During the show, Seth confronted Shawn about his suggestion that Meredith had used Brooks’ sexuality to defend herself against backlash over potentially outing someone. And after Whitney asked for “proof,” he provided a screenshot of a podcast interview Angie’s husband had done.
Equally as upset about Seth’s behavior was Angie.
“You’re not saying b*tches? It sounds like b*tches to me, and if my husband picked up a phone and shoved it in Meredith’s face and said biotch, her head would’ve been bobbing. We would’ve never heard the end of it,” Angie noted, then stating that Seth had later informed the cast that he “never even listened to the podcast.”
“If you’re gonna back your wife, you better fact-check your information and know what’s going on,” she added.
Looking back at the moment in her own segment, Meredith defended Seth, pointing out that Shawn had commented on “his wife and his child.”
“[Whitney] had no problem with the way Justin spoke to Lisa,” she noted, signaling an earlier moment of the season. “The f-word’s a lot more aggressive than biotch, which is not even a swear word. It is not b*tch. It is not the same meaning. I think it’s like comedic relief, frankly.”
Elsewhere, Brownyn Newport, 39, said that if Seth’s remark to Whitney could be written off as a joke, the same lens should be applied to Shawn.
“That’s what I can’t handle, the self-righteous where everyone else is wrong, but when we do it, it’s a joke or an example or a story. There’s always an excuse,” she stated.
During another segment of the RHOSLC: After Show, Whitney admitted that she wasn’t happy to see her husband apologize to Lisa after their war over words about the rumors surrounding Whitney’s business.
“Truthfully, it pissed me off that Justin chose to be the bigger person,” Whitney shared. “In the moment, I was upset … I was really pissed that Lisa got her way with it because that woman gets away with everything, and I really don’t enjoy that she’ll treat people so poorly and expect us to treat her like she’s the goddamn queen of the universe.”
Whitney then said that while she knew it was the “right thing” for Justin to apologize, that didn’t necessarily mean that Lisa was in the right. In fact, after Justin detailed the conversation he had with John Barlow to her, she felt that even John was “very much saying that Lisa was out of line.”
Meanwhile, in her own segment, Lisa said that it was John who demanded Justin apologize.
“John is a very pragmatic person. He doesn’t like conflict, and during the lunch, John said, ‘I feel like you owe Lisa an apology,’” she revealed.
And as Whitney admitted that she didn’t think Lisa thought “she did anything wrong,” Lisa agreed.
“I didn’t do anything wrong because it’s based on fact. You’re lying. You said I did something I didn’t do,” she stated.
Either way, Whitney said that Justin’s apology wasn’t able to keep the peace between the two of them.
“After he apologized, she softened. Then, I woke up the next morning and she was back to her antics, pissed off at me,” she recalled.
According to Whitney, she didn’t stand up for herself enough in Palm Springs.
“I wish I would have really [pushed] Lisa to say, ‘Hey, even your husband said you were wrong. You should probably apologize.’ [But] you can’t trust a double standard. It’s like you sleep with one eye open all the time,” she concluded.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season five airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.
