'The Real Housewives of Orange County' season 11 news: Reunion will be 'brutal,' Heather Dubrow says

Given how the previous episodes of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" ("RHOC") season 11 have played out, it's almost a given that the upcoming reunion will go down in "RHOC" history as one of the most emotionally fraught yet.

In a recent interview with E! News, "Real Housewives of Orange County" cast member Heather Dubrow teased that this year's reunion will be "brutal" and said that it will be interesting to see who will try and redeem themselves and who will be out to create more chaos and drama.

"I think what's interesting about this reunion is it's interesting to see who can apologize and own their stuff and make amends, and who thinks that they're empirically right and feel that they don't owe anyone anything," Dubrow said at the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation annual "A Time For Heroes" family festival last month.

According to the "RHOC" star, the season 11 reunion special will be a venue for mending fences or widening chasms between people. "...[T]he reunion is such a great chance to apologize, make amends, move forward, figure out who the right relationships are for you," she said.

"But then there are people that want to come to the reunion and hurt people. And that definitely happened this year," sje added.

Could Dubrow have been talking about "Real Housewives of Orange County" cast member Vicki Gunvalson, who seems to have succeeded in alienating herself from the other housewives over the course of season 11?

As viewers recall, Gunvalson ended the current season all but an "RHOC" pariah. Though she spent much of the past year trying to get back into the good graces of her former friends Tamra Judge, Dubrow, Shannon Beador, and even Meghan King Edmonds, the longtime "RHOC" star ended up worse off than when she started.

In the latest episode of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" season 11, Gunvalson attempted to offer an apology to Judge but wound up spreading a nasty rumor instead. During their final conversation, Gunvalson told Judge that she worries that Beador is a domestic abuse victim.

This only infuriated Judge, who said that the rumor is "bulls—t." She then called Gunvalson a "b—tch."

The three-part reunion special of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" season 11 airs over three consecutive Mondays, beginning Nov. 7, at 10 p.m. EDT on Bravo.