RHOBH Star Reveals What Fans Missed After Sutton Stracke’s ‘Wallet’ Comment

Jennifer Tilly says Sutton Stracke felt bad about a remark she made about Dorit Kemsley’s “wallet” during filming for “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”

During a February 25 appearance on “Watch What Happens Live,” Stracke’s close friend Jennifer Tilly said the Sutton Concept founder does not consider herself above Kemsley after alluding to the difference in their finances—despite how it looked on TV. “I do not [think she feels superior],” Tilly said. “In fact, when she said it there was a stricken look on her face, which may have been edited out because they want her to look like the bad guy.“

“It was terrible thing to say, and she admitted it,” Tilly added of Stracke. “And she was actually thinking of giving Dorit her purse. She was like…’Maybe I should give her my Kelly bag to make up for it.’”

Fellow WWHL guest Crystal Kung Minkoff chimed in to note that Stracke said she didn’t regret the comment during one of her confessionals.

“But she did the confessionals later on,” Tilly pointed out. “In the moment, she regretted it.”

Sutton Stracke Explained Why She Made the Comment to Dorit Kemsley

There has been tension between Stracke and Kemsley for a while. In the RHOBH episode “Caviar Catastrophe,” things came to a head during an argument at Tilly’s “Caftans and Caviar” luncheon.

“You picked at me, and I’m sorry, you need to pick on somebody else whose wallet fits,” Stracke said to Kemsley. 

When co-star Erka Jayne asked Stracke, “You think you’re bigger than her?” Stracke replied, “I think my wallet is.”

During an episode of the “RHOBH After Show,” Stracke explained why she made the remark. “In the moment… I was mad,” Stracke said. “I reacted in a very aggressive way with the lowest insult that I could come up with in my brain.”

Stracke also noted that she didn’t think the comment bothered Kemsley because she probably wasn’t even listening to what she said.

Sutton & Dorit Had an Uncomfortable Exchange Over a Purse

As for Tilly’s mention that Stracke felt so bad about the comment that she considered giving Kemsley a bag to make up for it, she was likely referring to a blue Hermes Kelly mini handbag that Kemsley playfully tried to take from her in a previous episode.

In the RHOBH episode “Land of the Free, Home of the Shade,” Kemsley grabbed the handbag from Stracke as she greeted her at a Fourth of July party at her Encino home. “That’s so kind of you,” Kemsley cracked as she clutched the bag. “I think you owe it to me,” she added. “You most certainly do!”

In confessional, Kemsley later joked, “Honestly I’d be prepared to forget about most things Sutton has said or done if she just gives me this handbag.”

New epsidoes of ‘The Real Housewives if Beverly Hills” air Wednesdays on Bravo.