Dorinda Medley hasn’t spoken to Ramona Singer amid N-Word scandal
The Real Housewives of New York City‘S Dorinda Medley wouldn’t let it go Ramona Singer‘s N-word scandal put a damper on her BravoCon 2023 experience.
“I haven’t spoken to Ramona,” Dorinda, 58, said exclusively We weekly on Saturday, November 4 during the second day of the Bravo fan convention in Las Vegas. “It’s sad, it’s disappointing, but I just want to be in the moment with BravoCon. And the fans are great and it’s so exciting to be here that I really wanted to be present and centered here.”
In a Vanity fair article published last month, Ramona, 66, was accused of using the N-word in a conversation with a black crew member during filming The ultimate girls trip from Real Housewives: RHONY Legacy. She used the term again in the text of a Page six reporter as she defended herself against the Vanity fair claims of the article. “And the word I used was ‘N-word.’ Not ng,” reads a screenshot of the text shared by the outlet on October 31. Ramona was subsequently dropped from BravoCon’s lineup of reality star appearances.
Dorinda further noted that the scandal happened around the same time she traveled from New York to Nevada for BravoCon. Although the controversy – and Romona’s absence – loomed over the convention, Dorinda chose to focus on the positive.
“I do [BravoCon] to be about me and about [RHUGT: RHONY] Legacyyou know what I mean?” she said Us on Saturday. “I want to stay in the moment, and then we all have to address these things when we get back to reality.”
Although the two weren’t able to reunite in person at BravoCon, fans will soon see Dorinda and Ramona together again on the small screen in the new season of RHUGTfeaturing a cast of former RHONY stars.
Dorinda Medley, Ramona Singer
Getty Images(2)‘It’s my second Ultimate girls trip, and how different is this one because I don’t have to host,” Dorinda joked. “I don’t have to tell people they can’t wear shoes upstairs, they can’t eat food in the room, all normal things that I shouldn’t have to tell people. I can be a guest in St. Barts.’ (Her Massachusetts Blue Stone Manor served as the backdrop for RHUGT season 2.)
Dorinda and Ramona join them on their St. Barts trip RHONY stars Luann de Lesseps, Sonja Morgan, Kelly Bensimon And Kristen Taekman. “It was like we were never not together,” Dorinda said of the cast reunion. “And I’m not just saying that. For example, by lunch we were working on it again.”
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Dorinda told me Us she was especially excited to film with Kelly, 55, and Kristen, 46. “I had never filmed with Kelly before. And Kristen, when I met Kristen, it was her last season, and she was a very different Kristen then,” she teased. “Kristen has a voice. Kristen even takes after me a bit. I was both proud and surprised. She is very strong, she has a good voice, and I was quite proud of that.
Keeping in touch with her former co-stars is something Dorinda finds important to do. “I just think it’s important to show the audience that you continue to evolve, that you continue to grow, that you always have something interesting to offer,” she said. “And just because one thing stops doesn’t mean it’s over. You just start working on other things, and I like to hear that about the girls. These girls are great girls because you can’t stop them. The magic continues to happen on and off screen and it’s true. It’s true.”
The ultimate girls trip from Real Housewives: RHONY Legacy premieres on Peacock Thursday, December 14.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi