Season 11 of Married to Medicine might have reached its low point last week when multiple fights broke out on an innocent little sandbar in Florida. Phaedra was fighting with her ex-husband, Dr. Heavenly was fighting with gravity, and meanwhile, King was getting ready to put the paws on Dr. Gregory. It was a lot to take in, and for a certain Real Housewives of Atlanta star, this might have been the last hurrah with this group.
In Married to Medicine Season 11, Episode 12 “Calm After the Storm,” the cast tried to process the sandbar blowup. With the help of Dr. Mimi’s therapy skills, they started to inch toward the conclusion that bringing all of these ex-husbands on a couples’ trip was never a good idea.
Meanwhile, Phaedra started to realize that maybe joining this show wasn’t a good idea. Keep on reading for the full breakdown of this week’s episode of M2M.
What happened in Married to Medicine Season 11, Episode 12?
Episode 12 picked up right where we left off last week, with King ripping off his shirt and charging full speed at Dr. Gregory. The chaos forced a few couples to flee Key West. Phaedra might have The remaining couples were forced to confront the age-old question: “How do we come back from this?”
King and Dr. G nearly come to blows
We’ve all been waiting for this King and Dr. Gregory fight since the Married to Medicine Season 11 trailer dropped. This episode kicked off with a full look into what happened, which was actually a whole lot of nothing. King charged at Dr. G, but Cheick stepped in along with a member of the production team to pull them apart.
No punches were thrown, but when things started escalating, Sweet Tea and Quad sprinted across the beach like two Olympic track stars to try to pull their men out of the situation. It was a mess.
While the men cooled off from their almost-fight, Sweet Tea completely broke down in the middle of the beach. There was screaming. There was crying, and she made a few anguished faces in front of the camera that she probably regrets.
As if this wasn’t enough clownery, here comes Phaedra wrapping up Sweet Tea in her arms. The mortician/lawyer/reality star started praying over Sweet Tea, speaking in tongues and all. As Dr. Simone pointed out, this was all “a bit too much.”
“It’s hard to see that God would choose Phaedra to speak to Tea,” Simone said in a confessional.” But God ain’t talking to her at all about her f*cked up relationship with Apollo [Nida] and Sherien [Almufti]?”
The morning after
Fortunately, Dr. Simone was able to get two separate boats to get everyone from the sandbar back to the resort in one piece. The next morning, everyone was trying to make sense of what happened. If you feel like we’ve been here before, it’s because we have. This is the eighth episode of Season 11 to take place in Florida, and they’re always in their hotel rooms trying to come back from some horrible fight.
In one room, Heavenly and Simone sat with Apollo and Sherien to try to milk that storyline for everything that they could. Apollo admitted that it wasn’t his intention to derail the trip by arguing with Phaedra and Cheick.
Ultimately, they all seemed to agree that Phaedra probably brought Cheick along on this trip to try to get under Apollo’s skin. After all, she knew he was coming and originally acted like she was fine with it.
“Phaedra knew good and damn well that Apollo was coming on this trip,” Heavenly explained in a confessional.
“Phaedra knew that Cheick was Apollo’s friend, and yes, I do think Phaedra did this sh*t to play in Apollo’s face,” Heavenly declared, right before absolving herself from any responsibility.
Either way, Apollo admitted that it was all water under the bridge for him and Cheick. After the blowup at the sandbar, Apollo said that Cheick hit him up to go to the strip club. No hard feelings there.
Phaedra called up the PJ, and got out of dodge
Although Apollo and Sherien decided to leave Key West and spend some time away from the cameras in Miami, Phaedra still didn’t want anything to do with this trip. The day after the sandbar incident, she was in her room packing up her belongings, ready to get the hell away from the world of M2M.
Dr. Jackie dropped by and tried to bring her signature levelheadedness to the situation. She tried to convince Phaedra to stay on the trip and try to communicate with the group to see how to move forward. However, Phaedra wasn’t interested at all. She could hardly look up from packing her bags.
“Some people can be played with, but I’m not one of them,” the RHOA alum said. “I don’t play with these types of mean girls, so yeah, I’m gone.”
With that, Phaedra grabbed her bags, put Cheick on his leash, and the two boarded a plane back to Atlanta. It didn’t feel like a dignified exit for such an established reality star, but in a confessional, Phaedra made it clear that her issues were with the group. This wasn’t just about Apollo.
“This group does not allow anyone new to survive. Anybody new that comes in, they treat them poorly,” Phaedra claimed. “I think these ladies are just stuck in their little four-ring circus.”
The Luncefords went back to Georgia
Phaedra and Cheick weren’t the only people to flee Key West. Dr. G and Sweet Tea also went back home, but unfortunately, the drama from the couples’ trip continued to haunt them in Atlanta.
The two were sitting at their kitchen table talking about the drama, and Dr. G claimed that it would have been a “fight to the death” on the sandbar had Cheick not intervened.
Sweet Tea didn’t agree with that. She said that not only was she “combat trained,” but there were plenty of other people there to break up the fight. No one was going to die, but Greg told his wife she was “naïve” for thinking that.
When Sweet Tea expressed some discomfort with being called “naïve,” Greg got upset and stormed off … again. He went stomping up the stairs in his mansion like a teenager who just got grounded, and of course, Sweet Tea went running after him. Then, in a closed-door conversation, things got dark.
“It’s your fault. Don’t say sh*t to make me go off,” Greg warned his wife.
Still behind the closed door, Lateasha made a very reasonable case for why it didn’t feel good to be called “naïve.” The bickering continued, and watching from home, you couldn’t help but think about all of the claims Quad made about her time as a Lunceford.
“I don’t know who you think you’re talking to,” Dr. G told his wife from behind the closed door. “You’re going to get the reaction that you don’t want.”
Finding the path forward
While Greg and Sweet Tea argued in Atlanta, the people who survived the trip got together for a “couples therapy” session. They’ve tried this a million times, but what made this session different is that they actually had a therapist present. Dr. Mimi is a mental health professional, and with hardly any skin in this game, she was able to serve as a helpful mediator.
“If the exes are present in the group, we have to know that the exes have done their particular work,” Dr. Mimi said of the ongoing drama.
She continued, “What I did experience here, those particular exes had not done what they needed to do.”
Miraculously, that insight from Mimi opened the door for the group to acknowledge some real truths about the current state of their group. Bringing Sweet Tea and Dr. G into this circle was hurtful to Quad. No amount of reality TV magic can cover up the trauma of that broken marriage.
Somewhere in this mess, there is a path forward. They just can’t all walk that path at the same time. Something’s gotta give.
Married to Medicine continues on Bravo every Sunday at 9/8c.
TELL US – WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS ON MARRIED TO MEDICINE SEASON 11, EPISODE 12? WERE YOU SURPRISED TO SEE PHAEDRA RUN AWAY FROM THE CAST TRIP? WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE COUPLES’ THERAPY SESSION AT THE END OF THE EPISODE? HOW DO YOU THINK THIS GROUP SHOULD MOVE FORWARD?
