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A source claimed Kyle Richards and Morgan Wade’s “are-they-or-aren’t-they lovers guessing game” was “grinding [the] gears” of her estranged husband Mauricio Umansky, and they shared the alleged reason why he moved on so publicly with Nikita Kahn.
Last month, photos surfaced of Mauricio kissing another woman – reportedly Nikita, a 33-year-old model and actress – at the airport in Mykonos, Greece. Though Kyle and Mauricio separated in the summer of last year, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star didn’t remove “wife” from her bio on Instagram until the images surfaced.
According to a source via Life & Style, Kyle believes that “Mauricio was gallivanting in public with this young chippie to show her what she’s missing,” though the effect was actually the opposite. “This was the end of their marriage right there!”
The source added that Mauricio’s choice to publicly move on with Nikita might have been an attempt to get back at Kyle, whose friendship with Morgan has sparked romance speculation.
Per the insider, it was “really grinding his gears seeing Kyle play this are-they-or-aren’t-they lovers guessing game with Morgan to draw attention to herself.”
“The fact is that Mauricio had really hoped their marriage would fall back into place, but he figured he was a sucker letting grass grow under his feet while Kyle took her time making up her damned mind!” said the source. “Now, he has forced her hand — and he doesn’t feel bad about it one bit!”
Apparently, Kyle felt “humiliated” by the photos, per the source. Meanwhile, she has maintained that she and Morgan are just friends.
On the season finale of RHOBH, Kyle seemingly hinted at what led to her separation from Mauricio.
“With any marriage there’s issues that you have, and they come up, and then something like I said in my interview happened where I did lose my trust,” shared Kyle, via OK! Magazine. “I care about my family first, and I really did try, and then when I couldn’t, the kind of things that I was, I don’t want to say putting up with, just became more apparent to me, I guess I couldn’t do that anymore and I finally just had a breaking point.”
