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Alicia Carmody’s friendship with Liz McGraw may be beyond repair after one emotional car ride on The Real Housewives of Rhode Island.
The RHORI castmates were supposed to be heading to South Boston for Rosie DiMare’s husband Rich DiMare’s weekly Sinatra Sunday dinner show at Capo Restaurant & Supper Club. Instead, the mini road trip turned into a heated argument over Alicia’s childhood trauma and McGraw’s continued questioning of whether Alicia was actually left “homeless.”
On The Real Housewives of Rhode Island After Show for Episode 10, Liz doubled down on her belief that the car fight was not random and claimed Alicia and Jo-Ellen Tiberi had planned the confrontation.
“I knew they both knew this was coming, and I was the recipient of it,” Liz said.
Alicia denied that she had any time or interest in setting Liz up.
“She was like, ‘It’s a setup! You guys set me up. … “What the f–k? I don’t have time for that. I don’t have time to set you up. I wish I did,” Alicia said.
According to Alicia and Jo-Ellen, the day did not start with bad intentions. In fact, both women said they were excited to spend time together in the car.
“We were having so much fun in the car,” Jo-Ellen recalled. “We were having a cheese board. Then, like, we all moved seats, which was, like, the demise.”
Things shifted when McGraw continued to challenge Alicia’s description of being left “homeless” as a child. Alicia has said that when her father sold the family home and left, she felt abandoned and without a stable place to live.
Liz, however, viewed the word differently and argued that Alicia still had relatives she could stay with. By Liz’s definition, Alicia was not “living out of your car on the street,” and therefore the word “homeless” did not apply in the way Alicia used it.
For Alicia, that response felt like Liz was diminishing something painful from her past.
“You know what the problem is? That’s gaslighting, what she did to me,” Alicia said on the After Show. “When someone tries to diminish it from me, I’m like, I come out swinging like a f–king Mike Tyson. Like, you don’t know what I’ve been through, and you made a f–king mockery of me.”
Alicia then explained why the situation cut so deeply for her, especially because she considered Liz a friend.
She continued, “From day one, I’ve been that bitch. I’m ditzy, I’m loyal, I love hard. But you f–k me, it’s over. … I’ve been through a lot. Like, don’t f–k me. And that’s how I feel about Liz. I trusted her. We’re friends with the monster, like Rihanna said.”
The “friends with the monster” comment immediately stood out because Alicia seemed to be making it clear that her view of Liz had completely changed after the argument.
Liz, however, insisted that she was not looking for a fight with Alicia, especially while they were stuck in a moving car.
“I didn’t want drama in, like, this moving car,” Liz explained. “I just didn’t want it.”
Liz claimed she had already apologized to Alicia after the topic first came up during the cast’s stay at the Newport mansion. She also said she and Alicia had spoken about the issue more than once before the car ride.
“I wanted to just shut it down and be like, ‘I’m so sorry, let’s talk about it. Give me a chance. Like, give me an opportunity to, like, display how I felt,’” Liz said. “And Alicia’s ramping herself up. Like, I can see the theatrics coming, and I could not take a pounding the way Rosie did. And, um, maybe it’s my ego, but I never will. I will not allow that type of disrespect.”
As Alicia broke down in tears during the episode, Jo-Ellen attempted to validate Alicia’s feelings and play peacemaker. But according to Liz, Jo-Ellen’s repeated comments only made the situation worse.
“She was like, ‘No, you have every right to feel the way you do, and no one can take that away from you,’ over and over and over again,” Liz recalled. “I’m not trying to take away from you how you f–kin’ feel in life.”
Liz summed up the car ride by saying, “It was ugly, it was unfortunate. I just wanted to get the f–k out of the car.”
The argument has become one of RHORI’s most talked about moments because it was not just about a word. It was about whether Alicia felt her pain was being heard, and whether Liz understood the emotional weight behind the story.
