“Oh God, I’m lit,” Huger said in police body camera footage as officers led her into the police station.
POTOMAC, Md. — Reality TV star Karen Huger was found guilty Thursday on four DUI charges, with sentencing scheduled in January. The personality from “The Real Housewives of Potomac” faces up to two years in prison.
Huger has been a mainstay on the Bravo series, one of eight active Real Housewives franchises, profiling the daily life and social drama of affluent women across the country. Known by fans as the Grand Dame of Potomac, 61-year-old Huger is one of only three cast members on the Montgomery County-set show who has been on each season of the show since its premiere in 2016.
But Huger’s longevity on the series could be in jeopardy, as the reality star faces two years in prison after her DUI conviction. Huger’s sentencing has been scheduled for Jan. 29.
On March 20, Huger apparently crashed her Maserati into a median and then swerved off the road, according to the Montgomery County Police Department. The crash happened at the intersection of Oaklyn Drive and Beeman Woods Way in Potomac. The reality star’s luxury car was the only car involved in the crash.
Montgomery County Police released more than an hour of body camera footage from that night, beginning with police approaching Huger and a man who appeared to be inside the car with her, after the Potomac crash and ending in a questioning room at the police station in Bethesda at around 1 a.m.
“Oh God, I’m lit,” Huger said in police body camera footage as an MCPD officer led her into the police station.
“Yes, you are lit,” the MCPD officer said. “That’s why you’re here.”
Montgomery County Police also released pictures of a Stella Artois beer bottle lying on the floor of Huger’s car.
“Can you let me go?” Huger asked police during an interview after the crash. Then, when officers tried to give her an alcohol test, Huger refused.
“Can you let me go?,” Karen Huger asks MCPD officers during an interview after the crash in March.
The TV star faced five criminal charges and was found guilty on four of them; DUI, negligent driving, failure to control speed and avoid a collision, and failure to notify of address change. Huger was also found not guilty by a jury on one count of reckless driving.
Huger’s DUI arrest became a topic of conversation for the cast of the Real Housewives of Potomac during the show’s ninth season, which premiered in October.
The season premiere featured a reenactment of the March crash. Unable to drive, the episode featured other cast members driving Huger around – “I’m driving Miss Karen,” Huger’s co-star Gizelle Bryant joked in the premiere.
“The injuries are not life-threatening, thank God,” Huger said during a confessional, which had been filmed in the spring. “It’s my ribs and my ankle, that’s it. I know the value of life now more than ever.”
While other cast members made her arrest a confessional topic, Huger has been limited in what she could talk about on air.
Karen Huger’s car the night of her March arrest in Potomac.
“I have to respect the law,” Huger told Bravo’s Andy Cohen, who produces the show, in October. “But when I can speak about it, I plan to be open and transparent, as I always have been.”