Julia Lemigova is giving Larsa Pippen heat for sharing Guerdy Abraira’s cancer diagnosis with their “Real Housewives of Miami” castmates — despite being asked not to.
“Even though I speak five languages and sometimes I mix them up, ‘in confidence’ in English means in confidence,” Lemigova, who hails from Russia, tells Pvnew in an exclusive interview.
“And Larsa did not respect that,” the former Miss USSR, 51, adds. “So, she made a mess, and it’s not OK.”
Pippen shocked “RHOM” viewers during last week’s episode of the Bravo reality show when she disclosed Abraira’s breast cancer battle to Lisa Hochstein, Marysol Patton, Alexia Nepola and Kiki Barth without permission.
“Guerdy was very clear. She was very, very clear,” observes Lemigova, who became “extremely disappointed” in Pippen, 49, after watching her one-on-one lunch with Abraira, 45, play out.
“She said, ‘You’re the fourth person in the group who I told.’ She stole Guerdy’s moment to tell her friends, to tell the world. This is not OK.”
Abraira previously updated Lemigova, Adriana de Moura and Dr. Nicole Martin about her health during an emotional dinner scene, but had yet to find a moment that felt right to disclose her diagnosis with the rest of the cast.
Pippen’s flub infuriated Lemigova in particular, as the latter has endured the turmoil that a cancer diagnosis can incite.
Her wife, tennis legend Martina Navratilova, has battled the disease multiple times over. The athlete, 67, announced her most recent bout — double diagnoses of Stage 1 throat and breast cancer — in late 2022, but had beat both forms of the disease by March of this year.
“Martina, when she was diagnosed with cancer, very few people knew,” Lemigova notes. “The people she shared it with never betrayed her. I feel Larsa betrayed Guerdy.”
The Bravolebrity takes her present disdain for Pippen a step further by comparing the onlyFans creator to her pet goat, Elvis.
“She reminds me of my goat. She s–ts everywhere and then runs off as if it’s OK, right?” she quips. “My goats are supposed to do that, but that’s not OK what Larsa does.”
Pippen, for her part, defended her actions last week via social media.
“I called and texted Guerdy after she called me fake in the press. She never responded. We argued back and forth which wasn’t shown then she told me was diagnosed w/ breast [cancer]. I was shocked and I wanted to rally the girls to support her. I’ve been nothing but a good friend to her,” she commented under an Instagram video on Nov. 13.
The user who posted the video wrote that it was “effed up” of Pippen to rob Abraira of the opportunity to relay the sensitive news herself.
Abraira and Pippen met up to discuss why the wedding planner called the mom of four the “fakest ‘Housewife’” during Pvnew’s “Virtual Reali-Tea Live!” podcast taping in February. Rather than rehashing the drama, though, Abraira tearfully revealed her cancer diagnosis to Pippen.
“I haven’t told anybody except for now you, my family of course, and now you’re the fourth person in the group to know,” Abraira said, asking Pippen to “take [the information] in confidence right now.”
The mother of two continued, “I just wanna make it clear, because I now have to tell the rest of the girls.”
Abraira suggested she was not happy with Pippen after reposting an Instagram Story from a fan criticizing Pippen for how she “handled Guerdy telling her about her situation.”
“The fact that she broke the news to the other people in the group like what’s wrong with you?” the viewer wrote. “That’s not your news to tell.”
Abraira was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer in March but triumphantly revealed this month at BravoCon 2023 that she was cancer-free.
“The Real Housewives of Miami” airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.
