‘RHOC’: Vicki Gunvalson and Steve Lodge’s Relationship Crumbled During ‘RHUGT’ – and She Hates Dating
Vicki Gunvalson from The Real Housewives of Orange County faced the dissolution of her relationship with Steve Lodge while she filmed The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip.
Friends Tamra Judge from RHOC and Dorinda Medley from The Real Housewives of New York City recently discussed their experience on RHUGT and shared that Gunvalson had to deal with being filmed while at the same time enduring a breakup. Medley said watching it happen was difficult and Judge said while Gunvalson has started dating, she isn’t loving it.
Did Dorinda Medley have tough love for Vicki Gunvalson during ‘RHUGT’?
Medley’s Blue Stone Manor was the setting for the second season of RHUGT and she said the overall experience was interesting. She then hinted at having a moment with Gunvalson about her breakup with Lodge that may have been a little tough for Gunvalson to hear.
“After all that stuff happened with Vicki and Steve, we kind of saw it happening while we were there,” she said on the Two T’s in a Pod podcast. “That was tough.”
Judge then said that Medley “kind of nailed it,” hinting that Medley said something very direct to Gunvalson.
“Yeah, but that didn’t make me feel good,” Medley replied. “But I was like, you know, you got the old thing. I tell it like it is, but I always make it nice. I told it like it was but didn’t make it nice. But I could see the writing on the wall.”
Vicki Gunvalson wanted to leave Blue Stone Manor during filming?
A source told US Weekly that Gunvalson was distraught during RHUGT Season 2 filming because she and Lodge had broken up. “Steve broke up with Vicki while she was filming the [Real Housewives] spinoff show in the Berkshires,” the source said. “After he told her this, she was traumatized. It ruined her. She didn’t want to be at the [Dorinda Medley’s] house anymore.”
“She’s in terrible shape. She still loves him,” the source added. “They had not been getting along for a long time. He seemed disinterested in her for a very long time.”
Gunvalson recently reflected on how her split from Lodge seemed very similar to Lala Kent from Vanderpump Rules and Randall Emmett’s breakup. Kent recalled how Emmett spoiled her at first and recalled how much she loved him on the Not Skinny but Not Fat podcast. But now Kent can’t remember much of the relationship except for the heartbreak. “Sounds very similar to the man who stole almost 6 years of my life that I will never get back. So hurtful, so wrong,” Gunvalson wrote on the podcast Instagram.
Tamra Judge from ‘RHOC’ says Vicki Gunvalson is dating (but hates it)
Medley asked Judge if Gunvalson was dating. Judge said she was, but it wasn’t going very well. “I think she’s starting to date,” Judge said. “Yeah, she’s trying it.”
Judge then recounted a recent date Gunvalson went on where she suddenly tried to FaceTime Judge in the middle of it. “She calls me. She hates it,” she said. Judge added, “She texted me the other night or FaceTimed me, I’m sick as a dog. And she’s like, pick up your FaceTime! I said no I’m dying! So I turn all the lights off. Accepted it and it’s some guy she’s with on a date who’s very nice. [But] I told her to screen these guys, you’re dating radar is horrible, horrible!”
