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Guerdy Abraira suspects jealousy may be at play when it comes to the feuds between the Real Housewives of Miami cast.
While also hinting that Julia Lemigova, 53, may soon be seen going after Stephanie Shojaee, 40, and explaining why she called Julia out at her celebration of life event, the 47-year-old reality star and mother of two signaled the exit of Dr. Nicole Martin, 39, as she spoke of her co-stars’ potential jealousy over certain women.
“Let’s face it … last season I got a lot of attention for my diagnosis, for my survival journey, the whole thing, and maybe it made some people uncomfortable. Maybe some people didn’t like the light shining somewhere else,” Guerdy shared on SiriusXM’s Page Six Radio. “Nicole is no longer here for a reason.”
In addition to seemingly thinking that jealousy played a role in Nicole’s departure from the show, Guerdy suggested that the cast wanted to “[move] on” from the focus on her health because they felt she was getting too much attention for it.
“It’s kind of like, ‘Okay, you had cancer. Moving on. We got to talk about something else now,’ and I’m sorry, but the cancer lifestyle is an aftermath to the cancer diagnosis, the cancer treatment, the whole thing, and one in eight women has or had breast cancer,” she noted.
Then reflecting on Larsa Pippen, 50, sharing her diagnosis with the cast before she was ready, Guerdy said that many viewers relate to her and what she’s been through.
“When they look at me, they’re like, ‘Damn, I’m hiding because I don’t want this reaction. I don’t want to tell someone I have cancer and then they go and tell the whole world’ … So I’m living in my truth and I’m okay with whatever comes, good, bad, and indifferent, and that’s my choice,” she stated. “[And] I was on TV before I got cancer. It’s not like I got on TV, like, ‘I have cancer now let me weaponize it and oh, my god, oh the bald head.’”
As Guerdy noted, she isn’t exactly bald because she wants to be.
“The bald head is because I get hot flashes every 20 minutes. I’m an estrogen receptor,” she explained.
“But I’m gonna stand strong and I’m not gonna let people look at me and say, ‘She’s doing this because of that,’ because it makes them feel more comfortable,” she added.
During another segment of the interview, Guerdy was asked if newbie Stephanie got involved with her feud with Julia.
“Julia’s doing a lot this season is what I’m gonna say to a lot of different people is what I’m gonna say. The tap dancing and stomping, Julia’s on stage. Okay? So Julia’s starting with me, and then it continues, and you will see,” she replied.
When questioned about whether Stephanie would run into her own issues with Julia, Guerdy said she can’t give anything away, but she admitted, “This is not the Julia I know. I don’t know her.”
Regarding her decision to put Julia’s text messages on display at her celebration of life event, Guerdy said she’d become determined to share the truth after a number of failed conversations with her co-stars.
“I have had individual lunches with some people and dinners and shared, ‘This is a bold-faced lie’ … I have had group conversations. I’ve did everything that I could to make sure that the friends that I thought I had would say, ‘Okay. Well, this is clear as day. Julia, what is happening? This is a lie.’ And that fell on deaf ears,” she noted.
“It’s as if I’m a ghost and I don’t matter … And at what point is Guerdy 2.0 going to show up for herself? And that’s the new version of Guerdy. She has boundaries, and she’s not going to let you tell the narrative of her story for her,” Guerdy declared.
The Real Housewives of Miami season seven airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.
