Lisa Rinna.Photo: Cindy Ord/Bravo/Getty
Lisa Rinnais ready for a fresh start after her exit fromThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
The television personality revealed that she is looking forward to taking a step back from the Bravo series after eight seasons.
“I think everythingHousewiveshas to go away for a while, which is good. I don’t need to hang out with anybody,” Rinna, 59, toldInterview Magazine, while noting she plans to stay in touch off-camera with costarsErika Girardi,Dorit KemsleyandKyle Richards.
The cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 12.Tommy Garcia/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty
The former reality star admitted she “f—ing hated” the past year as she dealt withthe death of her mother Loisand feuded withKathy Hiltonfollowingtheir drama-filled Aspen trip. She noted, “The story just didn’t get told as two-sidedly as I would’ve liked.”
“It was unfortunate that there weren’t cameras in Aspen,” she continued. “It was something that happened so spontaneously. 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,'” she added, referring toHilton’s meltdown. “That doesn’t come across your mind.”
Kathy Hilton and Lisa Rinna.bravo
Despite their feud, Rinna said she respected Hilton for attending theRHOBHseason 12 reunion.
“I give her a lot of credit for showing up to the reunion, because she could have run likeLisa Vanderpumpdid,” she said. “But she came and she fought.”
She continued, “She’s got balls and I respect that she stood up for what she wants people to believe and what she believes in.”
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Rinna also revealed that her husbandHarry Hamlinencouraged to start a conversation with Hilton at this year’sPeople’s Choice Awards.
“Harry said to me, ‘You really should just say hi to her and just try to move on from this because it’s not going to do either one of you any good,'” she recalled. “So at the People’s Choice Awards, I saw her. We had already had moments together where we didn’t talk and didn’t even acknowledge one another. And I said, ‘Hi Kathy, how are you? You look great.’ And it broke the ice.”
Rinnaconfirmed her departurefromRHOBHin a statement shared with PEOPLE on Jan. 5.
“This is the longest job I have held in my 35 year career and I am grateful to everyone at Bravo and all those involved in the series,” the Rinna Beauty founder said. “It has been a fun eight-year run and I am excited for what is to come!”
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“I really do hope that this is a pause. I hope she will come back. I really do,” he said. “I’ve talked toTamra [Judge]about this a lot. Tamra, ultimately said to me before she came back to this, she said, ‘You know what? My time away from the show kind of helped me as a person.’ And she said, ‘I think it was actually really positive to leave and get some air and step back.’ So I just hope that Lisa will humor us and comes back.”
source: people.com
