Roxanne 
In the world of reality TV, what we see is only half the story—and sometimes, not even that. Two years after her headline-grabbing exit from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Lisa Rinna is peeling back the layers of her experience. On a recent episode of her podcast Let’s Not Talk About The Husband, she didn’t just revisit the drama—she unpacked the emotional residue left behind, and her husband Harry Hamlin didn’t mince words about the role she had to play.
“Now that I’ve had two years away from it, I don’t dislike these women,” Lisa Rinna said candidly. “I had to work with them in a way to make a television show that was prickly.”
Harry, who has often stayed out of the Housewives spotlight, stepped in with blunt clarity: “That was your job. Your job was to be sh**ty from time to time in order to get ratings so that there would still be a show.”
It’s a rare moment of honesty from a couple that’s seen both sides of Hollywood—scripted and unscripted. Lisa Rinna, often labeled as the show’s villain, was accused of stirring the pot season after season. While critics blasted her antics, some fans argue that the drama died down after her departure.
Rinna also touched on the long-simmering tension with her former co-stars, suggesting the emotional weight from the show still lingers. “Whether you filmed it or not, I think we [still] carry so much of it — and we don’t need to. We could let it go and be like, ‘You know what, you guys? We made a great show,’” she said. “I don’t think any of us … were out there looking to ruin people’s lives.”
Despite trying to mend fences—like her recent attempt to reconcile with Camille Grammer, whom she once famously called an “a**hole” on TV—some of those old wounds haven’t healed. Camille has yet to respond publicly.
Beyond the drama, Lisa Rinna also opened up last month about something far more personal: her struggle with postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Amelia. “I had horrible postpartum depression, but I didn’t know it,” she recalled. “When you have your first baby, you don’t know. You just don’t know.”
The details were raw and unsettling: “I was having horrible hallucinations of killing people, and I needed to take the knives out of the house,” she admitted. “And I also had horrible visions of driving the car into a brick wall.”
She was quick to clarify that the visions didn’t involve her children. “It wasn’t about that,” she said. “It was about hopelessness, darkest depression and these horrible visions, hallucinations … Looking back, I was completely psychotic.”
