Carmen Rita Wong | Betrayal Weekly
episodePreviously titled “Betrayal Weekly: EP 20 - Carmen Rita Wong” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 5, 2026
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What was Carmen Rita Wong's childhood like?
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I'm Andrea Gunning and this is Betrayal, a show about the people we trust the most and the deceptions that change everything. Carmen Rita Wong grew up in New York in the 70s. Her earliest memories are of her mom Lupe. Lupe was glamorous.
She was always dressed to the nines and the red lipstick was She, along with my grandmother and my abuela, both from the Dominican Republic, were seamstresses for Oscar de la Renta, who was Dominican and employed a lot of the Dominican women immigrants to New York City.
Oscar de la Renta was one of the most expensive and exclusive designers in the world. First ladies and movie stars wore his designs.
And they dressed up to be seamstresses. My abuela as well, always in an Oscar suit that she probably made with her own hands.
Carmen was raised in Harlem, and she's proud of where she came from.
The neighborhood we lived in was mostly Dominican immigrants, Puerto Rican, basically of all colors. So for me, going to daycare, being around my cousins, lived across the street. My grandfather's cleaners was on the corner. And we all just coexisted in a very great, supportive way. Colorful, texture, smells, just the richness of it all. Not money, but life. It's something that even now I look back on with nostalgia.
Carmen's parents were separated. She lived with her mom and spent the weekends with her dad in Chinatown.
We called him Poppy, Poppy Wong.
She thought he was the epitome of cool.
He was like a Chinese Johnny Cash. That's what he looked like to me, with a black leather jacket and slick black pants and a pompadour.
Carmen and her older brother Alex cherished these weekends with Poppy in his neighborhood.
He loved to take us to these very fancy Chinese restaurants where his boss would be like sitting on a higher level in the restaurant for more important people, for the VIPs.
She didn't know what her father did for work, but whatever it was, it was important.
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