Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna is revealing where she stands with Lisa Vanderpump.
Rinna, 61, shared on the Thursday, March 27, episode of the “Therapuss” podcast that she and Vanderpump, 64, remain cold with one another after Vanderpump’s dramatic exit at the end of RHOBH season 9. (Rinna herself exited RHOBH after season 12.)
During the ninth season of the Bravo reality show, which aired in 2019, Vanderpump clashed with Rinna, Kyle Richards and Dorit Kemsley over the famous “Puppygate” incident.
Six years on and it seems that Rinna and Vanderpump have yet to clear the air.
“We end up at the same sushi restaurant up the [Beverly] Glen quite a bit. And nope, no words have been spoken,” Rinna said after host Jake Shane quizzed her on whether she has spoken to Vanderpump since season 9.
Shane then asked, “But is it cold energy?” to which Rinna responded, “Oh, we just pretend that we’re not there. She doesn’t see me. I don’t see her. It’s hilarious because we both know we’re there. I know she’s there. She knows I’m there. It’s hilarious.”
During her time on the show, Vanderpump was accused by her costars of contriving drama to instigate arguments for the cameras.
“I think Lisa was a producer in her own right,” Shane shared with Rinna. The Days of Our Lives alum responded, “You said it, not me. You just said it, not me.”
Lisa Vanderpump and Lisa Rinna. Tommy Garcia/Bravo; John Tsiavis/Bravo
Vanderpump exited RHOBH after a dramatic showdown with Richards, 56, at her Beverly Hills mansion, which ended with Vanderpump’s husband, Ken Todd, kicking Richards out of the house and declaring, “Goodbye, Kyle!”
In November 2023, the Vanderpump Rules star gave an update on her relationship with Richards while speaking exclusively to Us Weekly at BravoCon. At the time, she said she had “empathy” for Richards amid her separation from husband Mauricio Umansky.
“With Kyle and Mauricio, I mean, I don’t have a great relationship with her, I’ve been honest about that,” Vanderpump said. “When somebody calls you a liar, it’s hard to come back from that when they don’t take it back. But I have empathy. Empathy for it. They’ve got a family and beautiful girls.”
Last year, however, the former BFFs took swipes at each other. During an appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in May 2024, host Alex Cooper asked Vanderpump if she had “ever known a castmate’s partner was cheating.” Vanderpump responded with yes.
‘The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills’ cast (L-R) Denise Richards, Erika Girardi, Dorit Kemsley, Kyle Richards, Lisa Rinna, Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave, Lisa Vanderpump Tommy Garcia/Bravo
“They’re on a reality show, and they’re living their lives. Of course, all marriages have problems. Anybody that says, ‘He is perfect, my love, and they’re my king.’ … I mean, f— off. It’s your husband, get real,” Vanderpump continued. “Then suddenly, they get divorced, but they’ve been saying, ‘Oh, love bean or my king.’ … Life’s not like that. You’ve got two imperfect people living together that it’s not, you know, and that’s bulls—.”
She added, “How many times have you seen this, especially on that show that I used to be on? … Everything’s just going just fine. And then, oh, we are getting a divorce, or oh, we’ve just separated.”
Richards fired back during an Amazon Live livestream, saying Vanderpump’s remarks were “so classic her” and that she “never changes or grows or learns.”
“[She was] trying to imply that when I was, you know, showing myself being happy, that I actually wasn’t — which is an absolute lie, and she knows that,” Richards said. “She just does that to be really mean. And then she goes on to say, ‘I’m not saying who I’m talking about. I would never do such a thing.’ This is always what she does.”
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