RHOP’s Candiace Dillard Reacts to Former Costar Wendy Osefo’s Arrest

Throughout an look on Fox 5 DC on Friday, Dillard Bassett reacted in nearly actual time to Osefo’s detainment, saying she was “shocked” and “shaking” after discovering out the information moments earlier than going dwell. 

This morning, TMZ confirmed that Dr. Osefo and her husband, Edward “Eddie” Osefo, had been booked on fraud expenses in Maryland on Thursday. The truth star is going through 16 expenses, together with 7 felonies, for allegedly making false/deceptive information fraud in extra of $300. She’s additionally going through one misdemeanor depend of creating a false assertion to an officer.

Within the Fox interview, Dillard Bassett expressed unhappiness, earlier than mentioning RHOP star Karen Huger’s latest stint behind bars for DUI, saying “one may opine that maybe Karen was made an instance of” and suggesting the identical was taking place right here.

“$300 and we’re arresting a mom and a father?” she continued. “Enterprise house owners, entrepreneurs … we all know that the Osefos have a really profitable marijuana enterprise, they’re offering jobs and alternatives for folks of coloration within the space … so my first thought is, are they being focused?”

“I do know the Osefos, I do know their kids, I do know their household, I am heartbroken,” she added, earlier than saying, “It simply seems like somebody is out to get the ladies.”

“How are two ladies from the identical present — the identical present that options African American ladies within the local weather that we’re residing in at this time, the place individuals are being picked up and snatched off the road for frivolous nonsense, I want to see every thing earlier than I make my remaining ideas,” she concluded. 

Investigators declare the Osefos misled native police after an alleged house housebreaking in April of 2024. The couple, who had been on trip in Jamaica, claimed their house had been ransacked. 

After the incident, they filed claims for stolen gadgets with two insurance coverage firms; the record included Wendy’s gold diamond anniversary band. The ring, nonetheless, not been reported lacking within the authentic submitting and Carroll County Sheriff’s deputies declare they later noticed Osefo carrying the ring on her Instagram. 

Get a full breakdown of the allegations right here.

A consultant for the Osefos informed TMZ, “Dr. Wendy Osefo and her husband, Edward Osefo, are again house safely with their household and in good spirits. They’re grateful for the outpouring of concern and assist from associates, followers, and colleagues.”