Braunwyn Windham-Burke has come clean about the physical altercations in her marriage that happened behind closed doors.
Braunwyn, 43, revealed on Wednesday night’s “RHOC” that she has hit her husband, Sean Burke, multiple times.
“I just, I lost it. I lost my temper again with Sean belittling me over the vacuum cleaner,” she began to explain in self-filmed footage, saying she couldn’t get the charger for the appliance to work. “Instead of being like, ‘Yeah, I’ll help you’ — ’cause he’s still going to the office. He’s still working. He’s still getting out of the house — instead of helping, he made fun of me and I lost it and I smacked him.”
“I haven’t done that since we were in Aspen,” she admitted.
In a confessional scene, the “Real Housewives of Orange County” star said that it wasn’t the first time she hit her husband.
“I have hit Sean a couple of times in my life. Nothing though like what happened in Aspen,” she said as footage from three months earlier of the family in Colorado played. “I hit him across the face and I hit him hard. I wanted to go drink. I was angry and I was lashing out and Curren saw it.”
Curren, 7, is one of the pair’s seven children. Braunwyn, who recently told the public that she’s an alcoholic, and Sean are also parents to Bella, 20, Rowan, 18, Jacob, 15, Caden, 7, Koa, 5, and Hazel, 2.
“Looking back, it was a side of me I’ve never seen,” she said. “It was bad.”
Later in the scene, she confessed that being quarantined due to the coronavirus pandemic was taking its toll on her while she was struggling to stay sober, saying: “I feel trapped in my house. I feel trapped in my marriage. I feel trapped emotionally and physically.”
While she said on the episode that her marriage was not as great as she previously portrayed, Braunwyn recently came out as gay and said that she plans to remain married to Sean despite having a girlfriend.
Sean showed his support for his wife of 20 years on social media, but has remained quiet about his thoughts on their marriage.
“The Real Housewives of Orange County” airs on Bravo on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET.