Garcelle RHOBH Calls Out Kyle’s ‘Shady’ Response to ‘Lesbian’ Comment

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills‘ Garcelle Beauvais calls a costar Kyle Richards.

Kyle, 56, recently described Garcelle as “hole” on the RHOBH After Show after Garcelle, 58, appeared to encourage her to come out as a lesbian during a pep talk on the Tuesday, January 14, episode from the Bravo reality show. (Kyle’s friendship with the singer Morgan Wade has been a hot topic of speculation over the past two seasons.)

During a group visit to Chuck E. Cheese with Kyle, Erika Jayne53, s Sutton Strakealso 53, on last week’s episode, Garcelle told Kyle, “Be whoever you want to be. If you want to be a lesbian, be a lesbian,” while offering advice to Kyle in the midst of it separated from her husband Mauricio Umansky.

Speaking to TMZ on Tuesday, January 21, Garcelle said she was surprised by Kyle’s strong response because “I wasn’t saying it was malicious,” adding that her comment wasn’t necessarily to spark a discussion about Kyle’s sexuality but “more about, we are powerful women, we can be whatever we want to be.”

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“It wasn’t a dig. It was to inspire her to do whatever she wanted to do,” said the Missing Black Girl actress continues.

Garcelle added of Kyle’s reaction, “It’s so funny because we laughed about it afterwards, so for her to say that was pretty shady.”

For her part, Kyle said she was thrown by Garcelle’s choice of words. “What was really going through my head was, ‘You’re being an a-hole right now.’ Don’t try to act like a whoopie-y daisy. You know exactly what you’re doing,” Kyle told Erika on the RHOBH After Show.

“I thought, ‘If you think you’re going to get a reaction from me, or I’m going to be raped, I’m not,'” Kyle added. “It’s nothing I haven’t seen in tabloids and stuff.”

Garcelle also addressed his comments during the After Show when talking to Sutton and Jennifer Tillyrepeating that she was trying to encourage Kyle to live her life without worrying about other people’s opinions. “We get to be who we are at this age,” she said. “You don’t have to worry so much about what other people think of us.”

On the After ShowKyle also claimed that Garcelle was unapologetic about the comment. “She said, ‘I can’t believe I said that,'” Kyle told Erika. “I was like, ‘Yeah.’”