Tamra Judge revealed she was contacted by Jennifer Pedranti over a decade ago while appearing on Tuesday’s episode of Nick Viall‘s podcast.
In addition to accusing Jennifer, 48, of acting innocent and playing victim, and alluding to text messages regarding her alleged cheating on ex-husband William Pedranti, the 57-year-old Real Housewives of Orange County star shared how Jennifer approached her years ago, addressed her relationship with the controversial Ryan Boyajian, 48, admitted to trying to get Vicki Gunvalson, 63, fired, and looked back on the one time she was dishonest on the show.
“Jenn started coming to my gym in 2019, maybe, and she wanted to do a fitness competition, and she wanted to open up a gym, a yoga studio. So I didn’t know her. I didn’t know her at all. And some of the people in my studio are like, ‘Be careful of her. She’s obsessed with getting on the housewives,’” Tamra began of her first in-person meeting with Jennifer on the August 6 episode of The Viall Files. “She looked totally different than she does now, totally different.”
While Tamra was on RHOC at the time, she was fired after season 14, at which point Jennifer pursued another cast member of the show.
“She started reaching out to [Braunwyn Windham-Burke] … and then prior to that, I found out she was like going to my hair girl, she was going to my plastic surgeon, and I’m like ‘this is weird,’ then she had my hair extensions put in her head. I even said, and I don’t know if it got cut, I don’t know if I should be … flattered. Or, is this weird?” Tamra shared.
Although Tamra didn’t meet Jennifer until 2019, she claimed to have DMs from her castmate from several years prior.
“I found DMs from her from 2013. ‘I’m new to the area’ just wanting to be friends and ‘I want to have a procedure done, and I heard maybe you might’ve had it done,’ just all this,” Tamra revealed.
According to Tamra, Jennifer may seem kind on the show, but “her innocent game is strong.”
“You’ll start to see some cracks, though,” she teased. “She takes everything into victim mode.”
“What’s she been through? Married 20-something years to a really nice guy? Very religious, nice. I haven’t talked to him since they split up … [but he’s a] really good dad,” Tamra noted.
As for the claims of Jennifer potentially cheating on William, Tamra wouldn’t say much, but she did state that she “[knows] a lot about her.”
“We have a lot of mutual friends. I would call it a rumor right now because I don’t have the text messages. I think it was one of those things where she was accusing me of cheating so I’m like, ‘Well, let’s be honest. This isn’t your first time.’ I think it comes up again,” she hinted.
Then, after stating that Jennifer “could do better” than Ryan, but encouraging her to “have at it” if he’s what she believes is best for her and her kids, Tamra explained why she once tried to have Vicki fired.
“I wanted Vicki fired for a while back in the day. She was making up these lies about [Eddie Judge] and having these parties and bringing [Gretchen Rossi] in and all this stuff. And I was just like, I can’t deal with this. I can’t deal with lies,” she said. “That’s the thing. You have something on me? Bring it up.”
Also on Nick’s podcast, Tamra admitted to telling a lie about Heather Dubrow, 56, to Shannon Beador, 61, in regard to Shannon’s split from her ex-husband, David Beador, 60, but she insisted she did so for the right reason.
“I lied one time to protect Heather,” she explained, proceeding to reveal that she had leaked the news of Shannon’s breakup to Heather shortly after she learned of their split.
“The next day, [production] had Shannon come to my house and film, but prior to that, I did a scene prior with Heather and we were at a restaurant in Newport, filming,” Tamra recalled.
While Tamra didn’t tell Heather about Shannon’s then-impending divorce on camera, the topic came up after she left, and ultimately, David found out.
“He went off on [Shannon]. ‘How does Heather know all about this?’ And I’m like, ‘Sh*t!’ I remember texting Heather. I go, ‘What the f*ck, Heather? David just called Shannon.’ And I stuck my phone in the couch, and Shannon goes, ‘Did you tell Heather?’ And I go, ‘No!’” Tamra confessed. “I should’ve said yes, but I just like, panicked.”
The Real Housewives of Orange County season 19 airs Thursdays at 9/8c on Bravo.
