Vicki was on the warpath again last night on The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 11 Episode 4, with Shannon in her crosshairs.
If you watch The Real Housewives of Orange County online, you know that’s been theme of the season so far on the Bravo flagship:
Can Vicki regain her place in the ladies’ good graces?
Does she want that? Do they? What’s her endgame?
Well, the Real Housewives of Orange County Season 11 Episode 4 picked up at the beach party where the previous installment left off.
Vicki Gunvalson’s excuses for the Brooks Ayers cancer drama were front and center, with her goal of talking to each of the wives individually.
Target number one? Shannon Beador.
“You guys were right, and I was wrong,” Vicki said, though the skeptical Shannon said Ayers was lying about his cancer from the start.
How could Vicki not know?
Not unlike her conversations with Heather Dubrow and Tamra Barney, Vicki failed to gain much closure, and ended up in tears. So it goes.
Shannon says she doesn’t think the two could be friends again; Meghan King Edmonds, conversely, has plenty of friends to go around.
Heather Dubrow and Kelly Dodd, who both had kids via IVF, helped Meghan with the shots she has to take in order to begin the process.
When Vicki asked Brooks critic Meghan King Edmonds if they could be friends again, however, she replied that they were never friends.
Kelly felt bad for her after awhile, saying:
“I’ve been ganged up [on] by girls many times in my life, and when I see someone doing that to somebody else, I want to protect that person!”
The real crazy part of this episode, however, involved Tamra Barney’s adult son Ryan Vieth, who was once engaged to Sarah Rodriguez.
Tamra was on his case to make things right with her, as she’s the mother of his child, and for Ryan, this has been an ongoing dilemma.
Meanwhile, Vicki pulled over at a gas station to call 911 when she realized she couldn’t drive daughter Briana to the hospital fast enough.
Who did she run into there? Sarah Rodriguez!
Sarah, naturally, offered to go to Vicki’s place to watch Briana’s kids at the same time Vicki was texting Tamra about what was going on.
Tamra insisted that it was divine intervention that landed Sarah in Vicki’s path that day she was helping Briana with her difficulty breathing.
(It was later revealed that Briana’s lymph nodes were swollen so much they were pushing on her lungs, causing her problems breathing.)
When Tamra asked Sarah if she would get back together with Ryan, the latter responded that he was the one making that so challenging.
The two subplots here are that Tamra and Vicki are on good terms again – or at least called a true over this whole incident – and this:
Why is Briana even in California? Did Vicki force her to move away from her husband, Ryan, who was still stationed by the Army in Oklahoma?
Tamra and Shannon gossiped that perhaps promising her a free house and around the clock help with her medical care did the trick.
Shannon then said she planned on inviting Vicki to her upcoming party via email, while still making it clear he did not want a friendship.
Tamra chastised her friend for that “passive-aggressive” and “back-handed” idea and suggested she forgive and forget with Gunvalson.
Whoa there. That’s too level-headed for Bravo.
