RHOC: Vicki Claims Tamra Is Having “Black Heart and Vinegar Running Through Her Veins” Since Leaving the Tres Amigas Show
“Tamra didn’t have the balls to call me or Shannon to tell us that she didn’t want to be part of the show anymore,” Vicki stated.
This season of The Real Housewives of Orange County marked Vicki Gunvalson’s debut, and she is less than pleased with her erstwhile friend.
Vicki, 62, and Shannon Beador convened on the August 1 episode of the popular Bravo reality program to deliberate on the future of their live performance, Tres Amigas, following Tamra Judge’s decision to withdraw from the project.
Tamra, 56, was dissatisfied in Shannon’s continued consumption of alcohol following her DUI arrest in September and subsequently opted not to continue with the remaining performances.
“I’ve only had a very short convo with Tamra,” Shannon, 60, told Vicki, adding that Tamra didn’t want to sit down and work things out.
“She has vinegar running through her veins and a black heart,” Vicki replied.
Tamra stated that the evening’s heavy alcohol content was one of the reasons she left, but the ladies continued to say that they “had the show down” with their skits and trio performances.
“I think we can still do it,” Vicki insisted, but Shannon seemed hesitant.
“Tamra didn’t have the balls to call me or Shannon to tell us that she didn’t want to be part of the show anymore,” Vicki then said in her confessional. “It’ll be like Thelma and Louise and Ethel and Lucy and Laverne and Shirley. There were only two all the time anyway.”
Upon reaching a consensus to proceed with their idea, which they named The Shannon and Vicki Show, the pals called the show manager and inquired about the potential effects of Tamra’s absence on the show’s viewership. Shannon Beador’s Ex-husband David Beador Has Filed for Divorce From Lesley Beador
“I definitely think there’s some fall out,” the manager replied. Vicki then admitted that she still thought Tamra “owes it to us,” to rejoin the trio.
“I’m very upset with her,” she said. “You don’t do this in business.”
Shannon agreed: “It’s a way to make additional income. I’ve got three kids in college, I’m still single.”
“Just the two of us, we’re the dos amigas,” Shannon and Vicki then sang in unison before the scene came to an end.
Tamra told her husband Eddie earlier in the season that she left Tres Amigas because being with Shannon was “too stressful,” not because she didn’t like the program.
“I thought she was gonna get help, and it’s frustrating to me because she’s lying to everybody,” she noted of Shannon’s drinking habits following her DUI arrest.
“She says, ‘I’m just gonna have a drink, I’m just gonna have two drinks, I don’t have a drinking problem.’ I will be there in a heartbeat if she reaches out to me, but I’m going to choose me and my happiness,” she added.
She concluded, “I cannot deal with the day to day with her anymore.”
Vicki and Tamra had a tumultuous relationship in the past, with Tamra disparaging Vicki’s romances. According to Tamra, in 2022, Vicki had a tumultuous meeting with her former partner Steve Lodge.
“She ran into him with the girlfriend and she chased him out of the restaurant,” Tamra said. “She told me too, ‘I chased him out of the restaurant and he got into his car and took off.’ I said, ‘Vicki, oh my god, did someone take video of it?’ She said, ‘I don’t think so.’ “
A year later, Tamra responded to co-host Teddi Mellencamp of the Pod podcast when she implied that Vicki had attended the Jan. 6 uprising. “Because I’m defending the truth,” Tamra said in response to Vicki’s question. You pursued her first.
Bravo broadcasts The Real Housewives of Orange County every Thursday at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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