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While Bravo is celebrating 100 episodes of "The Real Housewives of Orange County"
with a special airing on Monday, it's only standing original cast
member is still trying to wrap her head around the experience.
"I don't know if I'm still into it yet," Vicki Gunvalson told TheWrap. "I'm still trying to understand why the hell am I doing this?"
"There are days when I absolutely,
100 percent love it and there's days where I need to get my head
examined. What sane person would ever allow millions of viewers to judge
them question their looks, question every time they speak, question who
they date? I mean it's annoying."
The insurance company owner isn't
in the mood to celebrate the show's big accomplishment. She's in the
middle of great controversy surrounding former cast mate, friend and
employee Lauri Peterson.
Peterson left the show after Season 4, but returned this season
accusing Gunvalson of cheating on her ex-husband along with a host of
other sexual accusations, including a threesome with another woman.
"It just totally blindsided me,"
Gunvalson said of Peterson's accusations. "And then I got upset with the
production company because I said, 'Why didn't you ask me before you
aired that, because it's a lie?' They said, 'You'll come around, you'll
tell your truth.' But now the viewers think that I sleep around with a
woman, it was just disgusting to me. So, how do you combat things that
are lies? That's where I go deep and dark."
Defending herself, Gunvalson said
that the woman in Peterson's threesome story was actually her sister and
believes that the returning housewife made the stories up in order to
get camera time. "She's pretty boring in her own life," the 51-year-old
said. "And if she didn't come back with something they wouldn't have
aired her."
Gunvalson said that the
accusations have affected her business and said she didn't sign up for
this kind of personal and professional attack.
"If I knew Lauri was going to come
back like that, I probably would have never filmed again a day in my
life because I wouldn't have allowed something like that to be out to
the universe," she said.
"I mean we're talking stuff people
will see 10 or 20 years from now; my grandchildren. It's gross, it's
filthy, it's disgusting and I hate liars," she continued. "Now, I have
to be the one that defends myself and that's not the person I want to
be. I really am still very raw about it, still very upset about it, I
don't understand it and I'm mad. I'm just very upset. Probably in time
things will heal, but right now it's not good."
In interviews for Monday's 100th
episode special on Bravo, Gunvalson was in a much better place. She
opens the special and during it she declares that the show is like one
of her babies.
Gunvalson had yet to watch the
two-hour program when we talked to her, but after we informed her that
there are plenty of touching flashbacks over the past eight seasons on
the special that will probably counteract some of the drama this season,
she said, "Oh, good."
"At the end of the day, it's
business," she added. "I understand without that drama we wouldn't be
on, so I'm smart enough to understand that. I will never tolerate just
somebody coming on and lying about me. Pretty much, I'm going to claw
her eyeballs out. But, other than that we're all good."