“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” season 6 featured some emotional and difficult conversations between Bronwyn Newport and her mom, who goes by Muzzy, especially after she moved into the home her daughter shares with her husband, Todd Bradley. Bronwyn opened up about where she stands with Muzzy today after filming the most recent season.
Bronwyn Moves Her Parents in Following Health Concerns
The “RHOSLC” star took to her Instagram Story on Sunday, April 20, where she admitted that it had been a very “emotional day” for her spent at her parents’ house amid their health issues.
In December, Bronwyn explained that Muzzy was previously treated for a tumor “in an almost identical location” in the back of her skull, nearly 30 years prior and has been in good health since, but has been “struggling” over the past month. Her mom was “getting more exhausted and frail” as she cared for her father, who has Alzheimer’s and in November, fell and broke his pelvis, according to PEOPLE.
“After a few falls herself and a few doctors visits that weren’t productive, something clicked in my brain,” Bronwyn had said, recalling that Muzzy “had similar dizziness, confused and exhausted symptoms” when she was first diagnosed.
Because of their health issues, Bronwyn has “been slowly transitioning [them] to be living with me (and maybe one day out on her own, but close to me) after health challenges, and we needed to come out again, probably for the last time, and clean out the last few rooms,” she continued to explain in her Instagram story from April 20.
Muzzy Decides to Move on
After Bronwyn’s 19-year-old daughter, Gwen, revealed that she wanted to move out of their house during season 6, episode 11, Bronwyn told her mom that she would have to stay with her “forever,” but Muzzy revealed that she would soon be trying to find her own home soon, too.
“I’m not ready to peace out on you guys, because I need some time, but I need to have my own space,” Muzzy said, prompting Bronwyn to joke that she can “get rid of” Todd if he did something to upset her.
“Honestly, I know you’re laughing, but it’s really uncool that the two of you have planned this at the same time and to… desert me,” Bronwyn continued.
Gwen responded, “no one said that they hate you,” and Muzzy added, “I don’t want to leave either.”
“I have really put so much into showing up for my mom when she was sick, showing up for her when she needed help with my dad. And I feel like we’ve just gotten to a good place and kind of settled into a routine, and we can be giggly. We’re having these nice moments. I just kind of feel like the progress that we’ve just made is, like, slipping through my fingers if she moves out,” Bronwyn concluded during a confessional.
Bronwyn & Muzzy’s Relationship Today
Bronwyn opened up during a recent visit to Bravo HQ about where she stands with Muzzy now.
“My mom and I are great,” Bronwyn shared, although she admitted living with her mother is still “tricky… It’s a lot of together time.”
Bronwyn and her mother are “very similar and very different in like all the wrong ways,” she admitted.
“I’m somebody who puts everything on camera. Good. Bad. Mundane. And so, there’s been some really tough conversations with my mom that my husband, and probably other people watching, would be like, ‘I wouldn’t put that on camera.'”
GettyBeing on camera “really forced” Bronwyn and her mom “to have those conversations, and to know that people were going to see them one day, and where did we want to go from there,” she said. “I don’t think we’re ever going to like, go back in time, obviously, and fix some of the harder things we’ve had in our past. But my mom told me on camera she was proud of me, which was a big deal for me.”
She continued, “I think we both really needed to meet that moment, and you see that happen, which was important to me. And I’m glad I have it on camera.”
