“I don’t know, to this day. I actually didn’t really hang around with Ron that much,” Dorinda tells EW.

Dorinda Medley says she still doesn’t know why Ron ‘didn’t like’ her on The Traitors: ‘It’s not personal’

"I don't know, to this day. I actually didn't really hang around with Ron that much," Dorinda tells EW.

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**This article contains spoilers for *The Traitors* season 4, episode 9, "Think Outside the Box."**

While Ron Funches has been outspoken about his beef with Dorinda Medley after leaving *The Traitors*, the *Real Housewives* star claims that she still doesn't know why the comedian "didn't like" her in the castle.

Since Ron's banishment in episode 6, he has made allegations against Dorinda on social media that she has "conscious bias," and "said some truly terrible things" to him that didn't air. But when speaking to * *about her own murder in episode 9, Dorinda says that she barely spent any time with Ron in the castle, and has no idea what his animosity towards her stemmed from.

Below, Dorinda talks with EW about what happened with Ron, what it was like seeing him again at the reunion that filmed last week, her murder, and more.**

Dorinda Medley on 'The Traitors'.

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**: Congratulations on being the last Housewife standing this season. How does it feel to know you outlasted all the other Housewives?**

**DORINDA MEDLEY: **I achieved what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay a little low key and under the radar, and I wanted to get through at least to five outfits, so I surpassed that.

**Once you wore those five outfits, did you try to change your strategy at all?**

My strategy all along was to let people get themselves murdered or banished, because you can see it happening the minute you get a little too chirpy and stuff, which is not easy for me not to be chirpy. They make themselves noticed. And then if you kind of seem like you're innocuous and just slightly confused — which I was never really confused — I thought, "I'll just wait."

And then at the end of [episodes] 7 and 8, I did start talking and pointing things out. I thought, "Well, at that point, it's fine if I get killed. I made it through the banquet. I've made it through my best outfits. It's okay." But I was really proud of myself to make it to the top of [episode] 9.

It's totally different thing because you start off with 24 people. It's a lot of people, and to be sitting at that Roundtable when there's only six or seven or eight of us left, it's a totally different and much more eerie, pointed experience, because your protection's being taken away now. Now you're really up and center, and your paranoia is at the highest. Now you're tired. You've been there a long time. You haven't seen the outside world. It's hard to distinguish at that point what's real and what's not.

Dorinda Medley on 'The Traitors'.

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**How did two of your fellow Housewives being in the Turret add to that paranoia? Did you ever suspect Lisa and Candiace were Traitors?**

No. At one point someone said, "You will never vote for [another Housewife]." I mean, I eventually did end up voting, because you have to take that away and listen and go with your gut and also make a decision. But I tried to resist it, because even though someone said, "You would never kill Lisa because they're a Housewife and you're prejudiced," I was like, "No, I'm not." And then I got in my interview, and I was like, "I'm definitely prejudiced, 100 percent. I'll do it if I have to, but I'd rather not." You know what I mean?

I would definitely push someone else off the plank first for a Housewife, anytime of the day. As Andy said, there's only like 168 of us in the world. We're already unicorns. We can't be killing off each other. There is some sort of loyalty. But when I did find out, it made for fantastic TV, and I have to say they made incredible Traitors. I mean, two brilliant, smart, funny, incredibly entertaining people. And to have Rob in the [Turret] with those two women, I mean, God bless them, because those aren't just two Housewives, those are the NBA right there.

**You and Ron really got into it at the Roundtable before he was banished. Why did he seem so upset at you specifically when he was talking about his family?**

I don't know, to this day. I actually didn't really hang around with Ron that much because we don't really have any downtime. We're mic'd the whole time we were there, and I tend to [stick with] the Housewives and to women anyway, like Natalie, and I got very close to Maura and Donna. And whenever we're not filming, we're with a minder, so I really can't answer that question.

But it did seem like he just didn't like me. When he said, "I don't want to know you or your family," I was like, "Well, that's fine. I tried to get to know you." I don't really get engaged at that level. It's not personal. The thing about the castle is there's no time where you're just hanging out together. You're either filming or you're isolated in your room, period. Done.

Candiace Dillard Bassett and Dorinda Medley on 'The Traitors'.

**What was it like when you and Ron saw each other again at the reunion? **

It was great. We filmed, I saw everyone. The reunion is very different than the reunions we had for the *Housewives*, which go on for 10, 11 hours. The reunions for *Traitors* are a little different. It's really just almost like a recap, and it's only about six hours long. So we kind of do our thing and we're done. And that's it for the season.

The Housewives, we're just so used to reunions, and we're so used to sitting there for hours that at one point, one person was like, "God, this is so long." And I'm thinking, "This is nothing. We haven't even reached the lunch break yet." We would go into our reunions early morning and when we come out, it'd be night. I think that it's interesting because it's the first time you see the cast together when they now have seen behind the scenes in the Turret. I had no idea what was going on in the Turret at night.

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**Lisa said on social media that Colton got so angry about something during the reunion that he walked off the set. What can you tease about what happened with that?**

He didn't walk off set. Who said that? Unless I missed something. First of all, they don't know, because it's a closed set —

**Lisa was the one who said it.**

Oh, did she say he walked... ? But I don't think she said he walked off. Did he?

**Yeah, she teased that she had said something that made him get upset and walk off set at the reunion. **

I don't remember that. I swear to God, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't remember any walk offs. You have to tune in and see. I guess *I* have to tune in and see, because I was in the back row just thinking, "When is this going to be over?"

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