Kyle Richards Explains Cryptic Post Amid Divorce From Mauricio Umansky

Kyle Richards posted a cryptic message to social media about saying goodbye – but denied it had anything to do with her recent divorce from husband Mauricio Umansky.

Saying goodbye is such a sweet sadness Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 54, wrote through her Instagram story on Friday, July 7, next to a since-deleted photo of trees during a trip to Aspen, Colorado.

Richards later clarified the meaning behind the post. “This had to do with us having to leave Aspen! 🤦🏻‍♀️ removed,” she commented Page six‘s official Instagram upload about her photo from Colorado.

Her post comes three days after the duo celebrated July 4 with two of their four daughters — Alexia, 27, and Portia, 15 — in Aspen. (The couple are also parents to daughter Sophia, 23. Richards shares her eldest daughter, Farrah, 34, with ex-husband Guraish Aljufrie.)

“Happy Independence Day. Hope everyone has a great day 🙂 🤠🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸,” Umansky, 53, captioned a slideshow of photos and videos on Tuesday, July 4, which includes one of him and Richards posing with their dog. Umansky can still be seen wearing his wedding ring in the sweet photo.

Earlier this month, Us weekly confirmed that the couple – who tied the knot in 1996 – had split after 27 years of marriage. “Kyle and Mauricio have been separated for a while but are currently still living together,” a source told us exclusively on Monday, July 3, adding that the duo are “amicable as they figure out next steps.”

Later that day, Richards increased Instagram to make it clear that while she and Umansky decided to separate, they had no plans to divorce. “As for the news that has come out about us today… All the claims about us separating are untrue,” she wrote Monday. “But yes, we have had a tough year. The most challenging of our marriage. But we both love and respect each other immensely.”

She further stated that there was “no wrongdoing on anyone’s part” besides asking for privacy. “While it can be fun to speculate, please don’t create false stories to fit an otherwise salacious narrative,” Richards concluded her post.

The divorce of the exes had previously been predicted by psychics Allison Du Bois during the RHOBH season 1 episode titled “Dinner Party From Hell.” At the meeting, DuBois, 51, claimed that Richards and Umansky would break up because he could never “emotionally fulfill” her.

The medium told this exclusively earlier this week Us that she was saddened to learn of the couple’s split, despite her prediction being correct. “These are the predictions that are being made that sometimes make people unhappy that if they are confirmed it doesn’t make you feel good. It’s like predicting death, but death of a relationship,” she shared on Thursday, July 6, adding that she stands by her original prediction.

Earlier this year, Richards downplayed rumors that she and her estranged husband had split after she was spotted not wearing her wedding ring as she left the gym. “I didn’t wear my big diamond ring because there’s a lot of crime these days and I thought, ‘I’m not comfortable,'” she explained to Page six in April. “And B, I just got out of the gym lifting weights, so I was like ‘That thing caused that?'”

Farrah, for her part, called the divorce rumors “stories,” tellingly Page six that same month: “People are going to find something and try to make a story out of it. And I feel like we’ve already been through so much at this point. I mean, who cares?

Umansky also weighed in on the split speculation. He shared with Us exclusive in April that he and Richards had to “work” on their relationship despite having “a great marriage”. He continued: “We have been very, very lucky. Right now we’re both very, very busy and we just need to get on with it and work at it.