Lisa Rinna believes her time on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” cast a “dark cloud” over her entire family.
“I think there’s been a little bit of a black cloud over me for a while, and I think that can affect the whole dynamic of the family,” she said on Thursday’s Page Six Radio.
“When we came out of that situation, the cloud lifted for all of us. I truly believe that.”
When co-hosts Evan Real and Danny Murphy asked if she was considering returning to “RHOBH” now that the clouds have lifted, she replied, “No, that chapter is closed.”
“I don’t have to be a ‘Housewife’ anymore. Just give me a new show,” she joked.
Rinna, 62, joined the Bravo show in Season 5 in 2014 and left the show after Season 12 in 2023.
Her husband, Harry Hamlin, and their two daughters, Delilah Belle Hamlin and Amelia Gray Hamlin, frequently appeared on the show during her career.
The former soap opera star added that both of her daughters are “working really hard” and are currently thriving in their respective modeling careers, but she doesn’t know if that would have been possible if she had remained on RHOBH.
When Rinna first announced that she was leaving the show, fans were confused as to whether she was leaving on her own terms or whether she had been fired.
In her shocking new memoir, “You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It,” which hit bookshelves Tuesday, she details her side of the story, insisting that leaving was her choice, but that she expected the network to fight to keep her.
Rinna said she felt like she had been “abandoned by everyone who had lived for eight years” as she had been begged by producers several times before, but something changed this time.
She specifically accused “Housewives” author Andy Cohen of “throwing him into a ditch to be pecked in the eye by vultures.”
The “Days of Our Lives” alum even broke down in tears remembering her exit from “RHOBH” during Season 4 of “Traitor.”
“The end of ‘Housewives’ was very difficult for me,” she tearfully said in her eviction speech. “I’m so glad to be me. I’m so grateful for this whole experience. Thank you.”
But despite her messy exit, she remains friendly with several of her former RHOBH castmates and even attended Kyle Richards’ daughter Alexia Umansky’s engagement party last May.
