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Tamra Judge is sharing details about an unseen moment between Vicki Gunvalson and Teddi Mellencamp.
Amid a Q&A with her fans and followers on her Instagram Story, the 57-year-old Real Housewives of Orange County star explained what went down between Vicki, 62, and Teddi, 42, revealed how much she spent on her recent plastic surgeries, and admitted to feeling that fans were being “too hard” on Alexis Bellino, 47, while also teasing the upcoming reunion, dishing on Lisa Rinna, 61, and more.
“I’m actually shocked that it didn’t air but there actually was a whole scene with me and Vicki and [Shannon Beador] and Teddi, and Vicki and Teddi made up and everything was good, and then literally, a few weeks later, Vicki went out and said some horrible things about Teddi. So nothing really lasts with her,” Tamra revealed of Vicki on September 3.
After then revealing that the price of her “forehead lift, brow lift, CO2 laser, and Obagi blue peel” was “$15,000,” Tamra said viewers have “absolutely” been “too hard” on Alexis.
“But I also understand what they’re seeing right now is the reason why they’re being hard on her and she understands that too,” Tamra confirmed. “I just wish that so many of the other things we talked about and did were shown and weren’t cut out, and you could see a well-rounded Alexis and where she’s coming from. So I’m hoping that there’s gonna be a little bit of a shift in things to come, and you’ll see Alexis for the sweet girl she is and not some villain because she’s not.”
When questioned about when she and her RHOC castmates would film the reunion, Tamra couldn’t say the exact date, but she revealed production would take place sometime in October.
“It is next month, coming up pretty soon … Another month,” she teased.
Looking back at last week’s show as someone asked if she was mad at Teddi for pushing her in the pool, Tamra confirmed the two of them had discussed doing so before filming the scene.
“I wasn’t mad. We actually had been joking about it all night, that we were gonna push each other in the pool,” she shared. “I wasn’t expecting it at that moment. It was very shallow. It was like a foot deep. It wasn’t even a pool. It was like a water feature. [But] you know me, I can dish it out and I can take it.”
Another Instagram user wondered if it would bother her if Alexis got with Eddie Judge, 51, and Shannon became friends with her, seemingly alluding to potential hypocrisy.
“Well of course I would, but that’s not how the chain of events went down,” Tamra clarified. “First of all, Alexis knows me and knows Eddie. Alexis didn’t know Shannon. She didn’t know [John Janssen]. They never worked together. They were never friends. And I didn’t become friends with Alexis after she began dating John. I became friends with Alexis last year, we started talking. So you can’t really compare. And if that’s the way you’re seeing it, then you’re seeing it incorrectly.”
As for whether she’s friends with Lisa, Tamra told another fan she’d like to think so before applauding the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member.
“We talk on social media once in a while. I send her [my Vena] products and she sends me her lip kits and her makeup. Her lip liner, I live for. I love her products,” Tamra gushed. “She is the woman that I aspire to be. She is a go-getter. She is a ball buster. She speaks her mind. She’s it.”
Tamra then responded to a follower who asked her why she is a b*tch to her friends.
“I don’t really see it that I’m being a b*tch to my friends. What you guys didn’t see is my falling out with Shannon happened off-camera. And what you didn’t see is that I was there for her for weeks and months after her DUI and had some pretty good conversations with her hoping that she was going to get better soon and put in the work that needed to be done,” Tamra noted. “Unfortunately, she took to some people that I know to say some pretty horrible things about me and some pretty horrible things about our cast members, too.”
Looking back, Tamra said she decided that until Shannon can “admit her issues,” she doesn’t “want to be drug down with her.”
“I do have empathy for her, but I just don’t have any sympathy anymore. When you’re doing the same thing 10 years later and not making any changes, it’s on you,” she added.
The Real Housewives of Orange County season 18 airs Thursdays at 9/8c on Bravo.
