RHOBH recap: Kyle Richards leaves after breaking the 4th wall


Kyle Richards breaks down in tears and breaks the 4th wall
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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills was more dramatic than usual – thanks to Kyle Richards.

“I’ll say something and then I’ll leave. I don’t know how it all went so wrong, Kyle, 56, told her RHOBA castmates during the Tuesday, January 21 episode. “I can’t do this anymore. I really can’t. I’m trying to be in a good place in my life. I want to say one thing and then I’m leaving.”

Kyle’s breakdown happened when he was a newcomer Bozoma Saint John host of women at her home for a wellness party. Questions about texting with Kyle Dorit Kemsleyestranged husband P. K. Kemsleyappeared again.

“I’ll be leaving. Please, okay. I love you and PK and your kids and you know it. I know you do,” Kyle said directly to Dorit. “I was made to feel like I had done something wrong,” I texted PK. So, I said I’d read this once, and that’s it.”

Kyle claims the message was made to look like “it might be something weird.”

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“I know you have a lot of friends, but I’m one too and I’m here if you need me. I have never repeated anything you have shared with me and I never would. (Which means you can always trust me),” the message read. “Will keep sending memes and won’t forget the laughing emoticons.”

Kyle read it again during Tuesday’s episode — and this time, Dorit heard the message.

The “never repeated anything” line needed most clarification from Kylewhich she seems to have given.

“I don’t mean to treat you,” she said, waving at Dorit. “I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about, OK, which I can’t say because we’re shooting and producing.”

Kyle Richards breaks down in tears and breaks the 4th wall
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Kyle continued to raise his voice, adding, “That’s all I said. I’m ready now. They’re not going to make me feel like I did something wrong,” Kyle said through tears in the clip before speaking directly to Dorit. “I loved you and your family. F— everyone, I’m done with this s—. I won’t do that anymore.”

Garcelle Beauvais made it clear that he didn’t trust Kyle.

“I don’t understand what her conversation with PK has to do with the proceedings,” she said in a confessional. “If you’re having a private conversation with someone and you want to say, ‘I’m never going to share what we talked about.’… You would write with production. And she didn’t.”

The fourth wall was broken various moments throughout the episode. Not just the two of them RHOBA stars refer directly to the production, but cameramen were seen as Kyle stormed out of Bozoma’s house. (Kyle before addressed exit from the set during an interview with Us Weekly published in November 2024)

“Everybody has bigger problems, but this is all they can focus on,” Kyle said through tears. “I mean, literally, look at all of us. Our age and what we do? Dealing with this crap every day. Honestly, everyone should be ashamed of themselves. seriously.

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Eventually, Dorit and Kyle sat down for a one-on-one conversation.

“When you write things like, ‘You know I would never share anything,’ that doesn’t feel right to me,” Dorit said. “You would never say that on camera.”

Kyle again stated that she didn’t mean anything said about Dorit. She repeated this in her confessional, but Dorit had other feelings.

Elsewhere in the episode, Dorit went for a spa treatment with Erica Jane where they discussed what happened.

“I know what the text says, I know what the text means. I know what Kyle’s trying to imply that it means, but I think it’s very sleazy,” Dorit claimed. “When she said, ‘I will never repeat what we’re talking about. Or I never repeat what we’re talking about. It is, plain and simple, for me. Not for anything else.”

Erica disagreed with Dorit’s take on the situation.

“It’s supposed to be you, but you don’t know for sure,” Erica said. “I’m not going to make any rash assumptions.”

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 8pm ET. Stream old episodes anytime on Peacock.