Kelly Bensimon: "I Had a Breakthrough," Not a "Breakdown"

Entertainment May 21, 2010 AT 5:17PM
Kelly Bensimon: "I Had a Breakthrough," Not a "Breakdown" Credit: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images

Real Housewives of New York star Kelly Killoren Bensimon doesn't regret her bizarre behavior on Thursday's explosive episode of her hit Bravo show.

"Some people are like, 'You had a breakdown,' and I'm like, no, I had a breakthrough," Bensimon told New York magazine's Vulture of her histrionics on a yacht in St. John's.

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Among other outbursts in the episode, Bensimon called fellow housewife Alex McCord a "vampire," threatened to "claw" the eyes out of those interrupting a phone call with her kids, and claimed a dream in which nemesis Bethenny Frankel tries to stab her to death.

The model and writer explains that she was "very anxious" about traveling to St. John's with the other housewives. "I was asked by women who don't like me at all. I always have positive expectations of people, and I always think the best, and you know, that’s my Achilles' heel, is that I'm positive and feel like people are going to be nice. But the nature of the show isn't that."

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She claims that her rival housewives are "not happy I'm on the show, they're just not...I'm very sensitive, and if someone says something very rude to me over and over again, I'm human. Shoot me."

"I'm completely honest, I have a ton of integrity," Bensimon continued. "The minute I walk into the room, I create...this stagnant frenetic energy."

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On last week's episode, she chided Frankel and housewife Sonja Morgan for crying, getting emotional and sharing their "feelings." She explained: "In some ways, I'm almost too real. I have two girls, and we talk about feelings 24 hours a day. But those are real-life feelings."

"Let's be honest," she added of her outbursts, "It makes for awesome TV...if they're not hating on you, you're not doing something right."

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  • May 26, 2010 - 2:13pm christina

    i think kelly is inhaling too much new york city exhaust on her daily runs in the streets of new york! Add the exhaust to her schizophrenia, she is a total nut job, have her committed into a padded cell till further evaluation. btw, when you do a reality show, you get written about in the press, why does she keep blaming bethany for that?! Why does she even want to be on this show, this show is about women getting together to talk.

  • May 26, 2010 - 2:06pm amanda :)

    she thinks she is the only person in the world who gets attention when she walks in to a room. Ugh! this woman is a demented, sick and oh yeah "gross!" as she was calling the ladies at their lunch, which would of been lovely if big dumb kelly didnt come. This oversized bully, kelly, should of been committed to a mental institution that night, in a straigt jacket. Her nightmares of bethenny killing her is a big clue into this schizophrenic woman. She needs help, get her off the show, she is going to hurt someone or herself, she attacked all the women on the vacation, except sonya. Think Ramona, bethenny, sonya and alex handled this all great, btw, too bad this vacation was so ruined by the big moron.

  • May 25, 2010 - 6:03pm Noxeema

    Crazy people tend to be somewhat smart, Kelly seems like another American crystal meth tragedy...

  • May 25, 2010 - 5:45pm ntiveheart

    wackadoodledoo....kelly is simply whackadoodledoo. end of story. end of comment.

  • May 25, 2010 - 11:58am suz82

    she mustve gotten the "breakthrough not a breakdown" from Kelly Cutrones book,thats the title of chapter three.

  • May 24, 2010 - 8:36pm Jz in Pgh

    I'm going to hope she has a drug problem 'cause you just can't fix stupid.

  • May 24, 2010 - 6:13pm annabellelee

    I thought I was missing things that had gone on in the show where Kelly was involved because the conversations she had were completely one-sided - Kelly having a dialog of her own that had little to do with what the other person was saying or trying to say. Kelly seems unable to process what people are actually saying to her and invariably misreads their intentions. I've known people who were very limited intellectually and have family who never got to high-school. Not one of them is incapable of understanding a simple declarative sentence (and most of them seem like genuises compared to her). I know this can't be true but Kelly's disordered thinking makes her responses sound like nonsense. The woman even mistook her own daughter's statement that her mother worked hard for them to mean that she *was* hard on them. She didn't seem to read what the girls were actually feeling at all. Kelly literally cannot seem to shut off whatever is whirrling around in her own brain to listen to anyone else. The woman needs help and her sweet, perceptive girls deserve a functioning mother.

  • May 24, 2010 - 5:16pm Krispy

    It is apparent that Kelly is snorting cocaine or crystal meth. Also, why the hell would she care about what is put in the media, everyone with a brain knows that you cant care about that stuff. Kelly, i'm sorry to say this but" YOU SUCK!".

  • May 24, 2010 - 5:03pm mccartney

    The reason a health professional is not "stepping in" to help Kelly is simple. She is not exhibiting a mental health disorder instead, she appears to not be able to handle confrontations and difficult situations well. Likely her parents did not fight in front of her and they put on an everything is fine facade. Bethanny is everything Kelly is not used to. The show is the worst situation for kelly since it forces her into situations she has never dealt with before. She is basically responding while in a state of shock. The true mental health professional concern is for Bethanny. She has no close relationships for longer than a year or two. From what I can tell these relationships are very parasitic. She avoids being comforting or supportive of others likely because she does not trully feel sympathy or empathy. She meets the requirements to be further observed for a Sociopath. But BRAVO wants to sell their TV show and the perfect platform for someone needing constant attention (note her constant bickering with every celebrity out there not just her castmates.)

  • May 24, 2010 - 4:52pm Tammi

    She is a nutjob! She makes no sense and attacks Bethanny all the time. There is nothing "real" about her. Get her off the show. She brings nothing to the table.

  • May 24, 2010 - 4:21pm gingi

    Without a powerful ex-husband this woman would be absolutely nothing. Model? Really? Writer? She never even graduated from college. Who has her kids when she's traveling and "entertaining?"

  • May 24, 2010 - 2:47pm TootsieRoll

    I truly see this as kind of sad and pitiful. Kelly apparently has no one watching her back. To go this long after that disasterous dinner party and still not see what had happened, and still not understand the severity of her actions, tells me no one is watching out for her. A dear, close friend (perhaps even the other Housewives) should insist she be observed by a doctor or something. Yes, Kelly annoys me to no end, however, after Thursday nights episode it was really getting uncomfortable to watch/hear her rantings. Even her facial expressions and eyes looked unstabled/crazy. Please Kelly, seek help.

  • May 24, 2010 - 2:22pm jigga

    omg she's insane. seriously she needs help. and positive person? you've got to be kidding

  • May 24, 2010 - 2:08pm overit!

    Eww...you make my skin crawl, you walk like a man. You didn't have a break through honey, sorry...that was a melt down if I've ever seen one. There are other people on this planet except you!

  • May 24, 2010 - 1:54pm Nicole Bitchie

    she is an annoying a$$ bich, and crazy. Like how Bethany just proved what a nutcase this wh@re is. Have u guys seen her in a Bikini? she looks like leather lol

  • May 24, 2010 - 1:44pm Another Pennsylvanian

    "stagnant frenetic energy", WTF??? I need to see the report card from Columbia and her children should be removed from her care immediately!!

  • May 24, 2010 - 1:40pm Mimi

    I think I'm a pretty bright women. What the h(*# does "stagnant frenetic energy" mean????? She strings words together in a way that makes absolutely no sense. And she's a writer?!?!?!?

  • May 24, 2010 - 1:29pm Veronica

    Kelly-You are the biggest whack job ever! You are so jealous of Bethanny you can't stand to be in the same room with her. She outsmarts you ever time as she is intelligent, witty with a great sense of humor. You on the other hand my dear are a mess! I have never seen someone so unstable; you claim to be a good person & have often said you don't speak badly of people: you are always slinging mud & name calling. Grow up Kelly & get off the show you loser!

  • May 24, 2010 - 1:12pm veronica

    you've all nailed it METH HEAD. "i don't drink" ya because it interfers with your buzz. "i don't eat carbs" have another gummi bear. "bethanny, no one cares about you" ya that's why she has her own show. an F-ing freak. go away.

  • May 24, 2010 - 1:10pm acaruth711

    She is the craziest person I have ever seen. I am so happy that everyone else is coming around

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