--- title: "Noella Bergener Says RHOC Costar Heather Dubrow Sees Her as a ‘Threat’" url: https://allabouttrh.com/2022/02/16/noella-bergener-says-rhoc-costar-heather-dubrow-sees-her-as-a-threat/ type: post date: 2022-02-16 modified: 2022-02-16 markdown_url: https://allabouttrh.com/2022/02/16/noella-bergener-says-rhoc-costar-heather-dubrow-sees-her-as-a-threat.md author: "Lara Sophia" --- # Noella Bergener Says RHOC Costar Heather Dubrow Sees Her as a ‘Threat’ Noella Bergener never thought she'd go toe-to-toe with Heather "Fancy Pants" Dubrow during season 16 of the *Real Housewives of Orange County*. *“The only person I never had that deeper level of connection with was Heather,”* the RHOC newbie tells [Page Six](https://pagesix.com/2022/02/03/rhoc-star-noella-bergener-talks-heather-dubrow-feud/). *“I get that she perceives me as a threat and wants to keep me at arm’s length because I’m being honest.”* Throughout season 16, Heather and Noella butted heads on several occasions. Heather became disenchanted with Noella after she gave her 17-year-old daughter, Max, a Pride-themed card set that turned out to be “pornography” as a gift for the release of Max's LGBTQIA+ memoir. *“If I knew what was in it, I would not have given it as a gift to anybody,”* Noella explains, noting that she was completely unaware of the card deck's explicit content. *“I literally went on Amazon and put in ‘LGBTQ+ gifts for teenagers’ and if it’s bisexual-friendly, even better. I just bought the first five things and put it in a nice little rainbow bag with rainbow tissue paper. Obviously, the thought was there. Obviously, I meant no malice,”* she added before agreeing that the card deck was *“insanely inappropriate.”* Noella chalks up Heather's outrage over her gift to *“straight fragility,”* a claim Heather denies stating she has several LGBTQIA+ kids. *“Me going out of my way as a bi woman to give a bi girl [Max] — who celebrates her sexuality in a very beautiful way, as do I — I didn’t think that that could ever be twisted into something that’s pretty disgusting and pretty gross and pretty dark,”* Noella explains. *“Leave it to Heather to take this magnificent moment of celebration and turn it into something that just makes my skin crawl.”* Oddly enough, Noella initially thought she and Heather would hit it off when cameras started rolling for season 16 of RHOC. *“As somebody who’s watched the show, I always thought that she was phenomenal. I had no clue that we’d be bumping heads. That was nothing I wanted. I was very happy to just be in her presence,”* Noella says, claiming she was turned off by Heather's inauthentic persona.*“When I found out that [Heather] was putting on a facade and I went deeper, it was like, ‘Oh s—t.’ [It was a] never-meet-your-heroes kind of thing.”* Despite their issues, Noella is hopeful that one day she and Heather can repair their fractured relationship. *“I’m hopeful. I think that everyone’s capable of change and growth,”* she says.* “That’s what we’re here on this planet to do and I will never say never. I’ve forgiven far worse. So, yeah, if she’s game, then I’m game. But it’s hard because so much has happened and honestly, I do feel like the injured party in it.”* *The Real Housewives of Orange County *airs on Wednesdays at 9 pm EST on Bravo. ## Thoughts on this all? Sound off below! **[Follow](https://www.instagram.com/allabouttrh) **AllAboutTRH On **[Instagram.](https://www.instagram.com/AllAboutTRH)** **[Follow](https://www.twitter.com/allabouttrh) **AllAboutTRH On **[Twitter.](https://www.twitter.com/allabouttrh)****[Like](https://www.facebook.com/allabouttrh)** AllAboutTRH On **[Facebook.](https://www.facebook.com/allabouttrh)**