‘Real Housewives of New York’ News 2015: Dorinda Medley Says She Was Always Part Of The ‘Housewives Gang’ [VIDEO]
She might be the newcomer, but according to Dorinda Medley, she was always part of the Real Housewives of New York gang, even though she was mostly behind the scenes. The newest co-star of the hit Bravo show has opened up about finally making her way in front of the camera and how the show has even helped her cope with her new life after her husband passed away.
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In a new interview with OK! Magazine last week, Medley says that she always considered herself a Housewife, even though no one really knew her name.
She said, "I actually have been a part of this whole Housewives thing and all of these women for years and years and years. They started years ago. They named it something different and it kind of circulated around the Upper East Side. It's a tight community."
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She added, "A lot of the girls are very good and old friends of mine. So they said, 'Come on do it.' And then three years ago, my husband passed and Hannah, my daughter, went to school. And they approached me again. Ramona [Singer] and LuAnn [de Lesseps] were like, 'Just give it a year.' I thought, 'You know what? I am turning 50. I've never done anything like this before. I'm sort of too young to do nothing and too old to do anything.' So I thought, 'I'm going to cast my hat in the wind.'"
Medley also admits that the show made her more of a social person, especially after her husband Richard passed away.
She explained, "I was saying the other day to everybody, when they were asking me about the experience: it was such a rehabilitation period for me because I think after Richard passed, you get a little frightened of life.
"You get a little insular, you're disappointed, and I'm actually quite a social person and I forgot how to do it and it forced me, even though these girls kept calling, I would just be like, 'I don't feel like it.' But this forced me to be with them again, talk about stuff, realize that I like being out and it's ok that I'm out, it's okay that I have a new life," Medley added.
