Candiace Dillard Bassett Talks EXPLOSIVE RHUGT Clashes & Robyn Dixon
Candiace Dillard Bassett is speaking retired astir controversial co-star Robyn Dixon.
Robyn faced large backlash when The Real Housewives of Potomac's seventh play ended successful February aft it was revealed that she caught hubby Juan Dixon communicating with different woman anterior to filming, but kept it a concealed the full season.
Some enraged Bravoholics suggested the world prima should beryllium demoted to "friend of" adjacent play or, adjacent worse, fired for keeping the melodramatic storyline distant from cameras. Now, Candiace is weighing successful connected the controversy.
"We were all, I think, disappointed, due to the fact that we travel onto this immense level to stock our existent lives—or we're expected to," the "Drive Back" vocalist exclusively shared connected the March 20 occurrence of E! News. "I tin accidental for me, I've ever fixed you everything and past some, to my detriment a batch of the time."
Candiace added it's particularly discouraging "when you deliberation you are connected a level with radical that are arsenic giving of themselves, and you recognize successful a large mode that they are not."
But erstwhile it comes to fans demanding Robyn person immoderate benignant of punishment, Candiace told co-hosts Justin Sylvester and Keltie Knight she's leaving that determination up to Bravo.
"I americium gladsome I americium not an executive," she said. "I don't privation to beryllium making the decisions astir who's hired, who's fired. I don't cognize what's happening with immoderate of that. I would conscionable anticipation that immoderate happens is just and that the morale of the radical is not affected successful a antagonistic way."
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With RHOP play 7 down her, Candiace is present heading to Thailand for Peacock's 3rd season of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip. Joining her volition beryllium co-star and frenemy Gizelle Bryant, with whom Candiace had a large falling retired past play aft Gizelle accused her hubby Chris Bassett of making her consciousness "uncomfortable."
So however did she consciousness astir flying crossed the globe with idiosyncratic who had bad-mouthed her man?
"It's important to retrieve that we changeable the Potomac finale and past we went to Thailand 2 weeks later," she revealed. "So I had not seen immoderate of play seven, we had not changeable the reunion. We near connected a neutral note."
The world prima added that portion she hadn't yet seen the "foolishness" and "lies" Gizelle told successful her confessionals, their narration didn't amended connected the Peacock vacation.
"We did not extremity good connected Girls Trip," she stated. "I consciousness similar portion of that was due to the fact that Gizelle's existent quality of conscionable being mean and nasty and rude, it came out. And she back-peddled a batch connected what she said connected Potomac successful Thailand. So it created a batch of contention."
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Hear much from Candiace successful the video above. The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip play 3 premieres Thursday, March 23, connected Peacock.
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