It looks like the Real Housewives of Orange County drama is heating up this season and involving the kids as well. Controversial star Heather Dubrow is being accussed of apparently "faking" an illness about her kids in order to escape being in the hot seat in a dispute with fellow co-star Tamra Barney.

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According to her husband, Dr. Terry Dubrow, Heather did not fake the phone call or her child's illness when the two abruptly left a dinner party with the rest of the cast.

"Really. If you rewind the tape you see the phone lights up - look at it," Terry tells Rumor Fix. "If we were going to tell a white lie, it would not be about our kids being ill. It's bad karma. And if you know us - you know that if we wanted to go, we would go!"

Heather's co-star Vicki Gunlavson, though, insists that the phone never rang and that the couple made up the excuse of their child being sick in order to go home that night. Terry remains adamant that it wasn't the case.

"Vicki you're wrong again," he adds, "I swear on the lives of my kids it's true!"

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The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 9 airs every Monday at 9 p.m. EST/PST on the Bravo Network.