{"id":50695,"date":"2026-04-07T17:50:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=50695"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:50:53","slug":"real-housewives-of-rhode-islands-rulla-exposes-unaired-details-of-her-husbands-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/04\/07\/real-housewives-of-rhode-islands-rulla-exposes-unaired-details-of-her-husbands-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Housewives of Rhode Islands&#8217; Rulla exposes unaired details of her husband&#8217;s affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Real Housewives of Rhode Island&#8217;s Rulla Nehme Pontarelli has opened up about her husband, Brian\u2019s, past affair, and the unaired details are a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/the-daily-dish\/rulla-nehme-pontarelli-unaired-details-of-husband-brian-affair-exclusive\">After Show<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/tag\/real-housewives-of-rhode-island\/\">The Real Housewives of Rhode Island<\/a>, Rulla shared exactly how everything unfolded, and it\u2019s actually quite shocking how she found out.<\/p>\n<h2>So, how did Rulla find out about the affair?<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; 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border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CZ_AXKpMxrh\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Rulla (@rullaofficial)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\nIt all started back in December 2024. Rulla explained that her co-star Liz McGraw texted her \u201cin the middle of the night\u201d after seeing something online. According to Rulla, her husband Brian Pontarelli had been spotted in photos with another woman.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cApparently, they were, like, up for about 15 minutes and then taken down, but long enough for certain people to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those photos, which allegedly showed the woman kissing Brian and sitting on his lap, had already been screenshotted and passed around. So by the time Rulla found out, there was actual proof.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, things got very real. Rulla didn\u2019t waste time and confronted Brian straight away. She recalled, \u201cI hung up the phone with her and, you know, turn to Brian, who was at home, and I said, \u2018Is there something that you want to tell me before I have to find out from Liz or anybody else?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added,\u00a0\u201cHe got a little nervous, a lot nervous. Yeah, and it was a whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because she already had the pictures, there wasn\u2019t really any way for him to deny it. Still, she said he tried to downplay what had happened at first.<\/p>\n<h2>Emotionally, it hit her hard, and she was very honest about that<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50697\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50697\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-04-05T115203.503-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-04-05T115203.503-1.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-04-05T115203.503-1-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-04-05T115203.503-1-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2026-04-05T115203.503-1-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via LinkedIn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rulla said, \u201cI went from, like, livid to numb to, like, tears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After everything came out, Rulla said she chose to deal with it in her own way. And actually, things shifted quite a bit in their relationship. \u201cAfter the cat came out of the bag, I wanted to handle things my own way. There was a lot more togetherness. He was making changes. That person was no longer involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also admitted she needed reassurance and control after what happened. \u201cI had to make sure that I knew his whereabouts. I had to make sure that he was very present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What made it all even more shocking, though, is how normal everything had seemed before. \u201cHe was home with me. And he&#8217;d be around on the weekends, most weekends. He was home every single night. He never slept out. So, you know, you&#8217;d think maybe sometimes a guy will take a vacation, he&#8217;ll disappear for a bit, he won\u2019t call you all day, you know. It was very bizarre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, during a recent episode, Liz suggested that Brian might still be involved with the woman, which Rulla firmly denied. She said, \u201cIt\u2019s not still ongoing.\u201d And she made it clear she wanted proof if anyone was going to claim otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Rulla also wasn\u2019t too happy about how the situation kept being discussed by others in the group. \u201cI was, like, sitting there thinking she&#8217;s just, like, talking way too much to Jo-Ellen, who, for some reason, has this, like, vendetta against me. She said she&#8217;s trying to help me. I just don&#8217;t like it when people talk out of two sides of their mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>So, what has Brian said about the rumours?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50698\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50698\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50698 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rhori-rulla-pontarelli-husband-brian-1420x798-1-e1775580243986.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rhori-rulla-pontarelli-husband-brian-1420x798-1-e1775580243986.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rhori-rulla-pontarelli-husband-brian-1420x798-1-e1775580243986-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rhori-rulla-pontarelli-husband-brian-1420x798-1-e1775580243986-1024x584.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rhori-rulla-pontarelli-husband-brian-1420x798-1-e1775580243986-768x438.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Later, Rulla and Brian had a proper conversation about everything, especially with the rumours spreading. She told him, \u201cIt&#8217;s just killing me &#8217;cause everybody in this state has made it their business, and everybody in the group has made it their business to talk about us. Like, instead of firing away on stuff you don&#8217;t know, like, come and speak with the source.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brian, for his part, tried to move forward from it. \u201cWhat happened last year, happened last year. It\u2019s in the past. I just wanna move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also insisted he\u2019s committed to their marriage now. He said, \u201cWe know we&#8217;re strong, and obviously I&#8217;m with you. I let you track me. You know where I am every second. I love my wife; I love my family. Like, they&#8217;re just jealous, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But even with all that, when the producers asked if she had forgiven her husband, Rulla admitted, \u201cI\u2019m still working on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>For all the latest reality TV cast member news, scandals, gossip and updates \u2013 like\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/realityshrineofficial?rdid=TzQu2kEd2cUqU4rD&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F14zX5cKubf%2F#\"><i>Reality Shrine on Facebook<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How she found out is actually quite shocking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734280,"featured_media":50699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1552,2005,2226],"class_list":["post-50695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bravo","tag-real-housewives","tag-real-housewives-of-rhode-island"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/04\/07\/real-housewives-of-rhode-islands-rulla-exposes-unaired-details-of-her-husbands-affair\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Real Housewives of Rhode Islands&#8217; 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