Bronwyn Newport’s Dad Died Shortly After RHOSLC Season 6 Wrapped (Excl)

Ever since Bronwyn Newport obtained her coveted The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis snowflake in season 5, she’s let followers in on the highs and lows of her life with unbridled honesty.

“We misplaced my dad proper after filming wrapped. So an essential factor for individuals to know is that we have been within the technique of dropping my dad [during season 6],” Bronwyn, 40, completely reveals in Us Weekly’s Actuality Stars of the Yr concern, referring to her father’s battle with Alzheimer’s illness and dementia. “It’s the toughest, slowest, most depressing method to lose somebody. You’re feeling such as you lose them actually slowly in little items.”

Bronwyn shared her father’s analysis within the RHOSLC season 6 premiere, which aired earlier this fall, additionally revealing that her mom, Marge, had moved in along with her household after recovering from a head damage. (The fact TV star lives with husband Todd Bradley, her 18-year-old daughter, Gwen, from a previous relationship, and Gwen’s boyfriend.)

“There was a lot stress at residence for me, however, clearly, my mother’s gone from being my mother and Gwen’s grandma to, type of, us caring for her and her residing with us,” Bronwyn shares. “I feel that’s been a very laborious transition for her. As you grow old, even in my very own position with my daughter, after I’m not her mother, I’m extra of a assist system or a good friend. You do really feel a lack of management, [and] that’s very destabilizing.”

Having her mother round extra, in keeping with Bronwyn, additionally “pushed” the mother-daughter pair to expertise unprecedented ranges of stress.

“All these modifications actually pushed all of it to the floor,” Bronwyn says. “I am keen on and love my mother, however we’re each very totally different and really prepared to inform one another what we’re totally different about. It’s been actually attention-grabbing for my mother to be in a distinct capability … residing at my home, having some well being challenges.”

Bronwyn filmed with each of her mother and father throughout season 6, usually making an attempt to “be respectful” of her dad’s capacity to present consent to manufacturing.

“We did movie small issues with him,” she recollects. “It’s one thing I do know I’m going to look again on and be so pleased that now we have that footage.”

Bronwyn and her mom, in the meantime, rehashed how their dynamic had strained amid the Bravo star’s being pregnant with Gwen. (Bronwyn obtained pregnant when she was a teen along with her then-boyfriend, who died when Gwen was a toddler.)

All through her stint on RHOSLC up to now, Bronwyn has impressed followers along with her vulnerability and candor about life’s struggles, particularly surrounding her journey as a single guardian. Early on in season 5, Bronwyn navigated a heartfelt dialog with Gwen concerning the expertise after it was revealed that fellow Housewife Lisa Barlow was near Gwen’s organic father’s household.

“I’m extremely pleased with how my daughter dealt with the dialog she and I had about her father and his household,” she says, detailing her finest second from filming RHOSLC. “I don’t know that I can take any credit score [for] how fantastic she is, however you actually obtained to see how mature and smart she is, even at such a younger age.”

Bronwyn continues, “Individuals have reached out to each [Gwen and I] and mentioned, You understand, ‘I grew up in a household that was like x, or wasn’t this, or I didn’t know my precise organic mother and father until this time in my life.’ It’s been so nice to really feel like individuals resonate with our story or see themselves in elements of it.”

Throughout season 5, Bronwyn and Gwen additionally had conversations about whether or not {the teenager} was open to assembly her paternal grandparents.

“She has not met or seen them nonetheless,” Bronwyn reveals. “Once we have been going by it, there have been conversations, clearly, that Lisa [Barlow] had tried to get going between us. It simply by no means felt like the correct second for my daughter.”

Bronwyn had been pals with Lisa, 50, years earlier than becoming a member of the RHOSLC franchise, nevertheless, their bond fractured in the course of the present season. After Bronwyn confronted Lisa over her alleged authorized drama, the Vida Tequila founder screamed that her costar was a “gout d*** sucker,” a dig about Bronwyn and Todd’s 26-year age hole and their intercourse life.

“It didn’t hassle him. I saved being like, ‘OK, this was coming,’” Bronwyn tells Us of Todd’s response to the insult. “Todd doesn’t have gout in his genitals. He had it in his ft like 18 [or] 24 months in the past, and I made enjoyable of it, which I feel is the place that got here from. I’ve since been educated extensively on gout. That’s all individuals ever need to discuss to me about now.”

Todd, 66, has made cameos on RHOSLC, each with your complete solid and simply his spouse.

“This season takes a distinct method than final season. Final season, he met the opposite husbands [and] he talked to them,” Bronwyn says. “Clearly, he and I took [most of the cast] on a visit, so he was concerned.”

Bronwyn and Todd cohosted a pair’s getaway to Palm Springs, California, throughout season 5 in honor of their tenth anniversary. The journey, nevertheless, rapidly raised eyebrows when Todd appeared to present his spouse a dear $4 million diamond necklace. Lisa later claimed in the course of the reunion that Bronwyn and Todd by no means really bought the necklace, which they rebuffed. Bronwyn finally admitted that Lisa was right when season 6 returned.

“I need to be very clear that I did lie on the reunion and say I had it as a result of I assumed I might have it by the point the reunion aired,” Bronwyn stresses to Us. “Due to what got here out [at] the reunion, I ended up switching and getting it from a distinct jeweler. So, I’ve a necklace. … It’s totally different from the one we noticed in Palm Springs.”

Regardless of the drama, Todd will proceed to affix Bronwyn onscreen in the course of the remaining season 6 episodes.

“This season, you’re solely gonna see Todd with me,” she says. “I assist Todd making no matter selection is finest for him. He has a enterprise exterior of the present that doesn’t naturally overlap with what we do on the present. His companions don’t watch the present, aren’t thinking about watching the present [and] don’t know the best way to clarify that of their line of labor.”

Bronwyn continues, “Todd felt like he needed to nonetheless discover a method to be supportive of me, however not be part of what was occurring.”

The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.

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