HollywoodReporter.com:
Aviva Drescher is a new face this season on The Real Housewives of New York, where she's tasked with dealing with strong personalities from those around her. The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Drescher to get the dirt on Monday's episode when she, Ramona and Mario Singer we well as Sonja Morgan hit the road to Bal Harbour, Fla., to visit Aviva's dad to get the scoop on her experience and tease what's ahead.RELATED: RHONY's Aviva Drescher Wants to Set Up Sonja Morgan With Her "Sex Addict" Father
The Hollywood Reporter: How familiar were you with the show when you signed on?
Aviva Drescher : I was familiar but not a diehard fan. I watched intermittently and knew what was going on. I knew I’d get scrutiny but I was not prepared for how much scrutiny. Now I wish I’d watched every episode, and read every blog.
You seem very genuine and unaffected.
I don’t have anything fake, except for my leg. (Laughs.)
What’s been the trickiest thing or person to navigate?
I would say it’s the scrutiny. I am even at times horrified by something I might see on the web. I never thought in a million years I’d bat an eyelash at that. One site called my hands “alien hands.” I claim no perfection of body parts, and that’s been difficult to navigate. It's cruelty.
The other person difficult to navigate is Ramona. What I learned later on in filming is, you never know what you're gonna get with her, like a box of chocolates from Forrest Gump -- I know not to trust her. I’m going to do a song called “Ramoniac” -- to the tune of "Maniac" from Flashdance. But I really don’t take this very seriously. I don’t think Carole [Radziwill], Heather [Thomson] or myself take this gig seriously at all.
My focus primarily -- beyond the charities I work with -- is that a lot of teens watch the show and when they see a woman with one leg who has earned a couple of degrees, married, divorced and remarried, when they see that they, too, can do whatever they want to do, with whatever challenge they may have (pimples on their face, whatever) it’s really hard and can scar you for life. I never thought I’d get married, I never thought I’d be able to have kids because of some of the antibiotics after my accident. If I had someone like me on TV to give me the visualization of being a wife and mother -- whatever your baggage is -- it’s worth all the cruelty coming my way. Or even an adult who has had an accident, or diabetes, or whatever. I’ve always reached out to people on a one-on-one level, and now on the show, I reach a lot more people. They email me and tweet me and tell me that.
Monday’s hour is the Bal Harbour episode and you’ve invited Ramona and Sonja along. Why did you want to fix Sonja up with your dad, who you describe as a sex addict?
My dad is very handsome, he's pretty successful and he’s also totally with-it and brilliant and funny and he’s unfiltered. He’s also really really sexual for his age, which is bordering 80. Sonja was married to someone 30 years her senior before so I thought, "Why not?" The worst thing to happen is they end up friends, and they both love sex so I thought there might be some compatibility there.
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