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Sutton Stracke called out Jennifer Tilly for mentioning her falling out with Garcelle Beauvais amid an argument after Thursday night’s episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
As her castmates admitted to being shocked by the tension between her and Jennifer, 67, one of her long-time friends, Sutton, 54, shaded Jennifer for suggesting that she caused problems with friends and explained why the comment hurt her so deeply as Jennifer revealed what prompted her to speak out at a dinner in which their co-stars were questioning Sutton about her former assistant, Avi Gabay.
“They kept circling around and coming back … And I thought, this is going to look really stupid. Here I am, I’m sitting next to Sutton. I’m Sutton’s friend. I open my mouth to say something wise and reassuring, maybe change the subject, or whatever. I didn’t know what I was gonna say, but I thought, ‘You know what? It’s time for me to weigh in,’ and then Sutton was like … I forget what [she] said,” Jennifer recalled on the January 15 episode of the RHOBH: After Show.
“[I] was just like ‘Stop,’” Sutton replied.
After being shut down by Sutton, Jennifer left the group and was eventually joined by Kyle Richards, 57.
“It hurt my feelings … I just was trying to put some oil on the water … Sutton, she’s got a lot going on. She’s got everybody coming after her. So I went outside, and I thought, ‘I’m just gonna stay here and sit here til I cool off,’ and I wasn’t cooling off, and here comes Kyle, and she sat down next to me, and she’s like, ‘Oh Jennifer, I know how you feel.’ So it was just sort of like, a sympathetic person, like saying, yes, whatever, and I was sort of venting,” she confessed.
“You said I always cause the problems and that this is why Garcelle didn’t want to be my friend,” Sutton fired back.
But Jennifer insisted she didn’t think that was “exactly what [she] was saying.”
“I didn’t feel like I said anything really harsh,” she stated. “I think I was saying something like, you know, sometimes I feel, like, not appreciated as a friend, and maybe that’s what Garcelle felt. But I can’t say what Garcelle felt. I don’t know her. I texted her. We never had a conversation or anything like that.”
According to Jennifer, she was regretful and apologetic, although her feelings were real.
“This is just me, what I was feeling … I felt like I was talking to Kyle, but I wasn’t bringing Garcelle into it. I was using it as an example. Like, Garcelle maybe felt like she was giving more and not getting as much back,” she reasoned as Sutton wondered why she’d think such a thing.
“Because she was saying it in St. Lucia,” Jennifer replied as Sutton suggested Garcelle, 59, did not.
“I don’t know why I would say that then … I don’t know how Garcelle came up … [But] I was upset,” she shared.
As for Sutton, she said that Jennifer’s statement about Garcelle was especially hurtful since Jennifer had witnessed how devastated she was when their friendship ended.
“You had seen, over those months, how deeply sad I was about losing my friendship with Garcelle. You saw it firsthand. And so, to say something [like], ‘And that’s why Garcelle doesn’t want to be friends with Sutton,’ I was like, ‘What?” she explained.
Still, Jennifer insisted that if she had made that exact comment, she didn’t do so “to be hurtful.”
Elsewhere on the RHOBH: After Show, as Dorit Kemsley, 49, suggested “Sutton Stracke” was “creeping back,” in a nod to Sutton’s name-change to “Sutton Brown,” Bozoma “Boz” Saint John, 48, admitted that she was shocked to see Sutton and Jennifer at odds.
“Jennifer and Sutton are tight, and they’ve been friends for a long time, outside of this group. [But] Sutton was definitely in a corner, and I think she was striking out at anybody who said anything,” Boz noted.
“That’s why I wasn’t surprised: I have seen that girl so many times,” Dorit replied. “I’ve been on the other side of it. You know what surprises me? The soft touch.”
Kyle was also taken aback by the friction between the women.
“I was surprised to see that Jennifer had those thoughts, that she [would] verbalize them to me, [and] I was thinking, ‘Obviously, she’s gonna see this later, and this is not going to go over well,’” she recalled.
As for Amanda Frances, 40, she described Jennifer’s words as “harsh.”
“It sounds like maybe it had been building up for her,” she added.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
