Southern Charm’s Venita Slams Show for Presenting Her as ‘Home Wrecker’

Southern Allure star Venita Aspen isn’t pleased about the best way she is being offered on the present — particularly relating to her alleged reference to costar Jarret “JT” Thomas.

“Let me make one thing VERY CLEAR,” Aspen wrote in a fiery Instagram Story shared on Saturday, March 1. “That dinner JT and I had after I made a Branzino was AFTER the Bahamas yall as an viewers noticed it BEFORE.”

“So this weeks episode is now making me seem like I’m a house wrecker after I’m not,” she continued. “I do know what I signed up for however I additionally is not going to enable the world to suppose I’m that girl after I’m not.”

“Be sure to add this screenshot to the entire Reddit threads,” she concluded.

Us Weekly has reached out to Bravo for remark.

Within the February 6 episode of Bravo’s hit actuality tv collection, JT and Aspen mentioned their apparent chemistry earlier than JT in the end tells her that he has began relationship another person. “Do I do know we had chemistry? Am I extraordinarily drawn to you? Sure,” he instructed her on the time. “However, I’m simply being actual, I’m seeing somebody.”

“I received’t say I knew he had a girlfriend, I can say I knew he was speaking to somebody however it wasn’t a ‘that is who I’m relationship,” Aspen mentioned within the confessional sales space throughout the identical episode. She added, “I’m equally half offended and equally half unhappy, ’trigger how lengthy have we been flirting?”

The so-called drama continued throughout a preview of one other episode, by which Aspen is seen telling one other solid member JT has been texting her. “He has emotions for you? Like greater than a good friend, or no?” the individual requested, to which Aspen nodded and smiled.

Whereas talking on the “The Viall Information” podcast on Tuesday, February 25, Aspen mentioned the lady JT was relationship determined to “annihilate me on social media” after a teaser for the collection aired.

“That he was relationship, that I used to be unaware of,” she mentioned on the time. “And mainly, like, calls me out on my title. And I used to be identical to, ‘Hey, I don’t what’s happening with this. I want you to place a deal with on it.’ And he was like, ‘I can’t do something about it.’”

JT raised eyebrows when he left the collection within the weeks earlier than the premiere of season 10. “I feel it grew to become extra of this, like, he caught the home on hearth after which stepped away when everybody had a response — and never a superb one,” mentioned former costar Madison LeCroy in December 2024. “He was not needed within the group.”

LeCroy additionally mentioned she felt like JT needed to be a villain on the collection. “He realized actually fast that wasn’t going to final,” she added.