Candiace Dillard Bassett spoke to Karen Huger before going to jail (exclusively)

Candiace Dillard Bassett says she believes that her friend Karen Huger comes out of prison a stronger woman.

In an exclusive interview with People at the 11th annual Better Brothers Los Angeles Truth Awards On Saturday, March 15, Real Housewives of Potomac alum38, revealed that she had been in contact with Huger, 61, before her February 26 judgment for her DUI arrest last year.

Dillard Bassett, who left Clean After season 8 spoke with her former Costar some “a few times before she passed away.”

“I’m obviously destructed for her and her family,” she said.

“We all know that drinking and driving is not right,” Dillard Bassett continued. “We all have the opportunity to make choices, and it is on all of us to make the right choice, whether it is to call an Uber, sleep on a sofa, go, whatever it is.

She added: “So Karen will obviously have time to think about what she has done, but I am excited for her to serve her time and come out stronger, which I know she will.”

Hug was sentenced to two years in prison for her March 2024 DUI ArrestWith a year suspended, which means she will spend a year behind bars and five years test. She was given 30 days to appeal the judge’s decision and 90 days to ask the judge to reconsider his order.

Dillard Bassett participated in the BBLA Truth Awards and celebrated Black LGBTQ+ community and its allies, along with colleague Bravo star Cynthia BaileyPlus Tamar BraxtonThe Colman Domingo and Lee DanielsAmong other celebrities.

Dillard Bassett also talked to people about motherhood. Singer “Drive Back” welcomed his first baby, son Jett Maxwell Lee, with Make Chris Bassett in October 2024.

“I think having a son, having a child definitely changes how you approach you conflict,” she said, “because you always think about if I would show up, if I would get into it with this person or that person, and something happens to me, I leave my child without a parent. So you think about it.”

The real housewives in Potomac Season 10 is According to the present filming Without hug.