Real Housewives of Sydney stars reveal why the Tokyo trip was so ‘hard’

Real Housewives of Sydney stars Victoria, Sally and Caroline sat down with Yahoo Australia to debrief the Tokyo trip.

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VICTORIA MONTANO: No, I didn't.

SALLY OBERMEDER: Aw.

VICTORIA MONTANO: No.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: You dodged a bullet.

VICTORIA MONTANO: They said this season that they wanted to cast, you know, real Eastern suburbs housewives. And we go to Europe in July, babe, so there was no time for Tokyo.

[LAUGHTER]

- Did you have FOMO?

VICTORIA MONTANO: No, I did not.

SALLY OBERMEDER: She had JOMO.

VICTORIA MONTANO: I-- [LAUGHS] I had JOMO.

SALLY OBERMEDER: Yeah.

VICTORIA MONTANO: But I mean, honestly--

CAROLINE GAULTIER: I don't think you would have coped.

VICTORIA MONTANO: I wouldn't have coped.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: No.

VICTORIA MONTANO: And I think you know that I'm a bit too soft.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: Yeah. You wouldn't have coped.

VICTORIA MONTANO: I don't-- I'm not as strong as the other girls.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: I think you are, just--

VICTORIA MONTANO: Different though. I just-- I wouldn't--

CAROLINE GAULTIER: You're not vocal. The fact that you kept it together the way that you kept it together, that you never actually, literally snapped.

VICTORIA MONTANO: Yeah.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: If I was in your position, whether I agree with it or not--

VICTORIA MONTANO: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: --but just the-- the situation, there's no way I would have been able to keep calm. I would have gone into full wolf mode.

VICTORIA MONTANO: I mean, obviously, it was hard.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: Yeah, I can imagine. The fact that you kept your composure, like, I would have jumped across the table at that stage. And I would have-- I don't know what.

VICTORIA MONTANO: So I wasn't in Tokyo. But these ladies--

SALLY OBERMEDER: We were.

[LAUGHTER]

CAROLINE GAULTIER: Oh, yeah, I did-- by the end of it, I did lose-- I did snap.

- In the [INAUDIBLE].

CAROLINE GAULTIER: Yeah. 100%.

VICTORIA MONTANO: Obviously, I wasn't there. All I see is the sizzle of you giving the bird.

SALLY OBERMEDER: Oh, when was that? Was that at the dinner?

CAROLINE GAULTIER: At the dinner.

SALLY OBERMEDER: Oh, yeah.

VICTORIA MONTANO: The bird.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: See, I don't remember much of that, you know.

[LAUGHTER]

SALLY OBERMEDER: She's like, I blacked out.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: Yeah.

SALLY OBERMEDER: It was a lot.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: It was more than a lot.

SALLY OBERMEDER: It was not the only part of Tokyo. There was a lot of Tokyo. There was a lot of funny in Tokyo.

Hello, the big, red, rooster outfit at [INAUDIBLE] ceremonies. Like, there's a lot of funny in Tokyo. There's a lot of--

CAROLINE GAULTIER: It's just that it was humid.

SALLY OBERMEDER: It was-- you know what it is? It's like you get-- because Vic was away, so there were six of us, right? So there were six people together.

You're away from home. You're together all the time. You're in a different country.

And you don't have the-- you don't have your safety net and the stuff that keeps you anchored. So that disconnects you, I think, a little bit. And then different people react to that differently. And then let's see what happens.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: I don't think that should be an issue. It was only seven days, you know? It's like, oh, I'm away from my fam-- god for-- god damn it. It's only seven days. Like--

SALLY OBERMEDER: Yeah, but I think it affects different people differently.

VICTORIA MONTANO: Yeah.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: It was the altitude.

[LAUGHTER]

I think it was.

VICTORIA MONTANO: No, see, I'm-- I'm the opposite of that. It affects me greatly.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: It does, traveling?

SALLY OBERMEDER: The altitude?

VICTORIA MONTANO: No. Not being with my kids.

SALLY OBERMEDER: That's--

VICTORIA MONTANO: Just not being near my children. I don't--

SALLY OBERMEDER: I think it affects-- I think-- this is the thing I think in Tokyo. I know you disagree, but I think when people don't have their thing-- and it's different. For some people it's their kids, for some people it's exercising, for some people it's just going home to their place, like, your home.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: Yeah, yeah.

SALLY OBERMEDER: --where you can come back, center yourself--

CAROLINE GAULTIER: Yeah.

SALLY OBERMEDER: --and then go back out.

VICTORIA MONTANO: Recharge.

SALLY OBERMEDER: Yeah. Some people need to drink. Some people need to-- like, whatever that thing may be, and everybody's different. This is not just centered around this group. I think that's just in life, right?

CAROLINE GAULTIER: But that's is traveling. Like--

SALLY OBERMEDER: Yeah, that's traveling. Which is why traveling brings out the best and the worst of people. Which is why work trips bring out the best and the worst of people.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: Right.

SALLY OBERMEDER: Which is why things like this-- because I think you've taken people-- I think it's quite hard for people. This is my opinion, what I think. It's quite hard for people, I think, to only be reliant on themself and to only be able to look inward for all of their strength and comfort. We all lean outwards-- people we love, friends, family.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: Oh, that's interesting.

SALLY OBERMEDER: --habits, whatever those things are that hold us. And so then when you strip them all away and you go somewhere new, if you are not able to just only tap into you, you will fall apart. You bring that together.

CAROLINE GAULTIER: Well, I just learned something about myself.