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Erika Jayne remains firm in her stance that Kyle Richards should steer clear of the ongoing tensions involving Dorit Kemsley and her estranged spouse, Paul “PK” Kemsley. She reiterated this viewpoint during the latest episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

During the episode, Kyle, 57, acknowledged that Dorit, 49, had clearly expressed her disinterest in Kyle’s opinions, possibly due to the close bond between PK, 58, and Mauricio Umansky, 55. Dorit reflected on her support for Kyle during the early stages of Kyle’s separation from Mau. Meanwhile, Erika, 54, pointed out that intervening in such matters often leads to a no-win situation, and Rachel Zoe, 54, remarked that Kyle’s actions could be seen as provocative.

“I still feel that way, because nothing you can say is gonna work,” Erika stated on the latest RHOBH: After Show.

Rachel observed that Kyle was navigating a delicate balance between respecting her friendship with Mau and maintaining her connection to PK through Mau.

“PK’s still in her orbit, and so I think it would be challenging for Kyle to be like ‘F*ck you, get out of my house.’ But I think that Dorit doesn’t necessarily see that or understand that line of thinking,” she reasoned.

Rachel also felt that Kyle’s closeness to PK was a “trigger” for Dorit.

“When you’re f*cking in it, and one of your closest girlfriends says even like, one f*cking sentence that feels like she might see his side or agree with him, it’s like your emotional response, I think, at that point, it’s like, ‘Are you f*cking okay right now? Do you know what he’s done?’” she explained. “I’m not saying Kyle’s wrong because I don’t know PK. I know nothing that happened before I met Dorit. However, I just know it’s a trigger, so I think, as a friend, you have to be like, ‘Okay.’ You just have to listen.”

“There’s no winning,” Erika replied.

And Kyle agreed.

“Erika’s absolutely right. It’s hard at times because this topic does come up repeatedly, but I’ve already learned with Dorit that if she has an idea in her head, she is on that train, and it is not stopping,” she claimed. “She’s just made it very clear. She could be saying worse things, and she doesn’t want that advice from me anymore, so the only time it comes up again is when it comes up that she was annoyed that I gave her that advice, and I feel like I have to explain why I did.”

Kyle went on to say that she felt Dorit might be bothered by how close Mau is to PK, and how Kyle was “hearing things from Mau.”

“Maybe she feels the need to over-explain the point she wants to make to me, because she knows I’m hearing some of the things,” she suspected. “I don’t know. But she definitely has a different reaction to me talking about it than anyone else.”

In her own After Show segment, Dorit pointed out that she was loyal to Kyle when she and Mau first split, describing their relationship at the time as “bitter.”

“They didn’t have the friendship that they have. They were very estranged. And bitter,” she alleged. “And PK and I were still together. And very close. So, PK was sharing with me his friendship, and how Mau was feeling, and so on. I never once felt it hard to have an allegiance to Kyle. In fact, I never once felt like I was betraying my husband. I would say to my husband, ‘Oh, I am firmly in her court.’ And stood, she doesn’t know this, but stood in defense of her more times than you could ever imagine, and I mean without even knowing the facts … So I think that’s why also, it feels so like, ‘This is not hard … to give that type of support.’”

Dorit then noted that she didn’t need Kyle to “bash PK.”

“You don’t have to say, ‘F*ck PK!’ If you want to? Great. If you don’t? I’m not asking you for that… That’s not what I need from you. And don’t confuse the two,” she advised.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo.