Garcelle Beauvais and her son Oliver Saunders have come a long way.
Tuesday, January 7 episode The Real Housewives of Beverly Hillsthe reality star, 58, opened up about her relationship with her son while dining at her newly completed beach house. As she watched her happy family enjoy their meals, Garcelle admitted that things aren’t always so bright and sunny.
“My boys are great. My relationship with Oliver is really good right now. We’ve come a long way. Oliver has been in a really dark place over the years,” she told the cameras, revealing that Oliver once struggled with drug addiction. “I had all kinds of emotions, sometimes all in one day — fear, guilt, what did I do wrong?”
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(L) Oliver Saunders and Garcelle Beauvais.
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“Especially when I had to practice tough love, and I knew he was homeless, I knew he was in a bad place, and I couldn’t,” she recalled. “I couldn’t do anything.”
Garcelle said that years ago, she and one of her girlfriends were hanging out at her house when they heard a noise late at night.
– I looked outside, turned on the light and saw that it was Oliver – she said through tears. “It was Oliver in body form, but it wasn’t Oliver the way he acted, the way his eyes looked, the way he was so erratic and trying to get into the pool house.”
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(L) Oliver Saunders, Jax Joseph Nilon, Garcelle Beauvais and Jaid Thomas Nilon. Instagram of Oliver Saunders
Despite her pleas for Oliver to stop, he continued to try to enter the house.
“He was like, ‘Let me in. Let me in.’ And I’m like, ‘Should I call Mike? What should I do?'” she continued. “I’m like, maybe, let’s just shut up. Maybe he’ll go somewhere else, I mean, and this is my son, right, so I don’t open the door for him.”
“I watched him go and I didn’t accept him,” Garcelle explained. “I felt 1,000 pounds of guilt for not letting him in. It was the tough love we had to do so hopefully that’s the thing that changes things. That’s the thing, if he can’t see his brothers, he can” If not us look, he can’t come to the house and I think that was it for Oliver.”
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“I’m grateful, eternally grateful that he’s in a great place. He’s a great dad. He’s had a lot of catching up to do in life,” she added.
Oliver has been open about his sobriety for years. After struggling with addiction during his youth, he credits his wife, Samantha Saunders, whom he married in May 2022, and their son, Oliver Jr., with giving him the motivation to turn his life around.
“I’ve been trying to fight it for years. I’ve been going to rehab, I’ve talked to people, therapists, all that stuff,” he told Confessional Magazine in 2021. “Even though I told myself when I felt like I was ready to quit, and I wanted to I could have stopped, but it was easier said than done. Then I swear, I swear, it was God, and my wife and my son, and it was just one day, none of it mattered.”
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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Tuesdays at 8:00 PM ET on Bravo.
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