Kiara then jumps in to say that the others are so frustrated because they try to reach out to Victoria, but she typically keeps things very private. This makes them wonder even more if something is wrong with her. Well, maybe she is expressing her pain through calisthenics! The grapevine of sorrow. And in completely new and revelatory news, Kiara had a very tough childhood and an absent mother. Boy, has the show gotten a lot of mileage out of that one interview clip! Kiara and Victoria are a study in contrasts of bad mother relationship and good mother relationship, and strong versus weak. Or so thinks Kiara. Randomly, Brittany yells out, "Is it the flu? Is what you have contagious?" I am intrigued by this claim of an illness that is physical in nature rather than mental! Let's do a WebMD search on symptoms of: 1) hysterically crying while calling home; 2) feeling nostalgia for country cooking; 3) excessive character acting; 4) clanging bones; 5) fleeting Irish accent. Victoria, you will be surprised to learn, wishes that she could talk to her mom. Her mom never chastised her for being strange or accused her of having the flu! She encouraged Victoria to be a big, lovable weirdo, which in turn enriched all of our lives! Victoria's mom for president! I bet her name is "Mitt" too.