Most of the time I forget all about the official Bravo cast blogs. Generally they are just more of the same storyline. The ladies usually just justify the position they held on the show despite the fact that things have since changed. Exceptions include Yolanda Foster’s blogs which were my favorite. But this week, I have been on pins and needles waiting for Vicki Gunvalson’s blog. So far? Nothing. But today when I went to look there was a blog from Lauri Waring Peterson! I was not expecting a “friend of” to blog after the response to Faye Resnick’s brief foray into blogging on last season’s RHOBH. But there it is, and it’s a doozy.
From Lauri’s blog:
While catching up with Gretchen in regards to her relationships with the other women, I was surprised with the details as to why she and Vicki were having difficulties. I was genuinely shocked to learn that Vicki had accused Gretchen of cheating on Jeff during their engagement. Of all things to call Gretchen out on, infidelity probably shouldn’t have been the one Vicki chose, especially knowing what Vicki had told me over the years during her marriage to Don and what I had personally witnessed on more than one occasion. My point to Gretchen while talking about Vicki, wasn’t exactly about infidelity, it was the hypocrisy of it all that got to me!
Over the years with Vicki, back when we were what I considered to be “good friends,” she confided in me a lot in regards to her personal life. She spoke candidly and opening (sic)about other men. I knew I wasn’t the only person that she shared this information with and she never asked me to keep anything a secret. Even though I personally didn’t agree with her actions and choices, I kept my opinions to myself. The choices that she made didn’t affect my life and I had no desire to get involved in her and Don’s marriage. Their marriage seemed to work effectively and I thought to myself that whatever works for them, is their business! However, I do not condone cheating! In my opinion, dishonesty and infidelity will destroy the foundation of a marriage. If the foundation isn’t strong, everything else will likely eventually crumble.
So your good friend confides in you about infidelities and you continue to let her discuss it with you and never give her any indication that you were negatively judging her? And because your good friend never told you to keep her infidelities a secret you feel good about yourself for discussing her private business on national TV? Where it is or is not true is up for debate, but you being a sorry excuse for a woman is not, Lauri. You should be ashamed of yourself. Wasn’t George cheating on his wife with you when you met him?
My friendship with Vicki ended seven months after I met George. Vicki, Duff and I were working in the office one day, when a woman called asking for Vicki. I transferred the call to Vicki. She motioned to Duff and I to leave the office to allow her privacy. Her call lasted over 30 minutes. When Duff and I were allowed back in the office, Vicki continued to work on insurance, as if nothing happened. She was fine and did not mention the call to me. The phone call that Vicki took, I will later discover to have been George’s ex-wife’ mother.
The following day, I received a call from Jeanna Keough telling me that Vicki had received an email from George’s ex-wife’s mother summarizing their conversation. She had instructed Vicki to give me the email. Vicki, however, decided to forward that email to everyone except me! Jeanna forwarded the email to me. It contained nothing but bulls— slanderous lies and served no purpose other than to harass George and I on behalf of George’s ex-wife. Keep in mind, Vicki was very aware of all of the problems George and I had been experiencing with his ex.
Did you ever think that maybe Vicki sent the email to her friend to ask advice on whether or not to share it with you since it seemed to be filled with nasty comments about you? Also wouldn’t you have asked who was calling if you answered the phone for Vicki? Most of us know the topic was most likely George’s kids being very unhappy living in your home.
Edited because Vicki actually DID address this in her blog last week. Vicki said, “When she met George, she was so happy, and I in turn was happy for her. I wanted only for her to find love again, and for her to be happy. When she told Tamra I was jealous of her being happy, is again just a blatant lie. The real reason why Lauri got upset with me is from while she was dating George — which you’ll have to watch to see. The truth is I was trying to protect her and not hurt her when I was told some “not so nice” information about George that I did not feel the need to pass on to her. I was trying to protect her, but it backfired and I thought it was over and done with as this happened over seven years ago. Lauri is bitter and has come back into our group for one reason only, and it’s to stir up trouble – and to try and get back on our show. I had seen her for several years after that “situation,” and never once did she mention this to me until now. I guess she doesn’t have much going on in her life anymore and wanted to come back with a vengeance. In any event, I’m happy she’s happy –- but one thing I will not tolerate is LIES. Stay tuned!”
To learn that Vicki had (1) accepted a phone call from George’s ex-wife’s spiteful mother (2) entertained her for more than five seconds (3) provided her personal email to her (4) later received an email (5) failed to mention the call and (6) that she failed to mention the email was beyond belief to me.
You put the call through. Vicki must have been curious as to why the woman was calling. She apparently told her she could email her. And she was under no obligation to discuss the phone call with you. Perhaps she thought there would be nothing beneficial to come from that.
But the act that ended our friendship, was when she forwarded that slanderous email she received, intended for me, to everyone but me. That action alone, I found to be malicious, evil, and vicious. It was her first personal attack against George and I as a couple. That was definitely not what a “friend” does to a friend! If she were my friend, the scenario would have gone more like this. . .once she learned who the phone caller was, she would motion for Duff and I to be quiet as the call was placed on speaker. She would then let the caller know that she was not interested in hearing anything that she has to say about George as none of it is any of her business. She would not have given the caller her personal email. That could have been the end of it, leaving our friendship intact. Vicki should have been smarter than that. She should have known that she was used as a tool, but more importantly she failed the friendship test!
Sending the email to Jeanna is not sending it to everyone. Perhaps she was looking for advice on what to do with the email, she decided to ignore it, and Jeanna sent it to you anyway. You are mighty self-righteous for someone that just called Vicki a whore on national television in order to get yourself back on the show.
I was really hurt and upset with Vicki but even more angry with myself for thinking she was a friend. I moved out of her office and we never worked through this issue, nor did she ask. Over the years, I have managed to be civil and cordial to her, but I would not define our relationship as friends today.
Well clearly you are no friend to her. We can agree on that. This email controversy, that she was on the receiving end of through no fault of her own, is justification for what you did to her on TV which is about to spark Armageddon Housewives style ? Anyone who is friends with you and watches this show just got a huge heads up that you are not to be trusted. I hope they made note of that.
I updated Vicki’s response from last week into the post in red. I forgot she brought this up before. Seems like Vicki was trying to answer the situation before the show aired She also said on twitter that the woman she was in bed with was her sister and they were watching TV.
These bittys are crazy. I heard Lauri’s grand baby is a ward of the state because her son and baby mama lost custody. Lauri declined to care for her grandchild.
That, and that George isn’t Mr. Perfect.
Nicely written Tamara ….
I’ve said it once, I will say it again, Gretchen should keep her BIG MOUTH shut with the nasty noise Lauri is saying .. Vicki should write about Gretchen and Jay .. Lauri, showed everyone she can not be trusted by anyone … ugh, creepy before and after photos …
Lauri is the one that comes off looking bad, I agree with all TT’s points. When I first signed on to Twitter, I was following RHOOC commenters, one turned out to be George’s X, if only half of what she said was true, George would still be a bad guy. I think Lauri went for the bucks and would justify anything as okay to get it. I bet she liked hanging with Vicki for the first class “business” affairs and trips. I really am not a fan of anyone on the OC show, but Lauri just crawled on her belly to Bravo with her gossip to get herself back in the spotlight. She is a snake.
Great recap – I agree totally with your take on the whole situation!
I like TT’s take on this situation. I haven’t heard Lauri rebut Vicki’s claim that it was her sister. As I recall, Vicki was humiliated to have to admit that Don was having an affair for 20 years while they were married. So, who knows if she had “permission” to step out. I liked it when Heather said to Gretchen — “well, they are divorced now, so who cares.” Dear Lauri — remember what they say…those without sin can cast the 1st stone & honey, that ain’t you.
I thought Laurie would ride off into the sunset and be a happy camper, I can’t beleive the wretchedness…I guess people do fall out, but geeze, Vicki really had her broke ass back, that counts for something…obviously not a Bravo check, but it should count for something….
I was thinking the same thing. My impression of Lauri is that she was a golddigger without a man. (temporarily) She didn’t want to work but needed to pay the bills. Vicki was nice enough to give her a “job” and Lauri took it, but only until she found a new schlump. She found one in George so i figured we would never hear from her again. She was only looking for the lifestyle, not fame or happy well-adjusted children. Lauri is disgusting. (I can’t believe i’m actually taking Vicki’s side on this, because i loathe her as well.)
I saw that episode and that was the biggest bunch of bullshit I’ve heard in a long time. Who the hell cares what happened over 5 YEARS AGO! If it’s been longer than even two years ago, let it GO! The fact that its been 7, is a shame.
She pulled NO PUNCHES. She made Viki look like an aging whore. Who would say such things about a mother and grandmother? I hope she gets slammed on face book, twitter, instagram, myspace, her bravo blog etc. I’d post comments to her but I don’t have any of those accounts (nor do I know if she does either).
If she is so happy in her relationship and nothing came of the so-called lies and slander – and her and George are doing great – then why come out with this now? Is she jealous? Viki is right, something must be missing in her life.
And look who she chose to divulge this information to. Gretchen, who turned out to be the most gossip-mongering ho’wife of them all. Gretchen was practically salivating in her anticipation to repeat what Lauri told her.
Whether Lauri’s allegations are true or not (I personally think they’re either lies or greatly embellished), the very fact that she waited all this time to “reveal” them to Gretchen speaks volumes, especially considering that whole dynamic of Gretchen pretty much being Lauri’s sloppy seconds when it comes to Slade.
The entire clustersuck just smells like horseshit. And not the horseshit on Lauri’s boots from the stable, either.
With friends like Lauri, who would ever need enemies?
So Ditto. Bravo has sunk to a new low filming this crapola.
I agree with TT, that’s pretty much my thoughts on this too. This whole thing reeks of desperation on Lauri’s part. She wasn’t interesting enough on her own merit to get back on tv. I looked at a few of the youtube videos of George’s ex, and if that stuff is true, he is a douche. Also interesting is that Lauri let her grandkid go to foster care recently. NO grandbaby of mine would go into the system, if I was sittin pretty in the OC area riding horses.
I’m just wondering why a woman would pay thousands of dollars for plastic surgery to look like a man in drag.
I like your viewpoint TT. The whole ex-wife’s mother drama doesn’t hang together to me. The x’s mother could have asked for lauri herself, why ask for Vicki? Hell, she could have gone to the office, it wasn’t in a secret location. It was just s*it stirring and I think Vicki asked Jeanna for advice. But once you forward an email, you lose control over where it gets sent from there, it has to be said.
I love that Lauri exposed Vicki as a saint! Vicki is such a hypocrite!
As a skank… not saint.
I don’t get what all the fuss is about. Vicki should know that if you don’t want your secrets revealed, then don’t tell anyone! As far as receiving the phone call from George’s mother, face it, we would all take the call. Who doesn’t love a little dirt! But after the call, Vicki should have kept it to herself or gone to Lauri and told her. Sending an email to anyone was underhanded. If Vicki wanted advice from Jeanna she should have just posed it as a question, not send her the email. As for Lauri, I would to stir things up for Vicki, tit for tat. And frankly if these were decent people none of us would be watching the show.
The email that the ex MIL sent said that she was sending it to Vicki because she and Jeanna seemed like the two women on the show that cared about their kids. The email also was not that bad. It just basically said that George is a terrible father (which was common knowledge) and the kids hated living with him and wanted to live with their mother but he would not allow it because he didn’t want to pay child support. She was actually trying to WARN Lauri. Vicki forwarded the email to Jeanna because she was mentioned and then decided not to pass the info to Lauri. (ie stay out of it). She wasn’t emailing it all over hell and high water.
Also, Vicki has already said that the insurance trip, which was filmed by Bravo in season one, she was in bed with her sister watching a movie… If there was all this whorish behavior going on, you bet your bottom dollar Lauri would have blabbed it five seasons ago.
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Tamara Tattles
Lot’s of good comments but I’m loyal to my twitter peeps, JerseyBoy being one of them.
I read the email from George’s former mother in law, mother of his former wife, Gina’s mother. (thats a mouthful) Her grandchildren suffered a lot because of George & she was extremely concerned for Lauri’s children.
She had the wisdom to understand Lauri was in a “whirlwind” created by George and appealed to Vicki, via email out of concern for Lauri’s children.
I understand completely why Vicki did what she did. The former mother in law also. I’m just going to say, “I support them both”
YAY vile Lauri blocked me on twitter.
I don’t even follow her, but I am gratified to know she read & acknowledged my disgust with her.
This is a shame, I remember watching her wedding episode and thinking she had it all. She managed to do one thing…make me like Vicki again…and I thought that would never happen. She really looks bitter and jealous.