RHOC’s Elizabeth Lyn Vargas Is ‘Shaken Up’ After Ex Held Her Captive

A harrowing state of affairs. Elizabeth Lyn Vargas is recovering after her ex-boyfriend barricaded himself in her house, Us Weekly can affirm.

The Actual Housewives of Orange County alum, 46, known as the police on Tuesday, February 1, after an ongoing disagreement with an unnamed ex. In keeping with the Newport Seaside Police Division, the person barricaded himself inside Vargas’ house and was subsequently arrested.

“She’s shaken up and had a particularly traumatic expertise,” David Weintraub, Vargas’ supervisor, instructed Us in a press release on Wednesday, February 2. “Fortuitously, the Newport Police Division saved her and she or he’s doing nicely.”

The previous Bravo starred appeared in season 15 of RHOC, which aired from October 2020 to January 2021. She was beforehand married to Bernt Bodal, whom she wed in 2000. The duo known as it quits in 2017, however their divorce wasn’t finalized till July 2020.

“, I don’t understand how I’m feeling in the present day. I’m excited however I’m unhappy and I — it’s the tip of an period — I used to be with the man for 20 years. 17 years however divorcing for 3,” she wrote through Instagram on the time. “20 years whole of my life and I’m glad nevertheless it’s a failure. … I paid an arm and a leg to get divorced and to get what I assumed I wanted … and right here we’re transitioning to a brand new part in my life and I’m excited.”

When the Missouri native was on RHOC, she dated a person named Jimmy Juarez, however the former couple break up someday after the season aired. “I assume I’m going by way of an enormous transition,” Vargas mentioned in a video posted through Instagram in June 2021. “I misplaced my job, misplaced my boyfriend, misplaced my canine — it appears like a foul nation music.”

After her exit from RHOC was introduced final yr, the Vargas Vodka founder thanked followers for his or her messages all through her temporary tenure on the sequence. “I can by no means ever thanks sufficient for the outpouring of affection, assist and the kindness you’ve proven to me,” she wrote through Instagram in June 2021. “COVID 2020 was a really unlucky and difficult yr for all of us throughout filming however we made it occur and I’m very pleased with what we completed as a workforce.”

Vargas left the present alongside Braunwyn Windham-Burke and Kelly Dodd when Bravo determined to not renew their contracts. Shortly after their exits made headlines, Dodd, 46, claimed she had no concept that she wouldn’t be requested again.

“I had no concept,” she mentioned throughout a June 2021 look on SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Reside. “I used to be blindsided.”

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