“I believe it thickened her pores and skin quite a bit, too, so it is a very troublesome present to get by way of emotionally,” the actor says of his spouse’s Actual Housewives expertise.
Over two years after Lisa Rinna introduced her departure from The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills, Harry Hamlin is reflecting on his spouse’s resolution.
Whereas talking with Us Weekly, the actor opened up about Rinna’s exit from the Bravo sequence, praising her resolution to go away.
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“Greatest resolution we ever made was for her to bow out after eight seasons, and she or he made that call. However it’s a breath of contemporary air at this second,” Hamlin mentioned throughout his interview with the outlet, through which he was selling his and niece Renee Guilbault’s The Open Meals Firm and their cooking present, Within the Kitchen With Harry Hamlin.
Rinna, 61, first joined RHOBH in 2014 for Season 5 and introduced her exit in January 2023, after showing on the fact present for eight seasons.
“We had been all the time a bit of circumspect about her doing it to start with. I used to be, for certain,” Hamlin, 73, informed Us Weekly. “However as a branding alternative, it turned out to be nice for her. I believe it thickened her pores and skin quite a bit, too, so it is a very troublesome present to get by way of emotionally.”
“However she did it and we’re nonetheless standing,” he added.

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Following the conclusion of Season 12, Rinna revealed her departure in a press release. She stop the sequence after her contract expired, with RHOBH even exhibiting her resignation letter in the present’s Season 13 premiere.
“That is the longest job I’ve held in my 35-year profession and I’m grateful to everybody at Bravo and all these concerned within the sequence,” Rinna mentioned within the assertion. “It has been a enjoyable eight-year run and I’m excited for what’s to return!”
On the time, her rep added, per Us Weekly, “On condition that Lisa’s contract was up on the finish of final season, and after taking the time to weigh her present choices and enterprise obligations, Lisa and Bravo have mentioned and mutually determined that she is not going to be returning to RHOBH.”
Throughout an look on The Jennifer Hudson Present in March 2024, Rinna mentioned she’d “by no means” return to RHOBH.

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“No, by no means. No I would not,” Rinna mentioned rapidly and firmly. “I am grateful for that present. I am the individual I’m at this time due to it, however I will by no means return. Nope, I did it. Did it, accomplished it, noticed the film.”
Nevertheless, throughout a latest episode of her and Hamlin’s Let’s Not Speak Concerning the Husband podcast, she admitted she’d probably be enthusiastic about returning … for the best greenback quantity.
“I imply, if a billionaire sugar daddy got here alongside and mentioned, ‘You need to do Housewives and I’ll pay you $25 million,’ I’d say, ‘OK, advantageous, certain,'” Rinna mentioned, including that “it must be a lot” cash.
In the meantime, Hamlin mentioned he would “not in any approach endorse” Rinna going again on RHOBH.
“I used to be there throughout these eight years. I used to be with you the entire approach. I do know what it took out of you. I do know what it gave you,” he mentioned. “I do know what it took away. Understanding that, I’d not in any approach endorse you going again to that present.”
“It took quite a bit out of you, out of me, out of all the things,” he added. “It did not offer you again as a lot because it took away. You did not come out of it forward, should you ask me.”