The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’Erika Girarditook the stage on Friday atBravoCon 2022and had a simple, joyful update on herlegal situation: “I’m winning!”
“So two years now down the road, we’regetting some really great rulings, and I’m grateful for that,” she told moderatorBrad Goreskiwhile sitting next to her costarsGarcelle Beauvais,Sutton Stracke,Kyle Richards,Lisa Rinna,Crystal Kung MinkoffandDorit Kemsley.
“And more to go,” she continued. “So I’m in a much better place, and I’m grateful for that.”
Earlier in the panel, as theRHOBHstars discussed their regrets from season 12, she acknowledged, “You guys, I’ve been under the hardest years of my life for the last two years of my life in front of you. I’m bound to make mistakes, and theHousewivesis conflict-driven … and if we’re really honest, we all fall short, and we all make mistakes. I just make them in front of you.”
And when Goreski asked about Beauvais discussing Girardi as part of her former job as a panelist onThe Real, the “XXPEN$IVE” singer said: “At this point, I’m used to the entire universe coming at me, so it’s just one more thing.”
Calling herself “somebody on television who’s getting their ass kicked daily,” she told the crowd that recent seasons ofRHOBHhad been “kind of been like one never-ending season for me. It’s never really stopped because the turmoil in my life just got heavier.”
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Girardi has been tangled in a ton of off-screen drama that has been documented on the show involving her estranged husbandTom Girardi’s alleged financial crimes.
The former lawyer has been accused of allegedlyembezzling settlement fundsof plane crash victims that were clients of his at the time back in 2018. The 83-year-old and his ex-wife have faced numerous lawsuits in the matter since.
Tom’s law firm at the time, Girardi and Keese, were also named in the suit. ThePretty Messsinger has always maintained that she had no knowledge of any of Tom’s alleged wrong-doings.
A series of lawsuits against Erika have followed, some of which she has been dismissed from, and she has maintained her innocence throughout.
Erika and Tom Girardi.Jerritt Clark/Getty; Steve Eichner/Sipa
The 51-year-old met the elder Girardi while serving as a cocktail waitress and filed for divorce in the winter of 2020 shortly after the legal battles began.
“It is my absolute wish to proceed through this process with respect and with the privacy that both Tom and I deserved,” she added. “I request others give us that privacy as well.”
The case has been a hot topic with her cast members on the show, with Erika not showing as much compassion towards the victims as her costars were hoping she would.
“I just don’t understand not being able to say, ‘Yes, there are victims. I feel terrible about the victims. They should all be paid and taken care of. I haven’t personally done anything, but I acknowledge that these victims exist,'” Richards says during a cast trip this season. “It’s very hard because it’s all very confusing, and as much as we want to, there are just certain things you’re like, ‘This just doesn’t make any sense.'”
Kyle Richards and Erika Girardi.
But Erika fought back, claiming she too is a victim in all of this since she was in the complete dark about all of the allegations.
“I’m not f—ing caving into some s**t,” Erika replies. “Caving ‘cause people think I should feel some way. Let it play out in court. I pray to God your f—ing s— doesn’t end up like mine.”
“I was not aware of this tragedy until it became a topic of conversation onRHOBH,” Jenkinspostedrecently on social media. “I feel so much sympathy for the widows and orphans left behind. I know firsthand the pain and suffering that accompanies the loss of a family member, having lost my brother in the closing days of the Bosnian War. I want to do what I can to support those people who suffered so much.”
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BravoCon 2022 is taking place through Sunday at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, andThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hillsairs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.
source: people.com
