Erika Jayne’s Redemption Arc In Bet It All On Blonde Is What We’ve Been Missing On RHOBH

The way Erika Jayne spoke about Tom Girardi’s former clients in “Bet It All on Blonde” is a far cry from that jaw-dropping comment to Crystal Kung Minkoff in Season 12 of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” In the first episode of her two-part documentary, she shared, “None of this should have happened. I feel terrible about the clients and that they did not receive what they were entitled to receive. These people [have] been wronged, harmed. They want answers from a law firm that they put their trust in.” These are the words she should have said to Minkoff, and it would have saved her years of backlash from the public believing she was cold and heartless.

Jayne has also been dubbed a “gold digger” for marrying a wealthy man 33 years her senior. In “RHOBH,” we saw her enjoying the perks of Girardi’s fortune, such as having her own chapel installed in their mansion, which made her highly unrelatable. She finally drums up compassion by explaining in “Bet It All on Blonde” that she grew up without a dad and witnessed her only father figure, her stepdad, cheat on her mother. Sadly, the fallout from Girardi’s confusing situation closed the door on her being able to trust anyone completely. Jayne’s history explains a lot of her contentious behavior, and it’s that she’s covering up decades of broken trust — but the way she treats her longtime friend Mikey Minden is surprisingly much gentler than what we’ve seen in “RHOBH.”