Meet Lydia McLaughin’s flower fairy mom Judy

Lydia McLaughin‘s mom Judy definitely stole the show on tonight’s Real Housewives of Orange County In the first scene she showed up to shop at a boutique and immediately whipped out some glitter (a.k.a. fairy dust) to enchant everyone. When asked if she was Tinkerbell, Judy clarified “I’m not Tinkerbell, I’m a flower fairy.”

It turns out Judy is newly sober after smoking pot all her life. Judy’s decision to quit is to make sure she appeases Lydia, who resents her marijuana use, and so she can see more of two grandsons.

“Growing up my mom was a hippie, and did acid, and thought she was a tree,” Lydia says. “And she smoked pot my whole life, so I had a very interesting childhood. I’m not saying it’s right, but as a teenager my mom would always be stoned, and so I would ask her to take me shopping and I just knew that she’sd always spend more than the normally would because she’d be under the influence, but I feel totally justified in it because she was the one that was stoned. She was my mom, she shouldn’t be stoned.”

Lydia wishes she had a “normal” mom, but credits her mom’s habit to helping her find God. “Growing up there were times when I just wanted a normal mom, and I feel like that was maybe why I found God because I felt that religion gave me some of those guidelines.”

Judy still misses marijuana though, “It’s so much more fun to be in the land of the bunnies than the land of reality . . .It’s not artificial, God created marijuana man. It’s been here since the year Q, and that’s a long time ago . . .
I just feel like there are times when I’d like to have a big fat bomber right now. A bay bomber is what I call them.”

Lydia says she has smoked pot ony twice, and had to call her mom both times to tell her how much she hated it.

Judy and Lydia aren’t the only ones in their family that are a little zany, Lydia says her grandfather “is super into gold, he likes having gold injections because he thinks it cures arthritis. And it does, because he doesn’t have arthritis anymore.”

UPDATE: Lydia revealed on an episode of Watch What Happens Live that she was friends with Stevie Nicks in high school.