Kyle Richards Talks Quitting RHOBH and Nearly Leaving in Past Seasons as She Says There’s Other Things She Wants to Do
Kyle Richards opened up about her potentially impending departure from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills during an interview last week.
After wrapping her 15th season of the Bravo reality series, Kyle, 56, who briefly walked away from production amid the show’s 14th season after her split from Mauricio Umansky, 55, said the “day obviously will come” when it’s time for her to walk away from her role.
“It’s been a long time. 15 years. It really is. It’s a long time. I don’t know how long this can go on, how long I can go on for,” she admitted to PEOPLE on October 23.
According to Kyle, she’s considered quitting RHOBH at “different times” throughout her years on the show.
“I think season 2, season 5. I can think of a number of seasons where I almost walked away,” she shared. “But 15 years is a long time and there’s things I want to do, and it takes up a lot of time. And Portia [Umansky] is going to college, so who knows.
Kyle shares three daughters, including Alexia Umansky, 29, Sophia Umansky, 25, and Portia Umansky, 17, with Mauricio, and an older daughter, Farrah Aldjufrie, 37, with first husband Guraish Aldjufrie.
Earlier this year, after her temporary exit from RHOBH, Kyle spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about what prompted the break from filming.
“I just didn’t have it in me anymore. I was at a point where I was so depressed,” Kyle explained. “I’m not someone who gets depressed. I’ve had anxiety my entire life but never depression. I really felt like I was struggling with depression, and I expressed that. And I just felt like I could not go into scenarios all the time and just have everyone coming at me.”
“People I thought were my friends, all of a sudden it felt like they weren’t. I just felt like it was too much with what was going on in my life and I thought, ‘Why would I subject myself to this? I don’t know why I’m continuing to do this,’” she continued. “It was absolutely the closest I’ve ever gotten to not coming back to the show.”
As for why she returned, Kyle explained that she didn’t want to experience another loss amid the dissolution of her marriage.
“I know that after 14 years of being on this show, [production has been] family to me, and through all my ups and downs, [they] have been a constant in my life. And I thought to myself … ‘What would I do if all of a sudden that’s removed from my life too?’” she recalled on the RHOBH: After Show. “I [felt] like, at [that] point, I didn’t want there to be another loss.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 is expected to premiere on Bravo later this year.
Yolanda Hadid Buys $4M Dream Home — Then Totally Guts It! 🔨💰 “She Tore It Apart From Day One,” Source Says
From farm to renovation.
Page Six hears Yolanda Hadid is offloading her sprawling Pennsylvania lavender farm — and that she snapped up another multimillion dollar property nearby.
But locals are surprised by what she’s doing with the new place since she bought it.
Yolanda Hadid has sold off her lavender and equestrian farm.Instagram / @yolanda.hadid
Hadid listed her New Hope equestrian estate at the end of September, with a source telling us the home already has an offer down for close to $11 million.
Meanwhile, a source tells us the former “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star picked up a new $4 million manse in the area that is closer to her model daughter, Gigi Hadid, and her granddaughter, Khai.
But despite the home’s meticulous, high-end renovation by acclaimed interior designer Timothy Summers Bailey — a key selling point in the listing — Hadid has wasted no time tearing it apart.
Hadid, we hear, has picked up a new spot, closer to her daughter Gigi Hadid.Kevin Mazur
We hear she sold her place for $11 million.Instagram / @gigihadid
“Even though a ton of work and money went into this turnkey designer home, she wasted no time and completely gutted the place,” says one gobsmacked neighbor. “She has had every contractor and subcontractor in there ripping out floors, lighting, fixtures.”
There is one upside.
“People are driving by and picking up all the unused designer cast-offs in her trash,” says a spy. “It’s a small town. People are talking.”
Hadid picked up the new place for $4 million.Instagram / @yolanda.hadid
Neighbors are gossiping over her gutting a newly renovated property.Instagram / @yolanda.hadid
The listing for the five-bedroom, seven-bathroom spot notes, the “masterful renovation by acclaimed interior designer Timothy Summers Bailey,” saying it “has been transformed into a sanctuary of refinement and serenity.”
“Every inch of this estate reflects a dedication to timeless design and elevated materials, blending old-world elegance with modern luxury,” says the listing. “Rich ash flooring flows seamlessly throughout, while expansive windows and doors, installed in 2023, bathe the interiors in luminous natural light, amplifying the home’s serene ambiance.”
The home also featured Carrara mosaic tile, custom white oak cabinetry and curated lighting fixtures, some of which, we hear, have made their way into the garbage.
We hear that those in the area are scoring designer finds from her trash.
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Gigi’s ex Zayn Malik and current boyfriend, Bradley Cooper, also live in the area.Getty Images
In December 2023, Page Six exclusively reported that Gigi’s boyfriend Bradley Cooper had picked up a $6.5 million home on a 33-acre plot of land in the area.
Gigi’s ex, former One Direction star Zayn Malik, also lives nearby, on a farm where he grows cherries, tomatoes and cucumbers.
