Emily Simpson<\/a>‘s Persian New Year party on\u00a0The Real Housewives of Orange County<\/a>\u00a0included some unexpected guests: a pair of polygraph examiners.<\/p>\n After pulling a bait-and-switch by asking her castmates\u00a0\u2014 Shannon Storms Beador<\/a>,\u00a0Heather Dubrow<\/a>,\u00a0Katie Ginella<\/a>,\u00a0Tamra Judge<\/a>,\u00a0Gina Kirschenheiter<\/a>,\u00a0Jennifer Pedranti<\/a>, and friend\u00a0Gretchen Rossi<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 to anonymously write down two to three “burning questions” for each other as part of an unspecified “activity” she had planned on Season 19, Episode 8, Emily eventually revealed that they were actually all going to take lie-detector tests.<\/p>\n In two separate dark rooms, an examiner hooked up each woman to equipment that measured their physical reactions, including everything from blood pressure and breathing to fingertip moisture, as they answered a series of yes\/no questions.<\/p>\n It appeared that no one struggled more with the uncomfortable process than an anxiety-ridden Katie, and at the end of her polygraph test, the examiner quietly made a shocking declaration to herself: “She’s so full of s\u2013t.”<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Katie Ginella Shares a Major Update on Her Career: “It’s a Long Process” (EXCLUSIVE)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Afterward, the same woman announced the results of all the tests, telling Katie that not only did she “fail,” but she also\u00a0“did the worst out of everybody.” As she further pointed out, “Those questions for you about Gretchen, you failed those very badly.”<\/p>\n Even so, Katie insisted that she “told the truth” and “didn’t lie” about the drama involving Gretchen and Tamra<\/a> or allegations she played a recording of Shannon<\/a> for Alexis Bellino<\/a>, among other topics she was asked to address. Her castmates weren’t buying her story, though, and Emily told Katie to\u00a0leave her home immediately.<\/p>\n Katie Ginella hooked up to a lie detector machine during RHOC<\/p>\n Both during the Aug. 28 episode and on\u00a0The Real Housewives of Orange County After Show<\/a>, Katie continued to maintain that her polygraph answers were truthful. Meanwhile, she also attempted to make sense of why she failed every single question on the test.<\/p>\n “I was anxious, not only to be in this group of women, but then sit in Emily’s closet and do a random non-certified polygraphy test,” Katie explained in the above After Show clip. “Not in a controlled environment; in her closet.”<\/p>\n Also not helping matters was the fact she didn’t realize until she was already on her way to Emily’s party that she hadn’t taken her “anti-anxiety medicine.” Still, Katie thought she would be “fine” without it, but her assumption turned out to be wrong.<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Shannon Beador and Katie Ginella\u2019s Confrontation Ends on a Shocking Note (DETAILS)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n “The anxiety made me get sick. I was, like, puking when I got there,” Katie described. “I’m getting glares from Shannon. She’s, like, daggering me, and I was like, ‘This is too much.’ I just started to get sick. … It was just too much anxiety.”<\/p>\n As Katie concluded, “I had nothing to gain from lying… I didn’t do anything. Why would I self-implode like that? There’s literally no reason.”<\/p>\n Katie Ginella wearing a floral dress during the RHOC Season 19 Aftershow<\/p>\n Further puzzling Katie was the fact that Gretchen had an entirely “truthful” test result. On the RHOC After Show, she assumed that Gretchen “must be f–kin’ lying” because she was hardly the only one who heard the claims the Season 19 friend allegedly made about Tamra during their group dinner with Jenn, as well as their partners, Matt Ginella<\/a>, Slade Smiley<\/a>, and Ryan Boyajian<\/a>.<\/p>\n “And that’s why, in that moment I pointed to Jenn and was like, ‘Jenn, you know she said that,'” Katie added. “We had just talked like the month before on the phone about it, with Ryan and Slade on the phone. How do you not remember this?”<\/p>\n She elaborated, “The most disappointing part of this whole thing is I don’t know why Jenn won’t just say, ‘I heard it, too.’ \u2026 I cried for weeks about this. Why would you wanna see me get annihilated? Why wouldn’t you just say, ‘Hey, Gretchen, I think you did slip up and say that.’?”<\/p>\n Regardless, Katie referred to Jenn as being “a very kind person,” while trying to come up with a possible explanation for her silence on the matter.<\/p>\n “I think that when she saw that I was getting in the mess, she didn’t wanna get in the mess,” Katie theorized. “And that’s why she’s like, ‘I didn’t hear it.’ Because she’s friends with both of us\u00a0\u2014 or she was friends with both of us.”<\/p>\n Sign up for Bravo Insider and read behind-the-scenes features including:<\/p>\n Cynthia Bailey Unpacks the Differences Between Filming RHOA and RHOBH: “Night and Day”<\/a><\/p>\n Receipts, Proof, Timeline, Screenshots: A Complete Guide According to Bravolebs<\/a><\/p>\n Brittany Cartwright Reveals the Real Reason She Wore That Tiny Romper to a Job Interview: “Backfired”<\/a><\/p>\n Angela Oakley on the RHOA Beef She Squashed “Too Soon” & What You Didn\u2019t See at the Reunion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n
Katie Ginella defends her polygraph test results<\/h2>\n
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Where Katie Ginella and Jennifer Pedranti stand amid the lie detector drama involving Gretchen<\/h2>\n
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