The Southern Attraction forged might imagine Naomie Olindo remains to be hung up on Craig Conover however she stated she’s moved on and jumped again into relationship.
After a painful breakup with Metul Shah and a hookup (or two) with Conover, Olindo determined to get again within the sport. “It’s great,” she advised Showbiz Cheat Sheet about relationship. And added, “You’ll get to see it play out a bit on the show too.”
Naomie says she’s comfortable proper now
Olindo stated her storyline positively evolves previous the gossip that she and Conover may get again collectively. “But just being free to do whatever I wanted,” she stated. And “I hope it inspires other people to just go kind of find themselves as long as you’re not hurting other people. Or doing bad things. But there are really no rules to how you should date. And you should just do whatever you want to do and what you’re comfortable with and what gets you to the place that you want to be.”
“So that’s exactly what I did, what I’m doing. And yeah, I’m just super happy right now,” she added. Olindo stated returning to Southern Attraction additionally helped her heal from the breakup. “I thought I was done with reality TV and it was like ‘Bye!’, you know? But I wanted to come back,” she stated.
She additionally stated the hookup with Conover was made out to be way more dramatic on the present than it actually was in actual life. “It wasn’t nearly as big of a deal as I think it may get played out on the show.” And she or he and Conover are in a great place at present. “We’re friends!” she exclaimed. “He sent a really nice group chat to everybody … very friendly. [But] I don’t think that me, him, and Paige [DeSorbo] are going to go out, the three of us, and grab a drink. Even though I wish we could have.”
Why did Naomie return to ‘Southern Charm’?
Olindo and Shah moved to New York for his job. However she discovered he was dishonest on her 10 days after she first arrived. So she packed up and returned to Charleston feeling fairly devastated. “It was kind of multiple factors,” she stated about why she needed to return to Southern Attraction.
“I was suddenly moving back to Charleston,” she recalled. “We had made all these plans to move everything and be working remotely from New York and stuff. And so I just had a little more time on my hands and it coincided with when filming was starting.”
“So I was like, maybe this would be good for me, you know? Maybe this is something that could be fun,” she stated. “It could be a little bit therapeutic. I could maybe make amends where I think I need to make amends. I could just start fresh. And I’m so glad that I did. Everyone was so nice and so welcoming when I came back. When I talked to everybody before and asked them, how would you feel about this and would you be supportive? And almost everybody was like, ‘Hell, yeah, come back. It will be a lot of fun.’”
Naomie’s mother has remarried and stated the ‘Southern Charm’ season will likely be wild
Olindo additionally returned house to her household. Shortly earlier than she broke up with Shah, her father died in 2019. She provided an replace on how her mom is doing at present. “She’s great,” she exclaimed. “My mom is remarried and she’s living half the time in France right now. And I really like her new husband. He leaves a lot of room for my dad, which is really nice and I’m very grateful for that.”
She added that this season of Southern Attraction goes to be a wild experience. “I think it’ll be the best one yet. I really do. Because even all of us, we just kept being shocked at all the things that were happening, Like, you can’t make this up. So hopefully, the fun that we had filming will translate on the screens and it’ll be fun to watch.”
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Southern Attraction is on Thursday at 9 pm ET on Bravo.