15 Frank Facts About RHONY’s Bethenny Frankel

7. She has some serious daddy issues

Bethenny’s biological father was Hall of Fame horse trainer, Bobby Frankel, who left the family when she was four. Bethenny had no relationship with him until two years before his death from cancer. She was also estranged from her stepfather, John Parisella, who raised her for 23 years, and she characterizes their relationship as “toxic.” She ultimately reconnected with him. “I wanted him to know that, you know, some f***ed up stuff happened, he was a hustler, there was some stuff he did to my mother that was not great but before that, he raised me as his own. I wanted to validate that, have it acknowledged, you know ‘you were the only father I ever had in my life.’ And it was really nice.”