Kyle Richards said he has not spoken to his “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” co-star Dorit Kemsley, and she denied sending her a “manipulative” text.
“We don’t talk, but I’ve always supported Dorit since she joined the show — whether it was people saying she was fake because of her accent — I defended her with that,” she shared on Amazon Live’s TikTok Thursday.
“Saying that when you hang out with anyone who has an accent, you can pick up the accent. I’m also like that. With the dog, with Lisa Rinna in Hong Kong, with (Lisa) Vanderpump, I always defended 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 convince her to protect your secrets.
“The textual content that was being read was very painful for me. And he said I was manipulative and in fact it was exactly the opposite,” she said.
“I was being very blunt and saying, ‘I have a lot at stake here right now and this is very difficult for me. I have so many things to do that I know what is happening to me. You and I… these are silly 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 sent me a text yesterday mainly trying to silence me,” the designer told the “Fairly Mess” singer, 52.
“It was so manipulative. It was so calculated.
According to screenshots of the messages, Richards claimed that some of Kemsley’s interview comments “hurt (his) emotions.”
“I heard some of the things you said about me off camera that hurt me deeply and I wasn’t even able to tell you what I heard or from whom,” the mother of four said in response to the screenshots.
“I don’t want to lose another person in my life because of a TV show.”
Richards then added that the producers apparently didn’t “know” that she and Kemsley were “even going through a difficult time,” so she didn’t “see the need to continue” the reunion.
“Relationships and YOU are more important to me than RHOBH and I don’t feel like ‘bringing it’ to (sic) at our expense,” Richards, who was dealing with marital issues with her ex-husband, Mauricio Umansky, concluded.
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“Especially when we have enough battles to face as it is.”
Kemsley then asked Jayne how she would feel if she received these 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 didn’t know at that point that she read my text message, and it was personal, and I was really shocked by it,” she said on Amazon Live. “She is someone I care about and her family. It’s going to take me a minute (to forgive her).
Although the “Halloween Ends” actress said that Kemsley is her “friend” and that she cares about her, she said, “You don’t do that to your close friend. You just don’t do that.
