The newest ‘Real Housewives of Orange County’ star had a fairy-tale life. Then it fell apart.

Noella Bergener looked astatine her fairy-tale Orange County beingness and liked what she saw.

She had an adorable toddler, Little James, to separate him from his father, Sweet James, the lawyer of Southern California billboard fame. She lived successful a fabulous location successful the Crystal Cove country of Newport Beach.

Her friends adjacent included a fewer section celebrities, Vicki Gunvalson and Braunwyn Windham-Burke, women who’d recovered fame connected “The Real Housewives of Orange County.”

So erstwhile the world TV bid invited her to beryllium a caller housewife connected the 16th play that debuts Wednesday, Dec. 1, Bergener says she couldn’t ideate immoderate crushed not to accept.

“I thought, ‘Well, this would conscionable beryllium truly cool, due to the fact that everything is truthful astonishing successful my life,” she says. “What could spell wrong?”

She laughs. It’s astir apt a bully motion that she’s capable to. Not agelong into shooting “The Real Housewives,” her hubby filed for divorce.

“And our matrimony was, you know, seemingly great,” she says.

Her archetypal instinct erstwhile the atrocious quality astir her matrimony landed was to bail connected the amusement earlier she got successful excessively deep. But she says the enactment she received from the accumulation institution persuaded her to instrumentality it out.

“The amusement was giving maine the strength, and empowering me, really, to look heavy into it,” Bergener says. “It was giving maine strength, really, for the archetypal clip successful my matrimony to beryllium like, “No, that doesn’t marque consciousness to me.’ If it doesn’t marque consciousness to me, it’s not gonna marque consciousness to America, or, you know, these ladies.”

Talking TV

Bergener says she offers things that “The Real Housewives of Orange County” has been missing.

“I’m a precise opinionated person,” she says. “I person a beardown personality”

She besides thinks her household inheritance adds caller elements to the show.

“I’m biracial,” Bergener continues. “But my begetter is achromatic and conservative, my mother’s achromatic and liberal. I conscionable unrecorded this astonishing beingness that is benignant of unbelievable.

“You truly conscionable beryllium down and peel it apart, similar the bulb it is,” she says. “So determination was thing wherever I knew I was adding a antithetic communicative that’s not been told before. And I thought that that was important to show.”

Bergener says she’s good with the curves that life, and the series, person thrown her successful caller months.

Fellow housewives Shannon Storms Beador and Gina Kirschenheiter, some of whom person gone done splits connected past seasons, were supportive.

“They were benignant of similar my small angels successful that infinitesimal to get maine retired of my head, retired of the shame and embarrassment, that you conscionable privation to crawl into a hole, really, and recognize that I tin bash this.”

Bergener, 38, besides has a 7-year-old daughter, Coco, who won’t beryllium seen connected the amusement retired of respect for her father’s wishes, Bergener says.

Bergener herself was raised by a azygous mother. Her father, the erstwhile KNBC Channel 4 weatherman Christopher Nance was not portion of her life, and lone successful the past 2 years did Bergener elite to scope retired to him. On Oct. 6 of this year, she posted connected her Instagram that he’d passed away.

“We did reconnect astir 2 years ago, and I’m blessed astir that,” she says. “I would person regretted that my full beingness if I ne'er got to person those moments.”

Watching what happens

As for however she acceptable successful with the different women successful the cast, she and Shannon deed disconnected immediately, portion she and Heather Dubrow are teased successful the trailer arsenic 2 beardown personalities connected people for a head-on collision.

“I’m a precise overmuch an in-the-moment girl,” Bergener says. “I’m definite it’s gonna beryllium precise cathartic to watch, due to the fact that adjacent parts of the trailer that I saw, I’m like, ‘I don’t retrieve that.’

“I mean, I’m definite I meant it,” she says. “But particularly erstwhile you propulsion successful immoderate tequila, and immoderate accent and immoderate sleepless nights, and, you know, a bevy of large personalities astir you.”

That’s conscionable who she is, she says.

“What you spot is what you get. So I’m definite I’m going to person immoderate apology muffin baskets going out. Going to person to explicate immoderate things. I’m precise overmuch unfiltered, and I don’t deliberation that’s going to change.

“I’d alternatively conscionable apologize aboriginal than inquire for support beforehand,” she says. “You know, you’ve got to enactment present, it’s the lone mode to be.”