Karen Huger “didn’t recognize” herself in the shocking bodycam footage from her DUI arrest last March.
During the final “Real Housewives of Potomac” reunion episode Sunday night, host Andy Cohen introduced a new clip showing Karen and her husband, Raymond Huger, talking about the incident from Dec. 27, 2024 –– after she was found guilty of DUI.
Karen revealed that prior to her trial, she refused to watch the police footage from the arrest, which showed her inebriated, mumbling nonsense phrases and struggling to walk.
“I’m sitting there in the courtroom, like, I have to finally watch it, because I kept saying, ‘Well, surely they made a mistake, right, because everything’s not connecting for me,’” she began telling Ray.
“And I watched, and I’m telling you, I didn’t recognize that woman,” she continued. “I didn’t know her.”
Karen, 61, further claimed that she “blacked out” before drunkenly crashing her Maserati on the side of a street, so seeing the tapes “helped” her finally piece together what happened.
“It’s my fault,” she confessed, while later adding, “What happened to me was self-inflicted. I drove. I had that accident. I put people in danger.”
The former Bravolebrity reflected on the night of her DUI in March 2024 and admitted that she was “self-medicating” with antidepressants after recently upping the dosage.
“Instead of going back to the doctor, I adjusted my medication. I self-medicated that night,” she recalled. “What I do remember is going to a friend’s house … I started drinking champagne, but I had forgotten that I had taken the medication, and not only just taken it, I had upped the dose.”
Ray also reminded Karen that the DUI arrest was not her first run-in with the law, as she’s had four driving violations since 2006.
“I guess you feel especially bad about it now that you’ve been there, done that, had the lesson and you’re sort of back there again somehow,” he told her.
Karen explained that she was checking herself into a rehabilitation program to prevent herself from behaving like that again.
She subsequently sought treatment at a wellness facility but stayed for less than a month before she had to return to face her sentencing.
Karen was sentenced to a two-year prison term, with one year being suspended last week.
“I understand better the brutal clarity of the fact that when you’re behind a car driving you’re not just driving for yourself,” Huger emotionally told the judge at the sentencing. “It’s my responsibility to make sure that my community members make it where they need to be safely.”
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