Gretchen Rossi may have made fiancé Slade Smiley snap — and not in the way you’re thinking.
The Real Housewives of Orange County star revealed in a trailer for the show’s 19th season that she once broke her longtime partner’s genitals during a wild night in the bedroom.
“I broke his penis for real,” Gretchen said to castmate Emily Simpson in the teaser, which Bravo released on Thursday, June 5.
Gretchen, 46, then bent her finger down and said, “like this” as the camera panned to a nodding Slade, 51.
The trailer is the first fans have seen of Gretchen as a cast member since she left the show in 2013 following season 8. She first joined RHOC in season 4, which aired in 2008 while she was engaged to Jeff Beitzel. Beitzel was battling cancer and died before the season aired.
Gretchen will be a “friend of” for season 19 alongside regulars Simpson, Shannon Beador, Heather Dubrow, Katie Ginella, Tamra Judge, Gina Kirschenheiter and Jennifer Pedranti.
Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images for Keep Memory Alive
Her return to the series seems to have come with more than mere tales of dis-memberment. Elsewhere in the trailer, Emily, 49, told Tamra, 57, that Rossi has thrown some unsavory accusations her way.
“Gretchen said that you had an affair,” she claimed, to which Tamra argued “someone” is lying.
Shannon Beador is teasing what fans can expect from Gretchen Rossi’s return to The Real Housewives of Orange County. “I am excited about it, and she’s very kind,” Beador, 60, exclusively told Us Weekly of Rossi, 46, while promoting her, Dolores Catania and Teresa Giudice’s upcoming Wives on the Waves Cruise by Fans at Sea. […]
She and Gretchen have it out in another clip from the trailer, with Tamra yelling “for 12 years you’ve been going after me” and Gretchen responding, “It’s not the same thing.”
Gretchen and Slade met in 2009 and became engaged four years later. Though they haven’t married yet, they welcomed daughter Skylar in 2019.
She shared her experience of having a child before walking down the aisle with Us Weekly in 2021, explaining that because she conceived via IVF, the process occupied the couple’s time and money.
“We got very preoccupied trying to have a baby, obviously, and that’s a very expensive process going through IVF for that many years,” she said. “It’s interesting because I would love to be married to Slade. I actually call him my husband.”
“I would want to do it more for just, like, having the pictures and having, like, the big party, you know what I mean? Rather than feeling like, ‘Oh, we have to, like, be married to be committed to each other,’”she added. “I mean, we just have such a beautiful, wonderful relationship and we’re — knock on wood — so madly in love [and] we fall more in love with each other every day.”
The Real Housewives of Orange County returns to Bravo Thursday, July 10, at 9 p.m. ET. Episodes will be available to stream the next day on Peacock.
