Rachel Zoe’s former assistant Brad Goreski has thoughts on her recent comments about the “triggering” experience of hiring someone to work for her.
Zoe, 54, opened up to Interview Magazine about the topic, telling the outlet on Thursday, March 5, that assistants are “triggering” after decades as a stylist and designer.
“I’ve had the best in the world who are like family, but it also goes the other way,” Zoe explained. “There’s betrayal and dishonesty and all the things. It’s the hardest job to fill, always.”
When Goreski, 48, saw the quote posted on Interview’s Instagram page, he clapped back in the comments section.
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“Triggering for the assistants as well — Taylor, Jill, Jordan, Tara, Me …,” Goreski claimed, referring to four other assistants who previously worked for Zoe.
Jordan Johnson Chung, one of the women Goreski linked to in his comment, replied on the post as well. “@bradgoreski accurate,” she wrote, seemingly siding with Goreski.
Us Weekly has reached out to Zoe’s rep for comment.
Goreski and Zoe’s rocky relationship is nothing new for fans of The Rachel Zoe Project, which ran from 2008 to 2013 on Bravo.
During the reality series’ five seasons, fans got to see how Zoe ran her business as a stylist alongside her then-husband, Rodger Berman. (Zoe announced her divorce from Berman, 57, in September 2024 after 26 years of marriage.)
Goreski was Zoe’s associate and style director before leaving her company in 2010. He was previously her assistant before moving up.
“[Within a week of leaving, he] started [to] pursue our clients, started going to all these events, and doing all the things he said he had no interest in,” Zoe claimed during a 2011 episode. “It’s not the first time I’ve been used. I would say it’s going to be the last time, though.” (Goreski denied ever stealing clients from Zoe.)
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The following year, Goreski exclusively told Us that he and Zoe “don’t speak to each other.”
He claimed in January 2012, “I would love to be able to speak with her. I think I have conducted myself with honesty, with dignity and with grace.”
Goreski reiterated in March 2013 during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen that he was open to reconnecting with his former boss.
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“My phone is available to her if she ever wants to speak again. I’m here,” he said. “But at the moment, that’s not her choice. I was happy to be her assistant, and I’m now happy to be on my own.”
Nearly a decade later, Zoe told Andy Cohen on WWHL that her relationship with Goreski was nonexistent.
“I don’t see him,” she said in July 2021. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star later added, “People should be professional. They should.”
In January, Zoe claimed that her troubles with assistants played a part in her decision to walk away from styling.
“I think after being completely betrayed, for lack of a better term, in various ways, by enough assistants and not being able to trust them with my clients and stuff to represent what I do and how I am with my clients, it just wasn’t worth it anymore,” she told People at the time.
