After seeing Bethenny Frankel dive headlong into her past on this week’s Real Housewives of New York, she wants to remind us all that she’s not living in it anymore. In her Bravo blog, Bethenny assures viewers that “I, genuinely, am not angry.” But before she rehashes the tense (dare we say, angry?) conversation with her estranged stepfather on the episode, she addresses Kristen Taekman’s accusation that Bethenny isn’t spending enough time with the ladies due to her “childcare issues.”
Bethenny says, “Overall, there is a conversation about time spent with children. Pretty may be smarter than I think but not quite smart enough to realize that I’m going through a divorce, and my precious moments are divided.” Ooh, burn! She adds, “My balance as a mother and business person is knowing that I spend every moment possible with my daughter. The one thing that is said universally is that it goes by so quickly. I may have made some money, but I am not ‘nannied’ up, and I don’t go out with girlfriends when I can be with my child. ‘Child care’ doesn’t get me more time with my angel. As I said about the conversation with Luann [de Lesseps], this is the easiest decision I will ever have to make.”
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Moving on to the scene with her stepfather, Bethenny claims she was not coming from a place of anger, but “A Place of Yes,” as her book title states. (Should she have brought the actual book along with her to the meeting so she could quite literally chuck it at him? Thus making her point even more ironic?) ” I think I have longed for a person to discuss the craziness of my past with. I’m an only child and essentially an orphan, so there is no one I can turn or talk to that can acknowledge what I remember to be true. I do think that people do their best; all I can do is pay it forward by being the best mother to my daughter that I can possibly be,” Bethenny concludes.
Hinting at a scene we haven’t witnessed yet (nor may ever witness), Bethenny teases she does “have to take a moment and acknowledge something that recently happened. Ramona [Singer] reached out to me to say how sorry she is about something that occurred between us in the past. She had relived a moment, and it triggered something in her. I really am happy to be back.” Hmmm. Are we in store for yet another Ramona mea culpa? Will Bethenny’s reaction to the apology be slightly less frosty than the Countess’s?
Bethenny then takes a moment in her blog to thank the viewers for “being on this journey” with her. “Some of the stuff I have experienced in the past few years is much worse than my past. I am using this experience for good, and I am enjoying being on this journey with you,” she says, “We have been through so much together since the beginning, and I know there are many puzzle pieces missing.”
Ending with a shout out to her new biggest supporter castmate, Dorinda Medley, and a “mutual” love fest with the viewers (has this woman read NO comments on blogs this season!?), Bethenny explains, “Like Dorinda says, I’m an onion with many layers. We all are. Thanks for all the love. You are loving it, and so are we. If you love what you do, you’ll be good at it. That’s why The Real Housewives of New York City are back and better than ever.”
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