24.01.2023 - 21:01 / usmagazine.com
Not on the same page? Below Deck‘s Captain Lee had some choice words after watching Captain Sandy not clue him into her plans to fire Camille Lamb.
“So I found out after the fact that she fired one of my crew, not before. Ok?” the OG cast member, 73, who joined Below Deck in 2013, tweeted after the new episode aired on Monday, January 23.
In the footage from the hit Bravo series, viewers saw Sandy, 77, call her predecessor after she told Camille to pack up her things. Lee, for his part, issued a thank you to the Below Deck Mediterranean star over FaceTime for keeping him in the loop amid his brief exit.
Offscreen, however, Lee noted that he didn’t realize Sandy informed him of the crew shake-up once she already made a decision.
“Then why contact me after and tell me at all? Plenty of time to call me after, but not before. She made the right call. But lacked in procedure and respect. Just the way I roll,” he explained via Twitter. “Had I been replacing Capt Sandy on her boat temporarily and felt the necessity to fire one of her crew, I would have called her first to let her know what I was doing and why. I agree with her decision, just not how she went about it.”
After his followers questioned why he didn’t contact Sandy privately with his concerns, Lee replied, “She did it on tv in front of how many people with out consulting me. That doesn’t sound very private to me at all.”
The Florida native also clarified that he didn’t disagree with Camille’s firing. “Not at all, she deserved what she got. That was never my issue. So many people can’t see that, and I’m sorry for that,” he wrote, referring to the deck stew who left earlier in the episode.
According to Lee, it was upsetting to see Sandy not keep him up to date with what was