Vicki Gunvalson Responds to Lauri Waring Peterson’s Claims

I’m still getting caught up on blogs and wanted to share this response from Vicki about Lauri’s bizarre allegations from two weeks ago. She has been busy, I assume with her new legal troubles, and missed blogging last week. She explained everything pretty much the way I assumed that she would here, so I won’t add anything to this, but I will do another post shortly about the Mexico blogs so don’t run off. Here is what Vicki has to say…

“When Lauri worked for me over seven years ago, we were social friends. I met her through a mutual friend of ours, and I knew her only casually.  I helped her when she needed me for a job, and I never had any negative or bad feelings towards her.  I thought everything was fine between us when she left our show a few years ago, as we were still cordial and nice to one another when we did see each other.  The fact that she decided to come back with all of these lies about me is nothing short of hurtful and mean.  So, in order to defend myself I need to fill you all in.

I received a phone call from George’s ex-mother-in-law at my work who proceeded to tell me some “not so nice” things about George. She told me that her ex-son in law (George) was “not so nice” to his children and her daughter and that I should let Lauri know this. Since Lauri was a new friend of mine, I really didn’t know what to do with this information.  I was not real close with her, but she did work for me and I didn’t want to get in her personal relationship with George, nor did I want to hurt her with this information because I didn’t know if it was true or just malicious information.

When I hung up the phone, I had two choices to make.  Tell Lauri about this call that I received, or not.  Since Lauri was so happy with George, and since  I didn’t really want to get in the middle of it, I decided not to tell Lauri.  The phone call followed up with an email from the mother-in-law, and again I did not tell Lauri.  Jeana Keough and I were close friends at that time, and I went to Jeana and asked her opinion of what I should do.  My intentions were good, and that I didn’t want to hurt Lauri at all nor did I want to get into their new relationship in any way shape or form.  Jeana happened to tell some other people and it got back to Lauri and she was upset that I didn’t go to her with this negative information on George.

If I could go back in time (over seven years ago now), I would have gone directly to Lauri, never to Jeana, and just kept it between us.  I had no intentions on hurting Lauri or talking behind her back.  I never went to the press with this information, and never went “public” about this.  I actually was very uncomfortable with this information from George’s ex-mother-in-law and I really wanted it to go away.  This is Lauri’s “beef” with me.  There is nothing else other than this.  I was there for Lauri when she was going through her divorce when no one else was, and I really had good intentions.

The difference between Lauri and I, is that I really cared for her and that I never wanted to hurt her.  Now that she has returned — I guess she has an axe to grind with me and decided to come back to stir the pot. Maybe her life is a little boring, maybe the perfect Brady Bunch as she described her family wasn’t so perfect after all, and maybe she just missed us all. I doubt any of that is actually true though. In any event, staying quiet and letting her throw out lies about me is something I can’t do.  You will see as the episodes evolve, I do approach her on this, but at least now you will have some background on what and why this is happening with her.

When I heard and saw her conversation with Gretchen about “Vicki in bed with another woman and a man” I almost threw up.  Talk about my blood boiling is an understatement.  The truth of the matter is I took Lauri on an insurance convention with me in New Orleans.  We actually filmed that trip which I believe was either Season 1 or 2.  It was prior to her meeting George.  Everything was great with us, as I took her on the trip to introduce her to my colleagues/friends and insurance professionals.  One of the people who was on the trip was one of my sisters, who also was in the insurance industry.  I had some of my close friends (who happened to be a few men) to my room for a cocktail party, which included Lauri, and my sister.  It was really late in the evening, and a few of us sat on the bed talking while Lauri and others were in the room and was also part of this conversation.  There was nothing ever inappropriate going on the entire time, everyone was FULLY CLOTHED, and she twisted it to Gretchen insinuating that I had a “threesome.”  It is filthy, raunchy and just disgusting on how and why she would say this about me. I am guessing that she decided to enter back into our lives to put unnecessary garbage and junk into Gretchen and others minds so she would get attention. Sorry Lauri — the truth always comes out and I can have anyone that was in that room attest to the fact that SHE IS LYING!

Lauri also mentioned something about a Greek man with “no teeth” that I brought home with me.  That statement is another LIE.     How and why would I bring a Greek man to United States with me, or even back to my hotel room when I was with 15 women the entire time?

  This is what happened so you can understand how she has once again twisted the truth about something I told her into a lie.  Over six years ago, one of my very dear friends invited me to Greece to go on a cooking/wine trip for eight days.  Since I had never been out of the country, I thought it would be a great experience.  I roomed with my friend, as well and the other women had a “roommate” as well.  I was never alone or apart from my roommate the entire eight days.  When I returned from Greece, Lauri was still working for me and I told her how attractive some of the Greek men and women.  I told her we went dancing one evening and how much fun we all had and that we had met a group of  young men that were a lot of fun.  Nothing ever was inappropriate, or was there ever a time I was alone with them.  The fact that she LIED again saying that I brought back a “toothless” Greek man is just unbelievable.  My friend that I roomed with happened to see this episode and she called me and said “What is Lauri talking about?  We were never apart for eight days, you never brought a Greek man back home nor did you have a relationship with any of them”.    Again, another lie from Lauri, fabricating the truth.

Lastly, Lauri saying that I had multiple men during my marriage to Donn is another lie.  Truth of the matter is I am in a male-dominated industry and I have a lot of male friends.  I respect myself enough to know that I am not that person who Lauri insinuated me being.  I am a mother and a businesswoman first; a loving person, and I have moral integrity.  It’s been hard enough for me to expose some the truth on this show that I was not proud of, but I won’t tolerate lies.  I feel sorry for Lauri that she felt she had to stoop this low and the only thing I can do is pray for her.  Bottom line is I know who I am when no one is looking, and I sleep well at night knowing I am a godly woman who has moral integrity.”