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(L-R) Garcelle Beauvais and her son Oliver Saunders.
Leon Bennett/Getty Images for A+E NetworksReal Housewives of Beverly Hills star Garcelle Beauvais she reflects on the “long journey” she and her son have come Oliver Saunders after his past struggles with addiction.
“My relationship with Oliver is really good now,” Garcelle, 58, said on Tuesday. RHOBA. “Oliver has been in a really dark place over the years. I had all kinds of emotions, sometimes all in one day – fear, guilt.”
Garcelle admitted that she often thought about what she had done “wrong” as a parent during the ordeal of her son’s addiction.
“I had to practice tough love,” she said of her relationship with her son during this period. “I knew he was homeless, I knew he was in a bad place, and there was nothing I could do.
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Garcelle Beauvais has shared an update on her relationship with son Jax following their recent on-camera spat. “(We are) much better. It’s really interesting because as painful as it was, Jax and I are in a better place,” Garcelle, 56, told Us Weekly exclusively at BravoCon on Saturday, November (…)
Bravo star who shares 32-year-old Oliver with ex-husband Daniel Saundersbroke down in tears during Tuesday’s episode as she recalled one particularly difficult moment involving her son.
“Years ago I was at home (with) my girlfriend. We were together and it was getting late,” she said. “We heard a noise and I looked outside. I turned on the light and I saw it as Oliver.”
Garcelle continued, “It was Oliver in flesh, but he wasn’t Oliver. How he acted, how his eyes looked, how he was so erratic.’
She said Oliver was trying to get into the pool house before she stopped him.
“This is my son that I won’t open the door to,” Garcelle recalled through tears. “I watched him go and I didn’t take him in. I felt 1,000 pounds of guilt for not letting him in.”
The RHOBA star added: “It was some tough love we had to do, so hopefully that’s the thing that changes things.”
Garcelle Beauvais is always fabulous in everything she works on, but she’s still a queen on earth. Long before Beauvais, 57, joined the cast of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for Season 10, she got her start in Hollywood as an actress. She has appeared in several projects including The Jamie Foxx Show, NYPD Blue, White House (…)
Oliver is the father of a 4-year-old son, Oliver Saunders Jr. (OJ), which he shares with his ex-wife Samantha Saunders. The proud papa is about to welcome baby no. 2 with a girlfriend Shantei Paranda.
Garcelle previously talked about Oliver’s addiction during 2020 episode from RHOBA.
“If we’re all being honest, I’m not a perfect parent,” she told her teammates at the time. “My son Oliver has struggled with addiction since the fifth grade. We’ve been through so much. … I would never judge another parent. Sometimes I feel like I messed it up because I was too lenient with him.”
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 8pm ET and streams the next day on Peacock.
