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Welcome to Is This Real Life, a podcast that relates the quirkiest aspects of pop culture and reality TV to our own lives.

This is your host, Mandy Sleutzer.

Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to episode 29. Before we get started with this week's very special guest,

I wanted to spill a little tea that you all probably know by now,

which is that Carol Radswell is no longer returning to the Real Housewives of New York.

She left what I thought was a pretty skating statement where she talked about what she planned to do after,

which was getting back into producing and writing,

and that she was looking forward to leaving her frenemies behind. Well, Bethany Frankel, one of those

frenemies, who I think is now a full-blown enemy, implied that there's no way Carol would have

left the show on her own. And she tweeted, Bravo has reasons

for not asking housewives to return. It's based on research and focus groups and you. Aside from

the three years that I left, no real housewives of a New York cast member has ever quit. One saying

they choose to depart and attributing it to me is fiction. It's healthier to be truthful about a hard situation. Well, I've heard that the truth is that Bethany said, hey, it's Carol or me to producers, and they made their decision. So I'm not sure if Carol was kind of given an ultimatum and decided to leave on her own or if she just decided this was it for her.

But either way, why does Bethany need to comment?

One person who did comment was Heather Thompson, who said that she left the show and she was not fired and that Frankel had nothing to do with her decision and that Bethany is certainly not the only housewife who left the

franchise and neither is herself, Heather.

So there you go.

Another interesting piece of tea is a fan tweeted to Catherine Dennis asking if Ashley Jacobs,

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