Vicki Gunvalson would really rather not talk about Brooks Ayers, as Monday’s episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County proved.
Especially given rumors of Brooks faking cancer – and daughter Briana’s bad blood with Ayers to begin with – he’s become the third rail.
On her trip to Oklahoma City, Okla., to see Briana, with her military family now settled there, Vicki found herself in an uncomfortable spot.
We’re not talking about the cramped tornado shelter, either.
When Briana brought up Gunvalson’s boyfriend on The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 10 Episode 14, Vicki stormed off!
"We’re not talking about this on camera," she said, although pieces of the discussion that followed were still picked up by their mics.
At issue? Briana was planning a trip back to the OC, and doesn’t want around her children around Brooks, as she has stated before.
If Ayers is living with Gunvalson, well, it’s hotel time for Briana.
Vicki told her daughter that her boyfriend would be traveling for business, a quote that made Briana, a nurse, skeptical to say the least.
Would someone in the middle of a cancer fight be traveling?
It’s unclear, but the fact that this is playing out on TV right after Gunvalson and Ayers broke up in real life makes you wonder, that’s for sure.
Even the fact that Vicki bought Briana a car, to make things easier on her as her husband recovers from back surgery, was a point of contention.
"I feel like my mom is always trying to help me in places that I don’t need help," she said, later asking Vicki if this was an attempt to "silence her."
Back in the OC, the fallout continued from the psychic’s "reading" about Brooks and Vicki’s feud with Meghan King Edmonds over that very topic.
Gunvalson is "very intense about this," Heather Dubrow said, adding that her remarks about the Edmonds’ marriage was "off the handle."
Meanwhile, the newly-religious Tamra Barney and husband Eddie sat down with a pastor to talk about the possibility of her being baptized.
"Baptism is a new beginning; I want somebody to help me to be a better version of myself," she said, with Eddie behind her "100 percent."
He was less than 100 percent behind her giving her grown son Ryan Veith $8,000 to move into a new home that would be closer to her.
"I’m not about to work my ass off to support another man’s family," Eddie said, urging Tamra to call it a loan and hold her eldest child to it.
Not happening. Tamra told the cameras, "Ryan is never going to pay me back, but Eddie doesn’t need to know that, especially right now."
We’re guessing we haven’t seen the last of that plot line.
