But the fandom has gotten out of hand. 'I’ve had death threats.'
When I meet Lisa Rinna in the back of an empty dance studio on Melrose Avenue on a recent weekday, there’s no video crew to document our shenanigans. No wine glasses fly when I bring up her husband, actor Harry Hamlin. No stuffed bunnies are exchanged. And she doesn’t pull out her phone to read me the definition of Munchausen syndrome.
By now, we’ve moved to the restaurant next door. Rinna tells me what it’d be like if we were filming a scene for the show: a camera on both of us, a sound guy and producers in the back. We’d recap the class we just took and maybe turn the conversation to a fight we’d recently had with someone else. “What you see is what you get with her,” says longtime friend Denise Richards, who joined the cast this season. “She’s self-deprecating, she calls it like it is, and she’s not afraid to say when she makes a mistake. And that’s what I love about her, and that’s why she’s been on the show for so long.”
At 18, Rinna dropped out of the University of Oregon after being rejected for an acting course and moved out of her parents’ house. She did some modeling in small markets before making her way to San Francisco, where she started acting in commercials: “I think I got my SAG card doing a Mervyn’s commercial!” She eventually made her way to L.A., getting her break on “Days of Our Lives” in 1993.
She was in the running to appear on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” from the outset nearly a decade ago. And feeling stuck and insecure about her family’s financial stability — their two-location boutique, Belle Gray, had closed — she wanted it. She was just starting her QVC fashion line and felt the “Housewives” platform would help propel that business.
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