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Erika Jayne Has Reclaimed Her RHOBH Narrative
The veteran Housewife’s ability to rebound from her demonic season-11 nadir is deserving of a pizza party.
At the height of her dark power — season 11, amid her divorce from disgraced lawyer Tom Girardi — Erika “channeled Beelzebub himself,” as the Daily Beast put it, her guttural drawl lowered down into the depths of hell. When I wrote about her car crash of a performance in 2021, I concluded that “whatever hope Erika had of emerging triumphant is buckling under the combined weight of the allegations and the expectations of being a Housewife.” Ruthlessly lashing out at her enemies, both legitimate and perceived, she lost control of the narrative. “It’s taken a while to get the want to even try because it was so much about survival,” she tells Dorit, “and now I want to thrive instead of simply gasping for air every day.” What a blessing to discover, a decade into her run on RHOBH, that Erika keeping her head above water also happens to make for great TV.
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