Ben Stiller can’t get enough of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills — just like Us.
“Glad to see Dorit [Kemsley] and Kyle [Richards] finally bonding through common challenges,” Stiller, 59, wrote via X on Thursday, February 20.
After previous tension, Kemsley, 48, and Richards, 56, decided to put their drama aside and start “fresh and clean” with their friendship on the Tuesday, February 18, episode of the Bravo series — and also confided in each other about their respective splits. (Dorit and PK Kemsley announced their split in May 2024, while Us confirmed in October 2023 that Richards and Mauricio Umansky separated after 27 years of marriage.)
From our partners:
“It feels like old times. We’re leaning on one another. I kind of missed it,” Dorit said in a confessional on Tuesday of her mended friendship with Richards.
Dorit Kemsley Says She and Kyle Richards Haven’t Bonded Over Their Splits
Stiller, for his part, briefly separated from wife Christine Taylor in 2017, but the pair found their way back to each other during the Covid pandemic. (Stiller and Taylor, 53, share daughter Ella, 22, and son Quinlin, 19.)
“I think we both wanted it,” Stiller said of his reconciliation with Taylor during a January appearance on The View. “In a relationship — we’ve been married for 25 years — you have to work at it. Covid happened and we all got in a house together with our family. I’m grateful. I’m so grateful we’re back together.”
While admitting that some exes shouldn’t rekindle because it’s “not the right thing,” Stiller said that “it was the right thing” for him and Taylor. “Now, every day that we’re together, we do not take for granted. I know I don’t,” he added. “Because you know it could go away. That, to me, is the gift [of] our relationship is that we have that every day. I’m so happy that we’re [back together].”
Dorit and Richards have navigated similar situations of their own, and Dorit exclusively told Us in November 2024 that she believed the challenges would bring her and Richards closer. However, she said that things “got to a point where it was more strange.”
“It felt more personal than it was, what she was going through,” Dorit noted. “It felt like I was on the outside and not in her inner circle, whereas I was that person at one point, and I don’t know what had happened, she didn’t share with me what had happened to sort of put me on the outside.”
As for navigating their splits, Dorit noted that Richards is a “little bit ahead” of her. “She’s been going through things for a while and it’s always difficult,” Dorit added. “I would have loved to have been there for her from the beginning. I was. I tried. I certainly am and would be. I do think in a real friendship you need to be able to feel like you’re getting the same that you’re putting in.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET and streams the next day on Peacock.
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