Dr. Nicole Martin doesn’t trust all of her former Real Housewives of Miami cast mates — and, according to her, it’s for a good reason.
In an interview with the Scrubs to Stilettos podcast released on Thursday, July 3, Martin accused an unnamed cast member of hiring a private investigator to follow both her and her husband, Anthony Lopez.
Martin and Lopez, an attorney, pieced the alleged story together after they noticed they were being followed, she claimed.
“Oh, he was not a very good private investigator,” Martin said. “When we started, like, putting the pieces together we were like, ‘What is happening? Why are we being followed?’”
“One of my cast mates confessed to me that the other cast mate had told her that she had hired a private investigator because she wanted to move from a friend role to a full-time role [on the series] and she felt like if she had this secret and she could like drop this bomb that that would be like the thing she needed to like level up her friends down,” Martin alleged.
The alleged event had a huge impact on her, Martin claimed. She said she started to experience anxiety while filming and felt like she couldn’t trust everyone involved in the show.
“And I started being, like, feeling unsafe filming in the sense — not physical violence but like they were really trying to hurt me and my family and, like, once I’ve had postpartum anxiety plus the baseline anxiety I was, like, ‘No, this is going to lead me to have a mental breakdown I can’t do this,” she explained.
Martin departed the reality series in 2024. At the time, she said the decision was due to postpartum anxiety.
“Given where I am right now, I have decided not to return to RHOM,” Martin captioned an Instagram post on September 13 announcing her decision. “Prioritizing my health and my family is something I need to do at this moment. It’s a step towards healing and finding balance, and I hope you can understand and support this choice.”
“This pregnancy, I started to suffer from significant postpartum anxiety — something new that I did not experience with my previous pregnancy,” she added. “It all started about a week after giving birth when I found myself having an overwhelming sense of worry and fear out of nowhere. It felt like my mind was constantly on high alert, panicked and worrying endlessly about the health of my baby, myself, and my family.”
In the same announcement, Martin said that she had hoped that by “sharing our experiences, we can offer each other comfort and strength.”
“This is a part of my life that I am learning to navigate, and it’s been an emotional roller-coaster,” she concluded.
