Kyle Richards‘ heartbreak was written all over her face during today’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills panel at BravoCon. While discussing the current state of her marriage with Mauricio Umansky, the reality star broke down in tears.
According to Richards, she and her husband have a lot of “love” for each other and despite being separated, they are continuing to live under the same roof along with three of their four daughters. During an emotional moment in front of fans, Richards praised their “strong family unit.”
“We’re just trying to figure it out. We know that we love each other,” she said, struggling to finish her sentence through the tears. “I just want to say that a lot of people think, ‘What’re you doing? Pull it together. Fix everything.’ Obviously, that’s what I would want. This is not my idea of my fairytale, clearly.”
Richards was handed tissues as the audience began to chant her name. Once she composed herself, she thanked fans for their support — however, it wasn’t long before she became choked up again.
During a conversation about the new season of RHOBH, Richards admitted she was shocked when her castmates began to question her marriage on camera.
“I didn’t expect to have anybody bring up my marriage on camera,” she said. “I wasn’t ready to talk about something that was very difficult. I didn’t know how to navigate it without a camera so I was just trying to figure it all out. When it first came up, it was very difficult for me and my family so that was what threw me off in the beginning.”
While talking about her family and her struggle to acknowledge what was going on in her relationship with Umansky, the beloved Bravolebrity became emotional again.
“I didn’t think it was necessary to bring up on camera. I really didn’t,” she reiterated to her castmates, before saying through tears, “It’s something, my marriage and my family that we built, is one of my biggest accomplishments so it was very hard to acknowledge it.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs every Wednesday night on Bravo.