Lisa Vanderpump is opening up about her decision to leave Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
During her appearance on RuPaul on Monday (June 17), the 58-year-old reality star and businesswoman revealed how her brother Mark’s devastating suicide in May 2018 led to her decision to quit the show.
“It was such a brutal season for me, and it was at a time where I was floundering,” Lisa admitted. “Everybody always says, ‘Oh, you look like you’ve got your life together,’ but I started that show this season like, two or three months after my brother passed. I just wasn’t in the right space.”
Lisa then goes on to say that she wished she had taken a year off to deal with her loss.
“I actually did say, and we talked about it with Andy [Cohen] on Watch What Happens Live — he said: ‘I wish I’d given you the year off,’ ” Lisa recalled. “I just wasn’t as prepared. I found that I couldn’t deal with something that I could normally deal with. So then it just went on and it was accumulative and in the end I just said, ‘I can’t do this anymore. I just can’t.’
Lisa continued: “I think this year, with where my mental state was — and I’ve been very honest about that, I struggled a lot, you know, after my brother’s suicide…The first few months it was really difficult, and I was kind of searching for happiness, so, I think you know … when something really significant happens in your life, maybe it does change you, you know?”
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