Bozoma Saint John is speaking out against fellow The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Amanda Frances following recent podcast appearances.
Speaking on a recent episode of a Housewives-focused show, Bozoma questioned newbie Amanda Frances’ business approach and public persona.
“I think she’s cunning,” she said. “You have to be cunning in order to manipulate people, not manifest.”
Boz also stood by earlier remarks about Amanda’s financial strategies. “She talks so much about getting rich, but using other people’s money in order to do that,” she said, adding that her perspective has not changed.
Speaking to US Weekly. Boz also weighed in on Amanda’s past experience in a cult.
“This one was such a strange one for me,” she shared. “I grew up in an evangelical Christian church as well, so I know a lot of the tactics that go very left. There’s a certain line in any kind of religion where you can go from being holy into maybe something that is not as righteous. I don’t think any of us are thinking that cults are a little left of what is righteous, and so I understood how she got there. I wish she would have been vulnerable with the group and with everyone who’s watching about what her experiences are and how they have affected her.”
Boz says that transparency is always the way to move. “You can’t just put up this veneer of perfection. It’s going to come tumbling down.”
Amanda has pushed back against the narratives being painted by the cast.
“The weird thing about that to me wasn’t that it came up — it comes up all the time, I’ve written four blogs about it and two articles,” she told PEOPLE. “I’ve talked about this for years. It’s the intro to my new book. In the beginning of the book, I’m leaving the cult and I’m going on this whole journey around, what do I believe about God? All these things. So it’s an interesting part of my life. It’s a topic of interest for me. It’s something I’m always open to talking about. What was weird was it wasn’t like, ‘Hey, Amanda, this is so interesting. Tell me more.’ It was like they were coming at it like it was dirt instead of like it was something that I’ve always talked about for 18 years.”
She added, “It felt like, ‘We are determined to dig up dirt on you, and then when there’s no dirt to be found, we’re just going to not believe anything you say’,’” she adds. “’. It was a very interesting approach to getting to know a new friend.”
