Ashley Darby

But when someone creates this narrative to be perceived in a certain way versus being who they really are, it's very hard for me.

And I think that maybe there is even a little bit of a shift that's happening in some shows, on some shows, or I don't know.

I can't quite put my finger on it.

But my requests for authenticity and friendship, both in my personal life as she was my real friend and is my friend,

And what I'm doing as somebody on Real Housewives of Potomac, I'm never going to stop doing that.

I'm always going to have the same standard of being real, no matter what.

On that same topic, then, how are you feeling about Wendy?

Well, once it became this bigger thing and more details have come out, I actually now more so feel bad for her and her children.

I mean, obviously she's innocent until proven guilty, right?

And I've learned that.

Like Wendy and Pam Oliver, whoever she goes by today,

Her children are old enough now to see it and hear it and read about it.

So that's where I felt bad was her children.

How do you show up for Wendy?

No, that was, it is a challenge.

And you're very right with that, Nick.

There is a sort of dichotomy because I have developed a personal relationship with Wendy over these last few years.

Our relationship started out really rough, our friendship, mainly because I felt like she was just sort of arrogant and was putting other people down.

And of course, I wanted to celebrate her academic accomplishments, but she was sort of

weaponizing her degrees against us or me at the time.