The Skinnygirl told off The Tipsy Girl on The Real Housewives of New York City Season 8 Episode 7.
In a confrontation for the ages, Bethenny Frankel told Sonja Morgan exactly what she thought about the latter trying to break into the wine business, sitting across from her on a couch and just tearing Morgan to shreds.
It was ugly and it was personal.
“I think you’re a fraud,” Frankel told Morgan upon being asked for her take on Morgan’s Tipsy Girl line of cocktails.
“You’ve come up with six fake businesses, and no one buys any of it. Nobody believes any of it.”
This critique brought Morgan to tears, with the reality star citing her reason Chapter 11 filing and explaining that she hoped this business idea would help her dire financial situation.
You can watch The Real Housewives of New York City online to relive the entire episode and click below to view this awkward exchange:
Having had some time to reflect on her destruction of Morgan, does Bethenny now have any regrets?
It doesn’t really sound like it.
“The Sonja situation was just kind of sad,” Frankel wrote on her blog today.
“Obviously, her idea can’t touch my brand. There is no product or distribution. It is a made-for-television idea, and I have over 20 varieties of wine, vodka and ready to drink.
“You can’t find a city of the Housewives where several women haven’t followed in my footsteps and attempted booze.”
How does the successful entrepreneur feel about this competition?
“Bring it on. The more the merrier. It is a brutal business, and it may look easy, but as you see, it isn’t.”
Bethenny added Tipsy Girl is an “unoriginal name and idea” and it gives audiences a misguided impression “that you just go on TV, and poof a brand is born. That isn’t how it works.”
Frankel is mostly right in this regard.
She does work hard and she has made a ton of money off her Skinnygirl brand.
But she’s lying to herself if she thinks her reality TV career didn’t play a big role in her success.
Frankel really did make Morgan cry on the latest episode of their Bravo hit, but she says now that there’s no ill will between the castmates.
“As for Sonja, well…I have no anger towards Sonja, but I do have sympathy,” she concludes.
“I hope she can find her truth somewhere in the process.
“Ideas and names are a dime a dozen. Execution, drive, dedication and passion push it through.”