Hi everyone! As promised in the
BB After Party gosss, here's the chinwag I had with Maureen to quiz her with the questions we've had since she's left the house.
*BB cam zooms into clubby pumping music with tons of guys hovering 'round Maureen to have their pic taken with her:*
Tashi: What did you think when you came out of the house and realized that Code has a girlfriend who’s pregnant?
Maureen: When were in the house I knew he had a girlfriend and he knew I had a boyfriend. Things just happened in the house - we were there for how long? There was no place to go to think about stuff and then you end up meeting this person emotionally, for support. When I went for the debriefing they told me, “Code’s got a girlfriend and she’s pregnant” and I went “Oh my goodness. I’m glad I didn’t sleep with him.” I thought: I hope she’s able to forgive him and that they have a good life.
Tashi: Was what you felt for him genuine?
Maureen: Yes it was.
Tashi: When Code came out he said he was never sure if it was.
Maureen: Yes it was genuine.
Tashi: When they debrief you, what do they do? Do they take you into a small room?
Maureen: They ask you how you feel - “What are you gonna do?” Very casual.
Tashi: One of the votes you gave that I totally disagreed with was the one you gave to Meryl. What was up with voting for her because she didn’t eat enough?
Maureen: (Laughs) You know what - it was very hard. I wish we’d only had to vote for one housemate. That would have been easier. When you got into the diary room you had to think of reasons - I mean she was this full figured woman and then she said, “I don’t eat.” And I was like, “You don’t eat or you just don’t want to eat now?” and she was like “No, I don’t eat.” I’m thinking, “Jeez, you know what says to the girls out there that you don’t eat?” I used to see her and it was odd and I’d think: “I know my appetitie is messed up but what kind of message is she sending to girls out there?”
Tashi: All the speaking you did to yourself - are you nuts?
Maureen: Haaa! You know what I think, it’s just like any other person - some of you do it inwardly - I try to analyse - sometimes I don’t even realize I’m doing it. It has to do with analyzing myself to say “Maureen is strong.” Even at school I used to do it, my mom and best friend used to say, “Are you speaking to us?” and I’d be like, “Hello, no I was looking at my shoes and speaking to them.” Maybe some people hit the walls or throw a table - I talk to myself.
Tashi: You were in the thick of things on
the controversial weekend of the whole sexual fiasco. Do you think that Richard assaulted Ofunneka?
Maureen: You know what, the one thing I remember is that I threw a few chairs and I had a swollen eye and Ofunneka kissed me then I walked into the room and I was very scared because she looked like she was dying or something. When I went into the room my main concern was taking care of girls, I was very scared for them.
The reason I asked Big Brother to take Richard out was because he kept switching on the lights and Tatiana was in and out of sleep and he was making a lot of noise. I’ve heard so much - people have been asking me so many questions and I don’t remember - I don’t think I saw - I know I carried duvet’s - I covered Tatiana and then Richard came and covered himself. I didn’t cover Richard because I was trying to throw him out - I was running in and out so I don’t really know what happened and I don’t want to lie.
Tashi: What do you feel about it all?
Maureen: I don’t even want to say, let them come out and say what happened because I don’t know, I just remember me being kissed.
Tashi: What did you feel about that?
Maureen: Man that was confusing, I was confused, I was like, “Did I do it?” “Did she think I was - ?” I don’t know, I just remember I was on the floor and I was in and out of the room and with the paramedics.
Tashi: What have things been like between Code and you now?
Maureen: After we came out of the house Code went back to Malawi and I went back to Uganda. In that house you can’t avoid the person - you can’t phone your mother and say, “I’ve met this person, I’m confused,” - there’s no way out. Now that I’m out it’s easier for me to move on, to see him as a friend. I have my career, I have all these things happening and I see him as a friend.
I saw him tonight and it’s so different - we haven’t spoken to each since being in the house and when he left I was like “Oh my God what am I gonna do?” and now it’s better and I’m very happy. There was a point in the house where I told him I wanted him to be the MC at my wedding because I didn’t think about it like that and I asked how many kids he was gonna have, there was even a point where I spoke to his girlfriend, I don’t know if you saw that.
Tashi: Knowing about her, didn’t you feel bad about it?
Maureen: Not exactly, because when you’re in the house you totally forget about what’s happening. You have no clue whether your family’s still alive or whether your boyfriend’s still out there.
Tashi: So what happened with your boyfriend?
Maureen: He says it’s the life I lived in the house and he’s willing to let go. He said: “You had something in the house and I’m not going to judge you.”
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