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Meredith Marks is clapping back at Whitney Rose after learning that she allegedly suggested she was suffering from some sort of substance abuse issues on Tuesday’s episode of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
As Bronwyn Newport, 40, defended her decision to relay what Whitney, 39, had said to Meredith, 53, and Heather Gay, 51, put in her two cents, Meredith accused Whitney of projecting, and Whitney lashed out at Bronwyn for spinning the narrative.
“Whitney Rose strikes again. It’s nothing new. She’s done this every single year. And usually it’s a projection of her own issues,” Meredith declared during a November 25 interview for Bravo HQ. “So, it’s just kind of a funny comment and pretty dumb, but what do you expect from Whitney?”
According to Whitney, she said what she said about Meredith to Bronwyn “in confidence” and doesn’t appreciate Bronwyn speaking on her behalf.
“I cannot believe that she did that because she actually spun what I said,” she clarified. “I didn’t say, ‘I think Meredith has a substance issue.’ I said, ‘Meredith’s behavior was so erratic and crazy.’ And Bronwyn asked me what I thought caused it.”
Recalling their discussion, Whitney suggested that Meredith may have “mixed” something, as it’s “very common for people to take a sleeping pill on a plane and then drink wine.”
“For Bronwyn to then go behind my back and run to Meredith and spin the narrative, that was infuriating … I lost a lot of trust in Bronwyn,” she concluded.
As for Bronwyn, she stood by her decision to tell Meredith what Whitney said.
“I wouldn’t wanna have been blindsided by someone saying that about me behind my back,” she reasoned. “I feel like that’s a life-changing accusation.”
Because Bronwyn felt that she didn’t “do a good enough job” standing up for Meredith during her conversation with Whitney, she believed giving her a heads-up was the next best thing.
“If everybody thinks that’s sneaky or behind the back, then I guess I’m sneaky or behind the back,” she admitted. “I wish Meredith had valued more that I tried to give her that heads up. I was really trying to be a friend to Meredith in that moment. I didn’t know I was gonna get thrown under the bus.”
“There was a better way to handle it,” she continued. “I took the medium road. I didn’t take the one that was gonna get me in trouble with everyone. I took the road that was gonna get me in trouble with one person. It’s tricky. It’s tricky with these women.”
Also speaking to Bravo HQ, Heather called out Bronwyn for failing to take accountability for her role in the claims against Meredith.
“Bronwyn’s the one that said it too, and brought it up, so the fact that she’s passing the baton to Whitney is interesting,” she stated. “I think they did have a conversation about it. I wasn’t privy to it, and I think it’s a little bit ridiculous to bring up substance abuse at a drunken wine lunch.”
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season 6 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
