Katie Ginella is front and center in the latest explosive Real Housewives of Orange County drama, refusing to stay quiet after her controversial polygraph test results. In the upcoming Season 19, Episode 9, Katie confronts Jennifer Pedranti about the fallout from the test, a test that Katie insists she did not lie on, despite failing “the worst out of everybody.”
The tension between these two friends is palpable, with Ginella accusing Jenn of ignoring key moments and Jenn questioning whether their friendship is built on shaky ground. Here’s everything you need to know about this jaw-dropping confrontation…
At Emily Simpson’s Persian New Year celebration, Katie’s lie detector test became the center of a storm when the examiner declared she “failed” every question and performed “the worst out of everybody.” But Katie stands firm, questioning the validity of the test itself and calling it a “setup” by Emily and Gina Kirschenheiter.
“They’re going to think that’s preposterous,” Jenn says in the preview clip, prompting Katie to reply, “If you don’t believe me, that’s OK.”
Ginella doubles down on her claim that Jenn and her fiancé, Ryan Boyajian, heard Gretchen Rossi accuse Tamra Judge of lying “multiple times” during the event, but Jenn remains loyal to Gretchen’s version of events — a stance that leaves Katie baffled.
“I don’t know what to give you. I’m not lying,” Ginella insists.
Jenn challenges her, saying, “It’s messy around here,” and encourages Katie to take some “accountability.” Katie fires back:
“I have taken accountability for the things where I misstepped. I did not lie about that. So, I will not take accountability for something I’m not guilty of. I’m not doing that.”
Jenn’s cryptic response? “Yeah, and that tells me everything I need to know.”
In a candid confessional, Jenn admits that Katie’s polygraph results have made her question if their friendship is based on “lies,” explaining why she didn’t follow Katie when Emily asked her to leave in the previous episode:
“It took everything I could not to even get up when you walked out,” Jenn says. “But I sat there going, ‘Not this time. I’m not going this time because I felt like I’m a f–king idiot.’”
Jenn elaborates, “I hate that I’m questioning my friendship with Katie, but she keeps getting caught in these lies and she ropes me in. … Katie lied to me the whole time, and that doesn’t work for me.”
Katie, for her part, tries to understand Jenn’s silence, theorizing that Jenn “didn’t wanna get in the mess,” caught between loyalty to both Gretchen and Katie.
“I think that when she saw that I was getting in the mess, she didn’t wanna get in the mess,” Katie explains on the RHOC After Show. “And that’s why she’s like, ‘I didn’t hear it.’ Because she’s friends with both of us — or she was friends with both of us.”
Katie also recalls the group dinner where the drama allegedly started:
“We had just talked like the month before on the phone about it, with Ryan and Slade on the phone. How do you not remember this?”
“The most disappointing part of this whole thing is I don’t know why Jenn won’t just say, ‘I heard it, too.’ … I cried for weeks about this. Why would you wanna see me get annihilated? Why wouldn’t you just say, ‘Hey, Gretchen, I think you did slip up and say that.’?”
With trust shaken and friendships on the line, RHOC fans are anxiously waiting to see if Katie Ginella’s truth will finally come out, or if the polygraph controversy will only deepen the drama.
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