RHOSLC’s Bronwyn Newport is ready for Monica Garcia to return

December 2, 2024

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RHOSLC's Bronwyn Newport is ready for Monica Garcia to return

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The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Bronwyn Nieuwpoort wouldn’t say no to a possible Monica García back – at least not right away.

Newport, 39, spoke exclusively to We weekly on Nov. 18 at the second annual Stonewall In Brick Awards Gala, hosted by The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative (SIGBI), the official and only non-profit organization of the Stonewall Inn bar. While you’re talking to Us During the Gala, Newport discussed how she would have reacted if Garcia, 39, had returned for Season 5, which is currently airing on Bravo.

“I think it’s hard to say because I don’t know the full weight of that betrayal for them,” she said. Us. “I do know that every story always has three sides. So I’ve heard Monica’s, I’ve heard the ladies; I feel like the truth lies somewhere in the middle.”

Garcia made her debut in season 4 of RHOSLC – her first and only season – before a season finale in which she was exposed as one of the people behind the Instagram gossip account Reality Von Tease. Information about the other women was posted on the account RHOSLC and after the revelation, Garcia subsequently left the show.

“Monica made them feel unsafe,” said Newport, who also made her RHOSLC debut in season 4, narrated Us. “But I think those girls were messy in Monica or Reality Von Tease’s DMs. I’m definitely talking out of my own pocket because I wasn’t there. I don’t know, but I also think you do your best work when you feel a little bit uncomfortable.”

She continued, “So I don’t know if I want to hang out with her every day, but I would like her to show up. Maybe I’ll be in a really bad position with the ladies if I ask Monica to make an appearance, but we’ll see.

Newport showed her support for SIGBI while attending the November 18 event. The Gala benefits SIGBI’s work supporting grassroots organizations committed to LGBTQIA+ advocacy, as well as SIGBI’s Safe Spaces Certification Program, which establishes policies to ensure that businesses and venues around the world have LGBTQIA+ staff and serving customers and advocating for equality.

“I grew up just outside of San Francisco,” she explained Us. “I spent part of my youth outside Amsterdam in the suburbs. So personally, in my family, there were always strange people around, who were largely part of my parents’ circle of friends, my siblings’ circle of friends. So it’s always been a community that I identify with and support. A big part of my departure from the Mormon church was that it is incongruous for me to be part of a church or organization that does not love and accept everyone.

As for Garcia, she has few regrets about her time RHOSLCbut wishes her former castmates didn’t have as much (perceived) influence on whether or not she could return to the series.

“That was beyond frustrating because I didn’t think they had that kind of power to take a position like that,” she said. Us in October for the Reality Stars of the Year issue.

“I kind of thought: this is your job. You come to do your job or you don’t, you film with the cast or you don’t do it.’ I didn’t think it was like they had that much control or say over the casting, who they could and couldn’t film with, especially the cast. And I mean that with all the shade in the world. They’re not NeNe is leakingthey’re not like that. So it just amazed me that they had that kind of power.

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs on Bravo Wednesdays at 9pm ET. Stream old episodes anytime on Peacock.

With reporting by Brody Brown