That last Real Housewives of Orange County episode was epic. Shannon Beador and Kelly Dodd going at it in the restaurant was a shit show and a half. The part that is so strange to me though is that Lydia McLaughlin is actually the one who invited Kelly to the restaurant, yet Shannon is mad at Kelly for “ambushing” her. Lydia could have/should have given Shannon a heads up about the invite.
Now Lydia is playing the innocent card (yet again) wondering why Shannon went off on Kelly for innocently walking into the bathroom and why Kelly took it way too far by telling her to “keep eating.”
In an interview with Bravo’s The Daily Dish Lydia shared, “I said the only time I met Shannon was at the party where she’s yelling at me and runs away. And then I meet her again, and she’s yelling at Kelly and in the bathroom and just the sight of her, I felt like she was gonna have a heart attack.” Kelly is an extremely polarizing character who has admittedly gone out of her way to push buttons, but in this instance, all she did was walk into the bathroom- at least at that point- after that she totally went off the rails.
Lydia continued, “I don’t know how else to describe it. It was very jarring… I don’t understand her reaction.” No one does. Considering the fact that they were filming the season, I figured that Shannon should expect Kelly to show up at any point.
Lydia also compared her reaction to new girl’s Peggy Sulahian’s: “Peggy seems unfazed by it, though. I remember, in person, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh,’ freaking out [and] crying. And she’s like, ‘The steak was delicious.’ And I’m like, ‘Wait? What?’ I’m confused by you. That actually was my plate of food that got thrown.” Why was Lydia crying? She just met these people? It had nothing to do with her. No one even put it together that Lydia was the reason Kelly was there. Other than missing out at her dinner- which she could have just ate after Shannon’s freak out, Lydia has nothing to be upset about. In fact she helped instigate great television without even getting her hands dirty.
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