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Porsha Williams opened up about the drama she faced with Luann de Lesseps amid The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Roaring 20th during an interview on Friday.
While also naming her most annoying co-star, explaining why she felt Vicki Gunvalson, 64, was “most improved,” and sharing the city visit that was the most peaceful, the 45-year-old Real Housewives of Atlanta star looked back on her defense of Lisa Barlow, 51, and admitted that her tiff with Luann, 61, was “needed.”
“I didn’t expect that because Luann is a fun girl like me. She’s a free spirit. I was like, ‘Oh, we’re gonna have a good time,'” Porsha stated during an August 14 interview with Entertainment Tonight.
As for what led them to face off, she explained, “It was a little too much Luann, and I was like, ‘Okay, one of you got to sit the hell down.’ I had to gather her. It was not pretty. But it was needed … and then we got back right.”
Agreeing that Luann was also the cast member who annoyed her the most, Porsha said Lisa, too, got on her nerves — but only on one occasion.
“I would have to say the person that started tapping on that last nerve was Luann for sure. She was just like, singing on it, that last nerve; it was definitely Luann, and if I’m giving a little bit away, I would have to say Lisa tapped on a couple people’s nerves, just one time,” she revealed.
Porsha also gave a nod to Gizelle Bryant, 55, suggesting that Lisa also annoyed “a particular green-eyed bandit.”
When asked who surprised her the most, Porsha first said, “Vicki,” before explaining that while she expected certain things out of the Real Housewives of Orange County cast member, she was pleasantly surprised by a midseason turnaround.
“I knew this girl was all about her work. I knew she wouldn’t be paying us no attention. I knew she was gonna act like she wasn’t gonna be there, but she had a midseason change,” Porsha teased. “I will say she was the most improved because by the end of the season, you’re gonna see what she turned into.”
Looking back at her overall experience on RHUGT, Porsha said she definitely brought the energy up.
“They allow me to do that. Like, they get a kick out of everything I do, which I love,” she shared of her castmates.
Regarding the rest of the season, Porsha said the “most peaceful [city visit] was probably New York,” explaining that the dynamic was “more of a sisterhood situation.”
She then admitted that drama “went down in every city.”
“[In Atlanta] there were many bombs going off … I don’t even know if in editing they could capture all of them. Like, there were different cities that were going off,” she revealed.
As for defending Lisa against her Real Housewives of Salt Lake City co-stars, including Heather Gay, 52, Porsha said that she was going to have her friend’s back, regardless of any questionable behavior she exhibited in the past.
“Of course [I stood up for Lisa]. I was like, ‘I don’t give a damn what she did to y’all,’” she declared.
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Roaring 20th airs Sundays at 9/8c on Bravo.