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Brandi Glanville offered updates on her relationships with Scheana Shay and Vicki Gunvalson on Wednesday’s episode of Teresa Giudice‘s podcast.
While addressing the upcoming fourth season of the Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip and the spat she had with Caroline Manzo before their allegedly inappropriate encounter, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum spoke of her former castmates and explained her Instagram “hint” at a return.
“You don’t know until you know. There’s always like, the talk. There’s always talk every season,” Brandi said of a potential return to RHOBH on the April 19 episode of Namaste B$tches. “They reach out to you and see what you have going on because that’s really important for storyline and then you just wait.”
Or, if you’re Brandi, you mess with your social media followers.
As fans may recall, Brandi shared a photo of herself holding a diamond at the end of last year, which convinced many she’d be back for season 13. However, as she’s since explained, the post was baseless.
“I have such a big mouth I’ll be the last person to know. So I just did the diamond thing because I was getting annoyed with it all … I just decided to do that, and everyone’s like ‘Wait what?’ And then [everyone] got mad at me,” she recalled.
Although Brandi has been rumored to be returning on and off for years, she is currently entangled in a scandal after supposedly touching Caroline inappropriately while filming RHUGT season four. In fact, after allegedly traumatizing the former Real Housewives of New Jersey star has lost jobs.
“I had a job, a show coming right when, starting right when I got back, and they were like, ‘We just want to bad press to die down.’ But it’s not dying down,” Brandi shared. “Then some of my social media stuff kinda canceled. Because there’s headline porn and so people read the headlines and they just assume everything’s right.”
“I’ve never been fired from a show except for Housewives in the 12 years I’ve been working so this is like, very traumatic,” she added.
As for what really occurred between her and Caroline, fans will have to wait for the premiere, which Brandi thinks is “in September.” But for now, Brandi has shared what led up to that fateful night.
“Prior to this event, I did have an argument with her,” she admitted. “She brought up my kids. Like, you can’t bring up my kids. She said like, I don’t wanna get into specifics, but how would they feel seeing you like this if they were here? I think that people know my trigger is my kids. I flip a switch, and I want to kill everyone that’s saying anything, and I did with my words … I let her really have it. So yeah, she was pretty upset with me going into the belly-dancing.”
When Brandi was then asked if she felt Caroline had retaliated with her claims against Brandi, Brandi said, “That’s how a lot of the other girls feel.”
Moving on to a game in which she was asked to name the first word that came to mind for each Real Housewives star, Brandi said Kyle Richards was “rich,” Yolanda Hadid was “gorgeous,” Lisa Rinna was “gangster,” Tamra Judge was “sexy,” Teddi Mellencamp was “strategic,” and Phaedra Parks was the “love of [her] life.”
She also threw some shade, saying that Denise Richards, who she claimed to have hooked up with years ago, was a “liar” and that Lisa Vanderpump is “strategic” and a “villain.”
“She’s one of the villains of my life. I will make up with a lot of people, but I can’t with her cuz too much went down,” she explained. “It cost me my life savings to do all of these things to deal with that situation. But at the end of the day if I saw her on the side of the road and she had a flat tire, I would probably still stop and like call AAA but not talk to her.”
“She wouldn’t know it was me,” Brandi added.
Brandi also commented on her relationship with Vicki, describing the Real Housewives of Orange County star as a “boss.”
“I didn’t like her in the beginning, and now we’re like, friends .. She got a really good lap dance from me in Morocco,” she revealed.
As for her status with the Vanderpump Rules cast member who was caught having an affair with her now-ex-husband, Eddie Cibrian, Brandi said she and Scheana are “good now.”
“We actually are friends,” she confirmed.