Kyle Richards Shares Why She Stopped Filming The ‘RHOBH’

Kyle Richards revealed why she stopped filming during a yet-to-be-seen episode of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”

The “RHOBH” star took a break from filming season 14 after storming out during an episode airing on Jan. 21 titled “A Perfect Storm Out.”

A trailer of the episode features Kyle Richards storming out in her robe during a spa day for the ladies.

During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Kyle Richards revealed that she stopped filming the show because she’d become depressed.

Richards is separated from her husband of nearly 30 years, Mauricio Umansky, and their 2023 breakup has been featured on the reality show ever since. A sneak peek of the episode titled “A Perfect Storm Out” shows the 56-year-old storming out of a spa day after things get heated with her co-stars.

Footage from the ‘RHOBH’ season 14 trailer captured a heated exchange between Richards and her co-star, Dorit Kemsley.

The two women argued about Richards and Kemsley’s husband texting, and Kyle snapped, “What more do you f–ing want from me?”

Kemsley yelled back, “I want you to stop f–king raising your voice to me!”

Richards is also seen exiting a spa day at co-star Bozoma Saint John’s house wearing a bathrobe after getting into a confrontation with the ladies.

“I’m done with this sh-t,” exclaimed Richards. I’m done. I’m not doing this anymore!”

Richards revealed that she stopped filming the reality show after the spa day for a week.

Richards told The Hollywood Reporter that depression played a role in her decision to stop filming the “RHOBH.” She didn’t film for a week after the spa day blowout and explained she was tired of the confrontations with the other ladies.

“I regretted how I handled it, but not leaving. I’m not someone who gets depressed,” she said. “I’ve had anxiety my entire life but never depression. I really felt like I was struggling with depression, and I expressed that. And I just felt like I could not go into scenarios all the time and just have everyone coming at me.”

“I thought, ‘Maybe today will be different’ as naïve as that sounds,” she continued. “People I thought were my friends, all of a sudden it felt like they weren’t. I just felt like it was too much with what was going on in my life, and I thought, ‘Why would I subject myself to this? I don’t know why I’m continuing to do this.'”

Richards also revealed that she almost didn’t return for season 14 because of her personal life. The former “Little House on the Prairie” actress is the only original cast member still on the “RHOBH.”

The OG said her personal life nearly prevented her from signing on for the current season, but she decided the show would help keep her busy as she adjusted to her new life.

“It was absolutely the closest I’ve ever gotten to not coming back to the show,” Richards revealed. “The show is a lot of pressure as it is, and I had so much going on in my personal life that was difficult and painful. I was like, ‘I don’t really know how I can go through a season dealing with this.’ We also have a lot of fun on the show too, and I didn’t even know if I had it in me to do that.”

“I remember coming home when Mau had first moved out and Alexia had just moved out. It was like, ‘Oh my gosh, my house is so quiet.’ I’m not used to that,” she continued. “It was one of those days where no one was there. This was going to be weird for me to have this new life of having less people home, I thought. And, on top of that, wanting to be busy and occupied.”

Richards said that Bravo respected her decision to take a break from filming after she stormed out of the spa day at Saint John’s house.

“I said, ‘I just can’t do this; I can’t film right now,’ and production respected that,” Richards revealed. “They know that I’ve never done that. In all these years, I’ve never called in sick or not shown up for anything ever; I’ve never canceled a shoot. So they said, ‘Take this time, I think you need it, and we’ll reconvene when you’re feeling better.’ I definitely felt supported by the network and production, so I took that time until I felt strong again and gathered my thoughts at what I wanted to do.”

The reality television star added that she took what seemed to be “a lot” of time off because she’s “never walked away.”

“I actually don’t remember now since it was seven months ago, but not more than a week,” she said of her break. “We make an episode a week. If I was going to walk away, I had to walk away. And if I had it in me to stay, I had to be respectful of what I signed up for. So, I took that into consideration, too. Unfortunately, the people-pleaser in me didn’t [fully] walk away! I was struggling with that, too.”