After Katie Ginella’s “failed” polygraph test left her on the outs with the majority of her castmates on The Real Housewives of Orange County, she made a damning declaration about her future in the friend group.
“I don’t think there’s any coming back from this,” Katie told a producer on Season 19, Episode 9, before admitting to her husband, Matt Ginella, “I don’t think I’ll ever be with these women again.”
On The Real Housewives of Orange County After Show, Katie clarified that she really had no choice but to “walk away from the group,” as a producer put it, especially considering her closest ally, Jennifer Pedranti, refused to support her in the wake of the lie-detector results. (Despite Katie’s insistence that her answers were truthful and the test was a “setup,” Jenn ultimately sided with Gretchen Rossi amidst the drama involving Tamra Judge that came to light in New Orleans.)
“I think I was most hurt because I didn’t even hear from [Jenn] that night,” Katie explained. “And if the tables were turned, I would’ve called her, text her. Even if I thought she was in the wrong, she’s a friend; I would’ve checked on her. I think that she said all she needed to say, without saying anything.”
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After all, both Katie and Matt claimed on RHOC‘s Sept. 4 episode that Jenn and her fiancé Ryan Boyajian heard Gretchen and Slade Smiley make the same allegations about Tamra that they did during an off-camera group dinner. However, neither Jenn nor Ryan backed up the Ginellas’ version of events.
After crying “for weeks,” Katie said she turned her wounds into wisdom and vowed to be more careful about with whom she shares certain sensitive information, moving forward.
“I trusted too many people,” she elaborated on the RHOC After Show. “I’m just an oversharer who trusts everybody.”
Katie Ginella reveals if she still wants to be friends with Jennifer Pedranti
All of that aside, Katie still couldn’t help but remember just how close of a friendship that she and Jenn once had. In fact, they talked to each other so often, according to Katie, that one time she left a text message unanswered for several hours, Jenn panicked that she’d been kidnapped or something.
“It was just all day every day,” Katie noted of their frequent communication.
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Ultimately, Katie hopes that she and Jenn can bury the hatchet and repair that broken bond, despite their post-polygraph drama.
“In her eyes, I guess, that was the last straw; it wasn’t for me,” Katie revealed. “Even though it’s been hard and really hurtful, I could still move on from that with Jenn because I care about her so much.”
She tearfully continued, “I so hope Jenn and I can move past it and move on and be friends again because I really miss her. I woke up every morning at 7, and we laid in bed and talked every single morning. I don’t talk badly about Jenn. It literally just makes me sad.”
Jennifer Pedranti speaks out about “the end” of her and Katie Ginella’s friendship
As other RHOC cast members weighed in on the drama in the same After Show clip, Jenn described their al fresco coffee and tea meetup at the top of Episode 9 as being “probably the end” of their friendship, however.
At the time, Jenn had hoped her friend would take some “accountability.” Instead, Katie maintained on Episode 9 that she was “not lying,” even bringing along receipts that she believed proved the polygraph test results were invalid. That approach is what helped Jenn decide that a friendship with Katie wasn’t going to “work for” her anymore.
“I asked her so many times, ‘Do you want to be friends in this friend group? Do you want a friendship?’ Because you’re going about it so wrong,'” Jenn recalled on the RHOC After Show.
Watching those early episodes has been a difficult experience for Jenn, who added, “It’s so hard because I miss that friendship, I miss that person.”
Another potentially hopeful sign for the duo’s future? Jenn and Katie have briefly communicated since their falling out.
“We have had a text exchange,” Jenn further shared. “She texted me that she was heartbroken. I said, ‘I have been heartbroken, too.’ And she said, ‘I’m available if you want to talk.'”
As she concluded, “Here’s the thing: Yeah, let’s have a conversation, but you gotta meet me with some realness.”
As the two figure out if they can eventually rekindle their friendship, go inside Katie and Jenn’s final sitdown on RHOC Season 19.
