VPR’s Marcus Johnson and Kim Suarez Defend ‘Toxic’ Relationship (Excl)

New Vanderpump Guidelines stars Marcus Johnson and Kim Suarez didn’t thoughts their on-again, off-again relationship taking middle stage in season 12’s premiere, however they imagine their costars received it mistaken once they hated on the “poisonous” romance.

“Everybody’s entitled to their very own opinion,” Johnson, 35, informed Us Weekly solely forward of the reboot’s debut, which aired on Tuesday, December 2. “Some individuals are used to relationships and perceive the ups and downs of it and a few individuals aren’t.”

He went on to elucidate, “In case you don’t know what it’s wish to be in love and be in a state of affairs the place all the pieces’s not excellent, you may need a virgin’s response to seeing somebody undergo one thing like that.”

Suarez, 31, in the meantime, informed Us, their romance is “misunderstood.”

“There’s nothing that’s been mentioned on digicam that I haven’t heard already off digicam,” she mentioned in response to episode one, which noticed a number of costars weighing in on her relationship with Johnson.

Suarez famous they’ve identified the solid — together with Venus Binkley, Jason Cohen, Shayne Davis, Chris Hahn, Angelica Jensen, Audrey Lingle, Natalie Maguire and Demy Selem — “for a very long time” since all of them work at Lisa Vanderpump’s West Hollywood restaurant SUR, so opinions on the couple’s relationship troubles come from a spot of affection.

“Marcus and I’s relationship is a bit misunderstood as a result of you will have pals who understandably are protecting over you and don’t need to see you in a poisonous state of affairs. However we’re not going via toxicity the best way that individuals suppose,” she defined to Us.

She identified that Johnson has been “navigating [the] grief” of shedding each of his dad and mom whereas juggling their relationship, which she admitted “by no means received a honeymoon part.” (Vanderpump Guidelines followers will see extra on that because the season goes on).

Suarez shared that she and Johnson have been “working via real-life issues” previous to filming.

“There’s lots that occurs with regard to friendships and their opinion of my relationship,” she teased, including, “It’s that fixed forgiveness and compassion and making an attempt to place myself of their sneakers.”

When it got here to their costars, every had a special opinion.

Davis, 32, who’s the one solid member not working at SUR however has been a longtime good friend of Johnson, defended their relationship.

“Look, I grew up a bit of in a different way, so I’m used to individuals having massive ups and downs and being possibly a bit of extra passionate of their explicit love life,” he informed Us. “I wouldn’t say it’s all that poisonous to me.”

Johnson and Suarez’s closest pal, Binkley, 27, nevertheless, admitted that he didn’t like how Kim reacted towards Maguire, additionally 27, after accusing her of flirting with Marcus within the premiere episode.

“I used to be actually shut with Kim and Marcus, and so for me to see that kind of habits, it actually rubbed me mistaken,” he solely informed Us. “I believe it made me and Natalie nearer as a result of I all the time root for the underdog, and each time I really feel like there’s injustice, I need to get up for them, and that’s how I felt about Natalie on this whole state of affairs. So I believe it simply confirmed everybody’s true colours, honestly.”

For her half, Maguire mentioned she “was so shocked” at Suarez’s accusations “as a result of there are literally individuals right here which have a historical past with Marcus, and he or she’s completely nice with them. So it’s fairly stunning.”

Johnson’s love life wasn’t the one matter of dialog that put him within the scorching seat in season 12’s first episode. Followers additionally watched him get reprimanded by Vanderpump for ingesting on the job, an act that made the restaurant’s co-owner, Nathalie Pouille-Zapata, cry.

Johnson defended his habits.

“I revered everybody’s disappointment in me,” he informed Us. “I used to be simply somebody who received caught within the second. This can be a celebration on a regular basis. I used to be simply not slick sufficient that day to get my partying off.”

Whereas Johnson confessed he felt “a bit of bit unhealthy” in regards to the state of affairs, he mentioned, “I’m not gonna let it change how I behave at work.”

New episodes of Vanderpump Guidelines season 12 airs on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on Bravo and the subsequent day on Peacock.