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Bozoma “Boz” Saint John is admitting that when it comes to Dorit Kemsley‘s ongoing feud with Sutton Stracke, her fast friend isn’t exactly innocent.
While also shading Sutton, 53, for going “low” with her shocking “wallet” diss and revealing whether Kyle Richards, 56, ever warmed up to her during filming, Boz, 48, said that when it came to Dorit, 48, she really knew how to poke Sutton’s buttons amid the 14th season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
“[I’ll] be honest that Dorit is not innocent. She knows how to poke,” Boz began on the February 27 episode of Access Hollywood‘s Housewives Nightcap.
That said, Boz made it clear that she wasn’t saying that Dorit shouldn’t poke Sutton.
“I’m just saying she knows how to poke and where to poke,” she clarified. “[And] Sutton also knows how to poke and where to poke. And so they’re just gonna go back and forth with that and they’re just gonna get lower and lower. There is no, like, high road.”
According to Boz, she was especially shocked by Sutton’s behavior since she felt Sutton was “in a stable enough emotional state” that she could rise above the drama.
“Whereas Dorit, and I even give it to Kyle, where it’s like, they’re in such delicate emotional space that I think it would be difficult for them to come out of the muck and be wiser, better,” she explained, signaling Dorit’s separation from Paul “PK” Kemsley, 57, and Kyle’s split from Mauricio Umansky, 54.
“I’m not making excuses. I’m just saying all of us have been in the space where you just need a little grace … and so I was shocked by the fact that Sutton could continue to go so low. At some point, somebody’s gotta be the bigger person,” Boz continued, adding that Sutton’s wallet diss “was low.”
While Boz felt that Sutton should’ve been the one to put an end to the drama between her and Dorit, she confessed to being in the dark about the personal battle Sutton was in amid filming.
“Sutton going to her childhood home … that was hard. That was so terrible. And I wish I had known that,” she stated. “I am going to expect you to be better, and maybe you can’t be because of what you’ve been through. It’s like, the way that Sutton behaved at Dorit’s house, I wish I had known. It would’ve made more sense.”
Moving on to Kyle, who she has labeled as “cold” on a number of occasions, Boz said she was surprised at how hung up her castmate was on the comment.
“I have been surprised with how just stuck in the mud Kyle was about the text, or how she was stuck in the mud about me calling her cold. I was like, I don’t understand why you’re upset about these things,” Boz shared. “If she just admits that, ‘Okay, I was wrong in that situation, and also, by the way, I was mad about other things, and that’s why I wasn’t open with you,’ it’d be done. But instead it’s like, in the After Show, she’s like, ‘I don’t understand why Boz was so cold?’”
Although Boz has doubled down on her suggestion that Kyle was “cold” to her when she joined the cast, she revealed that her co-star eventually did warm up.
“She did. She got warmer. But it was because I reached out,” she explained. “When we were going back and forth about the whole ‘cold’ thing, she had made a comment … that it was a two-way street that if I wanted to get to know her … It got warmer because I reached out because I really wanted to know how she was doing, especially after seeing Mauricio kissing that girl.”
Overall, Boz said Kyle could’ve been more welcoming since she’s the OG of the series.
“When you move into a new neighborhood, don’t the neighbors bring over the plate of cookies? Where are the cookies?” she wondered. “I’m like, ‘Girl, I could be a good friend.’”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 14 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
