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Ubah Hassan addressed her drama with Erin Lichy, compared herself to a “machete” when “poked,” called out Erin’s treatment of Jessel Taank, and teased the future fallout of Brynn Whitfield and Sai De Silva.
Though the first half of the Real Housewives of New York season 14 has been (somewhat) peaceful, a recent midseason trailer teased fractures in the friendship group.
In an interview with ET, Ubah compared herself to a dinner utensil when asked about her drama with Erin.
“People know that I’m a butter knife,” she said. “I don’t usually cut. I’m a knife that cuts only room-temperature butter. When I’m poked properly, I do turn into a machete, and I think that’s what happened in Anguilla. Don’t poke the bear.”
During the argument, Erin apparently insinuated that Ubah was trying to turn the cast against the real estate agent.
“If you think … I am making everyone against you, then there is something you’re [feeling] guilty about,” said Ubah. “That should now be your first thought, because what did you do for other people to be against you, right?”
Ubah then cryptically shared that Erin “had something of mine, and I wasn’t really happy about it.”
“I just woke up, I was, like, a b***h!” said the model. “I was not talking to anyone, you know, one of those days. Some days, it’s just, stay away from me … I need to make myself better, but in Anguilla, I couldn’t do that, right? We’re in the same house, and I think I mentioned her name or something, and she said, ‘Don’t mention my name…’ and I said, ‘Oh, you are here?’ And she’s like, ‘Yeah, don’t ever mention my name again,’ and I was like, ‘Oh no, this is not gonna work.’ This is not gonna work. Don’t talk to me like that…’ and, yeah, then I just saw black for, like, nine hours.”
“It was so long,” Ubah went on. “It was so long. It was so long. It was so f**king long. I didn’t know how to shut up, but this is the thing, though: I don’t pretend. I don’t know how to be like, ‘I’m mad at you! Da da da da da…’ and like, ‘OK, now we’re friends.’ I’m about to bury you. Like, we’re doing a funeral, you know? So it takes a long time for me to calm down. That’s why I don’t get mad.”
At one point, Ubah seemed to take Erin’s sunglasses from her face, and Ubah claimed they were sold at Canal Street in NYC, while Erin asserted that they’re designer shades from Alaia.
“I don’t regret, and I don’t apologize,” expressed Ubah. “They sell Alaia on Canal Street … Maybe they spell it wrong.”
“I’m not looking forward to [watching it back],” she continued. “I wanna be cool like a cucumber, dipped in chocolate, but I know people are gonna come for me, so I only– listen, I only match energy. You give me love, I give you triple love. You give me hell, I give you volcano … I’m sure Erin and I will have to speak about our feelings and what happened.”
Ubah also shared where she and Erin now stand. “I love Erin, we’re friends, we made up,” she said. “I don’t hold grudges, I don’t, but I also don’t apologize, because I don’t do things to apologize. I cannot stand people will be like, ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it. I’m sorry.’ If you didn’t mean it, don’t do it. It’s end of story.”
She went on, “I try to live my life in a way where I don’t say I’m sorry, I don’t get in people’s business … I don’t gossip. I don’t backstab, and If I go ‘Ubah hot’ on you, you deserve it.”
The star also addressed Erin’s fight with Jessel at the coffee shop, when Erin eventually claimed she has a “chip missing.”
“It’s not nice to tell someone that they miss a chip,” commented Ubah. “Like, you did not create them, how do you know– what are you, Steve Jobs, telling what the computer is missing? Like, you’re not God. Jessel is not missing anything. I think you can disagree, and you cannot like someone, but unless you created them, you should not know what chips they miss, or didn’t miss.”
Speaking of Jessel, Ubah shared that the cast’s discussion about her sex life with Pavit carried over to their trip.
“We take that to Anguilla,” she explained. “A lot of time, the girls will ask a question to Jessel, and Jessel will answer it, but then they will not be satisfied with the answer. So it’s very, very tough to watch, to be a part of, because, like, if you don’t believe someone’s answers, then why are you asking? ‘Cause there’s no point, right? So there’s a lot of that rigmarole.”
The star said she’s ready to see how Jessel faces off with their costars at the reunion.
“I’m excited to actually see Jessel, how she’s gonna handle it,” she stated. “I think she should tell all the other cackling hags to eff off. She’s so sweet. I don’t know if she’s gonna do that. Also Brynn and Sai, I don’t know how they are gonna resolve [their issues], but I miss them together.”
Ubah then teased the dramatic upcoming fight between Sai and Brynn, who were close friends throughout the season.
“Sai took Brynn under her wing, and she got bruised a little bit, you know?” said Ubah. “There was a little character switch. I mean, that’s how you get to know people. That’s how you get to know human beings, right? I think Sai got hurt a little, but people are going to be very surprised, like, why they arguing.”
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