RHOP Season 10 centers on Karen Huger's jail release

Season 10 of The Real Housewives of Potomac opens with footage of castmate Karen Huger being released from jail, the Bravo reality series revealed as the new season premieres Sunday, Oct. 5 at 8 p.m. Eastern. Cameras captured Huger leaving the Montgomery County Detention Center in Maryland on the morning of Sept. 2, after she had spent six months behind bars following a DUI and DWI conviction linked to a March 2024 car crash in Potomac.

Huger was sentenced to two years in jail with one year suspended, which officials said left her facing one year behind bars; she served six months before her Sept. 2 release. Montgomery County police said her 2017 Maserati was driven in an aggressive manner when it struck a crosswalk sign and a parking sign and later hit a divider and a tree. Huger has described the crash as occurring amid intense grief following the death of her mother, saying that she had been crying while driving and swerved to avoid an oncoming car. In the premiere footage her voice is heard asking for tissues and telling herself, "It will be fine," though her face is not shown.

The event and its aftermath are a central thread of the season, with cast members shown reacting...