Erika Jayne shaded Garcelle Beauvais and her exit from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills while appearing on Tuesday night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live.
As she also clapped back at Garcelle, 58, for suggesting she married Thomas Girardi, 85, for money, joked that Kyle Richards, 56, would never leave the show, and shared her thoughts on Sutton Stracke, 53, thinking she’s “above” the cast, Erika, 53, recalled her and Lisa Rinna‘s near run-in with Mauricio Umansky, 54, and teased the upcoming drama of the season 14 reunion.
“You say something!” Erika begged fellow guest Bozoma “Boz” Saint John, 48, after being asked about Garcelle quitting on the March 25 episode of WWHL, following a very long pause and awkward silence between them.
Then, Erika added, “Won’t He do it,” seemingly suggesting that Garcelle’s departure was of God’s doing as she also admitted she and Boz had an “inside joke” about the topic.
Continuing on about Garcelle’s exit from RHOBH, Erika revealed she learned her co-star would not be back for season 15 at the reunion.
“She was upset, and obviously, we’ve known that she’s quit for two weeks. We knew this,” she confirmed as host Andy Cohen, 56, denied he was aware of Garcelle’s plan to leave the show.
“When she left the reunion, I wasn’t totally sure. She and I had a conversation here last week,” he explained, signaling Garcelle’s March 18 appearance on WWHL.
“But she did not take the cast photo with us. So that is a clear indication that I am leaving,” Erika argued as Andy noted that Kyle was absent from a cast pic two seasons prior.
“But you know Kyle’s gonna show up, though. Where’s she going?” Erika wondered.
During Garcelle’s appearance on WWHL last week, after being asked about how Erika suggested she’d peaked in her dating life decades prior, Garcelle declared, “I married for love, not for money.”
In response, Erika told Andy, “We both married ugly white guys that cheated on us, so you know, for love.”
Moving on to Sutton, Erika was asked if she thought Sutton truly believed she was above the cast.
“Listen, the things that she says indicate that she feels that she’s above us,” Erika admitted.
Still, she does believe there is a possibility that the two of them, as well as Sutton and Dorit, will eventually share a friendship.
“As long as she is consistent, absolutely. We share the same culture. I understand a lot of things about where she came from. But as long as her behavior’s consistent, we have a chance at a real friendship,” Erika explained.
She then excused her impersonations of Sutton, signaling that they are both from Georgia.
“I hope they’re offensive, but it’s my dialect, too,” she reasoned.
At another moment of the show, Erika was asked if it was true that she and Lisa, 61, caught Mauricio kissing a woman at Chateau Marmont.
“It is true that Lisa Rinna and I walked past Mauricio with two brunettes at the table. Kissing? Absolutely not,” she clarified. “That’s the real crux of the thing: We were there at the Chateau, we walked past, we saw it, Dorit was there too, by the way, but y’all don’t know that. Yeah, we saw him there, but it wasn’t anything other than three people sitting at a table.”
With the reunion less than a week away, Erika reflected on her suggestion that Garcelle was “boring.”
“I did not call her boring. I said, ‘I wish you were more interesting.’ Listen, in the world I live in, you gotta spit it plain,” she stated.
As for why she has called out Garcelle for failing to showcase her life while keeping her personal life to herself, Erika fired back at the idea that she’s been anything less than transparent.
“My own personal life? My husband went to jail, honey. I lost my home, my family, everything I own; I’m currently being sued. I was like in terrible, still am, terrible legal jeopardy. Haven’t I shared?” she asked Andy. “It’s the truth.”
“You’re gonna have to do more than buy a beach house in Bakersfield,” she added in another apparent diss at Garcelle.
Also on the live broadcast, after admitting that she didn’t know who Carl Radke, 40, was, following a potential love connection question, Erika said that she and Tom “stand nowhere” since there was a “conviction.”
“There’s no contact. So I couldn’t tell you where he is tonight,” she shared. “[We sold the house] years ago.”
She then called out her rose and thorn of the season.
“My rose was Boz .. I think you found someone that really gets it and is accomplished and is a good person,” she revealed. “My thorn, Garcelle, I just really wish you’d have stuck it out. I know that I’ve been catty tonight. I know you’ll do well, but I just kind of wish you’d stuck it out.”
Later, on the WWHL: After Show, Erika was asked if she was closer to Kyle or Dorit after the reunion.
“I’m close with both of them, and here’s what’s interesting is, I knew they were both going through very tough times, and I tried to remain as neutral as possible throughout the whole thing. And then also, too, when it’s time to excuse yourself, it’s time to excuse yourself,” she reasoned. “You can’t stay in the middle for too long. They have to work it out.”
She then gushed over her newfound friendship with Boz.
“We’ve become friends, and I really enjoy the fact that we’ve been able to [grow that]. You can’t be friends with everybody right away, that’s an impossibility, so [we] have things to explore,” she explained.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 14 reunion begins Tuesday, April 1, at 8/7c on Bravo.
