Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards explained what went wrong with her and Mauricio Umansky‘s 27-year-long marriage.
During an episode of Bravo’s Hot Mic podcast, Kyle detailed that money and fame took its toll on her marriage to Mau.
Kyle is about to talk in circles, so take Dramamine if you get motion sickness …
“The show did not affect us,” but “money and fame” did:
The OG of RHOBH began, “Every situation, every marriage is different.”
“For us, [our problems] 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. He was very supportive of me, and I was able to lean on him during difficult times.”
“So, what I do think is that money and the attention that comes with fame and all that does affect a marriage. Absolutely.”
“Everything affects a marriage, and those are big inputs. Once your life becomes bigger and more complicated, I would imagine it would.”
Kyle doesn’t blame “the reality show curse” for wrecking her marriage:
“It definitely was not that,” Kyle explained. “I’ve always said people who do come into the show with cracks in their marriage, think the show is going to be my out. It’s going to give me something of my own.”
Kyle doesn’t need that. “I’ll have my own income. It’ll give me something to do. You know, those are the marriages that crack under the pressure of reality television.” But, that wasn’t Kyle and Mau’s marriage.
“When I felt pressured, I had [Mauricio] to lean on. But, as The Agency grew … remember, we started out with nothing. I had three kids in a two-bedroom apartment. And those are some of the best times of my life. I always said, if we don’t have any money, it’s fine.”
The RHOBH star – who is known for spending oodles of money at all times – says she doesn’t need money to be happy. “We don’t need to live here. I don’t want to live in LA with no money. Let’s go somewhere. Let’s go to Vail, you know.”
