Karen Huger SlamsRHOPCostars for Their 'Painful' Remarks About Her DUI: 'Are You Wishing Me Harm?'

Mar. 15, 2025

Karen Huger.Photo:Astrid Stawiarz/Getty

Astrid Stawiarz/Getty

Karen Hugeris addressing her castmates’ reactions to her recentDUI arrest.

“We were just talking backstage and I know you just saw the episode for the first time and I know it was a rough watch for you,”WWHLhostAndy Cohensaid to Huger. “Talk to me about that. Was there something specific, did it just take you back to that time or was there anything said that upset you?”

“Did anything the women said on camera upset you?” Cohen went on to question.

“Absolutely,” Huger replied. “I mean, you know I care for these women and all I wanted them to do was be patient and wait because it’s an ongoing case. But you know Ashley saying what she said — and let’s be clear, Ashley needs to be concerned about her relationship with alcohol the way she sucks down the Coronas. I’m just saying.”

“We know that Karen has had a DUI before, so I never thought that Karen would be a repeat offender with something like this,” Ashley said in the episode, later adding, “This is the same song and dance that I’ve seen from Karen.”

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“It’s very painful to listen to that,” Huger told Cohen. “And their accusations — are you wishing me harm? Honestly I’m hoping to win when it all comes out, but I have to respect the law.”

“When I can speak about it, I plan to be open and transparent as I always have been,” she added.

“Notice I’m being driven, not drivING,” she wrote above it.

When Cohen asked Huger if anything had been settled yet, she said “no,” revealing that she is still fighting the case in court.

“I think [the show] is a wonderful platform but we’ve got to be careful what we say about people if they’ve never seen it or witnessed it,” she said, seemingly calling out her fellow cast members for commenting on the situation. “That goes against you too.”

Karen Huger on ‘WWHL with Andy Cohen’.Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

Additionally, the reality star and entrepreneur is facing charges of negligently driving a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner endangering property, life, and person, as well as recklessly driving a vehicle in wanton and willful disregard for the safety of persons and property.

Other charges include failure to control vehicle speed on the highway to avoid a collision, driving a vehicle in excess of reasonable and prudent speed on the highway, driving a vehicle on the highway with suspended registration, and failure to notify administration of change of address within 30 days.

The cast of ‘RHOP’ season 9.Phylicia Munn/Bravo

Phylicia Munn/Bravo

PEOPLE reached out to Huger’s rep for comment at the time. Huger later spoke out in a statement toTMZsaying that the incident happened after she met a friend for dinner and they discussed “very emotionally sensitive topics.”

“I am still in shock from last night’s incident, but grateful to be alive today… I was crying on my way home and saw a car heading right for me. I swerved to avoid the head-on collision, hit the divider, and then a tree,” she said, in part. “I’m hurt, bruised up a bit, but so grateful I am alive! I did receive citations, one of which was unrelated to the incident which is understandable, but what was most surprising is that the car that almost hit me just drove away!”

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source: people.com