Luann de Lesseps says she ‘loves’ Dorinda Medley… but that RHONY was ‘a little less angry’ without her after she got fired last year
Luann de Lesseps has expressed her affection for her fired Real Housewives Of New York co-star Dorinda Medley.
Dorinda, 56, was booted from the show last year and Luann, 55, has confessed the program was ‘a little less angry’ after her departure.
‘I hate to say it because there was a lot of anger and a lot of [negativity] and I love Dorinda. It’s just the way it panned out,’ Luann told Us Weekly.
Side by side: Luann De Lesseps (right) has expressed her affection for her fired Real Housewives Of New York co-star Dorinda Medley (left)
Luann, who is known as the Countess, also noted that Dorinda’s feud with her co-star Tinsley Mortimer brought ‘kind of a negative energy’ to the proceedings.
One outbreak of tension between Dorinda and Tinsley came when the former made a joke about the latter’s difficulties conceiving.
Dorinda made a joke that Tinsley could use a turkey baster to become pregnant – a quip that Tinsley denounced as ‘vile.’
On the latest series finale episode Dorinda raged that Tinsley had ‘ruined this show’ and accused her of breach of contract.
Her perspective: Dorinda, 56, was booted from the show last year and Luann (pictured), 55, has confessed the program was ‘a little less angry’ after her departure
A source alleged to The Sun last autumn that it was this particular outburst that caused Dorinda to lose her job
‘Bravo hates nothing more than when cast members break the fourth wall. The second Dorinda did that, she basically put in her resignation!’ said the insider.
‘Producers hate when they bring the show into the plot. Sure, Dorinda isn’t the nicest drunk, but she tells it like it is.’
Tinsley herself left the show to move to Chicago and marry her fiance Scott Kluth but the engagement has since been broken.
Enmity: Luann also noted that Dorinda’s (left) feud with her co-star Tinsley Mortimer (right) brought ‘kind of a negative energy’ to the proceedings
Meanwhile Luann recently dished to DailyMailTV that she had a ‘rocky start’ with her new co-star Eboni K. Williams filming the next Real Housewives Of New York season.
She also revealed that the women became closer because of the scaled-down cast amid the coronavirus lockdowns.
‘It was a very bonding experience, too, because it was just the five of us,’ she said. ‘We got very tight. We have a lot of fun and, of course, when you throw that many women into the mix, there’s always going to be conflicts.’