Getting the assistance she wants. Braunwyn Windham-Burke kicked off season 15 of The Actual Housewives of Orange County with a reveal: she had a ingesting drawback and needed to get assist.
Over the course of the season, which debuted in October 2020, the truth star was open about her struggles each on and off display screen — and had no drawback firing again when folks criticized her.
The mom of seven — she shares Hazel, Koa, Caden, Curran, Jacob, Rowan and Bella with husband Sean Burke — joined the present in season 14. Nevertheless, after a season of partying, she needed to make a change, and after that first season 15 episode, she admitted she “by no means had a wholesome relationship with alcohol” ever since she first took her first sip as a 14-year-old woman.
“Once I drank, I drank till I blacked out or acquired sick. However I by no means drank after I was pregnant or nursing — and in some ways, I believe that most likely saved my life,” the previous blogger revealed in an essay for Glamour following the premiere. “I went to a gathering after I lived in Miami, however as an alternative of sticking to a program, I simply acquired pregnant. I’ve seven youngsters, in order that’s an enormous chunk of my life that I used to be sober — or I ought to say, not ingesting. Now I understand there’s a distinction between not ingesting and being sober, for me.”
Though Windham-Burke, who got here out as a lesbian in December 2020, acquired loads of assist from followers, Kelly Dodd took fairly the dig at her throughout an look on Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen.
“I believe that her complete sobriety factor is contrived, and I believe it’s faux. I don’t assume that she had seven youngsters so she might ‘not drink’ and I do know her properly sufficient that this was a pre-plotted factor that she needed to do to get her personal present,” Dodd mentioned on the December 2 episode. “She needed to get her personal present, her expertise agent advised her to cease ingesting. It’s all contrived. I don’t imagine that she is an actual alcoholic, no. You’ll see it on the finish of the present, what occurs. It’s actually good.”
Wyndham-Burke didn’t publicly reply, however she did take to Instagram to reply to a fan who requested for her response. Scroll by way of the gallery beneath for that response and every part else that the housewife has mentioned about her wrestle with sobriety through the years.
