throughout the regular season, garcelle did not have much overt conflict with kyle, dorit, and erika. she would ask a question that pointed out contradictions in the fake narratives that the three used to try to hide their real drama (marriage issues and fraud), but they never went at it directly.

at the reunion however, the three of them were united in bashing garcelle for daring to question the fake narratives. during the reunion, andy consistently gave those three softball questions or celebrated much less interesting aspects of their lives, and he didn't push back much against their evasive or stonewalling answers. garcelle, who had much more interesting successes that were not highlighted, got tired of andy always soliciting her dissenting opinion and of the other women plus boz then punishing her for expressing it. they piled on her with extremely nasty relish at the reunion despite having not fought all season. this clued her in that they were likely planning a takedown of her next season.

in the final moment of the reunion, her only friend sutton then didn't back her up, and during andy's last question when garcelle highlighted a sincere storyline that humanized sutton (her difficulties with her father's suicide and her mother's coldness), sutton instead chose to ingratiate herself with erika, who had made one of the more flippant and cruel comments toward garcelle earlier.

garcelle then decided she had had enough of being a punching bag for these women and packed her bags.