RHOSLC’s Bronwyn Newport is ready for Monica Garcia’s return

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Bronwyn Newport wouldn’t say no to a possibility Monica Garcia return – at least not immediately.

Newport, 39, spoke exclusively to Us Weekly on Nov. 18 at the second annual Stonewall In Brick Awards gala hosted by The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative (SIGBI), the official and sole non-profit organization of The Stonewall Inn Bar. While talking to us at the gala, Newport discussed how she would react if Garcia, 39, returned for season 5which is currently airing on Bravo.

“I think it’s hard to say because I don’t know the full weight of this betrayal for them,” she said us. “I know there are always three sides to every story. So, I’ve heard Monica, I’ve heard the ladies; I feel like the truth is somewhere in the middle.”

Garcia debuted in season 4 of RHOSLC — her first and only season — before a bombshell season finale in which she was exposed as one of the people behind the Instagram gossip account Reality Von Tease. The account posted information about the other women RHOSLC and following the revelation, Garcia subsequently left the show.

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“Monica made them feel insecure,” Newport, who also made her RHOSLC debut in season 4, said us. “But I believe these girls were messed up in Monica’s DM or Reality Von Tease’s DM. I’m definitely speaking from the pocket because I wasn’t there. I don’t know, but I also think you do your best work when you’re a little uncomfortable.

She continued: “So I don’t know if I want to hang out with her every day, but I’d love for her to show up. I might be in really bad shape with the ladies if I ask Monica to show up, but, you know, we’ll see.

Newport showed its support for SIGBI while attending the event on November 18. The gala benefits SIGBI’s work supporting grassroots organizations dedicated to LGBTQIA+ advocacy, as well as SIGBI’s Safe Spaces certification program, which implements policies to ensure businesses and venues around the world serve LGBTQIA+ employees. customers and advocate for equality.

“I grew up just outside of San Francisco,” she explained to us. “I spent part of my youth outside of Amsterdam in the suburbs. So personally in my family there were always weird people around, very much part of my parents’ circle of friends, my siblings’ circle of friends. So it’s always been a community that I identify with and support. A big part of my leaving the Mormon church was that it was inappropriate for me to be a part of a church or organization that doesn’t love and accept everyone.”

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As for Garcia, she has few regrets about her time RHOSLCbut wishes her former co-stars didn’t have as much (supposedly) influence on whether or not she could return to the series.

“It was more than disappointing because I didn’t think they had that kind of authority to take that kind of position,” she said us in October for the number of reality stars of the year.

“I thought, ‘This is your job.’ You either come in and do your job or you don’t, you shoot with the cast or you don’t.”I didn’t think they had that much control or say over the casting, who they should shoot with and who they shouldn’t, especially with this cast. And I mean that with all the shade in the world. They are not NeNe Leakesthey are nothing like that. So it just blows my mind that they have that kind of power.

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs on Bravo Wednesdays at 9:00 PM ET. Stream old episodes anytime on Peacock.

With a report from Brodie Brown