Lisa Rinna is reacting to the “ding dong” tweet Lisa Vanderpump shared upon her departure from the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Days after Vanderpump steered “the witch is dead,” Rinna opened up about her resolution to depart the collection, responded to Andy Cohen‘s suggestion that she’s on “pause,” and shared particulars of an alleged behind-the-scenes “smear campaign” aimed to guard her season 12 nemesis, Kathy Hilton.
“That’s what everybody said when she left the show,” Rinna mentioned of Vanderpump’s put up throughout a January 13 interview with Interview journal.
As she strikes on from RHOBH after eight seasons, Rinna is feeling “lots of things.”
“I had a rough year … I can always come back and handle something. But something has gotten to the Housewife Universe because of what’s going on in the world, and it’s reflected in the way the fans react to the world of Housewives,” she mentioned of season 12. “And I just think it’s unhealthy. It wasn’t working for me. It wasn’t right for me.”
In reality, whereas Rinna waited till earlier this month to announce her exit, she truly stop after filming the season 12 reunion final September.
“I left, really, right after the reunion. People don’t know that. But I let everybody know right after the reunion that I was going to move on, that was going to be it,” she shared, continuing to close down rumors of a possible return.
“It’s time for a break. Not a pause, I don’t go on pause. You don’t put me on pause. I go bye-bye,” she declared.
According to Rinna, she “f-cking hated” season 12 “for a lot of reasons.”
“My mom died, we all know that. But that’s not the biggest reason. The story just didn’t get told as two-sidedly as I would’ve liked,” she defined. “We all know that they have the power in the edit. You do not have power in the edit whatsoever … If I could tell my story the way it really, really, really happens, that would be fabulous, wouldn’t it?”
During the season, Rinna got here ahead with surprising claims Kathy made in opposition to sister Kyle Richards amid her meltdown in Aspen. And whereas she insists she was being trustworthy in regards to the off-camera rant, many named her because the dangerous man for coming between the sisters.
“It was unfortunate that there weren’t cameras in Aspen,” she famous. “In the moment, I didn’t think to turn on my voice memos. When somebody’s having a nuclear breakdown, you don’t think, ‘Oh, I should be filming this.’ When you’ve actually tried to save somebody and get somebody out of a club because they were hurting themselves, you think, ‘What the f-ck do I do? Do I call the police? I don’t know what to do.’”
Although Rinna felt that Kathy was the true villain of the season, it was she and Erika Jayne who took the brunt of the backlash for his or her accounts of her outburst. And as Rinna defined, that was due the habits of a Bravo worker.
“I’m going to tread very lightly. But I think certain people got involved that could maybe quiet the story, could make certain things go away. A whole other level of stuff went down to make sure that that person was protected,” she revealed. “There’s a smear campaign that went on online against me. It was all very calculated. And there was a person on payroll doing that.”
Rinna went on to say that whereas there are many “great things” about Kathy, she is thought to have a mood.
“As her sister [Kim Richards] said to her, ‘Just don’t lose your temper on the show.’ We all want to be liked. But when you become a fan favorite and all of a sudden people are really loving you, it’s very hard to drop that,” she defined.
Looking again on season 12, Rinna mentioned she doesn’t really feel she owes anybody an apology — and made it clear that she’s not totally over Sutton Stracke‘s claims of getting paid for her ticket to the Elton John Gala.
“I’ve thought a lot about it. I already apologized to Sutton at the reunion … But I didn’t do anything other than tell the truth. And when I screamed at Sutton, I apologized in the moment at the dinner. And at my house, I was drunk after the wine tasting. These are not excuses, they just are. I still think it’s really sh-tty what she did, trying to put this ticket thing on us,” Rinna famous.
Rinna additionally mentioned that when it got here to season 12, she was “no more terrible than” she’s ever been.
“I raised my voice to Sutton Stracke twice. Big f-cking deal … To single out my behavior this year as being horrific … I mean, did you see me in Amsterdam?” she puzzled.
Also through the interview, Rinna mentioned that after coming face-to-face with Kathy at the People’s Choice Awards in December, she determined to play good.
“I said, ‘Hi Kathy, how are you? You look great.’ And it broke the ice,” she revealed.
“I give her a lot of credit for showing up to the reunion, because she could have run like Lisa Vanderpump did. I respect that she stood up for what she wants people to believe,” Rinna added.
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