Kyle Richards Explains Mauricio Umansky Split on Buying Beverly Hills

June 2024 · 3 minute read

After Netflix’s Buying Beverly Hills teased a larger glance into Mauricio Umansky‘s marriage problems, Kyle Richards is answering to indignant Real Housewives of Beverly Hills fans.

“[Our determination to split] came about when we were done filming [season 13],” Richards, 55, detailed on Amazon Live, which streamed on Thursday, February 29. “[Then] the story came out and then the Netflix cameras happened to be in Aspen.”

She added: “[Netflix] ended up filming with us talking about it.”

Richards stated she made an effort to record key moments for RHOBH after filming wrapped.

“Obviously, Bravo has been following my lifestyles for Thirteen years. It’s no longer like they are able to movie that scene [for Buying Beverly Hills] and then I don’t share it with the audience of the Housewives,” she noted. “We ended up capturing either one of those scenes for Buying Beverly Hills and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills once we had been all wrapped.”

Us Weekly initially confirmed Richards and Umansky’s separation in July 2023. During season Thirteen of RHOBH, Richards hinted at issues in her marriage however it wasn’t until pickup scenes within the finale that viewers saw the couple candidly discuss their decision to part ways.

“There have been things that happened that made me lose my consider that I wasn’t in a position to recuperate from,” Richards mentioned on the February 21 episode. “It just felt like my complete life was once over in that second. The lifestyles as I knew it.”

Buying Beverly Hills, which focuses on Umansky’s real property company, has released several clips hinting at the split being a major story line.

“I had an important 26 years with your mother. An superb 26 years. I sought after to do the whole thing conceivable to only reserve it. So your mother came and she talked to me. And she mentioned, ‘I think I want space,'” Umansky, 53, advised his and Richards’ children, Farrah, 35, Alexia, 27, Sophia, 23, and Portia, 15, within the first legitimate look at season 2 of Buying Beverly Hills.

He persevered: “She mentioned to me, ‘Listen, the foundations are that you simply go out, you date, you do whatever it is you want to do. I’m no longer going to be asking you what you’re doing. I don’t need you to be asking me what I’m doing. Like we are separated.'”

After news broke about their separation, Umansky and Richards denied in a joint statement that infidelity played a role in their choice. Richards famous on Thursday’s Amazon Live that the pair are now allowed to date other people.

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“That’s a large question. We’re allowed to,” Richards, who has denied courting her friend nation singer Morgan Wade, added. “We’re allowed to do what we wish.”

According to Richards, there have also been discussions about transferring out of their shared home. “Yes, that’s a dialog that’s going down,” she said. “We’re fortunate that we don’t fight, and we get along, so it in truth oddly works.”

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Wednesdays on Bravo at 8 p.m. ET. Season 2 of Buying Beverly Hills drops on Netflix on March 22.

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