The Real Housewives of Miami The cast of season 5 was thrilled when they learned that Lenny Hochstein left his wife Lisa for another woman. ROMs viewers saw Lisa reveal to the cast that her husband wanted her out of the house and that he was cheating on her.
Needless to say, the women of Miami weren’t going to stand for it.
In a confessional, Alexia Nepola said that the woman Lenny cheated on Lisa with follows Lisa on Instagram and would “grab her by the hair”. Dr. Nicole Martin added: “There is a special place in hell for this woman.”
The cast of ‘RHOM’ watched Lisa’s marriage unravel in real time
Nicole told Showbiz Cheat Sheet that the ROMs The cast witnessed Lisa’s pain in real time. “I think it was really hard for all of us to watch Lisa’s marriage fall apart. It was happening in real time, you know? It wasn’t like, oh, this happened months ago, let me tell you about it. No, this is happening this morning and here I am at lunch crying about it,” she said.
“So it was very raw, very fresh. The emotions are so sincere,” he continued. “Alexia just got married last year. Larsa (Pippen) just got divorced. Guerdy (Abraira) has been married for 25 years. I just got engaged. You have all these women who are at different points in their lives but can relate to what she’s going through.”
‘RHOM’ Season 4 Drops Clues About Lenny and Lisa’s Relationship
They can fight and argue, but Nicole said that this news was very personal for everyone. ROMs to emit. “So we all take it very personally. It’s an emotional roller coaster,” she said. “You will see us cry, you will see us laugh, you will see us get angry. We beat piñatas, you know? We all feel something for her. And it was hard for her, but hard for everyone, to see her go through it.”
Lisa and Lenny’s relationship seemed tentative and often contentious in ROMs Season 4. Did Nicole detect any problems in the relationship in the past? “I mean, looking back, we were like, oh, that was kind of rude. He was a little dismissive…like there were little things,” she recalled. “But I think that relationships, all of them, romantic, friendship and family, have their ups and downs, don’t they?”
Nicole attributed those dismissive moments to a momentary low point in Lisa and Lenny’s relationship. “You have moments where you’re like, everything is great. And then you have times when you’re busy with work and other things and maybe your relationship isn’t your priority,” she said. “So, at least I thought maybe they were just at one of those low points. But that they would recover ”.
The ‘Real Housewives of Miami’ cast shows up for Lisa in different ways
“I think she thought they would bounce back,” Nicole continued. “And it’s hard when you realize there’s no recovery.” Nicole thinks that Lisa was a bit surprised when Lenny told her that he needed to find a new home for her and her children.
“I think, in a sense, yes,” he said. “I think he probably said, oh, we’re not in the best place. Maybe there are some problems, but we are going to fix them. And then when there was no more work, I think she realized, wow, this is it. And that’s a difficult realization.”
Nicole said that ROMs The cast definitely shows up for Lisa throughout the season in different ways. “We both have children of the same age. So for me, I feel like I’ve been his mom friend,” Nicole said. “I’ll text him and say, ‘Hey, do you want to go to the water park with the kids?’ And then we’ll all go to the water park together. So I appear in the world of mothers and friends. So I think she and Larsa spend a lot of time together. Larsa is single and her children are grown, so they will go out together at night. And I think they all show up in different ways. So we all do our part to help.”
episodes of The Real Housewives of Miami Season 5 is currently streaming on Peacock.