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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Sutton Stracke gushed over Erika Jayne while teasing the upcoming RHOBH reunion in recent interviews.
While Sutton and Erika didn’t always see eye to eye in seasons past, they worked on their issues and are in a great place.
“Erika and I did not end our [season 14] reunion well,” Sutton told OK! Magazine. “I wasn’t quite sure how this was going to go. I think we both treated each other with kid gloves and walked in gently to the friendship with one another. It has paid off.”
“We really got to know each other well. We enjoy each other’s company and that’s been really fun. She’s smart and she’s actually a really good friend. I’ve loved getting to know that side of her. It’s been really nice. So that was a big surprise for me, but also a really joyful one.”
Sutton also admitted that, before the currently airing 15th season began, she reflected on some ways she needed to change.
“After last season and kind of that abrupt end, I needed to take a break and reset a lot of things,” she revealed. “I had to go back to my roots and just focus on that. I wanted to celebrate my children… I was getting ready for this next era of my life. I knew that I needed to go into it without being so reactionary and so prickly.”
Sutton also addressed the upcoming RHOBH reunion in a conversation with US Weekly.
While she noted there were “some resolutions,” Sutton revealed she was “not in the hot seat this year.”
“That was kind of fun, to not be so stressed out for the reunion,” she explained.
As for who was under the gun, Sutton admitted it was Kyle Richards and Dorit Kemsley due to the former friends continuing to feud.
“Well, they made it out alive,” Sutton noted. “Like, everybody that’s been watching this show, it’s been hard for me to watch their relationship. It’s never fun to watch anybody’s relationship go through this.”
Newbie Amanda Frances, who has been widely scrutinized by fans and the other Housewives, was also in the hot seat, according to Sutton.
“I found her kind of grating at times, and I think she needed to sort of understand how to speak to all of us,” Sutton claimed. “What we thought was important, she didn’t think was important. We didn’t care about the labels. We didn’t care about her business. We really, really wanted to know her. And I think there was some takeaway there, because she’s actually a good girl.”
Regardless of Sutton not being in the hot seat, she did cop to participating a ton in the reunion.
“I was chiming in. I think because I wasn’t in the hot seat, I wasn’t as nervous,” she said. “I think all season, I’ve just been just relaxed, and I’m just in a different place. I’m like, ‘OK, well, let’s talk about it in a very calm manner.’”
She also reflected on her season as a whole, sharing, “I think I proved to myself that if you take your time, if you listen first, take a breath and then speak smartly, and say what you need to say, instead of being reactionary, it really does work most of the time. It’s not fail-proof. I mean, I had mistakes, of course. I’m human, but I think I made some strides, and that I am continuing to work on.”