'Real Housewives of Orange County' Star Tamra Judge Reflects On Season 19 Reunion: 'It Felt Like An Attack'
Real Housewives of Orange County star Tamra Judge is reflecting on the recent season 19 reunion and how she feels about her castmates in the aftermath.
The 58-year-old reality star admitted to Jeff Lewis on his SiriusXM podcast that the reunion “felt like an attack.”
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Tamra came under significant scrutiny in the three-parter, though particularly the final hour, because of a mysterious call some of the cast received at the end of the season accusing Tamra of leaking storylines to bloggers while they were filming.
But even more significant is what happened with Gretchen Rossi. After being accused of liking dozens of homophobic and transphobic posts on social media, Gretchen claimed to have hired a cyber analyst who linked the specific accounts to Tamra.
In an hour that left many viewers baffled, we watched as the majority of the cast seemed to find it more believable that Tamra somehow manufactured Gretchen‘s Instagram likes than Gretchen herself liking the posts. Many fans felt like they were being gaslit by the show with how Tamra was treated by the others and host Andy Cohen vs. Gretchen‘s treatment.
At one point, Tamra even claimed she would sue Gretchen for some of the things she said about her that season and she addressed the claim on Jeff‘s show, saying, “Stay tuned.”
As for the stuff about bloggers, she responded to those accusations, too.
“That’s a no. No. What would I get out of it? Someone on the cast I won’t name said, ‘You do it so bloggers are nice to you.’ And I said, ‘What f–king blogger’s nice to me?’ I have like three, and they have like 200 followers. It’s ridiculous.”
“The first two days after the reunion, I couldn’t even move … I just sat there … I couldn’t function. I just couldn’t believe what was going on or what had happened,” she said. “So it was tough. Even two weeks after, it was still in my head. I’m like, ‘Why? But why? Why did this happen?’”
Tamra continued, “It was hard, especially from certain people on the cast that I have been very kind to and didn’t know where this was coming from … it’s going after my character and [saying] that I can’t be trusted.”
Ultimately, she says she no longer trusts any of the other housewives. That being said, she did add that her fellow housewife Heather Dubrow was there for and would call her.
Find out how Tamra reacted to Jennifer Lawrence labeling her the most “toxic” housewife. Plus, guess who is returning for season 20?