The on-again, off-again boyfriend of Real Housewives of Orange County star Vicki Gunvalson has been caught on a secret audio recording calling her a "f*cking [expletive]" and threatening to "beat her [expletive]."

In a series of tapes obtained exclusively by Breaking Celebrity News, a drunk Brooks Ayers can be heard justifying his threat of violence toward the Bravo star "because I can (and) that's what we do in the South."

He is heard slurring his words and using profane insults about the woman he's dated since 2011, during an explosive exchange with a second man, believed to be Ryan Culberson, Gunvalson's son-in-law.

Listen! 'RHOP' star Wendy Osefo breaks down the “most intense fight in the show's history” in under 2 minutes.

At one point, Ayers, 46, even glorifies violence against women, telling Culberson he too should beat the opposite sex. When he's rebuffed by Culberson, a Staff Sergeant in the Marines, Ayers tells him: "Well you probably should do."

Today, Breaking Celebrity News is publishing two recordings of Ayers, which a source s