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Larsa Pippen is revealing why she feels betrayed by Lisa Hochstein.
Once close friends, The Real Housewives of Miami costars have found themselves in a feud they are seemingly unable to mend. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Pippen, 50, opens up about the moment she began to feel that Hochstein, 42, wasn’t there in the ways she needed her to be.
“When Lisa was going through her hard time, she expected me to be there for her,” Pippen recalls, referring to Lisa’s split from ex-husband Lenny Hochstein. “She would call me all hours of the night. I would be on the phone with her until 2 a.m. We would be on cast trips, and I would be up with her all night while she cried. I rode the roller coaster with her of her going through her divorce.”
“I feel like for me, when I was going through this very public breakup, I don’t feel like she was there for me at all,” she continues of her split from ex Marcus Jordan. “I feel like she was nonexistent.”
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Pippen slams Hochstein for putting her boyfriend Jody Glidden first, despite him reminding friends with Jordan
Noting that Stephanie Shojaee, Alexia Nepola and Marysol Patton showed up for her the most, Pippen says Hochstein prioritized Glidden, who she claimed in the June 25 episode of RHOM told his Hochstein to stop being her friend.
“I just feel like I like a man that supports his girlfriend and her friends,” Pippen explains. “I’m used to being with guys that are making you feel like you’re safe. I feel like it’s a man’s job to make you and your friends feel safe if they’re not in a great relationship or whatnot. But I don’t know, I just feel like I’m not used to having friends like Lisa or her relationship with her boyfriend.”
The mom of four added that her current boyfriend, Jeff Coby, is an example of what she expected out of Glidden.
“If one of my friends was to break up, he would never be like, ‘Oh, I want to hang out with this guy that’s bashing her,’” she says. “He’d be like, ‘No, let’s go to dinner. Let me make sure that I take care of you, and I make sure that you feel good.’”
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Hochstein claimed Pippen did not support her through one of “the worst times” of her life.
In a separate interview with PEOPLE, Hochstein insinuated that Pippen was a hypocrite and accused her of “hammering” her with argumentative text messages while she was mourning the loss of her father.
“It was just truly disappointing,” she confessed. “Larsa is saying that I wasn’t a good friend and I wasn’t there for her through her breakup. Well, guess what? You’re not there for me through my dad dying. Compare the two of those scenarios.”
Pippen isn’t shutting down the possibility of making amends with Hochstein in the future.
After months of back and forth during a time when Pippen says “I really needed my friends,” she and Hochstein have yet to find common ground.
“We’re just coexisting,” she reveals. “I feel like we can be in the same room together, but we don’t really hang out like we used to, we don’t talk like we used to, and so that’s how it is. I think in this season, you see the rollercoaster of our relationship. And I think for me, when you’re hurt, I feel like you just are so mad because you’re so hurt.”
Still, the reality star is “open to working things out with” Hochstein — under certain conditions.
“I feel like I’m not going to say we’re never going to be friends again,” she shares. “That’s not where my mind is right now. I just feel like I wish she took some accountability. I think it’s hard when you’re telling someone how you feel, and they just dismiss it as that’s not what it is.”
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The Real Housewives of Miami airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo, and can be streamed the following day on Peacock.