This just in: Olivia Flowers had a hookup with disgraced former Southern Charm star Thomas Ravenel!
The scandalous dalliance became a major source of contention during the Season 9 Reunion.
Taylor Ann Green didn’t make this up and it isn’t just a rumor. Thomas and (reluctantly) Olivia have confirmed that it happened.
But we’ve heard different versions of the timeline. When did this happen? And what do they both have to say about it?
When Did Olivia & Thomas Hook Up?
Olivia Flowers and Thomas Ravenel hooked up when she was in her 20s. Olivia is currently 31, and Thomas is 61.
This was years before Olivia became part of the Southern Charm cast. It was also during the final months of Thomas’ role on the series.
According to Thomas, this hookup took place in 2017. Notably, Bravo showed him the door in the summer of 2018.
Thomas’ exit from Southern Charm was not because he was boring.
The sexual assault allegations against Thomas led to his arrest and trial. He ended up pleading to a lesser charge and avoiding prison (though Thomas has been to prison before).
Bravo realized that Thomas was a liability for the show. And Thomas claims that he would not return even if Bravo asked (while acknowledging that they would not).
Olivia’s Shame and What Taylor Knew About The Hook Up
During the Southern Charm Season 9 Reunion special, Taylor Ann Green intimated that she knew something that no one else did.
Almost no one, that is. During the previous Reunion, Madison LeCroy had claimed that Olivia had gotten together with Thomas — and Taylor had laughed it off.
Only after the fact, Olivia revealed, did she privately take her (now former) bestie aside to share that the Thomas hookup was an ugly truth.
“She’s the only person I told on earth about that, and here you are sitting now trying to use it against me,” Olivia said at the Reunion, expressing her hurt.
Taylor argued that Olivia had done something that put her in the “same situation” as Taylor’s kiss of Austin Kroll.
“Kathryn is a friend and confidant and you lied about it,” Taylor then accused, referring to Kathryn Dennis.
Big Reveals During Reunion Special
During an intense dispute about Taylor’s “reprehensible” hookup with Austen Kroll, Olivia’s ex, Taylor decided to play a card that she’s been holding onto for a long time.
“Forgive as you would want to be forgiven,” she told Olivia. Her meaning was clear — to Olivia.
While that is a very dramatic thing to say to someone, it did its job. Everyone wanted to hear what she meant.
“Go ahead and say it. I already see what you’re trying to do,” Olivia told her ex-bestie.
No one else, including Andy Cohen, seemed to have any idea what the two blondes were discussing.
“You’ve been hanging this over my head,” she then accused. “I wanna see it. Say it. Say it.”
“The whole Thomas situation,” Taylor then announced.
“I was fresh out of college, 20 years old, dumb drunken night, one time, had a hookup with T-Rav,” Olivia then confessed.
“And I wanted to take to my grave,” she affirmed. “Who wouldn’t?” (Though Thomas is a despicable person, that does not mean that his past hookups share in his misdeeds)
Thomas Ravenel’s Apology
In the Reunion’s aftermath, Thomas Ravenel confirmed the hookup with Olivia Flowers to All About The Tea.
“I was in Atlanta the weekend of January 14, 2017, for my nephew’s wedding,” he detailed. “Olivia was living in Atlanta at the time pursuing her acting career. She was 24 years old, not 20, like she claimed on the Reunion.”
He graciously appraised: “I will say, she conducted herself as a classy lady that night. I would have never acknowledged having sex with her until they brought me up at the Reunion.”
According to Thomas, the he and Olivia visited a series of bars before she invited him to her place. Only Olivia could explain her reasons for doing so.
“After that night, I never called her again. It was a one-time deal,” Thomas confirmed.
“She used me!” All About The Tea reported Thomas as having said. “Olivia was in Atlanta pursuing an acting career and she wanted to get on that show [‘Southern Charm’], that’s why she befriended me.”
“I’d like to make a statement about my interview concerning Olivia Flowers. I was not trying to hurt her,” Thomas later wrote on Twitter.
“I was mostly trying to get the facts straight which proved she didn’t betray her friendship with Kathryn Dennis,” he then claimed.
Naturally, he had to address that he had suggested that the hookup with Olivia was a scheme to join the show.
“I stupidly made what I thought was a self-depreciating remark that ‘MAYBE she used me,'” Thomas admitted.
“I had no idea that would be the story and I sincerely apologize to her,” he expressed.
Thomas wrote: “I have the utmost respect for her as a person and friend. It was a stupid throw away line and I regret it.”