RHOBH: Dorit Kemsley thinks Sutton Stracke bought Garcelle Beauvais' friendship

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Garcelle Beauvais recently announced that she was leaving The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but that hasn't stopped drama involving her from popping up. Now, it's about whether or not her friendship with Sutton Stracke was real or built entirely on the wallet that Sutton Stracke has spent so much of RHOBH season 14 flaunting.

According to Dorit Kemsley, Sutton Stracke and her RHOBH bestie Garcelle Beauvais are only friends because of the fact that Sutton Stracke bought a table at a charity event and invited the former diamond holder.

On The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills After Show, Dorit Kemsley pointed out the fact that Sutton Stracke and Garcelle Beauvais joined the RHOBH cast at around the same time. In a flashback to season 10, Garcelle is shown questioning whether Sutton made her own money or if she had inherited or married into it.

"Sutton rubbed [Garcelle] the wrong way and Sutton was not having that. She wanted Garcelle's affection," Dorit Kemsley revealed and said that the two of them became closer after Garcelle invited Sutton to a fundraiser event where Sutton reportedly paid $25,000 for a table.

After the event, Dorit says the two of them became close friends and, as RHOBH fans know, the two of them have been allies and stuck by each other throughout season 14. "I think Sutton counts on her wallet to get what she wants rather than using, you know, charm," she told newbie Bozoma Saint John during the aftershow while Dorit's bestie, Boz, interjected to say that Sutton wasn't using her personality to get her friends.

The fact that Bozoma Saint John was having this conversation with Dorit Kemsley and joking around about Sutton Stracke shelling out to buy herself friends is interesting because in the RHOBH season 14 reunion trailer, Garcelle is shown storming off set and she announced she had chosen to leave the show just afterward and she was notably absent from the cast photo.

Although fans have spent the season cheering on a friendship between Garcelle and Bozoma as the only two Black women currently in the cast, there are rumors spreading that the two might be finding themselves on opposing ends of the conversation at the reunion. Not only does the trailer show Garcelle calling out Dorit, who is Bozoma's closest friend in the cast, but there are rumors spreading online that the two of them will be shown getting into an argument during the reunion special.

To add some fuel to the speculation, Bozoma Saint John and Erika Jayne appeared on Watch What Happens Live and neither of them seemed too broken up over the fact that Garcelle was done with the show.

When asked if they had anything to say about Garcelle's departure, they were both silent and told each other to go ahead and say something before the newcomer to the series finally broke the silence and said, "I am disappointed that she is departing like this. I wish that she would’ve stuck around to work out another season."

Part one of the explosive Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion airs Tuesday, April 1 at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.