‘RHOSLC’ Star Lisa Barlow on Whitney Rose Drama, Mending Her Relationship With Meredith Marks and Whether She’s This Season’s Villain: ‘I Don’t Care if Anyone Likes Me’

variety.com:

Ellise Shafer Lisa Barlow has been up since 3 a.m. — but you’d never know. Sitting in a room at London’s Langham Hotel, “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star is glammed up and rocking an all-black look, complete with knee-high leather boots.

The reason for her early morning, she tells Variety, was the fallout from the intense sixth episode of her show’s fifth season. “I fell asleep, and then my phone kept ringing,” she recounts in her signature rasp. “I didn’t want to turn my volume off because I need my alarm to go off, and so I got up.

I watched the full episode, and I was shocked.” Appropriately titled “Mafia Wives and Bad Vibes,” tension that had been brewing between Barlow and Whitney Rose reached a fever pitch when Barlow dramatically called her private security after she was accused of starting a rumor that Rose’s new jewelry business has been reselling products from Alibaba. “Hey Shawn, I need an investigation opened,” Barlow said in a line that immediately entered the “Housewives” hall of fame. “I’m being accused of something I did not do.

I’m going to send you information, and I want to go the distance on it. The distance.” Barlow’s and Rose’s husbands started to get involved, and the episode ended with the franchise’s famed “To Be Continued” banner, dashing the beliefs of some fans that Season 5 would flop compared to last season’s Monica Garcia/Reality von Tease storyline.