Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills: Sutton Stracke confronts Crystal Kung Minkoff over ‘dark’ comments
Sutton Stracke confronted Crystal Kung Minkoff over her accusation that she made ‘dark’ comments on Wednesday’s episode of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills.
The season 12 episode titled In Hot Water focused on original cast member Kyle Richards, 53, and Garcelle Beauvais, 55, trying to find out what Sutton allegedly said to Crystal last year when their friendship got off to a rocky start.
‘I just don’t want any kind of untruths to be spoken that can be very dangerous,’ Sutton, 50, said to Crystal, 36, during a group dinner with the other women in Punta Mita, Mexico. ‘I feel like you have tried to assassinate my character now twice. It makes me nervous about my friendship with you.’
Dinner drama: Sutton Stracke confronted Crystal Kung Minkoff over her accusation that she made ‘dark’ comments on Wednesday’s episode of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills
‘I understand,’ Crystal said.
‘Do you think you exaggerated or made something up,’ Dorit Kemsley, 45, asked Crystal.
‘I’m not making anything up,’ Crystal said. ‘What I said was that things were said that were hurtful and that’s it. I need you to stop denying my experience.’
‘You said it was so dark, she could get cancelled,’ Kyle said. ‘It was so horrible you couldn’t talk about it. And you were crying that it was so awful. That is what gaslighting is.’
Hurtful words: ‘I’m not making anything up,’ Crystal said. ‘What I said was that things were said that were hurtful and that’s it. I need you to stop denying my experience’
Erika Jayne, 50, asked Sutton what she thought about the Crystal’s comment.
‘You just want her to say that she doesn’t think you’re a racist?’ Erika said. ‘When you don’t say what it is people are going to fill in the blanks and it’s going to be a lot worse.’
‘It’s not good for you,’ Lisa Rinna, 58, said to Sutton.
Speaking up; ‘You just want her to say that she doesn’t think you’re a racist?’ Erika Jayne said to Sutton. ‘When you don’t say what it is people are going to fill in the blanks and it’s going to be a lot worse’
‘Here we go again and I’m f***ing pissed,’ Sutton said. ‘I said nothing wrong and I said nothing bad. And this is the truth. It’s not f***ing fair.’
‘I didn’t bring it up,’ Crystal said.
‘Yes, you did!’ Sutton said. ‘ You make up lies about your friends behind their backs.’
Not fair: ‘Yes, you did!’ Sutton said. ‘ You make up lies about your friends behind their backs’
‘You made it seem way worse than it was,’ Kyle said to Crystal.
‘Is somebody going to tell me what the f*** was said?’ Erika said.
‘Nope,’ Lisa said.
Way worse: ‘You made it seem way worse than it was,’ Kyle said to Crystal
‘It’s about my family and how I have raised them to have multicultural friends,’ Sutton said.
‘That was it?’ Lisa asked.
‘Yes,’ Sutton said. ‘We have a pool. We have a Jacuzzi. Everybody’s welcome.’
Multicultural friends: ‘It’s about my family and how I have raised them to have multicultural friends,’ Sutton said
‘That doesn’t seem dark to me,’ Garcelle said.
‘But was it problematic to you?’ Crystal said.
‘No,’ Garcelle said. ‘What we are all taking offense to is the fact that you alluded to it being really, really bad, that could hurt her reputation.’
Not problematic: ‘No,’ Garcelle said. ‘What we are all taking offense to is the fact that you alluded to it being really, really bad, that could hurt her reputation’
‘Thanks a lot,’ Sutton said.
‘I’m sorry,’ Crystal said.
The episode opened with Garcelle checking out the site of her new beach house she planned to build with her sister Chantal. Dorit meanwhile met Erika for lunch and said she had just come from her Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy ( EMDR) therapy session in the aftermath of being robbed at home.
Saying sorry: ‘I’m sorry,’ Crystal said after Sutton blasted her
‘The fact that you got into therapy right away shows that you’re on your way to recovery,’ Erika said.
Dorit asked Erika if she had any update on Lisa Rinna’s mother Lois.
‘It’s bad,’ Erika said, sharing that Lisa had to put her mother in hospice care.
Lunch meeting: Dorit Kemsley met Erika for lunch and said she had just come from her Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy ( EMDR) therapy session in the aftermath of being robbed at home
‘I can only imagine how she’s feeling,’ Dorit said.
‘This is going to crush her,’ Erika said.
Dorit said show newcomer Diana Jenkins, 49, was going to fly them to Punta, Mita Mexico, on her private jet for a girls trip.
Kyle met Crystal for lunch and talked about the upcoming wedding of her niece Paris Hilton.
Lunch meeting: Kyle met Crystal for lunch and talked about the upcoming wedding of her niece Paris Hilton
She asked Crystal why she brought up something about Sutton from a year ago but then never said what it was. Kyle said that Crystal threw Sutton under the bus.
‘I’m just going to be really clear about this,’ Crystal said. ‘I’m not going to repeat what she said.’
‘Well then you never should have said it,’ Kyle said.
Not repeating: ‘I’m just going to be really clear about this,’ Crystal said. ‘I’m not going to repeat what she said’
‘Lesson learned,’ Crystal said.
‘Do you not see that it’s dangerous to throw something like that out there and say it’s so dark, but I can’t say?’ Kyle said. ‘To be honest I think you are gaslighting this situation.’
‘I’m going to ask you to give me the benefit of the doubt,’ Crystal said.
The benefit: ‘I’m going to ask you to give me the benefit of the doubt,’ Crystal said
‘I’m going to ask you then to be more direct, not passive aggressive,’ Kyle said.
‘I will do everything possible to be more open and direct,’ Crystal said.
Diana went over to Kyle’s house. Kyle said to Diana that she had exciting news that her oldest daughter Farrah got engaged. Diana said her baby was just starting to walk around the house.
Catching up: Diana went over to Kyle’s house and they got to know each other better
Kyle asked her how many more babies she planned on having. Diana shared that when Eli was five months old she got pregnant with a baby boy but she got terrible news during a scan at the doctor’s office.
‘I was going to show Asher what was happening, I put the phone (up) and she said ”put the phone down, this baby’s dead”,’ Diana said.
‘They figured out that the baby may have been dead for a couple of weeks, which is very dangerous for a mother because all kinds of infections can happen,’ Diana said in a confessional.
Candid confessional: ‘They figured out that the baby may have been dead for a couple of weeks, which is very dangerous for a mother because all kinds of infections can happen,’ Diana said in a confessional
‘I ended up bleeding almost to death as the baby fell out of me, and I fainted,’ Diana told Kyle.
Garcelle met Sutton for dinner. Sutton told Garcelle the only thing she said to Crystal was a story about her child sitting in a jacuzzi with a Black, Chinese and Irish-Catholic girl and she said that was how things should be.
‘What would Crystal find so dark about a bunch of kids being in a pool?’ Garcelle said.
The story: Sutton told Garcelle the only thing she said to Crystal was a story about her child sitting in a jacuzzi with a Black, Chinese and Irish-Catholic girl and she said that was how things should be
‘I don’t know,’ Sutton said.
Garcelle said they couldn’t progress until they knew what Crystal found so dark and ‘that cannot be it.’
‘Then I’m going to say, I would watch your back,’ Garcelle said. ‘That’s not a friend.’
Watch out: ‘Then I’m going to say, I would watch your back,’ Garcelle said. ‘That’s not a friend’
‘I know,’ Sutton said.
A black title card reading ‘November 15, 2021’ was shown as it was revealed that Lisa’s mother Lois had died in hospice.
‘I’m still in shock,’ Lisa said in a confessional. ‘She was 93-and-a-half so you know it’s coming, but you want to keep your loved one alive if you can.’
Beloved mother: A black title card reading ‘November 15, 2021’ was shown as it was revealed that Lisa’s mother Lois had died in hospice
Her mother had left a directive that specified no feeding tube and no resuscitation.
‘Making the decision to not keep her alive was really hard,’ Lisa said. ‘The world loved her and to have been able to share her with the world is a great gift. I hold that very close to my heart.’
Kyle called Erika and said she felt so bad
for Lisa. Kyle said she still hoped Lisa would come on the girls trip.
Hard decision: ‘Making the decision to not keep her alive was really hard,’ Lisa said. ‘The world loved her and to have been able to share her with the world is a great gift. I hold that very close to my heart’
The next day, Dorit, Kyle, Sutton, Crystal, Diana, and Lisa all met in the private jet waiting area.
‘My mom would be so mad if I wasn’t here,’ Lisa told them.
Erika arrived and hugged Lisa.
Private jet: The next day, Dorit, Kyle, Sutton, Crystal, Diana, and Lisa all met in the private jet waiting area
‘It’s not going to be a sad trip, it’s going to be a happy trip,’ Lisa said.
Garcelle arrived and hugged Lisa. The group then boarded Diana’s private jet and headed to Mexico.
After they arrived in Mexico, they checked into their hotel and got changed and sat down for dinner. Kyle asked Lisa how she was feeling.
Hitting hard: ‘It just really hit me,’ Lisa said. ‘I think it’s different when it’s your mom’
‘It just really hit me,’ Lisa said. ‘I think it’s different when it’s your mom.’
They all toasted to Lois.
The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills will return next Wednesday on Bravo.
Tender toast: The women toasted to Lois