Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky.Photo:Jesse Grant/Getty
Jesse Grant/Getty
Kyle Richardsis setting the record straight afterMauricio Umanskytold theirdaughtersshe encouraged him to date amid their separation.
Richards explained, “It wasn’t encouraged. It was, you know, I’d rather, you know, say that if we’re going to be separated — say that so that way I don’t have to feel hurt. And that’s easier said than [done].”
Mauricio Umansky, Kyle Richards, Farrah Brittany, Alexia Umansky and Sophia Umansky.Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images
Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images
In theBuying Beverly Hillsclip, Umansky sat down with his two older daughtersAlexia, 27, andSophia, 24, and Richards' daughterFarrah Brittany, 35, from her first marriage. (The couple also share daughterPortia, 15.)
Explaining their decision to separate, The Agency CEO told the girls, “I hadan amazing 26 years with your mom, an amazing 26 years,” adding: “I wanted to do everything possible to just save it.”
He claimed Richards had asked for “space” before telling him, “You go out, you date, you do whatever it is that you want to do. I’m not going to be asking what you’re doing, I don’t want you to be asking me what I’m doing … we are separated.”
PEOPLE first broke the news ofthe couple’s separationlast July 3 — a day that played out onRHOBH’s finale this Wednesday.
Richards said in a confessional interview during the episode: “When the PEOPLE magazine article came out, I was with Mo and the girls and all of our phones just started blowing up.
She continued, “Mo was really focused on who gave the story and I was more focused on how it was affecting all of us. I saw Alexia start to cry. We got in the car, all of us, and it was this weird … like, nobody knew what to do or say.”
She added, getting emotional, “It just felt like my whole life was over in that moment. The life as I knew it.”
Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky.Todd Williamson/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
Todd Williamson/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
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source: people.com
