Tell the world how you really feel, Gretchen Rossi!
The former Real Housewives of Orange County star felt compelled to describe co-star Tamra Barney on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live Tuesday. As viewers have come to expect, the blond didn't mince her words. Host Andy Cohen began by showing his guest a reel of Barney trash talking her former colleague. In response, Rossi, 35, said, "The thing is, Tamra Barney has lost all credibility with everybody, including the viewers. She's the biggest lying, manipulating, conniving, narcissistic sociopath. And I say she's a sociopath because sociopaths don't even realize that they do any wrong. All they do is blame everyone else for their mistakes, and that's all she continues to do. And the viewers saw it this last season."
At one point, when she was asked to say three nice things about Barney, Rossi replied, "She lies really good, she manipulates really well [and] she lies and tells everyone she is doing it just for the show."
During the WWHL after show, Rossi and her fiancé, Slade Smiley, weighed in on Barney and Eddy Judge's marriage. "Honestly, I really like Eddie. I mean, I think we've always been cool with Eddy," Rossi said. "I think he's a really great guy and I'm happy for her that she has a great guy in her life who seems to make her happy—except for this last season she seemed kind of depressed again. So, I don't know. Hopefully they're in a really good place, but I've always liked Eddy." Smiley, meanwhile, argued that Barney and Judge have an "odd" relationship. "Eddy's a really cool guy...and it's strange that he is OK with her acting the way she acts, but maybe that's because she's play the whole 'I'm a made-up, fictional character' thing.'" Rossi agreed, adding, "She keeps putting that out there. Isn't it weird to you that she keeps saying that?...She keeps putting on her Facebook page and everything, 'Oh, I'm a fictional character and I'm just getting paid and I'm going to the bank,' and I think that hurts the franchise, because when I was on the show, I was real. I was really me and I wasn't playing a character and I wasn't doing anything to make 'good TV.'" Smiley argued that Judge "must believe that she's playing a character, because any regular character wouldn't allow their partner to act that way."
Barney seemingly responded to Rossi and Smiley's Watch What Happens Live comments via Instagram by posting a photo quote that read, "Holding a grudge is letting someone live rent-free in your head."
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