Dorinda Medley admits she "wasn't given" the "option" to return to Real Housewives of New York

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"I was ready to go back, I was excited to go back, I was planning to back, and I thought I would have a great year. I wasn't given that option," Medley said on Bethenny Frankel's podcast Just B, according to People. "They're calling it a pause, which I don't really ... for me, I'm an old-fashioned girl. If you're not waitressing and getting paid, you're not waitressing...At the end of the day, it was a mutual 'no,'" she continued. "This is pretty much the first time I've spoken as honestly outside of you and I talking that I've done."