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Host Andy Cohen didn’t need cue cards and a sofa to continue grilling Julia Lemigova about that Adriana de Moura bombshell while backstage during The Real Housewives of Miami‘s Season 7 Reunion Part 2.
Prior to Andy calling for the cast to take a break from filming, Julia had claimed that she and Adriana “slept together” during the RHOM Season 4 cast trip to the Hamptons. Amidst a heated back and forth on the subject, Adriana insisted that she and Julia had only “kissed” while sharing a bed on the getaway.
As Julia walked backstage with Andy and Alexia Nepola, she continued to unpack her jaw-dropping accusation.
“I feel horrible, but I was not me for four years,” Julia said. “I couldn’t speak the truth. I’ve never betrayed Adriana with my friendship with Alexia. I tried so much, Andy.”
The Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen host took the opportunity to ask if she and Adriana “slept together more than once,” to which Julia answered, “We slept together once, and then we fooled around in the Versace mansion.” (She was referencing Alexia’s bachelorette party, which was also featured on RHOM Season 4.)
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“We had a one-night stand,” Julia continued. “I didn’t say it to spread gossip. It had to be known. I never, never betrayed Adriana. I still love her.”
That led Andy to wonder if Julia’s wife, Martina Navratilova, was “gonna be upset” when she watched the reunion on TV. (The tennis champ was home in Miami with their two adopted sons, Julia previously explained.)
“Martina knows. I told her. And I told her why,” Julia replied. “And she did tell me, like, ‘Why, Julia, are you going to say it?’ I said, ‘Darling, because we have to say the truth. Because I can’t lie. I cannot pretend.'”
Earlier, Julia had also revealed that Martina “cried” when she told her she planned to come clean about her alleged hookup with Adriana, which she described as happening when their “marriage was not great.”
Finally, Andy addressed Adriana’s allegation that Julia had “an affair with a Haitian mortician,” which Julia responded to with a laugh, saying, “TBD. Affair? No.”
Julia Lemigova reveals more details about her and Adriana de Moura’s drama
After parting ways with Andy in the hallway, Julia continued the conversation with Alexia, Kiki Barth, and Marysol Patton in a backstage dressing room.
“It was a lot,” Julia said of her and Adriana’s intense confrontation. “For four years, she was holding it over my head. One wrong move… ‘You’re not gonna like it. I’m gonna say it.’ I said, ‘Adriana, stop.'”
When the women pressed her for specifics on her and Adriana’s alleged hookup, Julia declined.
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“I respect Adriana, and it’s too much of intimate details that I’m not gonna go into,” she said, simply leaving it at, “We had sex. We slept together. … We were intimate.”
Julia was more forthcoming with accusations that Adriana “controlled” her friendships within the RHOM cast.
“I said, ‘Adriana, why did you bring me to this group? To be your puppet?'” she shared with the ladies. “From day one, it was rules: ‘Alexia and Marysol are besties; you and I are gonna be besties.’ And most important, like, if I would want to get close [to someone else], it was, “No. You cannot, you cannot, you cannot.'”
Inside Julia Lemigova’s motivation for dropping the Adriana de Moura bombshell
Back on the reunion stage, Andy gave Julia the floor, so she could make “clear” what her motivation was for “sharing that story” about Adriana publicly.
“I said it because I felt muzzled,” Julia answered, claiming that Adriana had predicted that her potentially leaving Martina for her would make a great “storyline” on RHOM. “And that made me really scared, and [I] started doubting the intentions of our friendship.”
Earlier, Andy also asked Julia if she was “worried” that Adriana was “gonna tell Martina or the women” what happened between them in the Hamptons.
“Yes, because she was blackmailing me with this,” Julia said. “She kept telling me, ‘You are here because of me. You owe your paycheck to me.'”
As you await the three-part RHOM reunion’s conclusion, get more intel on what caused the demise of Julia and Adriana’s friendship.
