Kelly Dodd of The Real Housewives of Orange County defended her presence at a crowded restaurant over the weekend amid the COVID-19 pandemic, saying she and her friends had been vaccinated.
“The sheeples are crazy,” said the star of the 45-year-old reality show after being spotted on Saturday amid a pile of controversy over her words and actions amid the coronavirus pandemic, losing a corporate sponsor and receiving resignations. of the Bravo program.
“I’m not a superspreader because there is nothing to spread,” said Dodd on Instagram Stories, “because we all have the vaccine and we don’t have it, so there is nothing to spread about superspreaders.”
The most recent: Kelly Dodd, 45, of The Real Housewives of Orange County, defended her presence at a crowded restaurant over the weekend amid the COVID-19 pandemic, saying she and her friends had been vaccinated
On Saturday, she was spotted with her husband Rick Leventhal, 61, and friends on a youthful, unmasked tour of a restaurant in Newport Beach, California, with participants joking about the virus at one point and mockingly toasting the ‘super propagators’ .
Dodd claimed she was ‘getting a lot of hatred for being in a restaurant we can go to’ after California partially lifted restaurant restrictions amid the ongoing pandemic.
Positive Beverage severed its ties to Dodd amid the negative reaction to Saturday’s incident, Entertainment Tonight reported on Sunday.
“Our core values of well-being, community, diversity and inclusion must be reflected by our brand and anyone associated with it,” said Zach Muchnick of Positive Beverage in a statement. “It has become clear in recent months that Kelly’s controversial views and opinions have deviated from our main goals, so effective today that we are no longer affiliated with Kelly Dodd-Leventhal.”
Defense: Dodd said on Instagram Stories, ‘I am not a super spreader because there is nothing to spread, because we all have the vaccine and we don’t have it, so there is nothing to spread about the super spreaders’
Boost: Positive Beverage severed ties with Dodd amid rebound from Saturday’s incident
Dodd seemed to take his Positive Beverage shot calmly
Dodd seemed to take it in stride, saying on Twitter: ‘I’m glad I helped put Positive Drink on the map and I wish them all the best. I am also very excited about my next venture in the beauty industry, which is my true passion. Stay tuned!’
Dodd said on Friday that she was safe in her place at RHOC, saying she “was not fired” from the series, suggesting that ex-costar Vicki Gunvalson was behind the rumors.
Dodd made headlines in connection with the virus last April, after saying on social media that he believed the pandemic was ‘God’s way of reducing the herd’ while she argued with an Instagram user who called her after making a flight across the country.
After a user wrote to Dodd, ‘If non-essential workers continue to travel back and forth like you, it will last longer’, the reality star replied, ‘Do you know how many people died of H1N1, swine flu or SARS? It is 25% to clarify the facts you are just hearing numbers, not reality! It is God’s way of reducing the flock! ‘
Dodd made headlines in connection with the virus last April, after saying on social media that he believed the pandemic was ‘God’s way of reducing the herd’
Dodd claimed she was ‘getting a lot of hate for being in a restaurant we can go to’ after California partially lifted restaurant restrictions amid the ongoing pandemic
She later apologized for the comments, clarifying how she wanted the comment to be made.
“When I wrote that it is ‘God’s way of reducing the flock’, that’s not what I meant,” said Dodd on Instagram Stories. ‘What I meant was,’ Do these pandemics happen because it’s God’s way? ‘I am not god. I am not insensitive.
‘I feel bad for all the families that have lost loved ones and I think we should all stay home and protect everyone. That’s not what I meant, and I want to apologize to anyone who took offense, right? I’m so sorry.’
Several Twitter fans asked for Dodd to resign from the show
She apologized again last month, appearing on Watch What Happens Live, saying of her previous controversy: ‘It was insensitive and I apologize if I hurt or offended someone.’
As of Sunday, globally, 2,226,935 people have died amid more than 102,922,990 positive diagnoses worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. The total number of COVID-19 deaths in the USA was 441,282 people, with 26,178,803 positive diagnoses in total.
In the home state of Dodd, California, the state Department of Public Health reported that 481 deaths from coronavirus were recorded on Sunday, as the number of deaths in the state exceeded 40,000.