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Britani Bateman reacted to Meredith Marks’ claim that she supported a bigot. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star said Meredith used this as an “excuse” for “bullying” her, as Britani shared what else Meredith allegedly told her off-camera.
In the latest reunion episode, Meredith suggested that she reacted passionately to Britani this season because they fought off-camera beforehand. According to Meredith, she confronted Britani for publicly supporting a bigot. But Britani claimed that she didn’t know the man’s offensive history, and that she denounced him when she found out.
On The Julia Cunningham Show, Britani shared her reaction to Meredith’s accusation.
“I was in shock. I mean, this is the first time I’ve spoken to it,” said Britani. “You guys are the very first people to hear it out of my mouth. I’m still kind of in a really dark place, having watched that back with the rest of the world last night. I think it’s really a low blow.”
“Because there’s nothing worse than accusing someone of hating a whole race of people, a whole group of people, for no reason. That’s what being bigoted is, is to hate someone before you even know them,” she added. “And I don’t hate anybody. … I feel like it was the perfect diversion for her.”
Britani said it makes her “mad” because Meredith “brought this up months prior.”
“She used this as an excuse to be bullying me at the beginning of the season,” she said. “And we hashed it out off camera, and she told me … ‘Look, I may have overreacted, but I feel like I got death threats when I did my bat mitzvah.’ … And [then] we ended [it] so well. I apologized profusely, and we ended this. It was done and buried. And so for her to bring this up as an excuse to bully me on the plane, as like, ‘Well, she deserved it, because…’ That’s what made me lose my mind.”
“The math wasn’t mathing, to pull a Lisa line,” she continued. “I realize I will never see an apology from Meredith over anything ever, so I’m not even waiting around for that. I’m just so disappointed, I guess, that someone would go that low and on national television … You can’t come back from that … It’s a cruel … and I will not accept an apology for that ever. It’s not okay. I will never be in her presence again.”
Britani said she “won’t film with her” again.
New episodes of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City air Tuesday nights on Bravo.