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Bravo is getting off the Ramonacoaster! Ramona Singer cut from BravoCon after using partial racial slur in a text to Page Six reporter—all the details.
This hasn’t been a good week for Real Housewives of New York OG Ramona Singer. To start, Ramona Singer’s alleged racist behavior was revealed in Vanity Fair‘s expose into Bravo and the Real Housewives.
Ramona Singer allegedly used the N-word in a conversation with a black crew member during production of season 13 of the Real Housewives of New York.
According to Vanity Fair‘s expose, the season 13 RHONY cast participated in a “virtual education session” that discussed the topic of race and what types of comments were NOT okay to make before filming began in 2021.
Eboni K. Williams, who was the first black Housewife on the New York Housewives franchise, recalled Ramona Singer asked why she shouldn’t say that black fathers aren’t present in their children’s lives.
“’What if they don’t have a father? Why can’t I say that?’” Ramona asked, according to Eboni. “Most of them don’t.’”
Former RHONY co-star Leah McSweeney corroborated Eboni’s claim while Ramona defended her racist trope, claiming she read a study that confirmed her statement to be true.
“The training included ‘open dialogue,’” Ramona told Vanity Fair in response to the allegations against her. “In that spirit, I asked a question about a statistic I had read about single-parent households, where children with single-parent households were statistically less likely to succeed than two-parent households.”
While filming season 13 of RHONY, Ramona Singer also reportedly said: “This is why we shouldn’t have black people on the show. This is gonna ruin our show” when Eboni left Luann de Lesseps’ house.
Ramona denied the claim: “In fact, I supported adding diverse cast members well before Eboni was added.”
As this bombshell claim from Vanity Fair‘s article made its way around social media and the internet, Ramona Singer attempted to clear her name, but that has seemingly backfired right in her face.
Page Six reached out to Ramona for her reaction to Vanity Fair‘s expose. While Ramona attempted to defend herself, she wound up using the racial slur once again.
“And the word I used was ‘NWord’ Not n-g…,” Ramona texted a Page Six reporter on Tuesday morning.
Hours later, Ramona’s name disappeared from the BravoCon app. The RHONY OG was expected to attend the three-day event this weekend in Las Vegas, but now Page Six reports that Ramona has been disinvited from the event.
It seems that Ramona is taking all the heat from Vanity Fair’s expose while Bravo executives, including Andy Cohen, are walking away unscathed.
The Real Housewives of New York City is expected to return to Bravo for season 15 in 2024.
