Vick Gunvalson believes being part of The Real Housewives of Orange County was the reason her 20-year marriage to now ex-husband Donn Gunvalson came to an end.
"I did everything right, except falling prey to divorce. I mean, I think that hindsight, um, I know for a fact that if I wasn't on a reality show, I wouldn't have been divorced," she said during a recent appearance on Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef podcast.
"And that cost Don and I both a lot of money because we had to split assets and alimony and all that stuff," she explained. "So I paid more to him than he did to me because I had the business. So that's hurtful and that's hard."
She continued, "Then I got taken for a ride by Brooks and he owes me over $300,000. And then I was in a block of lawsuits."
Gunvalson claimed that all of the money related things "happened because of the show." She also claimed that her former castmate Tamra Judge is in a "very expensive lawsuit" because of the Bravo hit reality series, according to The Daily Mail.
Vicki was married to Donn Gunvalson for twenty years, from 1994 until they divorced in 2014. Following her divorce with Donn, she dated Brooks Ayers for many years, after their spit and his controversial cancer scam, she filed a lawsuit against him inst in 2019, accusing him of not paying her back the money she loaned him in 2011.
She is currently engaged to Steve Lodge. While the couple is engaged, there are no plans for a wedding at this time.
"It's my third marriage, Steve's fourth, so we're not going to do wedding [stuff]. But right now, we're pausing everything. There's no need to," she told Us Weekly earlier this month. "He's got his money, I've got my money - we don't need to get married. So, we'll see what happens. There's no rush."
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