The Real Housewives of Rhode Island‘s Alicia Carmody, Jo-Ellen Tiberi, and Liz McGraw had a bumpy ride while traveling to South Boston. According to Liz, the drama that ensued between them while en route to Rosie DiMare’s husband’s performance was actually part of a “setup” that Alicia and Jo-Ellen had devised ahead of time.
On The Real Housewives of Rhode Island After Show for Episode 10, Liz doubled down on her accusation, declaring, “I knew they both knew this was coming, and I was the recipient of it.”
Alicia, separately, denied Liz’s claim: “She was like, ‘It’s a setup! You guys set me up. … “What the f–k? I don’t have time for that. I don’t have time to set you up. I wish I did.”
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Actually, Alicia and Jo-Ellen both recalled being “very excited” for them all to take a mini road trip together to Rich DiMare’s weekly Sinatra Sunday dinner show at Capo Restaurant & Supper Club.
“We were having so much fun in the car,” Jo-Ellen recounted. “We were having a cheese board. Then, like, we all moved seats, which was, like, the demise.”
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Indeed, their travels took a metaphorical left turn when Liz continued to deny the validity of lifelong friend Alicia’s claim that she was left “homeless” when her father sold their house and “abandoned” the family during her childhood. The debate more or less boiled down to semantics, because, as Liz pointed out, Alicia always had “a big, beautiful family” to stay with, and she was never “living out of your car on the street,” as she believed the term suggested.
“You know what the problem is? That’s gaslighting, what she did to me,” Alicia chimed in on the After Show. “When someone tries to diminish it from me, I’m like, I come out swinging like a f–king Mike Tyson. Like, you don’t know what I’ve been through, and you made a f–king mockery of me.”
She continued, “From day one, I’ve been that bitch. I’m ditzy, I’m loyal, I love hard. But you f–k me, it’s over. … I’ve been through a lot. Like, don’t f–k me. And that’s how I feel about Liz. I trusted her. We’re friends with the monster, like Rihanna said.”
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Liz, for her part, insisted on the RHORI After Show that she had no interest in feuding with Alicia. “I didn’t want drama in, like, this moving car,” Liz explained. “I just didn’t want it.”
By her account, she’d already said she was sorry to Alicia after the subject first arose during the cast’s stay in a Newport mansion. What’s more, Liz claimed that they’d actually “talked about it several times,” prior to their more recent blowup.
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“I wanted to just shut it down and be like, ‘I’m so sorry, let’s talk about it. Give me a chance. Like, give me an opportunity to, like, display how I felt,'” Liz added. “And Alicia’s ramping herself up. Like, I can see the theatrics coming, and I could not take a pounding the way Rosie did. And, um, maybe it’s my ego, but I never will. I will not allow that type of disrespect.”
As Alicia broke down into tears in the vehicle during Episode 9, Jo-Ellen’s attempts to play peacemaker between them only further irritated Liz. “She was like, ‘No, you have every right to feel the way you do, and no one can take that away from you,’ over and over and over again,” Liz recalled. “I’m not trying to take away from you how you f–kin’ feel in life.”
She concluded, “It was ugly, it was unfortunate. I just wanted to get the f–k out of the car.”
As the trio continues to work through the drama on RHORI, don’t miss exclusive, unaired details on Alicia’s earlier drama with Rosie that Liz referenced on the After Show.
