The Queen of Mean stepped it up this season. Tamra Judge has always been the villain on Real Housewives of Orange County. But Season 18 of the franchise has shown viewers why the show had a hard time surviving without her at one point.
Tamra always brings the drama, even drama that crosses a line. This is what some fans think of how Tamra has been treating her castmate Shannon Beador.
Now Tamra is responding to her critics, in true Tamra fashion.
Tamra Judge calls herself “reactive”
“I’m being reactive, for sure,” Tamra told Us Weekly. “Was I being sweet? No.”
While Tamra isn’t exactly apologizing, she does have some regrets. Mainly comments she made surrounding Shannon’s 2023 DUI arrest.
“I do regret ever calling her an alcoholic,” Tamra stated. “I do regret that, but at that point, I was just pushed against the wall and I’m like, you know what? It’s very hard for me since I’ve known her and the struggles with alcohol and getting in an accident, getting a DUI and still drinking. I can’t wrap my brain around that at all. At all.”
The RHOC vet went on to say, “And one might say, ‘Oh, well, you get drunk on the show and you act like an ass.’ Yes, I do. I am somebody that definitely can’t handle more than two drinks, and it’s because I don’t drink that much. But when I film, I tend to think I need a little bit of liquid courage. [And] liquid courage turns [me] into a straight a——.”
Despite all the animosity, Tamra has high hopes for working things out at the reunion.
“I really am hoping that we can move past it. I don’t think that we’ll ever be best friends like that,” she said. “I really just want her to realize I wasn’t out to hurt her. I have been there for her forever.”
Not so fast, Tamra
But comments that Shannon made back in July indicate that the QVC maven might not be so open to a reconciliation.
“I don’t [think we’ll be friends again] because I now can look back and see pretty much every season that I’ve been in with Tamra, there’s always an issue that she has with me,” Shannon said at the time.
“Either I did something or didn’t do something, and it’s OK, we don’t need to be friends then,” she added. “She says she walks on eggshells around me. I’m sorry that you feel that way, but I walked on eggshells around her.”
The Real Housewives of Orange County airs on Bravo Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET and new episodes stream on Peacock the next day.
TELL US – DO YOU THINK TAMRA HAS BEEN TOO MEAN THIS SEASON? IS THIS IT FOR TAMRA AND SHANNON’S FRIENDSHIP?
