​​Garcelle Beauvais Weighs In on Erika Jayne Admitting She Still Talks to Ex Tom Girardi: ‘It Takes Time’

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She gets it. Garcelle Beauvais doesn’t always see eye-to-eye with Erika Jayne, but there’s one thing she understands: her costar’s relationship with her estranged husband, Tom Girardi.“It takes a while, let me tell you,” the White House Down star, 55, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, May 16, at the NBCUniversal Upfronts of Erika’s admission that she still talks to her ex. “It’s not a switch you can just turn on and off because you’re no longer with them. … She was with him for a long time.

So even with me, you can’t just switch off, ‘I love you today and I don’t love you tomorrow.’ It takes time.”The Pretty Mess author, 50, revealed that she still speaks to the former lawyer, 82, from “time to time” since their split. “Of course [I take his calls],” she told Us earlier this month. “He’s not well, and so he’s in a state of decline and sometimes it’s good and sometimes [he thinks] I’m someone else.

So, it’s fine.”The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star filed for divorce from her husband of 20 years in November 2020. Four months later, the former attorney was diagnosed with late-onset Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Tom moved into a senior living facility that specializes in memory care in September 2021.“I still am mourning that marriage,” Erika told Us ahead of the Wednesday, May 11, season premiere of RHOBH. “I think that gets lost in the sensationalized version of it all.