If she could turn back time, Kyle Richards would change one thing about her early years on the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
The mom of four is the longest-running Housewife in the franchise’s history, with 15 seasons under her belt since the series debut in 2010. Richards has also publicly weathered her separation from her husband, Mauricio Umansky.
During a December 4 appearance on “Watch What Happens Live,” Richards was asked what advice she would give her season 1 self on love and marriage. After first noting that she would warn herself to “not get so busy that you forget about your foundation,” she got to her biggest regret.
“Just to tune out the outside noise. Because we dealt with a lot of that for so many years and things that weren’t true affected me so much,” she said. “Because it would make me act a certain way towards him. And even if it was things that I knew weren’t actually true, you know, there were, like, a time, they saw him in Dallas with some girl, he wasn’t even in Dallas. So, and I knew that, but I would be upset and then treat him differently and then he would say, ‘It’s not true. Why are you doing that to me?’ So, I wish I could tell the first season, Kyle, to tune out all the noise.”
Kyle Richards Said RHOBH Had Nothing to Do With Her Separation
While there has been plenty of noise about her marriage over the past 15 years, Richards previously told Bravo’s “Hot Mic” podcast that the reality show was not to blame for her marital troubles.
“Every situation, every marriage is different,” she said on the podcast. “For us, it had nothing to do with the show. We did the show together for many years, and we were fine through it … I was very happily married. The show did not affect us in that way at all.”
But she admitted that “the money and the attention that comes with fame” did change the dynamic in her marriage.
Kyle Richards Said Money, Traveling & Fame Hurt Her Marriage
GettyRichards went into detail about her split during the RHOBH Season 14 reunion. She noted that “money, traveling, fame” and her husband’s real estate business contributed to the split.
“The attention he was getting with all that,” she added, per BravoTV.com. “Women are snakes. You know, they see a man who’s a good husband and a good father and he has money. And they’re like, ‘Oh, I want that.’ Throwing themselves at him. And we got married very young. And he never got to go out and do his thing. And I think that really contributed to the downfall of our marriage.”
Umansky addressed the trade-offs that were made while building his business in an interview with RealEstate.com.au. “I used reality television to build The Agency,” he said. “The sacrifice of being on reality television is great. If you asked me today if I would do that again, I don’t know. It’s an amazing marketing tool, but the sacrifice is your life becomes so public.”
