We’re all still trying to wrap our heads around that wild Real Housewives of Potomac moment, where Ashley Darby admitted to hooking up with Charrisse Jackson-Jordan’s son, Jackson Jordan. Plenty of people think it’s gross. Some think it’s okay, but Candiace Dillard Bassett just shared a more nuanced opinion. She thinks this is all just a reflection of Ashley’s upbringing.
Candiace Dillard Bassett reflects on Ashley Darby’s “humble beginnings”
Candiace recently appeared on Carlos King’s podcast, Reality with the King. During the interview, they talked about motherhood, Season 4 of The Traitors, and RHOP. Of course, Carlos had to ask for her opinion on Ashley and Jackson’s tryst, and Candiace couldn’t resist taking things to hell.
“Do I think it defines her character? I think that it’s confirmation of the character that we’ve always known her to have,” Candiace told Carlos.
“To which I don’t always fault her,” she continued. “I don’t condemn people for all of their evil because everyone has a story and everyone is who they are because of where they have been and what they have been through.”
Candiace went on to theorize that most of Ashley’s choices were a result of her upbringing and what she went through before we met her on Bravo. From marrying Michael Darby to hooking up with Jackson, Candiace thinks this behavior is rooted in how Ashley was released.
She said, “You hear her talk about it, at least when I was there, she talked about it a lot, how she came from humble beginnings, and they didn’t have a lot of money, and her parents were abusing substances, and I think that informed why she felt like she had to go run up behind Golem.”
Although Ashley has maintained her innocence in all of this, Candiace called it “low-down, low-budget, slue-footed, trailer park nonsense.” She didn’t feel surprised by it, though. She thinks it’s on-brand for Ashley.
Candiace concluded, “I think she is a woman that is haunted by her environment, and she is a product of her environment, and it makes her do foul, low-budget things, like justify allegedly sleeping with your friend’s son.”
The Real Housewives of Potomac airs on Sundays at 8/7c on Bravo. You can stream it the following day on Peacock.
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