Mathieu Young/Heidi Gutman/BravoThe Tipsy Girl Met the Skinnygirl on The Real Housewives of New York City and it was explosive and sad at the same time. Bethenny Frankel brought Sonja Morgan in to discuss the whole Prosecco thing. It seems Bethenny is not pleased—and can you blame her? There was even an item in Page Six.
"The Sonja situation was just kind of sad. Obviously, her idea can't touch my brand. There is no product or distribution. It is a made-for-television idea, and I have over 20 varieties of wine, vodka and ready to drink. You can't find a city of the Housewives where several women haven't followed in my footsteps and attempted booze," she wrote in her blog. "Bring it on. The more the merrier. It is a brutal business, and it may look easy, but as you see, it isn't."
Bethenny said Tipsy Girl is an "unoriginal name and idea" and it gives audiences a false impression, "that you just go on TV, and poof a brand is born. That isn't how it works."
The two had a heated conversation in Bethenny's office where the mogul said she was "personally hurt." "I'm completely insulted and I don't want anything to do with you," she said to Sonja.
"I never would have thought that," Sonja said. "I thought you'd be like, ‘Let me try your Prosecco, let me tell you what I think."
Bethenny called Sonja a fraud and listed her "fake businesses," and that brought some tears to Sonja's eyes (as you can see in the clip above).
"As for Sonja, well...I have no anger towards Sonja, but I do have sympathy. I hope she can find her truth somewhere in the process," Bethenny wrote in her Bravo blog. "Ideas and names are a dime a dozen. Execution, drive, dedication and passion push it through."
The Real Housewives of New York City airs Wednesdays, 9 p.m. on Bravo.
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