Denise Richards and Lisa Rinna.Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage; Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
Denise Richardsis opening about the unfortunate way her longtime friendship withLisa Rinnahas unraveled following her stint onThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
In her two-part appearance onBethenny Frankel’sJust Bpodcast, Richards, 54, reflected on her fractured relationship with Rinna, 60, and how the Bravo series took a toll on their friendship.
“My experience with Lisa Rinna was so bad that I thought, ‘OK, what would happen next season?'” she recalled on Frankel’s podcast. “I did have a s—- experience. … It wasn’t good with Lisa Rinna and it was sad to me.”
She continued, “I had a 20-year friendship with her, and to see how she could sacrifice a friendship of 20 years for a show that isn’t gonna last forever — obviously, she isn’t on it anymore — like, at what cost?”
Denise Richards.Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
Richards first joined the series in 2019 for season 9. Herdecision to turn in her diamondcame after a tense season 10, during which the actress found herself at odds with nearly all of her costars.
Denise Richards and Lisa Rinna.Gregg DeGuire/Getty; Amy Sussman/Getty
Richards confessed she thinks the two would still be friends if not for her two-season stint on the show. “I think that you learn a lot about people when you live with them, travel or work with them. I had never worked with Rinna before,” she added.
Despite her tumultuous journey onRHOBH, theWild Thingsactress isn’t against returning to the series full-time now thatRinna has handed in her diamond.
“We’ll see whatever happens,” she considered, before opening up about her decision to make an appearance in season 13. “I don’t know if they’ll ask me back, I just did a few episodes. I didn’t call to say, ‘Hey, can I come back?'”
Though Richards may be open to coming back toRHOBH, she hasn’t forgotten the feuds she’s had with the other Housewives. The actress confessed she didn’t know how her return would “make sense” given the animosity still shared between some of the ladies.
“After my second season, I also — because I wanted it to be real — thought, ‘How would this make sense, if all the women f—ing hate me?'” she said. “Almost everyone did, except forGarcelle [Beauvais]andSutton [Stracke], but everyone else was such an asshole to me.”
Richards confirmed toVarietyin April that she’s “filmed some episodes” ofRHOBH. Her surprise return comes two years after her exit was announced in September 2020.
Garcelle Beauvais, Denise Richards.David Livingston/Getty; Jon Kopaloff/Getty
“It’s been fun. And you know, I’m a big fan of the show, so it was fun to go back and film a lot of stuff with them,” she shared.
Richards explained that her return wasn’t planned. “This all just happened recently on the spur of the moment,” she explained. “I was at [Garcelle’s] screening as a friend — like a real friend — I didn’t tell anyone I was gonna be there. Production didn’t know. I just showed up, like, for real life, as a real friend in real life.”
“The next day, I was asked to go to some events — and so it’s been actually fun,” she added.
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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hillsairs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.
source: people.com
