Lisa Barlow is fighting back against Whitney Rose‘s claims that she was the one behind the negative rumors about her Prism jewelry business.
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After Lisa, 49, and Whitney, 38, nearly came to blows at Angie Katsanevas‘ 25th wedding anniversary party on Tuesday’s episode of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, the cast was seen reacting to their feud, with Meredith Marks, 52, and Heather Gay, 50, seemingly siding with Lisa.
“At this point, it’s like, what aren’t you going to accuse me of? [It’s the] stupidest accusation,” Lisa said during the October 23 episode of the RHOSLC: After Show.
According to Lisa, she believes Whitney blamed her for the rumors because she was “trying to get ahead of something.”
“From what I was told, she was called and told like, ‘Hey, this blogger/podcaster is going to say all these mean things about your business,'” Lisa explained. “From what I understand, Whitney and her have a lot of text messages together. The podcaster has even said in her podcast she talks to Whitney. I’m like, ‘She is an idiot. She’s the one being nasty behind the scenes.’”
After slamming Whitney as “nasty,” and stating that she “got busted” because her “jewelry line is from Alibaba,” Lisa detailed her past support of her castmate’s endeavor.
“When she launched Prism, she called me and she was like, ‘Hey would you be willing to donate Vida?’ We ended up spending thousands of dollars, getting two bartenders, drink mixologist, all the goods, the flowers that were on the table. Everything to do with the drinks, we donated,” Lisa revealed. “I was the very first customer of her line. I was just like, ‘I’m happy for you. I’m excited for you.’”
“I have never damaged Whitney’s business, Whitney’s character, [or] anything with Whitney,” she added.
Still, Whitney said that by bringing the topic up on camera, Lisa was trying to “discredit or hurt” her.
“I still have every reason to believe she played a role,” Whitney shared. “I was told point blank — I received a phone call.”
After admitting that the phone call she received did not mention Lisa by name, she insisted the person on the other end of the line alluded to it being her.
“I have a text message, too, from the person that said it’s Lisa. It’s secondhand. [But] it was enough evidence for me, even secondhand,” Whitney noted. “I trust this person more than I trust Lisa, and because of Lisa’s history, I believe she’s capable of it, for sure.”
“She has a lot of accounts that do dirty work for her, and I know this because she betrayed one of them, and that account showed me receipts,” she added.
Meanwhile, Meredith proclaimed that Whitney had no evidence condemning Lisa.
“I already know for a fact that Whitney does not have hard evidence on this,” she stated. “The blogger who she was getting this proof from, he reached out to me and explained to me what was going on and told me that he never said that Lisa was behind this. He thought it might be Lisa, personally, but he had never been told that or given that information. And Whitney kept running with it as if she had this proof when I’m being told by the person who supposedly gave her the proof, the exact opposite.”
“Do I think that there are people in our group that are capable of doing something like that? Sure. But no, I don’t think Lisa is spending her time that way. I just don’t,” she added.
Heather also didn’t think Lisa was behind the rumors.
“Lisa’s not threatened by Prism. She’s in the alcohol business. If anyone had reason, it would be people in the jewelry business. Friends that have conflicting interests,” she reasoned.
She then slammed Whitney for making a habit of making “horrible accusations” of their co-stars with no real evidence to back them up.
“It’s like par for the course. Whitney wants to devastate friendships and make horrible accusations on a hunch, and the only thing that’s her saving grace is that she does it equally to all of us, so we’re just like, ‘Oh the boy who cried wolf, again,’” Heather said.
Also on the RHOSLC: After Show, after Mary Cosby, 52, said she didn’t “know who to believe” because both Lisa and Whitney have “credibility issues,” Angie, 50, admitted that Lisa has a habit of going after people she doesn’t like.
“I mean, we have no proof, but I have seen that when she gets upset with people, stories somehow wind up leaking about them within 24 hours. I also think when Lisa’s mad at people, she wants to hurt you,” Angie noted.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season five airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.
