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Britani Bateman‘s daughter Olivia Bateman shared more details behind their feud, hinted at playing “telephone,” and revealed which “information was wrong.” She also explained the real reason she and her sister didn’t film the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City in the past.
When Britani joined the show in season 5, she shared that she wasn’t speaking to her daughters, including her teenage daughter, Olivia. Neither of the girls filmed that season. But in a recent episode, Olivia shared her version of events. According to her, Britani became less involved in their lives after marrying Olivia’s former stepdad. Olivia claimed history repeated itself with Britani’s on-off boyfriend, Jared Osmond, who Britani has broken up with multiple times.
On The Bravo Investigator, Olivia was asked about Britani’s suggestion that Olivia and her sister couldn’t film because of Bronwyn Newport. (According to Britani, Bronwyn allegedly told her best friends — who then allegedly told the daughters — that Britani was trash-talking them on camera. Britani said this is why her daughters ghosted her.)
“I would love to clear this up. Okay, because my mom keeps bringing it up when we’ve already talked it out,” said Olivia. “We’ve already figured out where all the miscommunications were.”
“So basically, it was just a long telephone game that got passed down to me and my sister, and the information was wrong,” she continued. “As things happen, we were being told that our mom was saying horrible things about us on season five, and that she was blaming her divorce on us, and she was saying we don’t talk to her because we’re jealous of her. All of this was not true.”
According to Olivia, the people who shared this information were not “doing the wrong thing.”
“They were just like, ‘Hey … we’re looking out for you. This is what we heard. Like, it’s not necessarily true. This is just the rumor — is that these things were said on the show. So if it comes out, like I just want to warn you,’” she recalled. “My mom loves to say that Bronwyn’s the reason we don’t talk to her when that’s never, ever, ever been true. We were already not talking and estranged when we got this information.”
“Did it make things a little bit worse? Yeah,” Olivia added. “And it made us not want to film because … I was like, ‘Oh my gosh. Like we sound like horrible people. We sound like we’re like little monsters and brats.’ And so like yeah, it made us not want to film. It made our relationship a little bit worse, but it’s not the reason, you know … It’s like she’s pointing fingers to everybody else who had nothing to do with it.”
But Olivia said she now has a “lot more empathy” for her mom’s on-off relationship with Jared — as Olivia herself recently went through a breakup, and she knows it isn’t “so easy.”
