Avery Singer “teared up” while talking about her mom Ramona Singer’s absence from BravoCon 2023.
“I love my mom, and I wish she could be here,” an “emotional” Avery told The Messenger Friday during the Las Vegas convention. “I know she’s so proud of us.”
When asked about Ramona, the “Real Housewives of New York City” alum’s only child reportedly “took a moment to collect herself,” during which she was comforted by her BachBoss business partner, Jolie Lauren Golub.
“It’s a full-circle moment,” Avery said of attending the event solo and for the first time.
“I’ve been on Bravo since I was 12. I’m now 28, which is crazy. It’s my first BravoCon, so I’m excited to be here. The support and love is amazing.”
As Pvnew exclusively reported, Ramona, 66, was cut from this year’s lineup just 72 hours before the three-day soirée was set to begin after she texted a partial racial slur to one of our reporters.
In a lengthy Vanity Fair exposé published earlier this week, the outlet reported that the entrepreneur asked during a “virtual education session” ahead of filming “RHONY” Season 13 — which aired in 2021 — why she shouldn’t speak to the racist trope that black fathers aren’t present in their children’s lives.
First-ever black “RHONY” star Eboni K. Williams — who was present for the meeting — recalled Ramona saying, “What if they don’t have a father? Why can’t I say that? Most of them don’t.”
The publication reported that the Bravo publicist who was on the call, who is also black, informed Ramona that she has a dad, but the latter said she’d read a study that confirmed that most black kids do not.
Ramona copped to the comment, telling Vanity Fair she simply “asked a question about a statistic [she] had read.”
During filming that season, she also allegedly said, “This is why we shouldn’t have black people on the show; this is gonna ruin our show,” after an upset Williams, 40, left one of their co-star’s homes — but Ramona denied the remarks.
In another moment that occurred off camera, Ramona allegedly told a black female production staffer, “There’s so many of you guys here now; please don’t change your hair as I’m not gonna be able to remember anybody’s names.”
Ramona defended herself by insisting the comment merely spoke to her “inability to remember names.”
According to the outlet, she also allegedly used the N-word in a conversation with a black crew member — all of which were the subjects of complaints within Shed Media, Warner Bros. Discovery, Bravo and NBCUniversal.
But Ramona denied using the slur, and an internal investigation turned up “inconclusive.”
However, in response to our request for comment regarding her alleged racism, she told a Pvnew journalist, “And the word I used was ‘NWord’ Not n-g……”
In addition to getting disinvited from BravoCon, Ramona also lost her real estate job at Douglas Elliman.
Though Bravo exec Andy Cohen initially seemed to laugh off the controversy with a cryptic Instagram comment, he did exclusively admit to Pvnew during BravoCon Friday that the network made “the right call” in removing her from the event.
