Annemarie Wiley is speaking out against Crystal Kung-Minkoff amid their messy feud on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
After Annemarie, 40, and Crystal, 40, argued about Annemarie’s profession and how she supposedly introduced herself as a doctor, and butted heads over Crystal’s alleged trash-talking of other cast members, Annemarie confirmed she was “warned” about Crystal. She also slammed her “damaging” allegations, looked ahead to the reunion taping, and reflected on the drama surrounding Sutton Stracke‘s esophagus.
“I really trusted her a lot more than I should have,” Annemarie shared of Crystal during a recent interview with Hollywood Life. “I was warned by several people about the kind of person she is — that she flip flops, that she lies, she fabricates things.”
According to Annemarie, she was warned about Crystal by people tied to RHOBH and off-camera acquaintances before being accused of lying about her career as a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) and suggesting she was a doctor.
“It was so upsetting and appalling to me,” Annemarie said of Crystal’s claims. “We’re talking about my career here. And all of a sudden I feel like we’re in the assault on nurses. I’m just trying to understand what’s going on with Sutton, Crystal’s like, ‘Hmm, let me piggy back off of this and create this drama so I have something to talk about.’ We just had this full on assault on nurses and advanced practice nurses now.”
“We all know, she [Crystal] needed to step it up this year,” Annemarie continued. “She needed something to talk about, so she made this up so that she could start drama with me, and then bingo — she’s got a storyline.”
As Annemarie continues to face backlash due to Crystal’s claims against her, even garnering attention from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), who accused her of “title misappropriation,” she’s not backing down.
“When Crystal does this, she doesn’t understand how damaging and hurtful that actually is for nurses and advanced practice nurses because we are always advocating for what we do,” she explained. “We are the people who are with the patient 12 hours a day. The degrees, the license, the credentials. Those are very hard things to obtain, and I feel like this narrative and this storyline of my profession constantly being attacked was terribly disrespectful.”
Needless to say, Annemarie shared her big plans for the reunion, which had yet to be filmed when this interview was conducted.
“My rookie year — there were a lot of rookie mistakes,” she admitted. “I listened to a lot of things that I should not have listened to. I trusted a lot of people that I should not have trusted. There were a lot of things I should’ve said in the moment that I did not say. Again, now I know. I have a lot of things to clear up in the reunion.”
Also speaking to Hollywood Life, Annemarie said that despite her many questions about Sutton’s health, she “couldn’t care less about Sutton’s esophagus.”
“I’m a busy person. I don’t have time to be worried about Sutton’s esophagus,” she noted. “When Kyle had said that Sutton does not eat, she pushes her food around her plate, and she [Sutton] says it’s because she has a small esophagus I was just wondering, like, what does that mean? But when I asked her [Sutton], she said, ‘No, why are you asking this,’ and she got mad, and then that’s why I start saying, what you’re saying doesn’t medically make sense, because you’re denying a reason for it. That’s really it. I’m honestly trying to just understand what it is.”
Looking back, Annemarie confessed to having regrets about the issue.
“I should’ve never been talking about her esophagus,” she said. “Trust me, I am more sick of hearing about it than anybody else. I’m so over it. But you know, I’m a rookie. I’m coming in, there’s no handbook.”
Also speaking of Sutton, Annemarie confirmed she was put off by her castmate’s treatment of Kyle Richards, 55, especially her probing of her separation from Mauricio Umansky, 53, at the cast’s weed dinner earlier this season.
“It was really surprising to see somebody that claims to be friends with Kyle treat her that way,” she reasoned. “Sutton is divorced too, so she knows the pain of having marital struggles. So I’m like, why is this person who is her supposed friend going so hard at her? And why does she care so much, right? She’s not coming in a loving way, she’s not coming in a supportive way, she’s really coming in an accusatory way.”
“But then I also see that Sutton doesn’t like to share her own personal information,” Annemarie continued. “If you ask her information about herself, then you kind of get her evil Jekyll & Hyde look and she scowls at you and she gets mad at you. Like why are you attacking Kyle when you don’t even want to talk about yourself? I felt really bad for Kyle.”
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