Jemmye Carroll

American reality television personality who featured on The Real World: New Orleans in 2010 which ranked as the #1 cable program for Wednesday nights 10pm–11pm time slot among viewers aged 12–34. Jemmye Carroll was a Mississippi State University student and valedictorian of her high school. Despite growing up from a conservative Southern Baptist community, she is a supporter of gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana. She enjoys drinking and casual sex, and prefers black men, as her roommate, Knight, is the first white man she sleeps with, in Episode 3. She is close to her mother, Alice, in whom she confides all the intimate details of her life (One of Jemmyes six tattoos honors her mothers victory over breast cancer), though she has not told her about the abusive relationship that she ended just prior to her recent relationship with Mississippi State basketball player Kodi Augustus. She and Knight enter a casual sexual relationship, but it experiences complications due to Jemmyes ambiguity over Kodi, deepening feelings between her and Knight, and Knights hurtful comments to her, which lead her to seek help at a battered womens shelter in Episode 7. Though Knight is more sympathetic to her problem in Episode 8, when she decides to begin seeing a social worker, and reveals the past abuse to her mother, the tempestuous nature of their relationship recurs subsequently. After competing on multiple seasons of The Challenge and appearing on the fourth season of Ex on the Beach, in 2020, Jemmye Carroll announced her departure from reality television. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less