Vicki Gunvalson Talks Cancer Confusion and Season Challenges

The Real Housewives of Orange County’s reunion kicks off tonight, and Vicki Gunvalson is positioned to be under fire, in an unprecedented Bravo hot seat. Vicki is set to face a barrage of accusations, questioning her involvement with her ex-boyfriend, Brooks Ayers, and his alleged battle with cancer. Vicki took to her blog, to give us a sneak peek into her thoughts, as well as a few explanations, recapping a truly brutal season. She begins by expressing how personally difficult the season was, magnified by the death of her mother. She goes on to clarify her position on Brooks’ alleged illness. 

“When the season started filming he had already finished two rounds of chemo and was going to start another one after we returned from Puerto Vallarta in January.”  

“My stance is I do not believe he faked cancer, as there are way too many people involved, way too many doctor visits and way too many doctor reports which would be very difficult to falsify. As I said at the reunion, I didn’t have enough information that he does have cancer, and I didn’t have enough information that he doesn’t?”

She writes that Brooks became increasingly private about his health during the last months of their relationship, making communication difficult. Vicki explains that Brooks had asked her not to discuss his health without him present, which fueled the increasing controversy. She writes that she knew that the women were initially coming from a good place, but in her heightened emotional state, she failed to handle the attention as she should have.  

Vicki recalls a health scare incident involving Tamra Judge, that was never clarified, to illustrate her point.  

“I remember back in 2012 when Tamra disclosed she was diagnosed with cervical cancer while on the Dr. Oz show (scroll through to 2.20 minutes to hear Tamra reveal she had cervical cancer). It was the first time any of us had heard she was diagnosed with cervical cancer and we were all in shock that she had never talked about it prior to that. No one at that time ever asked her for her medical records, and since then we haven’t heard anything about it after that does that mean she was faking it for attention?? I mean if you are diagnosed with cervical cancer isn’t that pretty serious? I also pulled up this article that said Tamra wanted her breast implants removed to “taking back control of her body” to now only a few years later put the implants back in. So…should we ask Tamra for her medical records to see if in fact she really had cervical cancer and lumps in her breasts? No! That would not be normal behavior and we trust that Tamra told us the truth.”

Vicki addresses the blowout with Shannon Beador during Tamra’s baptism party, referring to Shannon becoming enraged when confronted with a dose of her own intrusive medicine, by brother Billy’s girlfriend, Rhonda.  

“I never betrayed her, she was just embarrassed that it was exposed again when it was supposed to be about badgering me. I knew what David and Shannon shared this season, and it was Shannon’s decision to reveal the affair so I didn’t think it was a secret to tell my brother. All the ladies already knew, so for me to tell my brother privately was NOT betraying her.”

“What you don’t know is that last year Tamra actually told the group about David’s affair at a dinner we were all at, and even disclosed the woman’s name and information about her. Bottom line here is Shannon knew that Heather, Tamra, and Lizzie all knew and by me telling my brother privately in my home was not any secret.” 

Vicki explains the late night IV rumor that had been circulating, and triggering so much suspicion. 

“After Brooks’ first treatment in October, he was extremely sick and dehydrated. I talked with one of my friends who said he should get an IV with fluids to hydrate him and she had a doctor friend that she was going to call for me. I told her not to do that, as I was going to call Briana to get her opinion if she thought Terry Dubrow would know of someone that could come to the house. I told Briana when I hung up with her and I was going to call Terry to ask him. When I asked Brooks if it was okay to call Terry, he said “no and that he would call his own doctor in the morning”. I failed to tell Briana that I didn’t call Terry and she assumed I did. When she met with Tamra for lunch without me, she told her of this IV situation which then was told to Heather/Terry by Tamra. This was not Briana’s fault or Tamra’s fault and I take full responsibility for this.”

Brace yourselves for a doozy…part one of the OC reunion, airs tonight, on Bravo.

 

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