This weekend Bethenny Frankel and husband Jason Hoppy were lost at sea for 20 hours between Nantucket and Block Island.
Bravo’s favorite reality-show queen was with Hoppy and the Bravo film crew on Saturday filming scenes for the upcoming season of “Bethenny Ever After” when their sailboat went off course and the GPS began to malfunction. Luckily, their daughter Bryn was not aboard the boat during their unsettling experience.
“It was so scary,” Frankel said. “I was thinking, ‘Oh, my God, Bryn! I’m not going to be there at six o’clock in the morning when she wakes up and she’s going to wonder where Mommy is and gosh, if something were to happen to me, what would happen to her.’ I was having horrendous thoughts.”
Eventually the captain called the Coast Guard, which Frankel says is not an everyday occurrence. “We were in the middle of the deep sea with no land or anybody near us,” she said. “The captain had never, in 30 years, called the Coast Guard.”