By John Powell – GlobalTV.com

LaTrice Verrett cooked up a storm in the Big Brother house but she proved through all the drama that she could stand the heat and never had to leave the kitchen. At 58-years-old, she won the Wall endurance competition beating players half her age and later she saved herself by winning the Power of Veto.

Not bad for a mother of four and a singer, recording artist with the three-time Grammy Award-winning group, Sounds of Blackness. Before she went off to the jury house, LaTrice spoke to Global TV briefly about her inspirational Big Brother journey.

John Powell: White, Black, Brown, Green or Purple. Lala, you represented all of us Gen Xers. That was so inspirational! Congratulations! Knowing the houseguests were going to be much younger, what was your initial strategy going in? Did it change and did you find that age difference was intimidating?

LaTrice Verrett: You know, my initial thought going in was, I am who I am. I am going to be the motherly woman who has a little sense of style, who will cook for y’all and make sure you eat well. I wanted to come in a comforting kind of way, not in a mean mama kind of way. I really feel like I accomplished that early on.

There was a definite divide with age and that’s just natural. I get along with my kids so amazingly. I get along with their friends so amazingly but in this particular type of situation where you’re with people 24/7, there are going to be intrinsic differences and there are going to be definite separations. As much as I was included in everything, I was excluded quite a bit only because of—I mean, that’s just the way it is.

Older people and younger people, we get along, we have a good time, we can have fun. But then, you know what? Y’all go ahead, do what y’all doing. Grown folks going to do what they doing. It just kind of worked out that way and it made it hard sometimes, again, to be within the group.

So I always felt like I was on the bottom rung of the ladder. Always felt like I was disposable and I would be the easiest one to get rid of first. That was just the way it was. If I didn’t win it, I was out. So that’s why I was so intent on winning whatever I could win just to keep my life in the game.

John Powell: Who do you hope follows you into the jury house next and why?

LaTrice Verrett: Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. There’s so many people I can choose from. Not that I want to be bothered with him but Weasel Drew. Let’s see here. Who else? I would love to see Devens. Devens or Dee. I want them out of there because they’ve already had their shine. They need to step aside and let somebody else do it now. So, yeah, I would love to see Weasel Drew, Devens, or Dee.

John Powell: In an argument with Haley she called you a “bully” numerous times. Looking back, what is your take on the situation and do you have any regrets?

LaTrice Verrett:: First of all, Haley needs to understand what the definition of a “bully” is. Ignoring someone and not saying anything to you is not bullying. So my daughter was bullied in high school and in middle school. I know what a bully is and that narrative was completely wrong.

Haley was very passive-aggressive and Haley would say things and do things that she—I guess she just thought it was going to just go under the radar but I called her out on several things and she didn’t like being called out so she was creating something that was not there.

And no, I wouldn’t change anything because the bottom line is, is that I say what I mean and I mean what I say. So that was what it was with me and Haley.

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Big Brother airs Wednesdays (8:00-9:30 PM, ET/PT), Thursdays (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) live eviction show hosted by Julie Chen Moonves, and Sundays (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT). Big Brother: Unlocked airs Fridays (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on July 24, Aug. 7, Sept. 4, Sept. 18 and Sept. 25 on Global TV.