‘RHONY’ Alum Eboni K. Williams Won’t Join Forces With Bethenny Frankel In Bravo Takedown: “F**k Bethenny Frankel”

Eboni K. Williams may have been vocal about her experience on The Real Housewives of New York City in Vanity Fair‘s bombshell exposé — but don’t expect her to join forces with Bethenny Frankel any time soon.

Earlier this year, Frankel waged war on Bravo when she called for reality stars to unionize — a move that later became dubbed the “reality reckoning.” The former RHONY star has been publicly critical of the network since leaving the show in 2019, and is now “fighting for systematic change in a damaged institution.”

“I was part of it,” Frankel told Vanity Fair. “I wanted to be Andy [Cohen’s] favorite. I loved that I was Andy’s favorite. I loved that I was able to make good television and produce it at the same time. I loved that producers knew I was the best. I was in the machine. I was the machine. I created the machine.”

The former reality star — who got her start on television in 2008 — added that her mission to transform Bravo is her “penance.”

While Frankel is putting up her own fight, Williams — who came on as RHONY’s first Black cast member in 2020 — has no desire to team up in the future.

“Fuck Bethenny Frankel,” she bluntly told Vanity Fair. “You think I’m going to let some white girl speak for me with my experience with a multibillion-dollar corporation?”

In response to Williams, a source tells Decider, “Bethenny respects Eboni using her voice and honors the fact that a white woman cannot speak to a Black woman’s experience in entertainment or anywhere. That said, a better choice of words could have been used as what Bethenny is doing will help all women in this space. Bethenny welcomes Eboni to her podcast to use her voice and share her experience in greater detail.”

Unlike Frankel, Williams starred in only one season of RHONY before the entire cast was fired and replaced with a new and more diverse group of women. During her short time on the reality show, she often sparred with co-star Ramona Singer, who she called out for racism in the Vanity Fair investigation.

According to Williams and Leah McSweeney — who was also profiled in the piece — Singer allegedly said “most” Black children don’t have fathers during a virtual education session ahead of filming for Season 13, while a former senior producer claimed Singer used the n-word in a conversation with her. Another production source alleged that Singer said Black people would “ruin” the show after getting into a heated confrontation with Williams.

Singer denied all of the accusations, adding that she “supported adding diverse cast members well before Eboni was added.”