Reality star Mia Thornton gets emotional as she recalls the time she was sexually assaulted on Sunday night's episode of “The Real Housewives of Potomac.”
While her co-star Karen Huger was speaking at a luncheon for PAVE, an organization that empowers rape survivors, Thornton, 39, said the incident was a “trigger” for her. I went to the bathroom in tears.
“When I'm uncomfortable, my coping mechanism is to get out of the situation, but unfortunately I couldn't get out that day,” she told co-star Ashley Darby, who ran to the bathroom to comfort her. Ta.
“It's just like, 'Why didn't you just quit?'” How did you get into that situation? ”
Thornton later admitted that she was angry at her friend Jacqueline Blake, who also stars on RHOP. Because she has “broken up” with her assaulter, so part of the blame for her affair lies with her.
“I know I'm her friend because of that, but it's not fair to her,” the Bravo star tearfully added. “She didn't know it would happen to me. She trusted her boyfriend.”
Thornton recalled that when Blake came back to check on her the day after the alleged assault, she was “so scared” and said, “Mia, what's wrong?”
“Jacqueline left me that night, and I think because of the events that have happened since she left, I have wanted to forgive her over the years… “Looking back, I think I was probably always a little mean to her, about that,” the “RHOP” star, who recently split from estranged husband Gordon Thornton, said in a confessional interview. Ta.
“That's not right. It's just an emotional thing and I think a lot of people do that. We don't even realize it until we look back and look at it.”
Darby, 35, was then seen hugging Mia, who told her friend: “We'll be fine.”
At the start of the emotional episode, Darby revealed that she too had experienced sexual assault “at the hands of a family member,” adding in a confessional interview: It's so prevalent. It's heartbreaking. ”
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RHOP star Robyn Dixon also said she “didn't have the ability to consent” as a teenager and “didn't really understand” the “seriousness” of what happened at the time.
Huger, who hosted a powerful fundraiser, was one of the first women on the cast to speak openly about these issues.
In 2017, she exclusively told Page Six that she was raped when she was 19 after a date went “completely off the rails.”
“The fact that I survived is part of my reality, and I hope that message resonates with viewers,” the 60-year-old La Dame fragrance owner said at the time.
