"Long story short, one of our best friends has been having a really tough time the past few months with some personal things," she wrote. "Teala and I especially have been scared/confused/left alone on how to handle someone dealing with these things. I’ve invested many nights calling, offering to just bring over a coffee and talk, offered all my love, read books on how to help, looked up YouTube videos and more. After coming together to finally say something after things got too bad and offer help, our best friend was defensive and stopped talking to us. It’s only a normal part of what’s going on, but it breaks our hearts because someone who needs love and support is pulling away from us, simply because we know what’s happening, and they don’t like that we addressed things and offered help. We now have lost our best friend to something much bigger, and we don’t know what to do because she refuses to get together to talk in person on what’s going on and how we can all be there for each other." Experiencing life together eventually translates into synchronicity on the stage. “Going to Paris to film our reality show was a very memorable experience,” says Chaeryeong. “It made me realize that I can learn and experience so many things through traveling with our members.” “I become the center of provocative gossip / The center of the topic,” the members fret on “Mixed Up I have spent much of my life trying to figure out where I fit in as a Mexican-American woman — more time than I'd like to admit, if we're being honest. For a long time, my primary aim was to prove to people that I was Mexican enough, maybe to compensate for the fact that I was experiencing less and less of the culture firsthand. When my parents divorced, I grew up with my American mother, while my brother and sister lived with my dad. I learned French in school because the Spanish classes were filled up by the time I enrolled, and I stopped going to Mexico every summer when I turned 16 and got a job. And over time I learned that a lot of people didn't think I was Latinx when they first looked at me, either because I didn't tell people I was right off the bat, or because Hollywood's scope of what a Latinx person looks like isfrustratingly narrow.But there is always music.