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Lisa Rinna offered an update on her relationship with Andy Cohen during a recent radio show appearance.
As she also reflected on the moment in which she should’ve quit The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and reacted to the backlash she received after tossing Garcelle Beauvais‘ memoir, Love Me As I Am, in the trash, and detailing Kathy Hilton‘s alleged meltdown in Aspen, Lisa, 62, threw shade at Andy, 57, for sharing her private messages in his book, The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up.
“I’m fine with him today,” Lisa began on SiriusXM’s The Julia Cunningham Show.
That said, she didn’t give Andy a heads-up about the contents of her book, You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It.
“No. He’s written his own books and done what he’s done. You know, I think he put my personal text messages in his book,” she stated.
Although Andy did reach out to her before his book was published to let her know she was discussed, Lisa didn’t realize that the private messages she sent to him would be exposed.
“They were personal text messages to basically my boss, and to have them show up in a book, I was like, ‘Wow, wow, wow,’” she shared.
Looking back at the end of her run on RHOBH, Lisa said she initially planned to quit at the season 12 reunion. As fans well know, the season featured Lisa admitting to tossing Garcelle’s book and accusing Kathy of going on a rant against Kyle Richards, 47, amid a supposed mental break, after which she was booed at BravoCon.
“I knew at BravoCon I was like, ‘Oh, I think this ride’s over,’” she recalled. “The wheels on the bus just flew off, you know? I couldn’t contain myself. I couldn’t control myself. I was acting out in so many ways. Everyone saw it. Everyone heard it. Everyone felt it, and you know, it’s the only thing I could do at that point, and I knew it was time to be done.”
According to Lisa, she should’ve quit amid filming.
“I almost quit at the reunion … I was right there going to do it. Would have, should have, could have, but I was ready to say it, and then, of course, I go home, and I write an email that night, and I text everybody, and I say, ‘I’m done. That’s it. Right? I’m done.’”
Because Lisa was coming off the devastating passing of her mother, Lois Rinna, she believes she’d gone into shock amid filming, acting out in ways that weren’t typical or reasonable.
“I should have said, ‘You know what, you guys? I think I need to take a break. I think I should just step this one out,’ but I’m such a worker bee that, you know, I’m like, ‘I have a contract. I got to do it. You got to do it.’ I know my mom would want me to do it. I know my mom would be like, ‘Do not quit the show. You go, and you work,’” she explained. “But in hindsight, I was so f*cked up.”
“Grieving is ugly. There is nothing pretty about grieving, and everyone grieves differently, and to do it on a show like that in front of the world was a really bad idea,” she continued.
As for the moment in which she knew her run on the series had come to an end, Lisa revealed it was when she ran into Kathy’s publicist after making claims about her alleged meltdown on the show.
“I know that that’s something they never allow, and I was just like, ‘Oh, sh*t, here they come. They’re going to f*cking kill me.’ I knew it,” she recalled.
From there, Lisa emailed the network with her departure statement, which they aired on the show.
“They literally showed my email of resignation on the next season,” she stated.
Also on the radio show, Lisa noted that when it came to her exit, no one tried to stop her.
“No one was like, ‘Oh, no, don’t go.’ They said, ‘Go have a meal and just calm down,’ is basically what they said to me, but nobody fought to have me stay, so I think it was very mutual at the end of the day,” she concluded.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 is currently airing on Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
