She’s not being forced to eat craw.
Bethenny Frankel defended the ”chaotic” video she posted of herself enjoying a shellfish dinner in her hotel room – by razzing the haters over a plate of air fryer veggie nuggets and potatoes.
“The nature of how I was eating. This is an international press moment, so I’m going to get an eating publicist,” Frankel, 52, joked in a TikTok video shared Wednesday, adding, “Just someone to like, field all the calls, questions and negative comments about my eating.”
The “Real Housewives of New York City” alum explained that she was “in over [her] head” and that social media users didn’t have to watch.
“I was in a hotel room by myself and I got a miniature garbage bag filled with liquid and corn and shrimp,” she recalled.
“I thought I was going to be civilized and not an animal and so I shared that experience with you.”
The Skinnygirl CEO claimed that her fans actually tend to like her unhinged video content.
“Maybe I won’t make that same mistake again. I don’t know. Many of you seem to like it,” she said. “But when three comments happen that are negative, the press always picks it up that, like, my life is coming to an end.”
She added, “That’s what happened with a lot of different things, and I think we’re gonna make it.”
As for the trolls who pointed out that Frankel is famously allergic to fish, the “Just B with Bethenny Frankel” podcast host clarified that she does not have any sensitivities to shellfish.
“When I broke the internet by eating shellfish. Not allergic to shellfish,” she /confirm/ied. “Allergic to regular fish.”
She spelled it out for her viewers, explaining how there’s a big difference between shrimp and clams versus branzino.
“They’re different creatures. Everyone seems to think that they’re all the same creature. Like, a dog is not a cat and a cow is not a chicken,” she argued.
“So I’m sorry that I’m only allergic to [fish] and that somehow I get canceled when I eat shellfish ’cause I’m also deathly allergic to fish but it’s like telling someone allergic to chicken that they can’t eat cow, so. I get it.”
Frankel – who survived a near-fatal allergic reaction from fish that landed her in the hospital back in 2018 – continued to defend herself in the TikTok video, while chowing down on plant-based nuggets and potatoes from a tin foil-covered plate.
“I’m not, like, serving dinner at the White House. I just want to eat as I go,” she said while dipping her slovenly dinner into a glob of barbecue sauce.
The entrepreneur was responding to the backlash she received after posting a video where she was seen downing a giant tray of shellfish in her hotel room on Tuesday.
“I order in food, and the first thing I saw was the quickest thing that came was like Old Town Crab, and they said crawfish, crayfish, crawdaddies and Dungeness crab,” Frankel explained in the video while gobbling on some crab legs.
Critics quickly flooded the comments section to roast the “RHONY” star for her wild takeout seafood boil.
“bethenny scarfing down seafood in her hotel room is truly one of the most chaotic and terrifying things i’ve ever seen #rhony,” one person tweeted along with the video.
“She just needs to keep the food out of her mouth it’s really disgusting I can’t even understand what she’s saying & I’d like to!” a second person tweeted.
“why is she in a dark room eating a seafood boil while looking like a goblin?!” another user asked.
“This is gross to watch,” someone else argued, with another adding, “This woman is unhinged.”
Regardless, Frankel is clearly unbothered and it appears she’ll continue to post videos of her feral food adventures.
Frankel most recently shared content of all her favorite dining spots in the Hamptons, where she resides in a $6.2 million mansion, as well as a video of herself making a mayo-heavy chicken salad.
