Caroline Brooks is not holding back when it comes to her co-star and seemingly former friend Taleen Marie.
The two star on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Dubai together in season two, and while they started off as friends in the beginning, they have been drifting further and further apart as the season goes on.
In a new interview, Caroline is maintaining calling Taleen a beggar, revealing why she called her that in the first place, and if they can ever be friends again.
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“She begged. She really wanted this really bad. She wanted to be a part of my friend group, and she was like, ‘Please, please, please, this is what I really want. You already know how many years I’ve wanted this, this has been my dream,’” Caroline revealed to ET. “So it’s like, ‘Please do whatever it takes to get me on there,’ and I did… So, I meant what I said. It wasn’t the nicest thing to say, but it was the truth.”
“She wanted to be a part of the show from before we even filmed season one, when I told her, ‘Don’t tell anyone! I’m going to be on The Real Housewives of Dubai,’” Caroline recalled in response to Taleen saying she didn’t want to be a part of the show initially. “She’s like, ‘Get me on there! Please, dude! Get me on there.’ She’s a liar.”
Addressing the moment on the show when she called her a beggar, which sparked shocked reactions from their castmates, Caroline said, “I was going into the elevator shafts after we finished that scene. I told her, ‘You’re a beggar.’ I said,’ You begged me to be on this show.’ Ad so she said, when she had called me after that — prior to seeing each other again — she had said that that’s what hurt, is that I said, she begged, and so I said, ‘I apologize for calling you a beggar.’ So, for her to act shocked was shocking to me.”
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Caroline also addresses Taleen saying in an interview that the show has changed Brooks and she’s not the same person she was friends with 10 years ago.
“She is so delusional,” Caroline responds. “She said, ‘It changed her,’ as if I’m the season one newbie. Excuse me, I’ve been at this. I brought you into my friend group, and I brought you onto the show I am on. Don’t tell me a camera or something changed me when I’m the very same person. I stuck up for you, and this is what got me to shift, when I saw your behavior being a two-faced person.”
While they have been having a rough time in their relationship, Caroline admits that she would still be friends with her again.
“Can we move on? For sure,” she says. “Will I ever trust her the same? No, but can we get past it? Yeah, because there’s love in my heart for Taleen. So, I think we can. She owes me a very big apology for all of the games and the gaslighting, and she’s continuing to do it, as I can see in interviews.”
“I brought her in with every intention was good in my heart,” Caroline added. “I know this is something she really wanted, so I would do that for her, or for any friend, for that matter, and I don’t regret it. I think that, if anything, she should have a lot of regrets, not me.”
