Mia Thornton told Andy Cohen that her eight-year-old son Jeremiah was not the product of her affair with DJ Inc on Sunday’s season eight Real Housewives of Potomac reunion Part 2 on Bravo.
‘This child is Gordon’s child,’ Mia, 39, said.
‘He looks just like Gordon,’ Ashley Darby, 35, said.
Mia said her boyfriend Inc thought that her son Jeremiah was his because of the timing of her affair with him. Mia set the record straight and said she underwent IUI with Gordon and knows that he is the father.
Mia also said that her boyfriend Inc has nothing to do with her separation from 71-year-old husband Gordon. Mia said the separation had more to do with Gordon waking her up at 4am to have business discussions or when he emptied her banking account out and called it a form of abuse.
‘I wake up and all my money is at zero,’ Mia said. ‘It’s controlling and eventually a girl has got to do what a girl has got to do.’
Mia said she was now the one helping Gordon financially. Mia said around the time she married Gordon she received an inheritance from her grandparents and then a year and half later learned that Gordon was ‘functioning bankrupt.’
‘Do you feel duped?’ Gizelle Bryant, 53, said.
‘I feel I wish I would have known that he needed help managing all this money that he had,’ Mia said.
Andy asked her if it was true that she was being sued for not paying rent for an apartment in Maryland. Mia said she left that apartment but that Gordon refused to move out.
‘I left, and the reason why it’s not paid is because I refused to cover the entire bill,’ Mia said.
Mia said she couldn’t get officially divorced until June because of the sale of their businesses. Mia also pointed out that neither Candiace Dillard Bassett , 37, nor Wendy Osefo, 39, called to check in on her when the news of the divorce broke.
‘This is a sisterhood,’ Mia said.
Mia said she was now living in a small penthouse and that Gordon was going to move to a condo across the street.
Gizelle started crying when Andy consoled her about the recent loss of her father. She said her father encouraged her to be a part of the show and that she held an amazing celebration of life event for him after his death.
‘When they gave out dads, I lucked out,’ Gizelle said. ‘I got one of the best of the best, but it’s been tough.’
Gizelle added that things between her and her younger boyfriend Jason Cameron were good. When Andy pointed out that there were photos recently of Jason kissing a blonde woman that were circling around the Internet, Gizelle said it didn’t concern her.
‘He called and told me before I saw it,’ Gizelle said. ‘I don’t have the capacity to care about what Jason or any guy that I’m dealing with does past my eyeballs.’
Gizelle said she was also seeing someone else but wouldn’t say who.
Candiace shared that the lump in her breast shrunk to it not even being there anymore. Andy asked how she felt now that Michael Darby’s defamation lawsuit against her was dismissed.
‘I’m obviously relieved and happy,’ Candiace said.
Ashley insisted she never knew anything about this case, but Candiace said her mother was convinced that Ashley knew about it.
Andy asked Robyn Dixon, 45, if she felt Candiace was coming after her job with her tweets about playing coy about certain aspects of her life on camera. Candiace said she sent two private messages to Robyn but that she never responded.
‘I will apologize for hurting you because that is not what I wanted to do,’ Candiace said.
Robyn said she was still taken aback by Candace’s ‘white adjacent’ comment.
Robyn said it was extremely hurtful to be on the receiving end of being accused of being a colorist.
‘For me talking about any aspect of race is not uncomfortable for me,’ Candiace said. ‘I mistakenly thought that you all thought that way as well.’
‘I did not respond to your message because the colorism conversation is so uncomfortable for me,’ Robyn said. ‘It was an extremely uncomfortable thing to be accused of. I’ve never experienced that in my life, never’
Andy asked if there was any way for Candiace and Robyn to move forward.
‘If this is friendship ending, after everything that we have sat on this stage over the last eight seasons and watched to be done to her, so be it,’ Candiace said.
When the husband’s came out, Andy asked Candiace’s husband Chris about the rumors online after a woman came forward and said they had an affair and even an abortion but then later retracted her story.
‘I’ve never met this person,’ Chris said.
‘So the screenshots are …’Robyn said.
‘I’ve never met this person,’ Chris said.
‘So, she photoshopped screenshots from your account?’ Robyn said.
‘I’ll say it to you one more time, I have never met this person,’ Chris said.
One viewer asked Chris if he paid the woman off to retract her story.
‘The answer is no,’ Candiace said. ‘I did not pay anyone.’
Candiace said she was distrusting of the other women particularly of Gizelle ‘that I don’t put anything past her’ when Andy asked if she thought they were behind the rumor.
‘I don’t know this woman,’ Gizelle said.
Andy pointed out that Juan wasn’t there and asked if any of the other husbands had anything to say about it. None of the men wanted to comment. Andy then asked why it was important for them to come on the show.
‘I don’t want to throw Juan under the bus, I don’t want this comment taken as me criticizing someone else,’ Gordon said. ‘But I was coming to support my wife. Now ex-wife, but I was coming to support her if she wanted me where.’
Gordon said he appreciated Andy having him on the show and the opportunity to address things.
‘I wanted to share something with you that some of you may have suspected,’ Gordon said.
The show ended with a To Be Continued message.