American actor
Kyle Richards opened up about her separation from her husband Mauricio Umansky.
During a panel
discussion at BravoCon 2023 for ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’, the
54-year-old reality actress stated that she didn’t “expect anybody to bring up
anything about my marriage on camera” during the forthcoming season of the
Bravo series, reported People.
“I didn’t even
know how to navigate it without a camera. So that was very difficult for me and
my family and that’s what threw me off in the beginning,” she shared.
“It was sort of
new for me, what we were going through,” she added.
“Starting the
show, even today, we’re still under the same roof and I didn’t know how to
manage that. And I am somebody who can’t pretend. I don’t have a very good
poker face. So, a lot of those things that happen with my husband, you can see
I’m not thrilled or happy.”
Richards described
filming for the upcoming season of RHOBH as “difficult,” adding that “the
producers were like, ‘Something new is here, Kyle.’ “This hasn’t happened in 13
years.”
While filming the
new season, the actress burst into tears as she shared her personal troubles.
“I told the girls
in the beginning I was having a hard time and I just had to figure it out
myself. I’d also come off of having a very difficult time [at] the reunion with
my sister Kathy, that was very painful,” she shared.
“I’d also lost my
best friend to suicide…it was a lot of stuff for me going on and I was just
trying to keep it together.”
“We love each
other very much and we are family no matter what happens and have a very strong
family unit,” she continued. “My 3 girls still live at home…he was busy doing
DWTS so he wasn’t around as much but we’re trying to figure it out. We know we
love each other.”
“I just want to
say, a lot of people think, ‘Pull it together. Fix it’ Obviously, that’s what I
would want. This is not my idea of my fairy tale, clearly …. Anyway, I do
appreciate all your support,” she added.
Richards also
admitted that she didn’t appreciate having conversations about her marriage on
camera, saying, “If I was called on the phone and asked one-on-one, I would’ve
been much more open but being next to the cameras, I felt like I was on the
defense… I felt like everyone was coming at me.”
Her ‘RHOBH’
co-star Garcelle Beauvais said she understood Richards’ reluctance to share her
personal problems, but that she needed to remember she was on a reality
programme.
Kyle also joked
about what advice she would provide to herself as a Day 1 Housewife., “Don’t do
that show.”
“I actually can’t
blame the show, it’s not about the show… I personally think that if you think
go into reality television and you have cracks in your marriage, your marriage
will never survive,” she explained.
Kyle added, “We
were very happy for a very long time…I’ve changed so much over these last 13
years and I’m always trying to grow and evolve…I don’t like confrontation, I’ve
had to be more confrontational. I’m proud of the person I’m growing up to be.”
Richards’ comments
come after People exclusively broke the news of Richards’ separation from
Umansky in July.
At the time, the
couple denied the news as rumours saying, “In regards to the news that came out
about us today … Any claims regarding us divorcing are untrue. However, yes,
we have had a rough year. The most challenging one of our marriage. But we both
love and respect each other tremendously. There has been no wrongdoing on
anyone’s part.”
Richards and
Umansky added that “although we are in the public eye, we ask to be able to
work through our issues privately.”
“While it may be
entertaining to speculate, please do not create false stories to fit a further
salacious narrative,” they concluded. “Thank you for the love and support. Kyle
& Mauricio.”
The ‘Real
Housewives of Beverly Hills’ airs Wednesdays at 8 pm ET on Bravo. BravoCon 2023
is taking place through Sunday at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas, People reported.
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