The Real Housewives of Dubai hasn’t found a huge audience yet, but the people who watch the show think it’s one of the best. This season has brought changes to many relationships and a new face in Taleen Marie. Throughout filming, she has fallen out with Caroline Brooks. Though they still consider each other friends, Caroline had some harsh words for the RHODubai newbie in a recent interview. She also gives her thoughts on the changing dynamics on the show.
Caroline is responsible for bringing Taleen into the group, and thus, onto the show. However, Taleen has said that being on RHODubai has changed her friend, which is her reasoning for why they fell out.
Recently, Caroline sat down for an interview with Entertainment Tonight and had much to say about her friend Taleen. In particular, she responds to Taleen saying the show changed her. She starts by saying, “She is so delusional.”
Caroline continues, “She said, ‘It changed her,’ as if I’m the season 1 newbie. Excuse me, I’ve been at this. I brought you into my friend group, and I brought you onto the show I am on. Don’t tell me a camera or something changed me when I’m the very same person. I stuck up for you, and this is what got me to shift, when I saw your behavior being a two-faced person.”
She goes on to explain that Taleen wanted to join the show from the start despite saying otherwise. According to Caroline, “She’s a liar. She’s a liar. She’s a liar. She wanted to be a part of the show from before we even filmed season 1, when I told her, ‘Don’t tell anyone! I’m going to be on The Real Housewives of Dubai.‘ She’s like, ‘Get me on there! Please, dude! Get me on there.’ She’s a liar.”
She then says that Taleen “played dumb” when the discussion happened on camera about her being desperate to join the show. Apparently, Caroline called her a “beggar” after they finished filming.
She continues, “Taleen actually said to me that that’s what hurt her, is that I called her a beggar. I was going into the elevator shafts after we finished that scene. I told her, ‘You’re a beggar.’ I said,’ You begged me to be on this show.’ Ad so she said, when she had called me after that — prior to seeing each other again — she had said that that’s what hurt, is that I said, she begged, and so I said, ‘I apologize for calling you a beggar.’ So, for her to act shocked was shocking to me.”
Caroline then tries to rationalize why Taleen was upset by saying, “Maybe she’s embarrassed of it, and maybe that’s why she didn’t want me to repeat back what the issue was, because it’s an embarrassing thing to say. but it was actually show-driven, had nothing to do with [begging for] clothes or money. She didn’t beg me for anything [like that]. She has her own lifestyle. It was about being part of my friend group.”
After that, Caroline addresses Taleen having said that she borrowed her clothing after they got into a heated on-camera argument.
“I have never worn an article of that girl’s clothing in my life. I think I have more clothes than anyone I’ve ever met. So, that was just a throwaway, stupid comment. My entire first season wardrobe is still hanging on racks in my house. I wonder if her season is on her racks.”
She then addresses Taleen bashing her for not having a husband.
She says, “Out of line, that was so distasteful. You, [Taleen], were around when I was still married to that man who abused me so badly. And now, you’re watching your husband yell at me? It just goes to show who she is as a person. It’s more a reflection of her than a reflection of me.”
She goes on, “I think that Taleen’s little theater needs to end. Stop saying I drink too much. Stop saying I’m an alcoholic. … I don’t have a drinking issue. I actually work seven days a week. I own two companies that are thriving.”
She thinks things between them can be fixed, but she doesn’t think she can trust Taleen the same. She says, “There’s love in my heart for Taleen. She owes me a very big apology for all of the games and the gaslighting, and she’s continuing to do it, as I can see in interviews.”
Caroline also discusses the fallout between Lesa Milan and Chanel Ayan and how the midseason trailer shows her delight in their feud.
She says, “They were really nasty to us. … They were taking a lot of jabs and blows, season 1, and they made it really hard for some of us on the cast, and they were thickest thieves and didn’t actually allow anybody else in, and it felt very like team-y, you know?”
She continues, “It gave them a dose of their own medicine, so to speak. I don’t like to see anybody’s friendships break up or any problem like that in the end because we’re all friends, but they had that coming.”
Caroline also addresses rumors about her business. She explains, “What it was is, I heard a rumor that Ayan went around saying that I have business partners in [my salon] theGlass House. I do not. I am the sole owner. I’m the founder, owner — no partners in that business. But in my consultancy firm, I do have a business partner. … So, when she said that, I said, ‘Oh, you got it.’ This is before Ayan and I became close.”
She continues, “I was like, I’m definitely going to shade her right back because it’s not a bad thing to have a business partner. But … it’s almost like she was discrediting all my hard work, and so I just fired back.”
Regarding Caroline Stanbury saying she doesn’t like seeing people succeed, she says, “That was very rich, coming from her, very rich coming from Caroline Stanbury. What a throwaway comment. I support everyone. I support everyone’s businesses. I’ve always been supportive of everyone in my cast, and whatever they have success with, of course, through the confessionals, I throw a little bit of dry, light shade. We all shade each other, but I always show up for everyone.”
