Garcelle Beauvais accused Sutton Stracke of dodging a question about Kyle Richards’ friendship with Morgan Wade.
During the Tuesday, March 4, episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills After Show, which aired right after a new episode of RHOBH, Garcelle, 58, and Sutton, 53, got into a tense conversation about the nature of Kyle’s friendship with Wade, 30.
After Kyle, 56, was spotted stage-side at a recent performance by Wade, Garcelle and Sutton discussed why Kyle was in attendance, with Sutton saying that she asked Kyle if the appearance was a retaliation to published photos of Kyle’s estranged husband Mauricio Umansky kissing a mystery woman in July 2024. (Kyle and Umansky announced their split in October 2023.)
Garcelle hinted that she believed Kyle’s appearance was indeed a retaliation before adding that she thought Kyle was also motivated by the fact that she enjoys fan speculation surrounding her and Wade. Garcelle then asked Sutton if she agreed with her and when Sutton struggled to answer, Garcelle told her, “You’re just dodging it.”
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It all began when Garcelle was asked to detail her theory behind Kyle’s concert appearance. “Do I buy it? I think standing side-stage, when you know there’s so many rumors, I just wouldn’t do it,” Garcelle explained. “You say you don’t want it but then you’re standing there.”
A producer was then overheard trying to get Sutton to share her own thoughts on the matter, with an off-camera voice asking Sutton, “Are you worried about this affecting your relationship with Kyle?” to which Sutton said no.
“I don’t believe it,” Garcelle quickly responded before turning to Sutton to pose her controversial question. “I’m asking you. If you did not want people to continue a rumor about you … and you knew every time you’re with that person, it creates a lot of buzz … are you out and about and letting yourself be photographed?”
While Sutton told Garcelle that she wasn’t dodging the question by struggling to answer it, Sutton admitted that if she “were in a relationship that I didn’t want known,” she would plan to “hide out at my house.”
“I rest my case, your honor,” Garcelle subsequently concluded.
Kyle told Us Weekly exclusively in November last year that it wouldn’t be fair to publicly discuss her friendship with Wade. “What’s hard is that I can only speak on my behalf,” Kyle said at the time. “I’m not here to speak on anyone’s behalf but my own, especially someone who’s not signed up to do this show and doesn’t want to be spoken about on the show. So that puts me in a very different position.”
Kyle continued, “With that said, what I do address is about me personally and my journey and what I’m going through and where I am at and just not addressing her in particular, because it is just not fair to. Yeah, I have to let her speak for herself.”
Both Kyle and Wade have denied they are romantically involved.
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