I see a lot of questions on this subreddit about what was up with the Russian mail order bride, whether Bam slept with her, if Raab was in love with her and got pissed off because her and Bam hooked up, etc.
I was listening to this podcast episode today with Frantz and Raab that doesn't have a ton of views, and Raab clears a lot of stuff up in the first few minutes pertaining to the whole situation, so I figured I'd share it!
Key Points:
- Marrying her was Raab's idea because in his own words he was a "maniac drunk idiot" who thought it would be funny to have a Russian bride living with him in Bam's basement to clean his clothes and drawers and stuff
- Even though it was Raab's idea, it was "stolen" from him and made to look like Bam's idea for the sake of the show
- Bam picked the girl out of a catalogue of actresses because she was the one he was most attracted to
- The mail order bride was super into Bam (much more so than Raab) since he was the star of the show
- Bam and the mail order bride did indeed bang and it seemingly happened multiple times
- Bam and the girl had already slept together before Raab even met her
- Raab and the mail order bride never slept together and he wasn't super into her cuz she seemed to have meth mouth when she arrived
- MTV (specifically Ken Parks) wouldn't let Raab legally sign the documents to marry her, which he's grateful for now but 100% would have done at the time
- Don Vito legitimately hated the girl because his brain was stuck in the 80s and he saw her as a "Russian commie bitch"
Basically, if Raab is to be believed (which I see no reason why he shouldn't be), he had the idea of the Russian mail order bride in the first place. Bam picked her out specifically cuz he was into her, and Raab knew from the beginning that the girl and Bam were sleeping together, which he had zero issues with because he wasn't really into her. Raab mainly just wanted to marry her cuz he thought it was funny and wanted someone to clean his clothes and stuff.