Alexis Bellino remains a source of drama in The Real Housewives of Orange County, despite leaving the show (for the second time) after Season 18.
In an exclusive clip from this week’s episode of RHOC, which brings the ladies to Amsterdam, Shannon Storms Beador questions her friendship with Jenn Pedranti after learning that the latter is still tight with Bellino, who recently married Beador’s ex-boyfriend John Janssen.
After Beador says she has “no interest” in reconciling her friendship with Tamra Judge, Heather Dubrow questions why she doesn’t have the same energy for Pedranti, who’s apparently still speaking with Bellino, despite previously telling Beador she wasn’t going to go to the wedding out of respect for their friendship.
“I’ll have to talk to her about it,” Beador tells Dubrow.
In her confessional, she explains, “I don’t want to dictate to people who they can and can’t be friends with. But those choices affect how close I’m going to get to Jenn. I don’t want to spend time with you thinking, ‘Oh, when’s the last time she saw Alexis and John?’ I don’t want to think about that.”
In a separate scene, Pedranti tells Judge and Emily Simpson that while she doesn’t talk to Bellino “all that much,” she does “genuinely like” the former RHOC star.
Simpson, who’s proven herself to be quite the pot-stirrer, tells Pedranti that it’s “not fair” for her to cut off a friendship for Beador. However, Pedranti says, “I’m not cutting off Alexis. I don’t subscribe to, ‘You hate her so I have to hate her.’”
Unlike Judge and Simpson, Pedranti also gives Beador the benefit of the doubt when it comes to her bridal luncheon, which Beador planned despite Pedranti saying it’s “not [her] thing.”
“Do you feel like Shannon did it for you or herself?” Simpson asks, to which Pedranti replies, “No, she didn’t do that for herself.”
Judge, whose friendship with Beador has been hot and cold all season, speculates that her frenemy might’ve had ulterior motives in doing something nice for Pedranti.
“I know what Shannon’s doing. She wants everybody to know what a great friend she is to Jenn,” she assumes in her confessional. “She’s holding onto her because she wants to get back at me. The same reason she’s doing it with Gretchen [Rossi].”
Find out how it all unfolds when RHOC airs on Thursday night at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo. Check out the full clip above.