Toya Johnson-Dashing and Reginae Carter are taking management of the narrative with their new actuality TV collection. With a lot being speculated about them within the blogs and on social media, the ex-wife and daughter of Lil Wayne are setting the file straight by giving viewers a deeper look into their lives in WE TV’s “Toya & Reginae,” premiering Aug. 24.
“This a household present primarily based on household drama, enterprise ventures, relationships, love, mates, and all of that great things,” Johnson-Dashing tells POPSUGAR. The 39-year-old mother of two — who additionally shares daughter Reign along with her husband, Robert Dashing — guarantees to drag again the curtain and present followers what their actual, on a regular basis lives are like as she and Carter navigate relationships and their busy careers. “I am certain there’s plenty of folks that may relate to it, and my household did not thoughts opening up about it, as a result of we’re really going by means of it and it is remedy for us as properly,” Johnson-Dashing says.
As Carter’s mom, Johnson-Dashing notes how lovely it was to look at her daughter evolve in each her relationships and profession by means of filming the collection. “I truthfully love seeing Reginae present her development this season,” Johnson-Dashing says proudly. “It was cool working along with her, as a result of Reginae is all the time going to maintain it actual and he or she’s going to let what’s up. I really like that about her.”
“Rising up, lots of people have seen me on social media and have made their very own feedback about me.”
In fact, Johnson-Dashing and Carter aren’t any strangers to actuality TV. The mother-daughter duo beforehand appeared on collection like “Rising Up Hip-Hop: Atlanta,” “Toya: A Household Affair,” and “Tiny & Toya,” and Carter is steadily constructing her performing résumé, starring in initiatives like “Terror Lake Drive,” “Boxed In,” and “Boxed In 2.” So sharing the display screen collectively is inside their “consolation zone,” Carter says. “I really feel like we will discuss to one another and encourage one another. If one [of us] wants a tip or no matter, we’re all the time on prime of it. She’s the proper companion, all the time has my again.”
However regardless of being the daughter of well-known mother and father, 24-year-old Carter needs to make use of the present as a possibility to indicate the world that she’s gotten this far in her profession by her personal benefit. “Rising up, lots of people have seen me on social media and have made their very own feedback about me,” she explains. “[Now] individuals are going to see me go for what I need.”
She continues: “So far as performing, folks assume that I get quite a lot of stuff due to who I’m, [but] they will see that I’m working for what I need, and I need them to know I do get ‘nos.’ It isn’t excellent over right here, and I am human. I need folks to know that simply because my mother and father are who they’re, I’ve nothing to do with that.”
By opening up their lives to the world, Johnson-Dashing and Carter hope that viewers get an actual sense of who they’re past the headlines and social media. As of now, “Toya & Reginae” has but to be confirmed for a second season, however each Johnson-Dashing and Carter are hopeful.
Forward of the WE TV premiere of “Toya & Reginae,” try an unique clip from Thursday’s episode beneath.
New episodes of “Toya & Reginae” air each Thursday on WE TV and will probably be out there to stream on ALLBLK the next Monday.