Former “Real Housewives of Orange County” star Tamra Judge believes that former co-star Kelly Dodd should be fired from the show due to some racist comments she made a few years back.
In 2016, Dodd was captured on video drunkenly emerging from a Los Angeles nightclub and expressing her feelings on African-American men to TMZ.
“I don’t like Black guys,” Dodd says in the video. “I don’t even know any Black guys.”
Dodd later issued an apology to TMZ, admitting she was “truly embarrassed” by her comments.
This week, Judge was chatting with fans in an Instagram Q&A, reported People, when she was asked whether she felt that Dodd should be fired from the show over her comments, in the same way that stars Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute were axed from “Vanderpump Rules” due to an incident in which they reported Black co-star Faith Stowers to police for a crime she didn’t commit.
“Yes I do,” Judge declared.
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“That TMZ video is disgusting!” Judge continued, adding that “Bravo shouldn’t just single certain people out like Stassi and Kristen. There should be zero tolerance at this point.”
Following Judge’s comments, Dodd responded on Wednesday.
“She’s just thirsty and mad she got the bullet… grasping for straws poor thing… I hope she finds happiness,” Dodd wrote to Instagram.
Judge then spoke more about Dodd during an interview on the “Behind The Velvet Rope With David Yontef” podcast, calling her a “huge liability” to Bravo.
She said of Dodd’s alleged “bullying ways,” “It’s not fair — when you have someone like Kelly Dodd who puts s**t out there that’s not true it’s so devastating to your character and a lot of people watching take it with a grain of salt and say it’s just TV but it becomes really heavy for us to deal with.
“No one can be authentic on the show — everyone is afraid of Kelly.
“Everyone is afraid of what they say and do she’ll go after you, your kids, your mother, your husband, your dog… there are no boundaries and that makes it really difficult in the back of your mind, you wanna call her out when she’s doing something bad, and she’s doing something bad all the time.”
Judge added of reportedly being fired over her age, “The casting people are the first ones — the gatekeepers — they told one of my friends specifically they want to go in a different direction. Now they want to [be] hiring younger ones and get rid of the older ones.”
Despite admitting she wasn’t sure at first, she said: “But now, yeah, I do think there is some truth to it. Absolutely.”