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On the earth of actuality TV, what we see is simply half the story—and generally, not even that. Two years after her headline-grabbing exit from The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills, Lisa Rinna is peeling again the layers of her expertise. On a current episode of her podcast Let’s Not Speak About The Husband, she didn’t simply revisit the drama—she unpacked the emotional residue left behind, and her husband Harry Hamlin didn’t mince phrases concerning the function she needed to play.
“Now that I’ve had two years away from it, I don’t dislike these ladies,” Lisa Rinna mentioned candidly. “I needed to work with them in a strategy to make a tv present that was prickly.”
Harry, who has typically stayed out of the Housewives highlight, stepped in with blunt readability: “That was your job. Your job was to be sh**ty occasionally so as to get scores in order that there would nonetheless be a present.”
It’s a uncommon second of honesty from a pair that’s seen each side of Hollywood—scripted and unscripted. Lisa Rinna, typically labeled because the present’s villain, was accused of stirring the pot season after season. Whereas critics blasted her antics, some followers argue that the drama died down after her departure.
Rinna additionally touched on the long-simmering rigidity together with her former co-stars, suggesting the emotional weight from the present nonetheless lingers. “Whether or not you filmed it or not, I believe we [still] carry a lot of it — and we don’t must. We may let it go and be like, ‘You already know what, you guys? We made a terrific present,’” she mentioned. “I don’t assume any of us … had been on the market trying to damage individuals’s lives.”
Regardless of making an attempt to fix fences—like her current try and reconcile with Camille Grammer, whom she as soon as famously known as an “a**gap” on TV—a few of these outdated wounds haven’t healed. Camille has but to reply publicly.
Past the drama, Lisa Rinna additionally opened up final month about one thing much more private: her battle with postpartum melancholy after the start of her daughter, Amelia. “I had horrible postpartum melancholy, however I didn’t understand it,” she recalled. “When you have got your first child, you don’t know. You simply don’t know.”
The main points had been uncooked and unsettling: “I used to be having horrible hallucinations of killing individuals, and I wanted to take the knives out of the home,” she admitted. “And I additionally had horrible visions of driving the automobile right into a brick wall.”
She was fast to make clear that the visions didn’t contain her youngsters. “It wasn’t about that,” she mentioned. “It was about hopelessness, darkest melancholy and these horrible visions, hallucinations … Wanting again, I used to be fully psychotic.”
