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KEY POINTS
- Lisa Rinna said she loved filming “RHOBH” but did not like how they were edited
- She claimed that no cast member “feels completely validated” by the show’s editing
- She said Season 12 became difficult after an “smear campaign” orchestrated against her after her fight with Kathy Hilton
Lisa Rinna got candid about what she didn’t enjoy about her stint on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” after announcing her departure.
Rinna addressed her exit from the show in a new interview, revealing that she did not like the way the Bravo series presented their stories.
“I love filming. Filming’s fun. What is not so fun is the airing of the show,” she told Interview magazine. “Once [the season] goes out into the universe, that I don’t love, because it takes on a life of its own. When filming, you have your drama, but it’s contained in a sense. And once it goes out, you get opinions and all the stuff that goes on, that’s the part I don’t like.”
When the interviewer pointed out that sometimes cast members seemed to be “edited to be assassinated,” the reality star claimed that the production has all the “power in the edit” and that no one in the cast “feels completely validated” or can say they’re being portrayed exactly who they are on the show.
Rinna went on to reveal that she “f–king hated” Season 12 of “RHOBH,” her final season on the show before announcing her departure earlier this month.
“I f–king hated this year. For a lot of reasons,” Rinna, 59, explained. “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. How about that?”
Filming for the 12th season of the Bravo series began shortly after the death of Rinna’s mother, Lois, in November 2021, according to Us Weekly.
Rinna also said that filming what would be her final season of the show was especially difficult for her after an alleged “smear campaign” that was orchestrated against her following her fight with Kathy Hilton in Aspen, Colorado.
The “Days of Our Lives” alum claimed last season that Hilton had a meltdown and made disparaging comments about her sister Kyle Richards while the cameras were not rolling during a drunken night.
After Hilton denied the allegations, Rinna doubled down on her claims, leading to a blowout argument between them during the Season 12 reunion, which aired in October last year.
During her chat with Interview, Rinna once more insisted that “all [she] ever did was tell the truth.”
“It was unfortunate that there weren’t cameras in Aspen. It was something that happened so spontaneously,” she revealed. “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.’ That doesn’t come across your mind.”
She went on to claim, “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–k do I do? Do I call the police? I don’t know what to do.’ So yes, it was unfortunate that in this sprinter van, there were no cameras. Because we were done filming. We’d shut down.”
Last week, Rinna told People that she would not be returning to the show after eight seasons and was “grateful to everyone at Bravo.”
She echoed the same sentiment in her latest interview, but she joked that “everything ‘Housewives’ has to go away for a while.”
Rinna’s husband, Harry Hamlin, expressed support for her decision to exit the reality show, saying they wouldn’t miss having the Bravo cameras around.
“Oh my God, we’re so happy about that,” Hamlin recently told ET of Rinna’s “RHOBH” departure. “All of our dreams just came true.”
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