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Dorit Kemsley is opening up about one of the most emotionally complicated seasons of her Real Housewives of Beverly Hills run.
While promoting her new memoir, Unburdened, Dorit recently spoke with Page Six Radio hosts Danny Murphy and Evan Real on SiriusXM, where she discussed everything from her current relationship with Erika Jayne to filming the breakdown of her marriage to PK Kemsley and the unexpected tension with Kyle Richards.
Dorit has had a difficult few years, both on and off camera. RHOBH viewers watched her navigate the aftermath of her terrifying home invasion, growing distance in her marriage, her separation from PK and the unraveling of some of her closest friendships in the group.
Despite butting heads with Erika during the season, Dorit revealed that the two have been texting again and that there is still love between them.
“Well, I had reached out to her when I had seen, you know, there were some headlines about her upcoming trial and that firm that bought her trial. I got, you know, really upset and I reached out,” Dorit said. “She messaged me right back with the same warmth that we would even before we ever had any issue. And then she reached out to me weeks later also when the headlines in the press and we talked about getting together very soon and there’s a lot of love there. There’s a lot of love. There’s a lot of history.”
Dorit explained that before their emotional moment in Italy, she and Erika had never really had major issues in their friendship.
“You know, prior to that one moment in Italy, Erika and I didn’t have, we never had a cross word. You know, we’ve always been good,” Dorit said.
That “one moment in Italy” became a major topic on RHOBH, especially because Dorit was already dealing with so much emotionally. The trip took place while Dorit was navigating major stress in her personal life, including her separation from PK and her strained friendship with Kyle.
Dorit said filming through a divorce made everything even more difficult because she was living it in real time while cameras were following her every move.
“So, you know, there’s there was a lot of emotions. It’s been a really challenging couple of years,” Dorit said. “I, by no means, feel like the only woman going through a divorce, of course not, but when you have a camera that is tracking your every move and I’m living real time, you know, and I really wanted things to be good with PK, but we were not communicating and things were difficult.”
Dorit and PK announced their separation in May 2024 after years of speculation about their marriage. Dorit later filed for divorce. In her book, she details the painful breakdown of their relationship, including issues with communication, finances, PK’s drinking and the emotional distance that developed after her 2021 home invasion.
But while Dorit expected filming her marriage struggles to be hard, she admitted she did not expect her friendship with Kyle to become such a major source of pain.
“And then obviously to have the issues with Kyle, which I did not expect going into the season. I thought we really turned a corner,” Dorit said.
Dorit and Kyle’s friendship has been one of RHOBH’s most talked about dynamics. The two were once extremely close, but their relationship became strained as both women dealt with major personal changes. Dorit has said she felt Kyle pulled away, while Kyle appeared frustrated by Dorit’s expectations of their friendship.
That tension played into what Dorit says felt like an ambush in Italy.
“So then to feel that it was I felt blindsided and that’s exactly how I felt by Erika in Italy because I had just been in her room at 2:00 in the morning the night before sitting on her bed in the pitch black. She was getting ready to sleep or I think I may have even woken her up. And you know we talked and everything was good and everything was fine,” Dorit explained.
Dorit said the next day felt completely different.
“And then the next day, just out of nowhere in this desolate town, I think her intention was to kind of get Kyle and I back together, but the,” Dorit said before Evan Real chimed in.
“It felt like an ambush,” Evan said.
