'Real Housewives' Aviva Drescher 'Regrets' Calling Ramona, Sonja 'White Trash' (VIDEO)
"Real Housewives of New York City" star Aviva Drescher has responded to criticisms that she overreacted during a dispute with two of her co-stars on Monday night's episode. The reality star has since apologized for labeling them "white trash."
During the episode, Drescher arrived in St. Barts for a ladies' retreat with her husband Reid, which did not sit well with her co-stars Ramona Singer and Sonja Morgan. The pair had expressed their discomfort in Reid joining them for a women's-only vacation, which prompted the mother of four to lash out in rage.
"I don't want to hear any negativity … I don't need Xanax, I don't need Pinot Grigio, I need my husband," Aviva blasted. "For you to be so ungracious … it's disgusting … you're both white trash, quite frankly!"
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The verbal attack left both Singer, 55, and Morgan, 48, in tears and it led their co-stars to encourage Drescher to apologize for the insults. Drescher recently explained why she went "overboard" in defending herself and her husband.
"I regret that I called Ramona and Sonja 'white trash.' Name calling is wrong and I should have used different words to convey my point. I would have formally apologized in St. Barts but I was just too upset -- hence the silly reference to Rush Limbaugh's idiotic fake apology. I suppose apologizing in Ramona's ear as she gave me her own phony apology was probably just not good enough," Drescher wrote on her Bravo TV blog.
"Inside I was wounded, hurt, angry, and vulnerable. I felt bad enough that Reid had to come at all and I was so embarrassed that my 'friends' were hashing out a plan to kick him out of the house when he was just trying to do a nice thing and get me down there to be with them," she contiued. "I felt like I had to be protective of him when we were being mistreated and I went overboard. Anxiety is a weakness, which I am not proud of, and I am working on it. I am not totally there yet but all I can do is keep trying to improve."
Morgan, who appeared to be slightly more distraught than Singer, responded to Drescher's apology in her own blog post and she suggested that her Bravo TV co-star is too judgmental.
"If I am white trash then I really want to embrace my inner trash, because at least I don't go around calling people nasty names. I am who I am and I want to be with people who accept me the way that I am," Morgan wrote.
"I don't expect people to be like me, I expect them to be themselves. I don't need people to tell me how well educated they are, and how they are THE real New Yorker. New York is a melting pot of people who come here to be themselves in very unique ways," she added.
