The Real Housewives of New York City | Bethenny Opens Up About Her Marriage

Bethenny struggles to keep her tears at bay as she discusses the hardships of her marriage and subsequent divorce.

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[emin]

Here we go Ramona cutting Bethany to speak about her own relation.

[Saifera]

As usual ramona chimed in and try to make it about her. Such a cringey lady

[criminalmindsbae]

the way ramona tries to make it about her

[mikylasmith]

They're touched by bethany....in this group that speaks volumes ..bethany is a tough woman...but shes FAIR...these ladies know that deep down

[sarajones]

I love Bethanny. Andy seems to really have an admiration for her too

[HeyMyLifeIsLibby]

I must give everyone some credit for not enabling Ramona’s sociopathy here.

[hb]

Some people in the comment section are just ignorant. Speaking about her being rich and privileged. Money brings out the worst in people, and you can afford lawyers and drag out the divorce for years! Walk a mile in her shoes before judging!

[catherinebranson]

I just ended a relationship like that recently, but he is still obsessed and wants control. I understand her pain.

[janelane]

Poor woman. Glad she’s so strong so she has pulled through.

[nanairmk]

It was really nice too see the girls care about their friend. Luann was the total opposite of how she has been. Romona just looked selfish

[justathought]

Romona was dealing with a cheating husband she’d spent 25 years with. She has a daughter too. One old enough to be very affected by her father’s behaviour. She loved her husband.

Bethenny couldn’t stand Jason before their split and it had been a short lived relationship and marriage of a couple of years. Ramona’s heartbreak must have been indescribable and she handled it with such grace and little compassion on the show. Bethenny cried in one scene but it seemed to be a moment for good tv as much as being there for Ramona. Bethenny gets it and plays to win.

Ramona said relatively little about what must have been devastating and incredibly humiliating throughout. Her husband had also filmed on the show for all of those years. Ramona gets a hard time but Bethenny is far more attention seeking.

Whilst the divorce was a mess, B’s husband’s family really embraced her. She didn’t want any of that from the outset. Jason clearly started off by fighting for their marriage and somewhere it became a horrible mess. I think because his brother died there was a horrible dynamic where everything in his family was on him.

I think Jason also felt very invested in the company. He helped Bethenny a lot when she was building the brand and they all lived and worked together. He really thought they had their lives forever (together). I get his parents would have been intense for someone who didn’t grow up with that.

I just saw the juvenile, spoilt, spiteful side of Bethenny when Ramona tried to sympathise. We are talking about a woman - B - who sold her business for 100 million. I’ve listened to her shows on the divorce. There are people with nothing and more children and even worse situations. She didn’t need to move from pillar to post for two years. She could have rented one place for that time with the millions she had.

B definitely changed from the second she hit the jackpot with her business. I watched the spin off and knew it was over then.
There were similarities to how she initially discarded Jill - I know she tried to recover that situation after the fact - who brought her into the show. Jill knew her from her private chef work. That programme made B and was the launchpad for everything else. Without it she’d have been struggling with her bethenny bakes venture and living month to month.

She had no use or need for Jason and almost changed overnight towards him. Maybe if he’d had his own career and life going on it would have lasted longer but I think it would have imploded at some point. The imbalance was too great. Bethenny didn’t respect him anymore. I think they were both terrified of losing the child but Jason went about things the wrong way.

We never hear from him so I wonder if whatever settlement was reached, included some kind of gag order because we only ever hear Bethenny’s side and there is always what happened and what opposing parties say happened. The truth lies somewhere in between.

[EB-mtte]

"you can't even imagine the torment that this has been there's no way to describe it, I just stifile it all in because if I let any of it out I'm just going to completely break can't believe this happened to me"

[EB-mtte]

"He would sometimes pick up the phone and hang up, or face it to the stuff"

[EB-mtte]

"it was part of my life, and I thought I was never getting couldn't even figure out.. I couldn't understand it. How could I explain this to everybody? It is torture. So that's why I didn't explain it, there's no way to describe this to anyone, no one would believe it"

[nifflofair]

Does Bethenny not think anyone else goes through this and worse with no money !

[Lommy]

The guy was a controlling freak since the beginning, I am sure he is a greedy manipulative nightmare to divorce.

[MsLin]

Bethenny out of the gate winning by a furlong because her journey was valid and it deserved empathy ☘️

[andyt]

I feel bad for Bethenny but when she was yelling at Ramona and telling her that she doesn't want to hear her opinion I was annoyed. She has every right to do that of course but meanwhile she is always inserting her opinion into Luann's life and her relationship with Tom. I wish Luann had told her to shut up when she was talking about her relationship....

[somehingbouthiseyes]

2:10 oh dear Andy.... what an awful thing to say and think to a woman who was in an abusive relationship

[angeninetytwo]

Omg whatever happens to Bethenny is horrible but she downplays everyone else’s struggles .. I wanna like her but I just can’t