Heather Dubrow arrived at the RHOC season 20 premiere party with a message for the whole cast. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the 57-year-old claimed her castmates were bullying her. She also warned about what the new episodes will reveal.
“I think you see in the first episode that there’s conversations that erupt after a dinner we had after the reunion. And I don’t want to give anything away, but I think people should be careful about throwing stones. None of us are perfect and we all do and say things not always exactly right,” Heather said.
From Heather, who usually stays calm, this feels more like a heads-up than a reflection. She knows what the cameras caught, about her and about everyone else.
Deja Vu From Season 17
When Gina Kirschenheiter called Heather “scrappier” this season, Heather compared it to one of her toughest years on the show.
“Do you remember a few seasons ago where people decided that they just wanted to pick on me? There is a bit of that,” she said. “And when people start picking on how you talk and how you walk and how you carry yourself and all those things, you start to go, ‘Do you just not like me? Are we back there?’”
The difference this time, she says, is her. “Because I’m in a different place in my life now, my response was different.”
The Vicki Feud Comes Down To One Comment
Heather also explained exactly what soured things with Vicki Gunvalson. Vicki suggested that Heather and her husband, Dr. Terry Dubrow, inherited their fortune. Heather dismantled the claim with visible irritation.
“Vicki is a very smart, self-made woman and has worked very hard for everything she has. She, of all people, should understand that when you work hard, and you have a life, and you created it yourself, to say that someone handed it to you… look, if someone wants to hand us money, that is a great plan. But both of our mothers are alive. I’m not really sure who we would’ve inherited money from,” she reasoned.
Then she went for the motive. “Why say it, I guess, is my question. Why would someone say something like that? It’s either because it makes you feel better that we aren’t smarter or cleverer than you.”
The logic makes sense, and the premiere adds a fun detail: Terry worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken before he became a celebrity surgeon. Fried chicken to Botched is about as self-made as television gets.
Her Verdict On The New Girl
Heather gave newcomer Carmella Garcia a warm review. This is notable since Heather is usually slow to accept new castmates.
“I really thought that she really stood on her own two feet, and I think she was strong,” Heather said, adding that Carmella “did really well.”
Her Mom Might Deserve An Orange
Heather’s mom, Carole Kent, filmed so much this season that Heather joked she might “probably” need her own orange. She previewed their dynamic with unusual honesty.
“I watched the first episode and I saw our dynamic. That’s our dynamic and I think people are gonna resonate,” she shared. “Mother-daughter relationships are complicated. I love my mother. She’s fabulous. She also irritates me. She’s my mother. We share many similarities, but we’re also quite different. Our parenting styles vary a lot. I have more kids than she raised and we’re of a different generation.”
Carole, almost 84, recently moved near Heather. The premiere suggests that her past absence from the grandkids’ lives still bothers them. A complex mother-daughter story might be Heather’s most relatable work in years.
The Best Fight In OC History, According To Heather
Heather named the franchise’s greatest brawl: the Sarah Winchester cake incident. A party guest broke the sugar bow off her cake before it was cut. She lived through that moment personally.
“That is one of the best fights in Orange County history just because it involved all of us, it was petty, and it was hilarious, and we meant it,” she recalled.
She is right, and her reasoning doubles as the formula for every great Housewives fight. Nobody got hurt, everybody cared way too much, and a piece of fondant became a legend.
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