Dorinda Medley warned us she was a little stressed at the start of the season, but did she need to pick a fight with the entire cast of RHONY?
In the RHONY premiere, Dorinda Medley came for Tinsley Mortimer immediately over her financial status. Dorinda presumably things Tinsley’s on-and-off boyfriend at the time, Scott Kluth, was supporting her lifestyle and paying for her shoes, bags, and hotel room apartment. When Tinsley and Sonja Morgan went to lunch with Leah McSweeney, Leah said, “If Dorinda treated me like she treated Tinsley, I wouldn’t tell a bitch what I had for lunch.” Fair enough!
We couldn’t help but be on Tinsley’s side when she said her dogs, Strawberry and Shortcake, spoke Chinese since they were rescued from China. She used a translator app on her phone to speak to them.
Dorinda said she didn’t give Leah a fair chance simply because she was friends with Tinsley. Then, of course, Sonja spilled that Leah has tattoos, including the ever-impressive “tramp stamp” with her name on her lower back. Dorinda said that if Ramona ever forgot Leah’s name, she could just bend over and show it to her. What a vicious thing to say!
Dorinda got real, real mean
But when Dorinda started crying to Sonja about the renovations and how she felt alone, we felt bad for her. “There’s nothing carefree about me anymore. I’m not nice to anybody anymore.” In contrast, Dorinda sees Tinsley as exactly that, carefree. For whatever reason, she isn’t latching on to any of the other women being carefree for one reason or another. Dorinda also said she felt as stressed now as she did when her late husband, Richard, passed away.
She also admitted that she had been mean to people, which was an interesting note because she’s aware of her behavior but still can’t control it. When the ladies were heading out for the night, Dorinda immediately came at Leah over her tattoos and said she couldn’t “pick her out in a lineup.” Which is a dig at her not knowing Leah, not wanting to know Leah, a dig at her past with the police, in addition to having tattoos.
Upon actually arriving at dinner, Ramona Singer was the object of Dorinda’s anger. Ramona, queen of the castle and everything in between, was trying to socialize with everyone at the restaurant while also having dinner with her RHONY friends, but there was no reason to scream at her.
Regardless, Dorinda has picked a fight with almost everyone on the cast so far. What will her problem be next week, and with who?
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