Lisa Vanderpump doesn’t hold a grudge, she merely proceeds with caution after being warned (Except when it comes to drink-addled DJs on Vanderpump Rules). After being accused of manipulation and lies by former friends and co-stars Lisa Rinna and Eileen Davidson, Lisa approached season seven of Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills with hesitations.
Not because she is unwilling to forgive, but because she is unwilling to go like a lamb to slaughter to another season. I hope Lisa has her Louboutins outfitted with switchblade stilettos! “Time is the best healer as the old adage goes,” Lisa muses, “But when Kyle [Richards] states once again that I hold a grudge, it seems that maybe she has little understanding of the experience last year.”
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“I believe when somebody shows you who they are and viciously attacks you, relentlessly, you have good reason to remember, to embrace those feelings of trepidation in regard to bonding with that person again,” explains LVP. “That is not ‘holding a grudge,’ it is protecting yourself from the emotional lambasting I had endured from happening again.”
After seven years on RHOBH, Lisa has gotten used to constantly reinventing that protective covering and expresses her shock that the innocent adventure of joining Bravo all those years ago “has almost become a way of life.”
“A way of life, that at times, as I have immersed myself completely, has had extraordinary ramifications, emotional challenges, and incredible benefits,” she clarifies. “I feel the need to explain the dichotomy that I managed to reconcile after the battering I received last year.”
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“To have your life documented with such huge exposure also brings some amazing chances,” continues Lisa. “We highlighted our fight against Yulin last year and continue to do so (I was truly grateful for the support we received around the world), stood up for gay rights each year on Vanderpump Rules, and witnessed marriage equality when I ordained a wedding two years ago. I reaped the benefits of this public platform and wholeheartedly took center stage.”
After admitting that she basically agreed to come back when Dorit Kemlsey was cast, Lisa applauds her friend for making her own decisions about each of the women. A lesson LVP garnered from Lipsa, actually!
“Dorit was blissfully unaware of what had transpired last season, but she knew there were residual feelings and badgered me to explain the complicated scenario that had played out last year. I was resolute, so as not to be accused of ‘manipulation,’ and so she could garner her own understanding and judge the women from her own experience, but as she started to dance with all of them, I felt a tinge of remorse that I hadn’t implored her to stay by my side. As the story unfolds, Dorit definitely forms her own opinions, which ultimately are a result of her personal interactions.”
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Lisa decided to attend Erika Girardi‘s birthday party as an opportunity to venture slowly into the swirling mass of boobs, sequins, and surgically altered faces that mask reality. “I knew meeting the other ladies again was potentially an uneasy experience,” shares Lisa, “but many months had passed and Kyle, Dorit and I were going together, and I mustered up the courage to rejoin the group.”
Regarding her jabbing at Lipsa, Lisa admits, “I am at a point with her where I can’t resist a little provocation.”
“I briefly engaged Rinna, who I believe not to be ‘manipulable’ as Kyle alleges,” counters Lisa. “I would argue the point that she is an erratic woman that needs to take responsibility for her own behavior.”
Lisa experienced an awakening of spirit and a rejuvenation of her place in the RHOBH milieu at Erika’s birthday party, and realized, “I was excited to start all over again.”
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“So as we danced to 80s music, I felt a sense of relief – almost cathartic – as I realized the only power people can exert over you is the power that you choose to give them. Screw it, I was back and nobody, including Eileen Davidson, Lisa Rinna, or Erika Jayne Girardi was taking that from me.”
Lisa closes her Bravo blog with a little advice and a warning. First the advice: “So to all of you, don’t doubt yourself when you have been hurt. Validate your feelings, realize that experiences that provoke emotions are ones to learn by…And so be it, we soldier on…”
Then LVP’s warning of what’s to come: “This season can only be described as a glittering, tumultuous experience that is deliciously enriched by wonderful scenarios, captured for all to see, but also coupled with emotional dynamics as loyalties are divided and friendships challenged.”
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