Dorit Kemsley is speaking out—and she’s not holding back when it comes to her ongoing tension with Sutton Stracke.
Despite making progress in their friendship, things took a sharp turn between the two on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills—and now, Dorit is calling the entire situation “so weird.”
The fallout began at Rachel Zoe’s disco birthday party in Season 15, Episode 17, when Sutton brought up Dorit’s fractured friendship with Kyle Richards—at what Kemsley says was the worst possible moment.
“When your child is that broken, you’re barely breathing, because already, I’m on the reserve tank. I’m not operating, like, at full capacity,” Dorit explained on Bravo’s after show, referring to her daughter Phoenix’s struggles. “And here’s Sutton, we’re supposed to be friends, right? We’ve made leaps and bounds. And I’m telling her, and I’m opening up about Phoenix. And I already can see … Sutton’s got this look in her eyes, let me just tell you. If you ever see it, you’ll know exactly.”
Sutton, however, insists she was coming from a place of understanding—especially amid Dorit’s split from Paul ‘PK’ Kemsley.
“As a person [who’s] gone through a long divorce that was very difficult, you know, it took me a long time to come to a very even-keeled place, a long time,” Sutton said. “I get it. And also, I think you’re also a certain age where your hormones are going crazy. There’s just a lot to it.”
She added, “I think she’s overwhelmed. She looks overwhelmed to me. And your friends have to stick by you. She’s gonna come back. … It might be in a different way.”
But the real blowup came later in the night.
After feeling “shut down” when Dorit turned her attention to Zoe at the party, Sutton interrupted her on the dance floor to ask for a one-on-one—something Dorit didn’t appreciate.
“I was, like, having fun, and Sutton comes over,” Dorit recalled. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, what the f–k?’”
According to Dorit, Sutton’s reasoning only made things worse.
“It was so f–kin’ ridiculous, and she wanted an apology,” Dorit said. “Meanwhile, I was like, you know what? I’m not even going to challenge [her]. I was like, ‘I’m so sorry.’ The problem is I know what she’s doing. … So, it’s like, really? I’m supposed to play along? You know when someone is, like, dying to grasp at straws?”
Sutton sees it very differently.
“I wanted a friendship with Dorit, truly,” she explained. “So, I felt like if I was honest with my feelings in that moment, that it would help. And Dorit did not want to leave her conversation with this woman to speak to me, and she was angry about it.”
“She didn’t want to deal with me, which was showing me exactly that she doesn’t want to have a real friendship with me. Why would you be that angry? Just blew up in my face.”
With both women still clearly frustrated months after filming, it’s safe to say this RHOBH friendship is far from back on track.
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