Jill Zarin ‘done’ with Dorinda Medley: Her drinking has to get resolved

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Jill Zarin is closing the door on her decades-long friendship with Dorinda Medley.

“I think she is terrific and I loved her. I kept wanting to try to rekindle that friendship, but I’m done. I’m not going to try anymore,” Zarin, 58, said on Access Hollywood’s “Housewives Nightcap” on Thursday.

The “Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club” star explained that even though she and Medley, 57, left Bluestone Manor on “good terms,” she can’t have someone in her life who “come[s] at me like that.”

“People who I love and adore I wouldn’t let talk to me like that, let alone someone like her. I just wouldn’t, and I said that, I said, ‘Don’t you effing talk to me like that’ very calm,” she added.

Zarin and Medley, who both starred on “The Real Housewives of New York City” on different seasons, added that there are underlying issues they need to address, but she won’t do so until Medley gets her drinking “resolved.”

Jeff Lewis, Dorinda Medley, and Jill Zarin posing for a red carpet
Zarin and Medley have known each other 20 years despite never appearing on “RHONY” together at the same time.
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“Quite honestly, we’ll never really address it until the whole drinking and all that thing has to get resolved,” Zarin said.

“There’s a lot of stuff there, but I’m not a doctor, I’m not a therapist, I’m not even a close enough friend to be able to really get to that with Dorinda, but someone needs to get there with her. I mean, I don’t want anything to happen to her, and I’m worried.”

Jill Zarin and Dorinda Medley posing for a photo together
Zarin kept tight-lipped on the possibility of her and Medley starring on “RHONY Legacy” together.
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When asked about the possibility of getting paired up again to star on “RHONY Legacy,” Zarin admitted she has no control over casting but insinuated Medley’s drinking would be a problem.

“I don’t even know what to say, because I can’t argue and fight with alcohol. I’m not talking to her, I’m talking to this brown liquor,” Zarin said.

The Bravolebrities’ tension reached its breaking point during an explosive argument after Medley called Zarin a “lapdog” and “thirsty” on a recent episode of the Peacock spin-off. The fight escalated to Medley screaming and Zarin sobbing.

Brandi Glanville, Dorinda Medley, Taylor Armstrong, Phaedra Parks, Tamra Judge, Vicki Gunvalson, and Jill Zarin posing for a photo together
The reality stars got into a heated argument during a recent episode.
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“I’m so f–king losing it you know what honestly I have been such a good friend to her I have been holding back so much with Dorinda, because I’m giving her such a pass,” Zarin said at the time.

“The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club” is available to stream on Peacock.

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