Serious Housewives of Miami’s Alexia Nepola is smiling yet again.
Two months after her partner Todd Nepola filed for divorce, the Bravo star, 56, built her very first formal public physical appearance — accompanying her costar and BFF Marysol Patton to co-host a drag brunch at HK Hall in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen area. Radiant in a strapless, gold-sequined jumpsuit, Nepola gamely cheered on drag performers, bantered with Patton and emcee Janelle No. 5, twirled for the group, and fielded some lighthearted concerns.
“I’m executing good now that I’m right here!” Nepola claimed right after she and Patton took the phase.
The attractiveness salon proprietor was swift to praise all of her RHOM costars, which include on-and-off frenemies Larsa Pippen and Adriana de Moura, for supporting her through a heartbreaking time. “That’s the beauty of our exhibit,” she explained to the audience. “Even although we say points to each and every other that we really don’t like, at the end of the day, when I will need them, they are there. After my information broke out about two weeks ago, Larsa was just one of the very first types to simply call me soon after Julia [Lemigova]. Everybody referred to as me, texted me. They are all there for me. They test up on me. Honestly, that’s what I appreciate so much about our franchise.”
Irrespective of that gratitude, Nepola could not resist a dig at de Moura, 58. “Adriana will almost certainly be pleasant to me up coming season,” she quipped. “What I’m seeking to say is that Adriana is the form of person that, when she sees you down and she feels sorry for you, she will not be indicate to you. But then when she sees you up and joyful and thriving, she desires to convey you down and she will get jealous of you. And which is when she’s signify and becomes a hater.”
As beforehand confirmed by Us Weekly, Todd, 51, filed divorce papers in Miami on April 11 after almost seven a long time together and three decades of marriage. A few days later on, Alexia advised admirers via Instagram stories that she didn’t see it coming. “I am stunned and heartbroken that Todd has decided on to dissolve our marriage.”
“Alexia enjoys tough. She is all about love, she is intimate in that regard. She is hurting proper now,” a resource told Us earlier this month. Included a second resource, “She had no plan and there have been no signs. Alexia believes he required to preserve her in the dim about how he was feeling about ending the marriage, since he knew she would try and convince him or else.”
Through period 6 of RHOM, Alexia denied speculation from the other women about marital discord and rumors about Todd’s funds. Todd clashed onscreen with Peter, Alexia’s 31-calendar year-outdated son from a earlier marriage, above issues relating to the treatment of his specific needs brother Frankie, 26. “Peter tried to warn her about him,” the 2nd supply mentioned.
But, as Nepola famously explained on the show, she was “born a star,” and she hinted at Saturday’s occasion that these kinds of assurance will ability her via this dim time period. “My grandmother wrote a poem to me and she explained, ‘You were being born a star,’ and my mother and father lifted me that way,” she explained. “Latina dad and mom seriously, like, uplift you and they convey to you to believe in by yourself. I had a really powerful mother and father, and my mother and father were being often so happy of me, so that is why I feel the way I do about myself. I have been ready to triumph over so many points in my daily life simply because I’ve usually believed in myself.”
