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E!'s Famous Reality TV Families: Where Are They Now?
Nancy Jo Sales, idiosyncratic is inactive talking astir your story.
More than 12 years ago, Alexis Neiers delivered an unforgettable telephone telephone to the Vanity Fair writer who was investigating her engagement successful the bling ring.
While the unscripted moment, captured by Pretty Wild cameras, resulted successful countless memes, Alexis inactive doesn't deliberation fondly of the newsman who she says mischaracterized her story.
"I don't deliberation Nancy Jo is susceptible of being honorable with herself and her motives, inactive to this day," Alexis exclusively shared with E! News. "Nancy and I unrecorded successful precise antithetic universes and that she is conscionable not susceptible of owning the information that she tore maine down successful bid to physique herself up and that's okay."
According to Alexis, she invited Nancy onto her Recovering From Reality podcast successful hopes of clearing the air. But her invitation has yet to beryllium accepted.
When it comes to Netflix's upcoming documentary series The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist, Alexis isn't disappointed to perceive Nancy Jo didn't choose to participate.
"I deliberation that this portion was an accidental for everyone to get honest," she said. "I don't deliberation that Nancy would person much, if anything, to lend to that."
When contacted by E! News connected Sept. 13, Nancy Jo said: "When I was asked to enactment successful the Netflix documentary, I didn't consciousness funny successful being portion of the project. At this point, the Bling Ring felt similar aged news."
But while reflecting connected the 10-year day of the Bling Ring successful 2020, Nancy Jo wrote a portion for Vanity Fair where she said Alexis "never forgave maine for not penning a puff portion astir her. I don't cognize wherefore she thought this was what she was going to get, due to the fact that it was not thing I ever promised."
Nancy Jo besides confirmed to E! News that she declined Alexis' invitation to look connected her podcast.
Netflix's caller documentary bid explores the group of celebrity-obsessed youths who burglarized immoderate of the astir celebrated radical connected the satellite from 2008 to 2009.
The communicative was aboriginal turned into a 2013 diagnostic movie by Sofia Coppola, starring Emma Watson and Taissa Farmiga.
As for wherefore Alexis wanted to talk retired publically astir her past, the 31-year-old said she wanted to shed airy connected what led to her decisions.
"I consciousness similar successful the aboriginal 2000s, it was truly sensationalized and it became this portion of popular civilization history," she said. "We weren't truly capable to perceive astir the analyzable stories of the radical involved. Part of it was the information that I was precise young and naïve. Part of it was that I was consuming precise dense sedatives. And portion of it is conscionable the mode that world TV backmost past was produced. I deliberation that it's important for radical to spot the afloat representation of what was going connected successful my beingness astatine that time."
Alexis—who said she was lone contiguous for the burglary of Orlando Bloom's location successful July 2009—pleaded nary contention successful May 2010 to residential burglary and was sentenced to six months successful region jail, a two-year suspended condemnation and 3 years of probation, arsenic good arsenic ordered to wage restitution to Orlando. She ended up spending 30 days successful jail.
Today, Alexis (who present uses the past sanction Haines) is sober and focused connected raising her daughters Harper, 9, and Dakota, 6, who she shares with ex-husband Evan Haines. She besides is maintaining a steadfast narration with her mom Andrea Arlington-Dunne, who gained attraction connected Pretty Wild for having an up and down narration with her daughter.
"We've travel specified a agelong way," Alexis said. "I'm conscionable truthful arrogant of the pistillate she's go and is continuing to become."
The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist begins streaming connected Netflix Sept. 21.
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