The mystery of the disappearing laundry plagued the interior crew on Below Deck Mediterranean Season 9. Who was the culprit? Was it Third Stew, Bri Muller, who spent the majority of her time in the laundry room? Or was it Second Stew, Elena Dubaich, who also helped out in the laundry room from time to time? Chief Stew Aesha Scott was on the case and had a plan to figure out who was responsible. And this left Elena feeling vindicated by the results.
Elena Dubaich says Bri Muller used her “as a scapegoat” for all of the laundry mishaps
Throughout the season, both Bri and Elena struggled in the laundry room. Elena labeled the chef’s pants incorrectly, while Bri basically lost everyone’s laundry. However, Bri didn’t take accountability, as she thought Elena might have been sabotaging her. So she wore her best Mean Girls pink polo and wrote all the supposed crimes in her laundry burn book. Aesha had enough and moved Bri to clothes only and Elena to wash rags.
As clothes continued to go missing, Elena felt like she could rest her case. Bravo’s The Daily Dish reported Elena’s feelings on laundry-gate. She said, “I kind of felt vindicated when people finally realized that it has been Bri all along. I kind of knew a little bit more about what’s actually going on with Bri because I was in laundry with her.”
Elena continued, “And also, I was in the crew mess on quite a few occasions when people were actively talking about all their things missing. Even the engineer was looking for his bed sheets! Everybody was kind of complaining about things.” The crew did complain but kept it mostly to themselves as they didn’t want Bri to get in trouble with Captain Sandy Yawn.
Believe it or not, Elena supported Bri in doing her job correctly. She said, “It’s not that I wanted Bri to fail; I just wanted people to know that it wasn’t my fault, even if I had messed up one time. I just need a moment of vindication, and then I can move on.”
In the end, Elena felt that Bri used her as the fall guy for her laundry faux pas. She concluded, “She then began to kind of use me as a scapegoat for her own mistakes. At a certain point, I […] just needed to step away.” Mystery solved.
Below Deck Mediterranean airs Mondays at 9/8c on Bravo.
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