Heather Dubrow is not any stranger to the world of Housewives. The Seven 12 months Sew host made fairly the impression when she joined the solid of The Actual Housewives of Orange County for the franchise’s seventh season. After a years-long hiatus from the present, Heather returned final 12 months for season 16, and she or he revealed that the brand new season of RHOC was her most “tough” but.
“It was so bizarre coming again final 12 months,” Heather mirrored. “After which that first sushi get together at my home was such a catastrophe that, I imply, I assume I believed it couldn’t be a lot worse than that, proper?”
Unsuitable.
“This was not a simple season for me,” Heather admitted to Leisure Tonight of season 17. “I feel, to begin with, I used to be coping with loads in my life, in my private life with my youngsters.”
“I might very simply sit right here and say, I had a horrible season, and everybody was imply to me, and it was simply the worst,” she defined. “I imply, do I’ve PTSD from some issues that occurred? Yeah, I actually do.”
A fundamental supply of rivalry for Heather was the return of RHOC veteran Housewife Tamra Choose, who reportedly went “nuclear” on her this season — an outline Heather says “wouldn’t be inaccurate.”
Heather describes the connection she has with Tamra at the moment as “cordial,” however she admits they “have some issues to work on.”
“There’s a number of issues I’m particularly dreading, sure, however there’s one journey particularly that was actually, actually, actually tough,” she teased. “And it made me query many individuals and plenty of issues.”
A lot to her shock, Heather says a kind of folks she ended up questioning was Gina Kirschenheiter, who Heather says she thought she had a detailed reference to. Heather says after bonding throughout season 16, Gina principally ghosted her, leaving her “flabbergasted.”
“I really feel like Gina ought to know me higher than what was portrayed,” Heather instructed the outlet. “I imply, the season ended final 12 months, and we had been nonetheless hanging out collectively. I put collectively lunches for everybody, all of us frolicked collectively, I had Gina’s mother and father over for dinner, which was so enjoyable — and her dad introduced me coasters, ’trigger you realize I’m coaster-obsessed, which was actually candy — and we had seen them in New York, we’d had dinner with them, and so it was actually pretty, and I felt like we had all this time collectively… after which I by no means heard from her or noticed her once more and, in watching the primary episode, I used to be like, hmm… possibly I’ve to re-think what occurred there.”
Heather seemingly blames “head cheerleader” Tamra for the devolving friendship.
“Emily [Simpson] and Gina had instructed me that the solid just about ignored them for his or her first three years, and I used to be the primary person who type of got here in and was like, ‘Hey! Who’re you? Let’s get to know one another…’ and that complete factor, however typically when the top cheerleader comes again to city, that’s interesting.”
Season 17 of RHOC is making Housewives historical past with the crossover addition of a former diamond holder, The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills OG Taylor Armstrong. She joined the RHOC solid in a “buddy of” position.
Nevertheless, Heather didn’t really feel any heat coming from Taylor as she revealed that the 2 didn’t fairly mesh in addition to she had hoped.
“We’re right here as girls to assist one another, and I felt like I used to be supporting her and that actually wasn’t taken in the way in which that it was supplied,” Heather defined. “It went actually south.”
Heather additionally took time to deal with the long-running rumors that she has pull with Bravo manufacturing and has dictated who will get employed or fired among the many solid as a result of her “Fancy Pants” status.
“I imply, it’s attributed to me that I can fireplace folks, that I can rent folks,” Heather stated. “There was a narrative that I had this season pushed 4 or 5 months as a result of I used to be attempting to get scenes taken out of the present. I imply, it’s foolish. Clearly, I don’t have any energy, in any respect.”
As for her folks being labeling her as “pretentious” and “unrelatable?” Heather doesn’t get it.
“I imply, do I prefer to have an ideal get together? Do I prefer to convey an ideal reward? Yeah, in fact I do. Do I wanna try to be the right buddy, the right mother? I imply, there isn’t any such factor as good, however do I need to shoot for it? Yeah, in fact I do,” she confessed. “I don’t look down on anybody, for what they’ve, for what they like, for what they do.”
Striving to be “the right mother” within the public eye has not come with out its challenges, although. Heather confronted criticism after she posted to social media that her youngest little one was transitioning, and he can be going by the identify Ace and utilizing he/him pronouns. Heather’s eldest daughter, Max, got here out as bisexual in 2020, and her center daughter, Kat, introduced she identifies as a lesbian final 12 months.
“I need to make one thing clear: we weren’t making an announcement,” she stated, referring to the Instagram publish. “That refined publish … it was to cease different folks from speaking about our little one. It’s what we’re doing to attempt to shield our little one.”
“We do have a platform. I might by no means inform my youngsters’s tales for them,” Heather asserted. “I might by no means exploit them, however we’re already recognized, and I need different households and different children to know, it’s OK. That is regular, that is biology, and also you’re all gonna be OK. Let’s simply love one another. So, if we might help in any approach? That’s a win.”
Season 17 of The Actual Housewives of Orange County airs Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. EST on Bravo.
