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Ashley Darby reacted to Kyle Richards suggesting that her alleged “flirting” with Mauricio Umansky was “embarrassing” on social media after the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star shaded her amid an appearance on Amazon Live.
Following Sunday’s episode of The Real Housewives of Potomac, which featured Ashley, 37, and her castmates interacting with Mauricio, 55, Kyle’s estranged husband, in Aspen, Kyle, 57, referred to Ashley’s behavior as “weird” and confirmed she’d never go after a husband of a Real Housewives star, which prompted Ashley to speak out.
“I never flirted with Mauricio,” Ashley wrote in a comment shared on a January 21 post from Taste of Reality on Instagram.
During her Amazon Live appearance, Kyle said that while she hadn’t seen Ashley and Mauricio’s encounter on RHOP, she “saw something on Watch What Happens Live.”
“If she was flirting, that’s weird,” Kyle stated. “I would never … be able to date anybody that any of the women – a housewife – dated or married to. That’s just weird. I don’t know. I’m like, ‘You’re embarrassing yourself doing that on camera.’ And he just bumped into them, by the way.”
According to Kyle, she received a message from Ashley’s co-star, Gizelle Bryant, 55, immediately after the cast ran into Mauricio amid their girls’ getaway in Aspen.
“She texted me right away because she felt uncomfortable. So she’s like, ‘Just so you know, we just ran into Mauricio and blah, blah, blah,’ and I was like, ‘All good,’” she shared.
Kyle then noted that “everyone can do what they want” and admitted she “didn’t see” the episode and “shouldn’t really comment.”
What Kyle didn’t comment on was Gizelle saying that she would’ve slept with Mauricio if it weren’t for her ties to Kyle.
“If Mauricio wasn’t connected to Kyle, I would’ve already had sex with Mauricio … I would have definitely pounced on him … He gets the panties, for sure,” she declared on the January 18 episode of the RHOP: After Show. “He is beautiful. And he’s a good time.”
The Real Housewives of Potomac season 10 airs Sundays at 8/7c on Bravo.