Monica Garcia clapped back at Jeff Lewis after he made a remark about her being on food stamps during BravoCon 2025.
“Let me be so clear, I have so much said about me that I let slide and don’t care to acknowledge,” Monica, 42, wrote via her Instagram Story on Friday, November 14. “But considering what so many families, single moms, elderly and Americans have been and are dealing with lately in relation to this situation, this is HORRIBLE.”
The former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star added: “F*** you, @jljefflewis. You are F***ing TRASH for this!!!!!”
She proceeded to call him an “elitist, entitled, privileged PRICK.”
Monica’s comments came after Lewis, 55, made a snide comment about her during BravoCon’s “Ask Andy Cohen” panel in Las Vegas on Friday.
During the discussion, Lewis asked Andy Cohen while producers decided to “diverge from bringing in affluent women,” pointing to Monica as an example of the type of Housewives he was referring to.
“Didn’t Monica Garcia’s food benefits just get frozen?” Lewis asked, hinting that she wasn’t on the same level as her wealthy Salt Lake City costars.
Cohen, 57, didn’t like the comment, according to Queens of Bravo, who reported that the producer defended Monica’s casting. Cohen reportedly said RHOSLC wouldn’t have gotten such a “great season without her.”
Us Weekly reporters present for the panel added that Cohen told Lewis that having affluent women is “one of the elements” on the show, but pointed out there has “always been a span of wealth” on every Housewives franchise.
Monica joined RHOSLC during season 4, which premiered in 2023. She exited the series after it was revealed she was behind Instagram gossip account Reality Von Tease, which was badmouthing the rest of the cast all season.
After the explosive finale, Monica exclusively told Us that she didn’t “regret” her time on the show. However, she said in October 2024 that she could have handled talking to Angie Katsanevas about rumors that her husband, Shawn Trujillo, was cheating on her with men “differently.” (Angie and Shawn have both denied the allegations.)
Monica teased that even though she became public enemy No. 1 on the show, she would consider a reality TV comeback.
“Housewives is all about bridges and mending relationships and seeing the other side of things, but [with] how things played out, I don’t know how they do it as long as certain other cast members are there,” she told Us. “So I could see myself coming back if, maybe, there was a cast shake-up.”
While Monica hasn’t returned to the series, the show has continued to heat up. It even earned Us Weekly’s “Best Cast Ever” accolade in the 2025 Reality Stars of the Year issue, which hit shelves last month.
“The snow, Mormonism and their unique history with each other make them their own universe,” Cohen exclusively told Us in the October issue.
He praised Heather Gay’s unmasking of Monica during the RHOSLC season 4 finale as “one of the best single episodes of television in Bravo history.”
Heather, 51, also called the intense scene one of the cast’s most defining moments. “I think [the unmasking of Reality Von Tease] in Bermuda was bonding. We really felt for each other in that moment,” she told Us at the time. “We continually have those experiences where, instead of fighting with each other, there’s an outside force that we all join up against to fight.”
Lewis, meanwhile, has been part of the Bravo family for years. He starred on Flipping Out from 2007 to 2018 and is part of the Radio Andy show. On Friday, Bravo announced that Lewis would be returning to the network with a new series called Still Flipping Out.
“The king of controlled chaos is back. In his new Bravo series, Jeff Lewis is as outspoken as ever, but this time, the mic is always on,” Bravo said in a statement. “Lewis navigates the hilariously unpredictable nature of his professional and personal lives as his trademark spontaneity collides with the people who work with him, for him and still somehow survive him. Jeff Lewis can still flip out when he wants to, and he calls that personal growth.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Lewis for comment.
