Why Kyle Richards Took a Break Whereas Filming Present Season of RHOBH

In a brand new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Richards shared why for the primary time in 14 seasons of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills, she wanted to step away from the cameras.

“I simply did not have it in me anymore. I used to be at a degree the place I used to be so depressed, frankly,” she advised THR of an upcoming episode, which is teased on the finish of Tuesday evening’s new hour. “I am not somebody who will get depressed. I’ve had nervousness my total life however by no means despair. I actually felt like I used to be fighting despair and I expressed that. And I simply felt like I couldn’t go into eventualities on a regular basis and simply have everybody coming at me.”

Richards says when this occurred seven months in the past, she stepped away for a couple of week throughout manufacturing.

Throughout that point away, Richards mirrored on whether or not or not she needed to return to the present. Whereas she in the end determined to stay on the hit Bravo franchise, that call was additionally difficult and got here, partly, on account of her need to maintain busy amid a newly quiet house following her break up from ex Mauricio Umansky.

“It was completely the closest I’ve ever gotten to not coming again to the present. The present is loads of strain as it’s, and I had a lot happening in my private life that was troublesome and painful,” she recalled. “I used to be like, ‘I do not actually know the way I can undergo a season coping with this.” We even have loads of enjoyable on the present too, and I did not even know if I had it in me to do this.”

Richards continued, “I bear in mind coming house when Mau [Umansky] had first moved out and [their daughter] Alexia had simply moved out. It was like, ‘Oh my gosh, my home is so quiet.’ I am not used to that. It was a type of days the place nobody was there. This was going to be bizarre for me to have this new life of getting much less individuals house, I believed. And, on prime of that, eager to be busy and occupied. Despite the fact that I’m producing and doing different issues, the present takes up an unbelievable quantity of your time, and whereas that may be a foul factor at instances, if you wish to distract your self it is a good factor.”

“That was a part of it. Additionally, the individuals who I do the present with — the crew and manufacturing and the individuals I’ve labored with for these final 16 years — are an enormous a part of my life,” she added. “I felt like that was going to really feel like one other loss, and I did not know if I had that in me. So I actually needed to take time to course of all of that, and that was what in the end made me determine.”

Her fractured relationship with Dorit Kemsley additionally performed a job in her preliminary hesitation to return, telling THR that they’ve solely not too long ago gotten to place.

“It is like one step ahead, two steps again. However we did ultimately. We did go not too long ago to a celebration at Kathy’s home [Hilton]. I simply needed it to get again to the place we had been,” she stated of her relationship with Dorit. “As a result of all I saved considering is that we needs to be supporting one another now. We have gotten to this good place, why do we have now to do that once more?”

“We needs to be leaning on one another; we’re each going by way of a tough time,” she added of Dorit, who too separated from her husband, PK, final 12 months.

Whereas Richards stated she doesn’t remorse taking that step again from the present, she does remorse how she dealt with it within the second — which followers will see quickly in season 14.

“I regretted how I dealt with it, however not leaving. I simply did not have it in me anymore,” she stated. “Folks I believed had been my associates, swiftly it felt like they weren’t. I simply felt prefer it was an excessive amount of with what was happening in my life and I believed, ‘Why would I topic myself to this? I do not know why I am persevering with to do that.'”

Manufacturing revered Richards’ determination to not movie too, giving her the area she wanted throughout that week off.

“They know that I’ve by no means completed that. In all these years, I’ve by no means known as in sick or not proven up for something ever; I’ve by no means canceled a shoot. So that they stated, ‘Take this time, I believe you want it, and we’ll reconvene if you’re feeling higher.’ I undoubtedly felt supported by the community and manufacturing, so I took that point till I felt robust once more and gathered my ideas at what I needed to do.”

Whereas she felt supported by manufacturing, that wasn’t precisely the case when it got here to her solid mates.

“There is a scene the place I did after which there have been some individuals who stated they had been going to carry me accountable for strolling out. And I used to be going to decide on to show the opposite means on that one as a result of I did not wish to undergo that once more,” Richards recounted. “I used to be getting just a little stronger once I got here again after which as soon as I acquired previous that, I do not know if ‘supported’ could be the phrase, however I believe they understood.”

As for what number of extra seasons Richards sees herself doing of the present, the Halloween actress stated that relies upon.

“I am not avoiding the reply, however I at all times say I by no means know as a result of it depends upon my private life emotionally — if I can deal with it, what my way of life is on the time,” the mom of 4 stated. “Who is aware of? I may take a look at this episode once we grasp up and go, ‘I am not doing this anymore!’ You may catch me on a Wednesday scrolling by way of Instagram and I am going to go, “No! Why did I’ve to see that!” I’m undoubtedly in a stronger place than I used to be once I began final season, completely, and I am very grateful for that. My life is consistently altering proper now. But it surely all relies upon the place I am at.”

She continued, “Sooner or later, that day will come the place I am going to say, ‘OK, sufficient.’ I noticed one thing that stated, ‘If Kyle does one other season, 15 seasons, she’ll be the longest-running Housewife in franchise historical past.’ There’s sort of part of me that wishes to have that! After which I am like, ‘For what, Kyle?! For what!'”

See all of the drama unfold on The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills, airing Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET on Bravo.