In her acting comeback, Kyle Richards had one question: 'How far do you need me to go?'
LOS ANGELES — During a meeting earlier this month with the executives behind "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," Kyle Richards started bawling. She had, she said, "a total meltdown about the show" she has been part of for 11 years.
Outside of the Bravo reality series, she has a happy life. She and her husband, Mauricio Umansky — founder of the real estate brokerage the Agency — have been married for 25 years. Portia, the youngest of their four children, was just bat mitzvahed this month. She has five dogs, two live-in house assistants and resides in an $8.2 million Encino mansion that once belonged to Smokey Robinson.
And, 15 years removed from her last serious role, on "ER," she's returning to the job that first made her famous as a child star: acting. She has a prominent supporting role in the horror sequel "Halloween Kills," now in theaters and streaming on Peacock, reprising a character she originated in the 1978 genre classic. In December, she and Betsy Brandt will co-lead a Christmas movie for Peacock called "The Housewives of the North Pole." They play two best friends who begin feuding after years of dominating a local house-decorating contest.
Which sounds rather tame compared to the real-life intrigue that has transpired this season on "Real Housewives." And that's what's been getting Richards so upset. Not the drama on show, mind you, but the criticism from viewers who don't like how she's handled said drama.
"It does just feel like too much sometimes, all of the
