Ubah Hassan is setting the record straight about her phone debacle and fallout with Erin Dana Lichy on The Real Housewives of New York City.
On episode 11 of the Bravo show’s 14th season, Hassan and Lichy went head to head after a prank went wrong. During the cast’s girls trip to Anguilla, Lichy, 36, struck a chord with Hassan, 40, when she decided to hide her phone as a form of payback for getting pushed into the pool.
The former supermodel was not amused, and grew frustrated when she learned her phone had been hidden on purpose, thus making her unable to contact her worried family members.
The next day, the duo hit a boiling point when Lichy misheard a conversation where Hassan mentioned her name and grew furious. Reacting to her hostility, Hassan grabbed the sunglasses off her face and stated that she wouldn’t return them for “45 minutes.” Throughout the episode, things grew even more tense as Lichy left both lunch and dinner early, and eventually broke down into tears, claiming she was “scared to be friends” with her.
Hassan is now addressing the feud, telling that their massive argument was about much more than a phone.
“The phone was absolutely the seeds of the whole blowing up,” she explained. “It’s just a seed. It was a lot of irritation… I think people don’t understand this is TV, this is a show. We need to stop [taking] this thing so personal. Don’t tell me that I’m yelling and screaming and performing for [having my phone taken for] 45 minutes. No, it’s more than that.”
“That’s basically what I think they misunder[stood]. I’m not crying for my phone, I lose my phone all the time. I was in the middle of this trip in Anguilla. I have a business, I have a family, I’m a grown woman. What do you take my phone for?” she continued. “And then you backtrack and say, ‘Oh it was a prank.’ What f — -ing prank? I got thrown in the pool, and you didn’t tell me the prank is not over. What is that? Why do you backpedal and say that this is the worst conflict you ever had, it reminds you of seventh grade when they call you a long chin? It’s just ridiculous.”
“She lied about a bunch of things you will find out at the reunion,” she added. “She was just gaslighting things the whole day. She’s a s — — stirrer, everybody knows it. I know it, a 2-year-old knows it, the viewer knows it. Unless you’re biased and selective-minded, then go f — — yourself.”
Hassan, who touched on the “angry Black woman” stereotype during the episode, also told the outlet she felt her “narrative” was “painted” to be “angry” when she was simply expressing genuine emotion.
“I’m quite aware that when Black girls raise their voice or speak, we’ve always been painted [as] the ones that cause the more conflict,” she explained. “And I just don’t want that narrative. I don’t think it’s only Black, I think it’s Chinese, Indian — anyone who is not blonde hair, blue eyes, we do feel this way. Like, we feel judged. That means [we] raise our voice.”
The Ubah Hot founder alleged that “Erin yelled at me, [was] screaming at me and [called] me a b — — [a] couple times,” but “nobody’s calling her angry.”
“Nobody’s doing any of that, right? They are, in fact, calling her delicate,” she claimed. “Me and her, I’m more delicate than her — she’s the gym rat.”
“I’m not afraid to raise my voice,” Hassan continued. “I also raise my voice when I’m happy; I’m just a bubbly, passionate person — don’t paint me anything else. Don’t f — -ing label me. My name is Ubah. That’s it.”
In the end, Hassan explained that she didn’t feel that neither the real estate agent, nor the network, was responsible for painting her out to be “the angry Black woman.”
“[Erin] or the show didn’t do that, it’s the viewer,” she claimed, noting that the reality show editors have a tough job trying to incorporate everybody’s perspectives in “five minutes.”
“So how they edit it, I don’t think they’re trying to be biased or anything. I just feel like there’s not enough time, so some things have to be left and then the viewers are left to basically make their own decision,” Hassan continued, adding that the reunion episode would be an opportunity to clear the air.
“If you are a viewer, you know who is the biggest conflict,” Hassan added. “You know who is gossiping, who is the s — — stirrer. You can see the whole season, who gets in people’s business, get in people’s marriage — I don’t give a f — -, I don’t. Your life is your life. We just have fun as friends, I don’t gossip about other people behind people’s backs.”
The Real Housewives of New York City airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.
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