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Karen Huger Responds to the RHOP Cast's Shade About Her Butterfly Invitations with Even More Shade
The RHOP grande dame has an explanation for why the butterflies were so low energy upon delivery.


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The Potomac Ladies React to Karen's Live Invitation: "These Were the Brokest Butterflies Ever"
Gizelle Bryant: "I got the dead butterfly box."
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4:14S6 - E8 | Part 1Was Ashley Darby Being Messy by Bringing up the Eddie Rumors to Wendy Osefo?
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3:43S6 - E8 | Part 2Wendy Osefo Shares Her Real Thoughts on Gizelle Bryant: "That's a Weak Bitch"
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2:34S6 - E8 | Part 3A Karen Huger Explainer, Breaking Down RHOP Season 6's "Karenisms"
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4:12S6 - E8 | Part 4Wendy Osefo Wants to Know Why Some of the Potomac Ladies Are Questioning Her 'Mommy Makeover'
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3:12S6 - E8 | Part 5Is Robyn Dixon Still Mad That Wendy Osefo Came for Her Relationship with Juan?
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5:07S6 - E8 | Part 6Gizelle Bryant Stands by Her Comments That Maybe Wendy Osefo Does Not Belong in the RHOP Friend Group
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4:43S6 - E9 | Part 1How Did Wendy Osefo and Karen Huger Become Such Close Friends After Last Season?
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2:14S6 - E9 | Part 2Wendy to Gizelle: "Don't Play with My Marriage, But Most Importantly Don't Play with Eddie"
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1:53S6 - E9 | Part 3This Is What Self-Proclaimed "Shade Queen" Gizelle Would Have Said to Wendy If She Was Being Shady
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4:16S6 - E9 | Part 4Candiace Dillard Bassett Has Proof That Ashley Darby Was Being Messy in Williamsburg
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3:42S6 - E9 | Part 5Gizelle Bryant Explains Why It Was "Problematic" to See Chris Bassett Pivot from Chef-ing to Husbandger-ing
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2:32S6 - E9 | Part 6Ashley Darby Admits That She's Still Scarred from Michael's Past Transgressions
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1:49S6 - E9 | Part 7Mia Thornton Calls Lunch with Her Mother "Eye-Opening"
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3:45S6 - E10 | Part 1Candiace Dillard Bassett Denies "Body Shaming" Ashley Darby: "I Like to Diversify My Insults"
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3:09S6 - E10 | Part 2The Potomac Housewives React to Candiace Dillard Bassett's "Wide-Bodied" Insult
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2:56S6 - E10 | Part 3Karen Huger: "Fight to Feast Is Something We Do Very Well"
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4:27S6 - E10 | Part 4The Potomac Ladies React to the Shocking Moment When Karen Huger and Gizelle Bryant Apologized to Each Other
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2:21S6 - E10 | Part 5Wendy Osefo Reveals Exactly Where Her Relationship Stands with Gizelle Bryant
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3:43S6 - E10 | Part 6Wendy Osefo Opens up About the Heartbreaking Conversation She Had with Her Sons About Police Brutality
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3:19S6 - E10 | Part 7Did Mia Thornton Host the Perfect Goddess Party?
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1:40S6 - E10 | Part 8Gizelle Bryant Gets Real with Her Daughters About Her Divorce
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4:36S6 - E11 | Part 1The RHOP Ladies React to Candiace's Messy Music Video Shoot: "It Was a Cluster F---"
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4:20S6 - E11 | Part 2Did Mia Cross the Line When She Asked Candiace's Mom Her Age?
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3:56S6 - E11 | Part 3Karen Wants Candiace's Mom Dorothy to "Stay in Her Lane" When It Comes to Her Daughter's Marriage
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2:28S6 - E11 | Part 4Mia Thornton Throws a Little Shade Askale Davis' Way
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2:55S6 - E11 | Part 5The RHOP Ladies React to Chris Storming Onto Candiace's Music Video Set
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3:32S6 - E11 | Part 6The RHOP Ladies Have a Lot of Thoughts on Chris Bassett's Husband-ger Duties
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2:00S6 - E11 | Part 7Gizelle Bryant Says Trying to Teach Her Daughter Grace How to Drive Was "So Traumatic"
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4:49S6 - E12 | Part 1Robyn Reacts to Candiace's Dig Towards Mia: "That Was a Straight Up 'Yo Mama' Joke Gone Wrong"
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4:17S6 - E12 | Part 2The Potomac Ladies Throw Major Shade at Gizelle's Unfinished Home AKA "Motel Gizelle"
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4:07S6 - E12 | Part 3Karen Huger Was Too Scared to Go Into Gizelle Bryant's House
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3:05S6 - E12 | Part 4Candiace Explains Why She Wasn't Shocked That Ashley Stuck Up for Mia
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5:05S6 - E12 | Part 5Robyn Dixon Says Wendy Osefo's Luggage Dig Was Just "Rude"
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1:56S6 - E12 | Part 6Was Karen Huger Drunk or Feeling the Effects of Being "Vassinated"?
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4:39S6 - E12 | Part 7The RHOP Ladies Give a Play-by-Play of Grace's Unfortunate Accident in Candiace's Car
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2:48S6 - E13 | Part 1Mia Thornton Is Shocked Gordon Showed a Different Side of Himself During the Couples Trip
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4:15S6 - E13 | Part 2Not 1, Not 2, But 3 Potomac Ladies Are Now in the Candle Business!
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3:51S6 - E13 | Part 3Does Wendy Osefo Judge the Other Ladies For Their Non-Traditional Relationships?
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3:17S6 - E13 | Part 4Candiace on Mia: "She Woke Up and Chose Chaos That Morning"
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3:16S6 - E13 | Part 5Karen Huger Reveals Why She Tried to Stop Candiace and Mia's Lettuce Toss Moment
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4:21S6 - E14 | Part 1The Potomac Ladies Give a Play by Play Account of Candiace and Mia's Lettuce Toss Incident
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1:56S6 - E14 | Part 2Karen Huger Still Doesn’t Know What Tea-Bagging Is
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4:55S6 - E14 | Part 3Wendy and Candiace Share Their Theories on Gordon's Flirtatious Behavior
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3:28S6 - E14 | Part 4The Potomac Ladies React to Chris Bassett's Behavior with Candiace at Dinner
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1:07S6 - E14 | Part 5Mia Thornton Says She Would Never Allow a Man to Say "Shut the F---" Up to Her...
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2:25S6 - E14 | Part 6The Potomac Ladies Break Down Candiace and Ashley's Heated Interaction at Dinner
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2:58S6 - E14 | Part 7Candiace Reveals a Shocking Unseen Moment of Peace Between Her and Ashley
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2:50S6 - E14 | Part 8Mia Thornton Reveals Why She Didn't Leave After the Lettuce Toss Incident
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4:56S6 - E15 | Part 1The Potomac Ladies React to Gizelle and Robyn's "Theatrical" Exit From the Chesapeake House
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3:44S6 - E15 | Part 2Candiace Dillard Bassett Reveals She Had No Problem "Humbling" Herself to Make Amends with Mia Thornton
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2:01S6 - E15 | Part 4Karen Huger Calls Out Robyn Dixon For Being Rude on the Boat
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3:01S6 - E15 | Part 5Ashley Darby Reacts to Gordon's Annoying Behavior on the Bus
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5:05S6 - E16 | Part 1The Potomac Ladies React to Karen's Live Invitation: "These Were the Brokest Butterflies Ever"
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4:06S6 - E16 | Part 2Karen Huger Jumping Out of a Cake For Ray Left the Potomac Ladies Wanting More
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4:38S6 - E16 | Part 3Can Wendy, Gizelle, and Robyn Mend Their Friendships or Are They Over For Good?
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2:26S6 - E16 | Part 4Gizelle Bryant Says Despite What People May Think She's Been "Very Vulnerable in Front of the Cameras"
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4:04S6 - E17 | Part 1Are Ashley Darby and Candiace Dillard Bassett Finally Putting the Past Behind Them?
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4:06S6 - E17 | Part 2The Potomac Ladies Weigh in on Chris Bassett and Michael Darby's Tense Conversation
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4:11S6 - E17 | Part 3Robyn Dixon Was "Confused" by the Outside of Karen Huger's Vow Renewal Venue
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2:24S6 - E17 | Part 4Gizelle Bryant Reveals a Shocking Fact about Karen Huger's Party
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3:37S6 - E17 | Part 5Does Robyn Dixon Still Have Plans for a Baby?
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2:08S6 - E17 | Part 6Gizelle Bryant and Wendy Osefo Share an Update on Their Friendship
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2:02S6 - E17 | Part 7Robyn Dixon and Ashley Darby Open Up about Juan Dixon and Michael Darby's Bromance
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3:43S6 - E18 | Part 1Wendy Osefo Is Embarrassed by Robyn Dixon's "Blind Loyalty to Gizelle"
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2:12S6 - E18 | Part 2Gizelle Bryant Explains Exactly Why She Speaks in the 3rd Person
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1:45S6 - E18 | Part 3Chris Bassett Joins the After Show and Tries to Help Candiace Remember the Details of Their Dramatic Night Out in Chesapeake
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2:15S6 - E18 | Part 4Gizelle Bryant Had No Idea Wendy Osefo Viewed Her as a "Big Sister"
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1:20S6 - E18 | Part 5Robyn Dixon Shares a Major Life Update on the After Show
As The Real Housewives of Potomac couples' trip to Maryland's Eastern Shore came to a close, Karen Huger gave the group a head's up to open the invitation to her and husband Ray Huger's vow renewal outdoors. And when the invites arrived later in the October 24 episode of RHOP, everyone was definitely glad to have heeded Karen's advice.
It turned out that the invitation came with a box filled with live butterflies, which seemed to give the RHOP ladies and their families quite the surprise when they opened them at their homes. The butterflies also didn't look exactly how the invitation recipients were expecting, with many commenting that the insects looked like moths or appeared to be dead.
Karen defended her buzzy invitation during her appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on October 24 (clip below). "No, it wasn't death, let me tell you," Karen said in response to her fellow WWHL guest, actress Leslie Grossman, also commenting on the state of the butterflies in the episode. "Because they actually had to be kept at a low temperature, so they were sleeping. They were sleeping. They weren't dead; they were just sleeping."
"They weren't dead. They were just sleeping." 🦋 @Andy @KarenHuger @MissLeslieG #WWHL pic.twitter.com/mnt60Fs7xV
— WWHL (@BravoWWHL) October 25, 2021
Host Andy Cohen then noted, "I mean, that's what you tell a little kid," in regards to when an animal dies. To that, Karen threw a little bit of fun shade the RHOP ladies' way: "Those were little kids who received it though."
In addition to the invitation failing to impress the Potomac Housewives, Karen revealed that Ray actually wasn't that into the grande dame's grand gesture for their vow renewal, either.
"Let me be very clear. My husband was totally against me having you all set the butterflies free. He did not want them in the box, but he knows, you know, I wanted something special. I love it, and I just envisioned butterflies flowing, you know, just fluttering," Karen explained during The Real Housewives of Potomac After Show, which you can view, above. "I love doing things for effect, let me just say that. And so, good, bad, or indifferent, I knew it was an elegant thought. It was my vow renewal with Ray, and I wanted that memory."
All in all, Karen said that she was pleased with how the invites turned out. "And so, it was a beautiful box, and we took care to take care of each and every butterfly. So, I have not heard that anything happened, you know, tragically," she said in the RHOP After Show. "But would I do it again? Probably."
However, Karen's friends would beg to differ. Press play on the above video to see more of how the Potomac Housewives really felt about Karen's butterfly invitations. And trust us, they do not hold back one bit.
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