RHOC - Last night's episode

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had the same call when my 69 year old dad died. I was at work but was able to hold it together and drive home. That's when i lost my shit and went thru hell.

My point is that she is dramatic.

Did you already realize you are an asshole or not until this thread?

Not fair. Everyone reacts to loss and grief differently. Just because you don;t agree is no reason to call someone an asshole.

[Anonymous]

As for Vickie overreacting:

Have you watched her? She screams when she has any emotion at all. Whether it's a WOOHOO! or screaming at Gretchen or Tamara, or whatever, she is over the top.

She is also extremely needy and has often admitted to being unable to be alone and needing someone to care for her. (Note: the perfect formula for someone to end up in an abisive relationship, which she has more than once.) Did you guys catch when she was sobbing about "who is going to worry about me now? My mom always worried about me." Or somehing like that.

I also think the sudden shock (she just had spoken with her mom that morning and everything was fine) plays a role. Unlike an ill parent dying.

I don't know why I'm defending her so much. I think she is very flawed and can be a complete bitch and was horrible to heather last season. However, I think last night's scene was very in line with the real Vickie.

PS, Meghan blows.

[Anonymous]

Oh, and another thing in defense of her overreaction, she was probably drunk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It disturbed me. It was completely inappropriate that they filmed her for such a long period of time. If they just happened to have cameras rolling, they should have cut away from her once they realized. They didn't have to hide it but they shouldn't have exploited her pain. Grief is so personal! I'm sorry for her loss. It makes me think of losing my own mom. This was anything but entertaining.

I agree. I also don't like Vickie and think she is totally an attention whore. She will do anything to get the spotlight. I have experienced the sudden loss of a parent and I was devastated and in shock but I was disgusted by the amount of time the show devoted and the amount of "patting" and attention she was seeking from all the women. I have a narcisistic mil who goes in to loud episodes like this over extended family deaths and it may have made me jaded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As for Vickie overreacting:

Have you watched her? She screams when she has any emotion at all. Whether it's a WOOHOO! or screaming at Gretchen or Tamara, or whatever, she is over the top.

She is also extremely needy and has often admitted to being unable to be alone and needing someone to care for her. (Note: the perfect formula for someone to end up in an abisive relationship, which she has more than once.) Did you guys catch when she was sobbing about "who is going to worry about me now? My mom always worried about me." Or somehing like that.

I also think the sudden shock (she just had spoken with her mom that morning and everything was fine) plays a role. Unlike an ill parent dying.

I don't know why I'm defending her so much. I think she is very flawed and can be a complete bitch and was horrible to heather last season. However, I think last night's scene was very in line with the real Vickie.

PS, Meghan blows.

Good point. It was the constant screaming/crying combo that threw me, but some people react that way. Reminded me of keening, in a way.

[Anonymous]

My dad died a few weeks ago and I had the exact same reaction. I hit the ground. Watching it made me relive that. For the first time I felt bad for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As for Vickie overreacting:

Have you watched her? She screams when she has any emotion at all. Whether it's a WOOHOO! or screaming at Gretchen or Tamara, or whatever, she is over the top.

She is also extremely needy and has often admitted to being unable to be alone and needing someone to care for her. (Note: the perfect formula for someone to end up in an abisive relationship, which she has more than once.) Did you guys catch when she was sobbing about "who is going to worry about me now? My mom always worried about me." Or somehing like that.

I also think the sudden shock (she just had spoken with her mom that morning and everything was fine) plays a role. Unlike an ill parent dying.

I don't know why I'm defending her so much. I think she is very flawed and can be a complete bitch and was horrible to heather last season. However, I think last night's scene was very in line with the real Vickie.

PS, Meghan blows.

Good point. It was the constant screaming/crying combo that threw me, but some people react that way. Reminded me of keening, in a way.

It *was* keening. It struck me as over-the-top, too. I've been in the same situation, but certainly didn't fall on the floor wailing. I actually found it off-putting. I get that her mother died suddenly, but she was in her 80s. I could see a reaction like that if your child dies-that's totally against the natural order of things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As for Vickie overreacting:

Have you watched her? She screams when she has any emotion at all. Whether it's a WOOHOO! or screaming at Gretchen or Tamara, or whatever, she is over the top.

She is also extremely needy and has often admitted to being unable to be alone and needing someone to care for her. (Note: the perfect formula for someone to end up in an abisive relationship, which she has more than once.) Did you guys catch when she was sobbing about "who is going to worry about me now? My mom always worried about me." Or somehing like that.

I also think the sudden shock (she just had spoken with her mom that morning and everything was fine) plays a role. Unlike an ill parent dying.

I don't know why I'm defending her so much. I think she is very flawed and can be a complete bitch and was horrible to heather last season. However, I think last night's scene was very in line with the real Vickie.

PS, Meghan blows.

Good point. It was the constant screaming/crying combo that threw me, but some people react that way. Reminded me of keening, in a way.

It *was* keening. It struck me as over-the-top, too. I've been in the same situation, but certainly didn't fall on the floor wailing. I actually found it off-putting. I get that her mother died suddenly, but she was in her 80s. I could see a reaction like that if your child dies-that's totally against the natural order of things.

You find it offputting that a woman had a visceral reaction to her elderly yet otherwise healthy mother died suddenly? How nice of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As for Vickie overreacting:

Have you watched her? She screams when she has any emotion at all. Whether it's a WOOHOO! or screaming at Gretchen or Tamara, or whatever, she is over the top.

She is also extremely needy and has often admitted to being unable to be alone and needing someone to care for her. (Note: the perfect formula for someone to end up in an abisive relationship, which she has more than once.) Did you guys catch when she was sobbing about "who is going to worry about me now? My mom always worried about me." Or somehing like that.

I also think the sudden shock (she just had spoken with her mom that morning and everything was fine) plays a role. Unlike an ill parent dying.

I don't know why I'm defending her so much. I think she is very flawed and can be a complete bitch and was horrible to heather last season. However, I think last night's scene was very in line with the real Vickie.

PS, Meghan blows.

Good point. It was the constant screaming/crying combo that threw me, but some people react that way. Reminded me of keening, in a way.

Yes, totally. At first, I thought her reaction wasn't real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As for Vickie overreacting:

Have you watched her? She screams when she has any emotion at all. Whether it's a WOOHOO! or screaming at Gretchen or Tamara, or whatever, she is over the top.

She is also extremely needy and has often admitted to being unable to be alone and needing someone to care for her. (Note: the perfect formula for someone to end up in an abisive relationship, which she has more than once.) Did you guys catch when she was sobbing about "who is going to worry about me now? My mom always worried about me." Or somehing like that.

I also think the sudden shock (she just had spoken with her mom that morning and everything was fine) plays a role. Unlike an ill parent dying.

I don't know why I'm defending her so much. I think she is very flawed and can be a complete bitch and was horrible to heather last season. However, I think last night's scene was very in line with the real Vickie.

PS, Meghan blows.

Good point. It was the constant screaming/crying combo that threw me, but some people react that way. Reminded me of keening, in a way.

The point is that everyone reacts to such news differently. Sometimes people scream and wail and cry at funerals and sometimes, funerals are totally quiet. It just depends, people are different. Agree with the poster who said knowing Vicki (loud, dramatic, emotional), I'm not at all surprised that she reacted that way. It may be weird for me to act that way but totally in character for Vicki.

It *was* keening. It struck me as over-the-top, too. I've been in the same situation, but certainly didn't fall on the floor wailing. I actually found it off-putting. I get that her mother died suddenly, but she was in her 80s. I could see a reaction like that if your child dies-that's totally against the natural order of things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was overdone. Now to be fair, I haven't talked to my mother in over a year. But even when we were close, had she died then I NEVER would have carried on that way. So over the top and dramatic.

Is this a joke?

Not a joke. Falling to the floor? Screaming? Bringing a party to a complete halt and putting all the attention on you? She should have called Brooks to fetch her if she was too upset to drive, and pulled Shannon aside to quietly explain why she needed to leave. When my grandma died unexpectedly I had just turned 18. My mom cried when her best friend called after having heard about the death. We had a house full of people downstairs and the only one who knew my mom was crying was my dad, because I went and told him.

Vicki is what, 50? So her mom was at least 70? People start getting up there in age, you should expect they're going to die.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very sad situation last night.

Here's my question...did anyone else find it weird that Vicky received this call on Shannon's landline? Who called her? And why wouldn't they call her cell phone?

Thought that was odd too but then figured that Brianna probably tried reaching her on her cell but cell reception is spotty in that area so gave up and called Shannons house knowing her mom would be there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was overdone. Now to be fair, I haven't talked to my mother in over a year. But even when we were close, had she died then I NEVER would have carried on that way. So over the top and dramatic.

Glad youre nit my daughter! Its not like her mom was ILL! She spoke with her that morning and all was ok.

Shit there is no doubt in my mind that i will react the same if not worse when it happens to me.

[Anonymous]

Vicky's phone call with her brother " Make her wake up!" I am sorry her mother dies, but keep it together lady.

[Anonymous]

I felt bad for her, but that was tempered by my disgust at how freaking narcissistic she is. My God, everything is about HER. Watch it again... Every sentence out of her mouth is about herself. She can't leave ME. How can she do this to ME. I need her. I can't have no parents, who has no parents?

She reacted the same way when her daughter got married and when her daughter had cancer. It is always all about Vicki, 100% of the time. She didn't even ask her brother if he was ok. She is incapable of caring about others.