The Real Housewives of New York City's explosive finale saw the drama between Brynn Whitfield and Ubah Hassan coming to a head as Brynn was accused of lying to the rest of the cast in order to make Ubah look bad.
Now, while the cast is distancing themselves from Brynn, former cast member Lizzy Savetsky is reflecting on the short time she was filming RHONY and said she feels vindicated in the cast falling out with Brynn.
What happened between Brynn Whitfield and Lizzy Savetsky?
Lizzy Savetsky was originally cast as part of the RHONY reboot but only filmed for a short time in 2022 before she made her departure from the series.
Officially, she left the series due to being on the receiving end of antisemitic hate after the announcement that she was cast on the series, but she recently revealed that it was actually an altercation with Brynn Whitfield that caused her to leave the cast prematurely.
"You can only hide who you are for so long," Lizzy Savetsky told Page Six about her thoughts on Brynn Whitfield after she received some major backlash for her behavior in the season 15 finale of The Real Housewives of New York City. According to Lizzy, she left the series after only a month after filming began in 2022 because of problems she had with Brynn.
Lizzy Savetsky explained to Page Six that as a Jewish woman herself, she works as a matchmaker to set up people from her own religion with each other. She explained that Judaism is matrilineal, meaning that in order for a child to be born Jewish, it must have a Jewish mother.
"I like to set up Jews with other Jews because I have a lot of anxiety about the continuity of my people," Lizzy Savetsky explained about her decision to become a matchmaker for Jewish singles. She told the publication that it was this fact that caused problems between herself and Brynn Whitfield and said that Brynn made some hurtful historical comparisons.
"She said I sounded like those people who did those horrible things to my people," Lizzy Savetsky told Page Six, alleging that Brynn Whitfield compared her matchmaking of exclusively Jewish people to the behavior of Nazis, though Lizzy Savetsky told Page Six that Brynn Whitfield didn't actually use that specific word outright.
According to Lizzy Savetsky, the two tried to work out their issues on a call off-camera, but things stayed heated when Lizzy's husband, Dr. Ira Savetsky, overheard their argument and took issue with what Brynn was saying, accusing her of weaponizing their religion against them in order to cause problems with Lizzy and allegedly used a racial slur.
According to Lizzy Savetsky, she requested time to cool down after the fight and asked Bravo producers if she could reschedule her next filming date, but she felt that she was "essentially fired" from the show and not protected against the attacks from Brynn and from viewers.
She told Page Six, "I was not protected [by Bravo]. As angry as I was with this cast member, I was much angrier with production. It wasn't a secret that I was getting all this antisemitic hate, so to hear this cast member do this to me and them not do anything about it, it was awful."
Now, over two years after her initial altercation with Brynn Whitfield, she's spoken up about feeling "vindicated" in her issues with the RHONY star.
Lizzy Savetsky has picked a side in Brynn and Ubah's feud
In the finale of The Real Housewives of New York City, Brynn Whitfield accused Ubah Hassan of weaponizing her sexual assault against her by accusing her of using sexual favors to get cast on a Bravo show. Meanwhile, Ubah says that Brynn never revealed that to her, which Brynn refutes, and the cast feels like Brynn was trying to make her look bad.
Lizzy Savetsky said that following the finale, Ubah Hassan reached out to her and she said the two of them shared a special conversation after the finale aired.
"She said to me 'Lizzy, you've been vindicated' and I wasn't looking for it but it's interesting to hear that," Lizzy Savetsky told Page Six. She told the publication that she was on Ubah's side in their feud and that she's glad that Ubah's life "wasn't ruined" because of their fight on the show.
"She's such a special person and to see something like this happen to her really breaks my heart," she told the publication of the RHONY star.
The Real Housewives of New York City two-part reunion special starts on Bravo January 28th at 9 p.m. ET.