Erin Lichy admitted to “losing it” over Brynn Whitfield‘s Rolling Stone interview during a podcast appearance on Tuesday, sharing that Brynn blocked her and revealing how Brynn reacted to her Instagram comment about her statements.
After Brynn, 39, shaded the Real Housewives of New York City finale as “disgusting” and called out her co-stars for not respecting her, rather than take accountability for the accusations she made against Ubah Hassan, 41, Erin, 37, revealed why Brynn was mad at her and Jessel Taank, 45, and shaded Brynn as “evil” as she theorized about why she tried to ruin her friendship with Jenna Lyons, 56.
“That just triggered the f*ck out of me. I lost it,” Erin said of Brynn’s interview on the January 28 episode of Not Skinny But Not Fat. “That really got me because, after the title shoot, I reached out to Brynn. I just wanted to make sure she was okay.”
Admitting her boundaries were up after the finale, Erin said she contacted Brynn to say, “I hope you’re alright.”
“Listen, I have a heart. It was hard to see her sort of ostracized. It was just sad … [And] I had said, ‘Ubah’s really upset about what happened.’ And I guess she didn’t like that,” Erin recalled. “She didn’t like that I was saying Ubah was upset because she was the one who’s supposed to be upset, I guess, after this whole thing, and so she blocked me.”
According to Erin, she didn’t expect to be blocked by Brynn — she expected to see an apology.
“I thought she’d be apologizing to everybody. ‘Sorry for ruining the end of the trip,’ some sort of accountability for what had happened,” she explained. “I would have felt so awful. If I had done something like that, I would have, or anyone would’ve just been like, ‘I made a f*cking mistake. I’m not perfect. I screwed up.’”
“So then when I see the article, I’m like, okay, so not only did I get in trouble because I was feeling for my other friend who was just typecasted a really terrible person, but now it’s still going on to the point that we’re writing articles, we’re still doubling down and calling me like a sister when you hadn’t spoken to me at all?” she continued.
While Erin received an apology from Brynn for blocking her, she still called her out for suggesting they were “like sisters” in the interview.
“I’m blocked. Sisters? I talk to my sister every single day. That’s not my version of sisterhood,” she noted.
In addition to Brynn being mad at Erin for sympathizing with Ubah, Erin revealed she was also upset with Jessel.
“She was mad at us for taking Ubah’s side. That’s what happened instead of accountability, and I think after that, I had already been kind of fed up with the twisting and turning of so many things that had gone on, but then to make it seem like I’ve done something wrong? It’s not gonna keep getting flipped,” Erin declared.
Although a season 16 cast has yet to be announced, Erin isn’t sure if the group can move forward with Brynn.
“I think it would be really hard for me to trust anything. How do you do that? How do you overlook something like the finale?” she wondered. “You just feel as though, ‘Well, if I do something to you, you’re going to find something retaliatory that is really extreme, and I don’t know what that is and it could be something.’ Think about the level of the accusation to Ubah and how far-fetched it was … It creates concern of, who knows what the allegations could be?”
Adding to the challenges of Brynn being part of season 16 is the fact that no one seems to be in contact with her.
“I don’t think anyone … Jessel’s very upset with her, and you’ll see that come out at the reunion,” Erin teased.
Though Brynn did reach out to Erin recently, wanting to talk, Erin didn’t have the capacity to deal with the situation. However, she did admit to feeling bad for her co-star.
“It does pull at my heartstrings. She says all the right things, and she’s super kind, and I know she loves me and Abe, I know that, and Abe has a soft spot for her too. We’re human. She’s not a bad person, but I think I just need time,” Erin reasoned.
As for why she believes Brynn tried to ruin her relationship with Jenna, Erin signaled a social media pic.
“It kind of went viral. We had all these subsets of fans that would reach out with these montages of me and Jenna together. It was really cute. They loved our friendship … People liked us on the show together, and I think she got jealous and she was like, ‘How am I gonna come in here and rip apart this friendship?’” Erin suggested. “That’s what it felt to me like; it was evil.”
The Real Housewives of New York City season 15 reunion continues with part two on Tuesday, February 4, at 9/8c on Bravo.