:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(639x0:641x2)/rhop-s-karen-huger---candiace-dillard-discuss-drama-surrounding-michael---ashley-darby-f32cacf020d241d5aebf8a7d5169eba3?w=1024&resize=1024,1024&ssl=1 "Candiace Dillard Bassett Spoke to Karen Huger Earlier than She Went to Jail (Unique)")
Candiace Dillard Bassett says she has religion that her good friend Karen Huger will come out of jail a stronger lady.
In an unique interview with PEOPLE on the eleventh Annual Higher Brothers Los Angeles Reality Awards on Saturday, March 15, the Actual Housewives of Potomac alum, 38, revealed that she had been in contact with Huger, 61, earlier than her Feb. 26 sentencing for her DUI arrest final 12 months.
Dillard Bassett, who left RHOP after season 8, spoke along with her former costar a “few instances previous to her going away.”
“I am clearly devastated for her and her household,” she mentioned.
“Everyone knows that consuming and driving is just not proper,” Dillard Bassett continued. “All of us have the chance to make decisions, and it is on all of us to make the appropriate decisions, whether or not that’s calling an Uber, sleeping on a sofa, strolling, no matter it’s.
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She added: “So Karen will clearly have time to consider what she has completed, however I am excited for her to serve her time and are available out stronger, which I do know that she’s going to.”
Huger was sentenced to 2 years in jail for her March 2024 DUI arrest, with one 12 months suspended, which signifies that she’s going to spend one 12 months behind bars and 5 years probation. She was given 30 days to attraction the choose’s determination and 90 days to ask the choose to rethink his order.
Dillard Bassett attended the BBLA Reality Awards, celebrating the Black LGBTQ+ neighborhood and its allies, together with fellow Bravo star Cynthia Bailey, plus Tamar Braxton, Colman Domingo and Lee Daniels, amongst different celebs.
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Dillard Bassett additionally chatted iwht PEOPLE about motherhood. The “Drive Again” singer welcomed her first child, son Jett Maxwell Lee, with husband Chris Bassett in October 2024.
“I believe having a son, having a baby, undoubtedly shifts the best way that you simply strategy battle,” she mentioned, “since you’re at all times fascinated about if I had been to pop off, if I had been to get into it with this particular person or that particular person, and one thing occurs to me, I am leaving my little one and not using a mother or father. So that you do take into consideration that.”
The Actual Housewives of Potomac season 10 is reportedly at the moment filming with out Huger.
