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Liz McGraw called out Jo-Ellen Tiberi after they were seen at odds on Sunday night’s episode of The Real Housewives of Rhode Island.
As Alicia Carmody, 41, lashed out at the way Liz, 55, spoke to Jo-Ellen, 38, amid the feud, Liz reflected on the way Jo-Ellen put her hand on her during their spat, accusing her of playing the victim as Jo-Ellen insisted she was only trying to mediate between Liz and Alicia, who were at odds due to Alicia’s claim of past homelessness.
“She’s a weirdo. She [was] yelling at me and simultaneously trying to fix my face,” Liz recalled on the May 31 episode of the RHORI: After Show. “And then the hand on me. Get your f*cking hand off me … It’s actually burning a hole through me. I don’t feel the love from your hand right now, or good intentions.”
Looking back, Liz suspected that due to other “sh*t [she] was going through,” her heart couldn’t handle any more turmoil.
“That’s the truth. I just wanted away from it. I was steaming,” she admitted.
Even after their tense moment during their cast visit to Boston, Liz was “livid” and continued to go after Jo-Ellen in a series of text messages.
“I got home and I just like, rage-texted, ‘You disingenuous fool.’ I think I remember saying that and ‘You drew first blood motherf*cker,’ like, I was just so mad. ‘Now the world’s gonna know what you’re made of,’” she shared.
According to Liz, every time she and Jo-Ellen have fights, Jo-Ellen does something “really f*cked up” to her, causes her to react, and then plays the victim.
“She will become the victim and be like, ‘You really hurt my feelings with that.’ [But] if [she] didn’t do it, there would be no feelings to be hurt,” Liz reasoned. “She rapid-fired these insults at me that I was not prepared for at all. I thought we were, like, trying to, like, work it out.”
Although Liz denied being “mean and nasty,” saying those aren’t terms she hears often, she clarified the need to stand up for herself.
“I want you to understand me. I want you to understand where I’m coming from. But I think I am learning that people don’t have to understand me all the time,” she added. “I know the way it looks. I know that this looks like I demand this absolute loyalty sh*t. I don’t. I don’t need anyone’s loyalty. Just stop f*cking with me. That’s it. Like, my harsh nature makes it easy to say, like, I’m like the attacker or something. But, like, I really don’t mean to be.”
Meanwhile, Jo-Ellen jokingly asked, “Did I like, not mediate well?,” signaling Liz’s drama with Alicia.
“I don’t want to be mediator. I think I was like, ‘Hey, if she feels this way, don’t say that. Alicia, calm down.’ I was just trying to de-escalate the situation,” she explained. “I’m just trying to be a good friend.”
As for Alicia, she told Jo-Ellen in her own After Show segment that “no one should ever talk to [her] like that.”
“That’s what bothers me,” Alicia stated. “She hates Jo-Ellen more than anybody. That’s what throws me the f*ck off. I’m gonna be honest with you. She thinks you’re the worst person. She calls you the devil. She says that you’re a scumbag. I’m not trying to make you go on the hate list train … but b*tch, everyone in Rhode Island knows what you’re saying about Jo-Ellen.”
Then, when Alicia asked Jo-Ellen, “What is it that Liz can talk to you like that when you’re so strong with everybody else?,” Jo-Ellen replied, “I care about her. We have fun when we have fun, and then when she turns that switch, it’s turned.”
The Real Housewives of Rhode Island season one airs Sundays at 9/8c on Bravo.
