Whitney Rose Tells Costars ‘Stop Weaponizing My Trauma’

Whitney Rose and Lisa Barlow’s feud continues, and now Heather Gay is getting involved!

Lisa Barlow and Whitney Rose at BravoCon 2022.

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On the Sept. 25 episode of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, the women continued to discuss whose side they were on when it came to Whitney calling Lisa a “villain” on a previous podcast appearance.

On a drive for some lunch, newbie Bronwyn Newport told Lisa and Heather something entirely different from what she had told Whitney.

“On our drive with Lisa, you were team f—ing Lisa and you were saying horrible things about Whitney,” Heather said, calling out Bronwyn. “And that made me feel like you were being two-faced to Lisa and me and two-faced to Whitney.”

“What did she say about me?” Whitney asked, to which Heather responded: “Talking about when you said, ‘This is healed Whitney,’ [Bronwyn] said she had tears of laughter crying from [her] eyes.”

Bronwyn then admitted she said that, but revealed she had already told Whitney the same thing.

“Truly if that’s all Bronwyn said, she’s admitted it to my face,” Whitney said in her confessional. “I really don’t think Heather’s energy matches what actually happened.”

Whitney told Heather, “The way that you’re saying it is really messy and confusing,” insinuating she was just trying to stir the pot among the women.

Heather, however, defended her stance. “When you said to me, ‘Bronwyn met with me and she was totally supportive,’ I said, ‘Really? That surprises me because of the lunch we went to,’” she explained. “I left that car feeling like everything [Bronwyn] said was a little bit poisonous — especially about Whitney.”

Bronwyn then questioned why Heather was so adamant about her being two-faced, saying what she told her friends in private should not “be used against me.” She went on to say that no one else in the car said anything about the comments then, so they shouldn’t throw her under the bus now.

“At a basic human level, if someone is being vulnerable with you and telling you about their trauma, do not weaponize it against them,” Whitney chimed in, bringing the conversation back to her issue with Lisa. “As a group of friends, we need to be better about that.”

“Y’all steamrolled me!” she added.

“We did not steamroll you,” Lisa snapped back. “We are not gonna use the word steamrolling because you know what steamrolling is? Going on a podcast and talking about your f—ing friends when they cannot defend themselves. I did nothing to you.”

Whitney maintained that while she didn’t intend to hurt Lisa, there was “a reason to say those things and feel this way.”

“All you do is talk in feelings,” Lisa replied. “Talk in facts and then we can have a good conversation.”

Whitney then interrupted: “You’ve been a s—ty friend!”

“You’re a s—ty friend,” Lisa said, with Meredith Marks agreeing. “You take out things on me that have nothing to do with me.”

“I’m sorry that I talked about you on the podcast,” Whitney finally conceded as the two women made up and the episode came to an end.

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.