Kyle Richards is Us Weekly’s Reality Star of the Year: How the ‘RHOBH’ Star Is Coping Now That Her Marriage is Over and Inside Her Dramatic Relationship With Her Sisters
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00:00I just got to a point in my life where I was like,
00:02I don't care what anybody thinks anymore.
00:04I have my own beliefs and my own thoughts,
00:06and I'm gonna do whatever I want,
00:08and no one's gonna tell me what to do anymore,
00:09and I don't care.
00:11I'm Kyle Richards,
00:31and I'm Us Weekly's Reality Star of the Year.
00:33Ultimately, I do think that people appreciate
00:35that I am my authentic self,
00:37even if sometimes I upset people with my opinions
00:41or actions sometimes, but at least at the end of the day,
00:43I know that I'm being myself.
00:46And also, in an odd way,
00:49and it took me a long time to get to this place,
00:51but it's been therapeutic for me.
00:55I was raised to not talk about certain things
00:58and not share certain things,
01:00so I definitely came into the show with that mentality
01:04because that's how I was raised,
01:05but as time's gone on,
01:07I'm more comfortable talking about everything
01:10and exposing the parts of me
01:12that maybe people didn't know about
01:15or maybe not agree with,
01:18but it's been therapeutic for me
01:21because when you're raised that way,
01:23to just sort of set free and say,
01:24I don't care, I'm gonna show everything about me,
01:28I think that's very freeing.
01:30I've shown a lot of my life over these years,
01:32so I don't think you get named Reality Star of the Year
01:36without going through a lot of S-H-I-T over those years.
01:42Well, I almost didn't come back
01:44because it's a long time to be on the show.
01:46And last year was,
01:50these last two years have been the most difficult of my life
01:53and I didn't want to put myself through the scrutiny.
01:59I had been followed with cameras
02:02and having the woman kind of grilling me
02:05and I didn't feel supported by a lot of the cast
02:08and the public scrutiny and the tabloids
02:11and the paparazzi following the stories,
02:15it really was weighing on me heavily
02:17and I just felt like I just kind of
02:20wanted to disappear for a little while.
02:22So why did I end up coming back?
02:26We do have a lot of fun times on the show too
02:29and I love the crew.
02:31The cast has changed over the years,
02:33but our crew really has stayed the same
02:36and the producers that we make the show with,
02:37they're family to me at this point.
02:39So I knew that would be another loss for me
02:42even though it was difficult for me,
02:45I knew that would be another loss.
02:46And my husband was just about to move out
02:50and I was like, I don't know if this is the best time
02:53to walk away from that too.
02:56Well, we love each other.
02:58So that part is easy.
03:01What's not easy is just figuring out all of it.
03:07What's next in our relationship, marriage,
03:12I don't even know what to call it right now
03:13because he doesn't live here.
03:14But I think also it was difficult on the show
03:17because people wanted answers from me
03:20and they felt that they were owed the answers,
03:23the public, and I didn't have the answers myself
03:26and people thought I was withholding stuff.
03:28I mean, I'm still here and we're not divorced.
03:34He doesn't live here.
03:35So obviously we're still figuring things out.
03:39But that part was very difficult.
03:42And I kept saying, I just need time, guys.
03:46I'm trying to figure it out myself.
03:48I was in therapy and working through myself
03:51with losing my best friend and my marriage
03:53and I was grateful that Kathy and I were good again
03:57and having my family helped me a lot
03:59through a difficult time.
04:01I don't know what the future holds right now
04:03with Mauricio and me.
04:05I mean, obviously he hasn't lived here for quite a while now
04:09but what I do know is that we will always have love
04:12and respect for each other regardless.
04:14And I'm very confident in that.
04:17A lot of people say to me, you have to be careful.
04:19Oh my gosh, you gotta watch your back.
04:22And I always say, you don't know our relationship.
04:25You don't know what our marriage was.
04:28You don't know our relationship now.
04:29And we are very good friends.
04:32And our priority is always keeping our family together.
04:35Still, it was then and it is now.
04:37What do I want for the future going forward?
04:40I want to just be at peace
04:44and focus on my daughters and my work projects
04:49that I'm really diving in deep to now
04:53in producing television
04:55because that gives me an outlet
04:57and I really do feel like
04:58that's another form of therapy for me.
05:00So I'm focusing on all of those things
05:02and the end goal is just to be happy and at peace.