‘RHOBH’ star Rachel Zoe and ex-assistant Brad Goreski reignite feud 15 years after nasty fallout
“Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Rachel Zoe has reignited her feud with her ex-assistant Brad Goreski.
The fashion designer, 54, shaded her former assistants during a chat with Interview magazine published Thursday, as she called her experience with some bad apples “triggering.”
“Triggering. I’ve had the best in the world who are like family, but it also goes the other way,” she said. “It’s the hardest job to fill always.”
The magazine also shared Zoe’s remarks in an Instagram post, which quickly garnered the attention of Goreski who responded in the comments.
“Triggering for the assistants as well – Taylor, Jill, Jordan, Tara, Me,” he wrote.
The Jordan in question, Jordan Johnson Chung, confirmed Goreski’s claims.
“@bradgoreski accurate,” she wrote.
Reps for Zoe did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
The two stylists have had bad blood since Goreski, 48 — who got his start in celebrity styling as one of Zoe’s assistants and appearing on her “Rachel Zoe Project” TV series — parted ways with Zoe to start his own career in 2010.
He was even given his own show, “It’s a Brad Brad World,” in March 2011.
In 2011, a source told Page Six that Zoe and Goreski were at war as Zoe’s celebrity clientele began to jump ship in favor of Goreski’s new venture — one of the stars in question being Demi Moore.
“Rachel is furious. Brad assisted her in styling Demi. Now she feels betrayed,” the insider said at the time.
In a 2011 episode of her reality series, Zoe accused Goreski of going after her clients.
“[Within a week of leaving, he] started [to] pursue our clients, started going to all these events, and doing all the things he said he had no interest in,” she said at the time.
Later that year, Goreski denied Zoe’s allegations against him in an interview with the Daily Beast.
“I think it’s unfortunate that she decided to take the angle that she did because it’s not the truth,” he said. “It’s unfortunate that all of the time that I spent with her, and the many lengthy conversations that we had discussing my departure from working with her, that she would choose to character assassinate me on television.”
“That’s not the truth,” he added of her client stealing claims. “And she knows that’s not the truth. I didn’t even say goodbye to a lot of her clients because I didn’t want anything to be misconstrued as me soliciting anybody.”
The two have remained unfriendly over the years despite Goreski’s various claims that his “door is always open” if Zoe wants to bury the hatchet.
Most recently, Zoe made her stance on the prospect clear when she revealed in January that a major reason she decided to quit styling clients was because she “couldn’t trust assistants.”
“I think after being completely betrayed, for lack of a better term, in various ways, by enough assistants and not being able to trust them with my clients and stuff to represent what I do and how I am with my clients, it just wasn’t worth it anymore,” Zoe told People.
