Noella Bergener believes it is Emily Simpson, not Shannon Beador, who is jealous of the blossoming friendship between Gina Kirschenheiter and Heather Dubrow — and for a good reason.
As jealousy claims continued to fly on new episodes of The Real Housewives of Orange County, Noella revealed what Emily said about Gina and Heather’s trip to New York City before Shannon accused Emily of projecting and suggested she tells Gina everything that goes down between the group.
“Emily actually admitted that at [Shannon’s] cooking party,” Noella revealed on the March 17 episode of the RHOC: After Show amid a discussion about Emily’s potential jealousy. “She actually was at the table saying that, ‘I feel a sort of way because I brought Gina to meet my parents so I figured when Gina was going to do a meet the parents moment, it would be me because we’ve had that.'”
As Noella noted, Emily made it quite clear that she was upset that her kind gesture wasn’t reciprocated. However, when it came time to address the matter, she turned the tables and suggested it was Shannon who couldn’t handle how much fun Gina and Heather were having.
“She kind of twisted it like that there was jealousy towards [Shannon] in the phone call, where really, the reality was the only person who expressed any feelings in a negative way about this trip was Emily,” Noella shared. “It was interesting that Emily twisted it and said there’s all these feelings with Shannon. It’s like, ‘But there wasn’t. If anyone had feelings, it was you.'”
While Shannon has maintained that, despite Emily’s suggestion, she is not jealous of Gina, she felt the need to address the situation with Gina directly, especially since it made much more sense that Emily was projecting.
“In this group, I’ve seen stuff happen like this before. So had I not said anything, it could have percolated into some big idea so I don’t want to give the idea that I’m jealous of Gina’s life. So I’m going to nip it in the bud,” Shannon explained. “I found it interesting because I’m not best friends with Gina or Heather. I don’t care that they have a friendship. But Emily is one of Gina’s best friends. So I think actually Emily was jealous and she was trying to project it on me.”
Shanon went on to say that while Emily wasn’t necessarily twisting things, she seemed to be creating a concept that didn’t actually exist.
“What she does is if you’re in a situation with her, like we were at my chef party, and you say something, she reports back to Gina. And if I’m having a dinner party with Emily, [Dr. Jen Armstrong] and Noella, you don’t need to report back everything that was said. I was just trying to liven up our night and have fun and by reporting back to Gina what I said, you’re making an issue out of it and you’re making it seem as though I’m creating some sort of competition, which was never the intention,” Shannon added.
The Real Housewives of Orange County season 16 airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.
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