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Carmen Carrera called out Lisa Hochstein as she looked back on the time she spent filming with the cast of The Real Housewives of Miami amid their seventh season during a recent interview.
Ahead of next week’s conclusion of the ladies’ three-part reunion special, Carmen, 40, a transgender woman and former contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race, said that while “everyone was pretty open” to having her around amid production, she had a number of bad experiences with Lisa, 43.
“I’d say Lisa was the most challenging. And I wanna like her so bad cuz I love, like, a glamour girl. She just did not like me … She was so rude to me,” Carmen told Page Six Radio on October 9. “We filmed a couple of times. [And] I could tell that she was like, ‘Okay, let’s see who this Carmen person is.’”
According to Carmen, her first awkward encounter with Lisa occurred at the Christmas party featured in the finale episode.
“I passed by her she like looked at me [and] rolled her eyes — for no reason,” Carmen recalled. “So I go up to her after. I’m like, ‘Girl, what was that about?’ She’s like, ‘What do you mean?’ I’m like, ‘I saw you roll your eyes at me.’”
After Lisa flat-out denied Carmen’s accusation, she suggested that she’d been instructed not to speak to her.
“It was definitely an eye-roll, and I don’t know, she just was like, ‘Oh, you know, I’m doing a scene and I was told not to engage with you.’ And I’m like, ‘Well, I’m wearing a microphone so I don’t understand why someone would tell you that,’” Carmen revealed.
Then, when asked whether Lisa’s behavior stemmed from her friendship with Larsa Pippen, 53, with whom Lisa feuded throughout the season, Carmen said she was unaware they were having issues at the time.
“I had no idea what was going on because I was working,” she explained. “I was supposed to be there from the first episode … [But] I wasn’t able to film every single time [they asked]. So by the time I was able to film, they were already in this big drama. They were trying to fill me in, and I was trying to engage, but I couldn’t because they were so locked in.”
The second time Carmen was put off by Lisa’s antics was at the show’s premiere party.
“The producers, they did like a little cheers … they take a huge group shot of all the cast, and once they start to break up, I’m like, ‘Wait. I want to get my picture, too.’ So I go in the middle with the guys and the girls and we take a group shot,” she shared.
After the photo was taken, Carmen said Lisa came up to her.
“She’s like, ‘I just want to let you know that was so rude of you to jump in and take a picture. You are not a cast member,’” Carmen alleged.
She then suggested that jealousy could be to blame.
“It was giving, ‘You’re not allowed to shine.’ And I was like, ‘Ew.’ I don’t like that for her,” Carmen concluded.
The Real Housewives of Miami‘s season seven reunion concludes next Thursday, October 16, with part three at 9/8c on Bravo.