After a season of controversial behavior, Ramona Singer was called out on social media, and many fans hoped for her firing from Real Housewives of New York.
After the ‘OG’ made an allegedly racist comment, Eboni K. Williams filed a complaint to Bravo. This set in motion an investigation, which eventually cleared Ramona’s name. Many fans, however, are still holding pitchforks.
However, in an interview with Page Six, Eboni revealed she does not think Ramona should be fired. “If I’m just looking at what was on the show, I don’t think anything on the show warrants the firing of Ramona,” she said. “That is my opinion.”
She went on to say, “Andy [Cohen] kind of speaks to this in different interviews — and I agree with him: Ramona’s way of thinking and the way she presents on the show is very representative of a significant portion of our country, OK?”
“If the answer is, ‘Well, we don’t like that,’ or, ‘We’re going to decide that is not “mainstream” and we’re going to silence it,’” she added. “[Then], personally, I think that’s where radicalization and other really dangerous things take place.”
Eboni even went a step further: “The gag is I enjoy Ramona Singer, I really do. There’s a lot of quirky personality elements that we actually share in terms of taste and lifestyle. We’re both savvy businesswomen, we’re both about our coins, we’re both about being self-made… We have points of connectivity, fun and similarities.”
However, Eboni also is aware of Ramona’s “limitations.” She expressed, “You see it in the scene last season where we’re in her apartment and we reach an impasse as to whether she can have a celebratory moment for a woman in the White House in the capacity of vice president.”
“[Politically,] she had some of her facts wrong, but that’s OK because that’s what happens when you cram!” she laughed. “But I [didn’t want to leave her apartment] because I believe better of Ramona. I believe Ramona can sit there like a big girl and have a conversation that doesn’t have agreement, and still enjoy her champagne and have a lovely night with a friend.”
The attorney wants to “have some fun” with Ramona in a new season of the show.
Eboni also recalled an uncomfortable moment in the past: “I reposted a photo Ramona had posted of me and her in the Hamptons [last year]… I thought it was a cute photo and we were new friends. And Sonja [Morgan] and Luann said I was being silly and getting played because Ramona was using me… to change a narrative that is already out there that Ramona has a problem with black people.”
The Bravolebrity said she was “shocked, not because I never heard it before in the ethos, but because this was Sonja, her friend of 30 years, and Luann, her friend of 20 years, who were saying that to me.”
She continued, “I don’t have enough experience with Ramona Singer to have any thought about her relationship with race… It’s from her lifelong friends and castmates in which that thought was planted, really, into the relationship.”
Eboni said she wants to leave their conflict in the past. “We know we’re limited. So there’s no need to revisit [our conflict] because I did my ‘investigation,’ if you will, during the season, to kind of kick the tires,” said the star. “Where is there similarity and where is there discord? And now that we are all clearly established around that, let’s have some fun.”
When a new season airs, perhaps viewers will see if the dust actually settled.
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