Bethenny Frankel began seriously considering a move to Florida at daughter Bryn’s insistence.
“We were down in Florida and something very personal transpired, and I went to school in Florida,” Frankel, 54, said on the Tuesday, May 6, episode of her “Just B” podcast. “I don’t want to get into all the details of this now, but something happened, and my daughter, who had said years ago, ‘I want to move to Florida,’ she cried to me.”
The Bravo alum added, “I’m like, ‘We can’t. There are a set of circumstances, and we can’t. … At that time, it was just a concept, and I couldn’t have imagined living in Florida. So, she said, ‘I want to move to Florida this trip,’ and I was, like, ‘Something had happened.’”
According to Frankel, she initially dismissed 14-year-old Bryn’s pleas to move to Florida “because she has great friends and a great life.”
“She just said, and she meant it,” the Real Housewives of New York City alum recalled, adding, “She meant it, and she begged me. She didn’t have to beg me, like, she was like, ‘I really want this.’ I know my kid and I knew that once this was presented … that she’d want to move. I was just like, ‘F***ing f*** it, OK.’”
Frankel further noted that she always planned to settle down in the Sunshine State once Bryn, her daughter with ex-husband Jason Hoppy, went off to college. She accelerated her plan in April upon hearing Bryn’s request.
“That was literally a month and four days ago, and I have been a frazzled, manic mess since then,” Frankel said, referring to leaving her expansive Connecticut estate. “It leaned into school, house, sell house, pack house — and I was always thinking in the background, like, ‘This f***ing house is gonna kill me.’ It’s the best house. It’s an amazing, extraordinary house for a family who has kids that will come home, you have a staff [and] there’s an apple orchard.”
According to Frankel, she feels like a “f***ing sellout” for moving out of the historic mansion.
“Someone deserves to be in here that’s gonna use that dining room,” Frankel said. “Whoever these people are [that buy the house] is getting such an extraordinary home that I’ve put my life into. … I was sentimental about it, but I’ve been a manic f***ing mess because I’ve had my entire staff in circles moving s*** out.”
Frankel previously said in a Friday, May 2, social media video that she felt like she was “drowning” in the upkeep for the residence.
“It was just the two of us. It was a massive property, and I made the decision to buy that property when I was in a different stage of my life,” Frankel said earlier this month. “I thought it would be this, like, big family home and that I’d be entertaining there a lot. … It just ended up being a place that I spent a lot of time alone [in] because I didn’t really know many people in that community. It was lonely.”
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