What was meant to be a light-hearted shopping outing on The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Rio quickly turned into a bizarre and laugh-out-loud moment when Christall Kay emerged from a curio shop holding a voodoo doll. The unexpected scene left both her cast mates and viewers stunned, instantly cementing itself as one of the season’s most unforgettable highlights.
The brief stop in Rio, intended for the ladies to browse and pick up souvenirs, soon delivered pure reality TV chaos. According to Christall, the moment that later took over social media was never part of any plan. She insists nothing about it was staged or premeditated, admitting that she was just as caught off guard by what happened as the audience watching from home.
Speaking candidly to The Citizen, Christall explained how the moment unfolded naturally in the heat of the situation. “Yeah, can I tell you something? This is ridiculous, but I’m just going to be honest,” she said. “I took my sunglasses and just poked that doll. That was not planned.”
She went on to reveal that production had merely encouraged the ladies to buy small souvenirs while exploring Santa Teresa in Rio. “The production said, ‘Okay, ladies, you can buy a little curio,’” she explained. “Maybe it was because we were having a bad time.”
At the time, tensions were already running high. Christall and Princess were locked in a heated argument, so intense that even the shop owner asked them to lower their voices. It was during this charged moment that Christall noticed something unusual.
“I walked over to the counter, and I saw all these dolls,” she recalled. “I must say, it was a little bit weird.”
Despite the eerie appearance of the dolls, Christall was quick to shut down any assumptions about spiritual intent. “I don’t obviously practice voodoo. I’m not interested in that. I’m a Christian,” she stressed.
Still, the dolls immediately stood out to her. “The first thing that came to mind when I saw those dolls, there were a lot of them, it was like they looked like voodoo dolls. And I actually think they are,” she said, while noting the cultural depth of the area they were visiting. “In that area in Rio… I think it’s known for that culture my I can’t be sure.”
While Christall avoided making broad claims about Brazilian traditions, she couldn’t ignore the reaction from the other housewives once the doll made its appearance. “I certainly realised that for the ladies, they’d obviously known something about witchcraft, because they were so scared when I took that doll out,” she said. “Honestly, it caused such a ruckus. I was surprised.”
For Christall, the doll became an unexpected coping mechanism amid rising emotions. “I was so frustrated that I couldn’t even talk,” she revealed. “If I screamed the house down, it would be real chaos. We end up fighting and slapping each other, that’s what happened. There was no physical fight because that’s not necessary.”
Instead, she chose humour over hostility. “It was really a joke in a sense,” she laughed. “I just thought it was quite a nice trick to get the little doll.”
And just when fans thought the moment was over, Christall delivered one final teaser that has viewers buzzing. “Lisa was my little partner,” she said, before adding the unforgettable line: “Guess what? I’m bringing her to the reunion, don’t worry.”
