Some 22 years ago, The Real World: Miami star Flora Alekseyeva decided to stop being polite and start getting real. 

As in, following a brief stint on 2002's Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons—some six years after her initial MTV debut—"I was off the grid," Flora recently explained to E! News in an exclusive interview. "Nobody could find me. Not that I was hiding. It was just that I didn't care for any of this. I was too busy doing my own stuff."