RHOBH’s Erika Jayne Breaks Down Her Feud With Crystal Kung Minkoff: ‘I’m Fighting With One Hand Tied Behind My Back’
12.05.2022 - 02:59
/ usmagazine.com
Figuring out their issues. Erika Jayne addressed her tension with Real Housewives of Beverly Hills costar Crystal Kung Minkoff after the singer’s reaction to her legal woes concerned others.
“There is this outpouring of, ‘Why don’t you act this way, Erika? Why aren’t you compassionate? Why don’t you have empathy?’ And the truth is, I do. I’m also under a lot of legal pressure,” the reality star, 50, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, May 10, while promoting the upcoming season of RHOBH. “I’ve walked right up to the line. I’m fighting with one hand tied behind my back.”
The Bravo personality noted that she shared “just about everything” about her case that she could on screen. “So for that whole situation, it was continuously boiling over. It’s like, ‘What about listening to the woman that’s in front of you? What about listening to what I have to say?” Erika continued. “What if I came to this group and opened up as more than I ever had before and I was criticized for that until that wasn’t true. At some point, you get very frustrated with that.”
Erika’s legal drama has been an ongoing topic of conversation on the hit reality show. While filming season 11 in 2020, the “Painkillr” performer and her now-estranged husband, Tom Girardi, were accused of stealing settlement funds intended for the families of victims killed in a 2018 plane crash. The news came one month after Erika filed for divorce from Tom, 82, in November 2020 after 20 years of marriage.
The Georgia native has continued to claim that she had no knowledge of the former lawyer’s alleged wrongdoing. Meanwhile, Tom was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and later placed under a conservatorship with his brother, Robert Girardi, acting as the effective conservator of the