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The Real Housewives of Orange County‘s Katie Ginella isn’t taking her polygraph test results lying down.
In a new preview for RHOC Season 19, Episode 9 (airing on Sept. 4), Katie meets with Jennifer Pedranti to unpack the examiner’s declaration that she not only “failed” every question but also performed “the worst out of everybody” at Emily Simpson’s Persian New Year celebration.
Questioning the validity of the lie-detector test itself in the above clip, Katie presents receipts that she believes point to a “setup” by Emily and Gina Kirschenheiter, while maintaining that her answers had been truthful.
“They’re going to think that’s preposterous,” Jenn says, prompting Katie to reply, “If you don’t believe me, that’s OK.”
Either way, Katie doubles down on her claim that Jenn and her fiancé, Ryan Boyajian, both heard Gretchen Rossi make the accusation about Tamra Judge that she allegedly lied about during the polygraph test “multiple times.”Â
Jenn, meanwhile, continues to support Gretchen’s version of events, however, much to Katie’s puzzlement.
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“I don’t know what to give you. I’m not lying,” Katie insists.
When Jenn points out that “it’s messy around” her and suggests she take some “accountability,” Katie fires back, “I have taken accountability for the things where I misstepped. I did not lie about that. So, I will not take accountability for something I’m not guilty of. I’m not doing that.”
Jenn’s cryptic response? “Yeah, and that tells me everything I need to know.”
Jennifer Pedranti reveals if she’s friends with Katie Ginella after the polygraph test
In a confessional, Jenn admits that Katie has been “such a loyal friend” to her, but the polygraph test results caused her to question if their bond had been based on “lies,” too. That’s at least partially why she didn’t follow Katie when Emily told her to leave her home during Episode 8.
“It took everything I could not to even get up when you walked out,” Jenn explains to Katie in the preview clip. “But I sat there going, ‘Not this time. I’m not going this time because I felt like I’m a f–king idiot.'”
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As she elaborates to a producer, “I hate that I’m questioning my friendship with Katie, but she keeps getting caught in these lies and she ropes me in. … Katie lied to me the whole time, and that doesn’t work for me.” Â
Why Katie Ginella was upset with Jennifer Pedranti on RHOC
Katie, for her part, can only guess that “Jenn doesn’t want to play this game,” while trying to make sense of her reason for not just admitting that she heard Gretchen make the allegation in question.
Previously on The Real Housewives of Orange County After Show, she offered a similar theory for Jenn’s silence on the matter when she asked her for backup at Emily’s party.
“I think that when she saw that I was getting in the mess, she didn’t wanna get in the mess,” Katie elaborated. “And that’s why she’s like, ‘I didn’t hear it.’ Because she’s friends with both of us — or she was friends with both of us.”
After all, she claimed to clearly remember details of their group dinner, which also included their partners, Matt Ginella, Ryan Boyajian, and Slade Smiley, when Gretchen allegedly dropped the Tamra bombshell.
“And that’s why, in that moment I pointed to Jenn and was like, ‘Jenn, you know she said that,'” Katie added on the RHOC After Show of the Persian New Year dustup. “We had just talked like the month before on the phone about it, with Ryan and Slade on the phone. How do you not remember this?”
She continued, “The most disappointing part of this whole thing is I don’t know why Jenn won’t just say, ‘I heard it, too.’ … I cried for weeks about this. Why would you wanna see me get annihilated? Why wouldn’t you just say, ‘Hey, Gretchen, I think you did slip up and say that.’?”
As you wait to see how the drama plays out, find out how Katie defended her lie-detector test results on the RHOC After Show.
