There may be some main drama taking place off-camera between two members of the Actual Housewives of Potomac solid!
For many who don’t know, Candiace Dillard Bassett has had a rocky relationship with each Michael Darby and his estranged spouse, Ashley Darby, over time — and has by no means held again every time moving into it with them! However Candiace went too far throughout Season 7 of the Bravo sequence, in response to Michael! And now he’s suing her for defamation over allegations she made on the present!
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The second in query went down throughout a November 2022 episode of RHOP when the 36-year-old actuality star obtained right into a heated argument (but once more) with Ashley, this time about her husband, Chris Bassett, allegedly being very flirty with different castmates and the 34-year-old’s buddy. When Ashley claimed that Chris was sliding into different folks’s DMs, Candiace determined to drop a surprising allegation about Michael in response. She stated:
“Ashley, your husband likes to go away you and go to a person named [censored]’s home and suck his d**okay.”
Whereas Candiace by no means revealed the supposed different man’s id, she went on to assert that Michael additionally paid for intercourse. The previous pageant queen defined throughout a confessional that she “was not supposed to speak about this particular person, however he says Michael Darby is a consumer of his.” Ch-ch-check out the jaw-dropping argument(beneath):
Whoa!
Now, Michael is firing again on the accusations — not on actuality TV, in real-life court docket! In response to authorized paperwork obtained by TMZ on Thursday, the 77-year-old filed a defamation lawsuit towards Candiace over the claims she made about him giving oral intercourse to a person.
Michael claims he despatched her a stop and desist earlier this 12 months about her feedback. Nevertheless, Candiace has not taken again any of her statements from the present since then — leaving him to pursue authorized motion. And he’s not messing round proper now! The outlet reported that he’s looking for a whopping $2 million in damages. Rattling! We wouldn’t be shocked if a number of the Housewives cease and suppose earlier than they drop any extra claims on the present transferring ahead, relying on what occurs with this court docket case…
Candiace has not responded to the lawsuit but, however one thing tells us this authorized combat is about to get messy! Reactions, Perezcious readers? Tell us within the feedback beneath!
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