Lisa Rinna and Camille Grammer—two names synonymous with high drama, savage shade, and legendary Real Housewives of Beverly Hills meltdowns—have officially buried the hatchet. And in a rare twist of Housewives’ fate, they did it without launching it straight between each other’s shoulder blades.
If you watched RHOBH season 9, you already know the backstory: Camille Grammer stormed off the reunion, dubbed the cast “the witches of Eastwick,” and spent the better part of a year retweeting her rage across the Housewives Twitterverse. Lisa Rinna, never one to back down from a clapback, famously confronted Camille at Kyle Richards’ lavish gala, telling her, “Hi Camille, how are you? You’ve been an asshole on Twitter” and citing her infamous “class vs. trash” tweet and “coven of witches” digs.
Camille, for her part, fired back with a sarcastic, “That’s not a great hello,” before telling cameras, “Who’s the asshole? Uh, Rinna, it’s you. If you don’t want to talk to me now, I guess I’m just going to have to tweet about this later.”
It was Housewives’ peak pettiness, and from that point on, fans assumed these two would never speak again unless they were subtweeting each other into oblivion.
Enter Let’s Not Talk About the Husband, where Lisa casually revealed she ran into Camille Grammer and hugged her.
“I see her, and I’m like, ‘Oh, there’s Camille.’ Not like, ‘Oh, there’s Camille.’ It’s like, ‘Oh, there’s Camille,’” Lisa recalled, before revealing that she walked right up to her former frenemy and hugged her.
Understandably stunned, Camille looked at her like she had just witnessed a unicorn in a Chanel blazer. “I said, ‘Camille, you know what? We gave them a really good show. We did our jobs. Cheers to us.’”
And just like that, the ice started to melt.
Lisa continued, “She looked at me like, ‘You know what? You’re right. We did do our jobs.’ We were the sacrificial lambs to this show… At the end of the day, you came out with bandages and bruises all over you, but they’ve healed now.”
It wasn’t a backhanded apology. It was an actual moment of clarity.
Lisa’s reflection on their years of televised conflict wasn’t just about Camille but all of them. “Now that I’ve had two years away from it, I don’t dislike these people. I had to work with them in a way to make a television show that was prickly… but we did our jobs.”
That sentiment marks a major departure from the scorched-earth style of many Housewives exits. Rinna is clearly in her reflective era. She even floated the idea of hosting a sit-down with all her former co-stars—yes, even Lisa Vanderpump—to acknowledge the emotional shrapnel left behind.
“I think that we all need to heal from the experience of what we did in that moment,” she explained. “We were doing what was asked of us, and the collateral damage is a shame… that shouldn’t be left with us.”
She knows that filming such a moment might sound a little Bravo-cynical, but the intention felt pure. “It isn’t even about me exactly… I think there’s work to do there,” she said, referring to that surprising reunion with Camille.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Camille is still very much in her “I’ll tweet about this later” era, and the last time we checked, Dorit Kemsley compared her to a snake slithering out during fire season. But Lisa’s shift is noteworthy—and maybe contagious.
“I just would like to be clean about it,” Lisa said, adding that she’s already made peace with former castmate Kathy Hilton. “Life is too short to have this be the final chapter.”
And honestly, can we get an amen?
Watching Lisa Rinna and Camille Grammer step off their soapboxes for a second and acknowledge the fourth wall—“We were just doing our jobs”—feels like Housewives therapy. Messy, raw, and vulnerable enough to make you rewatch season 9 with a whole new lens.
It’s easy to get caught up in Twitter battles and reunion takedowns, but this podcast episode reminded us that behind the glam squads and glam shots are actual women navigating real wounds from a very unreal world.
So, here’s hoping this newfound clarity sticks. And if we do get that full cast healing circle Lisa proposed? Just know we’ll be watching with popcorn in one hand and a tweet drafted in the other—because Housewives peace is always good TV, much like Housewives chaos.
And to quote Lisa again: “We gave them a really good show. Cheers to us.”
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