There's no facade; it's very real. I just don't get along with Ronda, and we don't see eye to eye on anything. We're just two completely different people. People can tell that our rivalry is very raw. It's very, very real.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.
If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma Lakshmi and Tabatha Coffey and the 'Millionaire Matchmaker,' these are very strong personalities that people love to watch and that you... don't see anywhere else.
We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best.
Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry.
Women do love each other; this whole women-against-each other, 'Dynasty' thing... we're not all after each other.
I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.
Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.
As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.
I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.