Sutton Stracke was called out by the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast after Tuesday night’s episode showed her at odds with several of her co-stars, namely Dorit Kemsley and Erika Jayne.
As the ladies of the series looked back on Sutton’s antics against Dorit, 48, who was in the midst of a split from her estranged husband Paul “PK” Kemsley, 57, they took aim at her intelligence as Sutton, 53, attempted to defend herself, accusing her castmates of forcing a reaction out of her.
“I’m actually a very calm person until you push me so hard that I have to be reactionary,” Sutton began on the December 17 episode of the RHOBH: After Show.
But Dorit didn’t see it that way.
“That is typical Sutton. Sutton goes low,” she stated. “[And] it’s like, you’ve gotta have a somewhat respectable or at least intelligent argument. Sutton doesn’t have those.”
While Dorit said the entire cast had seen Sutton’s low blows and would agree with her assessment, she was disappointed that more of her co-stars didn’t have her back during their dispute on Tuesday’s show.
“The fact that not everybody in the group was not saying the same thing to Sutton is really sad and it’s hard for me to swallow,” she admitted, looking back on the heart-to-heart she and Sutton had just a short time prior.
“This is a woman who sat on the boat, wanted to hold my hand and tell me how … really wanted to demonstrate how much she understood and wanted to be there for me. In the same few days not even she actually used a painful part of my life to justify her own behavior,” she noted.
Although Sutton told Dorit she wasn’t mad at her, but her life, which was in shambles at the time, Dorit denied that was the case.
“It’s not me. It’s you. You and everything you’re going through,” she declared.
Then, after Kyle Richards, 55, that Sutton’s comments to Dorit were “not what [she needed] to hear when [she was struggling],” Erika, 53, agreed that Sutton pointing out to Dorit — in front of the women — that she was in a bad place was not necessary.
“Sutton sometimes goes a little past the mark and gets in those really sort of places where it’s like, ‘I don’t know that you needed to say that,’” she reasoned. “It’s like what she said to [Kyle] at [her] weed dinner. I thought that Sutton did it to me when I was at my lowest. I’m watching her be mean to Dorit at her lowest. It’s not once, it’s not twice. It’s three times.”
Although Sutton insisted she “wasn’t weaponizing any words against Dorit,” Bozoma Saint John, 47, felt Sutton’s statements created a “dangerous situation.”
“If she had a stronger vocabulary she wouldn’t have been upset with the word cuz she would’ve understood what I was talking about. Because weaponizing simply means she knows intimate, deep, painful information and she used that to throw an insult,” the new cast member explained.
Still, Sutton felt that Bozoma should’ve minded “her own business” because she didn’t “know the history” of the group.
“You jump into this conversation and I didn’t think it was called for,” she reasoned.
During another segment of the RHOBH: After Show, as Erika doubled down on her claims that Sutton is “inconsistent” and “doesn’t listen,” and even Sutton’s close friend, Jennifer Tilly, 66, admitted she can be up and down and have “a lot of emotions,” Dorit described her castmate as a “comedy act.”
“Obviously, I find most of the things that come out of her mouth to be very hypocritical; they don’t match her actions,” she stated. “She has no sense of self or ability to realize how erratic she is and then there’s always a moment where she’s apologizing. And you almost feel bad. [But] no sooner than she’s back to doing the same f*cking thing.”
While Dorit had nothing nice to say about Sutton, Kyle applauded her as “childlike and funny.”
“I see her as someone who’s wounded, and so I have compassion for that aspect of her, but then, of course, she can go [from] zero to 100, no doubt. But with that said, I also know another side of her,” she explained.
After her co-stars shared their thoughts, Sutton defended her actions, saying she was “responsive” before admitting she has been known to “overreact.”
“Of course, I can overreact. I’m Southern. This is what we do: We overreact to things,” she explained. “Can I be inconsistent? Yes. Because when you lie to me, I have to be inconsistent to keep up with your lies and volatile? No. That came out of nowhere.”
According to Sutton, she feels that her castmates call her names to deflect from the fact that “they’re liars.”
“Erika was very inconsistent with her story with her husband’s accident. Dorit was very overreactive at the table with Kyle at Oceanside. Erika was very volatile against me at Kathy’s caviar dinner. So the two of them need to calm down and remember who they are before they call me names again,” she warned.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 14 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
