Vicki Gunvalson Criticizes Tamra Judge Over Estranged Relationship with Daughter

Vicki Gunvalson called out Tamra Judge for not repairing her estranged relationship with daughter Sidney Barney.

“If my daughter didn’t talk to me, I’d be on a flipping plane right now, knocking on her door, begging her for forgiveness, and I don’t even care what I did! Sidney has a very strong opinion of Tamra,” Gunvalson said in Monday’s episode of “My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast” with co-host Christian Gray Snow.

The “Real Housewives of Orange County” friend, 62, claimed Barney, 25, wants her mom to “get off” the Bravo reality show and “stop embarrassing the family,” but the “Housewife,” 57, has done “none of that.”

“That shows Sidney, ‘I’m not important to you.’ I don’t care about my money, my stuff. I care about my family, my daughter, my people in my life, so that’s the problem,” she continued.

Gunvalson also said she has never had a heart-to-heart conversation with Judge about the latter’s strained relationship with Barney — despite previously being close friends for more than a decade.

“She would just say, ‘It’s so hard.’ No, it’s not. You gave birth to your daughter, you f–ked up. Go apologize and make it better and move on!” she sternly suggested.

Gunvalson also argued that if the root of their problems is Judge’s time on “RHOC,” then the solution is to “get off the show.”

“Reconcile with your daughter! It’s pretty simple,” she declared.

Gunvalson — who has two children and four grandkids — added that “there’s no flipping way” she would live a life “not being close with my daughter and my son.”

“I don’t get how [Judge] cries on TV. And Sidney said, ‘Please don’t mention me. Please don’t do this,’ and the next thing you know, she’s bawling. It’s like she can turn on the waterworks like that. Anyway, that is a character issue, and that’s something that’s freaking weird,” she concluded.

A rep for Judge didn’t return Page Six’s request for comment.

Judge has become emotional about her daughter, whom she shares with her ex-husband Simon Barney, several times since first discussing their fractured relationship in 2015.

“My oldest daughter, Sidney, said, ‘I don’t want to live with you anymore. You’ve ruined my dad’s life.’ [She] left that day and has not come back,” she said during the show’s Season 10 reunion, adding that they had not spoken since her 2011 divorce.

The Vena CBD co-founder — who also shares son Spencer, 23, and daughter Sophia, 18, with Simon — recently gave an update about Sidney on Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast.

“She is reaching out to her brother and sister now, so that’s good news. So we do have some progress,” she told us in July.

Judge added that Sidney is “doing amazing” and “very successful” in the film industry.

The two briefly reunited in June 2023 when they both attended Sophia’s graduation, but they do not appear to have met up since.

“Unfortunately, Sidney’s on Simon’s side. She doesn’t really speak to any of us. It’s difficult. It’s like your child’s dead, but they’re still alive,” Judge said on the “RHOC” Season 18 premiere in July.

Source: Page Six