Real Housewives Of Dubai’s Sara Al Madani and Caroline Brooks exchanged heated words on the ninth episode of the show’s first season, titled Dancehall It Out.
Brooks, 37, felt like Sara had been judgmental of her parenting during a previous dinner, and though co-stars Chanel Ayan, 43, and Nina Ali, 42, tried to make them put their differences aside, it did not go according to plan.
‘You’re very judgy, you kind of go a little bit too far sometimes,’ Brooks said, before telling Sara to ‘shut the f*** up’ which promoted her to reply: ‘You say “shut up” to me one more time and I’ll deal with you differently.’
The episode started out with Brooks having lunch with her ex-husband, a Dubai-based businessman named Zoran, whom she was married to for seven and a half years.
The star was seen asking her ex to help her build her business, saying, ‘I couldn’t think of a better business partner.’
After Zoran complemented Brooks on looking nice, the two switched topics and began discussing why their marriage did not work out.
Zoran admitted that he was feeling peaceful with his life right now, which made Brooks question why he didn’t feel like that when they were married.
‘Why didn’t you find that peace when we were married? Because in our marriage I think that I was a great wife, and you drove me absolutely crazy,’ she asked.
‘You’re not Mother Teresa,’ he snapped back.
‘But you’re certainly not a Saint either. Anger, you took it out on everyone around you, including me,’ she told him.
‘And that’s what made me leave our marriage. It was just the behavior. I couldn’t take it anymore,’ she continued.
Zoran seemed understanding to why that might have been upsetting for her and replied: ‘That was a difficult period of my life when you were with me. I was mentally, psychologically not in a good place. But I found myself now. And my apologies, really.’
Brooks accepted his apology, saying: ‘Hearing Zoran apologize, it finally brings closure to something that has been so dark in my life for so long.’
‘It has shaped the way I view people. The way I react to situations. He made me really hard, and made me become a person who didn’t trust people anymore,’ she revealed.
The scene then switched to the ladies all receiving an invitation from Lesa Milan, 33. She asked them to attend a dancehall party and ‘come dressed as dancehall queens.’
Caroline Stanbury, 45, wasn’t thrilled by the idea, telling her daughter: ‘Ugh, Lesa Milan just organized some sort of dance party that she wants me to go to.’
However, it soon became apparent why she wasn’t excited, when her daughter teased her saying: ‘You actually can’t dance for the life of you.’
In the next scene Nina met with Sara and Chanel to go to a gold market where they looked at jewelry and bargained for better prices.
While the other ladies looked stylish, Chanel took it to another level, sporting an outlandish lavender gown.
‘Never basic,’ she said of her incredible outfit.
While the ladies shopped for gold, she tried on a crown, saying: ‘This way my husband knows who the Queen of the house is.’
After they got their fill of retail therapy, the trio sat down on a bench for a chit chat.
Chanel then invited them to dinner, and revealed Brooks would be coming as well, in hopes that her and Sara could talk their issues out.
‘I am open to talking. I don’t mind. As long as I get a sober Brooks that is willing to listen, and understand, and be coherent, then I’m ready,’ Sara stated.
The next scene showed Caroline Stanbury practicing dancing with her younger husband Sergio José Carrallo Pendás, 27, while her daughter Yasmine watched in horror.
Sergio was then seen showing his potential wardrobe choices for the dancehall party.
Yasmine proceed to make fun of every single outfit choice, joking: ‘You’re going to look like an idiot.’
In the next scene, Chanel, Nina and Sara were seen together for lunch as they waited for Brooks to arrive.
‘My only advice to you would be like try to listen to hear and understand her,’ Chancel advised Sara.
However, when Brooks arrived, things quickly got heated between then women.
‘What bothered me the most was I felt like my parenthood was being judged. I told my child, “Okay, you can go upstairs.” Sara goes, ‘You’re not gonna go tuck him in?”‘ Brooks recalled a prior dinner incident which caused her to be upset with Sara.
‘The statement was made verbatim, “You should be more affectionate with your child”‘ she went on.
‘Do not give me advice about my child,’ she then stated, while Sara continued to deny that she had said any of that.
However flashback clips revealed she did indeed say that.
The ladies continued to argue, with Brooks turning to Chanel to say, ‘You even said to me that you think she’s very judgmental, and that she comes off way too strong, and she doesn’t mind her business.’
‘I don’t mind my business?’ a surprised Sara asked.
‘I said to her that I felt you were being judgmental and preachy,’ Chanel clarified.
‘I feel like you come across as very, very like you know, you want to be therapeutic, you’re very judgy, you kind of go a little bit too far sometimes,’ Brooked stated.
‘Do I have an issue with you? Not really. Do I want to set my boundaries in place? Sure. Do not ask me questions about my child,’ she added.
‘You need to stop this bull****,’ a frustrated Sara replied.
‘Sara, shut the f*** up,’ Brooks replied in the heat of the moment.
After arguing back and forth, Sara decided to leave, claiming Brooks wasn’t ‘on her level.’
Meanwhile Brooks called Sara a ‘fake doctor’ in a separate sit-down: ‘I’d like for her to go buy herself an education and get a real doctorate degree, because she is no doctor.’
‘And she’s not going to teach me how to be a parent when she’s a fake doctor,’ she said.
The situation got more heated when Brooks told Sara to ‘shut up’ one more time as Sara was leaving.
‘You say “shut up” to me one more time and I’ll deal with you differently,’ Sara said.
‘What are you going to do?’ Brooks asked, getting out of her chair.
‘Honey, sit down,’ Sara replied while finally leaving.
‘This kind of energy is the reason I go to therapy, so I don’t end up like her,’ Sara told Nina outside.
The three ladies then continued arguing inside. Chanel was then left to eat all of the Ethiopian food by herself.
The entire group met up the the next scene, as they joined Lesa in a dancing class.
‘We were supposed to have dinner. Sara and Brooks basically got into it. It just went from 0-100,’ Nina told Lesa about the dinner incident.
However Lesa was more concerned with her party, saying in a separate confessional: ‘I don’t care what Brooks and Sara have going on. I need everyone to show up today and have a great time.’
They were then joined by Sara, and then both of the Carolines, and split into two dancing groups, with Sara, Chanel, and Brooks on one, and Stanbury, Lesa, and Nina on the other team.
‘I am going to pretend she’s not here,’ Sara said of Brooks.
However, they ended up having a good time during the class and, sat down to talk afterwards.
‘I just want to let everything go,’ Brooks told Sara. ‘It’s been so heavy. And I know that you are a really good person. And I feel like maybe I was hyper sensitive. I apologize.’
‘I should have been able to express myself to you. We are building our friendship. I haven’t fully opened up to you about everything that is a trigger for me or things that hurt,’ she went on.
‘Adam is all I have. So anytime his little name comes up, it is a trigger,’ she revealed.
Sara accepted the apology, and in a separate confessional said, ‘I want to make it work. Let’s make this work.’
It was then time for the dancehall party, with the ladies showing up in their incredible outfits and later taking part in a dance competition.
However, they did not take to Chanel’s dancing, with Lesa calling her ‘Big Bird.’
Stanbury also didn’t do too well, which she explained saying: ‘By the time I get to dancing I think I’ve had like three vodkas.’
However Lesa felt generous in the end and said ‘I have to give everybody A for effort.’
Brooks then went on to win the award for the ‘Best Whine’ while ‘Best Energy’ went to Nina.’
‘Most likely to never dance again’ went to Stanbury, though she protested and said Chanel should have gotten that.
‘Clearly Ayan should have got that crown,’ she said.
‘The most valuable player’ then went to Chanel, while ‘Best Dressed’ went to Sara and her afro.
Lesa saved the last award for herself, winning the ‘Dancehall Queen’ title.