Jo Wenberg Claps Back at Haters and Defends Friendship with Schwartz: "I'm Good"

Jo Wenberg isn't shying away from speaking about her relationship with close friend, sometimes hook-up buddy, and one-time roommate,ema href="https://www.bravotv.com/vanderpump-rules" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Vanderpump Rules/a'/ema href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/tom-schwartz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Tom Schwartz/a./p pSchwartz introduced Jo, his "good dear friend" to a href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/james-kennedy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"James Kennedy/a and his girlfriend, a href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/ally-lewber" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Ally Lewber/a, duringemVPR/emSeason 11 Episode 7. The foursome sat down with one another during a night out at SUR where they exchanged introductions. "She's a badass hair stylist, she's from Wisconsin, and that's about it," Tom told Ally./p pHowever, some people, like Tom's ex-wife, a href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/katie-maloney" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Katie Maloney/a, were not as excited about Jo's introduction to the group. In thea href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/vanderpump-rules-midseason-trailer-ariana-tom-face-off" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emVanderpump Rules/emSeason 11midseason trailer/a, Katie called Jo a "f—ing liar."But Jo hasn't been phased by this, recently taking to a href="https://www.instagram.com/jomygosh/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"her Instagram account/a to defend herself./p pstrongDon’t miss out on the latest Bravo news:/strong/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jo-wenberg-tom-schwartz-relationship-post" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongJo Wenberg Opens Up About Her "Love" for Tom Schwartz: "Maybe I'm Not the Girl For Him"/strong/a/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/see-vanderpump-rules-season-11-reunion-seating-chart-photo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongWe Have Your First Look at theemVanderpump Rules/emSeason 11 Seating Chart [PIC]/strong/a/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-brittany-cartwright-zoo-day-with-son-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongJax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright Reunite for a Family Outing Amid Their Split/strong/a/p h2Jo Wenberg defends her friendship with Tom Schwartz/h2 div alt="Jo Wenberg wearing a white top and a hat." caption="Jo Wenberg posts a video of herself to her Instagram Story." data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="2926e37a-edb5-4dbc-85a4-ae9952d04cb8" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:355px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_600/public/2024/03/vanderpump-rules-jo-wenberg_0.jpg?itok=nEYNv2n-" width="355" height="600" alt="Jo Wenberg wearing a white top and a hat." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" pJo Wenberg posts a video of herself to her Instagram Story./p /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Joe Wenberg/Instagram /span /div /div /div /div pICYMI, Jo took to her Instagram Story over the weekend where she provided some more insight into a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jo-wenberg-tom-schwartz-relationship-post" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jo-wenberg-tom-schwartz-relationship-post" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jo-wenberg-tom-schwartz-relationship-post" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"what it's been like to be open about her friendship with Tom/a./p p"OK, so I'm so happy that you guys have been very receptive to a woman posting about a male friendship — [with] Tom Schwartz," she said in the video. "We were there for each other in moments that I can't even explain. And I'm going to be honest, it's so nice that there's actually a place, like Instagram, to be able to post about somebody that influenced your life in a positive way."/p pThe hairstylist then sent a message to the people who have been supportiveemand/emto the people who have been critical of her. "And the people that have been, like, 'Yes! It's OK to be friends with a guy.'...You know, I really appreciate you," she added. "The hate, I don't. But at the end of the day, I'm good."/p pAs Tom said duringemVPR/emSeason 11 Episode 7: "Jo is not everyone's cup of tea, but she's a great....cup of tea."/p h2Jo Wenberg to appear on theemVanderpump Rules/emSeason 11 reunion/h2 div caption="Jo Wenberg posts an image of herself and Tom Schwartz to her instagram account on August 19th, 2023." data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="f9e9293a-7e98-4008-8644-4daf616c140d" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2023/12/vanderpump-rules-tom-schwartz-jo-wenberg.jpg?itok=xqD0jvI3" width="862" height="575" alt="Tom Schwartz and Jo Wenberg smiling together." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" pJo Wenberg posts an image of herself and Tom Schwartz to her instagram account on August 19th, 2023./p /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Jo Wenberg/Instagram /span /div /div /div /div div data-embed-button="related_content" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:node.embed" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="a8d079dc-c695-46ee-acfd-c5a5e29dad79" data-langcode="en" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" class="embedded-entity"h2 class="headline" a class="embed-in-feed" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jo-wenberg-tom-schwartz-relationship-post" Jo Wenberg Opens Up About Her "Love" for Tom Schwartz: "Maybe I’m Not the Girl for Him" /a /h2 /div pJo will be able to give more context to her friendship with Tom at the upcominga href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/see-vanderpump-rules-season-11-reunion-seating-chart-photo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emVanderpump Rules/emSeason 11 reunion/a, where sheemwill/ema href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/vanderpump-rules-season-11-reunion-jo-wenberg-cameo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"be making an appearance/a. There might be just a few things for her to clear up after her appearance in Episode 7, where neither her or Tom were on the same page about their relationship./p p"I think we really did catch feelings for each other," Jo explained in a confessional during the episode. "And I'm pretty sure they're still there."/p p"Now it's more platonic, Tom explained in his confessional. "We, like, re-established boundaries and we just hang out. We kick it and um, we're friends. I hope she's not mad at me for this."/p pWatchemVanderpump Rules/emon Bravo Tuesdays at 8/7c. Stream episodes the next day on a href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/assets/tv/vanderpump-rules/5000410116446480112?orig_ref=direct" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Peacock/a./p