Bethenny Frankelis shooting back ata claim that she once yelled atThe Viewpanelist Sunny Hostin’s child on the beach.
TheReal Housewives of New York Citystar and Skinnygirl founder, 48, appeared on Thursday’sWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,where she was asked about Hostin’s allegation.
Frankel said she had no recollection of the incident.
“I don’t know,” she told Cohen on Thursday. “I think she’s been drinking or taking some drugs. I don’t know her!”
Frankel offered no basis for her speculation about drug or alcohol use, and it was not entirely clear whether she meant it literally.
The host had slammed Frankel on the June 13 episode ofThe View. The panel was discussing a breakdown Frankel had during a Miami girls trip onRHONY.
“I don’t know Bethenny, but I have seen her behave like that on the beach,” Hostin claimed. “I have seen that kind of behavior when Bethenny yelled at my child at the beach.”
“It was in the middle of the day, and my child was about 7, playing with other children at about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, and she said that her child was napping inside with the window open and that our children were being too loud on the beach,” Hostin added, referencing Frankel’s 9-year-old daughter,Bryn. “She yelled at my child, and I went out there and stood in front of my child, and I yelled at her and told her that adults speak to adults. And she knows I’m telling the truth.”
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A source close to Frankel had told PEOPLE that Hostin’s account “isn’t true.”
“Bethenny doesn’t even know her. It seems so strange that Sunny has such a fixation on her,” the source said. “Sunny spoke negatively about Bethenny during her Puerto Rico efforts and she continues to do so. Not sure what her issue is.”
Also on Thursday’sWWHL, Cohen asked Frankel about her formerRHONYcostarKelly Bensimon’s claimsthat Frankel ‘didn’t care’ about her pregnancy issues while they were filming the infamous Scary Island trip back in season 3.
“She was pregnant this entire time and was having serious issues with her unborn child, and she’s flying back and forth pretending to film with her dying father in L.A., but really just filming in the car and never saw him,” Bensimon claimed on theOut in the Wildpodcast.
“I’m like — you want me to film with a woman that doesn’t even care about her kid in her stomach?” Bensimon said. “[Bethenny was] like, ‘Oh, if I have a miscarriage, whatever.’ She was having serious, serious, serious [pregnancy] complications, and I just didn’t understand why we were there filming and why she was even there in St. John.”
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Frankel laughed off Bensimon’s allegations.
“If you want to take a look at insanity, listen to that,” Frankel said. “Don’t read it — [listen to it]. It’s like watching Scary Island.”
That vacation became infamous for the feud between the two women, with many of the ladies speculating that Bensimon was suffering from a nervous breakdown as she claimed she couldn’t sleep because Frankel was “trying to kill her.”
“If she wanted vindication from Scary Island, this is Scarier Island,” Frankel joked onWWHL.
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source: people.com
