--- title: "RHOM’s Alexia Echevarria Wishes Ex Herman Came Out When They Were Married Plus Reacts to the Teresa Giudice Comparisons" url: https://allabouttrh.com/2022/03/14/rhoms-alexia-echevarria-wishes-ex-herman-came-out-when-they-were-married-plus-reacts-to-the-teresa-giudice-comparisons/ type: post date: 2022-03-14 modified: 2022-03-14 markdown_url: https://allabouttrh.com/2022/03/14/rhoms-alexia-echevarria-wishes-ex-herman-came-out-when-they-were-married-plus-reacts-to-the-teresa-giudice-comparisons.md author: "Lara Sophia" --- # RHOM’s Alexia Echevarria Wishes Ex Herman Came Out When They Were Married Plus Reacts to the Teresa Giudice Comparisons *Real Housewives of Miami* returned for season 4 and revealed some major secrets - one being that Alexia Echevarria's ex-husband Herman was gay and had a longtime lover before he died of a heart attack in 2016 at the age of 61. Now, Alexia admits that she wishes Herman could have come out when they were married. *“I would have loved for him to have come out and had this conversation because I would have supported him and helped him,”* Alexia revealed during an interview [with S’More Date](https://www.instagram.com/tv/CZfZM9flpwU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link). *“And hooked him up with all  my cute gay friends!”* During season 4 of RHOM, Alexia revealed that she had questioned Herman about his sexuality during their marriage as she had doubts that he was straight however according to her he always denied it. *“I actually confronted him because I did have a suspicion and he lied to me and said, ‘No, if I wanted that, I could have done that, but I never wanted that. I’m happy with you, I’m happy with my marriage,'”* she explained. *“‘If that’s the direction I would’ve wanted, I could have done that but it’s totally not true.'”* Eventually, she ended up talking with Herman's lover in order to get answers about her ex's secret life. *“I wanted to have some kind of closure,”* she admitted. Meanwhile, in a separate interview with [Page Six](https://pagesix.com/2022/02/03/rhom-star-alexia-echevarria-on-teresa-giudice-comparisons/), the RHOM star addressed Bravo fans of comparing her to *Real Housewives of New Jersey* star Teresa Giudice. *“Am I the only one that thinks Alexia and Teresa look like they could be sisters? #RHOM #RHONJ,”* one fan tweeted while another added,* “Alexia being compared to Teresa makes sense now since both of them are Tauruses and the main girls in their respective shows #RHOM #RHONJ.”* According to Alexia, her husband, Todd Nepola, first caught wind of the comparisons. *“‘Babe, they don’t mean physically,'”* Alexia told her husband about fans comparing her to Teresa. *“They mean, like, my character, and all the adversity that we’ve gone through, and that we’re such strong women, and we’re good moms. We have a lot of similarities.”* *“But not that we physically look alike, because we don’t,”* she added. *“If we did, that’s fine, too, but [Nepola] didn’t get that.”* *“She’s a very strong woman,”* Alexia says of the RHONJ OG. *“She’s had to overcome so much, but she still gets back up on her feet, she keeps ongoing, and I’m very happy for her that she found love again.”* While Alexia has never met Teresa she praises the OG Housewife for how she's handled the recent posts about her fiancé Louie Ruelas' past. *“This is what we signed up to do,”* she explains. *“It’s her narrative, it’s her story. She should be able to say how it really happened because nobody knows her life more than she does, which is the same thing I say about my life.”* RHOM is currently streaming on NBC's Peacock app. ## 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)**