Erika Is Still ‘Mourning’ Marriage to Tom Girardi, Takes His Calls

As followers put together to dive again into Erika Jayne’s life on season 12 of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills, she’s giving Us Weekly an unique replace on her standing with estranged husband Tom Girardi.

“I nonetheless am mourning that marriage,” the 50-year-old Bravo star informed Us. “I believe that will get misplaced within the sensationalized model of all of it. This was somebody I used to be married to for over 20 years and was with, like, 23 [years]. It’s tough. There are actual moments of unhappiness, actual moments of — like when the vacations got here round, , for Christmas, I’d simply bear in mind how a lot enjoyable we might have. … However what are you going to do with that? This stuff occur in life. They occur to everybody; everybody’s mourning one thing.”

Information broke in November 2020 that Erika filed for divorce from Tom, now 82. One month later, Us confirmed that the twosome had been named in a category motion lawsuit, accusing Tom’s former firm of misusing funds supposed for airplane crash victims. As their authorized woes continued, with further allegations of Girardi & Keese embezzling cash, the previous lawyer was positioned below a conservatorship and moved right into a facility that focuses on reminiscence care.

“I’m entrance and middle. I’m the face of this as a substitute of the attorneys that labored on the agency and referring attorneys and, , legislation funding folks — as a substitute they level to me,” Erika, who has maintained that she didn’t know something about her partner’s alleged wrongdoings, informed Us. “For my psychological well being, it’s been arduous. Little question. However once more, I couldn’t lose and I used to be simply going to struggle it out each approach attainable and nonetheless am.”

Bravo viewers watched Erika try and navigate the divorce and controversy on season 11 of the present, and season 12 shall be no completely different.

“[It’s] very arduous, very tough to be requested the identical questions again and again [and] give the identical reply, however but nobody’s actually listening,” the Dancing With the Stars alum informed Us. “So sure, I get actually annoyed and really explosive simply, like, attempting so arduous to, , I want that that may’ve been over, but it surely wasn’t as a result of what would we be speaking about?”

The Fairly Mess creator additionally revealed on season 11 that Tom known as her “on daily basis” to say “I really like you” and requested her if she was certain in regards to the cut up. She informed Us that she hears from Tom from “time to time.”

“After all [I take his calls],” she defined. “He’s not properly, and so he’s in a state of decline and generally it’s good and generally [he thinks] I’m another person. So it’s superb.”

The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills returns to Bravo Wednesday, Might 11, at 8 p.m. ET.

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