At 57 years old, Tamra Judge explains how she just started “therapy” this fall. The Real Housewives star opens up during her Two Ts in A Pod podcast and reveals that she has been diagnosed as “being on the spectrum.” Speaking with her co-host Teddi Mellencamp, Tamra gets emotional and says, “Don’t make me cry.”
The Real Housewives of Orange County has been running for 18 years and Tamra Judge is one of the show’s longest-serving cast members. She joined the show in season 3. Fans have seen Tamra go through all kinds of ups and downs in life, including divorce from her ex, Simon Barney, and fights with many of her co-stars.
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Tamra Judge shares diagnosis that she is ‘on the spectrum’
RHOC star Tamra is being super vulnerable this October. During the October 15 episode of Two Ts in A Pod, she tells Teddi that she “just had her first therapy session” and adds, “I discovered something very important about myself that I didn’t know.”
Teddi asks “what,” explaining how she “needs to know,” what Tamra “figured out.”
The 57-year-old opens up: “I’m on the spectrum… Don’t make me cry.”
The Real Housewives of Orange County star continues to explain more about her diagnosis as Teddi asks, “What does that mean going forward?”
Tamra says through tears: “We’re trying to figure that out… I’m having a hard time processing things. “I have a lot of sensory issues, sound, light, touch, but she says that’s not my biggest problem.”
“My biggest problem is overcoming the trauma. Trauma that I had in my life,” he continues.
The Bravo star says she “grew up in a family without much empathy or love” and says that as an adult “she has a hard time having empathy and feeling other people’s feelings.”
He previously attributed this to his upbringing, but now says it is related to his diagnosis.
After revealing her diagnosis to Teddi and her listeners, she says, “I haven’t even talked to Eddie.”
The RHOC star is dealing with ‘social anxiety’
Revealing some of the details that emerged from her therapy session, Tamra says she has “social anxiety” and often feels like she just “wants to be home.”
She says: “The way to get through the program is to drink… I will drink. And then all this repressed shit that’s going on inside me comes out when I drink because my guard is down.”
The reality TV star says she has “learned a lot of things” from therapy.
As the conversation between the two develops, Tamra continues to say more about her “anxiety” and “intrusive thoughts.”
She breaks down in tears and explains to Teddi: “I have scenarios that play out in my head every day and it’s always about death and there are always people around me dying…”
“That’s why I’ve never been to therapy… I don’t want to have any feelings… that’s how I protect myself,” Tamra adds.
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