Jenni Puloshas nothing but love for her goddaughter, Monroe, despite a fiery falling out with the little girl’s dad,Jeff Lewis.
During an appearance onWatch What Happens Live’safter show withAndy Cohen, Pulos received a phone-in fan question asking how she planned to maintain her role as godmother to Lewis’ nearly two-year-old daughter, after the former friends and longtimeFlipping Outcostarsended their relationship. Pulos explained that despiteher rift with Lewis,she planned to continue loving Monroe, even if from a distance.
“I will always pray for her,” Pulos, 45, said. “I was raised Greek Orthodox, so prayer I believe is important in all aspects. I don’t feel as though I will never love her, it’s just for now, it’s from afar.”
The mom of two (she shares daughters Alianna, 5, and Georgia, 17 months, with husband Jonathan Nassos) admitted that the entire situation was “difficult,” not only because of her relationship with Lewis’ child, but because of her close ties to his entire family.
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“The whole thing is wild and completely unexpected,” Pulos said. “I have loved him like a brother and I always will. I wish him and [Monroe] the best and their family and his father. They’ve been a big part of my life for a long time.”
Lewis asked his former friend to be Monroe’s godmother during the season 10 finale ofFlipping Outin 2017.
“Jenni’s one of my closest friends,” Lewis, 48, said in the episode. “She’s also very religious, so I think she will take the job very seriously.”
TheFlipping Outstarspoke out about her exitfrom Lewis’ company,Jeff LewisDesign, for the first time in a recent issue of PEOPLE, making it clear she had been fired.
“I didn’t decide,” she said. “He decided he was going to terminate me from his business and so then in turn, the decision was made. I always saw myself seeing the show through.”
While Lewis declined to comment to PEOPLE for the story, in a heated segment onhis Sirius XM radio show,Jeff Lewis Live!, the house flipper hit back, accusing her of lying about the circumstances surrounding her departure from his company in May.
Lewis haspreviously alleged that Pulos had filed complaints with Bravoand show executives calling him out for victimization and abuse, and then later for wrongful termination. Pulos vehemently denied these claims to PEOPLE, saying “Citing wrongful termination claim, wrong. Citing abuse claim, wrong. Citing victimization claim, wrong.”
“We see things very differently,” she added. “I believed I had been an asset to his business and he believed differently, I imagine.”
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In September, PEOPLEbroke the newsthat the friends of nearly 20 years, who’ve appeared on the show together for 11 seasons, had parted ways after an explosive fight, which was reportedly caught on video and will appear in the series’ current season.
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Reps for Bravo confirmed to PEOPLE that “nothing official has been determined” regardingFlipping Out. They had no comment on the status of Lewis’s contract.
source: people.com
