August 16, 2012 10:15 am DailyBeast…
Ramona Singer…
Well, great. So this season of the show: Aviva, Carole, and Heather. Do you think they brought on new people to clash with you?
Who did I clash with? I did not clash with Aviva. I did not clash with Carole. The only person I clashed with was Heather.
Talk about Heather.
I think Heather and I are very strong, independent women, and actually, on paper, I thought we would probably get along the best, but initially we got along the worst.
Why?
I felt her being fake and phony. That’s how I felt. Now, she might not have been that way with anyone else, but I’m a pretty good reader of people, and that’s how she was with me.
What do you think that’s about?
No. 1, she’d never filmed before for a TV show and it could be that she was uncomfortable and couldn’t be natural. And because I didn’t really know her before the show, I could read her unnaturalness and her uncomfortableness and I took that for phoniness and fakeness. Does that make sense?
I think so, but do you think it’s possible that she just didn’t like you?
I really can’t analyze it. I think I am a good reader of people. I’m very straightforward. I don’t pull any punches. She pretended she had a different feeling for me to my face than she did behind my back. Does that make sense?
I guess. Were you insulted that Sonja asked Heather for help with her toaster-oven business and not you?
No, I wasn’t insulted. I mean, I’m a successful businesswoman, Heather’s a successful businesswoman. To tell you the truth, I don’t think mixing business with pleasure is good. It’s one thing to ask me for advice, but to have me do something full-time as a project, it just gets murky. I’d rather just come in as an advisory point of view. Does that make sense?
It does. So, you’re watching the show for the first time when it airs and you’re seeing what your castmates say about you in their interviews—
Yeah, I hate that part. When I see these things in the interviews about me, it’s like, Holy shit!
When you’re watching the show and you’re seeing what everybody else is saying, what bothers you most?
I have to say, I’m kind of like a dichotomy there: I have a thick skin, but I get hurt easy. It’s hard to really say because I grew up with a lot of crap, so things just kind of roll off me. I can’t take things too seriously. I roll with it, and you go on. Aviva was trying to be my BFF, and all of a sudden she turned on me in St. Barts for really no valid reason, and that kind of hurt me.
Does that happen often? People turning on you?
Some people seem really sweet and nice in the beginning, and then you get to know them and you realize they have a lot of psychological problems.
Why are people always getting on your case?
I don’t know, you tell me. I mean, I’m definitely a very strong woman. I’m very emotional but I have a heart of gold, but if someone pushes me against a corner, sometimes I lash back.
You’ve described your cast mates as “not true friends” and “women who don’t care for” you.
You’re only seeing one part of me. Number one, I have such a close relationship with my daughter Avery to the point where other moms have commented, I hope I have that with my daughter, or, How do you have that? They’ve yet to show the way I am with my daughter, that love and warmth and bond on the show, it’s major.
Why do you think you were saved when some of your cast mates were fired?
It’s really funny in life, and I tell my daughter this and I give this advice to all people who want to know what to do in business and life: you can’t look behind you or to the left or the right, only stay to your own course. I don’t think about why this one and why that one. I just know I’m on my course, I know what I’m doing, I’m true to myself. I’m not a phony, I don’t act for the cameras, I’m just me.
I notice people use words like “unfiltered” to describe you. On last night’s episode, Heather called you “difficult,” “out of line,” and “unfiltered” in one sentence.
I don’t think I’m difficult at all. I’m very strong-minded and I know what I want and I know what I like and I know what works. When I was looking for apartments—multimillion-dollar apartments—I’d say immediately, Put an offer at this price. I go to the store to buy a pair of shoes, I pay, boom, boom, I’m outta here. I know what I want. That’s not being difficult. It’s just being strong-minded. I’m not difficult at all. I have to go play tennis now. Can you call me back later?
Ramona v Heather…
“I really can’t analyze it. I think I am a good reader of people.” HONEY YOU’RE OBVIOUSLY NOT…..
Ramona needs mental health care. Does that make sense?
YES!!!
bingo
She has got to be puttin on. No one is this batchit.
hahahaha!! Took the words right out of my mouth!
Im just gonna keep telling myself this because its much funner to watch her intentionally bounce off the walls just to push peoples buttons. I am also gonna tell myself that Ramoner actually bffs with Heather and is just givin it all she got regarding this “feud” So that her friend gets at least a second season out of it. She could take or leave Viva so the Viva is gonna be on her own when it comes to pickin a fight. Does that make cents… since…scents…sense?
I’ve heard that Ramona is much more normal in real life, she acts extra cray cray for the cameras. I think she also really like the bickerin with Heather, it gives her stuff to go all “Ramona” about. lol
I think you are right. She is just too over the top to be real.
Ramona is a drunk….that’s why she has problems with other people. If she quit drinking, and got on a program, she would find out, that she’s NOT in reality alot of the ways she claims she is. She never learned how to behave, because of her drinking. She has a big problem empathizing with anyone….but herself
Thank You!
I think the interviewer was trying to get it through to her that if EVERYONE seems cool at first and then (once they get to know you) they turn on you….. Could be that YOU’RE the problem (you crazy, insane, unfiltered woman)
Yeah and you know what is even more delicious than that? Reading the interview questions again and imagining Ramoner sitting down and typing them out in a email to send to her interviewer ahead of time. Batchit delicious batshit
Amen sista! Batchit INDEED! And that is a perfect example of how I view our Ramoanster
just realized heather is like kathy griffin with those bedazzled tees with sassy sayings!
I have to agree with everyone–unfiltered is code for drunk!!!!
She definitely has some serious issues, which are most probably magnified by her excessive drinking. I have a feeling she does drugs too – her eyes are just crazy wide.
- btw I also think that Sonja might have a drug problem, the whole running to the bathroom to change her tampon bit was just far too disgusting and out there, no woman in her right mind announces something like that into the cameras and in front of group of people unless she’s hiding the real reason –
Honestly I find it hard to feel sorry for Ramona (unlike Sonja) she’s just too unlikeable.
mario caught those crazy eyes this year, too. What the…
They don’t show her love and relationship with Avery cuz that’s not what the show is about….Romo would intimidate me tho…gotta admit…I’m not a business woman and anyone that isn’t self made is nothing in her book. Like the Countess…where does her money come from? Call me shallow but I do like the way the Countess handles difficult situations… dahling.
i like the countess, too. I think she is so pretty.
I think she is too Sue…she is so thin too.
Countess needs to update her hair style. She looks way too old for Jacques. She is very pretty, however, her hair dates her.
HEY I LOVE RAMOOOOONA!!!
I don’t get why everybody hates Ramona so much. I like her, yes she’s out there and yes she drinks a lot, but I don’t think she’s an alchoholic. Plus I love it when she pushes the countess’ buttons..
Hear Hear
I know this is just a show and entertainment for most of us. But I work with people with psychological and or substance abuse issues. Ramona is a Functional Alcoholic. She may look alright on the outside but the damage her alcohol abuse is doing to her internal organs will soon begin to manifest themselves. She needs help.
I think that relationship with her daughter is mostly in her mind. I think they love each other very much, but, Avery can’t seem to stand Moaner sometimes. Just my opinion. Moaner exaggerates everything. Sonja and her period didn’t bother me. Sometimes I think we get too hung up about something natural. Sonja seems to enjoy the attention though. That gets old.