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Brian Pontarelli‘s rumored mistress, Beth Walker, had a telling message for his wife, Rulla Pontarelli, on Instagram on Sunday night.
After seeing that Rulla had targeted her Real Housewives of Rhode Island co-star, Jo-Ellen Tiberi, in an interview, alleging that she had done harm to Brian’s reputation amid filming on season one of their Bravo reality show, Beth posted a comment in which she reacted to Rulla’s statements about Brian’s communication with Jo-Ellen’s employer.
“This whole work thing was not anything that I had to do with. I will never take the blame for something I had zero participation in,” Rulla began in a May 17 interview with Parade.
According to Rulla, she was present during Brian’s conversation with Jo-Ellen’s boss, but not part of it.
“My husband Brian and her boss at the time had been friends for 20 years, and the boss knew that we were filming the show together. So Brian had spoken with him on that given day, and then the boss said something along the lines of — I’m getting this from Brian, and I was in earshot of the conversation, so I only heard Brian’s side and not the other side — he had said something like, ‘How is it going with that one? You’re filming with her and your husband, aren’t you?’” she recalled.
After being asked about Jo-Ellen’s on-camera behavior, which included many statements about Brian’s reported relationship with Beth, Brian described her as “unprofessional” and suggested she’d harmed his reputation.
“Brian said, ‘Well, funny that you should mention it. She has been unprofessional. I feel like she’s ruining my reputation or harming my reputation because she’s perpetuating information about some things that happened and making it a lot harder to sort of get out of this,’” Rulla explained, noting that Brian and the boss proceeded to submit an email to Jo-Ellen’s employer about her “unprofessional conduct.”
“It was not an attempt to get her fired,” Rulla insisted. “The boss suggested it.”
After Rulla made it clear that she didn’t know how HR got the info about Jo-Ellen, she accused Jo-Ellen of accusing her and Brian of trying to get her fired.
“She turned it into, ‘You’re trying to get me fired from my job. You’re coming after my family.’ And it’s very unfair because Jo-Ellen, you wanted to tell me what was going on. I appreciated that, woman to woman, but everything that I experienced and saw with you thereafter and saw and heard first or secondhand was not and has not been okay,” Rulla concluded.
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After seeing how Rulla went after Jo-Ellen, Beth posted a telling comment about Brian.
“Harming his reputation??? lol interesting way to put it when his actions were very intentional with me,” she wrote.
Right away, other commenters left microphone and yelling emojis as they reminded Rulla that the two of them allegedly had coffee “every morning” amid their rumored affair.
“Exactly!! Everything he did and doing are in result of HIS OWN ACTIONS!! He is wanting to put the blame on someone else instead of admitting his wrong doings & taking accountability,” one person stated.
The Real Housewives of Rhode Island season one airs Sundays at 9/8c on Bravo.