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The Real Housewives of Orange County‘s Heather Dubrow is firing back at Vicki Gunvalson‘s suggestion that she and her husband, Dr. Terry Dubrow, inherited their wealth from Terry’s late brother, Kevin Dubrow.
While also commenting on Tamra Judge, 58, and Shannon Beador‘s ongoing feud, addressing their Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip fight, and reflecting on her interaction with the Real Housewives of Rhode Island women, Heather, 57, clapped back at Vicki, 64, insisting her claims about her and Terry, 67, were untrue.
“It’s just not true,” Heather said during an interview on Page Six’s Virtual Reali-Tea on July 28.
During the premiere episode of season 20, Heather confronted Vicki about her false allegations. However, during a confessional, Vicki seemingly doubled down, saying that doctors “don’t live in $40 million mansions.”
“To me, when you do things like that, that says something,” Heather said of the comments.
According to Heather, she and Terry have had very successful careers and “made good investments.”
“We have the successful businesses that we do,” she continued. “So, am I supposed to apologize that we are smarter and maybe more clever with our investments and money? I’m not sorry.”
As fans will recall, Heather and Terry sold their Newport Beach home for $55 million in 2022, and three years later, they unloaded their Beverly Hills property for $16.5 million.
Regarding Vicki’s claims about Kevin, the former frontman of Quiet Riot, who died of an accidental overdose in 2007, Heather said she and Terry did not benefit financially from his passing.
“I laugh, I roll my eyes. I don’t care. Think whatever you want,” she shared.
As for Terry, Heather said that the plastic surgeon, who “lets most things roll off his back,” was “really pissed off.” He even demanded Vicki bet him $100,000 or “shut the F up.”
Although Heather didn’t appreciate Vicki’s statements against her and Terry, she didn’t write off their friendship.
“Vicki and I, throughout the years, have never been close, close friends. But we really enjoy each other,” she said. “What I find is when I’m with her, everything is great, and then out in public, she has lots of different stories to tell.”
During another moment in her interview with Page Six‘s Virtual Reali-Tea, Heather weighed in on Tamra and Shannon’s ongoing feud, suggesting that Shannon was hiding their rekindled relationship due to viewer feedback.
“I have theories about it,” she said. “I wonder, you know, if the audience likes you in a certain lane, and then you go back on that, then maybe the audience won’t like you … I wonder if some people consider those things.”
In recent years, things between Tamra and Shannon have been tense, partly due to Tamra’s intense criticism of Shannon’s DUI, and Tamra’s close friendship with Alexis Bellino, 49, who is now married to Shannon’s ex-boyfriend, John Janssen, 63.
“I feel like Tamra and Shannon both feel they’re right in that fight,” Heather noted.
Regarding the ladies’ RHUGT fight, Heather said that she was “not in the vicinity” of the women when they went to war and didn’t hear about the spat until Dorinda Medley’s finale party.
“When I went to the finale party at Dorinda’s house, there was a lot of chatter about ‘OC’,” she said. “It was just me and Vicki from ‘Orange County’ at the finale. It was embarrassing.”
Moving on to her interaction with the RHORI cast, Heather said the women “started having a reunion in the middle of [Dorinda’s] party.”
“And Dorinda was like, ‘Oh, no, no, no, no, ladies. This isn’t your moment,’” she shared.
The Real Housewives of Orange County season 20 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo.