Vicki Gunvalson still has hope for her friendship with Tamra Judge following their public fallout two months ago.
“We’ll be friends. We actually just filmed a couple of nights ago, and she tells me she loves me,” Gunvalson exclusively told Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast Sunday at DIRECTV’s Streaming with the Stars party at Spago Beverly Hills.
“I don’t think we ever had a verbal falling out,” she pointed out, revealing that Judge, 56, told her she took a step back from their friendship because she was “hurt.”
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However, the “Real Housewives of Orange County” alum, 61, told us she “didn’t do anything” to hurt Judge’s feelings.
“I think that time will tell if it’s real or not,” she continued.
However, Gunvalson suggested that their friendship was put on “pause” after the third member of their Tres Amigas group, Shannon Beador, was arrested for DUI last September.
Gunvalson explained that Judge did not want to “condone drinking” on their live shows. And despite agreeing to “change the words” to one of their songs, which talks about drinking and says “Pour some tequila,” Judge still quit.
“I’ve never condoned drinking and driving,” Gunvalson clarified, adding, “I just would never do that to my group. You’re a group, you’re a friend, you back each other, you do the right thing, you show up when you have a show planned.”
Since then, Beador and Gunvalson have been forced to “redo the show” with “all new music” before hitting the road again this week.
“We’ve got a lot still in the mix. It’s unfortunate that Tamra decided to pause herself. We’ll see what happens. As the shows go on, I think she might have a little bit of [fear of missing out],” she continued.
The Coto Insurance founder explained that she and Beador, 59, have since come to terms with Judge’s decision and learned to “move on without her.”
“If someone doesn’t want to do something, we move on, but it’s definitely going to be different without her on, and we’ve always been the Tres Amigas, so now it’s like Dos Amigas,” she said with a laugh.
Gunvalson also touched on Beador’s arrest, saying that the latter “made a mistake” and people “have to be able to move on from it.”
“I think that for Tamra, it was a little too soon –– right or wrong –– and I just feel like we had a commitment as a group, so it’s kinda like the band breaking up,” she added.
And although she doesn’t support Beador’s decision to drink and drive, she told us she did her best to “not turn my back” on her.
“I have to be there because I would want them to be there for me if something, God forbid, happened,” she said.
“It was an accident, she totally messed up, and I don’t condone it, but she’s taking accountability for it and moving on.”
The “RHOC” stars made their feud public in January when Gunvalson and Judge went after each other on social media.
A month later, Judge claimed that “the reason why I am not doing the Tres Amigas is because I caught them talking behind my back.”
Judge and Beador have since returned to filming the new season of “RHOC,” but it’s unclear if they’ve reconnected.
Gunvalson joined a slew of other celebs and Bravolebs –– including Paula Abdul, Phaedra Parks, Kelly Bensimon, Sutton Stracke and Erika Jayne –– for the star-studded Oscars watch party.
“We’re like a sorority, we all just love each other,” Gunvalson gushes. “Whether they’re on ‘Below Deck’ or ‘Summer House’ or whatever it may be, we just love Bravo, and so it’s fun to be together.”
