As revealed in the show’s midseason trailer unveiled at BravoCon on Friday, Karen Huger — the once and perhaps future star of “The Real Housewives of Potomac” — has done a sitdown interview with Andy Cohen, the executive producer of “The Real Housewives” franchise. The trailer played during the show’s panel, “Potomac Takes Vegas,” which featured its Season 10 cast (without Huger, though she is at the fan convention this weekend). Cohen’s interview with Huger will air during the season finale. When the BravoCon audience saw that Cohen will interview Huger, the crowd began whooping, and burst into sustained applause.
Huger was released from prison on Sept. 2, after having served six months. She was arrested in March 2024 in Potomac, Maryland for driving under the influence and driving while impaired, among other charges. She’d had three previous alcohol-related driving offenses in the past. During the entirety of Season 9 of “The Real Housewives of Potomac,” she proclaimed her innocence, and maintained she would be exonerated. Huger was convicted on all charges at trial in December 2024, and entered a treatment facility. She did not attend the Season 9 reunion, which was taped after her conviction, and aired in February of this year, but did record a video message saying, “No, I’m not an alcoholic, let’s be clear.” Huger did say that it was perhaps time to give up her “Grande Dame” mantle, the nickname she’s proudly worn for years, in order to just be “Karen.”
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Huger appears to take a different path in the interview with Cohen. At the end of the trailer, a voice calls out, “Karen!” and a soft-spoken, unseen Huger says, “Hello?” Off camera, she then says, “I’m good, thank you.” Then, Huger’s husband, Ray, greets Cohen at the door, seeming exuberant, and after he sits down, Cohen says, “Here we are — you are a free woman.” Huger, looking cozy in a beige sweater, looks at him and says, “It’s time to talk about my addiction.”
Huger was sentenced to two years in prison with one year suspended and five years of probation on Feb. 26. She immediately was taken into custody, and her early release date was announced in August.
During the panel, cast member Gizelle Bryant — Huger’s longtime friend and sparring partner — said she’s been spending time with Huger, and she’s been “putting in the work.”
She’s not the only “RHOP” cast member dealing with legal issues. The trailer also showed that the show restarted, also for the finale, to shed light on the current plight of Wendy and Eddie Osefo, whose arrest on multiiple fraud charges in October shocked the Bravosphere.
“We’ve gone through a lot in our lives together,” Eddie Osefo says to Wendy. “But this takes the cake.” She replies, “How do you think this is gonna affect our marriage?” The two then embrace one another.
Wendy Osefo appeared on the BravoCon panel, and said she can’t comment on the specifics of the allegations.
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