Tamra Judge explained why she was so upset about Ryan Boyajian‘s podcast interview after last week’s episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County.
As the 57-year-old doubled down on labeling Ryan, 46, a “little b*tch” and admitted that she didn’t know a whole lot about his ties to the $16 million MLB scandal involving Los Angeles Dodgers player Shohei Ohtani, 30, she slammed Ryan, the fiance of her castmate Jennifer Pedranti, 47, for the “disgusting” things he said about her family.
“Jen and I made up at the reunion last year and quickly after the reunion, I went to Scotland [to film The Traitors] so my phone was taken away. I had no access. Well, I don’t know if they took advantage of that but they started doing podcasts and interviews,” Tamra recalled during a recent interview with Bravo HQ. “I would’ve been okay if they didn’t bring my husband into it, Cut Fitness into it. They were reposting stuff about my son [Ryan Vieth], [and] my son doesn’t even know him. It’s disgusting. He was just saying horrible things about us.”
According to Tamra, her own husband, Eddie Judge, 51, didn’t act in that manner, despite being attacked by her co-stars, including Vicki Gunvalson, 62, in past seasons.
“Did he ever once go after [her]? That’s like him going after Vicki and bringing her kids into it. And no, he would never do that,” she stated. “He’s a gentleman. He’s a man. It’s such a little b*tch thing to do. So, and I let him know it.”
As for what she actually knows about Ryan’s ties to the MLB scandal, which she’s spoken frequently about both on the show and online, Tamra admitted it’s not much.
“I still to this day don’t really know a lot about it,” she revealed. “I know that his business partner, only what I read online, I heard that their houses were raided by the FBI, that made the news. And my neighborhood, people were talking about it and I’m like, ‘Holy sh*t, are you serious?’”
While Tamra doesn’t know much about Ryan’s current status with the investigation, that didn’t stop her from accusing Ryan of “stealing” from Shohei on Watch What Happens Live last week. And, after seeing the episode, Ryan hired Jim Bellino‘s attorney and served her with a lawsuit.
Also during the interview, Katie Ginella, 40, looked back on the dramatic dinner, revealing that she didn’t know there was so much drama between the two couples until shortly before the event was to take place.
“I learned pretty close to when we were having these couples over for dinner that Ryan had talked a lot of bad things about Eddie on a podcast. And I was like, ‘Well, they’re both coming for dinner.’ So, they showed up and immediately it was, ‘I don’t want to talk to you.’ And it came to a head at the dinner table,” Katie shared. “At one point, my husband [Matt Ginella] and I were holding hands under the table like, ‘Holy sh*t.”
“It’s weird to know what we know now and to look back at that dinner because Tamra did know that this was coming to a head. She had read the news. I didn’t know anything about it. That was a really tough dinner for me. So maybe next time I won’t have all that China on my dinner table, and I will not take, like, six hours to bake that cake that nobody could enjoy.”
The Real Housewives of Orange County season 18 airs Thursdays at 9/8c on Bravo.
