Gizelle Bryant blames Candiace Dillard Bassett and Wendy Osefo for the physical altercation with Deborah Williams.

The reunion for “The Real Housewives of Potomac ” has been very triggering for Candiace Dillard Bassett and Wendy Osefo. Previously, the group had another cringeworthy conversation surrounding colorism that fans called out on social media. Fans also called out Nneka Ihim, calling her a “GEB Puppet.” Lastly, in the third installment of the reunion, Gizelle Bryant will lay the blame at the feet of Candiace and Wendy for the altercation that occurred with Deborah Williams at her and Ashley Darby‘s fashion show. 

Well, Bravo recently released a preview of this gaslighting exchange. In the clip, Gizelle not only detailed her blaming Candiace but also blamed Wendy for causing the incident.

In the preview, Gizelle ensures that Candiace, Wendy, and Deborah are blamed for the altercation that occurred once the cameras stopped recording. 

“I think Deborah, Candiace, Wendy, K… Everyone’s responsible.”

This immediately angers Candiace and Wendy. Candiace instantly responds, saying, “Wow. Y’all want me to be friends with this? Y’all want me to make up with this?”

Wendy then asks, “Well, what did I do?” She then says, “Here we go with these blanket statements.”

Gizelle responds to them, saying that’s how she feels about the incident. That comment inflames Candiace and Wendy further. 

Under her breath, Mia said Wendy had nothing to do with the incident. As Mia says this, Wendy stares at Gizelle and wants to know, again, what she had to do with the altercation.

“What did Wendy do in the physical altercation, when each time you see me literally dodging not to get hit? So, what did Wendy do?”

Keiarna Stewart, who joined everyone on stage to discuss the incident, says that Wendy was only holding her back, trying to prevent things from escalating. Mia Thornton agrees.

At this point, Gizelle reluctantly agrees to absolve Wendy from blame. However, she still has her sights set on blaming Candiace for the incident. Gizelle explains that seeing the altercation on TMZ was a bad look for the business.  She called seeing it on TMZ “disturbing.” 

Karen Huger then jumps in, asking Candiace why she called Deborah vermin when Deborah started the incident. 

“After she walked up to me…, the cameras were down, and we were standing around. I was standing there with my champagne dancing, and she walked up to me… She walked over, got right in my face, and said, ‘Do you have something that you want to say to me?’ 

I said, no, come get this vermin out of my face.”

Mia then says to Candiace, “You can’t do that,” to which Candiace says yes, she can. Candiace tells Mia that she cannot tell her how to respond to Deborah, who threatened to confront her physically on social media. 

Andy Cohen then asks if Candiace would have swung the champagne bottle at Deborah, but Candiace isn’t sure what she would’ve done. Candiace then says that she saw Deborah lunge at her.

“I’m not expecting you all to fight for me, so I’m on my own,” says Candiace as she fights back tears. Meanwhile, Robyn smirks and Ashley rolls her eyes as they see Candiace fight back tears. 

Social media erupts.

When this preview hit social media, it almost instantly brought forth sharp and poignant responses from fans calling out the show and venting their issues with the lighter-skinned cast mates. Candiace sees the clip shared on social media and calls It triggering, seemingly washing her hands of it all.

“You all can literally have this. It’s triggering. Good luck!”

You all can literally have this. It’s triggering. Good luck! https://t.co/u6AZ5TvhuJ

— CANDIACE (@TherealCANDIACE) April 12, 2024

Meanwhile, others called out how Gizelle, Robyn, Mia, Ashely, and Karen have been seemingly absolved from accountability. One X user wrote, “It seems all the light-skinned women on this show are free from accountability. They relentlessly antagonize the darker-skinned women. And the darker-skinned women always have to be on guard because they are always attacked and held accountable for being attacked.”

This isn’t the first time RHOP fans have expressed they believe colorism is at play. An Essence Magazine editor highlighted this in a recent article that went viral on social media.

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