Britani Bateman is officially drawing a hard line when it comes to Meredith Marks, and she’s not looking back.
While appearing on Page Six Radio with hosts Danny Murphy and Evan Real, the The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star broke her silence on the explosive reunion accusations and made it clear she has no interest in ever sharing space with Meredith again.
When asked how she would navigate filming with Meredith if they were both asked back next season, Britani didn’t hesitate.
“I don’t wanna be in the same room or vicinity of as her ever again,” Britani said. “After this that, and especially after watching it last night, my boundary is as such. I’m not gonna put myself through that again.”
Danny pointed out that Britani isn’t the only one drawing lines, noting the shifting dynamics within the cast.
“It seems like a lot of your cast members too, particularly with Lisa and Meredith, where it’s like, even Heather, like Heather literally said to Meredith 10 minutes before that also that they’re no longer friends too,” Danny said.
Britani said she picked up on that as well — even if it was hard to process in the moment.
“Yeah, I noticed that too. And it’s hard to hear when you’re sitting on the couch,” Britani responded. “Like, I didn’t catch that then, but I heard that then. Like I screeched at you for two months. F you like, yeah. Buckle up. Our friendship is over right now.”
The conversation then turned to one of the most serious moments from the reunion: Meredith accusing Britani of antisemitism in connection with a manicure artist.
Danny asked Britani directly if she was shocked that Meredith brought those accusations up on camera.
“Yes. I was shocked. I was so shocked,” Britani said. “I was so shocked because this came up months before and we squashed it. I apologize profusely for something that I didn’t even mean to do. There was no hurtful intent whatsoever. We squashed the misunderstanding.”
Britani then walked through exactly how the situation unfolded from her perspective.
“All I knew is that he called me and said, ‘Hey, I do Meredith’s nails. I would love to do your nails for free,’” she explained. “And I thought, ‘Well, yeah, sure. Anyone that does Meredith’s nails, you know, that’s a good stamp of approval right there.’ So he did my nails.”
She said things escalated shortly after.
“The next thing I know he’s texting me, ‘Hey, I’m getting a bunch of bad reviews,’ on whatever platform it was. ‘Can you gimme a good review?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, sure. That’s the least I could do.’”
Then came the message that changed everything.
“It’s probably a day later, maybe, maybe it was the same day. Someone sent me a text and said with a screenshot and said, ‘Did you know this guy is anti-Semitic?’ I was like, ‘What?’”
Britani said she confronted the man directly.
“So I called him myself. I didn’t like wait to hear. I pick up the phone and said, ‘Are you anti-Semitic?’ And he said, ‘Yep, sure am.’ And I said, ‘Well, don’t ever call me again.’ Click.”
She didn’t stop there.
“I said, this is literally what I said to him. I said, ‘You need to go get some help. You need some therapy. Go get some help and bye. Don’t ever contact me again.’”
Evan asked whether Meredith knew how Britani handled it.
“Did you relay that conversation to Meredith? Did she know how it shook out?” Evan asked.
“I did in the reunion,” Britani said. “Which it doesn’t look like it aired, but no, we weren’t talking at the time. This was just off the heels of her calling me vile and disgusting and terrible person and all the things from recording on the van, like we were on good terms. No.”
Britani explained she immediately took steps to fix the situation.
“So anyway, I hung up the phone immediately, took down the review and said something like, I don’t even remember, but I made a public apology of some sort. Like I would never, I would never, I’m so sorry.”
She also looped Bravo in right away.
“And then I called Bravo and was just like, ‘Hey, this just happened.’ And Bravo was like, ‘Great. You handled it perfectly.’ And didn’t think another thought of it.”
Danny noted that Britani kept emphasizing at the reunion that she handled things properly.
“So that’s interesting because during the reunion you kept on, I picked up that you kept on saying to Andy, ‘I handled this like I was supposed to,’ because you said you had the stamp of, you let Bravo know and they said, ‘Oh, you checked the boxes that you should check,’” Danny said.
“Yes,” Britani confirmed. “And it’s not like they told me to do this. I did this. And then it was like a Sunday I think and then the next morning I got on the phone first thing. And just said, ‘Hey, this is what happened. This is how I handled it.’ And they’re like, ‘Perfect.’”
Evan then raised what many fans have speculated.
“Do you think that, I mean, it seems pretty obvious, but do you think that Meredith redirected the conversation because she was fearful of having a discussion about her drinking habits?” Evan asked.
“A hundred percent. Yeah. 100% esp.,” Britani replied.
She accused Meredith of rewriting what actually happened.
“And then she’s like, ‘Oh, that’s not how it happened.’ Bull crap. That’s exactly how it went down,” Britani said. “Like Heather said, ‘Did this happen?’ And she’s like, ‘Well, not exactly.’ No it’s exactly how it went down.”
Britani said she truly believed she and Meredith had resolved things privately.
“And we had a really beautiful moment actually. I thought we really connected and not only buried the hatchet, but like mended all the fences,” she shared. “I thought we put up a brand new white picket fence here. Like I thought we were better than good. We were golden over that.”
She then described an emotional exchange that made Meredith’s reunion accusations even more painful for her.
“And I really did. I crawled up in her chair with her and snuggled her, like put my arms around her and we cried together for minutes, like sobbing over her terrible experience,” Britani said. “And that’s why it hurt even more because talk about a back stab.”
According to Britani, Meredith shared deeply personal trauma during that private moment.
“She broke down and was really vulnerable with me and said, ‘Look, you know, I received death threats over my bat mitzvah,’ and I broke down,” Britani said. “And that’s when I was like, ‘I’m so sorry.’”
She clarified that her apology was rooted in empathy, not guilt.
“And it was less me apologizing for what I had done and apologizing just on behalf of anyone that would be anti-Semitic and send her a death threat,” Britani explained.
For Britani, the reunion moment wasn’t just dramatic — it felt like a betrayal of something deeply personal they had shared.
And after watching it all play out, she says her decision is final.
“My boundary is as such,” Britani said. “I’m not gonna put myself through that again.”
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