In the aftermath of Nneka Ihim being crowned the “Grande Dame of Potomac,” by Gizelle Bryant, Candiace Dillard is over the drama and walks away. “That’s so f***ing stupid. I’m over it,” she says.
Nneka gives her Miss America speech that we’ve all rehearsed in front of our mirrors as eight-year-olds and tells the group while adjusting her Party City crown, “I just want to thank everyone here for just acknowledging my zip code.” She continues, “As you know, I purchased my home and spent a lot of money and I just want to thank you all for just seeing and believing in me. ”
Nneka gave a slight shade to Karen Huger by mentioning that “Grande Dame” is meant for the “more elderly” but she is here to do the “people’s work.” Nneka thanks Jesus for the honor but it’s really Gizelle that she should thank.
The ladies then argue about who lives in actual Potomac vs. neighboring areas and it’s like debating if you live in Greenwich Village or the West Village in NYC. Like, who cares. A cup of coffee is still $8. Surprisingly, Wendy Osefo remains quiet throughout this whole debate, probably because she doesn’t live in Potomac proper.
Shade is thrown during night golf
The women make their way to go night golfing and there’s a lot of screaming as they try to navigate the golf carts with their big feet. Unsurprisingly, Robyn Dixon, Ashley Darby, and Karen suck. The new Grande Dame is the best out of the group, which could be attributed to the magical powers of her plastic crown.
Karen and Candiace go off to the side to talk smack about Gizelle. Karen says, “Gizelle has nothing going for her. That’s why she has to take jabs.” Candiace agrees, “And, we know this, which is why I didn’t even wanna bring this up.” Karen seemingly refers to the Grande Dame name, saying titles never meant anything to her. “I’ve never needed one and I just have one,” she says, even though she’s the one who apparently gave herself the title of Grande Dame of Potomac.
It’s food time, which means the housewives are either going to get raunchy or throw down. Gizelle eases into the night and starts talking about how her daughter Grace has graduated high school and Karen gave her some good advice about handling a new college kid. It’s a nice moment, but Candiace and Wendy can’t help but make faces at Gizelle.
Wendy expresses concern over Gizelle sending her daughter to a highly political state like Florida, but Karen has her frenemy’s back and tells her she’s got it. “Can’t really give into the tactic of racism. But I’m praying for Grace. You have to take a stand and continue to move forward … That’s why we are in this group. As women that move in the spirit of supporting and truly lifting one another.”
Karen Huger vs. Mia Thornton
The moment is all nice and good until Gizelle calls Karen out for claiming Mia Thornton was “screwing a rapper and screwing a married man.” Karen goes on the defensive, pointing out that others have gone after her marriage and that she brought Mia into the friend group, which she seemingly thinks gives her a pass to be shady toward the newcomer. But then Mia does an Uno reverse card and hints that she has dirt on Karen, which makes the other housewives do the surprise emoji face.
“There’s things that I still have not shared, okay? Because I just wouldn’t be okay with it, but that’s me. It’s called friendship,” Mia says in a confessional. “She don’t wanna try me, though,” she adds.
At the dinner, Karen claims she can spill stuff on Mia, who says, “To me, that’s so manipulative … I’m not gonna try to one-up you just to make a point.” Karen answers, “Then let’s move on,” but she hasn’t fooled her castmates. They know she has something to hide.
“Something tells me that Mia knows some things,” Ashley says in a confessional. Is Mia the new Bone Collector? However, Wendy thinks Mia is a “pathological liar” and doesn’t believe anything she says.
The RHOP cast share some naughty details
The next morning, friend-of Keiana Stewart (whom everyone has forgotten about) complains that no one besides Gizelle checked on her while she was sick. The ladies validate her feelings, which is a surprise in this group.
Mia is seemingly salty about Karen telling everyone she brought her into the housewives group and refers to her as “master.” Gizelle is still hurt over Candiace and Wendy making faces while she was talking about her daughter the night before so it seems like they all went to bed angry and woke up with an agenda.
The group plays games regarding sex stuff and everyone is having a good ole’ time until Wendy mentions that her husband Eddie Osefo likes her “third brown eye,” which she reveals is her bumhole. This is TMI for a lot of people. Dial it back, Wendy.
Robyn then shares that her husband Juan Dixon wants to watch her get down and dirty with another person, guy or girl. “Oh, lord. Who’s surprised of Juan’s love of threesomes,” Karen says in a confessional. “I know they don’t include Robyn.”
Candiace reveals that she only has sex with her husband Chris Dillard twice a week. The women are all aghast, but they seem to have forgotten what married life is like, especially Karen, who reveals that she has about 40 wet dreams about different people. “Girl, Karen don’t know if she was having sex with her husband or somebody else in the last five years. We don’t know what’s going on,” Candiace says in a confessional.
Ashley Darby opens up about her divorce
The ladies go out to eat and Ashley starts talking about how it’s unfair for her to talk about her private life since her divorce from Michael Darby is still ongoing. Speaking about divorce, Mia tells the group that she didn’t marry Gordon for money and that she had an inheritance going into their marriage. “So there’s a difference between cash and assets, and at that time, did I have more cash in the bank than he did? Yes. Abso-freaking-lutely,” Mia tells the cameras.
Ashley starts talking about how she’s finding it difficult to finalize the divorce with Michael because of comfort reasons and that her “confidence coach” is telling her to get back into singing. Candiace hands her a butter knife to use as a microphone, not unlike the one that she wielded at her during their fight in Season 4.
Ashley gets up to sing something that sounds like a ’90s R&B song by a one-hit-wonder. She just sings that she’s “healing and I’m thriving now” over and over.
The other housewives clap and cheer and the moment brings Candiace and Ashley together again. “Your journey is in your gut. And you have to do what you know is in your gut. And that’s something that you know that you are worthy of doing, and you are able to do. You just gotta tune out the noise,” Candiace tells Ashley. Perhaps there’s hope for the younger RHOP frenemies after all.
Not so fast. Just when you think the RHOP cast is getting along, Robyn brings up how Candiace and Wendy were making poo-poo faces when Gizelle was talking about her daughter going to a Flordia college. “The looks on the faces … I was like, disgusted,” Robyn says. This fires up Gizelle and when the others come to ask what the heck is going on, it looks like they battle it out in the next episode.
