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ReRant: Friendship Repaired?

Jul 26, 20237 minSeason 1Ep. 101
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Bethenny looks back at her conversation with Jill Zarin and gives more insight on what she “walked into” and why it left her reeling. 

Plus, is there hope for a famous Real Housewives friendship to be repaired?!

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I want to do a post on the Jill and Bethany sit down. I was talking a lot, We both were talking a lot. We were interrupting each other. It was very heightened. Understand that we had been planning this for three days. There was a massive, massive storm. The cable went out, My screens were shutting off. Jill brought Gary, Ali, Bossy the dog into the basement. They all had to be there to listen. There was an audience. I wasn't expecting. Paul, who thought of the idy, didn't even think he should

be there. He thought it should have been a conversation between the two of us, but it became a circus downstairs. It was extremely activating. I later said to Jill, like we were talking over each other. She said, that's what we're like on the phone, Like it was a real conversation between two women, and so we're going to talk over each other. Like It wasn't like a normal podcast where I'm letting the other person speak and then I'm speaking and it's more organized. It was fucking chaos. It

blew the doors off. The podcast is exploded. It was really amazing. But I wanted to clarify the funeral because Jill Zarin did express interest from an employee of hers that she wanted the whole overall funeral events and funeral experience and funeral adjacent the death documented, but it was never agreed upon. She expressed interest in that through one of her employees, but it was never agreed upon. So to say to somebody, yeah, I might want you guys

to film a monumental, massive event in my life. Meaning she didn't want to film the actual ship because it would have been the worst look. Ever, so she was going to do another shiva with all the women. She didn't want to I think like film inside the actual funeral, but she wanted to film the surrounding event and maybe she would have filmed outside. But Bravo never responded and said, Okay, we're going to film the funeral. We're going to come.

I don't expect Bravo to say we're going to come with Bethany, but if they had said to Jill, we're going to come, she might have had glam. She might have expected. In it tracks that she only thought that the cameras were tmg outside, so she didn't realize till later that I was coming. So I crashed a funeral. I don't think most people can say that I crashed

a funeral. It is disgusting, it is horrific. But Bravo will try to say that she and her team had expressed wanting to film the funeral, which I also may have seen the emails or I know about it, but that's not the same as knowing that a camera crew is coming. They've they've had the location sign, location releases, it's been discussed, and there's a timeline. And even if the person who worked with Jill knew they were coming,

Jill didn't know. It just fucked up overall. And that's why you didn't see the funeral home because it was outside and it was like Bravo just made the choice to just get a street scene. But guess what. Had I gone there and said hi and she said what the hell are you doing here? I would have looked really bad and Bravo would have edited around me saying, what are you talking about? I thought you knew about this because they would have wanted to get in the

viewers and the advertising money. And it's really fucked up, and it's what's wrong with the whole franchise. I'm getting louder and louder about this now because it's getting more fucked up. Finding that out means we are really all handmaids that just walk like zombies and do whatever we're told. And I wanted to shoot that scene. Don't get it twisted.

I wanted that iconic moment. I thought it was great, but I definitely did not know what I was walking into and didn't know that I was ambushing someone who was also being ambushed. So it's definitely fucked up. And everybody never thought we'd get together and hell would freeze over and we would do a podcast on our own terms, live and unedited and unfiltered, so it's fucked up. Jill was referencing Derinda in our Rewives episode and I was

doing a beach walk. And I want to be respectful to both of these women when I say this, because they don't I don't care for each other. I think Jill and Dirinda detest each other because I think they're very similar. I mean, this is remarkable. I can't believe no one's ever said this before. Jill's Aaron and Dirindam Medley are eerily similar, very close to the same age. They both have one daughter, they both are widows. They both are very close to their parents. They both can

be can get messy. They're both broads. They both get into trouble by being opinionated. They're both very into cooking and being mamolas. Like you know, Dirinda's very maternal and likes to be the matriarch and Jill's very maternal and likes to be the Jewish bubbola mother. They both are dog people. Jill's Aaron's addicted to die coke like Dorinda

Medley loves a good martini. They both want to like completely separate themselves and like distance themselves from the Housewives, but they have a love hate relationship with it and with the entire Bravo atmosphere and all that it comes with. Drinda said, when she leaves the Housewives, or if it ever ends, she's just gonna walk away, close the door and never look back. And yet it's like an ex boyfriend that she keeps going back to and has a

love hate relationship with. And she does it, and she wants to do it, and she leans in and she goes to all the events, and she goes to Bravo con and she you know, is ultimately you know, and also both of them weren't. They both are workers and were always business minded, but while married, they really weren't

working and they didn't have their own businesses. And after this television experience, they both have businesses where they both sell stuff like Derinda with the T shirts and the mugs and the candles and the booze and Jill with the candles and the rugs and mugs and rugs, candles and candles. I mean, they both have chosen similar trajectories and how they're going to make money by like hawking, you know, merch to people in expensive merch that they're

selling higher. And they both are worker bees like to work. And they both love being housewives, whether they want to say they hate it or not, they love it and they are attracted to the light, but then they want to move away from it. They both were fired from the Housewives. I mean, they're so eerily similar that there's something about each other that really triggers them. They are triggered by each other and they have to resolve this because I think they would actually be really close. I

would like to get them together. Honestly, if you guys agree with me, let me know if this is like an eerie comparison that no one's ever made. But I think that we should get them together on this show, you know, on Rerants to just hash it out, because they could be friends, and I think they actually would

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