Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Dorit Kemsley is speaking about staying on the Bravo show. She became a part of the cast in Season 7, which aired in 2016.
She details her decision-making process in her upcoming memoir, Unburdened. The book will be out Tuesday, June 2.
The reality star reveals all in her new memoir
In an excerpt of the book, according to Us Weekly, Dorit wrote she almost quit the show after her first season.
After a cast trip to Hong Kong, she came home to her husband, PK, and said, “I never want to do that again. Ever.”
It wasn’t just confrontations with her fellow castmates, but being shook and disoriented by the experience.
On the trip, there was no time for restoration with the cameras and schedules. “Conversations that didn’t end when emotions rose, only shifted locations,” she recalled. “A sense that whatever happened would live on, replayed and dissected long after the moment itself had passed.”
Dorit writes that she didn’t like the version of herself she saw in the early episodes. “Seeing the gap between how I felt and how I appeared was deeply unsettling,” she wrote.
When asked if she’d return for another season, Dorit wrote she did it for PK, as he was genuinely proud of her. “He loved seeing me step into the alluring world of television: the events, the fashion, the travel, the visibility. But beyond that, there was something strategic about it that he immediately understood.” She writes that the visibility is valuable, as it opens doors, builds leverage and creates social and professional opportunities.
Dorit knew if she stayed, she’d have to adapt. “I had to learn how to hold my ground without reacting, listen without immediately defending, speak clearly without overexplaining myself into exhaustion, and protect my peace without dimming my personality or warmth. The woman who walked into season 7 believing everything would resolve itself naturally was already shifting,” she wrote.
As she became sharper, she wrote that she gained clarity. “And that, more than pride, visibility, or even the fear of quitting, is why I stayed,” she writes.
Dorit filed for divorce from PK in April of last year.
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