- Previously, on "The Real Housewives of Dubai" reunion...
- Is it gonna be a bloodbath? Is that why we're all in red?
- It's gonna be a lovefest.
- What? - My issues with her
stem because I was defending you!
- What issues do you have with us?
- You never liked me. - What do you mean?
- Are you gonna cry?
- I'm not gonna cry. Are you?
- Side effect of Ozempic is always crying.
- Yeah, Ozempic that you introduced me to.
[screaming]
- Did you just expect Taleen to be your mouthpiece?
This is a big one. - My mouth--
no, I don't want her to speak for me.
- Okay. - No, that was Sara this season.
- You bitch. [laughing]
- For you to go to press and say that I begged you
to be on this show...
- You clearly wanted to be on the show.
It's not a crime to want to be on the show.
- Right, but did I beg?
- Stanbury, what did you think of Raffi getting involved?
- To be honest, I can't believe he only got involved at the end.
Brooks, you have a longer standing relationship
with Raffi, so he has every right to clap back.
- Have you ever had an argument with Raffi like that before?
- No. - What?
After my party... - No, okay.
- You were spitting in his face,
and there were people there. - I didn't spit in his face.
- This woman is a liar. - No, you're a liar.
- A pathological liar!
- So, Brooks, why do you think that Raffi got involved?
- I don't know, he probably shouldn't have done that.
- Are you mad at him for getting involved?
- Yeah, 'cause I actually turned to him,
and I said, "Raffi, don't get involved."
- He was deescalating the situation.
- Okay. - Andy-Andy-Andy,
we're gonna debate whether or not a man
should be yelling at me... - Don't make a big deal out of it.
- And actually hailing profanities?
- No, but I'm asking you,
listen, if you're friends with him.
- Can we move on?
- Yes, yes. - Raffi kept saying,
"Brooks-Brooks." - Please I don't wanna go there.
It's gonna make me mad. Can we move on?
- Okay, yes.
Taleen, Mila from Sag Harbor said,
"Even though you and Brooks were in a bad place
after your fight, you did express for her
missing her flight to Bali.
How were you able to move to a place of compassion
after the incident?"
- I have love for Brooks, I always will,
and I was genuinely worried.
Raffi, me, we called The Glass House.
We called your home.
We were genuinely concerned. So, I put that aside.
- So, how did you make you feel watching it back,
seeing how concerned she was? - It felt good.
I-- it just showed how much all of them cared.
Even Lesa was asking where I was.
Ayan was, too.
Stanbury said, "I know the bitch isn't dead.
It's okay." [laughing]
- Um, funnily enough, it was the Balinese dresses
that Lesa chose that finally brought you together.
- I don't wanna disrespect Bali.
- The culture?
- But these colors, they're not me.
- It's not for you.
You look like a curtain.
I would have never chosen mustard yellow.
I don't wear mustard yellow.
- Mustard yellow. - And she loves mustard.
- Mustard yellow! - What was it about--
- I fucking hate mustard yellow, Andy.
- And mustard looks the best on dark-skinned women.
So... - Okay, well, for me,
it reminds me of that, like,
you know when you throw up too much,
and that little bit of the yellow, like,
when there's nothing left? - No.
You just didn't wanna come. Admit it.
- And you're like ugh.
- What was your reaction to seeing the ladies' opinions
of the dresses? - To be honest,
I was mortified but more so for the designer,
as a designer myself.
And it was a cultural dinner. - You know, the dresses--
- So we were wearing that cultural attire.
- It wasn't "suck dick."
- It's Sakdek. - Sakdek.
- She said, "The designer is 'suck dick.'"
I'm like, oh, no.
- Hello. - Where are you?
- Just putting on the corset part of my dress,
and there's no buttons. - Okay.
So, what? You guys are not coming?
- Yeah, no, sorry.
- It's disrespectful not only to Lesa
but to the famous designer, Sakdek.
- Sakdek. - I said his name.
- No, it's not, Andy. - Oh, it's Sakdek?
- Andy, it's Sakdek.
She said it right. - Oh, it is Sakdek?
Oh. - Yeah.
- Listen, I have nothing against suck dick.
[laughing] All good.
Um, okay, I wanna get back to Brooks and Taleen.
Brooks, you told me, on "Watch What Happens Live--"
- Yeah.
- That you could see a path towards reconciliation
if Taleen apologized to you.
By the way, just wanna point out
she has apologized to you tonight already--
- Yeah. - For the comment she made
about your dating habits. - Yeah.
- She apologized for the comment that she made
about your husband. - Oh, yeah,
about-about your husband. - Yeah.
- So, she's apologized a couple times.
I'm just wondering.
What else is on the table that you need to hear from her
in order to move forward?
- I think that's okay.
- That's okay? - I-I'm content with that.
- Okay, is there anything you need
to hear from Brooks-- - Yeah.
- ...In order to move forward?
- I'd like-I'd like you to take accountability
because you've been on a smear campaign
with my fam-- - Oh, then if we have to go back--
- With my family and my children.
- If she's gonna say that, then I'll go back and say the--
Your family tried to slander me on TV.
Your mom implied alcoholism. - You-you-you don't stop on Twitter.
- Your sister called me unhinged.
No, sorry. - You are unhinged.
- Okay, she also apologized for the alcoholic comment.
- Then-- okay, then, yeah,
but no, I have nothing to say.
- But if you could take accountability for the venom
that you spew on the Internet and take back
some of the stuff-- - Okay.
- ...that can actually really ruin people's lives--
- Your tweets are pretty pointed.
- Yes, yes. - They are.
- Yeah, they're very bad. - Yeah.
- You go live on Twitter, like, all day long.
- With, like, ten people on Spaces.
- You're so busy. - Yeah.
- So, can you take ownership
for your part in that? - Yeah, yeah.
I can say honestly, Andy, that's true.
I'm very responsive,
and sometimes the response is not equal
to what was given to me.
- Reactive. - Okay.
- And I react, but I react on ten.
- Okay. - So, that's not okay.
- Okay. - I need to learn
how to dial it back. - Okay.
- Reel it in rather than going to 100
when somebody was on maybe, like, a 50.
- Okay.
- But are you apologizing for that?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- I think that it was too far.
Like, I think I've gone too far sometimes.
- You take it too far. - Okay.
It sounds like you two need to have a side conversation.
- Yeah. - And that's great.
We're gonna leave it right there,
and we're gonna be back with more from the reunion.
[sighs]
- I need a fan. - I have to pee so badly.
- Me, too. - Okay, 45 minutes for lunch.
- I have to pee, okay. - Oh, thank God.
- Good job, everybody. - I'm so happy we get to eat.
Thanks, Andy.
[screaming] - Oh, sorry.
[laughing]
- Which one is my room? I don't even know at this point.
Lesa?
- Where is my room? - Is my room there?
- There, there, right.
Taleen, are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine, but it's just--
I'm not gonna-- I-I'm not gonna
take all this accountability,
apologize 100 fucking times,
and then she's not giving the example
of when I went so low.
- No, you've always apologized.
You apologized during filming, after filming.
- Exactly, thank you, thank you.
But in order for us to move forward,
we need to have an honest conversation.
I'm not gonna do this hee-hee-haw-haw bullshit.
- Then-then bring an honest conversation.
- Well, I'm trying.
- What the fuck was that?
Is Ayan losing her--
what is-- - She's literally on 1,000.
Look at you.
Victim, again? Professional victim.
- Lesa, you're calling me a victim,
and you know that's the worst word
you can use on me. - Ayan.
- I'm moving on.
Ayan-- - This is too much.
I need water. I am so de-dehydrated.
- Okay, all right, okay, okay. - We can tell.
- I need water, please.
- She needled, and I fell for it.
I fell for it. I fell for it.
- What did you fall for?
- I fell for the word "victim." She's my best friend.
She knows if you say, "The victim,"
it will piss me off.
It bothers me to my core,
if you say that. - She knows.
She knows what triggers you, and you're rising to it.
You need to calm it. - I'm gonna be calmer as her.
- No, not as her.
She's almost like a waxwork.
- Yeah. - And to watch her
make you look crazy, is making me crazy.
- I know.
[gasps] - What happened?
What did you do? - What the fuck is that?
- What did you do?
Did you shit in my room? - Cockroaches.
Oh, my God.
We're not in Dubai anymore, Toto.
Oh, my God. - Knock-knock.
Hi, guys. How are you? - Hi. Good.
- How are you feeling? - I'm all right.
- Yeah? - How are you feeling?
- Yeah, good. I'm happy we talked.
- Yeah, did we? - Kinda.
We need to just move forward. Yeah, I think I'm ready.
- For me, dude, it's the--
it's the online stuff that you're doing.
What is going on, man?
The infidelity...
- You-- you're the one who said you bring women
into your home. It's not infidelity.
- I never said that.
You've gone so low, dude.
- Because you've gone low, in general.
- How? Besides "Watch What Happens," how?
Give me-give me examples. - You're not gonna sit here--
you're not gonna sit here while you're sitting on a chair.
- Give me examples.
- Yeah. - You want me to stand up?
I'll stand up. - No, it's okay.
I'm ready to move forward.
We actually just talked about it onstage.
- Are you? But-but ready to be moving forward,
is to go into the deeper shit.
- Not really. - Really?
- 'Cause if we go into the deeper shit,
then we have to rehash everything.
I'm not interested to go back to the past.
I'm ready to move forward. - Right,
because this is what you do. You deflect.
- Okay, I'm gonna go.
- You've barely apologized for anything.
So, I wanna know-- - Is that--
is that what you wanna talk about,
or is it, like, do you want to, like--?
- Yeah, I want to know where I've gone low.
And the 105 times I begged you to be on this show,
you know that that's a crock of shit.
- No, it's not a crock of shit, actually.
You did. - Oh, please.
I'm-I'm over it. - I have receipts.
That's-- I'm not-- I'm bored. - You want me on this show
to bring Stanbury and everyone down.
- No, no, no, you wanted to be on the show
since season one, and they didn't fucking cast you.
- Bullshit.
You can't take accountability for anything.
- Okay, good.
- Bitch.
- Coming up next...
- Ayan, allow me to speak now and stop screaming.
- So, you want to tell me you knew from that day
that your friendship with me was over.
That was day one-- - I did not say that.
- Day one, day one, Lesa. - I said that's when--
that's when things started.
- Oh, you have to do something about my jewelry.
I'm wearing 1.5 million dollars.
[laughing]
[sighs] - Are you seeing my vagina?
- No, that's me, Ayan.
- Hey, Sara.
- It's freezing.
- I know. It is. - Yeah.
- And it was so hot before.
- Okay, I must admit.
Stanbury really looks hot after the surgery.
[laughing] - I know, the face.
- She looks really young. - Yes, she does.
- Thank you.
- Stand by. Cue mic in three, two, one.
- We are back with the Real Housewives of Dubai.
Now, everyone here excels in the sport
of wielding a platinum credit card,
but with all due,
that's where this group's athletic abilities
begin and end.
Please enjoy Dubai's most questionable athletes.
Watch.
- Oh, my God. Baby, how do I look?
- You actually have a wedgie.
- Okay.
- You need to stretch.
- What do you mean, stretch?
- Go like this.
No, Ayan.
- Right leg forward. Bring it back.
- Oh, my God, why is my body opening so much?
- How is everyone feeling?
That was the warm-up. - What?
- Ayan does not play sports at all.
- Oh!
I grew up in Africa.
We have so many different sports.
We run. We chase the animals.
We climb the trees to get food.
It makes your heart beat very fast.
- It's called cardio.
- Ready? - Oh, God.
- Go!
- Ahh!
- As fast as you can!
- I walk, I jog.
The only time I think anyone will see me run,
if there was a sale on in Chanel.
- All right, guys. Let me show you how it's done.
- Oh! - Whoa!
- Oh!
- Ready. Yes!
- Sara, imagine it's Stanbury's face.
[cheering]
- You hit it.
[cheering, screaming]
- You're the best golfer. - I'm the best golfer.
- She really is.
- I tell you guys. I am very good at everything
I have never done. - All right, okay.
[laughing]
- All right.
Uh, Sara, how would you describe the fitness scene in Dubai?
- Oh, it's huge. - Has there been a shift
from when you were growing up? - It's huge.
They're either lipo-sucking everything
to look like they work out,
or they're working out. - That's not fitness.
[laughing] - Right.
Ayan, Maryann from Sacramento said,
"In Bali, you implied that you can't swim.
Did you ever learn how?"
- Can you imagine her swimming?
No. - Oh, my God.
So, I cannot swim.
Can I, like, tap-tap the water like this and play?
I can. - That's drowning.
- Huh?
- Um, Taleen hosted all of you on an overnight golf trip.
- Yeah. - Now, what about
that enormous ballgown screamed golf to you?
- Listen, Andy, I don't dress because of activities
or things. - Right.
- I dress how it makes me feel.
- Brooks, golf quickly went left when Lesa brought up
your comments about her Mina Roe event.
- Thank you, ladies. - No, thank you.
- ...for coming and supporting me.
It meant so much to me.
Um, Brooks, you had, like, an issue.
What was it? - So, it was--
obviously, I'm-I'm-I'm a spa owner.
So, it's a conflict of interest to my business.
- It was the branding, though.
- You don't have a business, bitch, if I couldn't
freaking take it and put it everywhere!
- I saw it in my ass crack that day.
- Why were you so offended?
- So, there's two different points here.
One about whether or not I should do the services,
as they're another business that offers
the same services as me.
- You wouldn't accept services from another spa.
- I could, if I'm traveling abroad or something,
but that's Dubai. - And you have.
- I have.
- You do other services from other spas.
- I-I-I actually-- definitely.
- I mean, I watch other TV shows that I don't work on.
- No, but totally. Andy, wait.
- So, were you mad that she didn't do it at Glass House?
- No, but let me-- let me finish.
Hold on, no. - Okay, okay.
- Yes, you were. - You were so mad.
- But let me finish.
Stanbury is the one who actually--
her and Sergio messaged me how Lesa Milan
was branding it with decals.
- No, you came into my room when I was having a massage!
- How much did she pay to rent this?
- Yeah, I don't know. - This is a lot,
because I would have given her my place for free.
- Yeah.
- Lesa, what are you doing?
To try to invite me to a spa,
you're trying to act like you bought it.
Stop it, girl. Come on, now.
- Did you rile her up?
- I don't think so, no. She was fuming by the time
she got into our room. - Oh, my God.
- We were trying to calm her down after.
- When you rent out a space to do an event
for your brand, you are gonna brand it, right?
- Okay. - It's just what you do.
- Okay.
- You have done services outside of Glass House.
- For sure, for sure. Even today, I did it
in a hotel, yesterday. - Also-also,
let's be very clear, at the time,
you hosted your big grand opening for Glass House,
and you did not invite Ayan and I
to your thing. - True.
- We were the only people left off the list.
- True. - Okay.
- I feel like this group likes to take each one's wins away.
You said she didn't have a business.
- Yeah. - We all have--
we all work very hard. - Yeah, because--
Yes, we do all work very hard.
- I have someone that apparently pays my bills.
Nobody pays my bills, no one. - And you're always--
you're always coming for my business.
- When? When? - You always do.
You already came for my business last season.
This black girl-- - You steal designs.
I have proof, too. - I don't steal designs.
You are the wicked witch of the Middle East.
So you wanted her to do your dirty work.
- Oh, you weren't there.
Oh, you weren't there, so don't speak--
- No, Lesa, no. - Yes, yes.
I went, and I bought three, not one, of your journals,
and, in fact, I have to bring something out.
- Okay. Is this gonna be...
[sighs] - No, no, no.
- Is this gonna land? - It's gonna land.
- Okay.
- So, I went-- I bought three of her journals.
I noticed it was very familiar.
It looked like a journal I already h-had from years ago.
- I didn't say I wrote it. - Really?
- No. - Yeah, because it's plagiarism,
literally plagiarism! - Wait.
Whose journal is that?
- Oh, no. - One second,
one second, one second. - Plagiarism!
- Lesa-Lesa-- - Oh, shit.
- Oh, Mina Roe steals designs,
but you- you put your name on
something that you did not even write.
- Lesa-Lesa-- - I didn't say I wrote it.
- Brooks, what happened? [overlapping chatter]
- You're doing great supporting businesses, Lesa.
- Your creams are from Alibaba.
We brought-- she brought proof.
- My creams are not. My creams are not from Alibaba.
- They are. - My creams are from Europe!
**
- Lesa-Lesa-- - You put your name on something
that you did not even write.
- I didn't say I wrote it.
Your creams are from Alibaba.
- My creams are not from Alibaba.
- They are. She brought proof.
- My creams are from Europe! - Brooks found them on Alibaba.
- I'm not the one who found it on Alibaba!
Me, Saba, Sara-- wait a minute.
I'm not the one who found that. - No.
- You're gonna let that fall on me?
- You cannot find my cream there.
Made by Nature Labs in Bulgaria-Bulgaria.
- Okay, okay. All right. Okay, Bulgaria.
Okay, all right. Moving on.
This year, Caroline Stanbury moved into a new home
and then got right to work on renovating her face.
[laughing] - What?
- But her lack of patience with Sergio
had her putting up a few extra walls of her own.
Watch. - That's funny.
- Honey? Honey?
You listening, or no?
Honey? - Hang on one second, please.
[sighs] - Aye.
- Sergio and I have now been married a full year.
He's still as clingy as ever, which I'm trying to
cut the umbilical cord.
- But do you think it's normal that you go with your ex-husband
on a trip? - Yeah.
Even if we became a family again,
you could still live with me.
[laughing] - You're fucking kidding me.
- Stop laughing.
- How does it feel having the married couple here?
- Do not get me started.
Sometimes their-their life is so frenetic.
It's like, you know what? Calm down.
- You gonna help me with all these, honey, or no?
- Wait, I'm just doing the bills for the house, darling.
- You should take these bags with us, honey.
Huh? - Yes.
- Lis-listen to me. I don't know.
- Sergio, stop interrupting! I told you to stop!
- Okay, okay. - And then you ask,
and you ask, and you ask.
The fucking handbags are going nowhere!
Fuck off.
- Are you guys ready to have a baby?
- No, my stress levels are through the roof.
- I honestly believe that if Caroline doesn't
give Sergio a baby, this marriage is not gonna work.
- Are we actually having a baby or not?
I wanna have it, at some point.
- So, is it a dealbreaker or not?
Tell me.
- I-I want a baby.
- We both have to agree at the same time,
and I suppose, ultimately, this could be the one thing
that, you know, divides us.
I have to rethink everything now.
- All right, lots to get into.
Uh, at the start of the season, you were still waiting
to move into the house.
How long did it take to complete the house?
- One and half, nearly two years.
- Oh, that's-- - It's very quick.
Dubai is, like, they pop up. It's the most bizarre thing.
- Okay. - And you only see, like,
one person building it. It's really weird.
- Wow! Nan Morcher on Twitter said,
"Did Sergio say he was the man of the house
while living in someone else's home?
Did you consider him the man of the house
while staying with Michael?"
- No, because it wasn't his house,
and that was very difficult for him.
- Do you consider him the man of the house
in your house?
- Yes, but not-- well, yes and no.
I'm 20 years older. - Yes.
- So, I like to take control of things.
When I was married before,
I think my ex-husband did everything.
He ran everything.
I didn't know where everything was going,
and I vowed that that would never happen to me again.
- He's, like, secure in who he is, and I think--
I-I respect Sergio for that. I really do.
- Does-does Sergio have a job? - Yes, he does.
We are building a small boutique hotel,
and which is currently 15 bedrooms.
- Wow. - So, it's totally his,
and I wouldn't be with someone that does nothing in my-my life.
- Okay. - I don't need another handbag.
[laughing]
- At the queens dinner, you told Taleen that
you only give your relationship with Sergio
ten to fifteen years.
- So, how long do you give this thing?
- In my head, I always told him ten to fifteen.
Well, that's, you know, me joking.
But, you know, at some point, I'm gonna grow old,
and he won't be as old, and a 20-year older woman is--
you know, there's a huge difference
between a man and a woman. - I don't see Sergio doing that.
- What did Sergio think when you--
when he heard you say that? - He gets very upset.
- He will not leave you. - He's not.
- Yeah. - He'll change your diapers.
He'll push you on the- on the wheel.
- No way. - He will not leave you.
- And you'll probably get another facelift,
so you're good. [laughing]
- I spent two days with them in New York, like, 24 hours,
and, literally, there is no way Sergio is gonna leave you.
- No way.
- The bond is so real. - Yeah, he dies for her.
- He dies for her, really. - Yeah.
- Uh, Stanbury, we saw you visiting the IVF clinic.
The doctor told you it's best to have the baby in a year.
- Yeah. - It has now been over a year.
- Mm-hmm.
- Surrogacy is now legal in Dubai.
- Yes.
- So, there are now seemingly no obstacles to this happening.
- Seemingly so. [laughing]
- Only her. - Just watching you,
it kind of seems like you have no intention
of having this baby.
- Am I longing for a baby? No.
Was I longing to get remarried again?
No. - Yeah.
- Right. - But, like, if-if--
- He seems to say it's kind of a dealbreaker.
- Well, to be fair to him, he hadn't Googled
what dealbreaker meant, and the production goes,
"Is it a dealbreaker?" [laughing]
- What does he think it means?
- Yeah, what does he think?
- He goes, "Is it a deal?" He thought it was a deal,
and I'm like,
"You've never said that to me before."
And he goes, "You know, a deal."
And I'm like, "No, you said a dealbreaker,
like we're gonna get divorced if we don't have this."
He goes, "Oh, no, I didn't mean that."
[laughing]
- Who thinks they're going to have the baby?
- I think, yeah, the surrogacy. - I think, yeah, you should.
- Yeah, with the surrogacy, hopefully.
- I don't think she's gonna do it.
- But she shouldn't be forced into it.
She has to be happy about it, as well.
- Yes, it should be your choice.
- It's very difficult because, you know,
I'm torn because I love my life. I love my life.
- Yes. - But I love Sergio, too.
- Okay. So, next year, at this time,
do you think there will be a bun in someone's oven?
- Maybe Sara will be your surrogate.
- Hell no! [laughing]
- I wouldn't mind that.
- That would be a Housewives first.
[laughing]
All right, changing topics.
Sara, we started off the season hearing you open up
about wanting to find love.
Viewers found it very admirable that, after two divorces,
you were opening yourself up again.
- Sara, I heard you have a German and an African man.
[laughing]
- When are you gonna be my stepdad?
- Maki! I'm so sorry.
I see a future. - I see a future, as well.
- Are we exclusive but not exclusive?
- Yes.
- Why did you feel like you were ready to date?
- I just felt like I cannot date until I fix my traumas.
Akin came into my life when I was in deep healing,
so his bullshit didn't pass with me.
Yeah. - Right.
- But what happened? Why did you guys...
- First of all, I think he-- we should give him this fountain
'cause he's very thirsty. - Okay.
- So, this water is good enough for him.
No, he-he cheated. - Aww.
- How did you find out? - Yeah, and I hired a detective.
- Really? - What?
- And h-and his exes reached out and showed me screenshots
and everything. So--
- How long had you been together, at that point?
- It wasn't like we were together-together.
We were--
- Well, if you weren't together, how did he cheat?
- Why is that cheating? Yeah. - No, we were exclusive.
- And you guys really never kissed?
- No, none of your business, girl.
- Taleen.
- And he was saying you can't do a podcast
with a guy who has shirtless shots
on the internet, but he was cheating.
- Yeah. So, cheaters think everyone cheats, right?
- Right. - So, he was like,
"You cannot do podcasts with men who look good
or who are shirtless."
I cannot go to a mixed gym, but he trains women.
I cannot do so many things, and he was doing them all.
- So insecure.
- Yeah, but when we went to Seychelles with you,
he kept on calling Sara. - He was so horrible to you.
- At one point, I just took the phone,
and I was like, "Sara, that's it."
He was so rude. He was very aggressive.
- He was really nice to me and you,
but he was nasty to the other people who were there.
- No, you-you and him were nice to each other.
You always flirt with him. - I wasn't flirting.
- You were like, "Akin, you're hot."
I'm like, he just insulted Nina. - Flirting?
I didn't say, "Akin, you're hot."
- You said that to him, babe. - On the phone in Seychelles?
- I was like, he's not even worth it.
- No, I didn't. - Yeah.
- I never said that he was hot.
- You know, I watched you with your son,
and it was so sweet.
I think it was probably a very big deal
that you let Akin in and introduced him to your son.
Do you regret that? Do you regret bringing him in?
- No, no, I'm-I'm very honest with Maki.
I do not hide anything from my son,
and I don't regret anything, and that's how my son grows
and understand how life is.
- It's beautiful to watch.
- Um, what is your current dating status, Sara?
- Single. - Single?
- But I-I went on a couple of dates.
They were horrible. One in New York, actually.
- Really? - Yeah. Yeah, she did.
- Oh, no.
- Um, the story of your nanny betraying you
is absolutely, uh, terrifying. - That was insane.
- I mean, also, your son must be very upset.
- He was for, like, two months.
He was scared to go to the toilet alone.
I was not-- - Oh, no.
- Yeah, because he trusted her. He loved her so much.
- Of course. - Aww.
- Yeah, but now he's okay. - Yeah, that's Maki.
- Yeah, it's Maki. - Maki is strong.
- Wow. Okay, we're gonna take a break.
We'll be right back.
Coming up next...
- I said to her, "I don't believe you."
She goes, "I'll call her on speakerphone."
I'm going to be eaten alive by Ayan's train.
It's basically a blanket in my lap.
And so, if I get cold-- - You can warm up yourself.
- I can warm myself up. That's what's happening today.
Welcome back with The Real Housewives of Dubai.
Ever since the trailer dropped, fans have been desperately
wondering what was going on with Lesa and Ayan.
At the start of the season, it seemed like nothing
and no one could come between these two best friends.
But when Ayan hit play on a controversial voice memo
in Bali, multiple blowups ensued,
causing both women to hit pause on their once solid friendship.
Watch.
- Oh, baby. - You look so good.
- Me and Lesa are so close.
It's like how God and Jesus are close.
The boobs are boobing. Like, so good.
- I brought the milk for the coffee.
- Yeah. [laughing]
I will drink it.
- Eww. - Yuck.
- I would.
- Somebody stole your best friend, babe.
- I don't want you to get too close to that bitch
'cause I'm jealous.
- Hello, gorgeous ladies. - Oh, hi.
- Lesa wants me all to herself, but she doesn't mind
me hanging out with somebody as long as she is there.
Sara, she's literally changed her mind on Brooks
all of a sudden. - What?
- I have a voice note.
- If Sara really was such a good friend,
she needs to have accountability
for the voice note you played us.
- What voice note was that? - I'm sorry.
- The voice note that I sent you?
- Sorry, Lesa, because I put you in a bad situation.
- That's fucked up. I cannot trust you now.
- I was messy.
[sobbing]
I'm sorry! Actually, I'm very loyal.
She put me in my place.
- She starts yelling and screaming.
"Get the fuck out of my room! Get the fuck out!"
- Ayan? - Ayan.
- To you? No more clique-y bullshit.
It's annoying. - Who is clique-ing?
- Lesa could stab me.
You wouldn't be like, "Fuck you, Lesa.
I can't believe you did that."
- The girls were telling me they feel that
when I'm with you, I'm different
from when I'm with them.
- I thought we agreed that
we weren't gonna talk about this.
- I can't be friends with anybody
because I'm always afraid of what you feel
and how you feel about everything!
- What? Oh, look at you.
- I'm done.
Lesa is really, really controlling,
what to talk about on camera, what to talk with the girls,
how to speak.
- I'm done. - No, I'm done.
- You know what? - I'm done.
- My friendship with you is over.
- This show is not worth it for me!
- Hate to see it. [sighs]
You know, Lesa, your friendship with Ayan
seemed so unbreakable and strong.
Were there any issues prior to Bali
that we didn't see? - Yes.
So, I've always loved Ayan.
Ayan is literally like family to me.
However, there were small things that was happening
behind the scenes that kinda made me feel like,
hmm, really?
Starting with the Rihanna thing, right?
- Yeah, let's talk about that.
- Rihanna was pregnant at the time,
and I said to Ayan, "Rihanna follows you.
Can you DM her? I'll send her maternity wear."
Rihanna is pregnant. - I know. I saw.
- You need to tell her that she needs to be in Mina Roe.
- I'll be like, "Hey, Rihanna, can you please wear
my best friend's clothes because she has
the best maternity clothes in the world?"
- That could work.
- So, Andy, before we started filming,
I said to Rihanna,
"I'm actually starting a makeup line.
Please, if you have any advice."
She, uh, replied back and said,
"Whatever you need, I got your back."
- Okay. - Okay.
So, the first moment we arrive on camera, Lesa goes,
"Can you please ask your best friend, Rihanna,
to wear maternity?"
I go, oh, I haven't even asked Rihanna's permission
to talk about it on camera.
So, you cannot go on camera,
start making collections for Rihanna,
and ask me, and talk about it on camera
without me having permission.
- Ayan, if you told me that's what you wanted--
- So, you want to tell me you knew from that day
that your friendship with me was over.
That was day one-- day one. - I did not say that.
I said that's when-- that's when things started.
That's when-- - Day one, Lesa, on camera,
you want to tell me this is why you were acting weird
the whole entire time.
That was day one. - I acted weird?
- All right.
Um, Ayan, the second night in Bali,
Stanbury brought up a voice note
that you had previously played for her.
- Yes.
- You said, in your confessional,
that Lesa knew it was gonna come up at dinner.
- Absolutely, yes. Before we went out to dinner,
I spoke to Lesa about the voice note.
I said to Lesa,
"Stanbury wants me to talk about the voice note."
But the fact that she literally acted like
she never heard of that voice note,
you are lying on my name.
- When? When did you tell me? - When did you tell her?
- Did you know about the voice-- just look me in the eye.
- Ayan, answer the question. - No, listen.
Look at me in the eye and tell me
I never told you about the voice note.
- When? So, let me tell you what she did.
- Andy, I don't wanna shout. - Listen. Listen.
- Lesa, you know about the voice note.
Look me in the eye. - Ayan, I swear to God.
- The-the first time you ever heard that voice note,
it was not on that dinner table, Lesa.
- While we were on-- babe, while we were at the dinner--
- Andy-Andy, do me a favor, ask production.
- Andy, yes, please!
- She knew about the voice note before we were at the dinner.
- I'm not gonna keep shouting over her. - Oh, my God.
- When I-- when I-- - Sara?
- When Lesa told me-- when I told Lesa,
"You knew about the voice note, why were you doing all of this,"
she said, "I didn't." - I was shocked.
- Yes, yes. - I asked all the producers.
They said you knew. - Yes.
- What? - The producers all said that.
- You knew. You knew! - Listen.
I asked the producers in the ear.
- Everybody-- you knew! - On our way, walking--
- The supervising producer said that Ayan told you before.
- Right before the dinner. - Yes!
- Okay.
- I told you! I-- yes! - You were cutting me off!
No, you didn't!
- You swore on your kids that you never knew!
- But that means that you knew. - You-- No, I didn't!
- Oh!
- Answer the question! - Lesa, look at me in the eye
and tell me I never told you about the voice note.
- So, on our way, walking-- - The supervising producer
said that Ayan told you before.
- Right before the dinner. - Yes!
- Okay.
- I told you! I-- yes! - You were cutting me off!
No, you didn't!
- You swore on your kids that you never knew!
- But that means that you knew. - You-- No, I didn't!
- Oh!
- So, listen to what happened. - She knew about it.
- We were walking to the dinner.
- She knew about it. - She was freaking out.
"Stanbury is gonna play something."
I didn't know it was my voice note!
- Lesa-- Lesa, oh, my God! - You said it--
- But she didn't tell us that it was coming from you.
- Okay, all right, moving forward.
Moving forward.
Stanbury, Jessica from San Francisco says,
"When you called out Sara for what she said in the voice note,
"what were you trying to do?
"Did you not think that Ayan would get caught
"in the crossfire?"
- I told you not to do it first. - Hold on.
- Yes, you did. - I would like to know,
from Stanbury.
- No, no, no. When I was on the boat,
I said, "When are you gonna deal with it?"
- Yeah. - She said, "I'm not."
- Yeah, I said, "Don't bring it up."
- She said, "Don't bring it up."
You haven't even dealt with Sara yet.
- No, no, no.
See, I-I, really-- I-I-I avoid.
I know. I avoid.
- I wanted her to do it. - Yes.
- Then she didn't, and that's where I wanted to poke fun
and holes in that. - Yes.
- Because I wanted to prove to Sara
that Caroline wasn't who she says she is.
- But it was about me. - Okay. Okay.
- I didn't know she was doing that.
- Why did you send the voice note to Ayan
in the first place? - So, here is the thing.
- Because you were confused and you needed--
- Yeah, I said to her-- I said-- - No, if you're confused,
call me.
- I was just being messy with my best friend.
- So, the message was a lot of voice notes
of me backing up Brooks and me being upset with Taleen.
And then, in the end, I told Lesa,
"I know you said you're not a fan of Brooks,
"but I'm not a fan of her." - Yes.
- And are you still not a fan of her?
- No, I love her. - Okay.
- Lesa, I'm sorry, again.
I was really wrong for playing it, okay?
I admit it. - As I was.
I'm not innocent in it either.
I was wrong for playing it, too.
- Because-because-- it wasn't right.
Nobody should send me a voice note ever again.
[laughing] - Okay.
Um, Brooks and Taleen, on the golf trip,
you told Ayan that she acts differently
when Lesa isn't around.
- She's a different person when she's not there.
- Yeah. - She's more likeable,
more fun.
I don't know what. - More open-- she talks.
- She walks on eggshells a little bit.
- That's not true. - Oh, my God.
- If Ayan acts different when I'm not around,
it's because I'm not there to have her back.
- I don't need anyone to have my back!
- When I watched the show back, I was like,
okay, in all their scenes, I feel like she always went,
"How are you, Lesa? How are the children?
"How is your business?"
But nothing back to how-how she is.
- No. - That's not true.
I've always been the number one supporter of her.
- Lesa, you asked me to tone myself down,
so you can sit next to Andy Cohen.
Every time we-- - What?
I don't compete with my friends.
We were a team.
- Well, you're both sitting next to Andy.
- Thank you. Bravo. Bravo.
- Wow.
- I have to say this is all kind of surface BS.
- It really is. - I don't understand
what happened at the finale party.
- The whole bragging thing--
I spoke with Stanbury about you saying
that she felt like I was bragging,
and she said she never said that.
You told me that. - No, I didn't.
I said she was asking me to come to her--
- You used the word "bragging."
- I never used the word "bragging."
I never told Ayan that.
- Nobody said the word "bragging."
- Ayan said that she had dinner, or lunch, or something
with you, Caroline, and that you felt like
I was bragging about my house in Miami,
bragging about buying your family's farm,
which I never said I was gonna buy.
You told me it was for sale.
And that you felt like I was bragging.
So, we just finished our Miami house.
- It's finished. - Onto the next. Yeah.
So, now, it's his turn to get his thing.
- To get his? - Yeah, yeah, yeah,
which is, he wants to buy a farm in the Cotswolds.
- Buy my parents' house. - Really?
He wants to do, like, archery and horse riding.
So, we'll have, like, a full staff.
- My mom's house is too small for that,
but it is, uh-- - We can extend.
When I called Stanbury, I said,
"Why do you feel like I'm bragging?"
She said, "I never said that you were bragging,
"and the only person that has a problem with anybody
"having anything in this group is your friend."
- I did not say that. - I don't think she would say that.
- I promise you said that. - No, I was repeating--
no, no, no. - Why would--
I don't believe you would say that.
I don't believe it. - I didn't say that.
I was repeating the story. - I know. You guys are bosom buddies now.
You're not gonna wanna believe, whatever.
- I don't believe it. - Okay.
- I don't care. I'm gonna speak my truth.
- I felt really betrayed.
I asked every single person, and I have messages
in the group.
"Guys, Taj is being bullied in school.
"I want him to come to the party,
"so we can have fun.
"If any one of you has an issue with me,
"please tell me not to invite my son."
So, I did all-- - Did you call me?
- Yeah, Lesa, I told you. You should know Taj
was being bullied, and I-- - Why would you need to tell me?
We were best friends. Why would you need to tell me?
We were cool. - I-- you told--
- Did she not tell you, or did she tell you?
- She never told me, but it doesn't even matter
whether she told-- - She told everyone, I thought.
- I told even in the group. - Whether she told me or not,
she didn't, 'cause she wouldn't need to.
We were best friends, and this was not premeditated.
- You brought the drama in front of her son.
- In front of her son when she made it a point.
- My-my whole in-laws were there!
We both embarrassed ourselves! - Oh!
- You-you are to be responsible for your behavior
in front of your child.
- I would never do that to your children.
- Can you-- hold on. You've both expressed,
separately, to me, that you miss the other person,
that you love the other person's family,
and that is a friendship worth saving.
Is there something nice that you two would like to say
to each other since you've certainly said
everything else tonight?
- Here's the thing. - Okay.
- What happened in the group last year, petty.
- Okay. - We can get past that.
- Okay. - But what I cannot get past,
is you saying that you wish me dead
and my body in a casket. I have children.
- What the fuck are you talking about?
What are you talking about? - Did you say that?
- I have children. That is dark and vile.
- What are you talking about?
What are you talking about? - Where did she say that?
Where did she say that? - You said it to her.
- Oh. - Oh, my God!
- And I didn't-- but listen, Taleen.
- This is the wrong source. - Listen, but listen.
I didn't believe it, as well. - Oh, my God!
Lesa, there is no way I would say that.
- But listen, Ayan! Ayan!
- Even when you attacked me on the news--
even when you bring me on-- - Okay, drop the bomb.
Drop it. - All roads lead to Brooks.
- Okay, hold on. Hold on. [overlapping chatter]
- Let me speak. - Let her-- let her finish.
Let her finish. - Because of the source,
I said to her, "I don't believe you."
She goes, "I'll call her on speakerphone."
[gasps] - Excuse me?
- She calls you on speakerphone, and she said to you--
- Brooks, that's not-- that's not nice.
- Listen, she called her on speaker phone.
- Wait, what did I say? - Gross.
- First, she was like, "What did I say?"
She said to her, "You said that you--
"you're so mad at her. You wanna see her dead."
- Yeah, I repeated it back to her.
- And then she goes-- she then said, "Fuck that bitch."
I have children. - Lesa, I would never say that!
You know that for a fact. - No.
- To wish me dead... - This is a whole plan.
I would never, ever.
- Oh, yeah, we're gonna plan this.
- Guys, what do I always say about-about Lesa?
- Shame on-- shame on you, though.
- No, wait. - She had nothing but love.
Nothing but love. Loves your children.
- But what did I always say? Brooks-Brooks, I even--
- Shame on- Oh, my God.r setting - She said to me-- she said--
you said to me, "Nobody believes what I say."
- Who does that? - But it didn't happen!
- I know. - It didn't happen!
- Just give me a minute. - You want me a minute?
Okay, she needs a minute. - It did not happen.
- Did you trap Ayan? - No, let me say--
- And it never happened! It didn't fucking happened!
- Yes! Who does that? - Who does that?
- I just need a minute. - You are evil.
- I don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
- Do you need a sip? Okay, get a sip of water.
- I have kids. I have kids, and I heard it with my own ears.
- But you did try to trap Ayan.
- Trap? No, it's not a trap. It's clarification.
- So, that's a trap.
- You-you can't do that to someone.
- But, Brooks, it's not cool to put someone on speaker.
- But I did put her on speaker because you saw
what everybody did at first, before I said that.
- Yeah, but to do that to someone, no way.
- No, the first go to was that I wasn't telling the truth.
- Andy, I swear to God, even when we were fighting
with Lesa, I have never said anything negative.
I've never been mean to Lesa.
All I always say, I miss her. I miss her family.
I love her family. But I never said that.
- I want to believe in my heart you didn't mean it.
- I didn't say it! - I heard you, Ayan.
Stop doing that. We can't move forward.
- Oh, my God! - Well, let me ask you this.
- This is a plan.
This just looks like a plan to take me down.
- Do you believe that she feels that way? Hold on.
Do you believe that she actually feels that way?
- No. - No, no.
- Do you actually believe that is what she wants?
- I've never heard.
I've never heard. - Never.
- Given that she keeps saying that she misses you,
she misses your family-- - Exactly.
- Mm-hmm.
- And that she is upset about the place
that you guys went, is there any part of you
that just thinks that if she said it,
she was just furious at the moment?
- I would like to believe that is the reason she said it.
- Wow. - And honestly,
I was just hoping with all my being,
because I genuinely miss her-- - Wow.
- That she would actually just say,
"I was mad. I'm sorry." - Wow, wow.
Because it didn't happen. - Well, this is sad.
You ladies have had a real friendship.
We're gonna leave it here.
**
- No, I don't wanna leave it like this
because I didn't come to leave like this.
- Okay, well, how would you like to leave it?
What would you like to say?
- I don't wanna leave it like this
because I didn't come to leave like this.
- Okay, well, how would you like to leave it?
What would you like to say?
- You know me for eight years.
You know how much loved you, cared about you,
all your family. - And vice versa.
- I don't mind to have a coffee with you one day
because I feel like we all have to find ways
to go back together because we were
really good friends for eight years.
- You were literally my sister.
- I know that.
It's hard that I don't get to see the kids,
and I know you feel the same way.
But I'm just saying I can leave the door open.
- We have work to do.
- Mm-hmm.
- Maybe therapy will help.
[laughing] We're both hurt.
We've both said and done things that are horrible.
I want to believe in my heart of heart that you wish me well.
- I really do wish you well.
- I don't want to throw away this friendship.
My door is also open.
- Well, thank you for getting to two doors
that are at least open.
I will take that as a little bit of optimism
for a friendship that's worth saving.
So, we're gonna leave that there.
And in keeping with tradition here,
you have all wrapped a few gifts for each other.
Wow, this is great.
Schlepped all these from Dubai.
Brooks, would you like to give yours?
- Yeah, this is for Ayan. - Okay.
- Every time you give me a gift, I never like it.
Oh, I kinda like this.
- Why wouldn't you like it? - Oh, that's pretty.
So, you're being nice?
- I carry those cups everywhere. - I actually love this.
- And I gave you one that's blinged out
'cause you need to quench your thirst everywhere you go.
- Okay. - Thank you.
I honestly love it. I'm gonna use it.
- Okay, good. - It's very me.
It's very high fashion. It's bling-bling.
Thank you, fucking bitch. - Okay, good.
Okay, Ayan, is there something that you brought?
- Yes.
So, my gift is for Lesa. - Okay.
- Growing up in a village,
I used to walk so many kilometers
to go to school and to get water.
But once I got this gift, it always made me feel good.
Water.
- Okay. - It's water.
- Oh, so, you guys did the same thing.
Womp, womp, womp.
- Sara? - Yes. Oh, my God.
My gift is to Taleen. - Okay, ooh.
- Okay. So, these are underwear gummies.
- Oh, my God. - Oh!
- So, next time you fall down,
and-and Stanbury sees your vajay,
she'll see a snack.
- Oh, very nice. - Well, thank you.
- I think Raffi will love eating this.
- Oh, Raf is gonna love this. It's perfect.
- Okay, yes. Okay, that's great.
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
- These are great. - Okay, Taleen, you're next.
- Miss Caroline Brooks, you have to open it,
and there's a beautiful card inside.
[clears throat] It's actually a two-part gift.
So... - Okay.
You don't want to read the card?
- What is this? - I-I can read the card,
if you don't want to read it. - There's a card.
Here, you wanna read the card first?
- Not really. I'm not interested.
- Oh, I can read it.
- Taleen, you should keep your fashion
because you need it.
You return too much to Mall of Emirates.
- I can read it, actually. You can't forget the card.
The card is the most important part.
- No. - So, it's a Twitter whatever.
Okay. - Something that Brooks tweeted.
- Okay.
"And I would never wear her wardrobe
"because she doesn't have one.
"And I want her to show one article of clothing
"that I've ever worn on 'The Real Housewives'
"that she lent to me or gave to me."
- Bada bing-- bada boom!
- Okay, so, those are the items of hers you wore on season one.
- Oh, my-- oh, my God! - Boo, keep it.
- Okay. - You wore my whole wardrobe!
- You can keep it. You said one article.
There it is.
- That was funny.
Okay, Caroline Stanbury,
would you like to give your gift now?
- I got everybody one. - Oh, this is good. Thank you.
- What is this? - I got you one, too.
Who's you're sugar daddy? - I like this.
- Who's your sugar daddy? - Yes.
- I love this. - Throw.
- I love this. - Perfect.
- And this is the gift I was meant to give,
and it's for Sara.
- Okay. - For Sara.
- What is that? - You fucker! Ventriloquist.
- Oh.
[laughing] - Oh, that's so good.
- But I feel like you've got your hand up her ass
and moving her mouth.
- No, maybe I've had my hand up her heart,
not her ass.
- I think you found your man.
- So, my gift is for Caroline Stanbury.
- Mm-hmm. Oh, shit. - Okay.
- So, I feel like you are a bit obsessed with me.
I've decided to make you the president of my fan club.
This is your I.D. - Oh!
- I've also gotten all the merch starter pack,
your starter pack. - Wow, this is a very shady I.D.
- Yes, yes, yes. Here's your hat.
You've got your bag, all the merch.
- By the way, Stanbury takes-- takes it in good humor.
I have to say. - Yeah, she does. She does.
- It's pretty funny.
- These are like gifts at a red wedding.
- Stanbury, your gift was the best.
- I would like to end things with Sara.
Can you bring us out with some words of hope?
- I think the first step to growth is accountability,
and it's not about being honest with people.
It's about being honest with yourself
about so many things.
And the truth is, we all struggle.
We have a lot going on.
We all have our ups and downs.
And if we don't have empathy towards each other,
what the hell are we doing here?
- All right. Thank you, Sara.
I'm being told that Brooks' private jet
is ready to take off. [laughing]
So, I wanna land this plane
by thanking the Real Housewives of Dubai
for another very memorable season and evening.
Thanks, ladies. - Yes.
- Thank you, Andy. Thank you. - Thank you.