Erika Jayne and the Runaway Narrative

Erika Jayne is working hard to control the narrative surrounding her divorce on this season of RHOBH, but while she continues to deliver reality-TV gold, the whole thing has started to feel a little overly rehearsed. Photo: Bravo Erika Jayne was a perfect Roxie Hart.

Legal experts seem to agree that the best thing Erika could do for herself at this point would be to keep quiet, speaking only in carefully worded statements vetted by her lawyers. Instead, she’s filming a reality show in which she’s required to share endlessly, whether in confessionals where she’s being interviewed by producers or when pressed for details by the other Housewives.

To Erika’s credit, she managed the balancing act well enough at the start. In real life, she announced her divorce from Tom on Election Day 2020, a move she acknowledged was designed to bury it; on the show, it arrived at the end of the fourth episode. When she finally faced the other women in the sixth episode of the season, it was at Sutton Stracke’s luncheon, where Erika arrived in an unusually chipper mood.

But something started to shift at the end of the episode, when Erika and Kyle met to talk about the allegations in person. As Erika sobbed about being in the middle of a federal investigation and not being able to tell her side of the story, her mascara ran down her face to create the perfect soap-opera moment. It was too perfect for some. “We filmed in the Bahamas season 9 and we were all swimming in the water,” Erika’s former co-star Camille Grammer Meyer tweeted.

Housewives are often accused of self-producing, maintaining tight control of their story lines and making sure that only the most flattering version of reality makes it to air. But the stakes here are so much higher than Denise trying to “Bravo, Bravo, fucking Bravo” her way out of talking about a possible affair with Brandi. When Erika snapped at Garcelle Beauvais for revealing that Tom calls Erika every day, her hostility and subsequent breakdown baffled the other women.

LouisPeitzman It’s television and she’s married to a lawyer. Rehearsed is the name of the game. 🙄

LouisPeitzman Given that her acting is woefully bad I would say it was all under rehearsed.

LouisPeitzman well she did go to an acting school, and she brags that she learned so much about the law from Tom that she could actually pass the California bar. Maybe she feels like she has so many connections that Tom paid for she has nothing to fear. RHOBH

LouisPeitzman Only a little?

LouisPeitzman RT NYCFirstLady CuomoCorruption MaraGay karol CorruptMuseum What did deBlasio wife do with 100s of millions of dollars from mental health public treasury?

LouisPeitzman I love Erika Jayne. Carrying the season. 👰‍♀️ RHOBH 💎

LouisPeitzman Of course it's rehearsed. Her whole life is bought and rehearsed

LouisPeitzman She's Oscar worthy!

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