‘RHOBH’ Recap: Kyle Richards Mauricio Umansky Fight Details
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills provides more insight into what went wrong Kyle Richards And Mauricio Umanski‘s marriage.
“Mau gets a lot of DMs from women, they don’t care that he’s married, and they’re always the aggressor,” Kyle, 54, revealed during the Wednesday, January 10 episode of the Bravo series. “It just makes you realize there are a lot of assholes out there.”
During the episode, the women went to Ojai, California, for a wine tasting to celebrate Annemarie Wiley‘his birthday. The costars played a game during lunch, and Sutton Stracke drew a card that read, “What is appropriate for husbands when it comes to communicating with other women on social media?”
All the women quickly agreed that it is not appropriate for married men to engage in such behavior online.
Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky were married for more than two decades before shocking fans with their divorce in 2023. Richards was previously married to Guraish Aldjufrie, with whom she shares daughter Farrah, from 1988 to 1992. She met Umansky in 1994, and the couple exchanged vows two years later. Richards was four months old […]
“I had a fight with Mau about that, I hate that,” Kyle said. “You don’t like ‘liking’ people’s photos, following people.” (Kyle and Mauricio have endured frequent cheating rumors over the years, but they have denied any incidents of infidelity.)
“But what does communication mean?” Sutton, 52, asked, to which Kyle replied, “Not just DMing, that’s like no. … But you don’t have to follow everyone and ‘like’ all their photos either. I don’t like that at all. Not at all.”
We weekly confirmed in July 2023 that Kyle and Mauricio, 53, had split after 27 years of marriage. They spoke about their split in a joint Instagram statement at the time, telling their followers that the decision was made after “a difficult year” together.
“We both love and respect each other immensely. There has been no misconduct by anyone,” they concluded. “Although we are in the public eye, we ask to be able to resolve our issues privately.”
A source said Us in November 2023 that Kyle and Mauricio had yet to hire divorce lawyers, but RHOBH season 13 has shown some ups and downs in the duo’s marriage before they pulled the plug.
Elsewhere in Wednesday’s episode, Kyle hosted an event with the National Alliance on Mental Illness to honor her late friend. Lorene Shea on the first anniversary of her death. (Lorene died by suicide in May 2022.)
Kyle was joined at the event by her four daughters – she shares Alexia, 27, Sophia, 23, and Portia, 15, with Mauricio and eldest daughter Farrah Aldjufrie with ex-husband Guraish Aldjufrie – but Mauricio was noticeably absent.
“Mau can’t be here because he had to go out of town on business,” Kyle explained in her confessional. “If this had been a few years ago, I would have really relied on him on a night like tonight.”
Garcelle Beauvais noted that Mauricio’s absence “says a lot about where [Kyle’s] relationship.”
Kyle also recalled that two days before her death, Lorene told her to “always appreciate your marriage.”
“I said, ‘I’ll do it,’” Kyle added. “So now that we’re going through a hard time, I think I’m going to abandon her.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs on Bravo Wednesdays at 8pm ET.