Erika Jayne has finally addressed her controversial divorce from Tom Girardi on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
At the beginning of the latest episode, the 49-year-old spoke to the camera about her divorce after sharing the news with her co-stars over text.
Erika said: “There’s so many layers to this divorce. It’s so f***ing complicated. It’s very difficult to explain.”
“You know, I’m sure that they were very shocked and that they’re going to have a lot of questions.”
The show then teased a clip of Erika speaking to her co-stars about the situation.
The Pretty Mess singer said she “did not see it ending this way” with Tom, before adding: “I was going to hold that man’s hand until he died.”
Later in the episode, Erika’s co-stars brought up her divorce before she arrived at Sutton Stracke’s party.
Garcelle Beauvais said: “I was shocked to hear about Erika. I didn’t see it coming. I remember when I met her last year. We had this amazing lunch.”
“And the moment she mentioned [Tom], she welled up. I felt the love, you know? And I said, ‘That’s what I want.'”
Dorit Kemsley then suggested Erika is “one of those [people] that she holds certain things to her chest and when she’s ready, she shares when she feels comfortable.”
Erika was then shown entering Sutton’s home, and the episode ended with a “to be continued …” slide.
Erika filed for divorce from the 82-year-old attorney in November, after 21 years of marriage.
Since then, Tom has been caught up in a lot of legal drama – and is currently facing numerous lawsuits.
A month after their shocking split, Tom and Erika were sued for allegedly using their divorce to embezzle money.
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In December, Tom and his law firm Girardi & Keese (GK) were held in civil contempt over allegedly embezzling funds from several families who lost loved ones in a 2018 Boeing plane crash – and had their assets frozen by a judge.
The former couple’s legal controversies recently played out in a new documentary titled ‘The Housewife and the Hustler’, which premiered on Hulu on June 14.
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