Credit: NBCUniversal Media, Instagram/ Stacey Rusch
Tia Glover hinted at what led to her dramatic argument with Stacey Rusch in the season 11 trailer of Real Housewives of Potomac – and she shared what “micromanager” Gizelle Bryant told her afterward.
On the new trailer, Tia had a shocking argument with Stacey at dinner, as Tia accused her of being ‘full of s**t’ and sleeping with everyone’s husbands. (Earlier this week, Tia also addressed how her friendship with Gizelle was rocked after Gizelle sat on information about Tia’s husband being on a dating app.)
In an interview for ET Online, Tia was asked about the argument with Stacey.
“I think it was a spark and it blew out,” she said. “Definitely wasn’t my fondest moment. … Where did I get that information from? — I personally don’t know who she’s sleeping with — Charrisse said it at the Million Download Party last season.”
“And then I saw how [Stacey encouraged] Ashley to go after Mauricio [Umansky], who’s still married legally to Kyle [Richards],” said Tia, referring to another moment from last season when Mauricio visited the group. “And that’s just in poor taste anyways. So that’s where I got that from. I think I said that [comment about her sleeping with husbands] more in anger. Everything else I said to her, I was spot on, meant from my chest.”
She then hinted at what led to the argument.
“How did we get there? Just Stacey being Stacey,” said Tia. “I had had enough. And literally what you see is my lid being blown.”
Later on, when Tia was asked who was the surprise of the season – or who became most “out of character” – Tia named herself.
“So I heard that at that glorious dinner [that] there were a lot of firsts. Apparently, Gizelle said it was the first time in her entire Housewives career that she did not feel the need to offer input because I cleared it all up,” said Tia. “That’s quite massive, [because] Gizelle’s a micromanager. Every day in [the cast trip in] London I kept saying to her, ‘This is my trip. This is my trip.'”
“It’s not her fault. It’s actually one of [Gizelle’s] strengths, but she has a takeover spirit,” she added. “She will take over very quick. It was a great compliment for her to say [that] at that moment I cleared it up so well. … Apparently [my Housewives wings] came in that day.”