Vicki Gunvalson is still fuming after The Real Housewives of Orange County reunion and the non-stop attacks on herself and Brooks Ayers.
Last night marked part three of three for the show’s reunion special, and Vicki and Brooks were the subject of just about every passing second.
Ayers’ controversial claims that he had cancer were slammed by her co-stars and fans alike, but Vicki stood by him and wouldn’t back down.
“I believed Brooks,” she told Radar.
Her own daughter, Briana Culberson, had no such reservations. In fact, she slammed her mother’s former partner repeatedly in recent weeks.
“He would do something terrible when my mom was across the room,” she said. “He hit on me when I was pregnant at a family birthday party.”
Vicki conceded after relentless criticism that “her gut says” Brooks does not have cancer, but that doesn’t change how she felt she was attacked.
Even though they broke up, Gunvalson wasn’t swayed by her co-stars’ claims, and says that the show exploited the cancer saga as a story line.
But ultimately, the attacks hit Vicki close to home, both personally and as a business person, and from that, it may take a long time to recover.
A successful insurance business entrepreneur, Gunvalson said the character assassination she faced dinged her reputation outside of the show.
“I am mad that people are attacking my character because it has a negative effect on my business,” she insisted, digging in her heels a bit.
It’s not clear how this, of all things we’ve seen her do, say and go through over the course of 10 seasons, would bedevil her, but so be it.
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