RHOBH’s Jennifer Tilly Sheds New Light on “Epic Fight” Between Kyle, Erika, & Dorit

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Jennifer Tilly spoke of an “epic fight” between Kyle Richards, Erika Jayne, and Dorit Kemsley during an interview last week.

While also sharing which Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member she was closest to, addressing her drawn-out feud with Sutton Stracke, 54, and reacting to Kyle’s suggestion that she was fearful of her longtime friend, Jennifer, 67, offered an update on her relationship with Stutton and compared Amanda Frances, 41, and Bozoma “Boz” Saint John, 49, to Meghan Markle, 44.

“It did get very gnarly, and I’m sure it’s no secret because you have heard Kyle and Dorit and Erika talking about it: When we go to Italy, they get into an epic fight. A major, major, major blowout,” Jennifer told Brice Sander for Entertainment Tonight on January 29. “It’s very sad, it’s tragic.”

Although she experienced drama with Sutton, Jennifer said she had a lot of fun filming season 15.

“I had more lunches and things with some of the other ladies. I got to know them a lot better,” she explained. 

As for who she’s closest to, Jennifer spoke of her friendship with Erika, 54, but she named Kathy Hilton, 66, as the person she was closest to aside from Sutton.

“I really like Erika. Erika’s really fun. I’m so in awe of her, her fashion style and her ability to like, knock off a quip like she’s born to it, she’s like a queen … [But] the one I’m closest to right now is Kathy Hilton because we’re both ‘friends of,’” she revealed. 

Looking back at her spat with Sutton, Jennifer said she intervened during the tense cast dinner because she didn’t want so much stress on her friend.

“They edit it a little bit to make it look like Sutton sort of, well, not sort of. Sutton snapped at me. She was very stressed out. Everybody’s coming at her. They didn’t even show how people kept coming back … and I was sitting there, and I thought, ‘I should probably say something,’ because I am Sutton’s bestie and maybe I can divert the conversation,” she explained. 

She then noted that the two of them made up the next morning. 

“She came in, and we hugged it out, talked it out, and it was over, except it wasn’t over because a few days later, Kyle brought it up to Sutton, and then Sutton was bringing it up to other people, and so it got drawn out a little bit more than it should have,” Jennifer continued.

Still, after enduring a game of telephone, Jennifer confirmed she and Sutton were “really good now.”

“She’s a wonderful person [and a] really good friend. And everyone has their moments. It was actually just like a blip. It was a very small [moment],” she clarified, adding that the two of them were closer after hashing things out. 

“[I’m] happy that’s behind us. We’re moving on,” she declared.

Regarding Kyle’s role in her spat with Sutton, Jennifer said, “There’s a reason why Kyle has been a housewife for 15 years,” and she denied Kyle’s suggestion that she was afraid of Sutton or her reactions.

“I do not fear Sutton, and I do not fear her reactions. Obviously, when you have a friend, you want to always be in a happy place, but if you have a really good friend, it’s worth fighting for,” she noted. “Sutton is still working on herself and this season, I really see it with her, like, she doesn’t drink hardly at all anymore … She’s working so hard on herself … She’s finding herself.”

When asked about newbie Amanda, Jennifer said she didn’t “understand what she [was] coming into” when she joined the RHOBH cast.

“I see her sort of looking for common ground, like, how do I behave, and what language do I have in common with these ladies? [But] she’s having missteps,” she shared. “She’s a very decent person, but it is difficult.”

Then, speaking of Amanda having seen just a couple of episodes and Boz having not watched the show at all, Jennifer said she found their lack of research comparable to Meghan’s suggestion that she never Googled Prince Harry, 41.

“It’s like, you’re going to be on the show. Maybe you should watch some episodes of the show to see what you’re getting into,” she advised.

Also during the interview, Jennifer explained her decision to join the cast.

“They would ask me every year … [and] I would always be like, ‘No, no. I’m too busy making important films.’ But then I thought, ‘If I got to the end of my life, I knew I would always regret not being a housewife.’ It’s just such a campy, funny, fun thing to do. And I thought, ‘…This is what I want to do.’ And I’m thrilled to be on the show, and I just think it’s gonna be such a strange, interesting, new thing to do, and I’m totally hooked,” she admitted.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo.