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Gretchen Rossi was accused of “liking” a sequence of controversial posts, together with homophobic messages and anti-abortion rights statements, on Thursday’s finale episode of the nineteenth season of The Actual Housewives of Orange County, and after the present aired, the solid commented on her “regarding” lack of a response.
As Gretchen, 47, defined why she didn’t have a lot to say after the accusations had been made, her co-stars, together with Emilly Simpson, 49, Tamra Choose, 58, and Heather Dubrow, 56, raised suspicions as Shannon Beador, 61, tried to defend her.
“I used to be so confused as a result of, in my coronary heart, I’m like, ‘There’s no means I’d’ve appreciated a submit like that.’ What am I presupposed to say to this? I do know basically in my coronary heart what I really feel and the way I imagine, so, nevertheless it’s like, how are you presupposed to defend that in that second?” Gretchen questioned on the October 30 episode of the RHOC: After Present. “I used to be legitimately in shock and confused. After which it simply obtained weirder and weirder and weirder.”
“I assumed you’ll have come unhinged in case you knew in your soul that it was not you,” Jennifer Pedranti, 48, replied.
In the meantime, Emily, who stated she would have been “furious” if comparable accusations had been made in opposition to her, anticipated Gretchen to lash out at Tamra.
“I assumed that her response would’ve been, ‘F*ck you, Tamra. That is you creating bullsh*t about me.’ And that’s what I assumed the response is perhaps, after which I used to be gonna sit and analyze that. However there was no response from her,” she famous as Tamra added that Gretchen’s lack of a response “made it worse.”
“If somebody was accusing me of one thing, you simply need to go, ‘How can I show that that is ridiculous, that that is so not true?’” Heather reasoned.
As for what else raised a purple flag for Emily, she gave a nod to Gretchen’s chat with Slade Smiley, 51, as she questioned who Gretchen was.
“The opposite issues that was regarding for me is that she confirmed no emotion or actually any sort of response till after she spoke to Slade. I don’t know the place you land as a result of I can’t inform what’s genuinely you and what’s Slade guiding you,” she defined.
Elsewhere, Shannon stated she “can’t think about” that Gretchen did what she’s accused of.
“I’ve seen a form, devoted mother, [a] faith-based gal, and a woman who has quite a lot of pals within the LGBTQ group. So I don’t know. I’m ready with you to see what occurs,” she advised Heather. “One thing doesn’t make sense about all of it.”
Shannon then famous that everybody reacts in a different way to completely different eventualities.
“Shannon Beador laughs. Gretchen simply was blindsided and like, ‘What?’ And a few individuals are [deer] within the [headlights] and a few folks go, they usually’re very vocal about what’s happening. So I don’t need to decide her primarily based on her response,” she concluded.
The three-part Actual Housewives of Orange County season 19 reunion begins subsequent Thursday, November 6, at 8/7c on Bravo.
