Lisa Rinna Confirms Her ‘RHOBH’ Exit Is ‘Not A Pause’ In 1st Interview Since Leaving: ‘I Need A Break’

Now that Lisa Rinna has made it wide she’s not returning to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, she’s got a happening oregon 2 to accidental astir why. “I deliberation everything Housewives has to spell distant for a while, which is good,” the world TV icon, 59, told Interview for an nonfiction published January 13. “I don’t request to bent retired with anybody.”

Lisa further clarified that the clip distant from the franchise was not what she’d word a “pause.” “It’s clip for a break,” she said. “Not a pause, I don’t spell connected pause. You don’t enactment maine connected pause. I spell bye-bye. You cognize what I’m saying?” By mode of explanation, Lisa said successful a connection fixed to HollywoodLife (and primitively provided to PEOPLE) connected January 5 that she’d beryllium leaving the bid aft nary less than 8 seasons.

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“This is the longest occupation I person held successful my 35-year career and I americium grateful to everyone at Bravo and each those progressive successful the series.  It has been a amusive 8-year tally and I americium excited for what is to come!'” Lisa’s declaration expired astatine the extremity of the erstwhile season; she and Bravo “mutually decided” that she would beryllium retired the adjacent play (13, for those who are counting), according to the TV personality. A confluence of events look to person occurred to propulsion Lisa to the melodramatic decision, but it did look to travel to a caput with castmate Kathy Hilton called Lisa “the biggest bully successful Hollywood.”

Things devolved from there, with fans adjacent booing her astatine BravoCon successful October. Ever the world TV star, she flipped them off. Lisa besides struggled to woody with the death of her mother Lois Rinna successful November 2021. “I had a unsmooth year,” she admitted to the outlet. “I ne'er think, ‘Oh wow. It’s conscionable specified a unsmooth year, and I’ll ne'er beryllium capable to grip it again.’ I tin ever travel backmost and grip something. But thing has gotten to the Housewife Universe due to the fact that of what’s going connected successful the world, and it’s reflected successful the mode the fans respond to the satellite of Housewives. And I conscionable deliberation it’s unhealthy. It wasn’t moving for me. It wasn’t close for me.”

At slightest 1 castmate has her back, however. When asked astir Lisa’s departure by TMZ, Erika Jayne didn’t mince words. “They can’t [replace her]. She’s the GOAT. She’s the f****** GOAT,” she said connected Friday, January 6.

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