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Was Ramona Singer truly fired from The Real Housewives of New York City?
Weeks after the collection OG introduced she wouldn’t be featured on the upcoming RHONY: Legacy collection, Ramona is setting the report straight about her departure whereas additionally sharing her favourite reminiscence of the present and teasing her future return to the franchise.
“I don’t think anybody’s been signed yet. I don’t really know. I just know I think Bravo does a great job with everything,” Ramona mentioned on the December 7 episode of Access Hollywood‘s Housewives Nightcap after being requested concerning the firing rumors. “But at this point, for me, I want to do other things.”
According to Ramona, her life doesn’t revolve round RHONY, and he or she had grown tired of the idea.
“Sometimes when I film, I get bored, and I gotta do something to stir things up, and then I get in trouble for stirring it up, but it’s good for ratings, and fans get like a bad opinion of me, and I just want to do other things that are more genuine to me,” she defined.” Since I ended filming, I’m a calmer individual. I’m a greater individual. I’m extra relaxed, and that’s necessary. I used to be slightly too hyper.”
“My life without the cameras is still extremely full,” Ramona continued, continuing to shade ex-Real Housewives who aren’t so completely satisfied they’re not featured.
“Some women I know from, whether it be our show or other shows, if they don’t do the show, they feel very empty and lost, and my life is so full,” she mentioned. “I’m going nonstop, and I’m living my best life.”
As for her favourite reminiscence, Ramona shared, “The turtle time! That was actually an Emmy moment, and I’m known for that.”
Regarding her resolution to stroll away from the franchise after 13 seasons, Ramona mentioned that whereas she has sufficient power to maintain up, she felt a break was wanted earlier than addressing a future return.
“I’m 66-years-old. I feel like I’m 25, and I think I only look 40, and I have more energy than my daughter, and she’s 27. [But] you’ve gotta keep it moving, and I’ve done the show for so long. I need to take a break. Not to say I won’t go back at some point,” she teased.
Ramona then spoke of her courting life, saying she made an inventory of the 20 attribute she desires in a person.
“I’ve always been very focused,” she said. “I wanted a house in The Hamptons where I wanted it. I wanted a New York City apartment where I wanted it and I got it. I manifest it. I’ve done things in business … I’ve manifested everything in my life. I’ve never manifested what I want in a man, and that’s what I‘m doing now, and it seems to be working.”
While Bethenny Frankel has gotten a variety of backlash over the launch of her ReWives podcast, from the likes of Andy Cohen and Luann de Lesseps, the latter of whom slammed the transfer as “pathetic,” Ramona had solely good issues to say.
“I think Bethenny’s brilliant,” she proclaimed. “She always has a pulse of what’s going on right now. When she started the show she was just kind of struggling, and she actually took the show and that platform and took it to a whole [other] level. So I support all her endeavors.”
As Andy and his crew put together for the 2023 premiere of RHONY season 14 with an all-new solid, Ramona is admitting that whereas she understands they’re aiming for a youthful crew, two of whom she’s met, the total revamp is upsetting.
“The one thing that upsets me is when I spent 16 years building something to have it kind of knocked down and start completely fresh, that does make me upset because I put my heart and soul in it,” she defined. “So did Luann. So did Bethenny. We really built something, and I think some of the fans are disappointed too but change is good at times, and time will tell.”
After her November departure from the present, Ramona mentioned quite a few her former castmates informed her, “We’re gonna miss you.”
“We grew up together. These women are my friends,” she famous of her ex-co-stars. “I actually was supposed to have lunch with [Dorinda Medley] today, but she has a really bad cold. Luann may be [at an event I’m attending tomorrow]. [Jill Zarin] lives in my building. We talk all the time. And [Sonja Morgan], well, Sonja’s always busy trotting all over, so I don’t really get a chance to see Sonja but Sonja’s great. We keep in touch.”
As for what she’ll be doing now that she received’t be filming, Ramona mentioned she’s decided to take pleasure in life.
“I’m healthy. I have the money. I have the means, and I have the friends, and I get invited everywhere. I mean I really do have 50 plus friends,” she insisted. “I have this one girlfriend and husband. They invited me to go up to Ibiza. I went up in their yacht for 10 days. Another girlfriend had me stay in her place in Aspen. I get invited to go all over. And I’m just living my best life.”
She’s additionally beginning a brand new podcast along with her daughter Avery Singer. But, as she confirmed, it’s “not a Housewives podcast.”
“It’s about different generational viewpoints, where it’s dating, marriage, divorce, entrepreneurship, business, finance, lifestyle, [and] cooking,” Ramona described. “I have a lot of things in the fire, but this is something very special because Avery and I do have a special bond. Viewers are going to get a taste of me, and they’re gonna learn things they’ve always wanted to know.”
“It’s going to be really entertaining and fun and knowledgable,” she added.
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