(Spoiler Alert)
Well here are- the episode before the season finale of The Real Housewives of Orange County!
We start off with Lynne Curtin, and daughters, Raquel and Alexa still staying with her mother, while husband Frank Curtin staying at the spa resort after getting served with an eviction notice.
Tamra shows up on Lynne’s mother’s doorstep and after Lynne invites her in, she initiates conversation about what’s going on with her marriage. . “I’ve always been able to forgive and forget but I don’t want to,” she told Tamra.
And Frank asks Lynne out for dinner to “talk”, of course Lynne obliges. “My wife has been an angel in the last 20 years,” Frank said. “Whatever happens from here, whatever comes my way, I deserve.”
“I just want to know the truth,” Lynne said. “I’m his partner in life and I deserve to know.”
Frank pleads, “I love you too much to quit … After all we’ve been through, we can handle anything.”
And it worked! Lynne forgave her husband. “I’m a pushover,” she said. “Frank is a good guy. I still love him. I always forgive him because I love him.”
Meanwhile, we’ve been waiting for the results of Briana’s (Vicki’s daughter) biopsy. But, it was good news when they found out her biopsy results showed she was cancer free.
The drama that Alexis Bellino stirred up with Vicki Gunvalson in San Francisco was still weighing on her mind. So, she invites Jeana Keough over for a drink and to talk.
“I can definitely look back and appreciate the friendship I’ve had with Jeana,” Vicki said. “Our friendship has been hurt but at least I know where I stand with Jeana. In the end, we always had each other’s back.”
Vicki tells Jeana about the lunch in San Francisco, and how she felt like she was being attacked by Alexis. “What is Tamra Barney doing when this girl’s attacking you?” Jeana asked.
“I think she’s somewhat siding with her,” Vicki said.
“I kind of thought that Vicki deserved it a little bit,” Jeana said. “I always had her back, but she didn’t always have mine.”
Now to Alexis, who had her mother, Penelope, in town so she could take her to the plastic surgeon’s office. Penelope, 58, went in for an eyebrow lift, but it turned into $13,000 worth of procedures. “All women need to have a certain level of maintenance and a certain level of beauty,” Alexis said. “It makes them happier.”
Gretchen Rossi was busy setting up her booth at a convention in hopes of launching her makeup line. But when no one showed up, she said, “Looks like there’s not going to be that many people this year, which is a little disappointing. A lot of people don’t have the money to spend on milk and bread right now.” And we see Vicki, who said on a few episodes ago that it was just the wrong time to launch a make-up line.
Should have listened to Vicki, Gretchen!
Tamra got together with her “ho’s and mo’s” for lunch to celebrate her 42 birthday. Tamra explains that Alexis is not attending due to caring for her mother. Tamra doesn’t mention Gretchen (not that we need to wonder why). Lynne is in attendance. And when Vicki sent an employee to the restaurant to deliver Tamra a present, she said, “That’s pretty hurtful.”
“Who has a birthday at 11 o’clock on Tuesday?” Vicki explained. “I’m working.”
Later Simon Barney and Tamra go out for a more intimate dinner to continue the celebration. But the tension was so bad between these two; it was very uncomfortable to watch.
Tamra ordered Simon “a shot of happiness,” explaining that on her birthday she wanted to get him drunk so he’d loosen up.
After dinner, Tamra and Simon went for a gondola ride, in which the couple seemed to be getting along better. “Simon and I are really weird. We can be fighting with her other one minute and then totally making up and having fun the next,” she said. “The gondola ride was no different. We were out having fun and making the best of it.”
Next week- the season finale!