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Bradley Carter spoke about the Southern Hospitality reunion and his messy falling out with Emmy Sharrett during an interview on Wednesday.
On the heels of a series of leaked text messages that Emmy sent to their co-star, Michols Peña, amid filming on season four, in which she claimed Bradley made her feel “unsafe” and suggested she could sue him for illegally recording a private conversation, Bradley confirmed the end of their friendship and revealed if she was a racist while also praising girlfriend Julia Burgio for having his back.
“The reunion was very therapeutic for a lot of different reasons, but I don’t know if it was productive. It feels like it wasn’t a period at the end of the sentence. It was still like, dot, dot, dot,” Bradley admitted to Entertainment Tonight‘s Brice Sander on May 6. “And I don’t know where we’re gonna go from here.”
What Bradley did know was that his friendship with Emmy was “no longer existent.”
Although Emmy had said that when it came to her and Bradley’s future relationship, it was “all or nothing,” Bradley said it was “definitely nothing.”
“I don’t value any friends that are able to apologize and then walk it back over and over again. Maybe a little bit of grace, maybe one time, but after it’s gone to the extent that it has, I don’t think there’s a place for us to have a friendship, which is tough,” he explained. “And the reason that a lot of this hurts is because I’ve had dinner in her family’s house. We’ve been friends for years. We’ve been best friends for years, and even in Folly Beach, whether she was being honest or not, she said I was supposed to be a groomsman, and I do believe that at one point.”
“But now,” he continued, “that’s not someone that I want in my corner and that hurts.”
As for whether Emmy was a racist, Bradley said he didn’t think she was.
“I think there’s very different forms of racism. I think there’s covert racism and then there’s a little bit more extraverted. I don’t think she’s an overt racist person, but I think that there are some tendencies that she needs to check and that she needs to understand that those words that you say hold a lot of weight, especially in the south,” he clarified.
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Moving on to Julia, Bradley said it felt good to see her have his back against Emmy.
“I know that I have a partner that’s willing to stand up for me, right or wrong or indifferent, and that is so powerful. For me, I was looking at her, of course, proud, but also like almost brought to tears because wow, I have a girlfriend that is willing to stand up for me, love me, and champion me no matter what the situation is and that means the world,” he gushed. “I think the way that she spoke to Emmy and was trying to explain to her for the fifth time that, ‘What you’re saying is wrong, and it’s wrong because of x, y, and z,’ is the perfect example of how you can stand up for your partner when they’re not able to stand up for themselves. Because I wish I could have said all of those things to Emmy.”
According to Bradley, Julia is “The One.”
“She’s unlike any girl that I’ve met before, and the way that she loves me and the way that we love on each other and lean on each other through it all is special,” he shared.
Still, he wasn’t ready for an engagement quite yet.
“We’re not ready for a ring yet, but she’s definitely The One,” he stated.
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Southern Hospitality season four airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.