RHONY Eboni Williams's rift with co-stars deepens as filming is postponed 'indefinitely'

April 2024 · 18 minute read

Bravo's Real Housewives of New York is in disarray with insiders fearing there may be 'no coming again,' from the catastrophic breakdown of relations between novice Eboni Williams and the remainder of the forged, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Earlier final month we revealed that filming for the season 13 reunion, which have been because of happen on August 5, were not on time.

Now, DailyMail.com has realized, that manufacturers have postponed the filming 'indefinitely,' because the rift between Williams and key cast participants has grown so poisonous, they concern there is 'no going ahead and no coming back.'

One well-placed manufacturing source said: 'At this point they may simply shut it down. Eboni's saying she's traumatized; the rest of the women are simply stunned. 

DailyMail.com can reveal filming for the RHONY season 13 reunion has been postponed 'indefinitely' as the rift between Eboni Williams and her co-stars deepens

DailyMail.com can reveal filming for the RHONY season Thirteen reunion has been postponed 'indefinitely' as the rift between Eboni Williams and her co-stars deepens

The 37-year-old - who claims to be self-made - was engaged to financial big-shot Steven Glenn, 53, Managing Director, CFO and COO at Warburg Pincus, a private equity partnership (pictured together in 2017) for three and a half years

The 37-year-old - who claims to be self-made - was engaged to financial big-shot Steven Glenn, 53, Managing Director, CFO and COO at Warburg Pincus, a personal fairness partnership (pictured together in 2017) for three and a half years 

'I don't know the way they sit down together and figure this out. I do not know if it is even conceivable.'

Williams, 37, has drawn harsh criticism and been branded 'preachy' and 'woke' for foisting a scores withering schedule of race and social justice onto the frothy reality TV staple.

But, in the weeks since filming wrapped, the newcomer has kicked back comparing the women to 'white supremacists' and telling USA Today that they handled her as 'lower than human.' 

She has sparked additional outrage via blaming the season's deficient performance on production and modifying.

Glenn's firm has invested more than $94billion in 940 companies in the 50 years since its inception

Glenn's firm has invested greater than $94billion in 940 firms in the 50 years since its inception

Doubling down on her on-screen choices, Williams told Insider: 'As lengthy as I dangle the apple, I'm going to make use of the platform in keeping with my discretion and my discretion is that they have been allowed to have an all-white, pretty ridiculous f***ing display for 12 years, that I enjoyed too! But now I'm right here…Imma discuss Black excellence all day.'

Series stalwarts Luann de Lesseps, 56 ,and Ramona Singer, 64, had been left 'reeling,' display insiders say.

One explained: '[The ladies] had been underneath assault and the community was shocked. She has put everyone in a actually s****y place.

'What makes it even more difficult to abdomen is the extent of her hypocrisy.'

Because in step with a number of well-placed resources who spoke with DailyMail.com, the public character that Williams is pushing today bears little resemblance to the lifestyles that she has led so far.

DailyMail.com can disclose that the man to whom Williams was once engaged when she used to be first cast in the display is financial big-shot Steven Glenn, 53, Managing Director, CFO and COO at Warburg Pincus, a personal fairness partnership that has invested greater than $94billion in 940 firms in the 50 years since its inception.

The divorced father of three lives in an idyllic $2million house in New Jersey (pictured).  Sources revealed Williams showed little to no interest in her ex-fiancé's children and did not engage in their lives - despite having presented herself as a woman torn between forging a career and longing for family

The divorced father of 3 lives in an idyllic $2million space in New Jersey (pictured).  Sources revealed Williams confirmed little to no interest in her ex-fiancé's youngsters and did not have interaction in their lives - despite having offered herself as a lady torn between forging a career and eager for family

Eboni K. Williams and Steven Glenn gave a joint donation to Safe Horizon - a nonprofit supporting domestic violence victims - in 2018

Eboni Ok. Williams and Steven Glenn gave a joint donation to Safe Horizon - a nonprofit supporting home violence victims - in 2018 

The divorced father of three sons ages 21, 18, and 14 lives in an idyllic $2million space in New Jersey.

And while she initially presented herself as a woman torn between forging a occupation and eager for circle of relatives, DailyMail.com has learned that she showed little to no interest in her ex-fiancé's kids and did not have interaction in their lives in the 3 and a part years they had been in combination.

At an introductory brunch at Sonja's townhouse within the season's opening episode Williams advised the women that seeing her ex with his children in reality made her remember the fact that 'there is nothing like that parental love, that bond.'

She waxed lyrical about 'this beautiful legacy' but in line with one insider a person could 'depend at the palms of one hand' the collection of football video games or occasions to which Williams showed up during her dating with Glenn.

The supply said: 'The children slightly knew her, and she or he slightly knew them. She just wasn't engaged in that part of his lifestyles at all.

'They actually were not a New Jersey couple. She didn't actually have interaction with his existence there; they have been far more about New York.'

The relationship had foundered earlier than filming even began. 

According to Williams, she ended the engagement when she got Covid at the start of the pandemic and Glenn selected to quarantine with reference to his kids in New Jersey whilst she remained alone in the city.

'When he noticed circle of relatives, he didn't see me,' she stated by means of clarification.

However, one familiar with the placement raised an eyebrow at this model and mentioned: 'The quarantine factor was just a convenient public excuse. The courting wasn't going any place. It wasn't in point of fact heading in opposition to marriage.' 

But then, in step with a number of resources, Williams is now not one to let reality - or others - stand in the way in which of her emblem.

She is a woman who spoke with pleasure of being self-made while sitting within the three-bedroom apartment in New York's Four Seasons apartments paid for by way of her then fiancé, and whose 'sort' according to one associate is 'rich white, Jewish men.'

EBONI WILLIAMS HAS HER SAY: NEWCOMER DENIES FALLING OUT WITH CAST MEMBERS  

Eboni Williams 'wholeheartedly disputed' talk of a rift when DailyMail.com reached out to her for remark and claimed that any questions raised about her were a part of a 'systemic assault at the credibility of black girls.'

In an unique and wide-ranging speak, Williams instructed DailyMail.com that it 'merely was once now not true' that she had fallen foul of her cast-members despite a large number of extremely well-placed sources telling DailyMail.com that she has.

According to Williams: 'I just finished taping my closing confessional interview and shared some glorious words with Leah McSweeney and hugs and kisses.'

She mentioned that she spoke with McSweeney five out of 7 days per week, always took Sonja Morgan's calls, and had dinner with Ramona Singer just last week.

But when asked if she had dinner or spoke with Luann de Lesseps she said: 'Nope. Nope.'

Asked if De Lesseps used to be anyone with whom she was once in touch Williams mentioned: 'No, not at this point in time.'

Williams and De Lesseps famously first came to blows when the women visited De Lesseps's area in Sag Harbor early in the season and De Lesseps took issue with Williams's assertion that she was once 'probably the most educated person at the table.'

Where she has been criticized for 'lecturing' the other ladies '24/7' Williams stated merely: 'Do I wish we lived in a utopia where racial micro and macro aggression, aspects of white fragility and white supremacy and black oppression did not exist? Yes. I want we lived in that utopia...[but] that's not what we as a society must deal with.

'I do not feel pressured [by talking to these issues]. I feel I am getting to do this, not that I have to do that.'

According to Williams she is 'uniquely provisioned' to take action, because of her 'classical schooling, revel in as a journalist, experience as a legal professional, and herbal temperament.'

She is, she stated, any person who 'doesn't lean heavy into emotion.'

Williams defended her historical past at Fox, rejecting the perception that she had left amid any ill-feeling.

Williams and De Lesseps famously first came to blows when the women visited De Lesseps's house in Sag Harbor early in the season Eboni and Luann clash

Williams and De Lesseps famously first got here to blows when the ladies visited De Lesseps's space in Sag Harbor early in the season

She said that she had instead asked to be launched from her contract with America's most-watched cable network so that she, 'may go onto pursue other pursuits.'

Addressing her previous shoplifting Williams mentioned she was 'proud' to be a made of the deferred prosecution procedure.

This intended that after she was once charged with stealing one pair of Stuart Weitzman pumps in 2002 the pass judgement on could use his discretion and dismiss the case as it used to be a first-time, non-violent offense. 

Commenting on the truth that she let her license to apply lapse in 2011 when she stopped paying the dues required to deal with it she stated: 'It's not fallacious [to have let it lapse]. If I purported to follow [it would be] but I have voluntarily withdrawn from the follow of law since 2011.'

When talking to digicam about her stage of schooling following her Sag Harbor set-to with De Lesseps, Williams claimed: 'I've been practicing regulation since I'm 23.'

She practiced between the ages of 23 and 27.

Williams advised DailyMail.com: 'Because of the optics slightly frankly I'm almost definitely two weeks out of re-instating the license. I'll be active and reinstated in two weeks.'

And she did not rule out the potential for returning to apply in the future pronouncing: 'Never say by no means. I'm a believer, and I can all the time lean into my spiritual presents and do paintings that evokes group and other people.'

To that finish, Williams stated, she used to be 'proud' of the way she had introduced on her first season of RHONY and insisted that she gained an excessive amount of certain feedback, including: 'It's no longer on y'all's web page on the Daily Mail or Page Six however if you happen to pass to other outlets, you will see what I see.'

She said: 'From a broader context there is a systemic assault at the credibility of black ladies in America at this time. I'm not positive if you're conscious about that.'

Williams went onto examine herself to Olympians, Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka and hammer-thrower Gwen Berry. She said: 'I feel like this line of commentary is appropriate in alignment with [what has took place to them].

'It's in search of to indict my credibility as a attorney, as a co-worker, as a fiancé, as a lady…actually I'm one of the crucial credible people you'll ever come throughout.'

As for her long run on the show she stated: 'I'm not going anyplace. I will be able to by no means be silenced. If that is the best they [haters] were given, they gotta do significantly better.' 

<!- - ad: https://mads.dailymail.co.uk/v8/us/news/none/article/other/mpu_factbox.html?id=mpu_factbox_1 - ->Advertisement Williams has drawn criticism and been branded 'preachy' and 'woke' for foisting a ratings-withering agenda of race and social justice onto the reality show

Williams has drawn criticism and been branded 'preachy' and 'woke' for foisting a ratings-withering agenda of race and social justice onto the truth show

Tough conversations: At one point throughout the season, Eboni told Ramona 'Your white fragility is killing me right now'

Tough conversations: At one point all over the season, Eboni informed Ramona 'Your white fragility is killing me right now'

Relative newcomer McSweeney joked at the show that a key difference between her and Williams is that, 'Eboni's very good at dating rich guys.'

Williams is additionally just right at straddling political lanes. 

The former Fox News contributor claims that she took the position on the right-wing network to be a 'disruptor' but, DailyMail.com has been told that Williams supported Trump's Wall, 'dragged' Beyoncé for her 'hypersexual performances' at the Bill O'Reilly display, and didn't talk up towards the former president till after Charlottesville. 

One insider mentioned: 'Her own mom voted for Trump, and she defended that however she's taking goal at Ramona and talking about white supremacy because she hangs out at Mar a Lago.

'She's a hypocrite. She cow-towed and tip-toed spherical the issues when she used to be at Fox and now, she's created this uber innovative woke personality.'

The supply identified that Williams reposted a tweet from her former Fox co-contributor Tomi Lahren which showed an image of them together all the way through their days at Fox and integrated a 'shout out' of beef up from Lahren to the most recent RHONY solid member.

Lahren has been dubbed, 'white power Barbie' for her sturdy right-wing perspectives. 

Williams quickly took down the repost however no longer sooner than many had screen-grabbed and puzzled it.

An inside supply at Fox, who remembers Williams's time there as fraught and ugly, pushed aside the perception that she used to be ever a 'disruptor' calling it, 'spin.'

In fact, in line with the source, Williams, who the network had first of all thought of as a 'emerging star,' used to be 'horrible,' to work with and 'past a diva.'

The former Fox News contributor claims that she took the position at the right-wing network to be a 'disruptor' which sources have disputed. Williams also reposted - then deleted - a Instagram story from her former Fox co-contributor Tomi Lahren (pictured) which showed a picture of them together during their days at Fox

The former Fox News contributor claims that she took the placement on the right-wing community to be a 'disruptor' which resources have disputed. Williams also reposted - then deleted - a Instagram story from her former Fox co-contributor Tomi Lahren (pictured) which showed an image of them in combination throughout their days at Fox

Sources said Williams supported Trump's Wall, 'dragged' Beyoncé for her 'hypersexual performances' on the Bill O'Reilly show, and didn't speak up against the former president until after Charlottesville

Sources said Williams supported Trump's Wall, 'dragged' Beyoncé for her 'hypersexual performances' on the Bill O'Reilly show, and didn't discuss up in opposition to the former president until after Charlottesville

Williams was also seen posing alongside Trump associates, including Kimberly Guilfoyle in 2016, in photos shared on Twitter Williams and former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci in 2017

Williams was once additionally noticed posing alongside Trump friends in pictures shared on Twitter, together with Kimberly Guilfoyle in 2016 and previous White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci in 2017 

They said: 'The manner she behaved was past what you might be expecting from a longtime anchor. 

'She came in as a contributor in September 2015 and in 2017 she was once introduced a three-year contract and made co-host at the short-lived show The Specialists.

'She wasn't brought in as any type of disruptor. She was once presented a dream alternative but anyplace she was once put or no matter she was once introduced, she didn't need.

'Nothing was once good sufficient – we put her on opinion she wanted to do information, we put her on news she sought after to do game. Trust me she wasn't capable of anchoring a news show. It used to be a crisis.

'The network was once really in an excessively tumultuous time – there was once a class race action, the sexual harassment circumstances, Bill O'Reilly had been fired…Eboni took benefit of it to call for all varieties of issues figuring out that Fox used to be doing its absolute best to make factor paintings.

'But she was delusional when it came to money. She was once extremely well remunerated but when she got here in, she used to be trying to negotiate thousands and thousands.'

According to the insider: 'It were given to the purpose the place she simply wasn't showing up for work. On one occasion she pulled out two hours earlier than she was once supposed to be on air. No reason, only a no show.

'So, when she in the end went to bosses and mentioned, 'I don't want to be right here.' They mentioned, 'Fine.'

'She wasn't fired but she was let out of her three-year contract after 12 months via mutual settlement.'

They persisted: 'She is a whip-smart, beautiful, African American, lawyer. In tv terms she should were golden. 

'But this is a small industry and word gets around and the residual feeling at Fox, even in the end this time, is that she was horrible to work with.

'She handled the women at the network like s**t. When other folks heard she was going to be on Real Housewives of New York everybody was like, 'Ohhh this is going to be interesting.' 

Taking out insurance: According to TMZ, Ramona Singer 'negotiated terms' with producers so that Williams wouldn't call her a 'bigot' during the reunion

Taking out insurance: According to TMZ, Ramona Singer 'negotiated terms' with producers in order that Williams would not call her a 'bigot' during the reunion

Politics: On another occasion Williams tried to broach the subject of politics with Singer during a one on one sit down to which she said: 'Let's just have a nice evening, I don't want to talk politics' Politics: On another occasion Williams tried to broach the subject of politics with Singer during a one on one sit down to which she said: 'Let's just have a nice evening, I don't want to talk politics'

Politics: On some other occasion Williams tried to broach the topic of politics with Singer all over a one on one sit down down to which she said: 'Let's just have a pleasant evening, I do not want to discuss politics'

'Honestly some other people at Fox can't watch it as it introduced again how awful it was dealing with her.'

They added: 'She has also constantly overstated her function at Fox. She was by no means a solo host, and he or she was once no longer the first or simplest black feminine host at the network.'

William's consistent referral to herself as an legal professional is in a similar way questionable as she has no longer been approved to follow in any state since her license in her house state of North Carolina was once suspended in 2011 when she stopped paying her dues. 

One supply stated: 'I don't believe she has any intentions of ever practicing regulation again. She's all about television and her brand now.'

According to one who labored with her carefully on the RHONY, one of the crucial issues that rubbed solid and crew the incorrect way with Williams was the fact that 'no person was once allowed to be less than highest. You could not exchange your mind or say, 'Maybe I misspoke,' she all the time took the moral high-ground and used to be simply so preachy and judgey. Like she used to be beyond reproach.'

But, DailyMail.com can expose, Williams's personal past is a ways from spotless. 

She has spoken openly about having her automotive repossessed a couple of years ago and of having made unhealthy possible choices that noticed her run up money owed and bad credit report.

But a police record obtained by means of DailyMail.com reveals that the newly minted Real Housewife has accomplished extra than simply make unhealthy possible choices – she has acted upon them.

Today she wears Louboutins, but, in 2002, an 18-year-old Williams used to be detained at a mall in Durham, North Carolina for looking to scouse borrow a couple of Stuart Weitzman pumps value $245.

Eboni Williams Today she wears Louboutins, but, in 2002, an 18-year-old Williams was detained at a mall in Durham, North Carolina for allegedly trying to steal a pair of Stuart Weitzman pumps worth $245

Today she wears Louboutins, but, in 2002, an 18-year-old Williams was detained at a mall in Durham, North Carolina for allegedly seeking to steal a pair of Stuart Weitzman pumps value $245

The case was ultimately dismissed, allowing Williams to get off without a criminal record

The case was once in the end dismissed, permitting Williams to get off and not using a felony file 

Had it now not been for a pass judgement on's discretion and his resolution to dismiss the case she would have had a felony document and been barred from happening to follow law.

One source stated: 'Look, nobody's very best. People are allowed to modify their minds and make mistakes however do not make yourself out to be any person you might be not and do not construct your personal brand at the backs of others after which trash-talk them in every single place the city.

'All of the ladies paintings laborious on this show and Eboni's come in and walked all over the place it and them.

'They rolled out the pink carpet for her and this is how she repaid them.'

Another told DailyMail.com: 'Perhaps it must have rung alarm bells when she confirmed up for her first scenes in her BLM face-mask and sweatshirt with the names of the Central Park Five written on it.

'When she did her audition reel, she used to be talking about how she was once marrying this man, however did she need small children? Did he need young children? Because he already had family and did not want more so she used to be operating thru that.

'She gave the impression candy and smart and wonderful, and everybody was once like, 'Yes, she's great! Green light it'.'

'There was once not anything about this project that she confirmed up with. The fact is everyone has been blindsided by means of Eboni. 

'She presented herself as something and when it came time to film, she published herself to be something very other.

Chaos behind the scenes: The Real Housewives of New York - featuring Sonja Morgan, Leah McSweeney, Ramona Singer, Eboni K. Williams and Luann de Lesseps - is in turmoil amid nosediving ratings

Chaos behind the scenes: The Real Housewives of New York - that includes Sonja Morgan, Leah McSweeney, Ramona Singer, Eboni Ok. Williams and Luann de Lesseps - is in turmoil amid nosediving ratings

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'She's blamed the edit – nicely she didn't give them any other subject matter to turn. The producers had been gently suggesting possibly loosen up [on the race problems] and display us extra of your self but she did not.'

One who asked to not be named said merely, 'Eboni used to be a big mistake. Bravo knows it. Everybody is aware of it. But nobody knows tips on how to fix it.'

The supply said: 'Everybody revered her hustle, but she did not simply are available in with an time table, she got here in with an agenda that came at the expense of people.

'Ramona and Luann and Sonja had been doing this for years, and he or she comes in and lectures and race-baits and the show has suffered for it.

'Look let's be fair the opposite housewives are 4 white women how can they talk to issues of race? It simply shuts down the float of the show. It does not make for bonding and while they're all open to learning no one wants to be lectured 24/7 and that's the reason how it always went down.'

According to at least one insider, there is also a glimmer of hope. They stated: 'Maybe it's possible to regroup. Maybe she will come back next season and do it other and do it better.'

But, they added: 'The ladies do not accept as true with her.

'You know now and again the people who talk the loudest are those with probably the most s*** to cover.' 

When approached for comment Bravo mentioned, 'Bravo invited Eboni Ok. Williams as the primary Black woman to sign up for the forged of The Real Housewives of New York to be her unique self, which has brought a brand new perspective to the show. We give a boost to Eboni in expressing her views, and we're proud that the display is addressing those essential and relevant problems.'

They also pointed out that despite rankings slipping RHONY stays a best 20 reality cable display.

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