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Erika Jayne appeared on Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge‘s podcast on Monday, the place she addressed the shady remark she made about Dorit Kemsley, 47, and Paul “PK” Kemsley‘s marriage at BravoCon.
As she additionally opened up about a lot of moments that befell amid filming on the upcoming thirteenth season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Erika, 52, teased drama between beginner Annemarie Wiley and Crystal Kung-Minkoff, 40, and shared why her castmates weren’t current on the opening night time of her residency in Las Vegas.
“[Kyle Richards] is in Europe. Lisa Rinna’s coming. [Lisa and Dorit] are coming next weekend. Everyone has been invited,” Erika confirmed on the August 28 episode of Two Ts in a Pod. “[Sutton Stracke] texted me back. She was in Charleston. It’s summertime, people are doing their thing. I’m here until December. [Garcelle Beauvais] went on an interview and said ‘I’m definitely going to support Erika.’ I texted her. I said, ‘Thank you.’ At the end of the day, when the dust settles, we all want each other to win … Even though you clash, you have differences, at the end of the day, I know for me, I want to surround myself with successful women.”
“I know Kyle roots for me. I know [Teddi] roots for me. [And] I know Dorit roots for me,” she added.
As RHOBH followers will recall, Erika beforehand starred as Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway. And when evaluating the present to her residency, Erika admitted her function as Roxie was tougher “because of the schedule,” which consisted of eight exhibits every week and simply sooner or later off.
“I did 77 out of my 86 shows because COVID cut two weeks off. Broadway is the real deal. Chicago was [rough]. You and an orchestra. Good luck, honey,” she joked.
While Teddi was the one RHOBH alum current on opening night time, Erika mentioned she didn’t need anybody to return.
“I never want anyone to come to opening night because you’re wracked with nerves,” she shared. “Yes, you have rehearsed, but it’s never gone off in front of an audience because you don’t know what lands. So that’s what I’m really looking for. Also, those opening night nerves can f*ck you up but it went off beautifully. After you get that one show under your belt, then you start to settle in … I felt good about it.”
And so did her pals.
“There were so many tears opening night, everyone cried but me. Everyone cried for me,” she revealed. “I watched a lot of people like, ‘I’m so proud of you. This is wonderful,’ And tears were coming out of their eyes. I had to take it all in … It was about ‘Hold your head up, moving on.’”
Looking forward to the brand new season, Erika described it as “somber” earlier than giving a nod to Kyle’s marital drama.
“I feel bad for our girl Kyle because she needs to stay out of it. To me, having gone through what I went through, let her tell me what she wants to tell me,” Erika famous. “The reality is, nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors. She’s gonna tell me what I need to know. I’ve known this woman for a long time. She’s been good to me at very rough times in my life. If you think I’m going to butt in, it’s not who I am. [But] she did [share some things with me on the show].”
As for her personal storyline, Erika mentioned followers will see a calmer facet of her.
“I just didn’t want to engage in the fighting,” she defined. “Everybody needs to step up. I don’t like the spotlight being on one person… Where are the rest of you stepping up and showing where you’re struggling or you have compassion? I don’t like it when people try to read the audience.”
Erika was notably impressed by the best way Lisa, 60, stored it actual along with her amid her authorized drama.
“She said to me, ‘Look, Erika, I’m sticking by you but if it turns out another way…’ I respect that. She said, ‘You know what, I’m gonna walk alongside you,’” Erika recalled. “I don’t need anybody to hold my hand but what I do need is for when I say, ‘Please listen,’ that’s all I’m really looking for.”
While Erika and Crystal have had their points in previous seasons, Erika mentioned she’s “finding her way.”
“I think she’s shown that more this year… but I think that Crystal… She hesitates in the moment [but] I think she’s found her voice more and more,” she reasoned.
One individual Crystal didn’t mesh nicely with amid season 13 is Annemarie.
“Annamarie laid it on Crystal and… She came in mid- to three-quarters through She’s a cool chick. I didn’t think she had it tough at all. I thought she laid the smackdown on Crystal,” Erika disclosed. “She said something in Spain, I was like, ‘Oh,’ she said, ‘I made you relevant.’”
When Erika was then requested about Bethenny’s current allegations in opposition to Bravo, which embody exploitation of its expertise and requires unionization amongst actuality stars, she denied having been coaxed into doing something she didn’t need to do by the community or her producers.
“I’m an adult woman. I make choices. I’ve never had a producer say to me, ‘You need to go chew somebody up,’ or, ‘You need to drink some more,’” she said. “I’ve always done whatever I needed to do. I remember when [Camille Grammer] was on the reunion and she blamed production and [Andy Cohen] said, ‘Hold on a second. You have free will.’ And that is true. I have in many instances said ‘You know what, I don’t see it like that. I’m not gonna do that.’ Nobody ever says to me, ‘Hey, you need this shot.’”
That mentioned, Erika does really feel that actuality stars ought to get residuals and agrees with a number of the issues Bethenny, 52, has mentioned.
“And then on other things, I’m like, ‘If you hated TV and it was so bad, why would we continue to conversation?’ She’s made enough money to do her own thing. You did really well and you have reality TV to thank for that. I cannot sh*t on [RHOBH]. I have a Vegas residency because of [RHOBH]. I’m a New York Times Bestseller because of [RHOBH],” Erika reasoned.
Earlier this yr, the RHOBH solid traveled to Las Vegas to attend a “Magic Mike” present. And whereas they appeared to have had a good time on the occasion, Erika mentioned Sutton, 51, was “offended,” or at the very least acted that manner, by the efficiency.
“It felt very inauthentic if you know what I mean… It felt very forced and produced,” Erika said of her co-star’s habits. “We’re talking about someone who had a stack of bills and wanted to have a good time.”
According to Erika, her longtime artistic director Mikey’s companion, who stars in “Magic Mike,” organized for her and her castmates to go to the present, and they had been excited to take a solid picture. However, Sutton’s antics put a wrench in their plans.
“Sutton showed out and showed her a** and threw a tantrum and I think the thing I was most disappointed in, not Sutton throwing a tantrum, which is pretty much par for the course, but the way the other girls ran to her and like, ‘Oh my god, oh my god,’ except Dorit,” Erika recalled. “The last two people having fun at Magic Mike were Dorit and myself. You know what you’re walking into. She was the one that wanted to go live her best Vegas life, and we had arranged it with the producer to make sure every girl got a chance on stage with a Mike. Kyle did Candy Shop and Crystal and I did something together. I know them and they’re my friends. They’ve worked for me.”
Continuing on, Erika confirmed Sutton was not inappropriately touched.
“Absolutely not, less than zero, negative,” she clarified. “We were there to have a good time and so they were very upset. The PR for Magic Mike got in my a**. I was disappointed in that.”
Also talking of Sutton, Erika mentioned she hopes she and Garcelle, 56, will enable themselves to shine extra as people in the brand new season.
“I do feel like yes, I would like to see them have their own individual voices,” she mentioned after Teddi requested if she felt Sutton and Garcelle are those who pander most on Twitter.
Moving on to Dorit and PK, Erika mentioned that when she named them as the following RHOBH couple who would divorce, she was utterly unaware of their marital turmoil.
“It bothers me very much because I didn’t know they were having problems,” she admitted. “I was being in the moment, and if you look back, you hear me say, ‘I don’t want to answer this question.’ And Andy says, ‘You got to do it.’”
Erika mentioned she knew Dorit took it badly when she texted her and received no response.
“Dorit also reveals some other things that happened to her post-home invasion that were pretty heavy, and had I known that, I would’ve never f*cking said it,” she added. “It comes out that Kyle and Mauricio were struggling, Dorit and PK were struggling in their marriages. I didn’t know.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 13 is anticipated to premiere on Bravo someday this fall.
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