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Bethenny Frankel is drone-ing on.
The former “Real Housewives of New York” star, 54, says she’s “freaked out” by the spate of mysterious drones spotted flying over the Northeast in recent weeks.
In recent days, the Skinnygirl mogul has delved deeper into theories surrounding the drones and even went hunting for one of the flying crafts on Wednesday night.
She shared a TikTok clip that showed her spotting an alleged drone hovering over her chauffeur-driven car in Rye, New York.
On Friday night, Frankel said the unexplained phenomenon was causing her serious anxiety.
“If you’re asking me if I have anxiety, am unsettled over and freaked out by the drones and the orbs slash plasmoids, a resounding yes,” Frankel said in a TikTok video. “Covid was something that was discussed in detail here and people were on the lag. This is a place for information and it scares other places. In fact I told my therapist today that it feels like we’re in a propaganda state. It’s insane.”
Reflecting on her reaction to her drone sighting, she added: “I was lying on my kitchen floor because I got dizzy and lightheaded and I am a fainter and I was dehydrated and I get in my own brain and I can’t stop. So I have to try and live a life normally or I am going end up being Carrie in ‘Homeland.’”
Thousands of drone sightings have been reported since mid-November, leading local and state politicians along with President-elect Trump to call for them to be shot down.
On Monday, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security announced they have begun an investigation into the sightings to discover whether they present an imminent threat to public safety.
Frankel took to TikTok that same day, recounting the conversation she had with her connected friend, saying it left her feeling that “something is wrong.”
“You’re gonna think I’m nuts, but why should today be different than any other day?’” the Skinnygirl founder started.
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“I know this guy whose father worked with the Pentagon and NASA and, like, secret projects,” she continued.
“He has been messaging me that he will never forgive himself if he doesn’t tell the people that he knows that for a month, he’s been watching this situation, and now, several days ago, before it became a discussion in the mainstream media, that these drones are ours and that they could very possibly be sniffing out something very dangerous.”
Frankel’s source hinted that the alleged very dangerous something could be “some missing, dangerous ‘W’ from the war,” seemingly alluding to weapons of some sort.
The podcast host also said the friend suggested that “areas that coincide with where the drones have been seen have spiked in radiation.”
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“So he said it’s time to think about where I am and that I might want to go somewhere with my daughter,” she added.
Addressing the plausibility of the unnamed person’s assertions, Frankel once more referenced the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We blow things off and we think nothing’s going to happen, but things do happen. I remember sitting in my car with my driver who said to me months before I even knew what the words ‘global pandemic’ meant, ‘I think there’s going to be a global pandemic.’ I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’” she recalled.
“If he had bet the markets, he would have been a billionaire.“
Touching on Donald Trump’s own press conference in Mar-a-Lago on Monday, in which he alleged that the “government knows what is happening” and is hiding information from the public, Frankel said she agrees.
“I’m just listening to this guy [I know] and watching, and now Trump, who is hanging out with a lot of billionaires who have a lot of money for research, is also finding out that these are ours,” she claimed.
“And what were the government’s choices? A: Tell us that that’s what they’re doing and widespread panic and pandemonium; or B: do what they’re doing.”
Frankel insisted, “Something is wrong because otherwise they would eliminate them. And everyone’s being very cagey.”
The “RHONY” alum concluded her video by saying that her contact “has also been talking to different people in government positions who agree and are watching now.“