It seems very unlikely that we’ve seen the end of Juliette on Siesta Key. Following her fight with Kelsey in the episode that aired on June 30, Juliette meets up with her friend Serena Kerrigan, who essentially tells her to grow up, not lay her hands on another woman again, and understand that every action that she makes will affect the business she’s trying to get off the ground, especially violent actions.
Though we previously saw Juliette throw a drink at Kelsey, we didn’t get to see that Juliette actually slapped Kelsey and left her bleeding. But Serena tries to get her to understand that this behavior is indicative of a greater problem that she needs to learn to control. “What if you show at Miami Fashion Week?” Serena asks. “And someone messes something up? Are you gonna slap them? … We need to control this now.”
When Juliette denies that she needs to work on her issues “right now,” Serena continues to try to get her to understand that this is way bigger than she’s making it out to be. “It is a problem that you need to fix immediately. This is your reputation,” she says.
Although Serena tells her to deal with her problems, the next episode sees her unexpectedly leave ahead of the rest of the group’s departure from the island. Rather than doing any sort of self-reflection, social media posts lead the other cast members to believe that Juliette’s just partying it up in Miami. With Juliette gone, Kelsey takes over the narrator role.
Despite Juliette’s sudden absence, she’ll be back for the rest of the season. In fact, according to the synopsis for July 21’s episode, fittingly titled “I’m Truly, Truly, Very, Very Sorry,” Juliette will finally try to make amends with Kelsey over what happened. Not only that, but it looks like she may, at last, be done making excuses for why her swimsuit line isn’t progressing.