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Crystal Kung Minkoff shared more details on her recent encounter with the “14 friends” group who “bullied” and “betrayed” her, as the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star said the interaction left her “confused.” She also addressed if she was fired from RHOBH.
Earlier this month, Crystal hinted that she ran into one of the members of her infamous group of 14 ex-friends at a recent party. Crystal has explained that one of them also auditioned to be on RHOBH – and turned the others against Crystal after Crystal was chosen instead.
On Kempire, Crystal shared more details behind her recent encounter with the “14 friends” group.
“I ended up in a room with the majority of them at a party last week. I walked into the room and it was like, they were all there. I’m like, oh my God,” she recalled. “[Afterward] I just said to Rob, I feel like s**t cause I was so nice to them. Like, they don’t deserve that. I didn’t do anything to them.”
“It’s like, ‘Oh, we couldn’t kill Crystal. We tried to … [but] we didn’t get to do it. So [now we say] hi,'” she added. “I wish I was like, don’t talk to me. Like, f**k off. … I want them to say they knew I didn’t do anything wrong. … They just attacked me because I did Housewives.”
On her Humble Brag podcast, Crystal added that she wanted to leave the party immediately once she saw them, but her husband Rob encouraged her to stay.
“I barely even make it into the party. And I see the woman that managed to really do all the dirty work,” she explained. “She’s like, ‘Hi. It’s so good to see you. And we all should get together.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, yeah.’ I felt, like, very, very confused because I know there’s no way in hell I’m ever going to be friends with these people again. Absolutely not, over my dead body.”
“I’m still struggling with the feelings that I’m feeling today about it, about being betrayed by friends, by being bullied. You don’t age out of it,” she added. “I mean, what these women did is diabolical. They’re in their 60s. In fact, that woman is 70 now. I think I was really super on guard for many years. And I lost a lot of myself in that.”
Crystal shed tears as she called their actions “unfair.”
“If you’ve ever gone through a friendship breakup, a group breakup, it’s a real thing, and it doesn’t just go away if these friends meant something to you,” she added. “And they meant a lot to me.”
Crystal also confirmed that she was “fired” from RHOBH, and she doesn’t feel any “shame” about it, given that people have different jobs “all the time.”
“And the truth is Housewives … feels like a lark, in a way,” she added. “It doesn’t feel like a career.”