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Meredith Marks revealed which cast members she’s still speaking to after filming the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City reunion on Tamra Judge and Teddi Mellencamp‘s podcast on Monday.
As she also targeted the co-stars who’ve pretended to be her friend, reacted to Andy Cohen‘s reunion walkoff, and responded to Heather Gay, 51, declaring that their friendship was over, Meredith, 54, described the reunion as “cathartic,” addressed her castmates’ efforts to isolate her and Lisa Barlow, 51, and spoke of Mary Cosby‘s concerns about her supposedly erratic behavior.
“I’m not talking to most people,” Meredith admitted on the January 12 episode of Two Ts in a Pod.
According to Meredith, she realized during the sixth season that she was being mistreated by her co-stars.
“These women are sitting here and pushing you and bullying you to say you did all these things that aren’t true, and say all these things about you that aren’t true under the guise of being your friend, and it’s just not the case,” she stated. “You can’t sit here, like, when I say things about [Britani Bateman], I don’t pretend that I’m saying them out of kindness … to pretend that it’s because you’re my friend, whether its how Heather dealt with Lisa on the boat or how they dealt with me the whole second half of the season, it’s like, don’t pretend you’re my friend when you’re clearly trying to decimate me.”
Reflecting on the reunion taping last month, Meredith described Andy’s walk-off as “crazy.”
“No one [could] hear. I get it. When everybody’s yelling, it’s a waste of everyone’s time, and it’s a long day, so I get why he gets irritated with that,” she shared.
As for Heather saying their friendship was over, Meredith confirmed her reunion proclamation wasn’t the first time she’d echoed those words.
“I don’t know what to tell you. She was screeching at me for two months, and even if she wasn’t, that’s how I felt. I’m expressing myself,” she stated. “You guys can sit here and say that I’m an alcoholic, a pill popper, mentally unstable, my husband [Seth Marks] cheats on me, this that and the other, you can make all these false accusations against me, and then I’m like, ‘You were screeching at me,’ and that’s it? So now our friendship’s over?”
“Well then, I guess we didn’t have a friendship to begin with,” she added.
Despite her drama with Heather, Meredith had a “great” experience at the reunion.
“[It] was very cathartic because I felt like I could finally, really talk about things that I really wasn’t able to during the actual season, so for me, [the] reunion was pretty amazing,” she explained. “It was, to some of the women, very disappointing that they didn’t get the reactions they were looking for .. but I don’t think it will be for the audience. And I think you’ll see a lot of chaos.”
Meredith also said “a lot more information” was revealed at the reunion.
“A lot more, I don’t know, probably understanding,” she teased. “There was a lot of like, ‘Oh, Meredith, you don’t talk enough,’ and then you start talking, and the next one’s like, ‘Oh, you talk too much.’ I was kind of like, pigeonholed by the women.”
Overall, Meredith felt that her issues with the cast were the result of many of the women wanting to put a divide between her and Lisa.
“They just have a problem with me and Lisa, and it’s like, they feel like if they can isolate us by taking either of us out, then the other one is just done as well, because then they can all just come after us without anyone to support,” she noted. “Do I think everyone is thinking that? No. I think there is a group in the cast that does that, and then they rope everyone else in somehow.”
Meredith then commented on her relationship with Mary.
“Mary was a different situation,” she clarified. “She clearly did seem to be very, very, very concerned, and I felt horribly that she was upset and concerned by it, but I think she had a lot of people saying a lot of stuff all season long to her in her ear.”
“I think they kind of convinced her of all of this … [and then] at BravoCon, her statement was a bit different,” Meredith continued. “She really backed off on it because I think she recognized that she had all these people in her ear trying to skew her into this direction, and when they’re all saying this over and over again, yeah, of course she’s gonna be afraid and concerned for her friend.”
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season six airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
