND AFRAID OF YOU HES A LOSER AND HOPEFULLY YOU WILL BE ON THE NEXT SHOW OR BETTER YET GET A SHOW OF YOUR OWN

Stop Shark Finning! February 26, 2009 at 4:25 pm

BOODAH (GET IT? BOOO DAH) SUCKS! I’VE HATED HIM SINCE HE WAS BULLYING TAILOR MADE ON NY2. HE’S NOT ATTRACTIVE AT ALL. HIS SKIN IS TOO BROWN AND HIS HEAD DOES LOOK LIKE A GOOBER OR A MILKDUD. HE’S AN A## H#LE TOO. I’M SO GLAD HE’S FINALLY GONE. THOSE GIRLS ARE STUPID FOR LIKING HIM. AND THEY LET IT RUIN THEIR CHANCES OF WINNING ALL THAT MONEY. I DON’T SEE HIS APPEAL. AND HE DOESN’T SEEM VERY EDUCATED TO ME. AT LEAST NOT AS MUCH AS HE CLAIMS. IF HE WAS, HE’D HAVE A REAL JOB. NOT BE A REALITY SHOW REJECT. PLUS HE GO REJECTED BY NEW YORK’S UGLY &`(^&#~~#_+&*&$ I MEAN IF HE CAN’T GET HER, WHO CAN HE GET?

H-Bum February 26, 2009 at 11:18 pm

How could someone who claims to be so smart be baited so easily into violence (I Love NY) and potential violence (w/T-Weed) by mere words? Strength means self restraint, even when someone disses you, intelligence means making it to the end, and collecting $250 thou. Buddha you got played! Get anger mgmt help soon.

tlp3 February 27, 2009 at 7:04 am

I hate this season of I love money. Becky/Bobby whatever his name is is sooo lame and ugly. Saaphyri? needs money and the Entertainer is a looser. They were all jealous of Buddha and if truth be told all of the ladies in the house were falling all over him when they first got there. They thought he was arrogant when he didn’t want any of them nasty old funky washed up skanks. So the task was to get rid of him. T-weed hahaha such a poser. All the women are leaving comments that 20pak is fine…um…he is not fine besides he is gay(lol). I think that bonez is attractive maybe his personality but he is for sure a keeper.

SHAWN JAY February 28, 2009 at 11:41 pm

I don’t understand why everyone was against Budha, the ladies didn’t know him until they saw him on this show. They let basement boy talk them into voting this guy off the show.

What happened to team?, from the very beginning Becky and others sided with the other squad. This not a good season.

suzi17 March 1, 2009 at 12:35 am

yeah!!!..buddha is gone…he disrespected Leilene in her back,he hitted frank in the first game taking advantage of this, he pushed Saphari,he said strong words to T-weed and Becky,,,and now buddha have the nerve of say that he is a loyal person ….COME ON BUDDHA BE A MAN….

Jade March 1, 2009 at 5:41 pm

I agree with Buddha…he was the only true adult in the house. I will not watch the show anymore…compared to I Love Money 1 this season sucks. I wish him the very best and maybe VH1 should look at offering him his own show.

sunflower_27828 March 1, 2009 at 11:39 pm

Buddah……I’m glad you realize the players on “I love Money 2″ would NEVER have accepted you!!!!! You are the EPITOME of everything they fear….A black man with brains and brawn. Now, if you would have come in acting like IT, they might would have changed their mind about you. The “I love Money” cast loves IT, he’s a black man they can deal with. He talks crazy and acts crazy. He has muscles, but they figure he doesn’t know what to do with them. The 3 black men who have been eliminated have been strong-minded and vocal. Don’t you brothers watch REality TV? lol You have to play the game…..Men like the Entertainer and Taylor Made will work OVERTIME to get you eliminated because you are a serious threat to them. They love brothers like IT because they figure they can control them, use them and work them like puppets. And they know YOU are nobody’s puppet. Pay NO attention to Milf and Buckwild, because both of those women want you BAD!!!!!For some reason, both of them think all Black men want them…SMH…..I can’t wait until your show debuts on VH1….I know that will absolutely kill Entertainer and Buckwild….I guess they’ll have to wait for “I love money 3″lol

Christina March 2, 2009 at 2:23 pm

I feel what Buddah said is a bunch of BS. You went on the show not to get out of the I love New York phase, but you went on the show because it was called I Love Money. It was your purpose to be on the show because you wanted to win the money. Things didnt turn out the way you wanted and the tables turned on you. I guess you believe because you were this muscle bound moron that everyone would want to keep you around, but things didnt happen that way. Also, any so called man who puts his hands on a woman(even if that woman so happens to look like a man she is still a woman)need to have his (!%^_(!_!&~#($& kicked I’m surprised that didnt put you off the show for that. I glad your gone now the show should be more interesting now that your gone.

LaRue March 3, 2009 at 11:05 am

Poor little, I mean poor BIG BUDDHA. What’s the matter? Too smart for your own good. Well if you so smart, why aren’t you still on the show. You’re a looser twice now, if that ugly behind New York rejected you for Tailor Made, what makes you think you can come on this show, man handle a woman, and be respected. Naw bro, it does not work like that. Any woman worth the salt in her bread who would root for a man who would disrespect a woman like that deserves to get her a## beat. Again I say for those of you who are turning the channel, so be it. I love the show, and I will watch it every time it comes on, count on it. Buddha got served and all you Bit#$%s moanin and groanin about it, get over it. His big head a## is gone, and nobody wants to see him on TV. So let sleeping dogs lie. VH1 don’t you dare give him a show. Show his big head a## to the door and lock it on his way out. See Ya! Wouldn’t wanna be Ya!

Ms. Lady March 4, 2009 at 10:37 am

two words Pompous Idiot!!

Nancy March 4, 2009 at 1:58 pm

WOW! I can’t stand people that think that they are better than everyone else. Buddha, you think you walk on water?
i used to think that you were ok, but truly ,what “smart” man would go on not one but 2 reality tv shows, loose both times and still have such a big mouth?
I don’t get it!
And why would you think every woman wants you when you are balding? that is why u shave your hair, because you’re balding! you are not perfect, get to anger management classes and they will teach you how to handle yourself better, instead of always threatening others to a beat down.
Grow up, if you were the only adult there, you would have played the game the way it should be played. Learn from HOOPZ !
YOU ARE A LOSER!

Cricket March 4, 2009 at 3:12 pm

since when is being confident a bad thing

V March 5, 2009 at 10:22 pm

OMG! This was the worst episode I had to watch!!! Buddha is out, I’m not gonna watch this trash anymore! he was the only person with character, and some IQ! the others are all LOSERS!!!!!!!!! I hope Frank will go back to her parent’s basement! this whole thing was BS, Buddha was the only valuable character there…..

Sweetpaties March 10, 2009 at 8:21 pm

Man I Missed Seeing You On There Buddha,Thats A Damn Shame How They Treated You Especially A Overgrove ^!()(_*!#~&)*(! hole That Couldn’t Get His ^!()(_*!#~&)*(! Out Of His Parents House,But Baby Don’t worry Tailer Made Getting Them Back!!!

momt March 19, 2009 at 10:14 pm

I am pissed Buddha gone. Man they hated on you so bad. I can’t stand frank’s dumb $`*^~`$((@))$+& and Becky’s transvestite looking $`*^~`$((@))$+& had the nerve to call buddha a name I can’t wait till her ugly $`*^~`$((@))$+& is gone!

petey March 26, 2009 at 2:53 am

ok, so can we all agree this guy is an idiot? one of the smarter idiots lol, but definetly an idiot.

Tale March 30, 2009 at 4:18 pm

Buddha, I am very proud of you. Those other idiots go on the show forming teams when it all boils down to one person in the end. Nobody is going to split the pot, so why choose sides. They are all ignorant, and displayed that to the whole world.

2279266 April 16, 2011 at 6:54 pm

What a lovely day for a 2279266! SCK was here