Luann de Lesseps and Eboni K. Williams engaged in a racially charged argument during Tuesday’s episode of The Real Housewives Of New York City.
The heated exchange culminated with Luann, 56, telling show newcomer Eboni, 37, that she should leave her Sag Harbor waterfront home.
Tempers flared during the season 13 episode titled How Nude as Ramona Singer, 64, and Leah McSweeney, 38, continued their bickering over speaking openly about sex among their friends.
Heated argument: Luann de Lesseps and Eboni K. Williams engaged in a racially charged argument during Tuesday’s episode of The Real Housewives Of New York City
Eboni was shocked after Leah fled in frustration and intervened in her defense telling the women she had insight because ‘I’m the most educated person in this group.’
Luann immediately questioned her statement and asked, ‘Your degree makes you more educated?’
‘It does make me more technically educated,’ Eboni responded.
‘Well that is probably the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard anyone say from someone who is so educated,’ Luann told her while adding that for an ‘uneducated person’ that she felt she was being pretty clear.
Show newcomer: The heated exchange culminated with Luann, 56, telling show newcomer Eboni, 37, that she should leave her Sag Harbor waterfront home
Luann in a confessional wondered if Eboni was trying to make them feel like ‘idiots’.
‘I don’t like the way you talk. Don’t come into my house and tell me I don’t have an education,’ Luann told Eboni.
‘Well, I can leave your house,’ Eboni responded.
Took offense: ‘I don’t like the way you talk. Don’t come into my house and tell me I don’t have an education,’ Luann told Eboni
When Ramona asked for everyone to stop screaming, Eboni told her, ‘Your white fragility is killing me right now’.
‘Don’t go after her race,’ Luann interjected. ‘We didn’t go after your race.’
‘What does my race have to do with anything?’ Ramona protested. ‘It’s my ears!’
White fragility: When Ramona Singer asked for everyone to stop screaming, Eboni told her, ‘Your white fragility is killing me right now’
Eboni raised her voice as she tried to explain herself and then got called out for getting emotional.
‘Why are you getting so angry?’ said Luann.
‘Oh, now I’m the angry Black woman?,’ Eboni replied.
Raised voice: ‘Oh, now I’m the angry Black woman?,’ Eboni replied
‘I’m not going there,’ said Luann. ‘You’re an angry woman right now. I never referred to your color, nor would I.’
In a confessional, Eboni pointed out that when Leah stormed off that no one called Leah ‘angry’, but that she took a ‘visceral response to something that felt deeply personal and painful to me and I’m immediately called ”angry.” Tell me it’s not about race.’
Sonja Morgan, 57, noted in a confessional that Eboni didn’t seem angry to her and was just using her words effectively.
Race-related: In a confessional, Eboni pointed out that when Leah stormed off that no one called Leah ‘angry’, but that she took a ‘visceral response to something that felt deeply personal and painful to me and I’m immediately called ”angry.” Tell me it’s not about race’
‘If you don’t want me here because I’m not free to express how I feel about things, I will leave your property because I respect you,’ said Eboni.
‘I think you should go,’ Luann agreed. ‘You need to calm down and think about what you just said was very offensive to us.’
Eboni got up and left but not before scolding Luann for using education to shame women.
Taking off: ‘If you don’t want me here because I’m not free to express how I feel about things, I will leave your property because I respect you,’ said Eboni
‘It’s trash, it’s trash,’ she said. ‘You should be familiar’.
The episode earlier showed Luann’s new love interest Garth cooking homemade lamb curry for her friends before they took part in a painting session with a nude male model named Kurt.
Sonja stepped forward and was brave enough to volunteer when Kurt said he needed someone to pull off the blanket, but painting a nude model had the woman giddy.
Lamb curry: The episode earlier showed Luann’s new love interest Garth cooking homemade lamb curry for her friends
Nude model: The women took part in a painting session with a nude male model named Kurt
‘He’s manscaped nicely,’ said Eboni. ‘I appreciate that.’
Leah added of the semi-flaccid model: ‘It’s a nice in-between-weenie.’
Sonja was a little more reserved about her painting.
Painting session: ‘He’s manscaped nicely,’ said Eboni. ‘I appreciate that’
In between: Leah McSweeney added of the semi-flaccid model: ‘It’s a nice in-between-weenie’
‘I know the other girls are nailing it. I don’t want to nail. it. I’m keeping my eye on his face and off his pickle. It’s a lot. There is a lot. Going on here,’ Sonja said.
It didn’t take long after the women sat down to enjoy Garth’s curry for things to get heated.
Luann wanted to know what she missed the night before by going to bed early and the ladies recounted how Ramona became upset that her Audrey Hepburn-themed dinner party had devolved into trashy sex talk.
A lot: ‘I know the other girls are nailing it. I don’t want to nail. it. I’m keeping my eye on his face and off his pickle. It’s a lot. There is a lot. Going on here,’ Sonja said
Curry meal: It didn’t take long after the women sat down to enjoy Garth’s curry for things to get heated
Leah, who was having a difficult time due to her grandmother’s illness, still couldn’t understand why Ramona got upset when they talked about sex.
Ramona reminded her that she had once talked about sex explicitly in front her 24-year-old daughter and mention of the incident triggered Leah who stormed out.
She later returned and called several of the women ‘hoes’ before abruptly departing, prompting Eboni to defend her and sparking the argument with Luann.
The Real Housewives Of New York City will return next week on Bravo.
Tough time: Leah, who was having a difficult time due to her grandmother’s illness, still couldn’t understand why Ramona got upset when they talked about sex
Fed up: After storming off, Leah later returned and called several of the women ‘hoes’ before abruptly departing, prompting Eboni to defend her and sparking the argument with Luann
Next week: The argument between Luann and Eboni ended with a ‘To Be Continued’ message