“[Heather] was getting ready to miss her flight,” she said. “She was like, ‘No, I wanna sort this out [with Christine], I wanna sort this out.’”
But the show made it seem like Heather didn’t give Christine a chance. “And then watching her, [she’s suddenly like], ‘OK, we’re leaving.’ And she storms off!” Mary recounted.
Mary explained that because of editing, viewers don’t get to see the full build-up of an argument before it erupts. “It’s kind of the same thing with the dog party,” she said, recalling what happened when she and Jason — who are exes — threw a grand birthday party for their shared dog, Niko: Jason had invited Christine without telling Mary, and she was furious.
“Oh, that was embarrassing,” she said of the drama at the event. “There was a lot of stuff that led me up to that point. I don’t blow quickly, it takes a lot to get me to that. A lot happened.”
Mary revealed that in such instances, the show’s producers sometimes have to step in and “tone it down” when things get too heated between the cast members.
“We get questions about it all the time: ‘Is it real? Are we just actors?’ No, we’re not actors,” she said.
“Sometimes [producers] actually tone it down so that the viewers understand what’s going on, because you only get a certain amount of time. Sometimes, if you’re having an argument with someone, you can’t get all of it in,” she said.
