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Vicki Gunvalson slams Tamra Judge for bailing on Tres Amigas Live Show and calls her former best friend a “nasty liar.” Plus, so much more!
On Vicki Gunvalson and Christian Gray Snow’s podcast, “My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast,” the OG of the OC breaks down her and Shannon Beador‘s friendship fallout with Tamra Judge.
According to Vicki, Tamra, Shannon, and she decided last year to turn their Tres Amigas shtick into a business and begin doing live shows and an official tour. They started an LLC, opened a bank account, paid for an attorney, ordered merchandise, etc., for the Tres Amigas show.
So when Tamra up and decided to quit the tour, Shannon and Vicki were left shocked and holding the bag. Vicki explains that Tamra didn’t even have the balls to let her and Shannon know. Instead, she only called their manager.
“I never had any side words with her other than the fact that I think it was pretty shitty that we started an LLC, paid for the LLC, paid for our attorneys, opened up a bank account, got all the merchandise, and then she calls Paris, our manager, to exit versus having the class to just call us and tell us,” Vicki Gunvalson explained.
The OG of the OC also refuted Tamra’s claim that she quit the Tres Amigas tour because the show revolved around drinking, which made her uncomfortable following Shannon’s arrest for DUI in September 2023.
“And, by the way, our show wasn’t all about drinking. We had one song that said ‘pour some tequila on me’ instead of ‘pour some sugar on me.’ We changed the word. That was it. The show was not about drinking. She lied there. Tamra’s a liar.”
She also called out Tamra’s “dramatic” reaction to Shannon’s DUI and questioned why it bothers her so much when the situation doesn’t affect her at all.
“It’s so dramatic,” Vicki said. “What is she upset about? This drinking and driving that Shannon did didn’t affect Tamra.”
“It has nothing to do with her. She’s making it about her and that’s what Shannon and I talk about all the time. Like, when did this become about Tamra? This is not Tamra’s issue,” she continued.
Vicki went on to insist that nothing ever happened between her and Tamra to cause the end of her friendship. Instead, Vicki notes that this is just who Tamra is – a “nasty villainous person who likes hurting people.”
“Tamra and I never had a falling out, but she said something like, I never did anything to you, which we go later in the season. She didn’t do anything to me. It’s who she is as a person,” she explained.
“They’re nasty human beings. The only way that they get any type of following or whatever is if they’re hurting other people. And I I don’t subscribe to that. I don’t like that. They’re mean girls. And I told that to Tamara a million times. Why do you think you have to be this way? She goes, this is what I get paid for. Oh, so you get paid to be a villain,” Vicki continued.
The former RHOC star then noted that her previous comment that Tamra has “vinegar running through her veins” is actually a comment Tmara made about herself that Vicki chose to repeat on camera.
“When I said in my interview, she had said to me off camera at one time in her life, ‘I have vinegar running through my veins. I have a black heart. I don’t care.’ She said that,” Vicki Gunvalson explained, adding, “Who do you know that that has that would say that about themselves? I don’t know anybody. I’ve never been around anybody. What does that mean? To say I’m vinegar running through my veins and I have a black heart, she has no empathy. When you’re hurting and down, down, down, she’ll kick you, and she’ll walk on and then pour vinegar on you or gasoline.”
The Real Housewives of Orange County airs on Bravo Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET.
