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Adriana de Moura is opening up about the threat she made against Julia Lemigova on the finale episode of The Real Housewives of Miami season seven.
While also looking back on her diss against Marysol Patton‘s knees, accusing Marysol, 58, of being “very conniving,” and discussing a potential mending of their friendship, Adriana, 59, offered an update on her relationship with Kiki Barth, 36, revealed Martina Navratilova, 68, was once “done” with Julia, 53, recalled Julia bragging about affairs and labeling Martina “boring,” and reacted to Julia claiming she blackmailed her.
“That was what [Julia] did,” Adriana said during an October 15 interview with Entertainment Tonight. “She’s weaponizing sexuality. That’s what saddens me the most. Being an ally to this gay community … I’m not gay, but if I were, do you know the consequences of being outed on national television in that manner?”
After being asked if her finale threat was in regard to her claim that Julia had an affair with a Haitian mortician, Adriana confirmed it was not. According to Julia, what she was going to disclose had to do with Julia’s facelift.
“When she left Martina, fighting not one but two cancers, and decided to leave Martina to go in New York to go to Paris to have a full facelift, and when I told her, ‘Julia, don’t do that. That’s not going to look good if somebody finds out,’ she says, ‘Oh,’ because she gets angry,” she shared. “Now, finally, people are seeing her true reaction. She doesn’t like to be called out, and she gets very aggressive when you call her out.”
“So she got really aggressive and she said, ‘This was scheduled, and what difference does it make? And I’m gonna say I’m gonna go see my daughter,’” Adriana alleged. “And the daughter had to leave school every day and be her nurse. [Julia] was using her daughter to be her nurse while Martina is alone in New York City, fighting two cancers. So who does that? She’s so selfish.”
“So that was my big bomb,” she continued. “It was nothing to do with sexuality, with hooking up, with her affairs that she has had for many times.”
Looking back at Julia’s alleged cheating, Adriana said Martina left Julia more than once.
“She had an affair when they were living in Paris, and Martina left her for good,” she shared. “She had to grovel to Martina for four months to forgive her and bring her back. It’s a pattern of behavior. That’s who she truly is.”
As for how she knew about Julia’s reported affair with the Haitian mortician, Adriana said Julia told her in her backyard over a glass of wine.
“She was just bragging about it. She was just saying how Martina was annoying and boring, and Martina wasn’t fun, because Julia’s all about the fun. And how she had these lovers, and then she’s talking about the Haitian lover and the cop lover,” Adriana explained.
While Adriana and Julia were once close friends, Adriana now feels like her victim.
“I feel like I was the victim of her intent to ‘friend-gage’ me and then later, use this, having a trump card in her pocket when she needed to come for me,” she reasoned.
Then, when asked if she would return to RHOM for season eight if Julia remained on the cast, Adriana appeared open to the idea.
“Trust has been broken. I think the world can see her for who she truly is at this point. I believe in second chances, at the same time, if there was a lot of repenting and apologizing and not wanting to be this person, perhaps, we could mend things,” she posed. “But the real Julia is out now. She has now proven that she is not the representation. She doesn’t have the sensitivities, doesn’t conduct [herself] by the unspoken codes of the LGBTQ+ community.”
“She’s showing her true colors, and her colors are not the colors you find in the rainbow flag,” Adriana added.
Moving on to Marysol, Adriana admitted that calling out her “wrinkled knees” wasn’t her proudest moment.
“I was triggered. I was reactive. I felt very hurt by Marysol when she refused to film with me, and it started from day one of filming. She was just actively forbidding [Alexia Nepola] to let me come to their events, so I was triggered, but am I proud of it? No,” she explained.
Despite their season seven hardships, Adriana admitted that Marysol is someone she wishes she could reconcile with.
“We were on the path of reconciliation, and I was feeling pretty happy about it until people got in the middle and it got all muddled up again,” she shared.
Most notably, Adriana and Marysol butted heads over the “wretched” vs “ratchet” drama between Adriana and Kiki, which saw Adriana calling Kiki “ratchet” before later saying, at the alleged encouragement of Marysol, that she meant “wretched.”
“I actually just confided in her. I was distraught. She used that opportunity, because Marysol is very conniving, and just pulled it out on the phone, and I said exactly that, and she says, ‘Now you owe me,’” Adriana recalled of Marysol giving her an out before throwing it in her face. “But I’m saying … How can she teach me the meaning of a word when she doesn’t even know the difference between stigma and astigmatism?”
As for how she and Kiki are today, Adriana confirmed they’re in a good place and have a “good rapport.”
“She understood that that didn’t come from a malicious place, even the way I delivered it. I wish I had just used the word ‘miserable’ that I intended to say. But Kiki, thank God, saw the intention, and I saw her intention, so we’re good,” she stated.
The Real Housewives of Miami‘s season seven reunion concludes tonight, October 16, at 9/8c on Bravo.