Carole Radziwill has become a divisive presence on this season’s Real Housewives of New York. An early fan favorite, her star has visibly dimmed since her debut, due in part to the “mean girl” behavior some viewers perceive her displaying with her bestie, Bethenny Frankel. In this week’s (extreeeeeeemely long!) blog, Carole breaks down her relationship with all of the women, claiming she’s fine with all of them. And that she’s really, truly, for-real-this-time over her beef with Luann de Lesseps.
Beginning with Ramona Singer, Carole comments, “Ramona is a good friend. She’s good at being a friend, she’s a good friend to people who are her friends. She’s the kind of friend you want in your reality foxhole when martini glasses start flying. She might not have the best listening skills but her heart is in the right place even if that place is sometimes Oz with monkeys flying around and she’s the Tin Man, with a healthy dose of scarecrow.”
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Ramona is an especially good friend to Sonja Morgan, says Carole. “Rarely do we plan or film anything where Ramona doesn’t insist, off-camera, that Sonja be included. She doesn’t do it for show, or to seem like a good friend on camera. It’s genuine.” Carole wonders why, then, Sonja is so livid with Ramona right now? (Hmmm…because Ramonja is a lot of fun, but also totally toxic?)
Carole has more than a friend in Bethenny, she writes. They are more like sisters. “We inherit the family we’re born into and create the family we need. We have family and we have framily. Bethenny and I are framily, and I couldn’t be more proud of her if I were her real sister.” Carole claims she would be the older, wiser sister, of course, breaking down their entire shared fictional history in her blog!
Because of their bond, Carole seems to overlook Bethenny’s role in the drama this season, instead casting her focus on Dorinda Medley. “Doesn’t it seem that each season there’s always a troublemaker? This year it’s apparently Dorinda. I do find it amusing, each episode, to watch Dorinda impart her great wisdom with a twist and three olives. Telling others, for instance, that she can somehow magically know what I’ve said when no one was watching. She’s a wise-cracking, old-school martini-swilling sage. I can’t wait to hear what she’s got for us next.”
Joking that she enjoys Dorinda’s “isms” like “back that sh*t up!” Carole goes on to assert, “But this year it seems she views every question with suspicion. She works every tiny thought one of us has into a nefarious chess game, one where I, for instance, surgically and neatly slice and dice,’ to quote her boyfriend. Ha ha. That’s me. I’m a slicer. I’m slicing and dicing from here to Sushi Roxx, leaving a trail ofmirepoix in my wake Eric Ripert would die for.”
“Trust me, I’m not plotting,” continues Carole, “I can barely keep up with who’s mad at whom. Do you think D. honestly believes she has everyone’s happiness at heart and the rest of us are just lousy jerks, prying into private issues about boyfriends or family or health, ON A REALITY SHOW? I sort of think she does.”
“You know what? It’s television. We need to have dialogue, someone has to talk, we have to say something. But I am 100%. I’ve always been 100%. I don’t grandstand for the cameras. I don’t have fake outrage or indignation. No tricks, no screaming or throwing my leg on the floor. I ask questions. I try to elicit conversation, hopefully something sort of interesting, or kind of funny. I ask the same kinds of questions I would ask any other friend. Only difference is they don’t twist it into something else just for the sake of being mad at someone.”
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Laughing off the classic Housewife accusation of talking behind each other’s backs, Carole claims that’s just what friends DO! “This one particular rule makes me laugh and laugh and then laugh again. Apparently, according to the Housewife Commandments, you can only speak of a person when they are sitting directly in front of you. In front. Their back cannot be visible at all. No cut-out, no subtle little flash of back, no turning around to pick up the thing you dropped. No. Back that sh– up. All front.”
“We all discuss each other when sometimes someone isn’t there. Luann talks about me when I’m not there, I talk about Bethenny when she isn’t there, Dorinda talks about Ramona when she’s not there. It’s normal to discuss your friends with mutual friends if you are concerned about them. Say, if they are drinking or taking pills or doing really odd sh–. Not everyone can be everywhere all the time. It’s not talking sh– when you ask a mutual friend about another. You know who we don’t talk about? Behind their backs? The people we don’t care about. The ones who aren’t our friends. The people we don’t care enough about to ask about. Why this group can’t grasp that is beyond me.”
Speaking of Luann, Carole reiterates how FINE she is with the Countess now even though she can barely manage to look at her all season despite multiple apologies offered. “Oh, this dumb Luann thing. Luann and I are fine. We’re not going to be close friends. So what? This isn’t the first social circle I’ve been in where I wasn’t every single person’s best friend, jumping at the chance to go on vacation together. Simply said, my friendship with Luann couldn’t withstand the assault. It was collateral damage. Fine. The good news is we all don’t have to be great friends. It’s really okay.”
And the fact that Luann “doesn’t give a sh*t about Carole” is also fine with her…allegedly. “I don’t expect everyone to give a sh– about me. Or like me. Or even be nice to me. If it happens a couple times a year, I’m good. It’s all okay. Luann and I aren’t close, but I actually do give a sh– about her, and I suspect that the feeling is mutual, and Luann just said that for dramatic effect. You don’t have to be besties to sincerely wish the best for someone. Everyone’s good. We’re all good.”
Despite being “all good,” Carole reserves her last not-so-good comment for Jules Wainstein, snarking, “Jules found her voice? That’s cute. Funny how these women always find their voice in a public restaurant or party. It’s embarrassing. I tire, really fast, of sitting in restaurants while someone screams and bystanders rightfully gawk in disbelief.”
Carole closes with #BreakingNews: Apparently, she loved her hair last episode. “I love my hair this whole episode. I’ve never loved my hair for an entire episode. That’s about as deep as this show goes for me this week.”
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