Kyle Richards has revealed the reason why she couldn’t rely on her marriage to Mauricio Umansky to help her through a “tough year.”
In July, it was reported that the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills stars had split after 27 years of marriage; however, they later revealed they just separated after having a “rough year”.
The reality TV star has opened up about the recent hardships she has faced, on a new episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
On Wednesday night’s episode of the hit reality show, the 54-year-old opened up about losing her best friend, Lorene Shea, to suicide and how she could not count on her marriage to her husband, to guide her through the difficult period.
“What always kept me safe and grounded was my marriage, so not feeling like I had that either all at the same time is a lot.”
“Losing my best friend and then what happened with my sister felt like another loss.”
The mother-of-four got emotional on the show as she spoke about the tragic loss of her friend, back in May of this year.
“Lorene was my other half, we always said we were separated at birth, only she was almost six-feet tall and blonde.”
“She’s definitely the most important person in my life outside of my family. [She] knows more about me than anybody else, including my husband, your best friend all those years knows everything,” Kyle continued.
She then confessed she didn’t know “what happened,” and revealed that she had seemed “so together.”
The Halloween actress shared that she put her late friend in charge of “my children, my money, everything” in her personal will.
“I don’t have answers, [I’m] frustrated,” Kyle admitted.
“Do you think this whole not drinking and distancing yourself for a minute was to try to protect yourself get control?” the 47-year-old asked.
“Because obviously you have the trauma of falling out with your sister. That’s traumatic,” she added, referencing to Kyle’s explosive row with her sister in season 12 of the show.
Kyle replied: “I’m not a psychologist, but maybe so. I feel like I need to be really clear right now with everything.”
The 54-year-old then explained: “Before I would have felt like, ‘Well I have to go have drinks because everyone expects that from me to go and have fun’.”
Kyle said: “I think a lot of it has to do with us having a harder year, is I expected more from him, from what I was going through, which I know you can understand.”
“Also, probably, you know how he loves to go drink. And does a lot of business events where I’m supposed to go and be a wife and be supportive.”
“I don’t want to go to these parties,” the reality TV star added.
The mother-of-three got emotional during their conversation and confessed: “I think the way my relationship is now I’m not happy.”
Kyle continued: “I’m sort of now working on myself inside. And I feel like he’s very focused on his work. So I feel in that aspect we are growing in different directions.”
