Kelly Dodd is speaking out following the leaked voicemail drama involving her daughter, Jolie.
“I apologized to Jolie. All I want is Jolie back in my life,” the Real Housewives of Orange County alum, 50, said in an exclusive statement to Us Weekly on Monday, December 1. “I have been trying to narrow the gap and bring Jolie back. I talked to her that way because it was out of anger and frustration.”
Dodd also expressed regret for name-calling Jolie, 19, in the voicemail leak. Despite her apologies, Dodd claimed that Jolie has not forgiven her.
“Should I have done it? No. Did I apologize? Yeah, I did. But she doesn’t know how to move on, and she’s getting bad advice from bad people and she has a lot of growing up to do,” she alleged of her daughter’s unwillingness to move forward. “It is so destructive with my mom and my brother and everybody should be like, ‘You guys should make amends.’ Normal, healthy people do that. They try to make amends between families. You don’t want division.”
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On Friday, November, 29, a video clip appeared online featuring a voicemail message that Dodd left for Jolie. The recording was allegedly sent to one of Jolie’s friends to relay the message from her mom after her daughter blocked her “from everything.” It is unclear when the voice message was originally sent.
“You just opened a Pandora’s box Jolie. I have recordings of you, screaming at your dad because he isn’t taking you on vacation, screaming that he didn’t buy you a car,” Dodd said. “Do you remember those recordings that I saved? I have those and I’m going to publicly put them out there. Do you understand?”
Dodd continued, “For you to do this to me after I bought you a car, paid for your college, paid for your health insurance, took you to the doctors, got you all your clothes, I did all that. Meanwhile, your dad was being some f**king loser and put those three kids first before you. I have all of those so what you just did right now, you’re going to look like a fool, you dumb little girl. You’re stupid, OK? For even thinking that you’re going to win.”
After Dodd’s voicemail went viral, the former reality star reshared two Instagram posts from a Bravo fan account that defended her treatment of Jolie amid the voicemail drama.
“This whole Kelly Dodd voicemail thing is such a f**king joke. Oh please, give me a f**king break. You clearly don’t have a teenage daughter if you feel bad for Jolie here,” read the first post that was shared via Dodd’s Instagram story. “Let alone a spoiled and entitled f**king brat that uses whatever parent benefits her in the moment. She sure isn’t complaining about that fully, luxuriously furnished apartment in Paris and tuition by mommy.”
The post continued, “So who’s the one who ended putting things out in the public??? Mom or daughter?? Yeah. That’s what I thought. She’s no longer a child. She needs a cold hard reality check. Uses her mom for fifteen years, and then blocks her to go use her dad who abandoned her now. Little bitch.”
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The second post Dodd shared echoed similar sentiments.
“All family fights and make up, no one is spared. I have seen Kelly and her love for her daughter is so very real, all moms and daughters fight,” the second one read. “No one should judge a parent’s love or anger, it’s between her and her daughter. Wishing them peace and working it out.”
Dodd joined the RHOC cast in season 11, which aired in 2016. In 2021, Dodd’s contract was not renewed and she subsequently departed the series following season 15.
