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Porsha Williams called out Lisa Rinna for abandoning the Real Housewives sisterhood after being the first player banished from The Traitors season four.
Following her exit, the 44-year-old Real Housewives of Atlanta star called out Lisa, 62, formerly of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, explained why she didn’t vote for Candiace Dillard-Bassett, 39, despite knowing she was a traitor, and reacted to the wild outbursts of Michael Rapaport, 55.
“When Lisa voted me out, I was like, ‘Okay, so you’re who everybody says you are,’ because, honestly, the vote that Lisa made for me, it didn’t have to happen at all,” Porsha began on the January 9 episode of Access Hollywood’s Housewives Nightcap, via No Chaser TV. “As a fellow Housewife, she could’ve stuck to the sisterhood.”
According to Porsha, Lisa’s voting for her made no sense.
“I was no threat to her. It was all for her benefit of self. And when you come into this game, housewives, gamers, they all separately stick together with who they come with because, at the end of the day, everybody’s going to need a brethren at some point through the game. So, I just knew that at that point, she would sell a puppy up the river. So, I was like, ‘Okay, whatever, Lisa,’” she recalled.
While Porsha didn’t have any insider information, since she was a faithful, she was able to find out who the traitors were.
“They said that I said there were four [traitors]. Well, I think that is very intelligent of me to go ahead and figure that out,” she noted. “They had already chosen the one before we even started the game. And of course, we knew at that table by reasoning, looking at everyone, he had picked three, and in every other season there is three or four, and of course, I didn’t have inside information because I wasn’t a traitor. I had just figured it out.”
As for how she came to that conclusion, Porsha said she aimed to align with like-minded people.
“With Tiffany Mitchell, I knew that she was like-minded. I knew that a couple other people understood, like Caroline Stanbury. I saw people I was going to be able to trust, and I’m glad to know that the people I thought I could trust weren’t traitors,” she explained.
Moving on to Candiace, an alum of The Real Housewives of Potomac, Porsha revealed the moment in which she realized she was a traitor.
“As soon as I walked into the kitchen to confront Candiace with Michael to find out if he said, ‘Hunt down the housewives at the gravesite,’ when she lied, I knew she was a traitor,” she shared.
As for why she didn’t mention her name as a potential traitor, Porsha said she was a “fellow housewife.”
“Through my experience of watching the different seasons, you stick together, and even if you have an [inclination] that she could be one, give her the benefit of the doubt,” she reasoned. “I wouldn’t have voted for her. I would’ve done just a regular vote of someone else or Miss Donna. I would’ve not said her until I knew for sure because housewives have a sisterhood and we’re supposed to stick together.”
Also on the podcast, Porsha suggested that editing actually did Michael a favor when it came to Michael’s erratic behavior.
“Thank God for editing. Because if they showed how he really showed his dirty underwear at the table, then I think people would have voted him out. The people, like the audience, would have wanted him out,” she said. “He acted [like] a crazy person at that table. He went through highs and lows, tears and cries. ‘Porsha, I love you so much. I have watched you from the beginning. I’m your biggest fan,’ to, ‘But I think you’re a traitor. I don’t know what to do.’ It was so dramatic.”
Looking back at the moment when Michael accused her of “killing” Ian Terry, 34, Porsha admitted to wondering why he was fighting “so hard” against her.
“That’s why I was just like, ‘You know what? Maybe my time is up.’ I’ll just sit here and let you guys see what you’re doing, and then maybe I’ll just bow out, and you know what? You guys can play the game better in the next round,” she stated. “And that’s why when I got up, I said, like, ‘Hey, you’re getting rid of your first faithful. You could’ve gotten rid of a traitor if you listened to me.’”
The Traitors season four is currently streaming on Peacock.
