I agree. It's usually clear right off the bat who the 'good guys' and 'bad guys' are, but in this case it was fuzzy. I felt for both mothers, and thought they were pretty sincere--allowing, of course, for each one to put their own twist on how things happened. But I just didn't feel that either one was being outrageously deceptive;
I tended to believe Christina more throughout the whole thing. Obviously neither of them was telling the whole truth, but there seemed to be more things that made sense with her stories.
Like that situation where Ashley told her son to tell Christina to come over. Christina went over to talk, and it makes sense that if Ashley didn't answer the door and her husband was in the yard, that Christina would talk to the husband. Then Ashley admits she came out and yelled at her for talking to her husband. It makes no sense for someone holding a baby to start a physical fight with 2 people. But with Ashley admitting she came out of the house angry, it makes sense that she'd be the one to escalate things. It makes even more sense when you look back on it knowing that she's the one that went inside her house, grabbed a knife, and went back outside to stab someone.
Also, Ashley's story about the kids at the end didn't make any sense either. She said Christina's nephews were at the bus stop waiting for all of them, and then they walked home threatening to beat her son up all the way. If these kids are waiting to beat him up, they would've beat him up. 5 kids walking down the street with 2-4 of them telling the 5th "we're going to beat you up" just doesn't seem realistic at all. In her 911 call, she even says the cousins jumped her son, when her own story is that they followed him all the way home threatening to attack him but never actually did.
Then there's the cause of the fight at the end. Christina's family was at the house because of Diamond's birthday party. I don't remember any explanation of why Ashley's family was there. It seemed like she called them deliberately to start something with her neighbors.
From the beginning I kept thinking that Jackson was going to get killed somehow, and that's why Diamond was the only one of the kids on the show, and Ashley still seemed like the main aggressor to me. Even from her own version of events. You can't use the "I was worried about my unborn baby" argument when you're safely in your house away from a weaponless fight and deliberately bring a weapon outside and join it.
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EmilyTheDramaQueen
9 years ago
I sort of believe the bus stop thing, sure it was exaggerated but I sort of believed it. I would have liked to hear from the son in the other family but on that side we only got the mother's point of view. Now I'm not sure if she called them deliberately to cause trouble but with this feud that has been getting violent from time to time going on, I really don't blame her calling them just in cause stuff jumped off which it did. Like Ashley sort of said people tend to say if it was me I wouldn't have done this or that, but when you are in a situation in the heat of the moment, you think differently and it's easy to say that on the outside looking in. Not saying I would have pulled out a knife but it's hard to say what you would have and what you wouldn't have done.
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