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In a recent interview, Jennifer Tilly opened up about a misstep she made while appearing on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alongside Kyle Richards. The actress shared insights into the show’s heated dynamics, particularly highlighting what she referred to as a “rookie mistake.”
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During the conversation, Tilly, 67, described the “emotional” and “intense” nature of the season finale, touching on the ongoing tensions within the cast. She mentioned the discord between Kyle Richards and Dorit Kemsley, 49, and confirmed that the group was experiencing a “fractured” state as they approached the reunion. Reflecting on her own experience, Tilly spoke about managing drama with her long-time friend Sutton Stracke, 54, during filming.
“I’m not one to react with outrage and shout, ‘How dare you?’ I realized that Sutton was feeling overwhelmed and in a tough spot,” Tilly recounted during a chat with Brice Sander from Entertainment Tonight on January 29. “So, I thought it best to step outside and cool off.”
However, her decision inadvertently gave the impression that she and Kyle, 57, had exited together to “gossip about Sutton,” as they both left the room at the same time. This unintentional timing led to some misunderstandings within the group dynamics.
But because she went outside immediately after Kyle, 57, it seemed as if the two of them left the group to “go outside and talk smack about Sutton.”
After Jennifer spent about half an hour outside, Kyle came to sit with her.
“She goes, ‘Oh, Jennifer, I know how you feel. Sutton has snapped at me many times, went to hug her, and she pushed me away.’ So I made the number one mistake, a rookie mistake that you should never make when you’re a housewife: I opened up to her. I opened up to my fellow housewife because I felt heard. I felt understood,” Jennifer explained.
“I was just talking about how I felt and, of course, when you’re talking to a girlfriend, you don’t expect it to get back to the other girlfriend, except for, hello, this is housewives. There is a camera,” she continued. “Why do I think that I’m going to be exempt from the housewives’ rule that everything is on the table?”
Jennifer then addressed the cast’s dynamic at the season’s end.
“The group is fractured, and it’s sad. To see it going down the night it went down, everybody was, we were all sobbing. We were all crying. It was so emotional and so intense,” she shared.
Then, after suspecting they would not be able to make amends at the reunion, pointing out that the reunion “just makes everything worse,” Jennifer said she hoped the group would be able to repair at some point, especially Kyle and Dorit.
“I do believe it can be repaired because I fully believe that their friendship is so deep, it goes back so far. I want everything tied up in a nice little bow,” she stated. “I was really trying to get Dorit to make up with Kyle and [Erika Jayne] because Kyle’s daughter [Alexia Umansky]’s wedding was like, five days after we stopped filming and I knew that Kyle really wanted Dorit to show up for her wedding and this is a good sign: Dorit did show up for the wedding so I felt like they would both be incredibly sad if it didn’t happen.”
“I care about all these girls. The viewers care about the girls. They all care about each other, but we’re filming under difficult circumstances,” she added.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo.