Lisa Rinna didn’t hesitate to name her former Celebrity Apprentice co-stars Dionne Warwick and Star Jones as the rudest celebrities she’s ever worked with.
In fact, the 62-year-old “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum labeled Warwick a “terrible piece of work” in her new memoir, “You’d better believe I’ll talk about it.”
“When I first met her at work making my own pizza, she barely looked at me, but had the audacity to bark, ‘Get me a Pepsi!'” Rinna recalls in the book.
“And for some reason, I just ran off to get Dionne Warwick to buy me a Pepsi. She thanked me for colluding with her coven to can me,” Rinna continued, referring to her early exit from Season 4 of the reality series.
Rinna was “fired” from the show in episode 2 after she claimed Jones “threw her under the bus.”
Rinna looks back on that moment in her book, saying that the women on “Celebrity Apprentice” “couldn’t trust anyone.”
She also thanked Jones for being “a real asshole, because her nastiness prepared me for my future as a Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
“I don’t know if I had ever experienced a woman-on-woman hate crime before,” she added.
Representatives for Mr. Warwick and Mr. Jones did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
Last Thursday, the Bravolebrity opened up about her time as a star on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, telling Page Six Radio exclusively that she felt her time on the series cast a “dark cloud” over her family.
“I think there’s been a little bit of a dark cloud over me for a while, and I think that can affect the dynamics of the whole family,” said Rinna, mother of daughters Amelia and Delilah Belle Hamlin. She shares both with her husband Harry Hamlin.
“Coming out of that situation cleared the clouds for all of us, I believe,” she continued, adding, “I don’t have to be a ‘housewife’ anymore.”
Rinna joined the Bravo show in Season 5 in 2014 and announced her departure from the show after Season 12 in 2023.
Her time ended years ago, but their absence didn’t make Rinna’s heart grow fonder for her former RHOBH co-stars.
She accused Garcelle Beauvais of being “fake from head to toe” and being a “huge disappointment”, and labeled former friends Sutton Stracke and Denise Richards “narcissists”.
She also criticized Bravo executive Andy Cohen for publishing private text messages about her departure from RHOBH in his memoir.
However, the naming does not end there. Rinna also reflected on her soap opera career, calling her former Days of Our Lives co-star Robert Kelker-Kelly “Hollywood’s biggest bully.”
Elsewhere in the memoir, she admitted that Anna Wintour ignored her several times. However, she went on to claim that the former Vogue editor finally said “hi” to her at a recent Balenciaga fashion show.
