The cast of RHONY did not see Bethenny Frankel's departure coming.
is a shock to the other cast members. The two sources claim that the other cast members were not given a head’s up that Frankel was exiting the show and found out about it in the press.
According to the two sources, filming for season 12 got underway on Wednesday, with one source calling Frankel's exit, "blindsiding." ET confirmed that the Skinnygirl founder would no longer appear on the Bravo series on Wednesday. Frankel, herself, shared a goodbye message to all her fans on her Instagram, thanking them for"sticking with me through everything."
"You started this journey with me in my tiny apartment in my late 30s, wondering what would happen to me. I was broke, single, had no family and no idea what the future held," she wrote."I had big dreams and I never stopped, but I honestly didn’t know if I would ever get here. You helped me to get here."
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