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Alexis Bellino addressed if there are red flags in her relationship with fiancé John Janssen, and shared why she split with her ex-husband Jim Bellino. The Real Housewives of Orange County alum also hinted at when Tamra Judge “screwed me,” and revealed why she stayed friends with her.
Last season, Tamra seemingly shaded Alexis after fans started slamming Alexis and John (Shannon Beador‘s ex). But years before their controversial engagement, Alexis was married to Jim – who once sued Tamra and Shannon for defamation. During Alexis’ first stint on RHOC, she famously said of Jim, “God is my savior, my husband is my king.”
On Vicki Gunvalson‘s My Friend My Soulmate My Podcast, Alexis discussed her relationship with John.
“Everybody thought John was so bad and all these things. [He] has not shown one [red flag],” said Alexis. “Not even a yellow or an orange or anything that’s in the red family. Like not even any. It’s all green.”
“We have had arguments. We have had a couple of hard discussions,” she continued. “But we don’t fight.”
Vicki then offered her own perspective, recalling her dramatic relationship with ex Brooks Ayers.
“When I was in love with Brooks, the world hated him, hated me, said I was in on a cancer scam,” said Vicki. “I loved him. And it was horrible what the cast did, stating that I was in on something. That was Megan Edmonds [who] started that whole s**t show.”
“When you were with your husband [Jim], you were like, ‘He’s my man. I’m gonna protect him. He’s my man. I’m gonna serve him as a biblical wife,'” recalled Vicki of Alexis’ past marriage. “And I loved that about you. A very, you know, faithful wife.”
Alexis added that she and Vicki had “many talks about that.”
“Up until the very last day I filmed that show on season eight, I never thought I would get a divorce. I was gonna hang in there — I did tell myself — until [the kids] were 16,” she said. “I did say, if things can’t change, I’m gonna make it till they’re 16. I needed them to have a car. The show ended for me and then [things] kept spiraling down. And [we] were in therapy constantly. We weren’t going anywhere better. And then it started to become apparent that … maybe we will be better apart.”
But she said they try to do “everything amicabl[y].”
At one point in the podcast, Alexis recalled her past drama with Tamra.
“Tamra and I have gotten so deep and so down there. She kind of screwed me a little bit on one of the scenes,” said Alexis. “But that girl stood by my side when I had to turn comments off [and] I was getting death threats.”
“And you also say, ‘I forgive you.’ And she’s like, ‘Yeah, I was an A-hole to you.’ She admitted it,” Alexis continued. “And then once we talked it through, it was like, ‘I get where you were coming from.'”
Addressing Tamra, Vicki added, “Just don’t do it again!”
“There’s TV Tamra and then there’s a real Tamra,” said Vicki. “TV Tamra does a lot for the TV show, and it does create drama.”
Alexis commented, “The only difference I see is that the Camera Tamra tries to move the storyline forward because she’s like, ‘we’re here to do a job.’ She gets that reality TV … [is] a job … No one wants to hear about John Janssen and Alexis Bellino forever. Move it forward. She gets that.”