“Somebody” has lit a fire under Tamra Judge‘s butt.
On a recent episode of her and Teddi Mellencamp‘s shared podcast, Tamra, 57, insinuated that one of her Real Housewives of Orange County castmates had purchased bots to attack her on social media amid season 18. And now, as the season winds down to a close, she’s ready to go into the reunion taping with “guns blazing.”
“Let me just tell you, this lit a fire under my a** for the reunion. I have been like, kind of felt beat down, cause I feel like I haven’t really done much to get the hate. Of course, half of the hate has been bought by somebody that’s bought bots to go after me,” Tamra revealed on Two Ts in a Pod, shared by Bravo Snark Side on Instagram.
Throughout the airing of RHOC season 18, Tamra has been labeled as a “bully” and a “mean girl” by fans, and even some of her fellow Bravolebrities, for her treatment of her castmates, namely Shannon Beador, 60, who she outed as an alleged “alcoholic” months after her DUI arrest and accused of failing to take accountability for her actions.
Tamra has also feuded with former friends and co-stars Vicki Guvalson, 62, and Jennifer Pedranti, 47, in recent weeks.
While Tamra claimed that “half” of the online backlash she’s been faced with is fake, she admitted that it convinced her to go even harder on certain castmates at the upcoming taping of the reunion.
“But I’m, like, you know what? I’m gonna go in, guns blazing. I’m not gonna be beat down and there and just be like, ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry.’ No way. I’m bringing all the sh*t out,” she warned.
Tamra’s statements come just days after she admitted to feeling pressure to perform on RHOC after returning to the show for season 16.
“My first season back last year, actually, I was so nervous cause I felt so much pressure on me that I drank more than normal. I remember Luke telling me, ‘Watch your drinking,’” she revealed on another episode of her podcast.
The Real Housewives of Orange County season 18 airs Thursdays at 9/8c on Bravo.