Real Housewives of Rhode Island star Kelsey Swanson is setting the record straight on rumors that she was an escort.
“I’ve never sold any of my holes for money,” Kelsey, 31, told Andy Cohen in Us Weekly’s exclusive clip from the second part of the RHORI reunion, set to air on Sunday, June 28. “Let’s just get that straight.”
Her “interesting” choice — as pointed out by costar Rosie DiMare — was in response to a rumor written in by a viewer, claiming that Kelsey would “charge $29K for dinner and dessert.”
Kelsey claimed she has “proof” that she was “harassed by somebody” who made it look like she was an escort. (Kelsey previously denied these rumors in an April Instagram comment.)
“Stealing my photos, making fake pages of me,” Kelsey explained, noting that she has “no idea” who was doing this to her.
“All of a sudden it stopped,” she clarified. “I know it was some, I think, actual escort in Boston, who was hanging around the same crew of people that I was hanging out with.”
Andy, 58, didn’t want to “float conspiracy theories” but he couldn’t help wondering if it was someone connected to Kelsey’s ex-boyfriend who wanted to “mess” with her.
“I don’t think so,” she responded. “But I’ve never been an escort and I would never be an escort.”
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Kelsey’s relationship with her ex-boyfriend was a story line on the show during the early episodes of RHORI. While he didn’t appear on the Bravo series, their 10-year relationship was discussed at length when it was revealed that five months out of the year he lived with another woman in Florida.
“My relationship is very unorthodox. This man dates multiple people,” Kelsey told Us exclusively in April. “For the first half of the year, my boyfriend is in Miami. When he’s in Miami, he’s with somebody else.”
She made it clear to Us that she’s not a “sugar baby,” despite rumors saying otherwise.
“I am not a sugar baby. Nothing close to it,” she said. “The only man I ever dated with money [is] my boyfriend.”
Kelsey and the unnamed man have since split and Kelsey is in a relationship with William “Bill” L’Europa, who appeared on the show.
“I’m only in one relationship now,” she told Us. “You’ll see as the season progresses where that goes, but I am in a relationship. [I have a] boyfriend, I will label it that, but not married, and no kids.”
Part 2 of The Real Housewives of Rhode Island reunion premiere via Bravo on Sunday, June 28, at 9 p.m. ET and will stream via Peacock the next day.
