Gizelle and Monique continue their conversation about Monique’s motives behind bringing Kyndall around the group.
Although Gizelle is convinced Monique was trying to be shady and get under her skin, Monique says she cocked back the trigger and then decided she didn’t want to go through with it.
When Monique says she was down originally when Charrisse proposed the idea but changed her mind, Gizelle reminds her that she’s the one who invited Kyndall to the charity gala.
“Charrisse doesn’t remember this conversation but we talked about her coming to the gala. And that is where all the confusion started.” – Monique
In a green screen interview, Gizelle says she didn’t have any beef with Monique or Charrisse but that didn’t stop them from purposely trying to use Kyndall to hurt her.
Regardless, Gizelle is confident in who she is and she’s not going to let anyone from Sherman’s past bother her.
“I don’t give a rat’s about any other woman under the sun. Everyday I walk up, I’m the baddest thing walking. Inside and out. So for me to even care about anybody in Sherman’s past is not Gizelle.” – Gizelle
Gizelle tells Monique they will never be best friends and Monique says she’s cool with them just being cordial. Both agree they can coexist in peace.
They change the topic of the conversation and Gizelle asks how Monique and Chris are doing.
Monique tells Gizelle that she and Chris are cool again. He’s been sending her cute messages and telling her how much he loves her while she’s been in France. Gizelle is happy to hear this considering Monique told her that she and Chris always have a nasty fight around her birthday.
Gizelle excuses herself to get dressed.
Chris and Monique talk on the phone and he tells her he’s ready for her to come back home.
In a green screen interview, she says she can’t wait to get home so they can really make up.
Ashley is still annoyed with Karen.
The ladies head to a winery.
When they arrive to the winery, they are all pleased by the scenery.
They are given some glasses of wine that were made by hand. They begin to walk around to take in the views. In a green screen interview, Gizelle says that she’s cool with Monique but she still has a bone to pick with Charrisse for coming up with the idea to bring Kyndall around.
The ladies do some wine tasting.
After Karen says she’s going to take the “domestic lifestyle home” and serve Ray, Ashley says she needs to stop trying so hard to look like she’s in a happy marriage in her green screen interview.
Karen offers to serve their tour guide some wine and then says she has a 21 year marriage because she serves her man.
Gizelle says it’s hard to know that because she doesn’t have her wedding ring on.
Karen says not wearing her ring is a “preference.”
“I didn’t want to wear it in the city.” – Karen
“That’s interesting. I didn’t take mine off in Somalia.” – Ashley
Monique and Charrisse go off to the side to have a conversation.
“You kind of threw me under the bus.” – Charrisse
Charrisse pull Monique to the side and tells her that she needs to own up to her role in bringing Gizelle around. She tells Monique she had absolutely nothing to do with her bringing Kyndall around.
Monique says it was 50/50. She feels they were both being messy. Charrisse disagrees and says that Monique wanted to go at Gizelle because she has her own issues with Gizelle.
“I just want you to own your part on this.” – Charrisse
“I’m owning my part. Initially, Gizelle was getting on my nerves. She was talking about me once again but…” – Monique
“That was the grounds of you wanting Kyndall to come.” – Charrisse
Monique says that Charrisse prompted everything after she said Kyndall should be invited to the Hurricane Harvey charity event.
Charrisse says she buried her beef with Gizelle before Monique brought Kyndall around.
“This is something that you chose to do, and you ran with it on your own. I was not a part of that.” – Charrisse
In a green screen interview, Monique says she thinks Charrisse still isn’t over the fireman thing and that’s why she wanted Kyndall around.
“The bottom line is Charrisse has not fully gotten over what Gizelle did to her and she wanted to use Kyndall as a way to get under Gizelle’s skin. So if that’s what you want to do, I’m riding with you. You my girl.” – Monique
Monique expresses that she would not have ever brought Kyndall around if she didn’t think that is what Charrisse wanted.
Meanwhile, Karen tells Ashley and Robyn that Candiace wants to talk to everyone but Ashley and Robyn decide to take some pictures instead. Karen tells them they are being rude.
“It was just rude that I was trying to talk and you all were just concerned about taking pictures.” – Candiace
Regardless, Candiace gets emotional and says she has a lot going on and she just wants to make friends within the group.
But she doesn’t want to have to fight for a friendship.
Gizelle calls BS and says she hasn’t really opened up and shown more sides to her. Candiace says she has but Gizelle didn’t notice because she has her head “so far up her own a*s.”
“I like my head and I like my a*s. That’s number one. Number two, I told everyone i thought you were very nice.” – Gizelle
Candiace says she doesn’t want to be judged by the angry outbursts and arguments she’s had.
She then says being called a princess is unfair. Gizelle then says that Candiace has called herself a princess.
Some arguing takes place as neither of the women feel they even have an issue with Candiace.
“We have a beef? I didn’t know that.” – Robyn
Feeling like the conversation is going nowhere, they decide to end it and leave the winery.
In the car, Ashley and Karen get into it.
They take jabs at each other’s marriages. Things pop off after Karen insinuates that Ashley doesn’t have her own money. Ashley says that Karen doesn’t either.
Karen says Ashely is only got married for image reasons and looks so miserable with Michael.
“I’m gonna do it one time and one time only, Ashley. My marriage is an institution, okay? Yours is the fake the world situation, okay? You look so miserable with Michael and you don’t come after my marriage. I would stop now.” – Karen
Ashley points out that Karen is the one who is not wearing her ring.
“Really, Karen? Cause you’re the one not wearing your wedding ring. And you’re the one who was talking about Ray’s p*nis is old and dried up. Not me.” – Ashley
She also points out that she’s been forthcoming about the problems in her marriage but Karen has not.
“You obsess with my life. Get over it.” – Karen
“Karen, you talk a big game, girl. Give you a few bottles of champagne and you act like you’re f*cking Beyonce. You’re a broke version of Tina Knowles.” – Ashley
“Oh, you would know broke. Your husband not only kicked your a*s out, he moved you a mile down the street from your sweatbox and put your a*s in a studio.” – Karen
This angers Ashley. She asks Karen if she really wants to take the conversation there because she knows some stuff Ray told Michael that would embarrass her.
“You take your fake marriage and you ram it up your a*s. Your husband is always crying when he’s around you. You make him miserable. And leave my institution alone. It’s well established.” – Karen
“Karen, you’re a blatant liar.” – Ashley
“What you do is you sneak into situations, get close, so you can get some information and go put a fake news spin on it. I’m done with your a*s.” – Karen
“There are a lot of things about you that I haven’t said.” – Ashley
Candiace then defends Karen.
She tells Ashley if she has anything else to say about Karen to say it now and don’t just make threats.
She tells Ashley that she has private conversations with people just to use what is said as ammunition later in front of the group.
“I wasn’t talking to you. I was talking to Karen.” – Ashley
“You don’t have to be talking to me.” – Candiace
“I wasn’t talking to you. But you just want to involve yourself.” – Ashley
“So all you know how to do is bullsh*t and make up stuff…you know what you can do? You can suck a d*ck, Ashley.” – Candiace
The car ride gets really quiet.
Later on, Candiace FaceTimes Chris and says that she feels like Ashley, Robyn and Gizelle are causing problems. And in her opinion, Gizelle is the ring leader. Ashley and Robyn are fine alone.
She’s in a good place with Charrisse and Karen. So Chris says she should just focus on her relationships with them instead.
The next morning the ladies get together to get on a boat in swimsuits.
Candiace and Ashley have a conversation about their blowup. Ashley says that Candiace jumped into something that had nothing to do with her. Her issues with Karen have been going on for a while.
Monique then says that Candiace can’t blowup at people every time things are said that she doesn’t like. Candiace then says she feels like she’s being singled out.
Meanwhile, Karen is once again asked why she’s not wearing her ring. She says she takes it off when she travels but Gizelle says she had it on in the car.
Producers flashback to Karen riding in the car and she didn’t have her ring on then, either.
Karen throws some shade in her green screen interview.
“Obviously, I have my ring. I obviously I have my man. Gizelle, do you have a ring. And do you have a man?” – Karen
The ladies do some more sightseeing and take a break on the bickering.
Monique and Robyn make peace.
On their last night, the ladies dress up burlesque costumes and have some wine by the pool.
Gizelle gets a FaceTime from one of her daughters who’s crying because she had bad day at school.
She tries to cheer her up and recruits her other daughter to make her feel better.
Candiace then tries to express “regret” for going off on people. She still wants people to see more sides to her.
Robyn says that she felt offended because she thought she and Candiace were cool. But Candiace says that Robyn is cool when she’s not with Gizelle and when she has an issue with one, she would like for the other not to jump in.
Both Gizelle and Robyn say they will always have each other’s backs.
Gizelle then says that she has an issue with Charrisse because she thought they were cool.
She mentions that Charrisse told her that she really wanted Sherman and Gizelle to work out.
“All of that was a lie.” – Gizelle
Karen then interjects and says that Charrisse and Candiace were the ones who said they felt it was messy for Monique to bring Kyndall around.
Gizelle thanks Charrisse.
Robyn and Ashley end up doing some sultry dancing with burlesque dancers. They imitate Monique and Robyn’s altercation with the umbrella. Monique laughs.
She later tells Robyn she should have never let it go that far. And Robyn says she agrees and feels she was wrong too. They hug it out and everyone is shocked.
In a green screen interview, Robyn says that it’s possible she and Monique could be friends one day.
Candiace then sings happy birthday to Monique in French.
With the trip ending on a positive note, Monique hopes everyone can get along when they get back home.
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