Real Housewives Of Potomac’s Karen Huger Says She Would’ve Pressed Charges Against Monique Samuels After Fight W/ Candiace Dillard

Real Housewives Of Potomac’s Karen Huger Says She Would’ve Pressed Charges Against Monique Samuels After Fight W/ Candiace Dillard

The ladies of Real Housewives of Potomac are still debating on who was right and who was wrong during Candiace Dillard and Monique Samuels’s on-camera fight that aired recently.

In a recent episode of “RHOP”, Karen Huger got the ladies together in her home, helping Monique Samuels, who has been seen as the aggressor in the eyes of the majority, find a good place with the rest of the ladies. During the episode, she refused to disown Monique as a friend, but now a new clip shows that she also told Candiace to pursue legal action against Monique and it has the ladies confused.

Karen Huger told Candiace Dillard roughly 48 hours after the fight,

“I said to Candiace if it were me and I felt as strongly as Candiace has been speaking to me, I would look into what can I do legally.”
She added that she was in the middle and was not going to pick sides,
“I wasn’t going to choose one friend over the other, that was clear out of the gate for me that whatever you all needed I was going to provide for either one or both of them.”
Karen Huger also said that if it were her she would not have been involved in a fight at all and would have called 911.
“I’m not Candiace but if I were Candiace which I am not, if I were in a fight y’all would know I would be innocent and so 9-1-1 right there okay, I would not have moved, my wig would have been on the floor stayed on the floor with my body… and the cops and the ambulance would remove me. I’d be in shock.”

Following the fight, Candiace Dillard does admit that there were some things she could have done differently but said she does not feel as though she provoked Monique Samuels to act that way.

She addressed whether her telling Monique to “drag me” could have provoked Monique.
“Well yes people have said to me that well you asked to be dragged so you got dragged. So let’s go back to the moment when she threatened to drag me eight months pregnant when I was having a conversation with someone that was not her – that she walked into and escalated that conversation in that situation and then threatened to hit me in the face with a glass bottle. So the short answer is no, I don’t believe that me quoting a violent pregnant person deserves or warrants me being violently attacked.”

Candiace Dillard, Monique Samuels

Both Monique Samuels and Candiace Dillard pressed charges against each other, and both cases were dismissed.

Monique Samuels’s counsel A. Scott Bolden said in a statement,

“Consistent with [Dillard’s] prior bad acts, offensive words and conduct, and her reputation for physical threats and verbal outbursts on the show, through third party interviews and the review of other evidence, the government concluded not to move forward against my client, Mrs. Samuels. And while the government decided not to pursue my client’s defensive claim against Candiace, we are very satisfied that justice was done. It is our sincerest hope that both parties can move forward without any further judicial actions or involvement and that this dispute can be resolved through mediation or a thoughtful conversation between the parties, without threats, goading or bad behavior that Candiace is so well known for.”

He said he would

“work diligently to create a better work environment for all RHOP cast members, that may only be had with more mature and better behavior from Candiace. We certainly hope she gets the help she needs so that the parties can avoid any further altercations between the two of them.”

Candiace Dillard’s James L. Walker, Jr. also released a statement. While he said they’re “very pleased” with the results, he insisted that Dillard was the victim.

 “She has been sadly attacked, physically and personally, by Mrs. Monique Samuels and her legal team! Even today as she is vindicated and there is no proof whatsoever that she committed a crime against her castmate, they are still attacking her,” he continued. “We would hope that Mrs. Samuels is getting help and treatment, as the evidence we saw clearly showed her as the aggressor and bragging about her assault on our client! We are prayerful that all parties can move on now and that Mrs. Samuels and her representatives will cease and desist with the verbal attacks and grandstanding against our client as this decision today releases Mrs. Samuels from criminal prosecution, but a civil court would still most likely find her actions to be legally actionable and considered assault!”

 
Authored by: Demi Lobo