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Amanda Frances is explaining her controversial matcha order.
After being featured in an odd scene with Rachel Zoe, 54, on a recent episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, the 41-year-old newbie explained why her order sounded so complicated, as she also revealed her real name, addressed her mug shot, spoke of “carrying the show,” and more.
“The order is iced matcha latte, easy ice, half almond, half oat milk, touch of honey. That’s the order. If it’s not ceremonial grade, the honey can’t do enough to cut the bitterness. Ceremonial grade is a lot sweeter. So when I was like, ‘I don’t think it’s ceremonial grade, what are we even working with here? Start over,’ [it’s] because the second order, iced latte, half almond, half oat milk, easy ice,” Amanda explained to Entertainment Tonight.
She then shared that the scene in question may have looked more dramatic than it was since producers cut out her request to switch to a latte.
“I think that’s part of what people need to know, is what do we do if it’s not ceremonial grade. I’m a wealth of information,” she reasoned.
As for her real name, Amanda confirmed “Frances” is actually her middle name.
“Amanda Frances McKinney’s my full name. Amanda, I had AmandaFMcKinney.com, and it just wasn’t as vibey as AmandaFrances.com. It was an early business decision that stuck,” she revealed.
Moving on to her mug shot, which recently resurfaced, Amanda admitted that it circulates on the internet about every three years.
“That’s the annoying thing,” she stated, mentioning that she had previously explained the situation to Erika Jayne, 54, after someone sent her castmate the photo.
“So I’m living in Tulsa, this is 2016, I was out with a girlfriend. I parked in this gated parking lot, had a full night out. By the end of the night, I’m like, ‘I can’t drive home. I should get my car out of this thing and call an Uber.’ So I try to get my car out, and I’m blocked in. I can’t get anywhere,” Amanda recalled. “This guy had been kind of hitting on me all night, giving me a hard time, was like, ‘You can’t drive. You can’t drive.’ I’m like, ‘I’m not gonna drive, I’m just going to get my car to that spot, and my Uber’s on the way.’ Anyway, I was ignoring him, not paying attention to him. He jumped in front of a cop car, flagged down a cop … the cop came and tapped me on the shoulder, I was reaching for the door of the Uber … [and] the police officer said, ‘This man says you’re drinking and driving.’ I said, ‘Well, I tried to move my car, but I’m stuck.’ But I said, ‘I tried to move my car,’ cuz I wasn’t trying to lie about anything.”
“Anyway, the reason people can’t find the police report is it was dismissed and expunged,” she added.
Because she’s been involved in much of the drama throughout the first half of the RHOBH season, some have said that Amanda is carrying the show. And while Amanda suggested she wasn’t sure what that meant, she hoped it was a compliment.
“I’m like, ‘I don’t really know what that means, but I think it’s a compliment.’ It means I’m keeping it interesting, right?” she asked. “But I wasn’t trying to do that, I gotta tell ya.”
Also during the interview, Amanda admitted that she’s long had dreams of being a reality star.
“I have felt that I was going to be on TV, on reality TV, forever,” she shared. “It was like this thing I always wanted, this thing I always believed I would always do, and then there it was sitting in front of me.”
“When I bought [Kyle Richards]’s house, I wondered, I had this like, inkling, of could this be my way into reality TV, but you can’t know. At all. And it was so many years later from when I bought it that all of this happened. And I never thought a show like Housewives would be the show that I would do,” she added.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo.