For years, Kristen Doute and Brian Carter have seemed to have the most stable relationship out of anyone in the Vanderpump Rules crew. But this season, we're getting the sense that there's trouble in paradise. Kristen opened up about some recent issues she's been having with Carter during Monday night's episode of Vanderpump Rules. Everything that she had been dealing with back home came to a head to make for one emotional girls' trip to Solvang, California. Kristen appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen shortly after the new episode of Vanderpump Rules aired on Monday night, and she revealed how things are going between her and Carter today. "OK, you know what? Honestly, I bleed out for this show. I show every single second of everything, and so for this, I'm just gonna have to say we're figuring it out, especially if you want to talk about what's happening today, like the show airing and what's been going on in our relationship for the past year or more, we're figuring it all out," Kristen explained, which you can check out, above. "So we'll let y'all know when we get to that place." Andy Cohen, who appeared to have a grimace on his face as Kristen shared her current relationship status with Carter, remarked that the update "doesn't sound promising." Following her appearance on WWHL, Kristen took to her Instagram Story to show her gratitude to all of the fans who have sent her love and support after a difficult episode of Vanderpump Rules. "Hey, babes. I just really wanted to say thank you guys for being so kind tonight. It was a really stressful Watch What Happens Live for me beforehand because it was a difficult episode. But you guys were really kind and sweet, so thank you for that," Kristen shared. "It's a little bit of a difficult time, but you know what? Life is f--king good, and kindness matters, and you guys rule, and I just wanted to say thank you." Kristen and Carter will have a heart-to-heart about their relationship in an all-new episode of Vanderpump Rules coming up on Monday at 9/8c. Watch a preview, below.<doc-sep>Kristen Doute and Brian Carter's relationship was exposed during Monday night's episode of Vanderpump Rules. According to a recap shared by Radar Online on February 19, things between the couple took a turn for the worse when Doute, who was enjoying a girls' trip in Solvang, California, discovered Carter was hanging out with James Kennedy during a guy's night out in Los Angeles. After learning the news, Doute began arguing with Katie Maloney for what appeared to be no reason at all. Then, after Maloney told Doute to sit down, Doute fell over a table before storming away from the group of girls they were with. When the girls then called Carter to question him about what was upsetting Doute, he said he wasn't sure. He also didn't seem to care about Doute's state of mind at the time of the call, which upset Maloney. "Really Carter? I just told you your girlfriend fell over a table. Can you try to give one single f**k about what's going on right now," she said in a cast confessional. Maloney also told the rest of the cast that she didn't think Carter was a good match for Doute, and Stassi Schroeder agreed. "Carter's not good for her. They're miserable. She says this every day," Schroeder explained. "He doesn't give a f**k. He doesn't pay for anything, he doesn't pay rent. He literally does nothing. Nothing," she said. "Everybody knows it but no one says it." In a cast confessional of her own, Schroeder went into fourth detail about Doute's boyfriend, claiming Carter is nothing more than a mooch and a "bad guy." Doute and Carter didn't film many scenes together during the seventh season of Vanderpump Rules. So, over the past few weeks, fans have been wondering if there was trouble in paradise at the time of filming last year. Then, weeks ago, after the couple was seen bickering in a short scene filmed at their apartment, it became more clear that all was not well between them. Although things between Doute and Carter appear to be headed toward a split, the other couples of the show, including Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright, and Stassi Schroeder and Beau Clark, seem to be going strong as their prepare for Taylor and Cartwright's summer wedding. To see more of Doute, Carter, and their co-stars, don't miss new episodes of Vanderpump Rules Season 7 on Mondays at 9 p.m. on Bravo TV.<doc-sep>Vanderpump Rules Return of Crazy Kristen Season 7 Episode 11 Editor’s Rating 2 stars * * « Previous Next » Photo: Bravo The worst part of this entire episode isn’t Lala’s shiny silver dress that looks like a smock worn at a two-star spa, or even Sandoval doing a Champagne spray wearing a fedora in an L.A. hotel room like he’s celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of his favorite film Swingers. No. The worst part is something the gentlemen who write the score for this show came up with. “Super stars, super cars, we’re living, yes we’re living in Beverly Hills.” Oh, that little earworm is going to stick with you for days. Just like the baby that shimmies to the Pump Rules theme song, try to keep yourself from dancing to this little musical interlude. I want this to be the new theme song. I want this to be remixed by DJ James Kennedy. I want this to be the song of the summer with a guest verse by Cardi B wearing an Ariana Grande ponytail and one of Kristen’s T-shirts that are sold exclusively at the Flip Flop Shop. This is the “Don’t Be Tardy” for the post-Trump world and it needs to be on Spotify right now. The music cue for Kristen Doute this episode wouldn’t be a catchy tune, it would be a sad trombone played underwater that turns into the groaning of a dying seal. She’s just an absolute mess during the entirety of the girls’ trip to Solvang. The highlight of her messiness, of course, is when she tries to run from Katie, trips over a settee, and twists to the ground in a Tilt-O-Whirl of drunken limbs. I have never in my life seen a better illustration why a girl prone to messiness should wear a jumper, because the only thing keeping Kristen from flashing the camera is a small slip of fabric in between her legs. That’s the culmination of the day’s messiness, which started last episode with eating lavender and getting lippy with the people giving them wine tastings. Speaking of which, what the hell was that wine tasting they went to in what was essentially a Spencer’s Gifts for rich people? They’re supposed to be in Solvang Wine Country and they’re trying out Cabernets in a retooled Sharper Image. Who organized this, Lala’s unpaid assistant? While they’re there, Kristen finds out that DJ James Kennedy has got a gig at Lisa’s restaurant Pump, and she freaks out about it. She says she’s upset because Lisa gives James a million chances but is still pissed at her for something she did five years ago that got her fired. Why is Kristen getting mad about this? Kristen has the best gig on the whole show. She gets to be in the main cast but doesn’t have to pretend anymore that she works at SUR. Her, Stassi, and Schwartz are all sitting pretty collecting their TV money without having to debase themselves for tips at the EPCOT Center for Housewives fans that Lisa Vanderpump runs on a corner of Santa Monica Boulevard. Regardless, Kristen barges out of the store without her phone and is just wandering around in the windmill graveyard that is Solvang. Finally a car drops her off at dinner. That couldn’t be an Uber because she didn’t have a phone. Was that a producer? Did she have to be rescued by someone filming the show and we didn’t even get to see the footage of that? I feel robbed. (Which was something Scheana said every episode last season. ZING!) At dinner we forget about Kristen for a bit because all of the drama revolves around Scheana, whose hair looks like a hat made out of kale chips. Katie asks Scheana whether she’s sleeping with Adam, the fetch bartender she’s trying to make happen, and all of a sudden Scheana clams up about it. Just two episodes ago she was running around asking if people were talking about the two of them and wanting everyone to know that they’re banging. Now she’s all like, “That is too intimate a conversation to be having with Katie because she won’t come braid my hair.” Scheana is more exhausting than running a marathon wearing a backpack full of bricks and shoes made out of lead. Finally, after dinner, the real crazy Kristen comes out after a text from Carter about something that we can’t figure out because she does that stumbling exit and drunken mumbling before we can reveal the truth. What does come out is that Kristen and Carter hate each other but are still together. The girls talk about this and Kristen has been insinuating it all season, but we’ve barely seen any of it. Why? Squabbling crazy people would be way more fun to watch than DJ James Kennedy crying about losing his job every week. This is what I want. This is what I need. Please give it to me. Love, Brian J. Moylan, president and founder of the Real Housewives Institute. Katie tries to call Carter (on her Android phone like a carpool mom) to figure out what is going on, and this is when the girls’ weekend in Solvang finally connects to the parallel track of the boys’ night back in L.A. It is seemingly tame in comparison. Sandoval invites James to join them and not everyone is happy about it, but he’s trying to fit in. James, if anything, is the male version of Scheana on this show. They also invite Peter, who is dangerously close to looking like an extra from the Pirates of the Caribbean show at Universal Studios again. Peter meets some girls while they’re at the bar and brings them back to their hotel room. Blah. Nothing too crazy here except that Sandoval is such a human fedora that he brings a “cocktail kit” with him whenever he travels so he can just whip up Moscow mules in a pinch. Seriously, dude. Can’t he just have a Smirnoff Ice and chill the fuck out? When Peter heads off to one of the bedrooms with one of the girls, everyone else decides that they’re going to have a model walk-off in the room. What is this, a rainy day on Fire Island? None of them are even in heels. Not one of them even made an impromptu wig out of a coiled up towel. They weren’t even playing RuPaul’s “Cover Girl.” What kind of lame walk-off contest is this? To make it even worse, Beau and Jax go out on the porch and call Brittany and Stassi and tell them that there are girls at the party and it is making them really uncomfortable. This is the dumbest thing they could have possibly done. Now all the girls are going to do is worry about what their men are up to back in Los Angeles. There is no way I would trust Jax in that room with some random skanks. What they should have done was just hang out with the girls, not do anything with them, and then tell their partners later. Either way they’re not going to believe them, but if that is the case, why even give them days to stew about it, just making it worse in their minds? It’s not even the girls they need to worry about. After Peter made out with Dayna or Stephi or Pijayma or whatever her name was, he asked them all to leave. He then huddled James, Schwartz, and Sandoval into one of the two bedrooms in their suite at the Mondrian. They all disrobed and Tom and Tom put their heads together and started making “Om” sounds. James came over next to them and both Toms reached out a hand to let them into their embrace. Without breaking the magnetic hold of their lips, each of their hands found one of James’s solid, awaiting butt cheeks. Peter, completely naked, went out to the balcony where Jax and Beau were still worrying about what their girls would think about the little ladies that had joined them earlier.<doc-sep>
Last night, Vanderpump Rules viewers saw the return of Crazy Kristen. Kristen Doute even drunkenly fell onto a table after receiving a text about guys night from her man Brian Carter. Through the unintelligible slurring It was not clear what Carter actually texted her, but does it even matter? Not only that, but Kristen also had some misplaced anger over James Kennedy returning to DJ at Pump. Of course, none of these are actually related, but it all comes back to projection. Right? That’s especially true on reality TV. Last night was the first time Carter has appeared on an episode in forever and it wasn’t even with his own girlfriend. He was at guys night with the rest of the men in the cast. Meanwhile, the female cast members exposed their relationship issues. Stassi Schroeder even called Carter out for not paying any bills. James Kenndy 2.0, much? Why is Kristen always in a sugar mama situation? During yesterday’s Watch What Happens Live episode, Andy Cohen told Kristen, “You missed four of your flights yesterday, I’m told.” Kristen responded with, “Three.” Honestly, that isn’t much better. Andy asked if everything was OK and Kristen channeled her inner Stassi in response. She declared, “It was my birthday.” A Kristen interview wouldn’t be complete without some mention of James, of course. Instead of owning up the feelings she previously bragged about while they were dating, Kristen claimed, “James was a rebound, not a relationship.” So she paid for a rebound’s rent? Then, Andy asked Kristen about the comments Stassi and the rest of the women made behind her back. Kristen began, “Stassi is right and wrong. I don’t give an ‘f’ about James.” After, Andy declared the obvious, “You clearly do give some ‘f’ about him.” Kristen conceded, “I do care that he constantly gets away with things over and over and over.” But why? It’s really not a good look for her. Then again, neither was drunkenly falling on a coffee table. Or drunkenly eating a flower. Then, Kristen declared, “Carter and I weren’t great, but those were separate issues.” Alright, then. We really have nothing to compare the last episode to since Carter rarely appears on the show. If only she was dating a total thirst monster… like some of the other cast members. Soon after, a caller brought some comic relief with this question: Who’s bigger below the belt? Tom [Sandoval], Jax [Taylor], or James?” Kristen avoided the question and responded with “Carter.” Andy reminded Kristen, “But he wasn’t a choice.” Once again, it came back to James. It always does with Kristen, after all. She said, “James is not the answer. Jax, I don’t remember. So, I’ll give it to my wonderful friend Ariana [Madix]’s boyfriend Tom Sandoval.” So much for being fun and just answering the question honestly. Then, the fun dissipated even further when a fan asked about Kristen and Carter’s current relationship status. Kristen was visibly upset when she responded. She said, “Honestly, I bleed out for the show. I show every single second of everything. So, for this, I’m just going to have to say we’re figuring it out. Especially if you want to talk about what’s happening today: the show airing and what’s been going on in our relationship for the past year or so. We’re figuring it out. We’ll let you know when we get to that place.” Andy proclaimed, “It doesn’t sound promising.” No, it does not. Click through the photo gallery below to see pictures of Kristen Doute from last night’s Watch What Happens Live episode. TELL US- ARE YOU SURPRISED THAT KRISTEN & CARTER AREN’T IN THE BEST PLACE THESE DAYS? WILL THEIR RELATIONSHIP LAST? [Featured Photo Credit: Charles Sykes/ Bravo]