Meredith and Jen Shah’s Friendship is ‘Gross’

From foes to pals. After a year-long feud over Jen Shah allegedly “liking” homophobic tweets about Meredith Marks’ son, Brooks, and subsequently apologizing, many had been shocked that the pair shaped an in depth friendship, together with Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis costar Lisa Barlow.

“The irony of that. I imply, it’s sort of gross as a result of it’s like I spent all final yr, a year-and-a-half saying, ‘Please make up, please be pals,’ being the go-between, attempting to assist it out,” Lisa, 47, stated on the Wednesday, September 28, episode of Us Weekly’s “Getting Actual with the Housewives” podcast. “I’m like, ‘You may forgive all of this, like your loved ones being terrorized, Brooks being terrorized on-line, you may forgive every part after which act prefer it didn’t occur.’ They tried to rewrite historical past.”

Lisa and Meredith, 50, had been pals for almost a decade previous to becoming a member of the Bravo collection, however had a falling out throughout season 2 when Lisa was caught saying Meredith is a “f—king whore,” and claiming that she has slept with “half of New York.”

“They actually took that scorching mic second and clung to it and it was like rewriting historical past. I’m like, ‘This isn’t regular. This isn’t okay,’” Lisa defined to Us. “It’s full fake, pretend, fraud, all these issues, it’s actually ridiculous.”

The Salt Lake Metropolis native stated that she takes “full accountability” for the “horrible issues” she stated throughout her second the place she believed she was not be filmed and has “apologized like 22 instances.”

Whereas the previous pals are in a “good place” in the meanwhile, this season, which premieres Wednesday September 28, has Meredith accusing Lisa of “doing favors” to get locations to choose up her tequila model Vida Tequila.

“I make superb tequila. Vida tequila is superb and I don’t have to sleep with folks to promote it,” Lisa informed Us. “It sells by itself as a result of it’s a extremely rated, extremely regarded, lovely product and we’ve been in enterprise for 17 years. That allegation is simply ridiculous.”

The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis airs on Bravo Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET.