Lara Sophia 
On this week’s episode of RHONY, the escalating tension between cast members results in an icy confrontation that leaves everyone shocked.
This week’s episode of RHONY picks up where we left off last week, with the cast huddled around Sai De Silva‘s dining room table for a Brynnsgiving dinner. The group gets emotional as they listen to Brynn Whitfield open up about her traumatizing childhood.
Brynn explains that she and her siblings were severely neglected by their birth parents. When Brynn was in high school, her father, who was dying of liver cirrhosis and cancer, reached out to her to try and reconnect before his death. She tells the group that her father apologized to her before his death, which occurred just a week before Thanksgiving, making the holiday extra hard for the 36-year-old.
“He said there was never a day when he didn’t look in the mirror and [see] a monster,” Brynn told her RHONY co-stars while holding back tears.
When things calm down, the group moves on to more trivial pursuits, including Jenna Lyons’ claims that Jessel Taank said the ladies acted like “cackling hags” in the Hamptons. Most of the ladies are unbothered by Jessel’s comment. However, Erin Lichy takes major offense. Days later, Erin and Jessel sit down for a very icy coffee date that goes awry from the very start.
“This neighborhood is, like, really up and coming,” Jessel says about Tribeca, which Erin takes as a dig since it is where she lives. Jessel’s comment is clearly shady AF, as Brynn explains: “I think that was when JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessett-Kennedy lived there; that’s when [Tribeca] was up and coming.”
Erin tells Jessel that she comes off as entitled, to which the fashion publicist replies: “So I’m a princess…a princess that doesn’t work, apparently?” This response is a clapback at Erin’s surprise that Jessel has returned to work as a fashion consultant after having her twins.
As the conversation continues, Jessel puts her Loubtouin in her mouth by suggesting that Erin doesn’t support women.
“I launched my own consultancy, I truly embrace women—,” Jessel quips, to which Erin interjects: “Now I don’t embrace women?” Yikes.
“This is why I have trouble with Jessel. I don’t know that she’s working again because she never told me, and now I don’t support women, which is incredibly insulting,” Erin says in her confessional.
The two bicker back and forth for a bit before calling a truce and agreeing to be more open and honest with each other moving forward. However, this truce isn’t going to last long because as they leave their coffee date, Erin tells the camera: “So fucking weird, she’s a lunatic.”
The episode wraps up with Jessel throwing a fabulously fashionable party for her budding fashion consultancy business.
“I’m really excited to launch my first fashion consultancy. It’s called ‘The Know,’ as in: you’re in the know,” Jessel gushes in her confessional interview. All of the ladies, minus Jenna, stop by Jessel’s party, which includes some of fashion’s most elite members – Lynn Yeager of Vogue, Princess Deena Al-Junhani of Vogue Arabia, and Mickey Boardman of Paper Magazine, just to name a few.
As for Jenna, she’s at home with her son decorating their Christmas tree. As fabulous as Jessel’s party looked, nothing makes me happier than decorating for Christmas.
Not surprisingly, the group made a little dig at Jenna, skipping the party to decorate her Christmas tree while claiming she had an “event” to attend.
The ladies dub the former creative director of J.Crew “Jenna Lyin’,” with them quipping: “Is that the thing people do now, we’re calling [mundane everyday things] events?”
Brynn ends the episode with the perfect one-liner: “I guess this morning when I took a shit, I had a gala.”
End episode. The RHONY drama continues next week.
Season 14 of RHONY airs on Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
