Bozoma Saint John didn’t mince her words when she accused Kyle Richards of being “cold” on the latest episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. In fact, after the episode aired, she doubled down on the statement.
As Kyle, 56, admitted to being hurt by the diss and targeted the basis of Boze’s friendship with Dorit Kemsley, 48, Boz, also 48, explained why her stance is firm and clapped back at claims of being “Dorit’s spokesperson” as Garcelle Beauvais, 58, and Sutton Stracke, 53, also weighed in.
“My opinion on how Kyle is behaving is my opinion, and no one can tell me that that’s wrong,” Bozoma declared on the February 18 episode of the RHOBH: After Show. “I think that Kyle was cold to me. I don’t take that back at all. She was. Now, why was she cold? We could talk about that. If she says she was cold because she’s going through her own situation and she didn’t want to open up to me who is a stranger in the group, fine. Easy enough explanation. But then don’t get pissed because I said that you were cold.”
According to Boz, it was Kyle’s denial that was “so infuriating.”
“If Kyle says, ‘You know what Boz, you’re right. I’m cold. I was cold toward you. You know why? Because of XYZ thing,’ then this is a non-issue,” she explained. “I would feel much more respect for her in that situation if she acknowledged the fact that, oh, she’s mad at Dorit because of XYZ thing, or she doesn’t want to talk about the situation in her life because of XYZ thing.”
While Boz noted that Kyle wouldn’t open up to her, Kyle didn’t agree with her assessment of the early moments of their relationship.
“It genuinely just hurt my feelings because I was having a completely different experience,” she admitted. “Are you just saying this because you’re friends with Dorit? That’s why I asked the other ladies, ‘Have you spent a lot of time with Boz? Did you go visit her after her surgery?’ ‘No.’ ‘No, I didn’t even know she had a surgery,’ is what they said to me. So I felt like that seemed a little strange to me.”
Although Kyle admitted that it might take her longer to open up, she suspected Boz’s closeness to Dorit was a bigger factor.
“I think that coming into the season, maybe, Dorit was feeling like we weren’t in a good place and she knew that she and Sutton and Garcelle weren’t, so there was someone new coming in and she kind of put her energy there and then Boz was new and I think they just sort of latched onto each other,” she noted.
During another segment of the RHOBH: After Show, Bozoma shot down the idea that she was acting as Dorit’s spokesperson, explaining that she was simply taking up for Dorit as Sutton made an early exit because they were in her home.
“You’re in Dorit’s house and she’s over there and everybody’s over here with Sutton who’s trying to leave,” she recalled. “If she’s trying to leave, let her go. I don’t understand why we’re sitting around trying to convince her to stay. She don’t wanna stay.”
“It wasn’t even that I’m coming in defense of [Dorit] as [Dorit]. If it was happening in Kyle’s house, I would’ve said that,” she continued.
According to Boze, it was “hypocritical” of Garcelle to label her Dorit’s spokesperson when she was defending Sutton after she called Dorit a “b*tch.”
“Garcelle, a million times, and even in that particular situation was giving excuses for why Sutton was behaving poorly yet I am Dorit’s spokeswoman? No, I’m also trying to explain the fact that we should be more concerned with our hostess than the person who’s trying to leave,” Boz explained.
Meanwhile, after Sutton accused Boz of being “jealous [of their] little trip” to Augusta, Garcelle admitted to being caught off-guard by her own words against Boz.
“I knew that the minute it came out of my mouth, honestly, but we say what we say,” she reasoned.
As for Sutton, she wondered why Boz was so upset with her.
“I didn’t understand where that was coming from, why she was standing up so much for Dorit at this point and not saying, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’” she explained.
Kyle was equally confused.
“Why would that bother Boz? You’ve been standing by Dorit no matter what,” she stated. “I saw that she was upset. Garcelle saw that she was upset. So we were just trying to talk to her as a friend.”
Still, Kyle didn’t feel that Garcelle had a leg to stand on in calling Boz “Dorit’s spokesperson.”
“Garcelle’s accused of that all the time with Sutton,” she noted.
Then, after Dorit praised Boz as a “very, very intelligent woman,” she admitted to feeling “[validated]” when Boz “[said]] things that [she was feeling].”
“I’m seeing the situation and assessing it. It is who I am. It is what I’ve been trained to do. And so just because I’m seeing things and certain people don’t like the way I’m seeing things doesn’t make it not true, or doesn’t make me biased. It just makes my perspective my perspective,” Boz clarified.