Carole Radziwill was an award-winning journalist when she joined Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City in Season 5. Now almost five years after leaving the reality series, Radziwill is looking back and talking about the one regret she had.

“My one little regret is I did make myself smaller to be on the show,” she told The Mountains in an interview. “I never thought I was above anyone, for sure. I didn’t want to come across like I was above any of the women because everyone had their own different life experience, you know, and so I didn’t want to come across that way at all. And I didn’t feel that way and never did.

Radziwill continued, “But there were a lot of times during a lot of conversations where I could have said, ‘Well, you know, I was in Afghanistan during the war’…‘I...