Heather Dubrow Says Noella from ‘RHOC’ Makes Her Feel Gaslighted: ‘This Didn’t F***ing Happen!’
Noella Bergener’s insistence that Heather Dubrow shoved a production crew member on The Real Housewives of Orange County had Dubrow feeling like she was being gaslighted.
Bergener stuck to a rumor that Dubrow pushed a crew member during her RHOC sushi party, seen on the first episode of Season 16. Remarks about how Nicole James sued Dubrow’s husband prompted Dubrow to want to shut down production and she’s seen telling the camera crew to stop filming.
Heather Dubrow expresses frustration over Noella’s ‘RHOC’ remarks
But Bergener, who was at the party said she heard Dubrow put her hands on a production crew member, something Dubrow said never occurred.
“I was so frustrated during this whole thing being told that I physically abused crew members, which never happened, ever,” she said on her Heather Dubrow’s World podcast.
“You see in the footage me going, ‘We’re done. I’m not filming anymore’ and I take my hand and I go like this to Brad, who’s holding the camera. I’m like, ‘Film over there.’ I mean, the camera moves ever so slowly,” she recalled.
There was ‘no pushing’ during the ‘RHOC’ event
“There’s no pushing, there’s no shoving,” she said about the RHOC event. “There’s no slamming people against walls. It just never happened. But can you imagine how incredibly infuriating and frustrating it is? It’s not like guilty people act. So it’s like, Could you just shut up? This didn’t f***ing happen. Stop.”
“Episode 15. This was very frustrating, I literally wrote the word ‘frustrated’ on my notes right there. Because that’s how I feel watching this whole episode and this whole thing with Noella and me. I’m just so completely frustrated by the entire thing and I feel totally gaslighted and I think it’s so much of it is such f***ing bulls***. And I mean, we’ll get to it. But I just had a general note, I just don’t like watching someone be so horrified by something. And two minutes later, they totally forget about it because they really don’t care. And then they bring it up later because they want storyline. I don’t know.”
Bergener said in the past that she thinks Dubrow feels threatened by her on RHOC. “The only person I never had that deeper level of connection with was Heather,” Bergener told Page Six. “I get that she perceives me as a threat and wants to keep me at arm’s length because I’m being honest.”
Noella from ‘RHOC’ thinks Heather went too far with her remarks about Max’s gift
She also felt that Dubrow was out of line for how she came for her over the gift she gave her daughter Max. “If I knew what was in it, I would not have given it as a gift to anybody,” she said about the X-rated card game she gave to Dubrow’s daughter.
“I literally went on Amazon and put in ‘LGBTQ+ gifts for teenagers’ and if it’s bisexual-friendly, even better,” she added. “I just bought the first five things and put it in a nice little rainbow bag with rainbow tissue paper. Obviously, the thought was there. Obviously, I meant no malice.”
“Me going out of my way as a bi woman to give a bi girl [Max] — who celebrates her sexuality in a very beautiful way, as do I — I didn’t think that that could ever be twisted into something that’s pretty disgusting and pretty gross and pretty dark,” she said.
Adding, “Leave it to Heather to take this magnificent moment of celebration and turn it into something that just makes my skin crawl.”
