Erika Jayne mirrored on her psychological state after getting dragged into estranged husband Tom Girardi’s authorized troubles.
“There was nothing hopeful on the horizon for years. That’s if you’re like, ‘Effectively why am right here?’” Erika, 52, stated throughout her two-part Bravo particular Wager It All on Blonde, which premiered on Wednesday, March 6. “I thought of killing myself many a occasions.”
Erika was named alongside Tom, 84, in a December 2020 fraud and embezzlement lawsuit wherein the disgraced lawyer and his then-firm, Girardi and Keese, have been accused of misusing $2 million in settlement funds meant for the victims of a aircraft crash. (Erika had filed for divorce from Tom one month prior. The divorce has nonetheless not been finalized.)
Whereas she has vehemently denied any involvement, Erika has been put by means of the wringer throughout a number of seasons of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills with the lady speculating how a lot data she had about Tom’s wrongdoings.
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“There’s a complete lotta judgement and accusations repeatedly time and again,” Erika recalled throughout Wednesday’s docuseries. “I needed to defend myself day by day.”
Erika additionally revealed she spoke along with her son, Tommy Zizzo, about her suicidal ideas. (She shares Tommy with ex-husband Thomas Zizzo.)
“I’d discuss to my son, I used to be like, ‘You already know, I don’t wanna do that. I don’t wanna be right here,’” she continued. “He’s like, ‘That’s nice, however right here’s what you’re gonna do. You’re gonna dig your heels in and also you’re gonna battle like a motherf—ker, and also you’re going to point out everybody that they have been fallacious, and also you have been proper after which we are able to have this dialog after that. However till you then’re going to battle.’”
Whereas Wager It All on Blonde was primarily concerning the 30 days main as much as Erika’s Las Vegas residency of the identical title, she additionally mentioned how Tom’s ongoing authorized points have impacted the previous few years of her life.
She could also be an enigma, wrapped in a riddle and money, however typically, Erika Jayne Girardi will get candid about her life past the Bravo cameras. The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star, who shares an grownup son along with her first husband, met her second husband, Tom Girardi, within the ‘90s when she was working at […]
“Between divorce, competency, hearings and indictments and dropping the whole lot within the final three years have sucked,” she stated at one level in the course of the docuseries. Many of the conversations relating to Tom befell in the course of the first of the 2 episodes.
Elsewhere within the present, Erika declared that she’s nonetheless being “punished” for Tom’s errors.
“I don’t actually even have my very own freedom as a result of i’m nonetheless carrying the final title,” she stated. “So I’ve labored actually exhausting to have my life and rebuild and that’s what the residency means to me, however am I ever gonna get away from this?”
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