Bethenny Frankel taking hurricane relief into her own hands
Bethenny Frankel is in Puerto Rico on her own personal hurricane-relief mission and is shocked by the response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria, calling the place “a forgotten island.”
Frankel told Page Six, “The relief needs to be organized, delegated and executed.”
She rounded up four private planes and arrived on the island with supplies including insulin, water, diapers and thousands of pounds of food supplied by Feeding America and City Harvest.
The “Real Housewives” star said that she believes she was the first celebrity to arrive, even beating her former “Apprentice” “boss” President Trump.
She told us, “It is a war zone. I do not play the blame game, but the [78] towns of Puerto Rico need to be methodically mapped out and visited, and the relief needs to be organized, delegated and executed.”
She added, “We arrived in the first town before their own mayor. We pulled onto a street with a truck of basic necessities, and you would have thought I was giving out diamonds.”
Frankel says she has also been evacuating ill Puerto Ricans to allow them to get treatment in the US, which other celebs including Pitbull and Mark Cuban have done as well.
Frankel tells us she has also been helped by Guardians of Rescue, Omar Rosario, Nicole Castrillo, Saira Rivas, Margie Arbizo, Michael Capponi and YieldStreet, among others.
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