Not-so pleasant. While Elizabeth Lyn Vargas once described her time on The Real Housewives of Orange County as a “beautiful” experience, it seems things have changed.

  “I was going through a major divorce, in a sexless relationship and miserable and then I get this gig on the Housewives and I’m like, ‘I must be perfect for them because like this can’t get any worse.’** So, to have them film me during that devastating time was very hard,” Elizabeth, 47, said on the Thursday, October 13, episode of Us Weekly’s “Getting Real with the Housewives” podcast. “There’s a lot of haters and trolls and I never experienced such negativity. I think a lot of people when you’re down, they like to kick you even harder, and so having the ladies kick me harder on the show was just even worse because I thought, I get this gig working with these amazing women and then they’re just smashing me left and right, so, that was devastating.”

The former Bravo star was fired in 2021 after just one season on the show, during which she opened up about her difficult divorce and painful past growing up in a Missouri cult.

Elizabeth’s firing, which was announced alongside Kelly Dodd and Braunwyn-Windham Burke’s departure, came as a “complete shock” to the reality star since she was initially told she was set to return for season 16.

“[I was] completely shocked. I was told the Friday before by…