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Southern Charm star Craig Conover lashed out over criticism of his behavior and insisted he’s not a narcissist in a preview for the second part of the reunion, airing next week.
In the clip, Craig was initially taken to task for yelling at co-star Salley Carson.
“You yelled at me off camera in front of my mother,” she insisted. “You were there. You all were there.”
Craig insisted he didn’t yell at Salley, noting she “cried,” which was “different than yelling.”
“It was about… I called her out on what you guys… Okay, guys, do you not have any bad moments? Like everyone here has,” he continued.
Cast member Whitner Slagsvol was praised by a viewer for his assertion that Austen Kroll has a victim complex and Craig is a narcissist. When asked how he came to that conclusion, he chalked it up to having “eyes and ears.”
Craig had a different stance, though, insisting he is not a narcissist.
“Narcissists are incapable of having empathy,” he explained. “And literally, as an empath, it would be impossible for me to be a narcissist. I do a lot of things wrong, but I’m far from a narcissist.”
He also told Whitner it was his “first season” so he “didn’t know anything about this world.”
“Please stop,” Craig added.
Austen, for his part, doubled down on Whitner’s assertion of Craig’s behavior, insisting he’s a “textbook” narcissist.
“That’s the most insulting – so you don’t think I’m empathetic?” Craig retorted. “It’s really mean to say that about someone. Calling someone a narcissist means they’re incapable of showing empathy. And everything they do is for show.”
He added: “If that’s how you believe about me, then you shouldn’t be friends with me… You’re such a… d***head.”
In a recent interview for Drawn Together with Oona, Craig addressed his declining friendships with both Austen and Shep Rose.
“Austen and I are meant to be people that just brush things under the rug,” he claimed. “Our value systems are different, and our frequencies are different. And it’s the same thing that happened with me and Shep. Like we realize that we’re not supposed to … be in the deepest layers of friendship with each other because we just don’t connect.”
“We weren’t always that way, but … it got to the point where we’re trying to force square pegs into round holes,” he elaborated. “We just weren’t connecting, and we’re at different places in our journeys. And I think the only way from here is up.”