Erika Jayne acquired emotional whereas providing an inside take a look at her private struggles on The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills.
The Thursday, February 26, episode of the Bravo present featured a scene between Erika, 54, and her therapist, Dr. Jenn Mann. The ladies mentioned the fallout of Erika’s cut up from disgraced lawyer Tom Girardi and extra particulars from the Fairly Mess creator’s previous abusive relationship, which was revealed throughout final week’s episode.
“I’ve an upcoming trial, and so they’re taking me to trial for $25 million. That is the chapter trustee. You understand I’ve a $10 million tax invoice as effectively that Tom left me with,” Erika mentioned. “You understand how folks all the time say, ‘What’s the worst that may occur?’ Properly, the worst occurred.”
Erika began to cry when her therapist famous that “the worst” occurred to Tom, 86, and never her.
After Erika’s 2020 cut up from Tom, her estranged husband was hit with a sequence of lawsuits alleging that he embezzled funds earmarked for purchasers at his regulation agency. Whereas Erika was by no means charged with against the law, the trustee presiding over Tom’s chapter case later sued her for $25 million that the agency allegedly spent on her. The trial for that lawsuit is ready to start later this 12 months.
Erika has denied all allegations of wrongdoing, arguing that she had no information of her husband’s enterprise and no cause to imagine he was not profitable. Tom, for his half, was convicted of wire fraud in 2024 and sentenced to seven years in jail. Their divorce has not but been finalized.
“I’m actually drained. I’m simply f***ing drained,” Erika mentioned throughout Thursday’s episode, noting that issues aren’t “that nice.”
Erika continued by way of tears: “Nobody understands how onerous that’s to smile and say, ‘No, it’s going to be OK. It’s nice.’”
As their session continued, Erika instructed her therapist about her latest dinner with Denise Richards and Sutton Stracke. Final week’s RHOBA episode had Erika revealing that she was in a relationship that “was chaos” following her cut up from Tom.
“I believed it was the proper time to speak about what had occurred to me final 12 months. In fact, no one knew,” Erika mentioned on Thursday. “There’s a number of disgrace round that. Getting hit or choked or kicked.”
Erika began sobbing when asking her therapist whether or not she did “the proper factor” by speaking about her previous expertise with abuse. Erika additionally admitted that she “blew it off” the primary time she introduced up the incident.
“I don’t know what to do now,” Erika mentioned. “Simply in life. I don’t know what to do. I really feel so misplaced and I labored onerous on getting right here. I’m wholesome, however on the identical time, am I actually dwelling?”
She added, “Am I actually glad? Or am I simply f***ing treading water till all of those circumstances are over? All people wanting solutions. ‘What do you assume and the way does it really feel?’ I’ll inform you the way it feels, it seems like I’m f***ing crushed and I’m attempting actually onerous to not be crushed.”
The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills airs on Bravo Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.
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