Bethenny Frankel is “protecting [her] peace” by staying off of E!’s “Real Housewives of New York City” reboot.
The Bravolebrity, 55, explained to her Instagram followers on Tuesday that joining the “Golden Life” would not “be good for business.”
She noted, “It used to be good when I was promoting my own business. But now that I work with a lot of other brands and have different types of equity deals and partners, they don’t look highly upon that genre. They kind of like that’s it’s in the rearview.”
Frankel, additionally, predicted that the other cast members — Dorinda Medley, Sonja Morgan, Luann de Lesseps and Ramona Singer — would end up resenting her.
“Despite some of the women asking if I would come back, the amount of money it would take for me to come back — that E! could presumably never pay — would make the other Housewives resent me so much, which did happen before,” she claimed.
“I’m really happy for these women and i want them to thrive [and] succeed and I want the show to do well,” Frankel continued while making coffee.
The Skinnygirl creator went on to call the show a “savage, amazing move by E!” before sharing her final reason for remaining off air.
“I like my life now,” the former reality star said. “I like not having to do anything anyone else tells me to do or be anywhere anyone else tells me to be.”
She concluded, “Protecting my peace and this stage of life is very important to me.”
Reps for Medley, Morgan, de Lesseps and Singer did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
Page Six broke the news in January that the E! show was in the works.
While Jill Zarin was attached to the series at the time, the 62-year-old has since been axed over her Super Bowl LX halftime show tirade.
The businesswoman railed against Bad Bunny’s record-breaking performance last month, dubbing it the “worst … ever” for being in Spanish and featuring “literally no white people.”
Zarin defended herself after being booted from “The Golden Life,” which will begin filming later this year.
She told InTouch the network didn’t “give [her] a chance,” insisting, “I took it down right away. People make mistakes. I’m human.”
We subsequently reported that Medley, 61, was set to join.
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