‘RHOBH’ RECAP: Kyle Richards Dismisses Crystal’s Feelings & Calls Her ‘Dramatic’ In Heated Fight!
‘RHOBH’ RECAP: Kyle Richards Dismisses Crystal’s Feelings & Calls Her ‘Dramatic’ In Heated Fight!
On Wednesday night’s episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, a fight between Kyle Richards and Crystal Kung Minkoff turned ugly, after Kyle labeled Crystal “too dramatic,” and dismissed her feelings.
“Crystal, you’re being too dramatic about this,” Kyle told Crystal in front of their RHOBH co-stars during a cast trip to Palm Springs, California, “Each situation is different.”
Crystal fired back with, “I never said we have the same situation. I’m triggered by what’s happening right now. That’s all.”
The hostile exchange started after Crystal spoke up about perceived “hypocrisy” in the group and explained when Kyle told Sutton Stracke she wasn’t “empathetic” in her reaction to Dorit Kemsley’s scary home invasion.
“It’s really inappropriate to tell someone they feel wrong,” Crystal shared in a talking head confessional. “To me, that is ultimate gaslighting and that makes me distrusting in a friendship.”
Crystal then used a previous incident with Sutton to demonstrate Kyle’s dismissive behavior towards her plight.
In season 11, Crystal accused Sutton of barging into her bedroom unannounced while she was undressed — claims she felt “violated,” by the intrusion. At the time, Kyle didn’t validate Crystal’s feelings and told her she was overreacting by using the word “violated,” to describe her feelings about the incident.
Crystal later admitted that she was triggered over someone seeing her naked because of eating disorder struggles and felt that was overlooked by this group of ladies.
“You guys will never validate someone’s feelings unless you can understand it. That’s the truth. I’ve expressed so much about my history and my pain to tell you guys how I feel and you guys don’t listen and you don’t care. And it’s fine. I don’t need that honestly,” she asserted.
Crystal then said she didn’t feel “safe” in this space, and did not want to be there and was leaving Kyle’s Palm Springs home.
“This is not OK for me. It’s not a good place for me. I really don’t want to be here, honestly. I never thought this was going to happen tonight, never. It’s too dramatic and I don’t like it,” she continued. “But I really can’t be here.”
Kyle jumped up and tried to talk Crystal out of leaving, “Your feelings are not not validated,” she said. But it didn’t work because Crystal left anyway with Sutton and Diana Jenkins in tow.
“I had an eating disorder and then it’s like it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter how Crystal feels. I never look for people to validate me,” she told Sutton and Diana on the way to their hotel.
“I don’t care in general but to have a gang of people you can’t feel that way is very intense. I’m in my feelings.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Wednesday nights, at 8 p.m. ET, on Bravo.
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