Lawyer Emily Simpson didn’t take preparing for the “Real Housewives of Orange County” reunion lightly.
“I probably over prepared for my first reunion because I took it like it was a trial,” Simpson recently told Page Six.
“I was kind of ridiculous but I basically went through every blog that anyone had ever written and printed it out and I took notes and I highlighted any article that I had written where I had mentioned that people had made comments about me or about my husband or whatever,” she said.
“I printed that out and then I organized it by person so I had tabs. So I just I knew if I had to bring up something or I had to refer to something it was pretty well established in my brain because I had just read it — I actually didn’t take the binder I made to the couch with me.”
Simpson, 42, noted that her binder took the entire season to complete, and she even practiced some of her talking points with her husband Shane.
“That’s what happens when you have two attorneys who live together!” she joked.
It seems that all of her hard work paid off.
“I felt as if I said everything that I needed to say. I didn’t leave the reunion feeling any amount of regret like I didn’t say something that I should have,” she said.
Still, there’s one incident she’s “tired” of talking about.
“I mean I tried really hard to get along with everyone and tried to be friends with everyone so that whole threatening to kill Kelly [Dodd] thing is so out of proportion,” she said.
Dodd and Simpson got into a heated argument at Tamra Judge’s party earlier this season after Dodd called Simpson’s husband Shane a “bitch.” Simpson said she would kill Dodd as a result, but she still says it was just a figure of speech and not a threat.
Part two of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” reunion airs Sunday at 9 p.m. E.T.