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Season 20 of The Real Housewives of Orange County has officially been airing for almost a month.
In what fans have seen so far, Heather Dubrow‘s feelings toward costar Tamra Judge have been a point of contention.
Jennifer Pedranti claimed that Heather was badmouthing Tamra behind her back, which led to Tamra and Heather having an intense sit-down conversation.
In an interview with Decider, Heather, 57, opened up about her thoughts on Tamra, 58, and what Jennifer, 49, had said.
“Tamra was the first person I met on the show, and I always compare her to a vampire,” Heather stated. “You know when a vampire bites you, you love them forever? She’s my housewife maker, and I’ll love her forever.”
“When I first met Tamra, I didn’t watch the show,” she continued. “So, I had heard she was mean, this, that, whatever, but I was ready to give her the benefit of the doubt. We were going to lunch and waiting for the cameras to be finished setting up. We were by the coffee bar, and we started talking about our kids. I just saw her as a fellow mom, and I fell in love with her.”
Heather admitted it’s “a bummer” that some of the women didn’t meet Tamra the way she did.
“There’s such a double standard in our friend group,” she continued. “I asked Tamra: ‘Are you and Vicki talking? You guys said terrible things about each other and blah, blah.’ She goes: ‘We’ve been friends a long time. We move on.’ Everyone just accepts that. The other girls will then say to me, ‘How could you still be friends with Tamra?’ And I’ll say: ‘We’ve been friends a long time. We move on.’ I don’t understand why the same answer isn’t acceptable when I say it about her.”
As for whether Jennifer will earn back her trust given what has occurred so far, Heather admitted that’s “a question mark.”
“I really like Jen,” she shared. “What was confusing to me was that between seasons, we hung out with our husbands, and we went out to dinner. We had a great time. We never once talked about Tamra. The moment the cameras picked up, she’s asking me things like, ‘How do you feel about Tamra? What do you think about Tamra?’ She then ran to Tamra and said that I’m talking about her! It was really, really frustrating.”
“That’s why, you see me say to her, ‘I thought we were going to be buddies,'” Heather added. “I thought we were cool and that we were gonna have fun together. It felt like Jen had an agenda, and I didn’t like that. It was also a bummer that when Tamra heard what Jen had to say, she immediately believed her.”
New episodes of RHOC air Thursdays on Bravo at 8 p.m. ET.