Once thick as thieves, Lisa Vanderpump and Kyle Richards found their friendship unraveling after the notorious “Puppygate” incident on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. The fall-out left their relationship in tatters, and they remain distant. Recently, Richards recounted an unexpected encounter with Vanderpump at a Beverly Hills dining spot, prompting Vanderpump to give her perspective on the meeting.

Kyle Richards said she recently ran into Lisa Vanderpump

During BravoCon, Richards detailed a chance meet-up with Vanderpump and her husband, Ken Todd, at the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel.

“Just the other night, I found myself at the Beverly Hills Hotel,” Richards shared, according to Us Weekly. “And there they were, Ken and Lisa. I was caught in a moment of indecision, pondering, ‘What should I do?’ Given our history, our face-to-face meetings can be unpredictable.”

“I’m not sure if she noticed me,” Richards remarked. “But as Ken made his exit, I quipped, ‘Goodbye, Ken.’ Whether he heard me or not, I simply had to say it.”

“Maybe she did see me, maybe she didn’t,” Richards said. “But as he was leaving, I said, ‘Goodbye, Ken.’ I didn’t know if he heard me or not, but I just had to do that.”

Lisa Vanderpump shared her experience of the moment with Kyle Richards

While Richards wasn’t sure if her former friend saw her, Vanderpump later confirmed she did.

“Actually, it’s true. I didn’t know she saw us,” she told Us Weekly, adding, “We were in the Polo Lounge the other day, and it was crowded.”

She noted that while she saw Richards, she “didn’t want to get into it” because she was with a group of people. She also said she didn’t hear Richards say, “Goodbye, Ken” to her husband.

“No, and I don’t think anybody else did either, so whatever,” she said.

Vanderpump said she feels indifferent toward her former friend

Vanderpump left The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills after her falling out with Richards. While the two friends had a major falling out, the former said she no longer holds onto any resentment toward her former friend. She said that instead, she feels indifferent.

“I think when you talk about the opposite of love and they say that it’s hate, and it’s not. It’s kind of indifference,” she said, per Bravo. “I’m just like, ‘Hey, hi, how are you?’ … It needs to start with an apology to ever reconcile because you can’t ever pick up a friendship when somebody’s calling you a liar. That doesn’t work for me, at all.”

As recently as 2024, Richards said she had a friendly enough encounter with the couple.

“I did see her recently, actually,” she said, per Bravo. “And I said, ‘Hi,’ and she was with Ken. This was not that long ago, maybe a month or so, and she was actually friendly.”

Still, Richards said Todd was warmer towards her than her former friend.

“Ken’s always — he gives a kiss or whatever. She’s a little colder, but it was [an] interesting encounter,” she said. “Anyway, it was not bad. [It] did not go badly. I will say that.”