Ashley Schmid is our special guest and we start the show by reminiscing about the time when Ashley was a teacher at our dance studio Prestige Dance and Performing Arts Center. She tells us that she was 21 years old and training to be a Dallas Mavericks dancer and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader and 2 weeks before auditions found out that she was pregnant by a 25 year older man who she ended up marrying. Before the marriage he swept her off her feet and treated her like a queen but immediately after the “I Do’s” she was expected to cook dinner and just be a Mom and Housewife which made her feel like her life was over and that started the demise of her marriage. Besides her beautiful daugher Stormi they had another baby a son named Jaxx. Soon after the marriage got abusive with several incidents where the police was involved and soon after they got divorced.
Ashley tells us about the bad decision to open a dance studio where a dance Mom was the financial backer. That relationship fell apart quickly and Ashley was left to run the whole business by herself. Gabrielle is telling everyone how she is at a point where the many bad dance Mom’s she encountered through the years have no longer any attention in her life but instead she enjoys seeing all the ones that were amazing and the good Mom’s and their families on social media. Just when everyone thought the dance Mom drama was over, especially after 1 and 1/2 years of no longer owning a studio we had yet another Dance Mom incident where we got attacked unnecessarily. Marcella finally speaks up about how upset she was about losing Prestige dance and how much she misses her kids and teaching. She talks about how fragile she still is and then Marcella decides to read the ugly messages from this dance Mom on air and then we discuss adult bullying and social media trolls.
Ashley says that people have become so disposable. You can do 100 nice things for someone and they love you and if you do 1 thing they don’t like they forget everything and you become the villain. You don’t want to miss Ashley’s new single life and the dating story with a guy she meets on Bumble that comes with that. It started out super rough but now she is cautiously happy.
