Brynn Whitfield Speaks Out After Disturbing RHONY Finale: ‘I Was Mortified’

The second season of the rebooted sequence resulted in dramatic style on Tuesday night time after Brynn and Ubah Hassan went at it throughout a forged trip to Puerto Rico.

However it was past a typical housewives combat, and maybe the darkest we have seen in Bravo historical past. After Ubah made a declare that Brynn would possibly have slept with somebody at Bravo to get onto the present within the first place, Brynn informed the remainder of the ladies that the remark was significantly hurtful as a result of she was a survivor of sexual assault — earlier than claiming Ubah knew she had been raped and nonetheless mentioned made the hurtful remark.

The admission shocked Brynn’s costars, as she had not but disclosed her historical past with assault with them. The ladies started to activate her, nevertheless, when Brynn later admitted it is attainable Ubah “did not clock it,” or did not notice Brynn informed her in regards to the assault. It is then that a few of them felt she was mendacity about telling her within the first place or believed she was unfairly weaponizing the state of affairs.

Talking with Rolling Stone in a brand new interview, Brynn shared extra about what allegedly went down that night time.

“I really feel so secure with everybody on the manufacturing firm and at Bravo, and I felt secure with how they dealt with sharing my sexual assault story in Central Park with my brother,” Brynn mentioned. “It was by no means my intention to share it with the women after which that transpired, however I felt so bizarre that night time. I bear in mind they have been taking off my microphone and I used to be like, ‘How do I discuss to those individuals now that they know this factor about me?'”

After listening to what her forged mates needed to say about her after she departed the forged journey sooner than the remainder of them, Brynn mentioned she felt “mortified.” Along with doubting she informed Ubah about her assault, additionally they criticized her for — of their thoughts — appearing as if nothing occurred after they awakened the following day.

“I used to be so irritated once I noticed what they have been saying about me as a result of they’re like, ‘She’s psycho. She appears to be like like she’s superb and she or he left.’ No, I used to be mortified. Within the second, I am very very similar to, ‘Every thing’s superb,’ and I could make a joke or distract from one thing, however I used to be like, ‘Simply get me out of right here,'” she recalled. “‘I do not really feel snug anymore, and I really feel like everybody’s me otherwise. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I am cool with all the pieces, all the pieces’s regular, and I am simply going to depart.’ I requested to depart. I requested to be placed on the primary flight out.”

Brynn additionally doubled down on telling Ubah about her assault — saying Ubah might’ve missed the revelation throughout a frantic name about her pal’s suicide. She mentioned any allegation of attempting to take her costar down by weaponizing her trauma is “surprising.”

“You are telling me that within the three minutes from once I’m known as horrible names [by Ubah] and I am clearly upset that I in some way devised a plan? It is disgusting that I am speaking about two issues that I’d hope that no girl or individual must expertise — suicide and sexual assault — and everybody’s like, ‘Brynn, we really feel taken benefit of.’ Possibly do not use these phrases to explain the state of affairs. I simply really feel like I wasn’t proven a lot [respect],” Brynn defined. “These are troublesome, critical issues we’re speaking about. That is the way it felt for me the entire season, like I used to be at all times being attacked. I’d go into filming plenty of the time and I’d really feel dread and despair. I used to be identical to, each single factor goes to show into one thing. It was bizarre power from the very first scene.”

As for the place she feels she stands together with her castmates now, Brynn says the reunion helped deliver some readability, telling RS, “I did really feel higher after the reunion to clear the air on this stuff. The reunion felt like going to a exercise: You do not actually need to go exercise and would possibly even not get pleasure from some elements of it whilst you’re doing it, however you already know afterwards you are going to really feel higher for it. No ache, no achieve.”

“It was like, ‘I need to hear the place you are coming from, are you able to take heed to the place I am coming from, and may we at the least not have this huge void between us? After the reunion I personally felt like — are we able the place all the pieces is mounted and ideal? No, not remotely. However at the least we’re now, possibly hopefully at the first step,” she added earlier than breaking down the place she stands with every castmate individually.

“I am at all times cool with Jenna [Lyons] and Raquel [Chevremont]. Erin [Lichy] looks like a sister. I used to be simply texting together with her and [her husband] Abe the opposite day, I really feel like I am superb with them. I believe Sai [De Silva] and I nonetheless have stuff to work on. I miss my friendship with Sai rather a lot. After which with Jessel [Taank] I did not notice, however I ought to have realized, I mentioned one thing that upset her, so I must work on my friendship with Jessel,” Brynn shared earlier than revealing the place her and Ubah are at now.

“With Ubah, I believe what’s finished is completed. Ubah’s a fantastic individual. She has a coronary heart of gold. I believe she loses her mood, however she has probably the most stunning coronary heart and on the finish of the day I do know I am additionally a great individual, so I really feel like we’ll get again. However it takes time to restore.”

Whereas Brynn seems to be on a street to restore together with her RHONY castmates, there was one one who took subject with Brynn’s feedback after the interview was printed — and it wasn’t Ubah.

Erin took to the feedback of a put up about Brynn’s interview, shared by Bravo fan web page, Queens of Bravo, to answer the declare that she and Brynn are like “sisters.”

“To say we’re sisters is sort of the attain… we have not spoken or seen one another in months aside from Brynn thanking Abe for clearing up the intention for the decision. I actually needed Brynn to win so unhealthy. I used to be excited to look at her shine like I’m with all my girlfriends. Every girl on this present is so particular and sensible and I actually actually excited for us collectively however Brynn at all times had all this childhood trauma that I used to be significantly excited to see her break away from,” Erin started.

“But, right here we’re once more… An article doubling down as an alternative of claiming hey, I tousled. It is upsetting to learn for all of you viewers, are you able to think about the way it feels for us?” she continued. “This present is meant to be FUN, it is all I attempted to do all through but in some way issues simply maintain getting twisted and turned and I’ll take possession that I very a lot was naive and really feel sufferer to a lot manipulation. I swore I would not remark however this text is so triggering to me and I simply can’t keep silent.”

Erin additionally took a second to handle that trolls which have come for her over the “colour of her pores and skin,” insinuating that her feedback about Brynn have one thing to do together with her being white, and Brynn being biracial.

“Truthfully f u. I spoke out when she known as Ubah an offended black girl, I used to be the one one who heard the SA story that night time and instantly mentioned NO manner that does not sound like Ubah she would not neglect that, which result in to the ‘she did not clock it’ remark. I’m not saying I am good however I am honest and I arise for what’s proper when it counts. So respectfully, f–k off.”

Brynn has but to publicly reply to Erin’s feedback.

See the drama unfold when a part of RHONY’s two-part reunion kicks airs January 28 on Bravo.