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In a bizarre moment onstage at BravoCon, Adriana de Moura named the mortician who allegedly slept with Julia Lemigova. Around the same time, Julia revealed her “hour and a half”-long talk with Adriana after a “year of not speaking.”
During the latest Real Housewives of Miami reunion, Adriana claimed that Julia once told her that she went to a local motel and cheated on Martina with a “Haitian mortician” (before gifting the person a coffee maker). The quote earned Adriana a “Who Said That?” award at BravoCon.
During a BravoCon panel, Adriana stood up onstage and declared into the mic, “[Someone] wrote me and found the picture of the Haitian mortician. [Would] that person please stand up? Who has the picture of the Haitian mortician? You have it — I think her name is Melissa. Melissa, please come up.”
“What is going on?” asked Guerdy Abraira, via @morganptalks on Instagram.
“Adriana, when are you gonna start talking about your life?” asked another castmate.
“You’re milking this. It’s exhausting,” said Marysol Patton.
“Carry on without me, I’ll be back,” said Adriana, walking to the side of the stage. At this point, Julia also stood up, and Adriana got the crowd to start chanting, “Haitian mortician! Haitian mortician!”
“That was a guy that I met years ago,” Julia explained. “He was also a beautician. Yeah, he offered me to do free makeup, and I said I’m very much alive. And that was it … I did not cheat on Martina with him.”
Later on, Adriana returned to her seat with a photo of the alleged mortician on a phone. She turned the phone toward the audience, showing a photo of Phaedra Parks, a mortician from Real Housewives of Atlanta.
“The mortician is Phaedra Parks!” said Adriana.
On Saturday, November 15, Julia shared that she had just spoken to Adriana.
“Last night, after a year of not speaking to each other, I walked up to her … at a party,” said Julia in an interview for Us Weekly. “I walked [up to her], and I just said, ‘Hello, Adriana, can we say hello to each other, congratulations on the award, and can we talk?’”
“We started talking. It lasted for, like, almost an hour and a half. We had all the Bravolebrities coming and checking on us with happy eyes,” she continued, adding that Luann de Lesseps and Lisa Barlow supported them. “Everyone was kind of rooting for us, so it’s an open door. We’ll see what happens.”
Julia said both she and Adriana “said and did hurtful things to each other” in the past.
“And if we can admit it, both of us, and move forward, that’s a huge relief,” she went on. “We had a real friendship, which was fractured and damaged in such a massive way. I believe only when it comes from the heart, we can move forward. We can’t continue like that, you know, and we [are] two adults who once had a wonderful friendship. Vegas makes things magical sometimes.”
“I didn’t cheat on Martina with a Haitian mortician,” she said. “I told this story to Adriana, ‘I had a lot of funny stories happening with me throughout my life, and this particular situation was years ago before I met Martina.’ He was actually a magician [or] beautician, and I did not give him a coffee maker.”
Julia claimed Adriana took elements of past stories and “put it all in present tense in one story.”
“So the Haitian mortician ended up being in present tense, somehow with a coffee maker in his pocket,” she said. “It’s funny.”
Kiki Barth told the outlet, “If they make up, I’m happy for it … So many things don’t happen overnight, so it’s gonna take some time if it’s gonna be sincere, but if it’s not sincere, it’s just gonna happen in three minutes and they’re gonna fight again. They need to really take time, think about it, talk about it and if you’re gonna apologize, make sure it’s sincere because things like this take time when you lose trust.”