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Dorit Kemsley blasted Erika Jayne after the latest episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which featured the two of them feuding over her ongoing drama with Kyle Richards.
As Erika, 54, defended her approach to her co-stars’ issues and Kyle, 57, suspected that Dorit, 49, didn’t like that Erika was defending her, Dorit accused Erika of going to the dark side as their castmates, including Amanda Frances, 41, and Jennifer Tilly, 67, weighed in on their messy Italian spat, which resulted in Dorit leaving Erika and Kyle stranded.
“I did not expect her to steal the production [van] and go away,” Erika began on the March 26 episode of the RHOBH: After Show.
But, as Dorit noted, “I told the girls, ‘Let’s go.’”
After Bozoma “Boz” Saint John, 49, asked Dorit if she was planning to send a car back for Erika and Kyle, Dorit noted, “They had a car.”
She then said that she joined Erika and Kyle under the pretense that the three of them would be spending time together. However, shortly after meeting up with her castmates, she realized that Erika was not on her side.
“Erika, she got pulled to the dark side. It was very clear,” Dorit stated. “Up until now, Erika had maintained that anytime Kyle had asked her or anyone had mentioned, Erika had said, ‘Listen, I just think Dorit is overwhelmed, and blah, blah, blah.’ Now, Kyle and I are having this, and Erika’s chiming in and chiming in, and so I said, ‘Hold on just one second, Erika.’ That’s what I had said. And Erika said, ‘No, I’m not gonna shut up. And you can’t make me shut up. And I’m never gonna shut up.’ I was like, ‘What?’”
According to Dorit, Kyle kept bringing Erika into their conversation.
“Kyle doesn’t want to deal with just her. She wants other people fighting the battles for her,” Dorit stated. “[And] I wanted Kyle to be accountable. I wanted to be able to ask her a direct question and actually get a genuine answer, but Kyle makes it nearly impossible. She makes sure she has someone there that’s going to interject, that’s going to keep her from being able to actually answer the question directly. And that’s what was happening.”
In her own After Show segment, Erika explained why she snapped at Dorit amid their discussion.
“We don’t talk like that to each other,” she shared. “I’m not gonna be quiet. You guys have a problem. I want it to work out. Let’s talk this out, please. But I don’t think Dorit is in a place where she wants to hear anything.”
After noting that she didn’t feel the need to call Dorit out, Erika suggested that Dorit “turned on [her].”
“I was like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa!’ Like, ‘I’m your friend. I will always be your friend. I want nothing but good things for you’ … And I care for Dorit,” she insisted. “I want a friendship with Dorit.”
Erika also said that she understood what Dorit was going through amid her split from Paul “PK” Kemsley, 58, since she’d gone through hardships with her own estranged husband, Thomas Girardi, 86.
“I get it, I really do, because I did the same thing, but there are limits. And this is my limit with that. Like, you can’t tell me to be quiet and sh*t like that. Like, no. That’s enough,” she concluded.
Elsewhere, Kyle said that when it came to her meet-up with Dorit, she and Erika thought it would be a good thing for their relationship.
“We thought you know, we’ll be away from the group and we’ve known each other the longest and maybe we can, you know, be heard,” she explained. “[But Dorit] doesn’t want to hear [Erika] defend me or say anything that’s gonna call her out.”
Then, after Amanda said Dorit’s decision to strand their castmates in Italy was an “interesting choice” for someone who’s been labeled “erratic,” and Jennifer said she didn’t realize that Kyle and Dorit’s friendship had deteriorated to that point, Kyle concluded, “A friendship shouldn’t be this hard.”
“I just don’t need that. I just don’t,” she added.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo.