‘RHOBH’ Star Erika Girardi Reveals She Found Texts and Photos Proving Husband Tom’s Affair

During a girls trip to La Quinta, California, the cast of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills got quite a shock thanks to co-star Erika Girardi. While staying at Kyle Richards’ vacation home in the desert resort town, the cast, including Lisa Rinna, Dorit Kemsley, Suton Stracke, and Kathy Hilton, speculated about Tom Girardi’s legal situation. 82-year-old Tom, a former lawyer, is being sued for embezzling money from the victims of the 2018 Lion Air Flight 610 crash off of Jakarta, Indonesia’s coast.

When Erika finally arrived to Richards’ home, she explained that his embezzlement charges were only the tip of the iceberg when it came to his impropriety. Erika revealed that Tom suffered serious injury as the result of a car crash a few years ago, and she learned that he was driving home after being “with some other woman.”

Erika told her friends that she had proof of Tom’s extramarital relationship when she found text messages and photos in Tom’s phone, saying “I knew a lot, because it was so hard to hide and, you know, he was sloppy.” She stated that Tom did not deny his affairs to her.

Erika filed for divorce from Tom in November 2020, and in December of that year Tom cut off spousal support for her. As a result of his lawsuit, heir financial assets have also been frozen. Throughout Tom’s trial, Erika has been vilified for her lavish lifestyle which people claim is the result of Tom stealing from “widows and orphans,” in the words of the U.S. District Judge presiding over Tom’s case.

Erika explains the double standard at hand saying, “I’ve been a bimbo, gold-digging, trophy wife. Now all of a sudden, I am financial mastermind that had her finger on the pulse of everything.”

“I will be okay,” Erika told her friends, “but I am not okay right now.”

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