Remember the crazy tale of Bethenny Frankel, her husband, some friends, and a Bravo camera crew going for a three (OK, eight) hour boat tour and being lost at sea for 20 hours. Too crazy to be true, right? Well, now one of her rescuers is claiming it was all staged.

How real is reality TV? In the case of Bethenny Frankel, what you see is what you get, according to a featured player in last night's episode.