Karen Huger Reacts to Arrest Bodycam Video, RHOP Costars Name It ‘Performative’

On Sunday evening’s reunion — which Karen Huger herself didn’t attend after she was discovered responsible of DUI — her costars watched footage of her reacting to bodycam video of her arrest. Huger, 61, was convicted of driving beneath the affect in connection to a solo automobile crash in March 19, 2024.

She was sentenced final week to 2 years behind bars, with one yr suspended, in addition to $2,900 in fines and 5 years of probation.

The video proven to her costars was filmed on December 27, 2024 — someday earlier than getting into rehab — and confirmed Huger talking together with her husband Ray about her trial.

“Dots are being related for me. You recognize I did not watch the tapes earlier than the trial,” she stated, as costar Gizelle Bryant spoke over the video saying, “I do not imagine that.”

“So I am sitting there, within the courtroom room, like I’ve to lastly watch it. I saved saying, ‘Certainly they made a mistake, proper?’ As a result of every little thing’s not connecting to me,” she continued. “And I watched and I am telling you, I did not acknowledge that lady. I did not know her. However it helped me to listen to that as a result of I blacked out earlier than the impression, in keeping with testimony.”

“So after I hit the tree, I used to be blacked out already,” she stated, as her husband pointed on the market was new building within the space the evening of the crash. “There’s building, too, a brand new building, however child, it is my fault,” she responded.

She then opened up about beginning to use antidepressants seven years prior, after her dad and mom died.

“Once I began taking anti-depressants, it will assist, however then I would like increasingly more as life saved life-ing. And so as an alternative of going again to the physician, I adjusted my remedy. I self-medicated,” she defined.

“That evening, what I do keep in mind goes to a buddy’s home. Having, opened a Stella, didn’t just like the beer. I stated, ‘No, I’m simply going to do a champagne.’ So I began ingesting champagne,” she continued. “However I had forgot I had taken the remedy and never solely simply taken it, I had upped the dose.”

Because the video saved taking part in for the opposite ladies, Gizelle informed Andy Cohen, “You may simply flip this off. Please flip it off. This a large number.” Ashley Darby added, “That is performative.”

“What occurred to me was self-inflicted. I drove. I put folks in peril. I am going away; not courtroom ordered, I am doing this for me,” Huger stated of her rehab stint within the video. “I feel I’ll retire the Grand Dame and provides the world a dose of Karen. I feel she’s sufficient. In truth, I do know she is.”

After the footage performed, Gizelle stated it was “quite a bit” to look at … earlier than including that she felt there was an absence of “accountability,” as effectively.

Andy, in the meantime, addressed Huger’s jail sentence Monday on his SiriusXM Andy Cohen Stay present.

“We have not been on since Karen was sentenced, and I haven’t got a lot to say. I’ll say, I’m considering of Karen each day,” he stated on his present. “I have been interested by her quite a bit and I am so unhappy about this. I am so unhappy about how this whole factor has performed out.”

“I’m a Karen fan. Drunk driving isn’t any joke. It is so unhealthy, in order that this was her fourth state of affairs was powerful to listen to and I am not stunned that the choose was not taking part in, ?” he continued, mentioning how this was Huger’s fourth drunk driving-related arrest in 17 years.

“I am not stunned in any respect, after which listening to what I heard on the reunion final evening from Gizelle, who stated that she heard that she was provided a plea and residential confinement for six months,” he continued. “Who had been her attorneys that had been recommending to go to trial on this once they knew there was physique cam footage like that?. I imply, it is so unhappy.”

Season 9 of RHOP is streaming now on Peacock.