Jennifer Pedranti told Pvnew that she and Gina Kirschenheiter are currently on good terms –– despite the latter telling the former to “drown” in their most recent heated argument.
“I’ll say this –– Gina is a good girl, and we’ve that conversation now, and that’s not the spot we sit in today,” she told Pvnew’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast.
The “Real Housewives of Orange County” sophomore, 47, explained that she’s had Kirschenheiter, 40, “come so hard at me” in the past, but they’ve also been able to work through that.
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“If I would have only known she was going through this in her personal life, I didn’t know at the time. I don’t know if I was an outlet. I don’t know what it was. I’m sure there was genuine frustration for her. But yeah, Gina came hard for sure,” she said.
During Thursday’s episode of the hit Bravo show, the two women got into an explosive argument after Kirschenheiter accused Pedranti of sabotaging her budding real estate career when the latter was evicted from a rental home that the former helped get her.
Pedranti was evicted because her now ex-husband was behind on rent payments for the home, and she subsequently moved in with her current fiancé, Ryan Boyajian.
“It’s hard to watch it, because in the episode, I feel like I’m constantly going around like, ‘Oh yeah, Gina, helped me! Oh yeah Gina, helped me!’ And Gina’s so taken aback, personally, about me being evicted from the house. All I can say is that was a really hard time –– a really hard time,” Pedranti told us.
Despite the tough financial position Pedranti was in, she assured us that she “was in communication with the owner of the home,” and she was “great” about understanding the situation.
“That was important to me to maintain that for my friendship with Gina. So to be like, ‘Oh, I didn’t care?’ Oh God, I so cared! I would never take a woman’s career or go at another woman’s career. So watching that part was hard,” she admitted.
Pedranti also struggled to watch one heated scene between Kirschenheiter and her best friend, Emily Simpson, where the latter mentioned that, if they were in their co-star’s situation, they would do anything to provide for their kids, including “swinging on a pole.”
“What a dig, right? That was hurtful. I always say I respect Emily, and I kind of look up to her as a woman. I find her to be very smart and successful, and she loves her husband, and she loves those kids. She’s a great mom. So to look up to someone and to be so cut, because I don’t have what you have or because I’m not in such a great spot, you know, doesn’t make me dumb,” she said.
Pedranti argued that her difficult situation did not make her “less than a woman” or “less than a mom.”
“I am not afraid to hustle, and I am not afraid to work. And I would do anything for my kids. So that was not easy,” she admitted.
Kirschenheiter and Pedranti got into such an intense conversation over the eviction that the former stormed off mid-conversation and screamed about how the latter needs to “grow up,” “wake up” and “figure out how to take care of yourself and your children.”
“She’s a joke! If you want to do this weird s–t, I’m not doing it! Thank you, goodbye. You’re pathetic! Take care of yourself and your f–king kids or drown, but don’t f–king run me over with your bulls–t. F–k this girl! F–k this girl!” Kirschenheiter said during the episode.
Their conversations about the ordeal will continue on next week’s episode of “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” which airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.
