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Actual Housewives of Miami star Alexia Echevarria is continuous to talk out in assist of her late husband, Herman Echevarria, and her late father’s closeted life. She’s revealing how pleased and relieved she is that it has all lastly surfaced, and she or he’s coming to peace with the state of affairs.
Talking with Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef, Alexia spoke frankly in regards to the points inside her prior marriage and her father’s closeted gay aspect.
“I wish to say that they had been bisexual,” she stated on the podcast. “Yeah, I imply, that’s what their historical past exhibits, that they had been bisexual. And I do imagine in bisexuality, so yeah.”
“Once I was being honored at Wynwood Satisfaction, it made me consider my dad,” the RHOM OG stated. “So, it’s like, that is actuality TV. You don’t know what you’re going to say. How are you going to behave? So, it’s my story, ? And I really feel like individuals must be extra open and extra delicate and compassionate… as a result of I really feel prefer it was very therapeutic and therapeutic for me.”
Persevering with on, Alexia stated her father has all the time been an ally to the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood although it’s generally nonetheless thought-about taboo inside the Cuban neighborhood. And now, she needs to share her story.
Talking to the podcast, she additional elaborated on why she “outed” her father and ex-husband so publicly after they not may converse for themselves — a transfer that, as we beforehand reported, former RHOM star Lea Black vehemently bashed.
“I needed to say my story as a result of A.) there was all the time rumors. The women introduced it up in season three. It didn’t actually occur like that, however it was rumored,” Alexia defined. “And B.) after he handed away, when the individual’s not right here, all people begins speaking.”
“However in my neighborhood, within the Cuban-American neighborhood right here in Miami, lots of people knew,” she continued. “And it’s nonetheless a taboo [topic]. Individuals wish to act like, ‘oh it’s so cool,’ or, ‘we’re so open,’ they usually’re all a bunch of liars.”
“However my coronary heart has all the time been that I’ve all the time needed to be an advocate,” she added. “And I’ve all the time needed to assist in any method.”
Alexia additionally spilled some particulars to the podcast on the subsequent season of RHOM. She stated she’s not scared in any respect of getting the boot, and she or he would additionally like to see present “buddies of” Marysol Patton and Adriana de Moura regain their mojitos.
“You already know what? It doesn’t make me nervous trigger I do know I’m coming again,” she stated.
Alexia continued to clarify, “I’m certain we’re all, , coming again after which, then the brand new ones too they had been a very good addition as properly. So, I don’t see why they might do away with any of us. Ooh, properly, what I want to see is for Adriana and Marysol to grow to be housewives proper? So, in the event that they grow to be housewives, then whoever is beginning new will be the pal. You already know to have just like the housewife qualities and be a possible housewife, however not this season, this season, I would really like for Marysol and Adriana to get their mojito.”
Alexia additionally went on to say that her son, Frankie, who suffers from psychological disabilities from a previous automobile accident, is loving filming for the present as she’s employed a “shadow” to make sure he’s taken care of.
“He loves it. He was having quite a lot of enjoyable whereas we had been filming. I imply, I’m all the time with him. So it was like each, , quite a lot of my scenes had been with him simply because, , we’re all the time collectively. Now I’ve employed him a shadow. So he’s again, like with the shadow and I’m so pleased,” she gushed.
As for Alexia’s husband, Todd Nepola, he’s simply now “getting used” to filming and is having a more durable time adjusting.
“Todd’s simply getting used to it. You already know, the, the husbands, the primary time, it’s, it’s so much. It’s so much, I imply, it’s arduous, , it’s arduous for the husbands. It’s arduous for the household, , on the finish, , it’s, all of it comes collectively and it’s a cheerful, , good expertise. However once you’re new at this, similar to, , for like something in life, , it’s, it’s all about, , adapting to it,” she defined.
Alexia additionally admitted that she was jealous of the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills after their present acquired renewed and RHOM was canceled. Alexia was certain they might have stored going, and she or he has all the time stated the present ought to have been introduced again earlier.
“So, , I, I’m not going to lie. I used to be somewhat jealous as a result of I all the time consider Beverly Hills as a result of we type of began on the identical time. So, I’m like, oh my God, we might have nonetheless been on TV,” Alexia lamented. “I all the time thought they need to have introduced us again.”
The Actual Housewives of Miami is now accessible for streaming on Peacock.
