Jim Edmonds Claims Producers Said They’d Make Him Look Bad To Amp Up Drama On ‘RHOC’

Jim Edmonds dished about his time on The Real Housewives of Orange County with his ex-wife, Meghan King Edmonds, and said things aren’t as they seemed.

As the Sun reported, Jim was a frequent face on the show for three seasons, but before taking on his role, he claimed Bravo producers warned him they would make him “look bad if Meghan didn’t perform.”

He also claimed his co-workers warned him to watch out for editing, as well.

“I was told by Terry Dubrow, ‘they will make you look bad as if your wife doesn’t perform, so they have something to fall back on – you two arguing’,” Jim said. “So I accepted it. But they spliced stuff so bad.”

He claimed there were times when he was made to look calloused or unkind to his wife, who he filed for divorce from in 2019.

In one scene, he said he was waiting downstairs for his wife, but producers spliced it to make it look like he was on the phone ignoring her while she was trying to talk to him as she came down the stairs.

“So they make it look like I don’t care,” he said.

Us Weekly reported Jim was told that if the show’s ratings started to slump, it might attract viewers if the two fought more often.

After five years together — three of them on the Bravo franchise — the pair decided to call it quits after Jim admitted he had been sending texts to another woman. At the time, Meghan was pregnant with their twin sons, Hart and Hayes, who are now 2 years old.

The series appeared to show the couple slowly unraveling prior to their acrimonious divorce. Jim said he realized fans of the franchise have been attacking him since the two called it quits, but the person portrayed on the show is not who he is.

But it wasn’t all bad, he said, since he made some friends while he was on the series.

“It was a great experience and I made some good friends and fun enemies, aka a couple of those women,” he said.

These days, the former couple appears to not be on good terms, and the two regularly share details about their difficult union as they continue to battle over custody for their three children.

Jim recently called his marriage with the reality star “loveless” and “abusive,” as The Inquisitr previously reported. He also added that his new girlfriend, Kortnie O’Connor, changed his life and has been a positive influence on him.