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Dorit Kemsley is firing back at Amanda Frances, who suggested she was intimidated by her since she was “young and successful and not financially dependent on a man” on Thursday night’s episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
After Amanda, 41, slammed Dorit, 49, for outsourcing her financial well-being to her now-estranged husband, Paul “PK” Kemsley, 58, Dorit suspected Amanda was lashing out at her due to jealousy, as she pointed out that she was a businesswoman and doesn’t need to “tear other women down” to feel better about herself.
“If I had to think about it, maybe she’s a little jealous … Have you looked at me?” Dorit asked on the February 19 episode of the RHOBH: After Show.
She then denied that she outsourced her financial well-being.
“That’s not true. I am a businesswoman. I’ve started, built, ran companies. When I met PK, I had my own company. PK had just filed for bankruptcy. PK did not have a dime when I met him,” she clarified.
Dorit also noted that despite going through “a really sh*tty time,” she was still a girl’s girl.
“I can still depend on women, be transparent, be open, be honest. I mean, I’m supporting myself and my children. And I don’t need to tear other women down to feel better about myself. That to me is, a woman that has to do that, to me, I feel like it’s because they’re jealous,” she concluded.
Reflecting on Amanda’s comment about Dorit outsourcing her financial well-being to PK in a clip of her own, Erika Jayne, 54, admitted, “I thought she was talking about me.”
“I am so happy to find out she was talking about Dorit cuz I had my answer ready, girl,” she declared as Rachel Zoe, 54, said Amanda’s husband Eddie’s statement about Dorit being intimidated by Amanda’s youth “made [her] die.”
“But don’t you think he said that just to make her feel better?” she wondered.
Meanwhile, the rest of the cast, including Sutton Stracke, 54, and Kyle Richards, 57, agreed that they didn’t think anyone in the group was jealous of anyone else.
In her own segment, Amanda recalled a past conversation she had with Dorit and Bozoma “Boz” Saint John, 49, in which Dorit admitted that she allowed PK to control their finances.
“She wasn’t involved in it at all, and she has no understanding of investment accounts, retirements, all the things I was asking her, which is why I encouraged her, get your head on straight, decide who you’re gonna be in the situation,” Amanda explained. “Not knowing what’s going on with your money is a bad place to be. Yeah, I would call that outsourcing financial well-being.”
Although jealousy came up in her discussion about Dorit with Eddie, Amanda said, “That wasn’t what I was thinking.”
“None of these words cross my mind,” she shared. “[But] I do think outsourcing your financial well-being to any human besides you is not a good plan, even if your husband is the one that makes the money, you need to always know what’s going on with money. I do not think women should turn a blind eye to anything that is important in their life, including finances, absolutely not. Do I think that made her intimidated? I don’t know.”
According to Amanda, she doesn’t understand the “skepticism” Dorit and some of their castmates had “around [her] being happy [and] around [her] life looking good.”
“My life is full in every way … I have everything I ever wanted. My life is really good, and it’s weird to me that no one could accept that as a real possibility, like, something someone can actually have,” she explained. “When other women win, I celebrate them. So why was it met with, ‘Her life can’t actually be good.’ Like, what is that about, to assume that someone’s life can’t be good and they can’t actually be happy? Isn’t that a bizarre take?”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
