The examiner quietly claimed one of the RHOC cast members was "full of s--t," after her lie-detector test.\
Emily Simpson's Persian New Year party on The Real Housewives of Orange County included some unexpected guests: a pair of polygraph examiners.
After pulling a bait-and-switch by asking her castmates — Shannon Storms Beador, Heather Dubrow, Katie Ginella, Tamra Judge, Gina Kirschenheiter, Jennifer Pedranti, and friend Gretchen Rossi — to anonymously write down two to three "burning questions" for each other as part of an unspecified "activity" she had planned on Season 19, Episode 8, Emily eventually revealed that they were actually all going to take lie-detector tests.
In two separate dark rooms, an examiner hooked up each woman to equipment that measured their physical reactions, including everything from blood pressure and breathing to fingertip moisture, as they answered a series of yes/no questions.
It appeared that no one struggled more with the uncomfortable process than an anxiety-ridden Katie, and at the end of her polygraph test, the examiner quietly made a shocking declaration to herself: "She's so full of s–t."
Afterward, the same woman announced the results of all the tests, telling Katie that not only did she "fail," but she also "did the worst out of everybody." As she further pointed out, "Those questions for you about Gretchen, you failed those very badly."
Even so, Katie insisted that she "told the truth" and "didn't lie" about the drama involving Gretchen and Tamra or allegations she played a recording of Shannon for Alexis Bellino, among other topics she was asked to address. Her castmates weren't buying her story, though, and Emily told Katie to leave her home immediately.
Katie Ginella hooked up to a lie detector machine during The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 19 Episode 8.
Katie Ginella defends her polygraph test results
Both during the Aug. 28 episode and on The Real Housewives of Orange County After Show, Katie continued to maintain that her polygraph answers were truthful. Meanwhile, she also attempted to make sense of why she failed every single question on the test.
"I was anxious, not only to be in this group of women, but then sit in Emily's closet and do a random non-certified polygraphy test," Katie explained in the above After Show clip. "Not in a controlled environment; in her closet."
Also not helping matters was the fact she didn't realize until she was already on her way to Emily's party that she hadn't taken her "anti-anxiety medicine." Still, Katie thought she would be "fine" without it, but her assumption turned out to be wrong.
"The anxiety made me get sick. I was, like, puking when I got there," Katie described. "I'm getting glares from Shannon. She's, like, daggering me, and I was like, 'This is too much.' I just started to get sick. ... It was just too much anxiety."
As Katie concluded, "I had nothing to gain from lying... I didn't do anything. Why would I self-implode like that? There's literally no reason."
