Kyle Richards Says Lisa Rinna’s ‘RHOBH’ Exit Is A ‘Big Loss’: ‘She Brought A Lot To The Show’

Kyle Richards admitted that she’s not blessed to spot her erstwhile The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills co-star Lisa Rinna permission the amusement aft 8 drama-filled seasons. “We did person a batch of astonishing times connected the amusement implicit these years. Lisa brought a batch to the amusement connected her 8 years of being on, and careless of what happened past twelvemonth — radical person precise beardown feelings about what happened past year — careless of that, she brought a batch to the amusement and we had a batch of large times and that’s what I’m choosing to deliberation about,” she said during her “Cozy Comforts with Kyle Richards” Amazon Live watercourse connected Jan. 11.

“It’s precise unusual to deliberation that she’s gone, and I’m not idiosyncratic who likes change,” the 54-year-old histrion and world prima continued. In effect to a spectator who asked if she’d miss Lisa, 59, she said she decidedly would. Later connected successful the show, she remembered Lisa arsenic being a existent friend. “I volition accidental [Lisa] was ever precise supportive of maine successful my idiosyncratic beingness and my concern life,” she stated. “Any clip I was producing a amusement oregon successful a movie, immoderate it was, she was ever highly supportive and we had a batch of fun. So, it’s a large nonaccomplishment for maine personally.”

Kyle Richards is going to miss Lisa Rinna connected ‘RHOBH’ Lisa Rinna (Photo: Shutterstock)

Kyle had antecedently made her feelings known by responding to Lisa Vanderpump‘s shadiness thrown about Lisa’s departure from the show, which she announced connected Jan. 5. After the news, Vanderpump, 62, took to Twitter to comparison her erstwhile co-star to the Wicked Witch of the West with a tweet that simply read, “Ding dong” — arsenic in, “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead”, from The Wizard of Oz. Confused by the celebration, a instrumentality responded to the tweet and asked, “Why didn’t you remark astir vivienne westwood and person to remark connected this?” Kyle “liked” the tweet. Iconic decorator Vivienne Westwood, the legendary British manner designer, died astatine the extremity of 2022.

Kyle Richards seemingly defended Lisa Rinna aft Lisa Vanderpump shaded her pursuing her ‘RHOBH’ departure announcement (Photo: Shutterstock)

Of course, some Lisas had superior beef from the amusement that reached a breaking constituent during Season 9 (think “puppygate”, erstwhile each Hell broke escaped aft a rumor leaked that castmate Dorit Kemsley gave the canine she adopted from Vanderpumps’ foundation, Vanderpump Dogs, distant alternatively of returning it).

Lisa Rinna near RHOBH after a turbulent play for her, during which Kathy Hilton, 63, accused her of bullying Vanderpump disconnected the show and called her “the biggest bully successful Hollywood”. Less than 3 months later, she announced her departure successful a connection to PEOPLE. “This is the longest occupation I person held successful my 35 twelvemonth vocation and I americium grateful to everyone astatine Bravo and each those progressive successful the series,” she said. “It has been a amusive eight-year tally and I americium excited for what is to come!” The outlet added that “she and Bravo mutually decided that she would not instrumentality to RHOBH.”

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