Julia Lemigova had a lot to answer for during the latest episode of Watch What Happens Live. Not only did she have to address her actions from this season of Real Housewives of Miami, but she also had to address the online antics of her wife, Martina Navratilova.
Although Martina and Julia just adopted two babies, the former tennis champ spends a great deal of her time sharing bigoted content on her social media. Normally, she targets the transgender community, but earlier this summer, she shared a wildly regressive opinion on surrogacy that left fans up in arms.
According to Julia, it was all taken out of context.
Julia Lemigova said Martina Navratilova’s surrogacy comments were taken out of context
Martina’s original post about surrogacy said, “Surrogacy is just wrong. You can’t have it all.” That’s pretty cut and dry. The comment arrived as a response to a writer sharing an opinion piece about the “risks” of egg donations. Martina deleted the post, but RHOM fans haven’t let her off the hook.
In the July 30 episode of Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen, who has two children via surrogate, asked Julia for her response to the backlash. At first, the RHOM seemed surprised that she was even being asked about it.
“Um, that’s a question, to me?” Julia asked in disbelief, before wading into the controversy.
“Well, you know Martina and I share a bed, but we don’t share a brain,” the RHOM star continued. “We don’t always agree on different views, but I believe in surrogacy and it was kind of put out of context, and I completely disagree with her comments.”
“You’re not in control of her Twitter,” Andy added, to which Julia agreed.
Unfortunately, Andy didn’t ask Julia to address her wife’s rampant transphobia, although plenty of viewers submitted questions on the topic. Perhaps that’s also being taken out of context? We may never know.
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