Fashion mogul Jenna Lyons may have departed The Real Housewives of New York City, but she’s still dropping bombshells on Season 16. During Episode 6, Jenna shared new intel with Sai De Silva regarding information circulating about Sai’s divorce from David Craig, caused a rift to widen between Sai and Erin Lichy.
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It all started when Sai revealed to Jessel Taank during a girls trip to Erika Hammond’s estate on Moskito Island that she’d just heard from Jenna via text. Sai added that Jenna was inquiring about Sai’s well-being, after news broke that David filed for divorce as the girls trip began.
“I was like, ‘Thank you so much, you must have seen all over the news,’” Sai recalled during RHONY’s Oct. 13 episode. “And she’s like, ‘No, I’ve actually known for a little bit now.’”
When Sai asked Jenna to explain, she revealed she knew Sai and David were separating ahead of the divorce filing, despite Sai keeping her marriage status mostly private.
“And I said, ‘Let me guess, Erin?’” Sai told Jessel. “And [Jenna] said, ‘Not directly. Like, she told someone, and it got back to me.’”
Sai De Silva confronts Erin Lichy over Jenna Lyons’ divorce bombshell
Sai made it clear to producers how upset she was to find out from Jenna that Erin may have told others about her separation.
“What gives you the right to tell people about my goddamn marriage?” she rhetorically asked during the Oct. 13 episode. “This has something to do with my children. My kids are involved.”
Sai added that part of why she felt betrayed was due to a conversation she and Erin had previously. “Erin was swearing up and down that she would never tell my business. Hail Mary, up and down,” Sai said.
As producers flashed back to Erin and Sai meeting three weeks earlier, Erin said at the time, “I’ve never said a word to anybody behind your back, and I think you know that.” Sai then responded in her confessional interview, “Full of s—t, Erin. You’re full of s—t.”
Sai decided to confront Erin about Jenna’s reveal in the pool in front of the other ‘Wives, and point blank asked her: “Who have you told about the separating of me and my husband?”
While Erin first admitted she told her own husband, Abe Lichy, she later maintained she told “nobody.” She added, “I can’t think of anybody I would have told.”
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That’s when Sai revealed what Jenna told her. “[Jenna] said, ‘I don’t want to get that person in trouble, but [Erin] told her, and she told me.’ So, now we’re playing a f—king game of telephone,” Sai said. “This is not gossip. This is my f—king life.”
While Erin insisted she did nothing wrong, and even shared she didn’t “believe” Jenna’s bombshell, Sai pointed out, “How would [Jenna] know that information?” Erin answered, “I do not know, but it wasn’t from me.”
Erin also defended herself to producers. “I don’t know what Sai is talking about. I’ve literally never talked to Jenna about Sai’s divorce. And it would be nice if she asked me a question, instead of just accusing me. I’m really getting tired of these accusations,” she said in her confessional interview.
As Sai said she was “disgusted” by Erin, she also admitted she didn’t believe Erin. “Who can trust you?” Sai asked.
“Then we are not friends. That’s it,” Erin announced, and added, “We’re done.”
A look back at Sai De Silva and Erin Lichy’s friendship history
Sai and Erin have a long and complicated friendship that began on RHONY Season 14, and from the beginning, the two clashed—at first, over cheese, when Sai allegedly called eating cheese “weird” at Erin’s home.
“For the record, I did not say ‘Cheese, that’s weird.’ I know I didn’t, because I ate it,” Sai said at the time.
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Despite cheese-gate, Erin and Sai were later good friends throughout Season 14, until the season finale, with Erin admitting at the reunion they were “not in a good place.” She clarified it was due to Sai allegedly making fun of her “shakshuka dish” as well as talking about her to producers in confessional interviews.
“Honestly, I have no idea what happened to her,” Erin told host Andy Cohen at the reunion. “Something, like, switched.” Sai responded to Erin, “You lie. And you don’t own your s—t.”
During Season 15, Sai and Erin were on mostly good terms, but during the Season 16 premiere, Hailey Glassman revealed to Sai that Erin had told her Sai was “going through a lot,” leading Sai to question if she could trust Erin.
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