Robyn Dixon Says Doing Real Housewives of Potomac with Husband Juan ‘Brought Us Together’

Robyn Dixon recognizes the difficulties of presenting her relationship with husband Juan Dixon on TV.

“It was hard because I understand why we do the things we do,” Robyn, 44, told the The Real Housewives of Potomac panel at BravoCon in Las Vegas on Sunday. “Juan and I started dating when we were 17 years old. We’re not just best friends, [our] lives were very intertwined.”

The reality star feels like her and Juan’s “relationship is very different from what was filmed.”

“It was hard for people not to understand the depth of our relationship,” she continued. “The show brought us together because of all the observations. So we were forced to really have each other’s backs.”

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In Sunday’s season premiere, the couple faced affair rumors and even more negative talk.

Robyn admitted at BravoCon that viewer criticism is affecting their marriage. “It’s the outside noise that really tears each other apart,” she said.

Sometimes the noise comes from within. “So Karen is obsessed with me and it’s funny,” Robyn told PEOPLE of actress Karen Huger. “And I’m like, like, we’re actually joking. We go back and forth a lot.”

Karen and Ray Huger in Chevy Chase, Maryland in June.

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Robyn said she couldn’t take Huger, 60, seriously.

“Everything that comes out of Karen’s mouth when she’s critical is a joke because, like, she’s the one we’re supposed to be criticizing,” the mom of two said.

When Huger spoke to PEOPLE at BravoCon, she said she “enjoyed the conversations” she had with Robyn on the show.

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“I enjoyed all the girls,” Huger said. “I can go to… even when our group is divided, I can go to both camps. You know, they say I’m jumping the fence. No dear. Hence my slogan. I feel bad that they said that. So I said that I am the fence, I own the fence. You ride me and it’s true.”

Huger, however, called out Robyn for keeping the discussion of her husband’s cheating rumors off the show. (Juan eventually confirmed that he cheated during the pandemic.)

“We have people lying about their truth in Season 7, and I’m going to find out in Season 8 and sell it behind a paywall for profit,” Huger said. “No dear. We’ll answer questions. We’ll have conversations.”

Starring ‘Real Housewives of Potomac’. Carlos Rodriguesi/Bravo

Huger agreed that she had nicknamed Robyn’s fans, but asked: “Where are they?”

Robyn and the former NBA player – who share teenage sons Corey and Carter – made the revelation in the season finale RHOP that they remarried after their divorce in 2012. The couple wanted to keep the wedding simple.

“The thought of a real wedding and all the pomp and circumstance that comes with it, it doesn’t excite me,” Robyn said in a confessional interview. “It just feels more special to do it privately, without worrying about everyone else and how they perceive it.”

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According to the Real Housewife, her children never realized that their parents had split up.

“My kids, they didn’t even realize we were divorced,” Dixon recalled in a video for Bravo’s Daily dish. “They didn’t know that we went through a difficult period! They found out a lot of things about our relationship and our family from the show, because their friends tell them. So then they come and tell us, ‘So why this? Why that?’ So I’d have to tell them, ‘We’re fine, aren’t we? We’re fine! Don’t worry about it.'”

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The Real Housewives of Potomac airs Sundays at 8:00 PM ET on Bravo. BravoCon 2023 ran through Sunday at the Caesars Forum in Las Vegas.

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