Lisa Rinna Blames ‘RHOBH’ Fan Hatred On Her Own Commitment To Honesty!

Lisa Rinna is famous for stirring up drama on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and often gets slammed by fans for her actions. The reality star revealed in a recent interview that she believes that viewers are just reacting to her “honest” take on the unfolding drama.     

Rinna was asked about fans crossing lines after watching an “edited” version of the longtime actress. 

“So you don’t really get to see a full 360 view of how I am in all different situations, because of the way the show operates. We operate in a way where you’re in certain situations that maybe I’m not necessarily in on a daily basis in my life,” Rinna explained in an interview with Newsweek.  

She added—“The show does show you a side of me that isn’t really the side of me that everybody lives with on a daily basis. I’m more fun. I’m calmer. I think the skew happens for the fan base as they think I’m much more angry and mean than I really am in life. I’m just reacting off of what I’m being thrown on the show.”

Rinna admitted that she is often called “angry” or “mean” by viewers, but attributes the backlash to unsurprising reactions to raw honesty.  

“Oh, I get that more than anything,” she confessed. “Because I’m honest. And I’ll tell you what, no one’s more heated than someone who’s honest. The truth is a tough pill for people to take. I’m honest and people would prefer me not to be and I’d be liked a lot more, but that’s not what you’re ever going to get. What you see is what you get with me. Most people don’t like that because they don’t want to know the truth. I think, in a nutshell, that’s why I’m so polarizing on the show. You either love me or you hate me. There’s really no in between.” 

Rinna explained that her first acting teacher called her out for not having a point of view and for being afraid to express herself. 

“So that was probably one of the greatest critiques I’ve ever had in my life,” the Bravo star shared. “By the time I got to Housewives, it was like free rein. Housewives is like, we want you to think out loud and to say how you feel. So then the floodgates opened, and all of a sudden, I was able to really exercise what that teacher had said to me when I was 24 years old.”

Rinna teased that the currently unfolding season of RHOBH will prove to be  “one of the best seasons ever.”

“I think it’s one of the best seasons ever. I really do,” Rinna dished. “There’s so much that goes on that is real. My mom’s passing and Dorit’s home invasion. Erika and what she’s going through and still going through. There’s just so many real issues that we’re dealing with. And then what goes off of that, it’s beyond.”

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Wednesdays at 8 pm, ET, on Bravo.

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