“I think it was beautiful that NeNe revealed herself a lot,” she told PEOPLE. “Going through a cancer, as a spouse of someone with cancer, we don’t really know what’s going on in their relationship and people are so quick to judge. I think it was really human and I related to her when she just cracked. She’s been on camera so long that she could have hidden that.”
“I understand why she was upset with people invading her private space, so I’m on her side there,” Frankel added, referencing Leakes’ closet freakout. “I think she was shut off during the reunion because I think she’s got an emotional wall up. I feel for her.”
Frankel also showed her support to LVP despite being close friends with Kyle Richards and Lisa Rinna.
“She’s been on since the beginning and she’s a very successful businesswoman,” Frankel said. “The show’s doing incredibly well and for everyone, sometimes it just gets to be too much. I get that she needed to take a step back.”
“I back Lisa and Kyle — they’re good friends of mine — but that doesn’t mean I’m against Vanderpump,” Frankel told PEOPLE. “Lisa Rinna, she’s so open and speaks her mind, she sometimes takes backlash, but that’s why people want her as a Housewife. You can’t be someone who is afraid to express your feelings. And Kyle went over to Lisa’s house to talk to her friend, which I don’t think Lisa got.”
Frankel added: “I back my girls, but I love all those women. And I would love to bring [my 8-year-old daughter] Bryn to Vanderpump’s house sometime. I want to bring Bryn to see the ponies!”
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