Lisa Barlow isn’t a fan of Meredith Marks and Jen Shah‘s friendship. In fact, she’s utterly disgusted by the women’ relationship, saying in a brand new interview that it’s “gross” and “fake.”
Ahead of this week’s season three premiere of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Lisa admitted that whereas she spent a 12 months and a half performing as a “go-between” in hopes of building a friendship between her castmates, she doesn’t perceive how Meredith was abruptly okay along with her household, together with son Brooks Marks, being “terrorized online.”
“It’s kind of gross,” Lisa admitted to Us Weekly on September 26.
According to Lisa, Meredith and Jen not solely established a friendship however really teamed up in opposition to her.
“They literally took that hot mic moment and clung to it and were, like, rewriting history,” she alleged. “It’s complete faux, fake, fraud, all those things. Like, it is literally ridiculous. Like, how do you go from having those strong feelings, Meredith gloating in the bathtub with a glass of champagne just waiting for Jen’s demise, and then all the sudden they’re best friends?”
While Meredith and Jen’s friendship left Lisa scratching her head, she wasn’t as stunned by her newfound relationship with Whitney Rose, saying that they’d a extremely nice chat throughout a forged journey to Arizona.
“I think that was a turning point… I really started to see Whitney in a different light and for who Whitney is,” she defined, noting that her relationship with Heather Gay continues to be “not where it could be or should be.”
In addition to the altering relationship dynamics, Lisa shared, additionally with Us Weekly, that viewers ought to count on to see “retaliation” on RHOSLC season three.
“Right off the bat, it was like, ice Lisa out, be super cold to Lisa and punish her,” Lisa revealed. “I did feel like a little bit of an outsider… That was a little like, mean girl, high school.”
Although Lisa confirmed she took “full responsibility” for her sizzling mic second and insisted she “wanted to repair” her friendship with Meredith, she added that “there’s only so much you can do before it gets to a point where you’re like, ‘I don’t need this.’”
“I was venting out of hurt, not out of anger, it wasn’t malicious. I was hurt. Like, I was hurting and for me, I was like, ‘No one’s asking me why I’m upset,’” Lisa continued. “I said horrible things out of hurt. I’ve apologized like 22 times and for me, I’m like, ‘I’ll take accountability for what I said and did…’ But it doesn’t negate the fact that there was a lot of hurtful things said and done, and not just to Meredith but to me too.”
Lisa went on to say that whereas she and Meredith obtained “to a good place” amid filming, she famous that the “nitpicking” didn’t cease.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season three premieres Wednesday, September 28, at 9/8c on Bravo.
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