It seems likeTamra JudgeandVicki Gunvalsonwill always have a difference of opinion overTeddi Mellencamp Arroyave.
When theTres Amigas— including Judge, Gunvalson andShannon Storms Beador— spoke with PEOPLE Saturday atBravoCon 2023, the 61-year-oldReal Housewives of Orange Countyalum revealed that she and Mellencamp Arroyave, 42, had yet to bury the hatchet.
At Saturday’s taping of theBravoCon Liveepisode (which aired Monday night on Bravo). Cohen wondered if Gunvalson’s resistance toThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hillsalum stemmed from jealousy over her close friendship with Judge, 56. But Gunvalson countered, “Listen, I can share my friends, I’m not that kind of girl.”
Gunvalson explained, “We can go way back — I’m gonna go berserk on it — one of the things you said was, ‘Where was I on Jan. 6?” Her voice escalated as she explained she had “proof” she was at her condo in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico — and not at theCapitol riotsas her nemesis had implied.
Vicki Gunvalson and Teddi Mellencamp.Getty (2)
“Why the hell would you ask me where I was on Jan. 6?” she angrily asked Mellencamp Arroyave.
“We’re gonna leave it there,” concluded Cohen, 55.
Prior to that, Gunvalson told PEOPLE that whenever she crosses paths with Judge’sTwo Ts in a Podco-host, the moment is typically fleeting but fraught. “I just say ‘Hi,'" reported Gunvalson in a a clipped manner. “That’s it, I’m good.” (She even reminded Judge of a run-in earlier that week at the network’s fan convention in Las Vegas: “She was with you and she was standing there and I said, ‘Hi Teddi’ and I said hi to her husband.")
But Gunvalson clearly already had Mellencamp Arroyave’s insurrection insinuations at the top of her mind, adding, “When she asked where I was on Jan. 6 — that’s pretty much gloves are off on that one.”
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Judge quickly defended her friend, insisting Mellencamp Arroyave only retaliated once Gunvalson “went after her first.”
When Gunvalson denied starting the fight, Judge doubled down, prompting the Coto Insurance & Financial Services founder to brush off the conversation: “You’re going to defend Teddi no matter what, so it doesn’t really matter.”
She added, “Why not defend me?”
Responded Judge, “Because I’m defending the truth. You went after her first.”
Tamra Judge & Vicki Gunvalson.Astrid Stawiarz/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
As any Bravo fan knows, “The OG of the OC” may not cop to starting something, but she sure will finish it — and that’s what happened at this weekend’s taping.
Clearly Mellencamp Arroyave believed her own experience undergoing treatment gave her a bulletproof opportunity to bring up Gunvalson’s exBrooks Ayers, who claimed he was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2013.
Ayers’ account of the journey sparked the suspicion in Gunvalson and Judge’s castmates — particularlyMeghan King, who doggedly attempted to track down records (or a lack thereof) to disprove him.
Vicki Gunvalson and Brooks Ayers.Amanda Edwards/Getty
Gunvalson has long maintained she was simply avictim of Ayers’ liesand eventuallyset up a charity called Kill All Cancerto “prove the naysayers out there who said I was in on something or that I lied that I’ve got nothing to hide. Period.”
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Archival episodes ofThe Real Housewives of Orange CountyandWatch What Happens Livecan be streamed in full on Peacock.
source: people.com
