Tamra Judge Says RHOC Cast is ‘Poking Her to Explode’ as She Tries to “Pull Back” From Drama

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Tamra Judge suggested her costars are “pok[ing] at” her to “get [her] to explode” on the Real Housewives of Orange County, after she decided to “pull back” from “caus[ing] a lot of drama.”

She also questioned if Real Housewives of Miami’s Julia Lemigova “jump[ed] ship” on her bestie Adriana de Moura to be “friends with the cool girls.”

On the new season of RHOC, Tamra has hinted that her time in therapy changed her behavior towards castmates. But many of her costars believe she’s still the same Tamra.

Meanwhile, on the Real Housewives of Miami, Adriana called costar Kiki Barth “ratchet,” but later claimed she meant “wretched.” In a later episode, she insinuated that Kiki thought she was racist for using the word – and she seemingly asked a friend named Carole to vouch for her character. Kiki, however, said she never made the accusation. Around the same time, Julia seemingly stepped away from her friendship with Adriana while cozying up to Marysol Patton and Alexia Nepola.

On Two Ts in a Pod, Tamra addressed the friendship fallout between Adriana and Julia.

“Do you think at this point [that] Julia even likes Adriana at all?” asked cohost Teddi Mellencamp.

“I don’t know if something happened off-season or if she saw that Adriana got so much hate that she decided to jump ship and become friends with the cool girls,” Tamra answered.

“Julia says it’s difficult to be around [Adriana] because she’s not fun anymore,” said Teddi.

At this point, Tamra alluded to her own drama.

“I feel, you know, just from experience, that when you are outspoken and when you are the one that causes a lot of drama on the show, and then you pull back — which is happening to me right now — people are going to poke at you to try to get you to explode,” said Tamra. “By [Adriana] pulling in Carol into this mess, it was kind of cringe. I think that she made up the racism accusation. Kiki’s like, ‘I never called you a racist on or off-camera.'”

“So somebody must be in her ear,” said Teddi. “Now she’s out to try to defend herself, but all she’s doing is making herself look worse.”

Tamra added, “I think Adriana played it all wrong.”