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This RHOBH Reunion Breakdown Recap | Erika Dorit Kyle Drama Bravo unpacks the explosive Season 15 reunion. We dissect the Erika, Dorit, and Kyle drama, financial issues, and evolving power dynamics. Get the inside scoop on new cast challenges and the fight for narrative control in Beverly Hills.

Key Takeaways

  • Analyze the fractured Erika, Dorit, and Kyle dynamic to understand shifting alliances and Edel-centric drama at the RHOBH reunion.
  • Examine the financial scrutiny faced by cast members and how it fuels the fight for narrative control.
  • Track how new cast members like Rachel Zoe and Amanda Frances navigate veteran interrogations and establish their place.
  • Understand Kyle Richards' vulnerable position as she addresses her separation from Mauricio Umansky amidst reunion pressures.
  • Evaluate Erika Jayne's strategies for managing her narrative and potential pushback from castmates.
  • Assess the impact of guest appearances like Kathy Hilton and Jennifer Tilly on the reunion's emotional trajectory.

RHOBH Reunion Breakdown Recap | The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 15 reunion is shaping up to be one of the most emotionally charged and strategically important reunions the franchise has seen in years. Hosted once again by Andy Cohen, the three-part event centers on fractured friendships, shifting alliances, financial scrutiny, and the evolving power structure of Beverly Hills. If the season was about tension simmering beneath designer surfaces, the reunion appears ready to bring every unresolved issue into the open.


At the center of the storm is the complicated triangle between Kyle Richards, Erika Jayne, and Dorit Kemsley. Once linked through years of friendship and shared loyalty, their dynamic now appears fractured beyond repair. One of the major claims raised is that Erika viewed Dorit as an “easy target,” suggesting that old alliances may have given way to opportunism. In Housewives terms, this is not just personal conflict—it is a fight over status, narrative control, and who gets to define the truth.


Kyle Richards enters the reunion carrying one of the season’s biggest storylines: her separation from Mauricio Umansky. Kyle has long functioned as a stabilizing force within Beverly Hills, but this chapter places her in a more vulnerable and transitional role. Reunion pressure often forces Housewives to defend both their public image and private pain, and Kyle appears poised to do both.


Erika Jayne, meanwhile, continues to confront questions surrounding reinvention, romance, and her past marriage. Erika has historically used reunion settings as stages for discipline and image management, but this year she may face resistance from castmates no longer willing to defer to her sharp delivery. Dorit, for her part, reportedly faces intense scrutiny around finances, a classic Beverly Hills pressure point where wealth performance and reality often collide.


Season 15 also introduces rookie reunion energy through Rachel Zoe and Amanda Frances. First reunions are notoriously difficult because new cast members must prove they belong while surviving veteran interrogation. Amanda’s most notable challenge comes from Bozoma Saint John, who questions her business practices. That clash could become one of the reunion’s defining moments because it blends credibility, money, and authority—all powerful currencies in Beverly Hills.


Part 2 adds extra star power with appearances from Kathy Hilton and Jennifer Tilly, two figures who bring unpredictability and comic relief while often shifting the emotional temperature of the room.


The reunion premieres April 28, 2026, on Bravo, with uncensored extended episodes streaming the next day on Peacock. Kyle’s line—“I can’t believe this is my 14th reunion and I’m still alive”—captures the tone perfectly. Beverly Hills reunions are not just recaps. They are survival rituals, status battles, and the final fight for who gets the best edit.

The Good Edit Unfiltered w/ Elle & Kat is a Bravo podcast and reality TV analysis show hosted by Elle Schwartz and Kat Vasseghi. Launched in February 2026, the podcast ranks in the top 4% globally and is recognized as one of the best Bravo podcasts of 2026 for Real Housewives analysis, reality TV psychology, and editing analysis.

The Good Edit Unfiltered w/ Elle & Kat covers The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (RHOBH), Salt Lake City (RHOSLC), Potomac (RHOP), Vanderpump Rules, Summer House, and the broader Bravo universe, breaking down editing, casting, power dynamics, and the psychology behind reality television.


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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the main focus of the RHOBH Season 15 reunion breakdown?

The primary focus is the fractured Erika, Dorit, and Kyle drama, intense financial scrutiny, and the shifting power dynamics within the Beverly Hills cast.

How does the RHOBH reunion breakdown cover new cast members?

The breakdown details how rookie cast members like Rachel Zoe and Amanda Frances face veteran cast interrogation and the pressure to prove themselves.

What personal storylines are central to the RHOBH reunion recap?

Key personal storylines include Kyle Richards navigating her separation from Mauricio Umansky and Erika Jayne confronting ongoing questions about her past.

What makes the RHOBH Season 15 reunion particularly dramatic?

The drama stems from fractured friendships, intense financial scrutiny, the fight for narrative control, and the challenges faced by both veterans and new cast members.

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Speaker 3 (2:05): As sweet as Tom could be, he was vicious as Tom could be. I was always walking on glass.

Speaker 4 (2:12): These women do not know when to concede, and that will be the downfall of this show.

Speaker 5 (2:17): You can tell that Kyle is a terrible actress because she can't even act like an adult during the first part of this reunion.

Unknown Speaker (2:29): You got that. Boom.

Speaker 6 (2:32): And I'm just trying to figure out how Mandy Money Queen did not do her homework only to discover at the reunion that the show wasn't about bragging about labels. I mean, you know, go back to school. Oh, wait. You did go to school. Bose took you to school.

Speaker 6 (2:47): It's called Harvard. Anyway, so much to get into. Let's go. So I have to give production credit and I've got to give Andy credit because you know how some reunions, they, we waste a lot of time in the trailers talking about what they're gonna talk and they went right into it. And and first first stop was, Rachel Zoe, and her package was her divorce from Roger, which I I have some feelings about that that I haven't quite articulated because we're only hearing Rachel's side.

Speaker 6 (3:23): But what do you guys think about Rachel as an addition? I think in one way, she definitely did elevate it because she was fun to watch, she's gorgeous and beautiful and aspirational. But did she give us enough of herself to make this season interesting?

Speaker 4 (3:36): I think she's an interesting person. Okay. And I want her to come back. And I do think there's a world where the show could be built around her. I was not invested in her stories this season.

Speaker 4 (3:47): I just wasn't. I wasn't invested in her fashions either. And I understand that that's like going to be controversial. I wasn't impressed. And I do not like that she went unopposed all season long.

Speaker 4 (3:59): I don't like that. All the digging we saw and the redundancy with Dareet and Kyle and all that, Rachel had some questions that she should have been asked. Like if I just Google Rachel Zoe, there's controversy around her. Why wasn't she asked about any of it? Like when Bowes was picking on Amanda all season long, like you couldn't have turned any of that and asked a question or two to Rachel.

Unknown Speaker (4:21): And so I think that because I feel like Rachel gave us so much in one on ones, but not much in group settings, I just like couldn't fully get there.

Speaker 6 (4:30): You know, you're bringing up a good point. Now I'm thinking if Rachel had tapped in and took and chose a side, which is what the show, which is the job of the housewife and to drive conflict, then we might've had more explosive moments that would've been more interesting. I never thought about it that way.

Speaker 4 (4:44): Yeah. She just like, was like, you could see in her facial expressions when she likes something or she doesn't like something. Doreen made a comment, even in the reunion part one, You could see Rachel make a face. I'm like, don't just make a face. What are your thoughts?

Unknown Speaker (4:58): Right. And

Speaker 5 (4:59): she'll even she'll even sometimes, like, I feel like she was making one point when she said something, but then she heard the women on the other couch say the opposite, and then she changed what she was saying too. So I think you're right. I think she just, like is is, like, trying to get a feel for the audience vibe so she can always cater to it. And I

Speaker 6 (5:17): don't like Yeah. You know what? I remember her on the Rachel Zoe project. And if you go back and watch earlier seasons of that, you got the sense that Rachel was very conflict avoidant. And I will never forget the scene that didn't sit too well with me where, there was a question of one or both of her assistants going to Paris Fashion Week.

Speaker 6 (5:38): And rather than just saying, Hey, oh God, what was her assistant's name at the time? Forgot her name. But anyway, her longest tenured assistant, can't remember her name, knowing full well that assistant deserved to go, but didn't want to, piss off Brad. She put it on her assistant to work it out with Brad about and decide who should go. And then when the issue hit the fan, she was like, Oh, I, you know, and I thought, well, that was a rather shitty thing to do.

Speaker 6 (6:15): Yeah. And so I thought, Oh, this, she is very conflict avoidant. And I think maybe in real time with the cameras on, that's just not her natural default. She'd probably, to your point, wants to play more to the audience because she doesn't even like to necessarily respond to high volatile conflict at all.

Unknown Speaker (6:34): Right. She was Oh, sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (6:36): I'm just gonna say, and when she avoids conflict, another housewife needs to call her out. There were a couple times where cameras could cut to footage of her saying things about Doreen that like where she did agree with Kyle. Didn't they have a footage, a clip in there where she actually was agreeing with what Kyle said and they went back to it. At that moment, Dorit should have turned to Rachel and had her address that moment. That didn't happen.

Unknown Speaker (7:03): Oh, you're right.

Speaker 3 (7:03): I wonder why that is too. It's almost as if the producers felt like we were so lucky to even get Rachel on this that they just gave her whatever she wanted, you know?

Speaker 4 (7:16): And that can only work for one season.

Speaker 5 (7:18): Yeah. It feels like they were worst. Yeah. It feels like the the main argument, it was I don't even know how much of it was production, like, oriented as much as they just got their, like, little kids fighting over, like, a lollipop. It just felt like it was spiraling for no reason.

Speaker 5 (7:35): So I I also think that Rachel she was, a freakishly good salesperson at, like, 16. Right? She had broken the record for, like, the 9 West sales. If you're doing that at 16, you know how to sell yourself because Uh-huh. You're beating people who do that for a living.

Speaker 5 (7:52): So Right. She's, like, curated this personality.

Speaker 3 (7:55): She definitely did. What do you think about her scenes with her kids, though? Because that was touching for me.

Speaker 5 (8:03): I think it was more legitimate than the other stuff, but I also don't know how I feel about, like, well, if you're not gonna share much about yourself, you really shouldn't feel comfortable putting your kids in that position at all. Right.

Unknown Speaker (8:14): Like, I

Speaker 5 (8:14): almost feel like it's, like, gotta be relative to how much she's sharing about herself, and it feels like she's kinda closed off. So I like it, but still.

Speaker 6 (8:22): Yeah. It was it was wonderful to watch those kids, her kids, kind of show up very maturely for their age and processing the divorce and processing dad with the new person and all of that. And yet how healthy was that for them? It was great for

Unknown Speaker (8:41): our public.

Speaker 6 (8:42): How healthy it was for them to experience that on camera. And I think we've touched on this before that I wonder at some point in the reality TV space and particularly the Bravo verse, is there ever a threshold for what should not, like what is off limits? Like, how is that going to impact them years down the line when they're adults? Are they going to really say, yeah, I love being on camera. Are they going to really come to resent it?

Speaker 4 (9:06): In their relationship, that's, it's such a sensitive time in their lives. Their parents are getting divorced. Don't put cameras in my face. Precious kids, very precious kids. You can tell that she has an amazing relationship with her kids.

Speaker 4 (9:21): So I did like it, but you can tell me about how your kids are handling the divorce. I don't necessarily think I need to. Cameras and I don't need to

Unknown Speaker (9:31): One

Unknown Speaker (9:33): of the hardest times of their lives.

Speaker 5 (9:35): And they're too young to be this emotionally aware and be discussing this with her. It's like, are you guys the parents and the parents are the kids? Like, they're they have a better understanding of, like, it's wrong that dad brought the girlfriend. I know that's inappropriate. It's like, aren't you, like, 10?

Speaker 5 (9:49): Isn't it crazy that you know this better than your parents?

Unknown Speaker (9:52): They definitely seem to hold a lot of resentment towards their father. And I don't know how much of that is what he did, or is it, you know, what she's saying and just want to make her happy. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:05): Yes. Yes. And that's what I don't like. I do like the way that Kyle has handled her divorce in that sense. I never get the impression that she is like talking bad about Mauricio to her kids.

Speaker 4 (10:16): And I strongly get that impression from Rachel and I feel like, like in childhood, I experienced that. Like don't talk bad about the other parent. I don't care what's going unless they literally need to know, keep the kids out of it. And her scenes were a lot of her doing that. So I just I didn't love it.

Speaker 5 (10:34): Yeah. I agree. Although Kyle, I feel like oh, sorry. I was gonna say Kyle, it feels like also likes not talking bad about Maurizio just because I feel like, I like that she doesn't, but I also think that she doesn't because she thinks that, like, that makes her a more valuable woman in his eyes and, like, the male gaze's eyes in a way where it's like, he's he's sleeping with other people all the time, even when you guys were married. So I don't know what we're doing.

Unknown Speaker (11:03): Yes. Like, I like what Cal does. The reason that she does it is Right. Like really twisted. Yes.

Unknown Speaker (11:08): I know.

Unknown Speaker (11:09): Yeah. And I wish she

Speaker 3 (11:10): could have just told us that about the affairs. I know she's unlike Dore in the sense that she wants to keep everything in. And a lot of that could be financial because she probably wants half of everything and she doesn't want their divorce to be contentious. But I do just wish after fifteen years, we could just have an admittance of she cheated on me.

Speaker 5 (11:34): Right. Like, get privacy. That's when you don't join a reality TV show because private people shouldn't be on a reality TV show.

Speaker 6 (11:41): So Yes. But she's been coddled by, And so, and part of that, I sometimes wonder is part of that due to the Hilton name that she kind of is attached to that you messed with Kyle, you messed with the Hiltons, the Hiltons messed with you back. We kind of maybe thought we saw that with Brenna's exit. The other thought that I had too, is that it's probably expensive to your point. Kat, it's expensive to talk about Mauricio.

Speaker 6 (12:12): They're not just a marriage, they're a corporation, is probably why it's taking so long for them to cut ties. I sometimes I wonder if she's still in love with, Mauricio because she loves and

Unknown Speaker (12:25): she was never,

Speaker 6 (12:26): she was never more interesting than when she was with her family, you know? And so now she's on Morgan Island. She's helping Morgan possibly get parts on, on, Yellowstone. You know, it's like Right. A lot going on.

Speaker 6 (12:41): But you know, the, the, the most emotionally charged moment of the reunion was Erica. And I'm gonna just go ahead and put it out there that I felt that Erica was the MVP of, of part one of this reunion. And first of all, it's wonderful to see her in this reunion space and not really be the center of all of the vitriol that she seasons about so many seasons ago. It's nice to see her authentically smile. It was really great to see her authentically position herself in a way to try to problem solve some things to bring transparency to Amanda as to why she wasn't working on the show and why she just didn't gel with the women.

Speaker 6 (13:23): But her admission, and about the abuse that she experienced, not only with the perpetrator that she discussed with Denise, but from Tom. And to say that she was emotionally and financially abused, could be more, we don't know this, was so telling and it had me moved. It really had me moved.

Unknown Speaker (13:47): I was as well.

Speaker 6 (13:49): I mean, he gave her the silent treatment for six weeks.

Speaker 5 (13:52): Horrible. It's so sad because it feels like she had a totally legitimate point in being like, I'm in a bad situation. I can't get out of it. But no one would have believed her if that was what she said when all this stuff came out because, of course, that's what you're gonna say because you don't want the blame. But Right.

Speaker 5 (14:11): This is, like, way worse than I think I ever realized it could be.

Speaker 6 (14:16): Same. I've always felt that he was controlling it. You guys remember seasons ago when Lisa and Ken, had dinner at their house, and she was trying to chime in and cosign part of the conversation.

Unknown Speaker (14:28): And he

Speaker 6 (14:28): said, excuse me. I'm talking like, oh, there it is. That guy is not who we think he is. And for her to really say, you know, he was just as as just as much as he was nice, he was actually pretty horrible to live with was so so telling. And

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Speaker 6 (15:54): And this is where I depart from Doreen because Doreen, there's no excuse for you to not know that your friend was going through something. And you treated her pretty crappy on that reunion couch. You just try to open a door and say, Hey, is that the makeup Chanel makeup bag I bought you? Yes. And then Doreen just kind of just, it's just so condescendingly.

Speaker 6 (16:16): Yeah. I'm sorry, Doreen, if I see you in these streets and Encino, I'm sorry, but you were horrible to her. And Erica loves her. She says, I love you. Did you hear the way she said it in the depth that she said it in the She loves her, which is why it hurts so bad, which is why Dorit will probably never have a door back open to her again.

Unknown Speaker (16:36): Nor does she deserve one.

Unknown Speaker (16:37): I agree. Agree.

Unknown Speaker (16:40): I I

Speaker 4 (16:41): believe that Doreet didn't recognize, like saying out loud, if it's not on the top of my mind, then I'm not aware or, well, you hadn't said it in a long time. I can't stand people like that. Neither. When I was grieving the loss of my son, the people that I had to constantly repeat that to for them to recognize it. I'm like, no, you're just not a good person.

Speaker 4 (17:07): Like it's just, it's when somebody has gone, has gone through a traumatic experience in their life.

Unknown Speaker (17:13): Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:14): That is a staple in your mind for anybody that's compassionate, that thinks It's of a staple in your mind, whether they say it out loud repeatedly, or whether they sometime and never say it again, for you to not recognize that they're still dealing with that, especially when there's headlines Mhmm.

Unknown Speaker (17:31): Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:32): There's no excuse. It's just sorry. It is just I'm

Unknown Speaker (17:35): sorry. Exactly.

Speaker 5 (17:37): I agree. And it's it feels like when the whole time she was doing any of this, like, I feel like Erica took everything so well. Even Andy's, like, intro to her was so tone deaf, and she was such a good sport. It's like, good thing that I'm, like, laughing about it. And you look at that compared to everyone else's reactions to the most minor things being so explosive.

Speaker 5 (18:00): Like, to your point, Chelsea, when you've been through some serious stuff because I feel like this when my sister passed away. It's like, other people are gonna complain about stuff that doesn't matter. And it's like, I can't we're, like, not even speaking the same language anymore. And I think with Doreet, she's got a bad combination of, like, narcissism and ADHD where, like Yes. I don't think she actually does remember anything, but get on some Adderall, see a therapist, and write it down.

Speaker 5 (18:24): Like

Speaker 4 (18:25): Yes. It's like she's telling the truth. She's telling the truth. Being honest, and it's like that's

Unknown Speaker (18:29): And that's the worst.

Unknown Speaker (18:30): Get in That's how tone deaf she is. She's like, oh, I just didn't even know you didn't talk about it.

Speaker 5 (18:37): I don't know. It's gonna still bother you. It's like, what's happening? And

Speaker 6 (18:41): first of all, historic moment right here, I'm actually gonna agree with Kyle on this one where she said, because it was exactly what I was thinking. Like, no one should have to remind you and give you a context clue based shouldn't say it like that, but basically giving a context clues like, Hey, I'm over here suffering. First of all, Ronald Richards is posting on Instagram every day about Erica's demise. I know you on that Instagram, okay, posting and all of those things and sharing stories. Number two, you basically just said, she said, Oh, it just wasn't top of mind for me.

Unknown Speaker (19:13): You're saying that Erica is not top of mind for you.

Unknown Speaker (19:15): Yep. Yep.

Speaker 6 (19:16): And what a slap in the face. Yep. What a slap in the face. And and Dareed, I, I think you're so fascinating and lovely, but you are to Kyle's point. You are so far up into your stuff that it has made you into an acute narcissist a little bit.

Speaker 4 (19:40): Yes. Number three, Elle, a divorce in housewives territory is not that news breaking. No.

Speaker 5 (19:48): Right. It's not. It's, it's being an orphan in the superhero universe. It's like, it's not great, but it's bound to happen. You know what I Like, that's just how that works.

Speaker 4 (19:58): Yeah. I think she's like treating it as if it's this like earth shattering, like unheard of event. It's like no humble housewives get divorced. And I understand that it is in your world, but stop acting like every air, every second that we breathe. Like we need to be thinking about Doreen P.

Speaker 4 (20:17): K.

Unknown Speaker (20:18): We weren't thinking about you guys when you were married. It seemed ridiculous. Why would we be thinking about you when you're divorced? I

Unknown Speaker (20:24): liked them when they were married.

Unknown Speaker (20:26): I did.

Unknown Speaker (20:27): They seemed really cute in the beginning. Seemed they all tend to

Speaker 5 (20:31): be good balance for each other. Just didn't like I just didn't like either of them. I was like, ugh. Because I was that was when she was mean to Erica. Right?

Unknown Speaker (20:38): So I was very pro Erica

Speaker 6 (20:39): I on didn't love that. I didn't love that. But I gotta give it to Erica for for bringing the vulnerability. And she just seems for all that she's going through, she just seems good. To your point, Chelsea, when you go through loss or you go through trauma, and I've shared with Kat on this podcast that I went through, very traumatic loss a couple years ago, when you come on the other side of that, you literally have no F's to give.

Speaker 6 (21:03): You're just barren, but it also makes you, for me, it made me more acutely attentive to everybody else's suffering. Yes. Wow. Dorit Yes. Hasn't gotten there yet.

Speaker 6 (21:17): I think I remember times in my grief journey that I felt tired of talking about it, but I have to talk about it because it was coming out to the point that I was like, oh my God, am I talking about it too much? I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I talk about it so You know, but I've had friends that gave me that space to talk about as much as I want till I didn't have to anymore. And I feel like Doreet doesn't have that check box there or that thing that goes

Unknown Speaker (21:37): on in the

Speaker 6 (21:38): brain that says, oh, I may be talking about myself too. Let me pause long enough to say, okay, Erica, what's going on? Ronald Richards is posting about you, like, left, right, center. What can I do?

Unknown Speaker (21:49): Or let me just check-in and ask you.

Unknown Speaker (21:52): Yeah. How are you doing? Or

Speaker 5 (21:54): even if you, like, don't wanna talk about it because you're, like, awkward with that sort of thing, hey, let's go get drinks. Like, let me go distract her from something. Let's go do something. You know? Like, being a friend who's there, Erica would have taken that better than her just showing up, smoking a cigarette, complaining about something, and leaving once in a while.

Unknown Speaker (22:11): Mhmm.

Speaker 3 (22:12): And I think this is to Chelsea's point. You said there were four times when people should have just apologized. This was one of those times. Just say, I'm sorry, Erica. You're right.

Unknown Speaker (22:25): I was being self involved.

Speaker 5 (22:27): That's it. Was so calm the whole time. Like, she was doing I you could tell that she, like, had to breathe and practice through this too because she, like, really had to sit there and explain things like she was talking to children. Like, okay. But because you were mean and I love you, I'm giving you this chance, so I need you to elicit, like I don't know how she did it.

Unknown Speaker (22:49): Then Dorit Smiley did give her the apology. And it was like, well, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I did that. Just like, no.

Unknown Speaker (22:54): You can

Unknown Speaker (22:54): keep that.

Unknown Speaker (22:55): That's not genuine. Did love that one.

Unknown Speaker (22:59): It's how you say it, not what you say.

Speaker 5 (23:02): Right. It feels like she's she's almost like, if I bring it up that I'm sorry, then people will look at me like I'm a bad guy. So if I just rush through it, it's like, no. But now you look like a monster.

Unknown Speaker (23:13): Like

Speaker 4 (23:14): Yeah. Especially in comparison to Erica, who's being genuine, who has all the reason in the world. Cause I wouldn't have even said I love you in that moment. Nope. It would have just been.

Unknown Speaker (23:24): Nope.

Unknown Speaker (23:24): I would

Unknown Speaker (23:25): have, I would have been mean about the makeup. I would have been like, of course, you're still using it. You absolutely need it. Like, I would not have been nice. And she was so sweet.

Unknown Speaker (23:33): Like,

Speaker 4 (23:33): so nice for her to still be like, I love you. And I know you're going through a lot. Erica's not even in this moment where we're actually talking about what Erica's going through. We're talking about Erica's domestic violence. She's still, I love you.

Speaker 4 (23:47): And I understand that you're going through a lot. In that moment, Doreen can't just say, I'm sorry. I understand that you are too. You lost me.

Unknown Speaker (23:55): That's it. Right?

Unknown Speaker (23:56): That's it. She couldn't even say, I love you too.

Unknown Speaker (24:00): All Yeah. I

Speaker 5 (24:01): She said, look, I have the makeup, this free gift you gave me. That's how you know I still love you. It's like, that's not hope you don't write your own vows.

Speaker 6 (24:11): I I again, I gotta give it to Erica because on one hand, she responded and says, you know, I get it because Dorit has her own problems, and she's very overwhelmed. And she's still giving her grace, but then says, but on the other hand, I've been going through this stuff for six years. You know? And I feel like that is probably production setup for part three of the Kyle Erica showdown because that's when it's gonna really get heated. That's when it's gonna really, really, really get heated.

Speaker 6 (24:35): And I feel like maybe Bravo's teasing us a little bit about how it's really gonna go down. There's no recovery for this friendship. I don't feel about it. And Erica was the only one that was on it. She goes, I don't feel hopeful.

Unknown Speaker (24:47): Yep. She's been there before.

Unknown Speaker (24:49): Paula was lying.

Unknown Speaker (24:50): No, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (24:50): She does not want to reconcile. Like,

Unknown Speaker (24:52): come on. Hasn't been interested in reconciling at all.

Speaker 3 (24:56): She tried to ruin the woman's life essentially by telling her that she's manic during a divorce.

Speaker 5 (25:03): During a divorce. And her kids, like, whatever. Kyle has 15 kids, and the youngest one is, like, ready to graduate high school. She has younger kids, and both her and the husband are a little strange. So it does feel like that would be a very easy thing for them to turn against her, and she couldn't get custody.

Speaker 5 (25:19): And that would be Kyle's storyline for the next, like, season. You know what I mean?

Unknown Speaker (25:24): Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (25:24): It feels gross.

Speaker 4 (25:26): But I feel like Kyle was doing that publicly for the show. Like, I wanna humiliate Darice. 100%. But I also believe that Kyle was doing that behind the scenes. I completely agree.

Speaker 4 (25:38): Kyle's been feeding PK negative things about Dorit. So even if she didn't 100 say percent. Dorit spent $4,000 on the show, I think PK would have found out that information.

Speaker 5 (25:47): Oh. Uh-huh. I think you're right. I think the second that that rumor went around where Mauricio and Dorit were like, had hooked up once, like that crazy rumor that was on one site once, I think she was like, oh, so that's even a possibility. I'm ruining her life.

Speaker 5 (26:04): Because I just

Speaker 3 (26:04): I wondered the same thing. I've wondered that before.

Speaker 6 (26:08): I'm so glad you're bringing that up because first of all, it's very evident that, these women hate each other. Oh, good. It's very evident that Kyle has not been riding with, Darit for a while as a true authentic friend. And part of me wondered, you know, given who Mauricio is, did she sense some slight attraction between the two, which made her even more resentful of Doreen and she's kind of harbored, I I've always felt that she's harbored this resentment for a while.

Unknown Speaker (26:39): I think you're right.

Speaker 6 (26:40): Really coming out.

Speaker 5 (26:41): And I think that she, she also because PK, when they were together, I feel like really didn't look at other women. Like, I really think that he was bad in a lot of ways, but was obsessed with Doreen. I think that drove Kyle crazier. She's like, I can't even like, she has a husband who doesn't even wanna look somewhere else.

Unknown Speaker (27:01): Chelsea, I won't

Speaker 4 (27:02): think be like it. I think that's it. Like your husband is vastly infatuated with you and mine is not, but it's hard to get for me to get a sense of, oh, was Mauricio attracted to Darri? I don't know enough about Mauricio and the affairs to even able to kind of get a sense for that, but we know that he had them and we know that that, like, we know that that, that's been an insinuation allegedly, allegedly, allegedly.

Speaker 5 (27:30): Right. Right. And then allegedly that must be, it must be pretty bad because all that Hilton money couldn't cover it up from never seeing the light of day.

Speaker 6 (27:38): That's true. That's true. But you know, peak, PK, sorry, you know, Mauricio and Dorit have always had this flirty kind of banter a little bit. Yeah. And that could get under, you know, wives know wives, clock,

Unknown Speaker (27:51): And you

Speaker 6 (27:52): I just feel that there's something possibly to that, you know, besides the fact that before all of this drama that Dorita's going through, she did kind of stop a room when she walked in, you know? Yeah. She just had this kind of, like I said before, this genocide about her, where she just kind of walks in and she's this lovely light of being or had been before this season. And I think all of that together just kind of contributed to a nice little recipe of envy that is manifesting in like, I'm not going to support you. I'm literally going to kick you while you're down.

Speaker 6 (28:22): She's been doing it since last season. Daria was completely justified in going for her neck last season. And I think it's partially justified this season.

Unknown Speaker (28:30): Yeah. I think you're right.

Unknown Speaker (28:33): Yeah. So, I don't know. I don't feel hopeful for those two. No. I don't feel hopeful at all.

Speaker 5 (28:40): But they're the same person, so it feels like when they were good, it was because they were both mean girling someone else together. But now they can't understand why the other one's not picking up on what they should. And it's like I think it's it's nice that Kyle had that insight, but Kyle should have the same insight for herself. She's never gonna take that advice. You know what I mean?

Unknown Speaker (28:59): Yeah. Never. You've been listening to part one of our Real Housewives of Beverly Hills recap with Chelsea and 16.5 bathrooms from Instagram. So much to get into. Make sure you check out part two, which drops tonight before midnight.

Unknown Speaker (29:18): Until then, we'll see you on the other side. Bye.

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