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The Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny Frankel hinted at “fraud” and “abuse” amid her past divorce, shared that she went through “torture,” and revealed she was called “Ursula the Witch.”
In 2010, Bethenny married Jason Hoppy, the father of her daughter Bryn. Their contentious divorce lasted a decade. Bethenny’s first husband was Peter Sussman, who she divorced in 1997.
On Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast, Bethenny suggested that her divorce was the hardest thing she’s lived through.
“Literally, I have seen my mother slit her wrists. I have lived a life, my whole life of chasing her into bathrooms, trying to catch her throwing up. I’ve been around guns, the mafia, the racetrack. I’ve been through everything. I’ve seen her beaten with an inch of her life with a phone. I have seen everything. Nothing compares to what my divorce was for 10 years,” she said. “That is child’s play compared to the trauma of someone wanting to torture you and telling you that they’re going to do it.”
“And you are the person who’s more successful. So you look like the powerhouse tyrant … Optics look like this person’s just a victim and someone … with the pawn as a child, like it is so important. It was so traumatic,” she went on. “I lost hair. I thought I would never survive it. I didn’t want to. I had to because of my daughter. I literally thought I’ll never be happy again.”
Bethenny said she treated it “like a marathon.”
“I went one mile at a time. And I checked every box. I mean … it was fraud. It was stealing. It was hacking. It was harassment. It was abuse. It was Googling me 60 times a day. It was staying in bed and staring into my face. It was calling me every bad character in the books, ‘Ursula the Witch, and you’re ugly.’ And it was torture,” she said. “It was millions of dollars … Like it was literally FaceTime to a toilet cause like so I couldn’t talk to my daughter, ‘I know, Bryn, I know you don’t want to go with your mama.’ It was torment from one minute to the last minute of the 10th year. I can, and I don’t even care if I get sued … Every woman needs to know, do not f**k around and find out. It was the worst thing I could ever wish upon a person.”
But Bethenny said she “never talked bad” about him in front of their daughter.
“Your kids will become cognizant, and they will understand you don’t have to say it to them. You don’t have to prove it to them,” she explained. “You should never ever say a bad thing about the other parent ever because it is the worst thing you could do to a child.”