Kyle Richards said she hasn’t spoken to her “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” co-star Dorit Kemsley and she denied sending her a “manipulative” text.
“We haven’t spoken at all but I’ve always supported Dorit since she joined the show — whether it was about people saying she was phony because of her accent — I defended her with that,” she shared on Amazon Live’s TikTok Thursday.
“Saying when you live with somebody who has an accent, you can pick up on the accent. I’m like that, too. With the dog, with Lisa Rinna in Hong Kong, with [Lisa] Vanderpump, I always stood up for her.”
The “Halloween Kills” actress, 55, said she was “very hurt” by what happened during Season 13 and the reunion — especially when Kemsley, 47, revealed that Richards had texted her trying to coax her into keeping her secrets.
“The text being read was very hurtful to me. And she said that I was being manipulative and it was actually the complete opposite,” she said.
“I was actually being very forthright and saying, ‘I have a lot at stake here right now and this is really hard for me. I have a lot on my plate, I know what’s coming at me. You and I … these are stupid arguments.’”
During the reunion special, which aired earlier this month, Kemsley told co-star Erika Jayne that Richards had texted her the day before to try to get her to withhold certain information.
“She sends me a text yesterday basically trying to silence me,” the fashion designer told the “Pretty Mess” singer, 52.
“It was so manipulative. It was so calculated.”
Per screenshots of the messages, Richards said that some of Kemsley’s interview comments “hurt [her] feelings.”
“I heard some of the things you said about me off camera that hurt me deeply and I wasn’t even able to say what I heard or who from,” the mom of four said, according to screenshots.
“I don’t want to lose someone else in my life over a TV show.”
Richards then added that producers seemingly didn’t “know” she and Kemsley were “even going through a hard time,” so she didn’t “see the need to bring it up” at the reunion.
“Relationships and YOU are more important to me than RHOBH and I don’t feel like ‘bringing it’ for the [sic] at our expense,” Richards, who was dealing with marital issues with her estranged husband, Mauricio Umansky, concluded.
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“Especially when we have enough battles to handle as it is.”
Kemsley then asked Jayne how she would feel if she received those messages, to which the singer replied, “I would feel manipulated.”
In February, Richards said it would “take a minute” for her to fully forgive Kemsley for exposing the messages.
“I did not know at that time that she read my text message, and that was private, and I was really shocked by that,” she said on Amazon Live. “She’s someone who I care about and her family. It’s going to take me a minute [to forgive her].”
Though the “Halloween Ends” actress said Kemsley is her “friend” and she cares about her, she said, “You don’t do that to your close friend. You just don’t.”
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