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 12 months 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 — sooner or later earlier than getting into rehab — and confirmed Huger talking along with her husband Ray about her trial.

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

“So I am sitting there, within the court docket room, like I’ve to lastly watch it. I stored 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. Nevertheless it helped me to listen to that as a result of I blacked out earlier than the impression, in accordance with testimony.”

“So once I hit the tree, I used to be blacked out already,” she mentioned, 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 could assist, however then I want increasingly as life stored life-ing. And so as an alternative of going again to the physician, I adjusted my medicine. I self-medicated,” she defined.

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

Because the video stored taking part in for the opposite ladies, Gizelle instructed Andy Cohen, “You’ll be able to simply flip this off. Please flip it off. This a multitude.” Ashley Darby added, “That is performative.”

“What occurred to me was self-inflicted. I drove. I put individuals in peril. I am going away; not court docket ordered, I am doing this for me,” Huger mentioned 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 reality, I do know she is.”

After the footage performed, Gizelle mentioned it was “so much” to observe … earlier than including that she felt there was a scarcity of “accountability,” as nicely.

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 mentioned on his present. “I have been enthusiastic about her so much 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 dangerous, in order that this was her fourth scenario was robust to listen to and I am not shocked that the decide was not taking part in, ?” he continued, mentioning how this was Huger’s fourth drunk driving-related arrest in 17 years.

“I am not shocked in any respect, after which listening to what I heard on the reunion final evening from Gizelle, who mentioned that she heard that she was provided a plea and residential confinement for six months,” he continued. “Who had been her legal professionals 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.