Monica Garcia isn't backing down from being the RHOSLC season four villain - even if she did initially delete a post seemingly aimed at her cast mates.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star, who was unmasked as the individual behind an infamous trolling account duringthe season four finale, leaned into her Reality Von Tease alter-ego in a brazen new photo shoot.
“You know you love me! Xoxo, RVT,” shecaptioned a series of now-deleted snaps via her Instagram, showing herself holding up a set of newspaper front pages likening herself to Gossip Girl.
The 40-year-old took a swipe at the cast by holding up a clipping that read: “Warming my hands on the bridges I’ve burned," which went up in flames as she held it.
Monica wore a black shirt with her show’s title emblazoned on it, along with matching bike shorts and white socks.
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She uploaded the set of snaps swiftly after viewers watched her co-star Heather Gay expose her Instagram persona during the cast’s trip toBermuda.
However, Monica has since deleted the carousel post, but a short while later she reposted the snap of her holding the newspaper that read: “Warming my hands on the bridges I’ve burned."
She captioned the pic: "'Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.' XOXO, Monica Niki Garcia."
The moment that provoked the post occurred during the season four finale of the hit Bravo reality show.
OG Housewife Heather, 49, gathered her co-stars Meredith Marks, Lisa Barlow, and Whitney Rose to the beach to drop the bombshell before their final dinner.
“There’s something I need to tell you guys, and it’s big, and it’s not good,” she stated, adding: “You guys, we’ve come a long way, us four. We have, and Monica is not who she says she is. She’s not our friend. She’s someone [who] has schemed and worked to infiltrate our friend group,” Heather continued.
"The name that you all know her as, the woman whose birthday we celebrated, who we’ve been trying to champion and support and defend, is Reality Von Tease,” Heather revealed.
A gobsmacked Meredith, 52, responded, “I’m freaking out. I am so tired of people trying to hurt us. This is so f–ked up.”
In a confessional, Heather explained that the Reality Von Tease account was created over three years ago.
“It quickly expanded to troll all of us. Me, Whitney, Meredith, Lisa. These were character assassinations. They may not have created this content, but they made sure to repost every hateful thing they could find about us,” she said, before noting: “But, we never knew who it was.”
Heather told her co-stars that she learned of Monica's devious ways when her longtime hairstylist — who was also a close friend of Monica — “had a crisis of conscience and came clean” about their mutual pal’s social media activity.
Fans have been left divided on whether Monica is a villain or if she "carried the entire season" but it appears the creative director has no regrets on her previous actions.
