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♪ Merry, rest ye merry
[hip hop Christmas music]
- Kandi?
Get up, baby.
Oh.
Baby, it's Christmas Eve.
We need to go visit your father's grave site.
- What time is it?
- It's 10 AM.
- I don't have to be at work until four.
- So you're not going.
It's the 10th anniversary of your father's death.
- Mama, today's no different than any other year
I haven't gone.
I don't go to daddy's grave.
- Fine.
But it doesn't hurt to ask.
You need to get up and clean this dirty room.
I'll be back in a few hours.
[hip hop music]
♪ The shepherds at those tidings ♪
♪ Rejoiced much in mind
♪ And left their flocks a-feeding ♪
♪ In tempest, storm and wind
♪ And went to Bethlehem straightway ♪
♪ The blessings they would find ♪
♪ Oh tidings of comfort and joy ♪
♪ Comfort and joy
♪ Oh tidings of comfort and joy ♪
- All right, mama.
Headed out.
- Okay.
Are you coming to the Christmas Eve concert
at church after work?
- Mama, please.
Don't start that before I have to go to work.
- You can't run from God forever, Kandi.
- Not running.
[soft, melancholy music]
[engine sputtering]
Oh, no, no, no, no. [engine sputtering]
[groans]
Really?
- Hi, I'm still waiting on that seafood pasta. Please.
And where are the garlic knots?
Anybody seen Kandi?
[people chattering]
Ooh, uh, no ma'am.
You may not come up in here looking like that.
- I ran to work, Matthew.
- Well, why would you do something crazy like that?
- Obviously my car wouldn't start.
- Uh, you do know about the invention of the share ride app?
- Listen, okay, I am already freaking out
because I have to talk to Danielle later.
- Ugh, yeah.
Well, you can't go in there looking like that.
She will eat you for breakfast.
Come with me.
Come with me, come on! - Where are we going?
- [Matthew] I gotcha, I gotcha.
Come on.
- I hate lip gloss! - Okay, okay, hush girl.
I know what I'm doin'.
There.
- Hm.
Okay. - Okay.
You ought to thank me for having my makeup kit at work.
- Why do you have your makeup kit at work?
- Oh, I have a client after work.
Some old bougie hag asked me to make her
look like Dorothy Dandridge for her Christmas party tonight.
[laughing]
She'll have better luck asking Santa
for a whole new face for Christmas, honey,
'cause I can't work miracles like that.
- No, but seriously, thank you for the clean shirt
and the face and the hair.
- You know I got you.
[Kandi sighs] - I'm not surprised
that my day is going the way that it is.
I hate my life.
- Hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
One day, Kandi, we won't be waiting tables anymore.
I'll be a celebrity stylist and you'll be an R&B diva.
- Oh, god, don't start. [Matthew squeals]
- Just sayin'.
You did great on YouTube.
You had hits. You had a fan base.
- Only because I was singing
in front of a cell phone camera.
I can't sing on stage.
- Well that one time.
You went on stage and you did amazing.
- And you said it.
Look, Matthew, I fell off the stage. Remember that?
- You tripped up a little, honey. It happens.
- No.
I tripped up a lot. I was drunk.
[Matthew laughs]
I couldn't get on stage without having a drink
to calm my nerves and then you went and recorded it live
and put it on Facebook. - Yes.
- They hashtagged me lush plunge.
I'm gonna kill you.
- Ooh, but that was a good hashtag, and it went viral.
[Matthew sighs]
Okay, okay.
Okay, okay, okay.
Not funny, but you need to take a chill pill. Just relax.
- Yeah, well, that's easy for you to say.
[Matthew scoffs] - I'm just saying,
if you took the next step with your singing career,
it could change your life.
Our lives.
- Matthew. - Hm?
- If I could, I would.
But there are just some things
we're going to have to accept.
[Matthew sighs]
[Kandi grumbles]
- Dammit. - Okay, okay.
Kandi.
What's wrong?
- Everything.
Hey, it's Christmas Eve and...
It's 10 years since my dad has passed.
- Oh.
Crap.
I totally forgot.
Hey, I'm so sorry, Kandi.
- I just don't know how I'm gonna get through this day.
- Oh, hey no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's going to be okay.
Don't ruin your makeup. It's okay, it's okay.
- It's not okay.
Okay, the universe is punishing me
for what I did to my father.
And I deserve it.
I gotta get to work.
[Matthew sighs]
Hi Danielle.
I just, I wanted to say, I'm sorry for being late today.
My car wouldn't start and-
- Whatever you're telling me, it's not my problem
or an excuse to be late.
- Well, I still wanted to apologize.
- I have to manage this restaurant and its employees
and maintain an exemplary five star rating.
- I understand. - Oh, do you?
Because ratings are everything in this business.
If it drops, your clientele drops.
If your clientele drops, you go out of business.
Show gets canceled. - Yes ma'am.
- No, I can't have my show canceled, Kandi.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
- Yeah, I do.
- You have one more time to mess up.
One.
And after that, you get cut from the crew.
- Understood.
- Why are you still standing here?
- Well, I was wondering if, um,
I can add more shifts to my schedule
or you could add more shifts to my schedule.
See my mom is doing the best that she can with the bills,
but I take care of most of them
and I need to get my car fixed,
and I was just wondering- - Are you joking?
[Kandi laughs]
- Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. [chuckles]
Yeah, girl...
Ma'am.
Um, I'm gonna go get back to my tables.
And just, I'ma close this for you.
[people chattering]
[soft, melancholy music]
- My Kandi Pop.
[soft music]
- Kandi.
Hi, hi. Earth to Kandi.
Um, Danielle is on the loose and she is out for blood.
I think her sew-in's a little too tight,
so don't just stand there daydreaming, okay?
Get back to work. - Yeah.
- Got a busy restaurant.
Okay, thanks.
[soft, melancholy music]
God, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.
- What? What happened?
- Oh my god, oh my god! - Okay, you said that already.
What the heck is going on?
- Glow Girls is what is going on.
- Glow Girls? - Yes!
The singing group, Glow Girls, is here.
April, Brittany and Tracy just walked
through the damn door!
- Oh.
- Oh? What do you mean oh?
Did you not just hear what I said?
Glow Girls is here. - Yeah, I heard what you said.
- Okay, well, well, girl I need to get ready.
I need to plan.
Maybe I should just walk up to them and just, uh, start,
start really just doing their hair.
- Yeah. - Doing their hair.
- Mm-hm. - Mm-hm.
- Yeah, right over their dinner menus, right?
- Yes, that's great, because they'll already
be sitting down and then I can come in
and get Brittany with those edges
because you know, sometimes she be having fly-aways.
- Matthew, I was kidding.
- Wh-what? - I was kidding.
Do you hear yourself?
- Well I'm just sayin'- - Kandi.
Kandi, the Glow Girls,
they're gonna be seated at your table.
- My table?
Danielle, can they be seated somewhere else?
- No.
Kandi, we are understaffed and it is Christmas Eve
and the back table that they requested
just happens to be in your section.
Okay, now, if you can't handle your job,
then you should quit, okay?
- No. No, no, no, no, no.
I can handle it. - Okay.
Now get out there and don't embarrass me.
Get back on the floor.
- Okay.
Ooh, she's nasty.
Okay, um, I have an idea.
Give me the table and I'll take care of it for you.
Yep, just let me run and get my makeup kit really quick-
- Absolutely not, Matthew,
because I really believe that you would pull out
a hairbrush over their dinner plates.
- Damn right.
You're right, because when the opportunity presents itself,
you have got to snatch it.
Just like I'd snatch them girls from head to toe.
- I'm gonna regret this.
Fine.
I will talk to them for you. [Matthew squeals]
- You say that like you know them.
[Kandi clears throat]
- Because I do.
- What do you mean you know the Glow Girls?
- I mean I went to high school with them and...
I used to be in the group Glow Girls when they started.
[Matthew gasps]
Oh my god!
Okay, well give me a moment to wrap my head around this
because, you know, sometimes it takes me a while
to understand the gravity of a situation.
Um...
My closest friend used to be
in the singing group Glow Girls?
Please, continue.
[Kandi sighs]
- Okay, we went to high school together
and they were the popular girls
and then they found out that I could sing
and they asked me to be a part of the group
and that Brittany and that April,
they were awful, okay?
They were so mean to me because I kept out singing them.
- This is unbelievable.
- And then my father passed
and I just couldn't go on stage anymore, so I quit.
- I'm sorry, but I would've figured that out somehow.
I mean, come on, girl.
Do you see their lives?
- Do you think I haven't seen their lives
and wish that I had it?
- No, I don't.
I think you use your father as an excuse.
- Matthew don't do that. - I'm just saying-
- No, stop.
You don't know what it's like for me to go out there, okay?
- Okay- - Ah.
Leave it alone.
- I'm going to leave it alone,
but you don't leave them Glow Girls alone, okay?
Let them know I got that good-good, girl.
- If you don't go.
Bye. - That good, long too.
- Respectfully, bye.
- All right, respectfully let them know. Thank you.
- God, I hate my life.
[women giggling] [cameras clicking]
[clapping] [laughing]
- All right, all right. Settle down everybody.
Well, it's Christmas Eve,
so I thought it would be nice
if we gave you all a little gift.
How about a song?
[cheering] [clapping]
[chuckles] Yeah?
- Merry Christmas, everyone. [chuckles]
This wasn't planned,
but I guess we can give you all one song
so that we can eat in peace,
because this is a restaurant, right?
Not a concert.
You all didn't buy tickets, did you?
[crowd laughs] No.
[soft, tinkling music]
♪ We wish you a merry Christmas ♪
♪ We wish you a Merry Christmas ♪
♪ And a Happy New Year
♪ Tidings we bring to you and your kin ♪
♪ We wish you a Merry - They may be divas,
but you can definitely out-sing 'em.
[clapping]
[people chattering]
[Matthew sighs]
- [Brittany] Thank you.
- I'm gonna let you ladies look over those.
- Kandi?
- Hi.
- Kandi Summers.
- April, Tracy. - Oh my god, that is you.
You're a waitress?
This is cute.
- Kandi, so good to see you.
- Tracy. [Tracy chuckles]
What are you doing?
- What? It's a hug.
Oh, god.
- So this is what you're doing with your life these days?
You're a servant?
- I'm a waitress.
[April chuckles]
- Same difference.
- Wasted talent is what she is.
- Okay. [Brittany chuckles]
- Wow, I feel offended and complimented at the same time.
- Oh, that wasn't a compliment.
- We saw your viral video.
You know, the one where you fell off stage.
Oh my god, how embarrassing. [laughs]
I mean, how appropriate, too,
since we all know you have stage fright.
Girl, you just don't belong on the stage.
- You know, it's probably just safer for you
to sit in your room and sing on YouTube. [laughs]
- But your song was really, really pretty.
- Thank you, Tracy.
I'll be back to take your orders.
- Oh, we're ready now.
- [Tracy] I haven't even looked at the menu yet.
- So look at it.
She can wait.
- Well, um [clears throat] while you ladies
look over those menus, I was wondering if I could
talk to you about a talented stylist that I know.
Um, he actually works here
and he's absolutely amazing and a huge fan of yours,
so I was wondering if he could poss-
- No.
Well you're obviously not ready to order,
so I'll be back.
- And you obviously still have the same nasty attitude
you did since your father died.
That was today, right? Christmas Eve?
He wanted you to be an R&B singer.
He'd be ashamed of what you've done with your life.
I mean, I feel ashamed for him.
- April, that is not fair.
- Why not?
She never had what it took. She's pathetic.
She was pathetic then and she's still pathetic now.
[Brittany laughs]
- Are you serious? - It's the truth.
How can I help you? - A waitress?
Like... [laughing]
[spilling] [April and Brittany scream]
- What?
[Tracy laughs]
- [Kandi] Get off of me!
Get off my friend!
[Kandi grumbling]
- [April] Where is the manager?
- Kandi, Kandi, Kandi, Kandi.
Stop, stop! - What?
- You are fired. Get out of the restaurant now.
- [April] That's right!
- Get out now, leave. - You're fired.
- Give me your menu. [Kandi sighs]
Give it to me.
Get out, now! Just go.
Go, now!
I am so, so sorry, put that away.
God! Put that away!
- I'm so sorry for getting you fired.
Look, April mentioned my father and I just, I lost control.
- It's okay, Kandi.
- No, it's not okay.
I really needed that job.
Dammit.
- You're going to be okay. All right?
You'll find a new job.
Speaking of which, yeah, I got to go.
Dorothy Dandridge calls.
- Matthew?
- Yes?
- Am I a wasted talent?
- You have the most beautiful voice I've ever heard.
You should be sharing it with the world.
[Matthew sighs]
[people chattering in the distance]
- Maybe I'm a wasted talent.
I'm sorry, daddy, I tried.
[soft, tense music]
[train track bell ringing]
[train horn blares]
- Whoa, careful now.
Careful, careful, careful.
Careful.
Are you all right?
- No, it's not all right.
- Would you like some assistance?
- Nobody can help me.
- God can help you.
- God?
Yeah, well if you see him,
tell him I said thanks for taking my father.
[tense music]
[people chattering]
[taps]
Shot of vodka, please.
- Can't be that bad, can it?
[scoffs]
- Yeah, it can.
I am convinced that the universe is against me.
- Yeah, I seriously doubt that.
- Really? - Yeah.
What's my name?
- What?
Sorry, I do not know what your name is.
- You know, we've had countless conversations here
at this bar and you can't seem to remember my name, David.
- Wow. [laughs]
I'm sorry.
Um, I apologize, but you have to forgive me.
This is a busy bar.
You can't expect me to remember everybody
who comes through here, right?
- Hm. Or perhaps I'm just not memorable, right?
- Now, come on. I definitely did not say that.
- You didn't have to. Another shot, please.
- Okay.
Look, I'm sorry, okay, for not remembering your name,
but can you at least smile?
You know it is Christmas, right?
[Kandi chuckles]
Yeah. - Bah humbug.
[David laughs]
- Wow.
Are you at least going to tell me what your name is?
- Why?
It's not like you'll remember it anyway.
- Well...
[David sighs]
Hey, can I get you somethin'?
[soft, tinkling music]
- Forget something?
[people chattering]
- Dude, are you following? - No.
It's a bar.
I'm here like everyone else.
- Uh, yeah, but you're at my table.
- I don't see your name on it.
Furthermore, most of the tables are full.
- Oh, excuse me. Can I get two shots of vodka?
Thank you. - Oh, I'm not drinking.
- They're not for you.
- Friend of yours?
- Yeah, you'd think so.
I mean, we've had so many conversations.
He's actually a music producer.
He's just bartending until he gets his big break.
- You like him.
I can tell. - It doesn't matter.
He don't even know exist. [chuckles]
- Well, maybe you should just kind of go over-
- I'm sure you're a very, very nice man.
I got a lot on my mind.
I just want to sit here quietly, okay?
- Is that why you almost walked into a moving train?
You need help.
- No, what I need is a new life.
Now if God is, you know, handing those out, cool.
But until then, I'm stuck with the life that I got
and it's a miserable one.
Oh, thank you.
- If God gave you a new life right at this moment,
what would you do with it?
[Kandi chuckles]
- All right, sir.
I will play your game.
I'd be an R&B diva and I'd be the one with the mansion
and the concerts and the limo.
No, I'd have it all.
- Singing.
That's a God-given talent. [Kandi chuckles]
- Let me tell you about God.
See, he gives you the talent and then he puts you
in just horrible circumstances for you to live the dream.
- I know God, and I can tell you, he gives us all gifts,
but our choices create our circumstances.
[Kandi scoffs]
- Yeah, right.
Why is he all in that woman's face?
[crowd claps]
- You say he's a music producer.
- Mm-hm,.
- If you want him to really remember you,
there's only one way to do it.
There's a mic right on the stage.
- Oh, no.
No, no way.
I could never go up there. You wouldn't understand.
- Our circumstances are created by our choices.
Let that sink in for a moment.
[people chattering]
[Kandi sighs]
[people chattering]
[mic squeals]
- Um...
I don't really like Christmas, but, here's a song.
♪ Silent night
♪ Holy night
♪ All is calm
♪ All is bright
♪ Round yon virgin mother and child ♪
♪ Holy infant so tender and mild ♪
♪ Sleep in heavenly peace
♪ Silent night
♪ Holy night
♪ Shepherds quake at the sight
[crowd claps]
[people chattering]
[Kandi sighs]
- That was beautiful.
Although you didn't finish.
Seriously, are you all right?
- Do I look like I'm all right?
No, I'm not.
- You will be.
Trust God. [Kandi exhales]
- Why are you always talking about God?
- Because I'm God's angel.
My name is Gabriel.
- An angel? [laughs]
Come on, now.
All right, well [clears throat]
tell God to give me a new life.
- I'll do just that.
- Thanks...
Angel.
More like crazy man.
- Oh my God.
Hey, look, that was amazing.
I just got to know what your name is. I'm sorry.
I know I sound like a crazy person right now,
but, I've been looking for a voice like yours all my life.
- And I've been looking for a man
like you my whole life.
Did I just say that out loud?
Oh, I did.
Okay.
Uh, eh eh eh eh.
- The bag? - Yeah.
Thank you. - No, wait, whoa.
- Bye. - Wait, hey, wh...
Are you gonna tell me your name?
- My one chance.
My one chance to impress David and I froze up.
[whines] I'm so drunk.
Ugh.
- Oh hey, hey, hey. There you are.
Hey. - David.
- Yeah, it's David.
Look, where's your jacket, girl?
It's freezing out here. - I'm warm.
- Oh my god.
You're loaded. - Mm-hm.
[David sighs]
- Look, I'm going to go in your bag, okay?
I'm a good guy.
I'm not a creeper. - Mm-hm.
- Just trying to help you out.
Get you home.
Miss Kandi Summers.
- That's me.
- Yeah, I got your name now. [Kandi chuckles]
And your address. Come on.
I'm gonna take you home okay?
- Your house, my house?
- Your house. [Kandi sighs]
Oh wow.
- My house.
- Yeah. - It's a big house.
No, it's not. [laughs]
♪ Sleep in heavenly peace
- [David] This is it, right?
All right.
All right, we almost there. - No.
Whoa, whoa, no.
No, no, no.
No, I gotta sit down. - Oh okay, sit down.
[sighs]
Okay.
- I'm so embarrassed.
I'm not usually like this.
- It's fine.
Trust me.
It's totally fine.
- I had a really rough day. - Yeah.
- And today's the 10 year anniversary of my father's death.
- Wait, are you saying that your dad died on Christmas Eve?
- Now I want you to go out there and sing your heart out.
It's Christmas Eve, baby, sing for the Lord.
- Okay, but April says I sing too loud.
I mean, she's always saying mean things like that to me.
- That's just jealousy.
She wants you to scale it back, but don't you do it.
- Now you listen to your father.
You grab that mic and you blow.
[laughing]
- Okay. [Robert gasps]
- Robert?
[Robert grunts]
Robert. Oh my god.
- I'm not feeling well. - Daddy, no.
Okay, just a couple more performances and then we go on.
I just don't want you to miss it.
- Kandi, no, I think we should get him to the hospital.
- Dad, please. Please.
- It's okay, Krystal.
It's just a little pain, baby.
If my baby wants me to hear her sing,
then that's what I'll do.
- Okay, well, I'm going to get you to a seat, okay?
- I'll be right out front, Kandi Pop.
- Thanks, dad. - Be good, baby.
Maybe it's just heartburn.
You know, you ate all of my sweet potato pie.
- [Robert] That's my diabetes, not this.
[Krystal laughs] - Okay, baby.
- Are you all enjoying the Christmas Eve concert so far?
[cheering] Amen, amen.
Amen.
Praise God.
Now we will have a selection
from the singing group, Glow Girls.
- Yes! The best!
[applause]
- Hello. Thank you for coming out tonight.
We are the Glow Girls
and we prepared something special for you this Christmas.
♪ Joy to the world
♪ The Lord has come
♪ Let earth receiver her king
[beat boxing]
♪ Joy to the world
♪ The Lord has come
♪ Let earth - Ro...
Robert?
Robert! [Krystal screams]
- Dad.
- Somebody call an ambulance!
Help him!
Oh no.
[Krystal sobbing]
Robert!
- Daddy.
[sobbing]
Mom.
- Kandi. [sobbing]
Robert.
- He died right in front of me,
right when I was on stage.
- Wow, I...
Kandi, I am so sorry.
- That's why I couldn't finish that song tonight.
Just every time I get on a stage,
that memory comes back and it's just,
it's way too unbearable to keep reliving.
- I get it now and, uh, I understand.
- And it's my fault. - No.
- No, if I would have never asked him to stay,
he would've made it to the hospital and lived.
- No, Kandi, you can't say that.
You don't know that. - Yes, I do.
- No. - I do.
You know, before he died, I used to go to church,
I used to love singing in the choir.
Now I can't remember the last time that I even prayed.
I am so mad at God,
and he's obviously mad at me, too.
Okay, okay, okay. - No, wait, wait, wait.
Let me, let me help you up.
[grunting]
[laughs]
I got you.
- I love you.
[David laughs]
Ooh, I'm so drunk. - Yeah.
You definitely are drunk.
[keys jangle] [Krystal laughs]
- Kandi?
What are you doing out there fiddling with those keys?
Who are you?
- I'm, uh, David Johnson, ma'am.
I'm a friend of Kandi's.
- I'm Kandi's mother. - Yes, ma'am.
- Krystal Summers. - Nice to meet you.
I just wanted to make sure she got home okay.
- Well thank you. - Yes ma'am.
I'll put this right here.
Um, we can talk later, okay?
[Kandi grumbles]
It's nice to meet you, Ms. Summers.
Merry Christmas.
- Merry Christmas to you.
[keys jangle]
[door slams]
Kandi, how long are you going to do this?
- I just got fired, okay?
I needed a drink to relax. - Fired?
What did you do?
You know what?
Nevermind.
I am just sick and tired of seeing you
come up in here drunk.
[television blaring]
- Hm?
Oh my god. Can this day just be over?
- Is that you? - Yes, mama, that's me.
[shouting]
- [Kandi On TV] Get off my friend!
- And the Glow Girls? Were they in your restaurant?
- Yeah.
[Krystal chuckles]
- Oh, now I see why you were fired.
You know, you never should have quit that group.
- Mama, please don't.
- Oh, when I think of what your life could have been.
Just... [sighs]
But be that as it may,
you know, you need to pull yourself together.
You are just spiraling out of control.
Your father- - My father what?
He's not here.
Daddy's dead.
- Well, he wanted the best for you.
You could have gone to college.
[Kandi laughs]
- How was I supposed to go to college
and help you pay bills?
It's not like daddy left an insurance policy.
- I did the best I could by him.
- Yeah mama, and I did what I had to do.
- Now you listen, Kandi.
I understand your sacrifices,
and I know that you had to grow up a lot faster
than the rest of them and I love you
with every fiber of my being
but you have got to make better choices for yourself.
I'm going to bed.
[Kandi exhales]
- Make better choices.
Turn this crap off.
[sighs]
- Brittany.
♪ Oh, oh
- Tracy.
♪ Let me see that fire
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh
- April.
- [All] And we're the Glow Girls.
[Kandi sighs]
- You've got to be kidding me.
[sighs]
[soft, melancholy music]
I'm sorry, daddy. I tried.
[soft, tinkling music]
[dramatic music]
What the hell?
- Uh, no.
Uh, that's not the line, Kandi.
You're supposed to say it's Christmas Eve
and my life is wonderful, all right?
So we'll just try it again.
Okay, everyone back to one.
Can we get last look?
- Hold up, hold up, hold up.
What the hell is going on? Where am I?
Danielle, Matthew, what the hell is this?
[Danielle sighs] - Not today.
Okay, Kandi, are you all right?
- No, I'm not all right.
If somebody doesn't tell me what's going on, I'm gonna...
I don't know what I'm going to do,
but I'm going to do something.
- Okay, okay, all right.
Okay, everyone, let's just take five.
All right? Come on.
Let's just clear out the room and give her some space.
Thank you.
Move on out. Thank you.
Hey, Kandi. What are you confused about?
- Where am I? - You're in your bedroom.
In your house.
We're shooting your reality show.
Divas and Fame?
I'm the director.
- Reality show? This isn't my house.
And no, you're a manager at a restaurant.
- Oh. [laughs]
Kandi.
- Where's my mother? - She's downstairs, I think.
- Ugh, I'm so hung over. - As usual.
- What?
[bright, upbeat Christmas music]
[chuckles] What the heck?
[bright, upbeat Christmas music]
- Kandi?
Kandi!
[bright, upbeat Christmas music]
Kandi?
Kandi!
Oh, there you are.
Will you give this butler something to do
besides stand here and look at me?
- Butler? - Good morning.
Will you be needing breakfast?
Should I prepare a plate for you?
- Uh, no thank you. - Very good.
[Krystal sighs]
- Kandi, I know you are planning to have
Butler Randall do all the cooking,
but the turkey and the mac and cheese?
Uh-uh.
I'm cooking that.
- Mama, what is happening? Why do you look like that?
- What are you talking about, baby?
- I mean the hair, the makeup, the clothes.
You're beautiful.
- Oh. [chuckles]
Well thank you.
But I don't look any different than I normally look.
Or do I?
Should I change this dress?
I mean, is this red too sassy?
I thought it was festive. - Mama, I need your help.
I'm so confused, my head.
- Oh baby, come here.
Your mama is here.
Oh.
You know what?
I am going to make you a cappuccino. [chuckles]
Butler Randall don't like me touching his machine,
but [chuckles] so what? [laughs]
Oops.
- Where are we?
- You know, I am concerned about you.
- Yeah mama, I'm concerned about me too.
- I understand it's Christmas Eve.
And you are never yourself on this day,
but baby, you're home.
- How did you get this house?
I mean, did you win the lottery or something
and I missed it?
- It's your house. It's not mine.
And it's yours because you earned it.
- Mine? - Yes.
- No, no, no, no. This is not my house.
I can't afford this.
I can't afford anything. I just got fired.
- You got fired?
Did you say they fired you?
Oh, they can't fire you,
at least not without talking to me first.
- David? - Hold on.
See, this is what I'm talking about.
I don't like them and I don't
like this, okay. - David-
- David, I'm sorry to interrupt.
We need Kandi so we can get a move on with the day.
- Yeah, well, we have a problem, Danny.
They fired her.
- Fired her?
- Yeah, don't worry. - Who fired her?
I wasn't notified that there was anybody that got fired.
- David. - We're getting it
handled right now.
- David, what are you doing here?
- I mean, I do live here.
Is that all right with you? - So this is your house?
- You know how it tends to work,
that a husband and wife, they normally live together,
so actually yeah, Kandi, it's our house.
- Husband?
- [Danielle] Yeah.
- Oh.
Oh.
Oh my god. This thing is huge.
What?
Wha...
- Hey. Um, Mama Krystal and Danny,
can you guys give me a moment?
- Yeah. - Well, I'm going to have
to finish stuff in this Turkey.
Puttin' me out the kitchen like I'm not paying no rent.
- No mama. Mama, please.
- Don't pay no rent! - Ma, don't leave me. ---
[David sighs]
- Look at me.
What did you take? - Oh, no.
No, I didn't take anything.
When I woke up this ring was on my finger.
- No, I'm talking about the pills, Kandi.
You've been taking drugs again? [sniffs]
Are you drunk?
- I didn't take any pills.
My head. I'm so hung over.
I went to, I went to a bar last night, I-
- You went to the bar last night?
- You were there. - Kandi, I was not at
no bar with you last night.
- No, but- - No, ain't no buts.
Look, listen to me.
Your career is about to go down the drain, okay?
You haven't had a number one hit in years,
and the only reason we agreed to do
this silly ass reality show is so we can
put you right back on top, okay?
And you got the nerve to be out drunk in public
so everybody can see?
What if the paparazzi got photos of you, huh?
[phone chimes]
- You have not been fired, Kandi.
The producers don't even know what you're talking about.
You know what?
Do you not understand that this makes you look crazy?
I'm texting them and...
Look.
Kandi, I love you, okay?
But you got to get it together
because if you don't, I promise you,
I will put you right back in rehab.
Do you understand me?
I said, do you understand me?
- Yeah.
Yeah. - Yeah, good.
So please go upstairs and get dressed
and pretend to be a happy R&B diva
with a wonderful life so we can look good
in front of these damn cameras, all right?
- R&B diva?
- Can you just go upstairs and do what I said, please?
- Whoa, the clapping and the yelling is not necessary.
- You're right, Kandi. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to yell at you, okay?
But can you please go do what I'm asking you to do?
Please?
Okay.
[kisses]
Thank you.
Quickly. Please.
- Okay, I'm Kandi Summers.
My mother's name is Krystal Summers.
Yeah, and we live in her apartment
and it's Christmas Eve and I just got fired, right?
Wait a minute, it's Christmas Eve again?
Is this some kind of twisted deja vu?
[sighs]
Google myself.
Okay.
Phone.
[quirky, mysterious music]
Okay.
Kandi...
Summers.
Kandi Summers R&B diva on the red carpet?
I don't remember taking these.
Okay, net worth.
$50 million?
Oh no, no, no, no, no.
I'm worth $50 million?
No, but that, that, that doesn't sound right.
That can't be real. [knocking]
- Baby. You all right?
- No mama, I'm not all right. Is this a dream?
Am I really rich? - Well I sure hope so.
- But we live in your apartment.
- Kandi, I don't have any idea what you are talking about.
Now take this drink.
Listen, you should lay down and rest
and I will come and check on you
when I get back from church.
- Wait, church?
See, you asked me to come to church with you
for the Christmas Eve concert.
- And as usual, you told me no.
- Yeah that was in your apartment when you asked me.
- No, it was in the dining room.
- Mama, please.
- Please what?
Kandi, if you ever needed the Lord before,
you sure do need him now,
because your mind is just all over the place.
- You know what mama? You're right.
Yeah, I'm going to church with you.
- You are? - Yeah.
- Oh.
We're going to church. [chuckles]
We're going to church. We are going to church!
[Kandi sighs]
- [Woman] She better come downstairs-
- Mama Krystal.
Where's Kandi?
- She's upstairs dressing.
She's going to church.
Won't he do it, won't he do it!
- Oh! - Oh my god.
Will someone call the church now
so we can get permission to shoot there?
[soft, tinkling music]
[Kandi chuckles]
- I'm sorry, Kandi.
I've pulled a few dresses for you for church.
I had no idea that you were going.
- Matthew, you have to tell me what's going on.
- Forgive me.
I had your wardrobe options all laid out,
just like you like, but obviously I didn't have
any options for church so uh, I apologize.
If you could find it in your heart not to fire me.
It's Christmas and I, I may have purchased
a Tesla that I can't really afford and I-
- Oh my god.
Look at me. Is this Malaysian hair?
- Yes, ma'am, it is.
- Ma'am? Stop it right now.
This is really happening.
- Because I'm God's angel.
My name is Gabriel.
- All right, well [clears throat]
tell God to give me a new life.
- I'll do just that.
- You know, I don't care if this is real
or some kind of alternate universe, I'm really rich!
I'm really rich.
Oh.
Rich.
- Whew.
Tequila is a hell of a drink.
- Push it to nine- - I'm rich!
- And I wanna- [Kandi screams]
Oh my god.
- Matthew, come in here.
Sit down.
- Okay. [Kandi laughs]
- Okay, look.
This whole subservient thing that you got going on,
it is not a good look on you.
Okay? Just cut it out.
Be yourself. We're good friends.
- We're not friends at all.
- Okay, well we're friends now.
So, update me on this life.
- Well what do you mean update you?
- Look, Matthew. Something happened last night.
Okay, you and I got fired from the restaurant
by Danielle and then I met this angel
and woke up an R&B diva in his house
and married to David?
- Mm-hm. - God, do you know
how many nights I dreamed about being married to David?
And now I actually am married to David,
unless this is a dream, then technically I'm still
dreaming about being married to David
and those dreams were hot, so-
- Okay, okay, okay, okay. I'll help you.
You obviously need it.
First thing, this is your real life.
And if David sees you acting like that,
he will send you back to rehab, okay?
Maybe that's where you need to be.
- Back to rehab? - Girl, whew.
You a mess. You a hot mess, and you drink incessantly.
I mean really, it's the drinking for me.
- Yeah, but, why am I a mess?
I mean, I have everything in life that I've ever wanted.
- Mm-hm.
- Am I not happy?
- Is that a rhetorical question?
- Uh... [phone buzzes]
- Ah, okay. Okay.
Listen to me. We have got to go, okay?
- Okay. - Church calls.
Jesus doesn't wait for...
♪ Christmas time, everybody sing it's Christmas time ♪
♪ Everybody sing, it's Christmas ♪
♪ Christmas time, yeah ♪ Oh
♪ It's Christmas
♪ Don't make we wait too long
♪ 'Cause I've been holdin' out forever ♪
♪ Leave me here in this cold weather ♪
♪ It's Christmas
♪ Remember the night so warm
♪ Think that we should be together ♪
♪ 'Cause baby here it is our Christmas song ♪
- David, when did you get here?
- I heard the press was going to be here,
so I got here as fast I could, okay?
Listen to me. Smile.
Regardless of whatever they ask you, the response will be
my husband and I are happily married
and I have a wonderful life, okay?
- Okay. - You got it?
Give me your hand.
Smile.
- Kandi, tell us, are you still addicted to alcohol?
Will you go to rehab?
Do you feel like you're a good role model for young girls?
- Do you think you'll get your career back
after leaving the group Glow Girls?
- My husband and I are happily married
and I have a wonderful life.
Thank you.
- Okay, guys. Excuse us, please.
[soft music]
- Okay.
[Danielle mumbles]
- [Krystal] Ah.
[soft organ music] [people whispering]
[cameras clicking]
- Let us not forget the true meaning of Christmas.
A life was given to us and his name is Jesus.
He came so that we can have a life and life more abundantly.
Amen.
- [Parishioners] Amen.
- So I ask, are you living your best life?
Are you living your true purpose?
Isn't that what Jesus did?
Am I right about that?
- [Krystal] Oh yes.
- Huh?
- [Krystal] All right.
- Christmas is about miracles, redemption,
hope and forgiveness.
More importantly, it's a celebration of life.
Jesus came. He was born in Bethlehem.
He was born [claps]
to make sure we all get to the promised land.
Do you wanna go? - All right.
[clapping]
All right! - All right now pastor.
[clapping] [cheering]
- Settle in your saddle.
I don't want to preach too much to you this morning
because we are here for the Christmas Eve concert.
Amen?
- [Parishioners] Amen.
- So I'll turn it over to the choir.
- Well thank you, pastor.
Good morning everyone.
- [Parishioners] Good morning.
- Oh now it's a blessing to be here on Christmas Eve
celebrating the birth of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.
And it's a special blessing that my daughter is here.
The R&B diva herself, Kandi Summers.
- What are you doing?
[clapping] [cheering]
- Yes, yes! - No, I can't.
I can't. - Now, what she doesn't know
is that I have a special song that I want to sing
and I want her to come up and join her mama on the stage.
- I can't sing in front of all these people.
- Come on Kandi.
Come on up here and sing this song
with your mama. [chuckles]
- Kandi, do not embarrass us in front of all these people.
If you don't get up on that stage.
Go. - Okay, okay.
- Come on up, baby.
[clapping]
[soft music]
Come on, baby. Come on and say something.
[clapping]
- Good morning and Merry Christmas, everyone.
- [Parishioners] Merry Christmas.
- Um...
It's actually nice to be here,
but I have to admit that I was against going to church
after my father passed.
But I feel like having church this morning.
- Oh good. Amen!
[clapping]
- All right.
[upbeat music]
♪ Go tell it on the mountain
♪ Over the hills and everywhere ♪
♪ Go, tell it on the mountain
♪ That Jesus Christ is born
♪ While shepherds kept their watching ♪
♪ Over silent flocks at night
♪ Behold there in the heavens
♪ There came a glorious light
♪ Oh, go, tell it on the mountain ♪
♪ Over the hills and everywhere ♪
♪ Go, tell it on the mountain
♪ That Jesus Christ is born - It's Christmas Eve.
Sing for the Lord.
♪ The shepherds feared and trembled ♪
♪ When, lo above the Earth
♪ Rang out the angel's chorus
♪ That hailed our Savior's birth ♪
♪ Go, tell it on the mountain
♪ Tell it on the mountain
♪ Over the hills ♪ And everywhere
♪ Go, tell it on the mountain
♪ That Jesus Christ is born
♪ Come on now, yeah
♪ Go, tell it on the mountain
♪ Tell it on the mountain
♪ Over the hills and everywhere ♪
♪ Go, tell it on the mountain
♪ That Jesus Christ
♪ Is born ♪ Is born
♪ Yeah [applause]
- Won't he do it?
- Yay. - Won't he do it?
Yes, won't he do it?
Woo! Thank you Jesus!
Woo! [applause]
Okay, I'ma put my robe away and then I'll be right out.
- All right, mama. - Okay.
- I'll be right here.
[soft, tinkling music]
Gabriel.
- Kandi.
- Yeah, I met you last night when I got fired.
Don't pretend you don't remember.
- I don't have to pretend. I was there.
- I'm not crazy.
- No.
- Am I dreaming? - No.
Oh my God. You really are an angel.
- I told you I was.
- So, [chuckles] I'm just confused.
What happened from last night to today?
What is all of this?
- This is the life you wanted. Is it not?
A rich superstar?
- Yeah, but I didn't want to be an alcoholic hussy
that was a has-been.
How did my life get like this?
- You're the same person with the spotlight
as you are without it.
Problems didn't go away because you're a superstar.
They only magnified.
- How do I fix it?
- You've already begun.
You overcame your stage fright without having a drink.
Your choices create your circumstances, your reality.
If you want to change things, change your mind.
- Kandi- - Oh wait.
Just give me a second. I'm just having the conversation.
- With who?
Who are you talking to?
- Uh...
You know what? Nobody.
Nevermind.
- Okay. - All right.
- Meet us out there, okay? - Okay, I will.
Mama.
Did Gabriel go back in there?
- Who?
- Your choir director, Gabriel.
- Herschel. I don't know any Gabriel.
See? Herschel.
He directed the choir today. Girl, come on here.
You want me to get some fish sticks?
[soft, bright music]
- What's wrong with you?
Why are you looking at me like that?
- Can I ask you something?
- Yeah. What is it, Kandi?
- What happened with us?
- What?
Stardom.
That's what happened.
- You told me to tell the media that we were happily married
and clearly we aren't.
But were we ever?
- Why are you asking me all these questions
like you don't know the answer, Kandi?
- I just, um, I want to hear your thoughts.
- Yeah.
Yeah, we were happy at one point.
In the beginning.
- And then?
- And then you couldn't perform without drinking
or being drunk.
And when the alcohol wasn't enough,
that's when you started taking all the pills.
But it's my fault, too, 'cause I failed you,
by thinking you were just taking the edge off your anxiety,
but no, I was wrong.
I let you spiral out of control.
- I spiraled?
- Kandi, why are you asking me all this like you don't know?
- Um, I guess I'm just being self-reflective.
- Yeah.
Well, are you done?
'Cause the Glow Girls are going to be here any minute.
- Glow Girls?
- Yeah. The Glow Girls.
So can you put on a good face, please?
So we can look good?
- Okay? - I'm ready.
- All right. It's a live take, okay?
[doorbell chimes] Let's go.
I think they're here.
- You got this right? You good?
- Your guests have arrived.
- Thank you.
- Ooh, Kandi. [chuckles]
Ooh, this is quaint.
I see you even put up a little tree and everything.
- Oh, well I wouldn't call it little.
- I would. [chuckles]
Our Christmas tree literally sweeps our ceiling.
- Oh. [Brittany chuckles]
- [Man] Merry Christmas, everyone.
- Well, I see you have the Christmas spirit.
[Kandi and Tracy laugh]
And you look amazing. - You look lovely, Tracy.
Merry Christmas.
Oh.
All right.
- Merry Christmas, Kandi.
- Merry Christmas, um...
- Marcus.
It's always good to see you, boss.
- Pleasure's mine, bro.
- Marcus, that's his name. [laughing]
- James, ladies.
Thank you so much for coming to our beautiful home.
- Where's April?
- Ah, fashionably late, I think.
- [Brittany] Kandi.
Are you ready for the Christmas
reunion concert tomorrow?
- Christmas reunion concert? I didn't know about that.
- You definitely know about the concert, Kandi.
- [Kandi] Oh.
That concert, yes.
- You'll probably be passed out drunk somewhere,
ain't that right, Kandi? [laughs]
- You know what Brittany? Hold this.
You've been a bitch since high school and you're still one.
You know, I imagine being jealous of me made you this way,
but honey, you will never out-sing me
and nothing will change that.
[Brittany laughs]
- You know [scoffs], Kandi,
what good is out-singing anyone
when you too afraid to get up on stage?
I imagine that's why you medicate yourself with alcohol?
- Prince and Michael Jackson also had stage fright.
- Tracy, enough, be quiet.
David.
You know, maybe it wasn't such a good idea,
you wanting her to go solo.
I mean, she couldn't cut it with us
and she definitely ain't cutting it by herself.
- [April] Where is she?
- All right.
- There you are, heifer.
- Excuse me?
- Don't play stupid, bitch.
- Look, I don't know what you're talking about.
- Get that camera out of my face!
- Hey, hey, whoa, April.
You need to calm down, all right?
- I am calm.
You see she's still standing, right?
[Kandi scoffs]
I know you've been sleeping with my husband.
Yeah, David.
Your hoe wife has been sleeping with my husband
for months now!
- No, I didn't do that.
I am not that person.
- You're trash.
- [Brittany] Mm.
- [April] Oh, don't try to deny it. I saw the text messages.
- Look, you don't understand.
David, listen to me.
- If it were just me that were hurt, I could move on,
I could get past that, but I have children.
That's something that you obviously know nothing about
seeing as how David has wanted children all these years
and you are too selfish to even give him one.
All of this is your fault.
Just like your poor daddy's death.
- April!
Get your ratchet, skinny ass out of our house.
- You don't have what it takes to be me.
- All right, that's it.
Everybody get the hell out my house.
Camera man, you too.
Let's go.
Party over, everybody out.
- Lovely party, Kandi. - Baby, put that drink down
and get on out of here.
[Brittany laughs]
[Brittany sighs]
[soft, tense music]
- Come on, David. - No.
- Come on.
[Kandi sighs]
Mama.
- Kandi...
I have watched you go down this dark hole
and I have reached for you.
I even put you in therapy, to church and still,
you have blocked my every effort.
Baby...
It breaks my heart to see you like this.
You know, we were once so close.
We were.
You know, I always thought that if you made it,
I'd get my happy girl back. [chuckles]
But even with all of this, you ain't happy.
- Mama, I don't know how to be happy.
You choose it.
That is how.
When your father died, I wanted to curl up into a corner
and die with him, too.
I kept asking myself over and over and over,
why didn't I get him to that hospital?
Why?
But I couldn't.
I just couldn't keep, keep blaming myself for something
that I had no control over.
I had to get up. I had to keep moving.
I had to take care of you.
Baby...
God just called your father home.
It was just his time.
And now, it's your time to find happiness.
You've got to choose it, baby.
Baby, you've got to choose it.
It's okay. [sobbing]
[Kandi sighs] [phone pings]
[sighs]
[exhales]
[knocking]
- What is it, Kandi?
- Listen, April's husband...
- Look, I already know about you and Shawn.
- You knew?
- Yeah.
I almost killed him when I found that a couple of weeks ago.
- David, why are you still with me?
- Because I'm not going to let sex, drugs and rock and roll
come between us, Kandi.
I owe you that much, right?
But regardless of me or my efforts,
you just keep pushing me further away.
- I'm really sorry I hurt you.
[David laughs]
- Don't do that.
Don't, don't, don't act like you care,
because you don't and I know you don't,
because you're the most cynical person alive.
You don't care about no one except yourself and that drink.
Now I already know that you don't love me no more, Kandi.
[sighs]
But God help me...
Damn.
I still love you.
So I forgive you.
But I'm telling you now this is the last time.
Anything else and I'm out the door.
[tense music]
You can leave.
[soft music]
♪ Christmas, it's a big white Christmas ♪
♪ Going home this Christmas
- Merry Christmas.
- What is this?
- It's a Christmas gift. What does it look like?
- I mean, I know, but you don't do Christmas,
and you certainly don't do gifts.
- Just open it.
♪ I'm happy I can call you mine ♪
♪ I'm waiting for a kiss
♪ Underneath the mistletoe
♪ Before we have - How did you do this?
- I uh, slipped it off your finger while you were sleeping.
And then I used my diva powers
to get it engraved. [chuckles]
- "Love is patient."
[chuckles]
Thank you.
♪ It's a big, white Christmas
Thank you. - You're welcome, babe.
- Madam, may I say thank you for my t-shirt.
[laughing]
- You're welcome, Randall. - Oh yeah.
Yeah, you run it. You definitely run it.
Hey um, guys, I gotta be at the concert hall by two.
You know you got that rehearsal, right?
- Right.
- I'll see you later. ♪ This Christmas
♪ Ooh-Ooh-Ooh
[Kandi humming]
- All right.
Gonna make a cappuccino
'cause mom says start with coffee.
Coffee, coffee.
Oh.
Just these two.
[sighs]
Ugh.
[sighs]
- Hey, Kandi.
Baby, you know you got that rehearsal in a few hours, right?
- Mm-hm, yeah, I know.
- Well, I gave the driver the day off so
you're gonna have to drive yourself.
- Mm-hm.
- All right, well I'll go get dressed
and I'll just see you there.
Are you okay?
- Uh [clears throat] yeah.
Yeah, I'm good.
- All right.
I'll see you later.
- See you later.
[Kandi chuckles]
[phone pings]
I got to meet up with him
and just end this once and for all.
Okay.
♪ Some glad morning
♪ When this life is over
♪ Ooh I'll
♪ I'll fly
Hey mama.
I have to go, but I'll see you after soundcheck, okay?
- Wait a minute.
I'm gonna need a ride to church
because I'm gonna feed the homeless today.
- All right, mama, but we gotta hurry.
- Well hold your horses.
I gotta get my purse.
Jesus Christmas.
- I told David that I wouldn't be late.
- [Krystal] Uh huh.
[birds chirping]
- All right, mom, I'll be back in about an hour.
Um, you're going to have to go
to soundcheck with me, though.
- Okay, an hour's fine.
Bye, baby.
- See you later. Love you.
- [Krystal] Love you, too.
[Kandi sighs]
[knocks]
- Shawn?
- Open the door.
- What are you doing? Get off of me.
- What the hell has gotten into you?
You're not returning my texts,
you're not answering my calls.
What the hell is going on?
- I only came here today to tell you that this is,
this is done, and I won't be seeing you anymore.
- It's not over, Kandi.
You just upset that April came to your house last night
and made a scene.
Anyway, David confronted me about it weeks ago.
- This is over because I want it to be over.
You have a wife and kids. It's Christmas for God's sake.
Why are you even contacting me?
- Do you hear yourself?
- Last week you told me you loved me
and wanted to marry me and you were leaving David.
Now you want me to go be with my wife?
- I did what?
Look, yes.
Be with your wife and just forget everything that I said.
- I can't do that, Kandi.
I've asked April for divorce.
I did that for you.
You told me to divorce her, Kandi.
- Okay, listen. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry any of this happened
and I'm going to work on my marriage.
Maybe you should do the same.
- No.
You don't love him. You love me.
- I don't love you.
- But you love these though, don't you?
[pills rattle] Is this what you used me for?
To be your supplier because I'm a doctor?
- Whatever it is that I did before,
I'm not that person anymore.
- Oh, I know who you are, Kandi.
You're an addict, and you ain't leaving me
'cause you can't kick the habit.
- Get, get off.
Stop.
Marcus? - Yup.
- Marcus, what are you doing here?
- I followed you.
- Why?
- You stay away from her.
Kandi and I are together. - What?
- I'll handle him, Kandi.
- You're sleeping with him, too?
You're a real piece of work, Kandi.
- Yeah, we sleeping together and have been
for the past year.
Go ahead, Kandi.
Tell him that we love each other.
- I don't love you. I don't love either of you.
- What?
- No guys, stop.
[people exclaim]
Oh my god.
[upbeat music]
- Mama Krystal. What are you still doing here?
- Waitin' on Kandi.
- Have you called her?
- Yeah, I called her but she didn't answer.
But she should be here any minute.
- I'll wait with you.
- Oh, thank you, pastor.
[Krystal humming]
[bright, upbeat music]
- Oh, where's my wife?
- Shut up! Stop filming me!
Can you stop them from film-
[Krystal hums]
[Krystal sighs]
- Maybe I should carry you on home.
- Oh.
No, pastor, you live all the way on the other side of town.
- I don't mind at all.
- Well...
You know what?
I think I'm going to try one of those
share ride thingies, you know.
If I can figure out how to use this thing.
- I can help you. I use it all the time.
- Can you do that? Okay then.
Kandi put that thing on my phone.
[laughing]
- R&B queen Kandi Summers is back
in the news again amidst another scandal.
- You have a Merry Christmas Mama Krystal.
- Oh, thank you, pastor.
[bright, upbeat music]
- All right.
- Let's go guys. I don't like it.
Let's get the sound right? It sounds terrible, okay?
Don't do this today. - David, uh...
- What? What is it?
- I think Kandi might need our help.
- [News Reporter] The struggling singer
was recorded this afternoon- - What is this?
- By onlookers who went live on social media.
It appears there was a problem between
Shawn Murray and Marcus Trenton,
both of whom are husbands to her former group members
of Glow Girls, April Murray and Brittany Trenton.
It's speculated that Kandi Summers
was having an affair with both men.
Back to you, Riley.
[bright, upbeat music]
[table clatters]
- Uh...
[phone ringing]
- Yeah?
Yeah. This is David Johnson.
Wait, what?
No, no, no. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I meant...
No, no, tell me. I need to know what happened.
No, I'm coming now!
- Mama?
Mama?
- She's not here.
- I know I missed soundcheck, but, I can't find mama.
I went to the church to get her, she wasn't there,
and then I called her phone.
She didn't answer. Did she call you?
Why are these suitcases right here?
- Kandi, you need to um, you need to sit down.
- No.
I can't. I got to find mama.
- I know where mama is.
- Oh you do?
Well where is she?
- We loved you.
Mama, me.
But all you've done is destroy us.
- Baby, what are you talking about?
- Shawn.
Marcus.
Your little lover's triangle was all over the news, Kandi.
- Look, okay, I can explain that.
I went there to end things with Shawn.
I told him the affair was over and then Marcus showed up
and people were recording.
It's really not what it looks like. I promise.
- It's not?
Are you saying that you wasn't sleeping with both of them?
- Apparently I was.
But that wasn't me.
I'm not that person.
Baby, I love you.
Okay I want to be with you.
I've loved you from the moment I saw you.
- Love?
Love, Kandi?
You don't know what love is, okay?
Your choices, your actions have led to this very moment
where we done spiraled out of the point
where there is no more love left, Kandi.
- What do you mean?
- The hospital called
while you were out having your little lover's fight.
Mama's in the hospital.
She was in a car accident.
She's on life support.
Yeah, so...
She wasn't supposed to be in that car.
She was supposed to be with you.
- What?
What?
- You need to go to the hospital, Kandi.
- Where are you going?
- I'm leaving, and I'm not coming back this time.
Look, no, Kandi, look, I thought I could fix this,
I thought I could fix us, but this vicious cycle
is never going to end.
I'm here trying to run our empire
and you're out doing whatever you want
with whoever you want.
So, I'm sorry.
We're just not in the cards. - No, David.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait, wait, no. - Stop.
- No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
- No, stop. Kandi!
Stop it.
Stop, okay?
- No. - Go see your mom.
- No.
[soft Christmas music] [Kandi sobs]
Oh my god, daddy.
Daddy.
- [Robert] Merry Christmas, Kandi.
- But Gabriel, wh...
- I was Gabriel.
You weren't ready to see me yet.
You would've thought it was something silly,
like a ghost or figment of your imagination.
- Daddy, how are you here?
- I never left.
I've always been with you.
- But daddy, you died because of me.
If I hadn't of asked you to stay,
if I hadn't tried to be a singer-
- Kandi Pop, God decided it was my time to leave this earth.
But my spirit has always been with you.
Right here.
I have a message from God.
Forgive yourself, Kandi.
It's Christmas, baby,
and Christmas is about forgiveness and hope.
And you've lost sight of your God-given gift to sing.
He had plans for your life,
but you chose to live in guilt.
Let it go,
and let God.
Trust him.
You have a choice.
You can keep this life
or you could go back and live anew.
The choice is yours, Kandi Pop.
- Don't, Daddy, don't go.
[machines beeping]
Lord, please spare my mother.
Help us to start anew.
Please give me chance to get it right,
for me and her...
For David, even Matthew.
I just...
I don't want to feel guilty anymore.
I know what happened to my father was your will...
And if it's my mother's time to go,
that will be your will, too,
and I'll be okay.
[soft music]
- Kandi, get up!
It's Christmas Eve.
We need you to go visit your father's grave site.
- I'm back home? - Huh?
- Mama, I'm back home! [squeals]
- What's wrong with you?
What are you ta-
Oh gee, oh my goodness! [laughing]
- Mama, I'm going to
the grave site with you. - What?
You are?
Well that's a first! Oh, baby!
You are?
Oh, won't he do it? Won't he do it?
- Well its gonna be a lot of firsts
from now on, mama. - Oh, lovely.
Listen, get this mess up. - Okay, okay.
- Clean up your room. - Okay, okay.
- [Krystal] Oh goodness, won't he do it?
- Oh.
I'm home.
First thing's first.
That.
Whatever, it's gone.
Ah!
[soft piano music]
- I really miss him, Kandi.
- I know, mama.
I miss him, too,
but he's always here with us.
[soft piano music]
[Matthew sighs] Hey.
- Mm?
Kandi, where you been?
- Come with me. - Okay.
But girl, I'm on my break still.
Okay, okay.
[Kandi clears throat]
- We quit.
Merry Christmas. - Uh...
[Danielle sighs]
What the hell are you doing?
- We're leaving.
Come on.
- Have you lost your mind?
We broke, girl. We broke.
Oh my god, it's the Glow Girls.
Oh.
- Oh, well, well, we- - Shut up, April.
- Kandi Summers.
[laughing]
- Listen to me, girl, okay,
you have a beautiful spirit.
You do not need Brittany and April.
You can do it on your own.
- And you, Kandi, have always had the ability
to do it best.
Girl. [laughing]
Merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas.
Ooh.
- Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Hi, uh, hi.
I'm Matthew, I am a freelance stylist, obviously,
and I really just want to talk to you.
Brittany, talk to you a little bit about these edges.
I think I have a cream that's really good.
- I know he did not just..
- Uh, yes. [laughs]
- What was that?
Is something going on here?
- Hey David.
- Hey. You guys want something to drink?
- Oh, no, I don't drink alcohol anymore,
but [clears throat] listen up.
I'm Kandi Summers, and yes, we've met in this bar before.
You're looking for an artist with a voice.
That's me.
So you might want to pay attention.
- Mango margarita, please.
[people chattering]
[soft piano music]
♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
♪ The first noel
♪ The angels did say
♪ Was to certain poor shepherds ♪
♪ In fields as they lay
♪ In fields where they
♪ Lay keeping their sheep
♪ On a cold winter's night
♪ That was so deep.
♪ Noel, Noel
♪ Born is the King of Israel
♪ They looked up
♪ And saw a star
♪ Shining in the East
♪ Beyond them far
♪ And to the earth
♪ It gave a great light
♪ And so it continued
♪ Both day and night
♪ Noel, Noel
♪ Born is the King of Israel
♪ Noel, noel
♪ Born is the king of Israel
[audience applause] [cheering]
- Bravo! - Bravo!
[applause] [cheering]
[soft, bright music]
[soft, tinkling music]
[soft music]