By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Fans of The Real Housewives of New York were delighted to see their favorite cast members together again Monday night in part 2 of the reunion special, but behind the scenes the action was just as juicy, and Breaking Celebrity News has the exclusive details.

“Filming of the reunion took nine hours! There was heightened security on set this year. Bravo was extremely strict about who could and couldn’t be present for filming. We were allowed only one friend or family member each to come and support us,” Sonja Morgan told Breaking Celebrity News.

“There was buzz that somebody was kicked out of the green room for taking video of the live feed, which is absolutely not allowed. Someone was asked to leave… it wasn’t anyone on my team!”

Breaking Celebrity News has learned that it was a friend of Aviva Drescher who was escorted off the set after getting caught recording some of the TV special.

Sonja had some words of wisdom for Aviva, who she quipped lacked self-confidence. Her wise words even earned praise from reunion host Andy Cohen!

“At one point I turned to her and said, Aviva, you are so hard on yourself and so hard on others. When you wake up every day I wish you would just say ‘I love myself.’ It would really help you. And Andy just told me I should be a life coach!” Sonja said.

Meanwhile, Heather Thomson found herself caught in a web of deceit, even admitting that she wasn’t told by Harry Dubin that he had a fling with Sonja and LuAnn De Lesseps.