Chantel Christie continues to talk about her now-viral physical altercation with her mother, Jackie Christie.
During an interview with Carlos King, Chantel explained how the altercation in her mother’s hotel room was “far deeper than reality TV drama.” She went on to say that she felt that she was “toe-to-toe with her first bully.”
“When I got to that door, I could have and should have turned around and walked out, one thousand percent,” she explained. “When I saw in real life, outside of these cameras, you’re not going to take accountability. I’m toe-to-toe with who I feel like was my first bully. And I’m not backing down.”
She added that the piece of the physical altercation that was aired was only a small encounter between the two of them and said that her mother came “prepared.” Chantel said, “You called me up here to play into whatever narrative it is that you want these viewers to go with.”
Chantel told King that she wasn’t looking to rehash her childhood issues and trauma, but only wanted her mother to take accountability for her part. She went on to describe how the incident occurred. “She [Jackie] balled up her fist and tried to aim for my head, but because I ducked out of the way, I fell into the cameraman. That’s how the finger ended up bleeding.”
She then clarified her telling the other women that Jackie had hit her. “I think that it morphed into, ‘She really put her hands on me,” because I was just in disbelief that you balled up your fist and tried to aim for my head like I was a stranger in the street.”
Chantel said that at 27 years old, it was discovered that she has a brain aneurysm. “My family knows. Jackie knows. So when you, my own mother, swing at my head, that’s not just triggering. That’s life-threatening.”