Ex-REAL Housewives of Orange County star Tamra Judge claimed “not one” crew member reached out when her ex Simon revealed his “severe” cancer battle.
The 52-year old mother of four said after that treatment she knew she “never meant anything” to the show’s production team.
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Tamra said while on Vicki’s new podcast, Whoop It Up With Vicki: “You know what really really really hurt me is when Simon gave his interview to People Magazine about his cancer and how severe it was not one person from production reached out to me- not one. Not how are your kids doing? He was apart of the show as well.
“People who I’ve worked with for 12 years. People in the office. People who I’ve known like forever. They have my number. They can text me. Andy reached out to me… There’s so many people who I worked with who never ever reached out to me. And that to me was like wow you know what I never meant anything to them.”
Vicki added RHOC executives said they were “commodities and their shelf life was over.”
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Tamra’s ex-husband Simon Barney revealed he’s battling stage 3 throat cancer last month.
He told People he had undergone an aggressive dual treatment plan at the beginning of January which included radiation and chemotherapy.
He relayed: “I’m a private person, despite what my time on reality television might say, but I wanted to speak before someone else does and uses their words, not mine.”
“I think everything happens for a reason, I think your destiny is pretty much set for you, and you’re here to learn lessons. This has been a tough lesson for me.”
Simon said of the very painful treatment: “The process is the real bad part. It basically attacks all of your organs. You’re like poisoned. It’s been killing me.”
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However, Simon’s unfortunate diagnosis has mended his and Tamra’s relationship.
Tamra said upon hearing his heartbreaking news: “My first thought was, ‘I don’t want to take my kids to their dad’s funeral,’ and immediately, any ill feelings between the two of us just vanished.”
“At the end of the day, none of that matters. All we have to do is rally together to make it through this.”
Simon went on: “It’s kind of like a new beginning for me and my family.
He and Tamra divorced in 2011, after 13 years of marriage.
Tamra married her third and current husband, Eddie, in June 2013.
The exes shares three children — son Spencer, 19, and daughters Sophia, 14, and Sidney, 21.
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To help care for Simon, as well as her current husband Eddie, who’s been battling heart complications, she quit RHOC.
She explained to People: “It made me reevaluate my life. Simon had told me about his health back in November and I was completely destroyed.
She went on: “The reality of it is, after Eddie’s heart condition and now Simon with cancer, it’s just very hard for me to want to go on a show where people are screaming and yelling and arguing about things that don’t even matter.
Since Simon’s diagnosis Tamra and her estranged daughter Sidney have also reconnected.
A follower asked Tamra: “Since the news of Simon does your other daughter talk to you?”
She replied, along with a heart emoji: “We have all reunited.”
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