Gizelle Bryant is addressing the allegations Monique Samuels made about her relationship with Jamal Bryant during Part 1 of The Real Housewives of Potomac Season 5 reunion special.
“I just felt like it was a huge deflection,” she told The Daily Mail. “She has a lot of answering to do herself with regards to her behavior this season. No, Jamal and I are fine. No one can tell us about our relationship, so we're fine. I was just like, “Wow, you ladies are really angry! You all are really mad at Gizelle! Don't know why, but okay!””
Gizelle claims that she was not surprised when she was confronted with the shocking accusations.
“She said that she was going to do it. I knew she was going to try pull some trick out. It just made me feel like “Wow, you had time to put together a scrap book, and a scrap book of deflection.” It was kind of sad for her. You're going through all this for what?”
During Part 1 of the RHOP Season 5 reunion, the drama between Monique and Gizelle kicked off after reunion host Andy Cohen asked Gizelle what the status of her relationship was with her ex-husband-turned-boyfriend, Jamal Bryant. Gizelle shared that while the two are still together things amid the COVID-19 pandemic have been “tough” as he remains in Georgia.
Karen then refuted Gizelle's words that the couple was still together, saying, “That's not the word on the street." Huger added she had heard that the two were “pretending” to be together, calling their relationship a business “arrangement.” Taking it a step further, Karen also asked if it was true that Jamal had allegedly had a baby with another woman while with Gizelle, according to PEOPLE.
Denying Karen's claims, Gizelle said, “Jamal and I have been through a lot. There's a lot that people say.”
“But when ya'll were announcing that ya'll got back together, he told his girlfriend at the time that it was just reality TV and it wasn't true,” Monique interjected, shocking the room.
When Cohen asked Monique how she was sure of her comment, she claimed that Jamal's alleged girlfriend reached out to her and sent her screenshots and “pictures of her in his bed and everything else.”
“He's definitely been talking to another woman and if you'd like to see them I got them in my little receipt book,” Monique said as she reached for her color-coded binder.
“I don't have any reaction to that,” Gizelle said while Monique flipped through the book and proceeded to read the pages of text message screenshots.
“How do you know that those messages are real?” Cohen asked.
“Want me to call out his phone number? I'm sure she knows what his number is,” Monique said before reading out the cell number to the entire group. After a beat, Gizelle confirmed that the number was in fact Jamal's but wasn't buying any of Monique's claims.
“I don't believe anything that comes out of Monique's mouth. Or anything that she has in her binder,” Gizelle said, according to PEOPLE. “I know she was coming to make up whatever.”
As Candiace called Monique's actions “disgusting,” Monique continued to read out alleged text messages between Jamal and the woman, contending that Gizelle's relationship was “fake” and "fraudulent.”
“If you're going to come for my family and my relationship, I'm coming right back to you,” Monique said adding, ”Your pastor boyfriend is swinging his big D around his congregation, even in Atlanta as we speak and you know it. You're a fraud.”
When Cohen asked Gizelle if she had a reaction, Monique instead responded and said, “Of course she doesn't have a reaction cause she knows it's true.”
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