‘The Real Housewives of New York City’ Season 8, Episode 10: Unhappy Holidays Recap

On The Real Housewives of New York City Wednesday night, the ladies are still in the Berkshires in this week’s episode. Bethenny and Luann are restarting their argument after Luann sent a text to try and apologize for a miscommunication that she came up with the name of Bethenny’s brand. Bethenny is calling Luann out for her feelings about Carole and for not being honest about or “owning” who she is. Carole gets in on the argument as well, trying again to get an apology from Luann as well.

‘The Real Housewives of New York City’ Recap

Dorinda and Jules are trying to ignore the argument in the other room by playing twister.

Sonja and her stylist Cesar are putting together a care package for Sonja’s daughter who’s in boarding school. She’s feeling left out by the rest of the women and is still sad about not being invited to Dorinda’s. In her confessional she also says that she’s decided to stop drinking but insists its only to shut up everyone, not because she has a problem.

Back in the Berkshires, Carole and Bethenny are explaining to Luann how women don’t want to bring their boyfriends or husbands around her. Luann is defensive and doesn’t believe the claims.

Dorinda just wants everyone to stop yelling in her house.

Bethenny apologizes for the way she yelled at Luann but says she doesn’t want to hear about what’s going on between herself and Sonja regarding Sonja’s prosecco business.

Santa comes in as the women seem to be getting along to give everyone presents. Those presents were wine glasses that hold an entire bottle of wine.

After opening presents Carole leaves the table as Luann starts to joke about the fight that just happened with Bethenny.

Bethenny, Ramona and Luann discuss Luann not being trusted around other people’s men. Ramona explains what she meant when initially saying that to Bethenny. Luann then brings up Ramona doing a similar thing by keeping a man she met from talking to anyone else in Turks and Caicos. Bethenny isn’t buying the comparison and uses it as a way to explain again that Luann can’t own what she does even if Ramona occasionally does it too.

The women decide to go to bed although it’s only 9:00pm. Luann and Dorinda agree that it was best that Sonja didn’t come.

The next morning Bethenny woke up feeling horrible about how she talked to Luann. While talking about it to Carole in bed, they both admitted that they would end a friendship with anyone who spoke to them that way.

Jules and Dorinda are also chatting in bed and Jules admits she hasn’t thought about her kids in 24 hours.

Bethenny and Carole are planning on making a hasty escape while the rest of the women cook and eat breakfast. They try and leave without saying goodbye but are spotted by Luann and Ramona and go back in first.

Dorinda is upset that Bethenny would leave immediately after causing so much drama the night before. The rest of the girls leave after breakfast and Dorinda can’t hide her happiness to have her house to herself.

Back in New York Jules is cooking breakfast for her family and her and Michael discuss how to deal with the schedule without a new nanny. She also tells him her dad is doing better and having surgery today.

Carole goes to Bethenny’s for lunch to rehash the Berkshires trip and discuss how they will move forward with Luann and Sonja at Ramona’s Christmas party that night.

Ramona arrives at her party a bit early to make sure everything is ready and flirt with the chef a bit. Luann arrived early as well and Ramona asks her to give a better apology to Carole. She also tells her that she spoke with Sonja about how to apologize to Bethenny.

Luann tries to follow Ramona’s advice and it seems to have gone over better but Carole still isn’t ready to be friends again.

Bethennt steps out to take a call and runs away as she sees Sonja coming in. Ramona urges Sonja to talk to Bethenny quickly before she leaves but she doesn’t see the point of it. Ramona and Luann are disappointed that she won’t try. Sonja stands up for herself and explains she’s not going to chase after Bethenny who doesn’t want to talk. She also talks to Dorinda again about why she wasn’t invited to her house and expresses that she was intensely hurt. She feels that Dorinda’s house would have been the best place to resolve her issue with Bethenny as well.

Sonja leaves the party in a huff after saying it sucked and the rest of the women (sans Jules and Bethenny) toast to the holidays.