RHOC star Emily Simpson shades Jen Pedranti over her eviction and admits to being triggered by her “victim mentality.”
Emily Simpson opens up about why she is so frustrated with her Real Housewives of Orange County co-star Jennifer Pedranti and her financial woes.
The 48-year-old explains why she believes Jennifer is “irresponsible” with her money and reveals why she lacks empathy for her co-star’s situation.
“I think that when Jen explains her situation, I think other people look at it from the perspective of, ‘Oh, poor Jen.’ But I never looked at it like that,” Emily Simpon told BravoTV. “For me, probably being an attorney, I was like, ‘Wait. I don’t understand. Why are we saying poor Jen?’ I feel bad for the homeowner. You’re obligated to pay the $12,000 a month. That was an irresponsible decision on your part … You don’t have a job, and you don’t have income.”
As RHOC fans know, Jennifer fell behind on payments for her rental home after Gina Kirschenheiter helped her acquire the place to live.
According to Emily Simpson, Jennifer told her that she didn’t know if her ex-husband, William Pedranti, had a job or money, hinting that he may be suffering from financial problems.
“So I don’t understand what woman with five children moves into a home, signs a lease. It’s $12,000 a month. We’re not talking reasonable. This is an exorbitant amount of money. And then acts like she’s confused that she got evicted when you don’t pay,” Emily said.
She continued, “Also, when I was growing up, I grew up very poor. We didn’t have a lot of things. And my mother consistently was always like, ‘Well, we don’t have money cuz your dad. It’s your dad. Your dad left. It’s your dad’s fault. Your dad. Your dad. Your dad.’ And I remember as a young child being irritated and frustrated by her because I thought, ‘What about you?’”
“And so I felt like with the Jen, with the conversation where it was like, ‘Well, Will was supposed to pay,’ I’m like, ‘But you’re a 47-year-old woman with five kids and you’re perfectly capable of having income, of having a job, of making money, of supporting yourself, and you’re choosing not to do that and place the blame on him.’”
Emily then admitted that due to her own childhood trauma, she felt triggered by Jennifer’s attitude towards her financial situation.
“It felt like that victim mentality I grew up with, and I think I have a lot of trauma from my childhood, and so that just brought up a lot of things about my own childhood,” Emily explained. “But at the end of the day, it’s not Jen’s problem to fix my trauma, and I understand that, and that’s why I apologized to her.”
“Ultimately, it’s her own life and her own decision, and I can’t consistently be mad at her because she doesn’t do things the way that I would,” she added.
The Real Housewives of Orange County airs on Bravo Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET.
