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Kyle Richards opened up about her potentially impending departure from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills during an interview last week.
After wrapping her 15th season of the Bravo reality series, Kyle, 56, who briefly walked away from production amid the show’s 14th season after her split from Mauricio Umansky, 55, said the “day obviously will come” when it’s time for her to walk away from her role.
“It’s been a long time. 15 years. It really is. It’s a long time. I don’t know how long this can go on, how long I can go on for,” she admitted to PEOPLE on October 23.
According to Kyle, she’s considered quitting RHOBH at “different times” throughout her years on the show.
“I think season 2, season 5. I can think of a number of seasons where I almost walked away,” she shared. “But 15 years is a long time and there’s things I want to do, and it takes up a lot of time. And Portia [Umansky] is going to college, so who knows.
Kyle shares three daughters, including Alexia Umansky, 29, Sophia Umansky, 25, and Portia Umansky, 17, with Mauricio, and an older daughter, Farrah Aldjufrie, 37, with first husband Guraish Aldjufrie.
Earlier this year, after her temporary exit from RHOBH, Kyle spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about what prompted the break from filming.
“I just didn’t have it in me anymore. I was at a point where I was so depressed,” Kyle explained. “I’m not someone who gets depressed. I’ve had anxiety my entire life but never depression. I really felt like I was struggling with depression, and I expressed that. And I just felt like I could not go into scenarios all the time and just have everyone coming at me.”
“People I thought were my friends, all of a sudden it felt like they weren’t. I just felt like it was too much with what was going on in my life and I thought, ‘Why would I subject myself to this? I don’t know why I’m continuing to do this,’” she continued. “It was absolutely the closest I’ve ever gotten to not coming back to the show.”
As for why she returned, Kyle explained that she didn’t want to experience another loss amid the dissolution of her marriage.
“I know that after 14 years of being on this show, [production has been] family to me, and through all my ups and downs, [they] have been a constant in my life. And I thought to myself … ‘What would I do if all of a sudden that’s removed from my life too?’” she recalled on the RHOBH: After Show. “I [felt] like, at [that] point, I didn’t want there to be another loss.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 is expected to premiere on Bravo later this year.