Brynn Whitfield has mostly recovered from her dramatic fallout with her Real Housewives of New York City costars, but she admits that “it was tough.”
“I was able to go away and reset,” Brynn told Us Weekly exclusively on March 12. “But it was really, really hard. Those things are so surreal. You walk out of there and you’re just like, there are no words to explain it.”
And once a big blowup is over, she added, “you have to wait for it to air, which is painful, and then you have to wait for the whole world to judge you, which is even more painful.”
The finale of season 15 of RHONY took a dark turn in January 2025, after fans watched Brynn and castmate Ubah Hassan erupt into a huge fight. Ubah accused Brynn of sleeping with someone to get on the show — an accusation that stunned Brynn, who had recently revealed to Ubah that she was sexually assaulted. Ubah denied she knew anything about the assault.
Jocelyn Prescod/Bravo Part one of the Real Housewives of New York City reunion was emotional for Brynn Whitfield and costar Ubah Hassan. During the first half of the two-part season 15 reunion, which aired Tuesday, January 28, Brynn, 39, opened up about why she chose to share her experience as a survivor of sexual assault […]
To move past the drama, Brynn told Us she focused on her work.
“I focus at the thing that I know I can do that I’m good at, that I love,” she told Us of how she navigates hardship. “And for me, it was just bearing my head and being like, ‘This is what I want. I’m going to take all of this. I’m going to remember it. I’m going to clock it.’”
Despite the previous season’s negative ending, Brynn is still interested in RHONY and what’s next for the series. “New York is great,” she said. “It’s full of fabulous women. It’s full of fabulous people. It’s super diverse, and I think that the most important thing is for it to always represent New York.”
The city “has a lot to offer,” she added. And when it comes to who should be next on the show, she says she would just personally request as a Housewives fan, I would just love to see people, with no offense to us, or people think that I’m rich, but I’d like to see stupid money on the show.”
“You know what I’m saying?” Brynn continued. “I would like to see some stupid money, like the money I see on jobs laying in the Hamptons, and also more delusion. Sometimes I go to these luncheons and things and I’m like, ‘If I had a dollar for every time I’ve told people in New York that I meet, I’m like, you should have a reality TV show.’ It’s characters here.”
The Real Housewives of New York City‘s Brynn Whitfield addressed questions her castmates might have about her experience as a survivor of sexual assault. During part two of the season 15 reunion, which aired Tuesday, February 4, host Andy Cohen asked Brynn, “Do you think there’s anyone here that doubts what happened to you?” The […]
When it comes to her time on the show, Brynn added that she doesn’t “feel anything unresolved.”
“I’m honestly, for as much as I’m avoidant, I’m also very British in the sense of I just like to sweep things under the rug and move on,” she explained. “That’s not healthier and I don’t endorse that. But no, I don’t have anything ragingly unresolved… if anything that would hit on not feeling unresolved is I would just very much for things to go back to how they were and for everyone to just have more fun, just a lot more fun and silliness and everyone put down their swords and let’s just enjoy the city and show how amazing New York is, is how fabulous it is, how diverse it is, how freaking silly it is. I think I would just like to have a lot more fun.”
Brynn has also been hard at work on her new podcast, “Please See Below,” which debuts its first episode Wednesday, March 19. She said her first guest is the “hottie from Bachelor Nation,” a.k.a. Jason Tartick.
“He’s so handsome and I could feel his abs when I hugged him, so I got really thrown,” she admitted. “But I had a really fun conversation with him, and he’s great and amazing and super smart.”
