“Holy s—. I survived,” Katie, 40, exclusively quipped to Us at the Us Weekly + Pluto TV Reality Stars of the Year Party at the Dream Hotel on Thursday, October 10. “No battle wounds, but I laid in bed for two days recovering.”
She added, “Nobody could have told me how brutal it would be. It is brutal. It was, like, the Super Bowl of the season. It was good, but it was really hard.”
Season 18 was Katie’s first season of RHOC and she filmed the reunion special with costars Gina Kirschenheiter, Heather Dubrow, Emily Simpson, Tamra Judge, Shannon Beador, Jennifer Pedranti and Alexis Bellino earlier this week. The Bravo star further teased to Us that she was “probably” in the hot seat the most along with the most surprising moments.
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“What I’d say surprised me is that some people say things to you off camera, and then they’re different on camera,” Katie coyly explained without offering further details or names.
The season 18 reunion was also surprising for Housewives producer Andy Cohen, who moderates all of the tell-all specials.
“I don’t know when we’ve ever shot a reunion on Sunday. It just so happened that that was the day that we could all do it, I guess,” Andy, 56, said on his Radio Andy show on SiriusXM earlier this week. “We did shoot the OC reunion on Sunday. It was a very — we did what we had to do. I think people will be surprised. I think people will be surprised by what I liked.”
