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Kyle Richards Warned Ex Mauricio Umansky That Their Daughter Called Him A “Ho” In The ‘RHOBH’ Premiere: “I May Or May Not Have Enjoyed Having To Tell Him That”
It’s a “hot girl summer” for Kyle Richards and her fellow single Real Housewives of Beverly Hills co-stars. Now on her second season as a single woman, Richards is embracing her new reality post-Mauricio Umansky. While she might not be back in the dating game yet, she certainly seems to be getting a kick out of her estranged husband’s highly publicized affairs.
In the RHOBH Season 15 premiere, Richards sits down with her four daughters—three of whom she shares with Mauricio—to not only work on wedding planning for Alexia Umansky, but to gossip about the realtor’s headline-making PDA with much-younger women. With Sophia Umansky revealing that she’s told her dad to “tone it down” and Portia Umansky putting his “ho” antics on blast, Richards said she had to warn Mauricio of what was said in front of cameras.
“I had to give him a heads up that that was said on camera,” she told DECIDER over a recent Zoom interview. “I may or may not have enjoyed having to tell him that. “
Richards, for her part, is no longer the newest single woman on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Rachel Zoe, of The Rachel Zoe Project fame, filed for divorce from her longtime husband, Rodger Berman, last July. In fact, Zoe—who returned to Bravo as a full-time RHOBH cast member this season—shared in the premiere episode that her friends were trying to set her up with Mauricio when they ran into him in Aspen.
“You’re too old for him,” Richards joked when asked what she was thinking when Zoe told her about her friends’ failed efforts to set her up with the Buying Beverly Hills star. “And that’s not a slight to Rachel. That’s a slight to Mau.”
When we caught up with Richards, she also shared how she felt about Garcelle Beauvais‘ exit from the show, how we’re going to see her and Dorit Kemsley‘s friendship play out this season, and what it was like to see Lisa Vanderpump at BravoCon. Check out the full interview below.
DECIDER: I loved to see that one of your first scenes in this episode was with all four of your daughters. I think it was Sophia who said she called Mau out for his PDA, and Portia said she tells her friends that her dad is being a ho. What is it like to hear your daughters talk about that? And are these conversations that you’ve also had with your ex?
KYLE RICHARDS: Oh, my gosh. It’s so funny. As they get older, obviously, the conversations have changed over the years. We did all laugh hearing Portia say that. I had to give him a heads up that that was said on camera. I may or may not have enjoyed having to tell him that. My favorite times, honestly, with the show are with my daughters shooting together. Being able to see that is just fun for me. I always have fun with them. They’re my favorite people to hang out with, so I love when we all get to be together.
Like you said, it is so crazy to see Portia and remember that she’s not a baby anymore.
She was one turning two when I first started the show and now we’re waiting for her letters from college. She really has grown up in front of the cameras. It’s just so crazy. I said to her the other day, “You never post on Instagram.” And she said, “Well, that’s because every time I post something, people go, ‘Where are your curls?’ Or like, ‘Why are you wearing a crop top, you’re just a baby.’” I’m like, “Oh, my gosh, people.” People really do feel like they’ve known her whole life.
I feel like it was kind of glossed over in the episode that people were trying to set Rachel Zoe up with Mau in Aspen. What was going through your head when she told you about that?
You’re too old for him. And that’s not a slight to Rachel. That’s a slight to Mau. Every time you find out someone is single, it’s like, “Oh, who can we set them up with?” So I wasn’t surprised by that, actually, at all. But, you know, I think I even joke, “You’re too old for him,” for obvious reasons.
Last question on this subject. You said in the episode that you weren’t dating. In the trailer, we also saw you say that you could go Brad or Angelina. Are there any updates on your dating life that you can share?
No, nothing new since then. I’m not on the dating apps. It seems like that’s how everybody meets people these days. I’m not on any dating apps. I’m just okay with being by myself. Whatever will be, will be is my attitude. It feels good to be able to feel like that. I don’t really care that much. It’s odd, maybe. I think I spent time worrying so much about that initially and now I’m not worried at all.
It’ll happen when it’s meant to be. You have your daughters, your dogs, your friends.
I have my daughters first and foremost, and then my friends and animals. I used to go out a lot more and I really do enjoy being home. I work so much that when I’m not working, I really enjoy just being in my home. People tease me for having my Christmas trees up since Nov. 1. But when I’m home, I really want to enjoy my home. It’s very hard to get me to leave the house. Every time I make a plan, I’m like, “Oh no.” I’m like all the memes. Like, “Why do I make that plan?” I’m like, “Please, dear God, make this person cancel.”
I don’t think I’ve ever related to anyone more than I do in this moment.
Does anybody really love going out late? And if someone says, “Do you want to have dinner at 8:00?” Like, you’re talking pre-pandemic hours. What are you talking about? 8:00? I’m not going to an 8:00 dinner. I must sound so boring because I don’t even drink alcohol, but I’m still fun. I just want to start earlier and end earlier.
I’m the same way. Everyone seemed rather hunky dory in the premiere, but as we saw in Dorit’s conversation with Boz, she didn’t feel like she was getting full support from you after she filed for divorce from PK. What was your reaction to seeing that conversation? Do you feel like you could’ve been there for her more?
Hold on, let me roll my eyes as hard as I can. I think that she has just been looking for something with me nonstop since she started going through this whole thing with PK. I’ve been in for her as much as she has allowed me to be. I mean, if that means reaching out, texting, inviting her to things, I’ve done all the things that you’re supposed to do as a friend. If she continues to want to see it that way, or pretend to see it that way, whatever it may be, there’s nothing I can do. I feel like my side of the street is clean.
It seems like Erika and Dorit are going to be going at it quite a bit. What can you tease about that? Did you find yourself taking one side over the other?
It was the three of us that happened with. That part was really sad for me because I’ve been on the show for 15 years. Erika has now been there 10 [years] and Dorit nine. So, we’ve been there the longest and are the closest. That is just something I never anticipated happening. I was really sad about having a fight with Dorit last year. All of that was terrible. Now, having Erika also going through something with her, I just felt like this is wrong. It should not be the three of us going through this. It was very, very dramatic what happened. I was very shocked. We’re still not okay. But hopefully, after the season plays out and we get re-upset after watching it, we can hopefully work things out at the reunion. That’s only thing we can hope.
I feel like Boz is putting a lot of pressure on you to build a friendship. Do you ever feel like she needs to match that energy as well?
Yes, 100%. I also felt like it wasn’t even right. What she was saying didn’t match my experience at all. I felt like maybe that had something to do with her situation with Dorit because I made such a point with her. I mean, I sent her flowers … Did anyone else send you flowers? Dorit and I sent her flowers. Mine were better. I am laughing when I said that, but they were. It just felt like those moments, like, are these people just trying to have a problem with me just to have a problem with me? Because it’s not true and it’s not fair.
There was a lot of talk about Garcelle and the way that ended. Garcelle recently went on WWHL and said she’d consider returning to the show if Erika were no longer part of the show. What was your reaction to that?
That is just such a low blow. For someone to say that? Erika has been there 10 years. It was so rude to say something like that, honestly. You can either handle it or you can’t. And she couldn’t. That’s why she’s not here anymore. She also went on and said if she was gonna be friends with any of us off the show, she’d be friends with me. I thought to myself, “Well, we were getting along so great. And you left the reunion, you unfollowed me. That was it.” So I found myself thinking, “God, I really fell into that whole thing, thinking we were actually becoming close friends.” I was left to question that because I actually really liked her and started to really care about her. Then that was it. Unfollowed. Finished. Done. I was like, “Oh, so was it just about the show? Because I’m not like that.” I don’t understand that.
I’m glad you guys addressed it because it was very confusing.
It was very confusing. We stood up and Andy said, “We’re all going to take a photo.” And she was like, “No.” I was like, “Wait, what? That’s it? You don’t even want a photo with everybody?” That was very strange.
BravoCon was just a couple of weeks ago and I’d love to get your thoughts on some things that were said. You also shared during the Classic Kathy & Kyle panel that you saw Lisa Vanderpump and Ken Todd, and as they were leaving, you yelled, “Goodbye Ken.” Have you heard from either of them since sharing that story? Do you think that broke the ice for future run-ins? Would you be open to reconciling with Lisa even if it’s off-camera?
Well, I didn’t know if they heard me or not. She ended up saying later that she had seen me but didn’t acknowledge [me]. Listen, she holds a grudge. I do not. I mean, she famously holds a grudge. I can always get past things. But she makes it very difficult. She took it as a slight that I had said, “Goodbye, Ken.” I was saying it to be funny. It’s not a big deal. But you know what? I don’t know, I feel like we’re just going to continue to run into each other and have these moments, like when she sent me her bill .. after she sent our producer her bill and walked out. We were like, “Wait, what?” I actually never see her. I rarely see her. I mean, I think now twice in a year in a restaurant here and there. It’s always the same two places. The Beverly Hills Hotel or the sushi place we go to.
I’m glad you can laugh about it now!
Yes, I laugh about it. I have to. It is pretty funny because my friends are like, “There’s Lisa Vanderpump”. And I was like, “Where?” Like, “Over in the corner.”