--- title: "Terry Dubrow Was ‘Blindsided’ by Nicole James Lawsuit Drama on RHOC" url: https://allabouttrh.com/2022/03/01/terry-dubrow-was-blindsided-by-nicole-james-lawsuit-drama-on-rhoc/ type: post date: 2022-03-01 modified: 2022-03-01 markdown_url: https://allabouttrh.com/2022/03/01/terry-dubrow-was-blindsided-by-nicole-james-lawsuit-drama-on-rhoc.md author: "Lara Sophia" --- # Terry Dubrow Was ‘Blindsided’ by Nicole James Lawsuit Drama on RHOC When Heather Dubrow decided to return to the *Real Housewives of Orange County* after a five-year hiatus, the last thing her husband, Dr. Terry Dubrow, expected to happen was for a decade-old lawsuit to rear its ugly head. *“I was blindsided with it,”* the plastic surgeon who stars on *E!*'s *Botched* told [Page Six](https://pagesix.com/2022/02/01/botched-doc-terry-dubrow-was-blindsided-by-rhoc-lawsuit-drama/). As RHOC viewers saw, Gina Kirschenheiter told Heather that Shannon Beador told her and Emily Simpson, off-camera, that Heather's good friend and OC newbie Nicole James, aka Nicole Weise, sued Terry over a* "botched boob job"* years prior. *“To be honest with you, my initial reaction was I felt bad — because that meant that there was a problem,”* Terry admitted. *“And so if I’m your doctor and there’s a problem, I feel bad about it,”* he continued. *“Obviously, we worked through it, and it was no big deal. Heather and Nicole are friends, and she’s a wonderful girl.”* Nicole told Terry that she didn't think he *“did anything wrong in the episode.”* She explained that she was young, in her 20s, and was *“pushed by attorneys”* to file the lawsuit, which she later dropped. Terry never put it together that Nicole James was previously known as Nicole Weise. *“It happened 20 years ago, and it was one of these things that came and went, and it really wasn’t a big deal,”* he explained.  *“At first, it was like, ‘Wait, who, what, huh?’ She had a different name back then. I don’t remember much of it. I had to even ask her, ‘What happened?’”* *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)**