ReWives ReRant: Everything is Personal

Published Jan 11, 2023, 6:25 AM

Bethenny digs deep to uncover her own past with Kim, Kyle and Kathy. How they met, the men they dated, her time as a personal assistant to one of them and everything in between.

And why did Bethenny unfollow Kyle? Find out the truth here.

Yeah, because I did an episode with Corey Spelling about Kim and Kyle and Cathy. I want to go back and explain to you my relationship to the Hilton's and Kyle Richards. I met Kyle, as I mentioned before, at Las Kalo when I was a hostess for like eight dollars an hour at the home of the famous chop Salad, and Kyle and I dated the same person. I was dating him at that time, and I met her because I inquired about her expensive eighteen dollar lank home makeup remover. We became friends and she would come in there with Kathy and they would bring Paris and Nikki and Cam would come sometimes and they would always order the fried Mizzorella. I know it's something mizzarella and karosa that Kyle lived on, lived on when she was pregnant. And she loved the chop salad and love this periode or to Lawanna soup. But she got me into it like this period vegetable soup. She loved the pasta. I just remember this. I don't know why she loved the pasta marian Era. And they all used to come in as a family, and Kathy met Rick when they were in high school and Kim was married to her husband, Greg Davis right probably right out of high school. And I worked for Kathy as a personal assistant at her in her home, taking Paris and Nikki to and from ice skating and to school to the Least Say, which is wild because that's the school that she left when she went to that crazy boarding school. And I used to take Paris and Nikki to get ferrets at the pet store and Rampage, which was like a Forever twenty one at Century City. And I'd also hang out with Kyle and we'd go out at night and we go to the nightclubs like the Gate, and it was the Arrow where she met Maurice, and Kathy was like, you know, I think was at another level. Kyle was living in her mom's apartment on South Swall and I used to come over there and hang out and have the best conversations with her and her mom, and then her mom would watch Fair and then Kyle and I would go out and um, we cried laughing. We had so many crazy stories, like we we went to my twenty fifth birthday together where a guy I was dating didn't get me a present. I was so upset. He didn't even he was like he was like a wealthy older man and not old old, but like for us old. He was probably like thirty five or something. He's a very very wealthy, successful guy, really young. And he came and he didn't even bring me a birthday present, and he didn't even offer to pay for part of um me. He just came to like stop by and say hi. I was like, what that guy, you know, like the big insecton city where he never really does the full thing you need him to do. And Kyle and I were there, and we were in my forward probe and we had all these presents in the car and because all I did was lived to make her laugh, like I just could get you know, I've always been like a clown. So I was like, I didn't even matter that he didn't buy me a present. I don't care, it doesn't even matter. I don't I don't even care. And I started throwing I'm like, I don't this gift, I don't care. I started throwing my presence that I hadn't even opened up out the window of the car, like acting like I didn't care, because like none of the presents meant anything. Because the guy was dating didn't get me a present, and we pulled over on the side of the road and started like picking up my gifts off the highway like it was a funny bit until I realized I had no birthday presents because everyone who had come to my party that did give me a gift. It was now thrown out on the highway. You'll shill the mind you that story. And then one day we went to mobile Mart with Kathy and Nikki after ice skating, and I don't remember what happened, but something happened and the person at the counter was being rude to us or something was going on. I don't remember what was happening. You have to ask Kyle. But I was like causing a fit. I don't remember what the hell I was doing. I was causing a fit, and it was like there was an interaction between Kyle and I and like we're having some sort of an argument. The kids were laughing because they're little kids, and like little kids, Pharaoh's four, So do the math. There is a grown woman now who's like telling multimillion dollar houses with Mauricio on Netflix, and she's got like a g wagon and she was four years old and we're in the mobile mart and we're having this big discussion and someone opens it our on walks and I go, hi, welcome to mobile Mart, like because there's like a full on called comphony argument going on. So Kyle I used to have an amazing time. We She'll kill me for saying this, but we were like this is in my thirties and like all I used we used to go on these hikes every day and like I like fifty pounds of like lascala chops salads every day and bread. And then you know, she met Maurice and then she got married. I was at her wedding and I remember, like it was yesterday seeing Paris Hilton like walked through this long like lioness hair, and Paris was like looking back now, she had all these little kids like following her. She had like a like a like a little entourage in Kyle's wedding, Like she was like the queen of like the little girls. And we had no idea who the hell knew in New York that were written about more even if things had happened in l A, I just don't remember. There was something about her and like Nicole Ritchie driving Rod Stewart's like car or something. I don't remember, but I just used to read perfectly, and but like wait the NICKI and Paris and I used to like babysit. It just went whenever occurred to me the would become famous. I didn't know what famous was. I didn't know what socialites were. I just was standing by watching it and reading and being like, what the actual hell. So anyway, Kyle and I kind of we always were friends, but I got married. She came to my wedding, I went to her wedding. I ended up living in Chicago and being with someone else. We we would lose track for years. So people wonder, like, you know, oh my god, you guys are best friends, and how could you talk about that show? And I didn't say they would never say something negative about them, but like, there were so many years that we were didn't speak and when we would see each other once in a while, when I would come to l A. We were so close in our twenties, but you know how that is then our thirties, not close in our forties, and like life went on. We always knew each other, but we weren't best friends. Same thing with Kathy. I hadn't seen Kathy for years, and I used to watch Paris and Nicki, but I wasn't like there everyday nanny. So one day I run into Kathy at Oscar to Lorenta in the city and she tells somebody else She's like, oh, Bethany was Paris and Nicki's nanny. And I'm like, oh my god, that's so great. I just got like a major up. I just thought I was like working rapping gifts at her store, the staircase she had, the store that used to sell like all these ornaments, these expensive Christopher rag Goo ornaments. This bitch was into this holiday ship and the expensive stuff long before anybody. Like they should all bow down on the housewife she had. She had thirty all her ornaments, how her fucking thirties, like this she had. She had Judith Lieber bags and like Faberge eggs, and was living in Jacqueline Smith's house and like they were not playing any games, okay, Like I was a Ford probe, like I got wearing clothes from rampage. It was another level. So we'd go to her Jacqueline Smith house and it was like so fancy, and she was having her Christmas party then. I mean, she just was born to be a rich man. So um and I used to work in her store the staircase and wrap these gifts, and I was terrible at it. I remember that's when like the boys were born. It was like so long ago. So Kyle and I lost touch on off. We'd see each other's times in l a different relationships. I always really had fun with her. She's always been really funny. Um. I got to know her kids a little bit years later on a brief trip to ask and I had such fun with them. I respect what a close family they are. I always really liked Maurice. I admire that he was worked in the garment industry and came from like a nice family, but not you know, he was success wasn't handed to him. He hustled. He worked for Ricky hustled. I don't actually my understanding of it is he just worked for rick and then went off on his own, which does happen, and it hurts, but it does happen. But that was like a bait, major deal, as you guys all saw on the show. When Kyle was going on the show, I was like going off the show and when she was asking me about doing it. I was kind of turned off that she wanted to do it because I was like turned up by being there and I wanted to leave. And so I remember being at this restaurant and her asking me about it and ME just being like, wait, what like, and it probably sounded like a line that I was like, Oh no, I just want to be out of there. You know, probably sounded like, oh, don't do it, because like I don't want you to do, you know, But I didn't want to be and I did leave. So I always backed up. I'm the I'm the only one who ever really backed up saying I was gonna leave and leaving. People always said Lisa Vanna Pump always said she was gonna leave. Kyle always said she's gonna leave. Everyone always said they're gonna leave. People don't leave unless they really get fired, and Kyle is never in any danger of that. But I used to always say that I didn't like it, and Kyle um she was born to be famous, Like she always was doing her own makeup and like was always looked perfect and was glamorous every day and always had the jewel I have allowed jewelry and watches no one. It's hard to touch me there. But she always had all she always liked the looks good and like she just always looked as like a woman, you know, in her big Mercedes and a woman about town in Beverly Hills, and she just, you know, this is perfect for her. And I used to come to l A and she'd want to go to Craig's or somewhere, and I would just want to be like, not go out where there was going to be paparazzi. I don't know why. I just always made me a little bit uncomfortable. So the way that we were on the show and in the light was just a little bit different, Like we just we just drifted a little bit, not in any kind of negative way. I love Kyle, but because people ask why did I follow her on Instagram, which I'll get into, we just we're living different lives. I just wanted to be off and she was really really immersed in it, wanted to be on, and I wanted to not go to restaurants where the paparazzi was because you know, I don't know, I don't I don't know, have to do my own makeup, and I would she would be like you, she she she would laugh at me, and now she laughed at like I tried to do my own makeup because it's ridiculous. Um, So we just were different in it. And years ago when she was real, like before she was famous, she used to hang out with nick La Shay and Paris and Nikki and run around. And she was in the Utue Hollywood special as the Aunt, and she was in the show with Kathy about like be Kathy Hilton's personal assistant or something. And I was a nobody and I would see Paris and Nicki, but they didn't really remember me. So it was like I was intrigued by that they were Paris and Nikki, the kids that I had babysat, but they didn't give a ship. Like they were living in New York being super uber famous, and I uh used to want to hang out with Kyle and them. It was so intriguing, and I feel like she wanted to protect them and like keep that separate or like when people want to like be around they separated, but so I feel like she separated her life and it just was different. The whole thing was just different. And it's not even totally a blame thing. Just she went like the Fame route and I was nobody. Kathy was. Kim was like on the Fame route because of Paris and Nikkik. He wasn't, but Kim was sort of like the aunt and in those shows and like fame adjacent because of Paris and Nicki. And that's where they met all these different people. And they used to jet said and they go to Vegas all the time, and like it was during that whole time when Nicki Hilton married that guy Um who I knew, Todd Meister, and they were just all living that like crazy l a same life, knowing all the celebrities at all the clubs, and I was nothing. I was nobody, I was broke. I just definitely didn't fit into that. So then I came onto the Housewives, and I became known first, you know, in that regard, and I wanted to leave it because I didn't like it, like I didn't like being there for me, which is why the proof is in the pudding. I left after three seasons. You certainly don't leave the Housewives that's gone on for fifteen seasons after three seasons if you want the light. I just wanted the success. So I left and she was coming in and she was very immersed in it, you know, which is understandable. It's very much her life. She's a you know, she's a uh like the Susan Luke. She have the house, so she's like a career housewife. Shenna be on the housewife, you know, she around the housewives for she's like iconic, you know, she's she's never left. So I was leaving, and then years later I came back. And we always liked seeing each other. We would laugh so hard in New York. One night we went out, and I mean the pictures of me the next day and what I looked like. She was like, I can't believe of the courage to post that. It's it's I look so frightening, it's hysterical. I was like, oh, this is what a night with Kyle looks like. And I looked like I was run over by a train. Um. And then I left again, and you know, she became good friends. She wasn't friends back then. She was always friends to Faye reis Nick and like adjacent with um Chris Jenner, but Paris and and Kim weren't really friends for a long time. Kim became famous because of Paris. Kim was hanging out with Paris during those days. During that that's how she became famous. She went out with Nickola sha It landed in the paper, and you know, Paris was on the front lines. Kim was helping her organizer closet. So Paris Kim was running around with Kim and she went to the Paris Hilton School of Fame and you know, I guess she made her teacher proud. But they kind of divided a little bit. So Kyle wasn't really friends with Chris, and that all happened later Kyle came together to be good friends with Chris and Kathy always rolled in that circle. But I think they've also become much closer and so it was just like a different Hollywood world. She and Maurice like are very you know, they're very high How do I say this in the most positive way? They're very high falutin like they just are. They roll in a very different glamorous way than I do. And um, I left the Housewives, and I didn't really follow a lot of the housewives. It's not that scientific, like it's not it's not you could go I've said this on and Watch It Happens Live. You could go through my Housewives follow and on follow or people fall. I'll follow like a random weirdo dog owner or makeup person. I won't follow someone I know and I'm friendly with. I like Kyle, I care about her um, I find her to be really fun. I like fair, I like her family. UM. But I didn't follow her because it's a lot of like housewife e stuff and I don't really care that much about it. And in no drude way, I don't know that I followed Dory for the same reason. I'm sure she's a lovely person. It just doesn't really have that much to do with me right now. So everyone likes to make a big deal out of everything. But my relationship with Kyle, and also I became friends of Nikki years later, Like one night I went out with Kyle and Nicki was there and we had a nice time, and then I think Nicki invited me to Paris's birthday party and I was wild and they were like, wow, Bethany's fun, and we connected later. It's not like I've been in touch with Paris and Niki since I used to like watch them. I'd like to dine out and pretend that's true. It's not even true, like it happened years later we found each other in like this new iteration of fame and just like like the nostalgia that I used to babysit them, that was like an era all this time. And I was never friends to Kathy. Kathy was paying a check to me for of eight dollars an hour, also for wrapping poorly wrapped Christopher Rago ornaments at a gift store. Like Kathy and gift I mean respectfully to Kathy, she doesn't give a shit about it why and she's always been nice to me, But like we're not on the same level. I was her, I was. I was Kyle's friend, driving a forward probe hostess at Lascala wrapping gifts. In her story, we weren't exactly hob nobbing at the same parties. If I went once to a Christmas party because Kyle invited me years ago, but we were not at the same level. And I ran into her years later and ask him to Lorna, which I said, And then I became friendly or with Kathy because Nikki and I connected and liked each other, and NICKI invited me to her bridle shower and Kathy was there and it was always nice to me. And then now she's on the Housewives, so we reconnected a role in the nostalgia of how I used to work for her. But like that's the whole real story of it. You know, if you go back and look at Housewives the first couple of years, Kyle came onto the Housewives with me. That's vintage. She was in a scene with me. I wonder if they ever earned it, they might have cut it out. It was at a hotel. She came and shot a scene with me at the sixty Thompson Hotel in Beverly Hills. On on when I came to l A for Housewives, Kyle came on the show with me. So that's my relationship with them. So, um, respect love nothing, honestly but love. No. A lot of the family stuff. As I said before, Um, but there's no, there's not. That's the whole real story fact

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