Vicki Gunvalson Responds to Tamra Judge's Crying Video: ‘She's a Good Actress’

Mar. 15, 2025

Vicki Gunvalson and Tamra Judge.Photo:Jason Mendez/Getty; Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

Jason Mendez/Getty; Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

Vicki Gunvalsonis responding toTamra Judge’s recent request asking Gunvalson not to talk about Judge and her family.

Gunvalson, 62, joined theHollywood Rawpodcast on Wednesday, Sept. 11, and said Judge, 57, pleaded with Gunvalson because she “wants attention.” During her conversation with co-hosts Dax Holt and Adam Glyn, Gunvalson responded to her formerThe Real Housewives of Orange Countycostar’s Wednesday, Sept. 4 request that Gunvalson stop discussing her and her estranged daughter, Sidney Barney.

“There were no tears. She’s a good actress,” Gunvalson, who currently appears as a “friend” onRHOC,said Wednesday. “If she really, really cared about me and our friendship, she’d call me off camera and say, ‘Let’s sit down, let’s meet, let’s call each other, let’s FaceTime each other.’ ”

“We don’t need to show anything to the public,” Gunvalson clarified. “I think it’s all bulls—. I think she was just looking for drama. I don’t have people like that in my life. My people in my life would do anything for me, and I will do anything for them.”

Vicki Gunvalson.Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

Gunvalson explained that her relationship with Judge is now a “work friendship.”

“I don’t look at her as somebody I’d call as a friend because friends don’t treat friends that way, whether it’s treating me this way or treatingShannon [Beador]this way. You don’t treat people like that,” Gunvalson said aboutJudge’s reactiontoRHOCcostarBeador’s September 2023 DUI.

As for commenting on Judge and her daughter’s strained relationship, Gunvalson reaffirmed she doesn’t feel bad for bringing it up. “She keeps talking about it all the time. Every season, ‘My daughter doesn’t talk to me,’ ” she said. “Like, if you don’t want anyone to know, then stop talking about it.”

Vicki Gunvalson and Tamra Judge.Tommy Garcia/Bravo/ Getty

Gunvalson’s remarks follow the 2016 revelation that Judge has not spoken to her eldest daughter since her 2011 divorce from Sidney’s father,Simon Barney. The mother and daughter are still estranged. Judge shares three children,Sophia, 18,Spencer, 23, andSidney, 25, with ex-husband Simon. She also sharesRyan Vieth, 38, with ex-husband Darren Vieth.

“Sidney has a very strong opinion of Tamra,” Gunvalson said on theMy Friend, My Soulmate, My PodcastSept. 2 episode, adding that Sidney wants her mother to leave the Bravo series and “stop embarrassing the family.”

“That shows Sidney, ‘I’m not important to you,' ” she continued. “Reconcile with your daughter! It’s pretty simple.”

Judge added in her Sept. 4 Instagram Stories, “Do you know what it’s like to lose a child? It’s the most painful thing in the world [and] to insinuate it was because I was on [The Real Housewives of Orange County]. No, that’s not what it is.” Concluding, “Just please leave my family alone!”

Tamra Judge on June 8, 2023 in New York City.Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

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source: people.com