EXCLUSIVE: Real Housewives Star Reacts to Death Threats
March 31 2009, Published 6:31 a.m. ET
Vicki Gunvalson, one of the stars of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Orange County, recently received a death threat from an obsessed female fan regarding something Gunvalson said to co-star Jeana Keough. Keough also got an email threatening Gunvalson (the fan said she’d “take care of Vicki for her”) and spoke to RadarOnline.com about the troubling situation.
“This is a highly edited show and people should not take it too seriously,” Keough said. “They cut something from one show and edit it to a segment from another episode. Unfortunately, there are a lot of crazy people out there and this person perceived that Vicki was being mean to me."
The former Playboy Playmate expressed some other reservations about the show’s current workings. “Personally, I wish we would carry more positive messages as we did in seasons one and two - where we told people not to do drugs or to drink and drive for example,” she said. “But I guess the producers have other ideas – maybe that’s why I’m not in the show that much any longer because I’m boring.”
As far as her relationship with Gunvalson, the two are doing fine. “As far as I know Vicki is doing okay but the police are right to take this threat seriously that’s why I forwarded the e-mail to her.”
Orange County cops are still investigating the death threats made against Gunvalson.