Season 12 of Married to Medicine ended on a high note, with Toya triumphantly ushering the Med Gala into a new era. Everyone paid for a ticket, whether they liked it or not. Plus, two lucky med students received $5,000 scholarships, which we know for a fact were spent within seconds.
This week on Married to Med, we learned that the good vibes from the Med Gala didn’t last for very long. Off-camera breakups, Watch What Happens Live shade, and questionable social media behavior have got a few of these cast members deep into their feelings. In Married to Medicine Season 12 Episode 15, “Reunion Part 1,” Andy Cohen tried to help them work through all the mess.
What happened in Married to Medicine Season 12 Episode 15?
Dressed in red and situated on a Met/Med Gala-inspired set, the Married to Medicine cast gathered in New York City to address all things Season 12. Dr. Simone had an axe to grind with Dr. Jackie, Steve argued with Dr. Eugene backstage about the Med Gala, and we got more insight into Quad and King’s not-so-surprising breakup. The M2M Season 12 reunion is only two parts, so they made sure to squeeze as much as they could into Part 1.
Jackie and Simone’s friendship is in crisis
Before the ladies even made it to the reunion stage, it was clear that this day was going to be about Simone, Jackie, and their extremely screwed-up friendship. Everything appeared to be fine between them in Season 12, but once the episodes aired, Simone unfollowed Jackie on Instagram and accused her of defending “the devil,” AKA, Dr. Heavenly.
It all circled back to Jackie’s appearance on WWHL earlier this year when Andy asked her to weigh in on whether or not Simone’s behavior at the Life Angels launch party seemed as “unhinged” as Heavenly claimed. Jackie tried to play both sides of the fence and gave Andy a non-answer.
Simone saw the clips from WWHL and felt let down. Backstage at the reunion, she explained how she wanted Jackie to defend her loudly and proudly, but instead, Jackie rode the fence. Simone felt like it underscored a major issue in their relationship, and now, she’s ready to let the entire friendship go.
“We don’t really have a friendship, and it just is what it is,” Simone told Andy backstage.
Was Toya the villain of Season 12?
Ahead of Season 12, Heavenly said in an interview that Toya was the villain of the season, and she wasn’t entirely wrong. At the reunion, Toya had an entire couch going up against her, and showed zero remorse for any of her shenanigans.
Toya started Season 12 off beefing with Jackie after she said on WWHL that Curtis had gotten handsy with some of the women on the cast. As we learned this season, Curtis is a strict follower of the bible, so we know something like that would have never happened. Still, Toya showed no regrets at the reunion.
Toya also fought with Heavenly over the Med Gala, and at the reunion, she still had some smoke for her number one frenemy in the group. She claimed to have received some intel from a neighbor about Dr. Damon. Heavenly hit back and threatened to share the real reason why Dr. Eugene got “fired” from a hospital. Neither of them pulled the trigger, but, truth be told, we’d love to hear both of those stories.
Perhaps Toya’s biggest feud in Season 12, besides the ongoing one with her husband, was the one she had with Dr. Mimi. The two of them can’t get on the same page, and apparently, neither can their husbands.
Sanders v. Bush-Harris
All season long, Toya and Mimi have been dancing around their feud, and at the reunion, they finally got to address the root of their issue. In one corner, you’ve got Mimi accusing Toya of being an unreliable, potstirring friend. In another corner, Toya accused Mimi of trying to “psychoanalyze” the friend group. All of these things are true, so what’s the issue?
Mimi admitted that it’s in her nature to psychoanalyze situations. She’s literally a psychiatrist, and she can’t help it. She also owned up to the fact that it can sometimes come off as judgmental. She even apologized to Brandi for confronting her at Heavenly’s campaign rally about her friendship with Toya.
Ultimately, Mimi and Toya admitted that some of their issues probably boil down to the fact that they don’t know each other well. It seemed like they were laying the foundation to build a better friendship in Season 13. Meanwhile, their husbands had other plans backstage.
Steve seemed to have been waiting for an apology for how Eugene shook them down over a $150 Med Gala ticket. Eugene wasn’t letting up and insisted that his wife was somehow the number one victim of Season 12.
“You’re justifying bad behavior,” Eugene told Steve.
Steve replied, “You justify bad behavior every single day with Toya!”
Their fight got louder, the language got more profane, and everything was going in the wrong direction before they even made it out on stage.
Eugene told Steve to stop trying to “boss up” on him, which seemed to make Steve want to boss up even more. With 100% certainty, we can say this is going to screw up any chances of Toya and Mimi building a friendship.
Quad addressed her split from King
Another relationship that fell apart off-camera this season was the one between Quad and King. These days, he’s no longer King. He’s just Kirk, and the writing was on the wall that this relationship was on its last leg.
“We just couldn’t align on some of the fundamentals of what it takes to have a long-term relationship,” Quad said of the breakup.
The really fascinating part of this Quad/King conversation was the fact that Toya is still friendly with him. Supposedly, he’s pals with Eugene and even wanted to make an appearance at the reunion to tell his side of the breakup story. That should tell you everything that you need to know about this man.
Quad said she wanted to look forward, not backwards, and didn’t need to spend any more time explaining why the relationship didn’t work out. We’re thankful for that, because after Seasons 10 and 11, we don’t need to see Quad fighting with any more of her exes.
Quad did, however, have a message to fans who suspected that this King relationship was just for the sake of a storyline. According to Quad, she would never fake a storyline for the show. Plus, why would she go to Ghana and try IVF just for camera time? In her mind, everything with King felt like the real deal—until it wasn’t.
“It was always real to me,” Quad said.
Jackie wants to fix her relationship with Simone
During the final moments of Part 1, we finally circled back to Simone and all of the one-sided beefs she has with Heavenly and Jackie. We’re no longer focused on whether or not it was “unhinged” for Heavenly to push her arm away at the party. Instead, Simone is hung up on the aftermath.
According to Simone, it felt hurtful to have another Black woman accuse her of being aggressive. Then, it felt like another stab in the back when Jackie didn’t set the record straight on WWHL. Simone also didn’t like that Jackie said she “snapped” that night and explained how all of the accusations could have caused issues for her career. Seriously, the list of Simone’s issues just kept getting longer and longer with each passing moment.
Jackie, clearly rattled by this unexpected rift, moved to sit right next to Simone. She said she wanted to fix things and asked Simone what she could do to make it better. Simone sat there, tears running down her face and makeup ruined.
“I can’t move forward,” Simone told her former bestie. “Don’t want to. Can’t do it.”
After decades of friendship, ten of them on TV, the fallout from the Life Angels party is the straw that broke the camel’s back? That’s a little hard to believe, but we’ll see where they land next week when the reunion wraps up.
Married to Medicine Season 12’s reunion concludes next Sunday at 8/7c on Bravo. You can always stream the series on Peacock.
TELL US – WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS ON MARRIED TO MEDICINE SEASON 12 EPISODE 15? WERE YOU SURPRISED BY HOW STEVE WENT AFTER EUGENE, AND HOW DO YOU THINK THAT WILL IMPACT MIMI AND TOYA’S RELATIONSHIP? IS SIMONE OVERREACTING WITH JACKIE?
