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“I’m in such a calmer and better place in my life now. My daughter has grounded me a lot and I’m just in a very different place than I was 10 years ago when I started Below Deck. So when Sandy reached out to me and said, ‘Would you be interested in doing this with me?’ I was like, ‘Absolutely,” Hannah told Us about rekindling a friendship with Sandy. “There’s so much turmoil in the world. So much is fueled by hatred. But just sitting down with Sandy for a few hours and just having a really good honest chat was so cathartic and healing.”
Hannah continued: “Because I don’t like hanging onto any negativity or bad emotions. So being able to really sit down and open up to each other was so good. Then this opportunity came up six to eight months later.”
Sandy added that her “heart just lit up from the inside out” after reconnecting with her former chief stew. Hannah, for her part, pointed to a difference of opinions about their time on Below Deck as the cause for their initial falling out.
“I messaged Sandy the other day and I said, ‘I’m so excited for us to sit down as friends and work out how we got here in life because I know my backstory and I know — for example — what happened in my childhood,” Hannah explained. “A lot of it is why I hate authority, which is why I was probably a nightmare to have working for as a captain. But Sandy doesn’t know that.”
There was also Sandy’s perspective to think about, with Hannah adding, “Sandy would have her own thoughts and her own journey, especially at the start of Below Deck, it would have been really difficult coming in as a captain because as a captain you want a 100 percent professional crew. You want a passionate crew with people who want to be there. That’s not Below Deck.”
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