"I was totally blind-sided," said Silver of being labeled a monster. She said her initial anger came from the sadness she felt over being betrayed by her friends Matt and Juliet. She says that she was assured that the change in the show's tenor came only after production was finished, but a blurb for the show in the June 11 issue of Entertainment Weekly made her think differently. "Exec producer David Green says the B-word wasn't uttered until after shooting was done. During filming, he explains, 'we kindly called them "high-maintenance" and "high-tension."'" "That quote implied that they knew what they were doing while they were shooting and that they tricked us. I still can't even go there to this day," says Silver.

Silver writes of how she was so outraged about the name change of the project she had signed up for that she wound up on the phone with September Films president Sally Miles. Miles' conversation is dramatically reenvisioned in "Bridezilla Strikes Back," with the executive promising Silver, "Darling, you are the only sane bride out of all of them!" and saying the magic words, that Silver would be sent out as part of Fox's promotional campaign for the show.

Since Silver is an actress -- and a frankly struggling one -- she is very upfront in her show about what the appeal of the bridal project was. "It's a chance for some exposure," she tells Matt in the show, and writes about how on the morning the Fox show was to air, she woke up "to 'the day I was to become famous' with a calm sense of optimism and purpose. I strolled into the office, thinking about how much I'd miss these people once I'd gone off to greener pastures. On the walk home, I started wondering just how Fox would portray my wedding dress disaster."

Yeah, it wasn't so nice. The show featured big scary "Bridezilla" graphics, and interstitial images of hand mirrors shattering. The women are divided into "three kinds of bride stalking the streets": Princess, Neurotic and Obsessive. Silver was Neurotic. She notes in "Bridezilla Strikes Back" that "Fox also had a field day with the whole therapy thing. I found out the hard way that Manhattan is not really a part of the rest of the country. Most of America considers therapy a dirty little secret. Fox took it upon themselves to find every snippet of my referring to my psychoanalysis ... I put all the other Neurotic Brides to shame."

Finding out the hard way meant checking out what her longed-for viewers had to say about her online, on a wedding site where she looked for support. Among the comments she retails in her show: "Can you believe these bitches?" "What a bunch of spoiled brats!"

"My heart started pounding as I clicked on a post entitled 'Actress Bride'," writes Silver. She was right to be nervous. On the thread, she found comments like, "What the hell is up with that fish-scale dress?" "Oh, I know, it looked like it was made of toilet paper." "She's supposedly an 'actress.' Who the hell would hire her?" "She's clearly nothing but an unstable bi-atch who will amount to nothing." "What was that guy thinking when he saw that ugly atrocity coming down the aisle?" And "That poor git -- he obviously doesn't think much of himself if he chose to marry that -- I give them two years, tops."

Silver's response in "Bridezilla Strikes Back" isn't as sharp-toothed as show editors were with her and her fellow brides. She is, after all, an actress still hoping for her break, and it's clear that if "Bridezillas" didn't bring her all the Oprah time she wanted, she's going to do her damnedest to get something out of it.

"I feel like instead of filing a lawsuit or writing some kind of an Op-Ed piece where I could tell people that we were duped, which I don't think is effective," said Silver, "I can tell my story this way. This allows people to have the vicarious experience of being swept away by the whole thing and the exciting romanticism of it only to have it shoved back in their face for thinking it was going to be some great opportunity."

Silver will workshop the show in early July. She has a financial backer, and plans to have "Bridezilla Strikes Back" onstage by the fall, at which point the most recent television run of "Bridezillas" will have recently concluded.

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