Your Downfall Is My Justice - Episode 9

Portia arrives at a high-society venue with her adoptive mother and is immediately confronted by her birth family for ignoring calls. Relatives accuse her of using a "sugar daddy" and call her a gold-digger while her adoptive mother defends her. The family offers conditional mercy: Portia must publicly swear to cut ties with the old man, beg Sabine for forgiveness, and renounce the McCalls. Under pressure she declares, "I, Portia Brooks, want nothing to do with the McCalls!" The episode ends on this coerced public renunciation and the unresolved fallout.