Tensions are running high in the wake of The Real Housewives of Miami‘s Mother’s Day Massacre. Just days before the ladies were set to sit down with Andy Cohen for the Season 6 reunion, Alexia Nepola stopped by Decider’s offices to dish on everything from her fractured relationship with Adriana de Moura to her heated confrontation with Dr. Nicole Martin. And, in typical Alexia fashion, she did not hold back.

While Martin claimed to have set up a Mother’s Day brunch with good intentions, she quickly became the scapegoat when de Moura decided to bring ex-RHOM star and sworn enemy of Marysol Patton, Ana Quincoces. That didn’t sit well with Nepola, who jumped in to defend her BFF by calling out Martin, whom she felt was just as “guilty” for allowing de Moura to bring her plus-one.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean de Moura is off the hook in Nepola’s eyes. While the mom-of-two was not as “hurt” by the aspiring pop star, she did slam her as a “coward and a liar” for bringing Quincoces to act as her “mouthpiece.” Nepola also thinks de Moura is “jealous” of her marriage, her close relationship with her children, and her jewelry — which, how could you not be? The woman is draped in diamonds! And to hammer the nail into the coffin, the reality star adds, “Everything I have, she secretly wants but she would never admit it.”

Think that’s a lot? Nepola also opens up about Lisa Hochstein’s “defensive” behavior, Julia Lemigova’s “uncomfortable” entrance into Patton’s party, and what spot on the couch she hopes to nab at the upcoming reunion. Keep reading for our full sit-down with Nepola.

We were just talking about how great of a mom you are. How are Frankie and Peter doing?

They’re doing well. [Frankie] always has so much happiness inside him. He wakes up every morning and he’s like, “Life is beautiful.” So just being around him is pure joy the entire time. That’s when I realized like, “OK, there was a purpose for this.” Because I see life very differently and I live my life differently because of Frankie. Still talking about him, like, it makes me cry, but tears of joy. He’s come so far and he’s always so happy.

Anything with you and Marysol is so much fun to watch. What is your favorite part about your friendship? And would you do another Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip together? Maybe even a Luann and Sonja-like spinoff with just the two of you?

Oh my god, that’s so much fun. That’s such a good question. We get that all the time … I just love my friendship with Marysol. We were friends for so many years before and [with] the show … the last three years have made us even closer in a different way. We’ve always had that sisterhood. We fight like sisters and we love like sisters and now we have a live show. So it’s so much fun because we’re so different and that’s what proves to a lot of friendships and girls that you don’t have to be the same to have friendships. We’re two different people with two different opinions and we still love each other and have so much fun with each other. 

There’s a lot going on between you and Nicole right now. When you watch back and see that Adriana was actually the one with ulterior motives in bringing Ana to the Mother’s Day brunch, do you feel that your anger was misplaced? Should you have been more angry with Adriana?

I wasn’t even angry. That’s how I am. That’s how I express myself and I’m very passionate. By the way, I love how it was really about Marysol and then I turned it into me because Marysol is very easy to just not be confrontational. She won’t stick up for herself. So all of a sudden I had to take over because I hadn’t really stuck up for Marysol in other circumstances … I hadn’t gotten involved until now because I felt that what they did to Marysol … was an ambush. I thought it was a setup. I felt that they used Ana – they meaning Nicole and Adriana. I feel like they’re both guilty because Nicole was hosting the brunch. She did the place cards and she knows who Ana is. She’s sticking to her story, that she had nothing to do with it [and] that she didn’t know anything.

But you know, I started getting aggressive when I see that [Nicole] is lying about like, “I don’t even know her last name.” I was like, “You know her last name.” And then saying that she worked for Anthony when Ana has been an inactive attorney for the last 10 years so she didn’t work with Anthony. I started catching onto little lies and her body language.

Adriana doesn’t surprise me. Adriana’s behavior is habitual [and] predictable. This is who she is and what she has been doing [for] many seasons now. So I’m not hurt, I’m not surprised – none of that. But Nicole did disappoint me because I’ve always wanted to be friends with her. They’re creating this false narrative, like, the OGs against the newbies and that we hate her because [she’s] younger and she’s a doctor. It’s just stupid. Honestly, that is not true. 

I was disappointed in her because I think she should have been the bigger person and said, “Listen, Adriana, we’re not going to do this. You know you’re trying to move forward with Alexia and Marysol.” By the way, Nicole and the other girls were the ones that convinced me to invite Adriana out to the Nuevos Horizontes party and … to just to move forward, include her, have her there and just give her another chance. I did that and she couldn’t even wait two minutes before she’s already talking shit about me. So if there’s anybody jealous here [it’s Adriana].

She’s jealous of my life. She wasn’t jealous when I was going through all the hardships. She felt sorry for me. But the moment that Adriana saw that I had met a good guy and that I’m happily married and my kids were doing better and now we’re living in a beautiful apartment and I have beautiful jewelry and I have everything she wants.

I don’t want anything that Nicole has. I never wanted to be a doctor. Both of my parents were doctors and I idolized doctors and I love that she’s a doctor and to me, there’s God and doctors. They are God’s instruments. So I respect her profession. I’ve never made up rumors or anything – I just speak my mind. And I think she doesn’t like it because I remind her of her husband because I am a frustrated attorney. She’s even told me before in Season 4, she’s like, “You remind me of Anthony.” So maybe it’s that. But I don’t appreciate that she’s not being really honest about it and owning some responsibility.

So when you see that scene where she got really emotional about not getting invited to Marysol’s event, what do you think?

That’s because she got caught. She didn’t think this was going to work out this way and that’s why she started breaking down. 

Where do you and Nicole stand currently? Have you talked to her since she announced her pregnancy?

Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah. We were at BravoCon together and she announced her pregnancy and I’m very happy for her because I know that it’s important to have a sibling for your son. And I know that Greyson wanted that. And she had shared that with us. So I’m very happy for her.

We know that Julia came to Marysol’s event with the intention of clearing Nicole’s name – and it was super obvious when she walked in that she wasn’t exactly herself. Why do you think she seemed so uncomfortable? 

She couldn’t hide how uncomfortable she was. I think it’s because – and I love Julia, Julia and I are great – but I think Nicole has to clear up her own name. I wouldn’t put any of my friends in that position. And you can see that Julia was uncomfortable just like Julia was uncomfortable with Adriana, knowing what Adriana was saying. I think it’s not cool to put your friends in that situation. Nicole has to clear up her own name.

I don’t know if you guys have noticed but we never clear up anything in our group.

I feel like Adriana has been out to get you a little bit this season. First with implying there could be problems with you and Todd and then with bringing Ana to the lunch with the rumors about your financial situation. You kind of touched on this before, but why do you think she’s doing this?

Obviously, everything is a lie. Like, her pattern is lying. She’s a coward, also, because she had to bring Ana to be her mouthpiece. So she’s a coward and a liar. 

I think she likes a Gringo. She likes his look and she thinks he’s super hot and she can’t imagine how I can have a guy and she’s miserable by herself. And my kids adore me –  I have a beautiful relationship with my kids. Her son doesn’t like her –  she doesn’t really have a relationship with her son. So it’s like everything I have, she secretly wants but she would never admit it. And I don’t want her to admit it. I mean, it’s just like playing out that way. Then I’m the one that gets the abuse but I don’t care because it really doesn’t bother me. She just needs to figure out her own life and leave other people’s lives. 

It seems like you’ve kind of come to a place of understanding with Adriana where you’re not gonna waste more energy on fighting with her. But in the trailer for tonight’s episode, it looks like you two have it out. What went so wrong?

I wanted to have a moment just with Nicole and Adriana and Marysol and I. Because all this is Marysol. I’m like, “But wait, what happened to Marysol?” Nobody wants to talk shit about Marysol, they want to talk about me. Anyways, I wanted to have that and as you can see, that doesn’t happen. So once again, it’s a big group and everybody starts getting in and all of a sudden Adriana is saying that she [invited Ana] because I was mean to Lisa. Since when does Lisa need anybody to protect her and help her? And who is Adriana to be kissing her butt now? So that’s my reaction. I’m like, “Oh, so I’m mean to Lisa and then you’re gonna make up lies about me and my husband?” 

I really know what they’re doing – Nicole and Adriana. Nicole can’t get over the fact that Marysol said she trusted her the least and by the way, she still does. And you know, [Marysol] said all those things and created those problems and obviously gave Larsa the information where she had said that Nicole had slept around in the hospital with different people (Editor’s Note: Nicole has denied this rumor). So Nicole doesn’t like Marysol. It’s not a secret. She may have every right to feel that way about Marysol. I’m not judging that. She does have a right to feel that way. 

And Adriana doesn’t like me because I brought up the fact that her fake boyfriend was married.

One last question on the Adriana front – I notice that when she gets into it with Larsa, she often weaponizes the Kardashians against her. Why do you think she does this?

Oh my god. I know! Thank you for saying that. I’m like, “Can you leave the Kardashians alone?” It’s every single time. She’s obsessed with it because that’s who she is. It’s terrible. I honestly – I don’t feel sorry for her because I don’t like to feel sorry for anybody but it’s just a terrible way to live. She doesn’t like the Kardashians. She doesn’t like Larsa. She didn’t like Joanna [Krupa]. She doesn’t like Lea [Black]. She doesn’t like Marysol. She doesn’t like me. Who do you like? You don’t even like yourself. And you know what? It’s getting dumb and boring.

Nobody really cares about that either. And who cares? I mean, Larsa moved to California. She had a friendship with the Kardashians and why are you so upset about it? And why does it bother you so much? You weren’t even friends with Larsa so it’s not like they were best friends and Larsa abandoned her and went to have a life in California. It just doesn’t make any sense and it’s not funny anymore.

Last week, we also saw you and Lisa get into it. She says in her confessional that she wants to hold you accountable the same way you hold others accountable. Watching back, what’s your take on that? And how are you guys today?

I’m good with her because I’ve only loved Lisa and cared for her and that’s why I’ve always given her the best advice like I would give any of my friends. So it did surprise me that she said she wants to hold me accountable. For what? I hold myself accountable for everything I do … I believe in accountability and I don’t know why Lisa would say that. But thank you for bringing that up because that’s something that I will bring up in the reunion.

On Watch What Happens Live, somebody asked something [and she was] like, “I don’t know why Alexa cares so much about my finances.” And I was like, “I wasn’t referring to your finances. When I told you that you shouldn’t be driving Lenny’s Rolls Royce, I was referring to that he’s your enemy and he’s acting like your enemy and alleging that you planted devices in his car. So why would you put yourself in that situation? I’m not saying you shouldn’t drive the car because you can’t afford it.” This isn’t even about finances. But some of these women like to twist it. 

When I talked to Marysol last month, she said Lisa likes to vent but not necessarily receive advice or even take it. Do you agree? How do you think Jody is handling all of the Lenny drama?

I do agree with that. I feel like last season she came in and she shared all this with us and we were by her side, we listened, we hugged her, we loved her, we went through it with her. We feel like we’re in this because all she talks about is Lenny. So we feel that we should have a say in it. Because when you share things, it goes both ways. If I tell you a story, you could sit there quiet one day, but the second day and the third day, I mean, yeah, you’re gonna say something. I would expect that and if you didn’t do it to me, it’s a sign of not caring. So [by] sharing with her and giving her good advice and telling her all these things, I think that she should take it in a good way. I think we’ve all proven to her that we do care about her and we have the best intentions for her. 

I think she’s being very defensive this season. I understand that she’s going through everything, but everybody’s always going through something. So does that give you a free pass? That you’re going through something and you have every right to act crazy and mean or whatever? You have to acknowledge it and say, “You know, I was going through things now looking back.” So hopefully at the reunion she’ll say that. 

Your argument with Lisa actually gets cut off when Guerdy reveals that she has to have another surgery. She basically tells you and the other women to fix it because in the end none of these arguments matter. What went through your mind when she said that? 

When Guerdy says that, I can put myself in that moment. I think you see that I was crying. I was so shaken and broken up. It’s true. Like, what are we doing? Guerdy is going through this and just the fact that she had to sit there … You guys will see in the few next episodes and even in the grand finale, that she makes a lot of sense of what she’s saying. And only somebody that’s going through something like that can understand that. You have to know how to put yourself in those people’s shoes. I always do it. That’s why I don’t judge people. I can feel her pain. I was scared for her. She’s a mom, she has a family, she has kids. I was just upset to see her upset. It just made me cry. I just wanted to save her and hug her. And it really made me very sad, honestly.

Thoughts on the reunion coming up? Is there anything you’re nervous about? Anything you’re hoping to address? What do you think your place on the couch will be?

Now that I know a little bit more about Housewives and Andy [Cohen], I don’t want to be sitting next to Andy. On Watch What Happens Live, I do because it’s fun. But in the reunion, I don’t because it does mean that you have a very strong storyline that season. So like I said, in the reunion, I don’t think I’m going to be there, luckily. But I’ll probably take the second seat.

But I love that [Andy] can tell us to shut up and that’s it. Because somebody needs to say that to us. Hopefully, we’ll allow each other to talk. I want to come in calmly. But I think they know how to push my buttons and it doesn’t take much. I’m just very expressive. I talk loud and with my hands and sometimes that’s misperceived. And it’s not a bad thing. I still love you. Once I get it out, I’m good.

What else can you tease for the rest of the season? 

Our Mexico trip to Mexico City. I’m so excited about that. I hosted it. I was so happy that finally we got to go to a city and you hear the Spanish language and the culture and it was just so colorful and so crazy. You guys are not even ready for this. I get goosebumps just talking about it. It was really, really incredible.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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