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Annemarie Wiley shaded Bravo’s depiction of her life while discussing her exit from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills at an event over the weekend.
Over a month after she confirmed her departure from the series after just one season, Annemarie, 41, offered an update on how she’s been in the weeks since, stating that producers offered fans a “one-dimensional” look at her life, rather than a well-rounded story of who she really is.
“I feel amazing now,” Annemarie told PEOPLE at the Homeboy Industries’ Lo Maximo 2024 Awards Dinner on Saturday, April 27. “I feel so good. I’m in a great space. I have so many super exciting things coming up that really align with who I am, like really positive, inspirational and motivational things … people are going to get to see who I am, and I’m really excited for that.”
According to Annemarie, she didn’t have the chance to show her true self on RHOBH.
“That was a very interesting year of my life,” she explained. “There were a lot of really personal things that happened to me while we were filming that the viewers, unfortunately, didn’t get to see, like my mom being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and me battling my adoption trauma.”
“[I] wanted to be somebody that was really relatable to people,” she continued, noting that “people didn’t get to see [her].”
“They didn’t get a sense of who I was at all,” she added. “I didn’t have a personal story that was shown, so that was really unfortunate.”
When Annemarie announced her exit from RHOBH weeks ago on Instagram, she shared her hopes for her role on the show.
“What I am is a woman — a proud Black woman — who is truly blessed with a wonderful strong Black man as my husband, who lifts me and our four wonderful children up with so much love and positivity on the daily,” she wrote. “It was an important mission of mine for the next season to show a solid Black family unit and that ‘true Black love’ exists, even in Beverly Hills.”
Moving on to the claims against her husband, Marcellus Wiley, 49, who was accused of rape and sexual assault last November, which he denied, Annemarie said she didn’t believe the claims played a role in Bravo’s decision to part ways with her.
“I don’t think so. I think they just, for whatever reason, wanted to just make it a one-dimensional storyline and didn’t want to show me,” she suspected. “I can’t answer why they didn’t want to show my life, but you live and learn and you take everything and you turn it into a positive, and you do better with your next opportunity.”
Looking ahead to her future, Annemarie said she has “a lot” she’s doing.
“I’m a mom of four. I’m a professional. I’m a CRNA. I’m a former athlete. I am super into health and fitness,” she says. “I have a non-profit foundation with my husband called Project Transition, where we work with youth in underserved communities.”
Following Annemarie’s firing, Crystal Kung-Minkoff, 41, confirmed she, too, would not be featured on season 14.