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Amanda Frances recalled her experience in a cult, addressed claims that she tries to one-up people, and hinted at her future drama with Dorit Kemsley on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
On a past episode, Dorit seemingly wished to keep arguing with Amanda even after Amanda shared that it was the anniversary of her son’s passing. After encouragement from Kathy Hilton, Dorit later apologized, but they weren’t able to make peace.
On Housewives Nightcap, Amanda addressed her past experience with “religious abuse.”
“I was involved in a church for about two years that was highly controlling, isolated, very manipulative. It fits every single criteria for a cult,” she said. “And so when I was starting my business, I started a blog. And my whole career, my whole life, I’ve written about whatever was real and true for me. So my very first blog that you can still find on AmandaFrancis.com, the very first one was the cult story.”
“And I was just trying to reconcile, make sense of what I had been through: how do you trust yourself to make decisions as a young woman if you accidentally joined a cult somehow?” she added. “I was just trying to work that out for myself … Religious abuse is a thing. Cultic dynamics happen.”
Amanda said castmates “absolutely” saw her story as “dirt.”
“I’m like, you’re thinking this is the dirt you have on me, something that I wrote about in my own words?” she said.
Later on, Amanda addressed claims that she likes to one-up co-stars.
“[I was] trying to find things to relate to,” she said. “In my life and my world, we are all extremely proud of ourselves and of each other, and we brag on ourselves and on each other kind of continually. And we’re proud of each other with what we can buy and spend and afford … and there’s this overall overarching sense of gratitude.”
“So I think if I say I spent $10,000 on crystals … I’m reflecting on that as like, ‘Yeah, go girl, good job spending $10,000 on crystals,” she said. “I didn’t know [my castmates] weren’t seeing it [that way]. … I’m not watching all of [the episodes] back.”
At one point, Amanda called out Dorit’s reaction to the anniversary of her son’s passing.
“I was shocked that I had to say it twice,” said the star. “I never got the feeling that she cared. Because someone who cared would have very sincerely been able to apologize. You’ll see. It doesn’t get better.”
“[But] the audience will see me try to [reconcile],” she added. “I ask her on a couple different occasions, like step aside and talk to me. … I think if we could have met each other in that moment, there wouldn’t … be what actually happened. I don’t think it would have been hard to reconcile.”