Tamra Judge is relieved that filming for The Real Housewives of Orange County season 19 is complete.
“I don’t have to film and now I’m going to feel like s*** for a little bit,” Tamra, 57, said on the Tuesday, May 6, episode of iHeartRadio’s “Two Ts in a Pod” podcast, noting to cohost Teddi Mellencamp that she was feeling under the weather. “It is what it is, but yeah, very excited to be done.”
Tamra acknowledged that Teddi, 43, “missed the entire time” she was filming RHOC this season due to her ongoing cancer treatments. While Teddi wasn’t around for the real-time action, she’s “excited” to see it play out on her TV.
“I’m not going to tell you anything that happened,” Tamra teased. “But I want you to be totally surprised. Roughest year ever for me.”
Teddi asked Tamra if she thought she would get the prestigious “first seat” at the RHOC reunion special.
“I don’t know. You never know until you walk out on that stage,” she confessed.
Teddi, for her part, believes Tamra is a shoo-in.
“I do,” Teddi said. “But I don’t know who’s going to get the other first seat, and I know you can’t tell me.”
In addition to sharing the news on her podcast, Tamra also took to social media to celebrate that she was done filming. The RHOC star shared a snap of a microphone pack via her Instagram Story on Monday, May 5, with a sticker that read “That’s a wrap.”
That same day, additional members of the RHOC cast were spotted on vacation in Amsterdam.
Tamra made headlines earlier this year when she seemingly quit the show after filming a cast trip to New Orleans with Heather Dubrow, Shannon Beador, Katie Ginella, Gina Kirschenheiter, Jennifer Pedranti, Emily Simpson and Gretchen Rossi.
“It was a long run!” she wrote via her Instagram Story in March. “When life gives you real problems this reality s*** doesn’t make sense. Peace out … I’m out.”
Following her social media declaration, Tamra opened up about her personal struggles on her podcast.
“I think I just hit a wall. There’s so much going on in my life and it’s just I don’t know,” she reflected while admitting that she’s been going to therapy. “I just hit a wall and I feel like I’m gonna be in a full depressed mode.”
Later that month, Tamra returned to film the Bravo series. She was spotted with Heather, 56, at the restaurant Ospi in Costa Mesa, California, per the Bravo and Cocktails fansite.