‘Quitting Xanax’ Made Me ’Twitchy’

Again within the saddle! Stassi Schroeder has revived her “Straight Up With Stassi” podcast after a two-year hiatus.

Following a Wednesday, September 28, introductory episode, the 34-year-old Vanderpump Guidelines alum had fellow podcaster Jackie Schimmel on as a visitor that very same day — and apologized for her habits the final time Schimmel, 32, appeared on the present in Might 2020.

“I’m simply, like, attempting to make up for the ultimate podcast episode that we did two and a half years [ago], proper earlier than June 2020,” Schroeder stated. After her visitor identified that the episode in query aired proper earlier than the Bravo alum was “socially excommunicated,” Schroeder echoed the sentiment, saying, “Once I was socially excommunicated, sure.”

She continued: “I used to be so horrible on the podcast as a result of I [had] simply discovered I used to be pregnant. And I used to be coming off of being like, ‘Okay, properly now I’ve to … Like, I’m quitting Xanax, the Juul and alcohol and I’m a twitchy mom—ker.”

The Louisiana native added that she “couldn’t string phrases or ideas collectively” on the time. Schroeder welcomed her daughter, Hartford, with husband Beau Clark in January 2021. The earlier June, Bravo fired the Subsequent Degree Primary writer and Kristen Doute from Vanderpump Guidelines after eight seasons. The dismissal got here after a podcast clip resurfaced during which she and Doute, 39, instructed police by way of a tip line {that a} Black girl accused of a theft may’ve been their former costar Religion Stowers.

In Schroeder’s e-book Off With My Head: The Definitive Primary Bitch Handbook to Surviving Rock Backside, launched in April, she wrote that she had “zero proper to accuse” Stowers, 33, of the crime. “Simply because it wasn’t about race for me, doesn’t imply that it wasn’t about race for Religion,” the fact TV alum stated.

All through the e-book’s first chapter, the podcaster chronicled her expertise shedding her job, her brokers and podcast sponsors.

“Simply think about making a horrible mistake, however one which has nothing to do with how good you might be at your job. And one which doesn’t really mirror who you might be,” she wrote. “You’re instructed to remain quiet. You’re already ashamed of the error you made. You already need to repair it. However on high of that, each single particular person you already know or have ever met is aware of about this error.”

In her first podcast episode after the hiatus, the previous blogger spoke about how “Straight Up With Stassi” might be completely different now that she’s realized some tough life classes.

“I’m not the identical individual that I used to be once you final heard from me,” she assured listeners, admitting that her new outlook might “disappoint some folks.” Nevertheless, not every little thing has modified.

“I nonetheless love to guage folks. Judging is enjoyable,” the Loyola Marymount College alum stated. “If anyone tells you that they don’t like judging, or they don’t decide, they’re mendacity. [It’s] precise human nature and a part of our DNA.”

Schroeder additionally defined that though her podcast was faraway from all platforms in June 2020, she by no means misplaced the rights to the content material itself. “The episodes have been by no means deleted; they have been simply hidden. And through that point, I had the entire episodes transferred to me in order that I may resolve what I wished to do with them,” she stated.

Regardless of all the time having the appropriate to republish the episodes on a distinct platform, the Off With My Head writer determined to take her time earlier than doing so.

“I had lots of considering to do, and I sort of determined in that second that there’s a time and a spot the place folks ought to communicate, and there’s a time and a spot the place folks ought to hear. And, again then, it actually was not my time to be talking,” she stated.