The decision to remove the title of “wife” from her Instagram bio wasn’t an easy one for Kyle Richards.
“Do you know what I do need to do? I’m going to do it right now,” Kyle, 56, said during the Tuesday, March 4, episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills while talking to sister Kathy Hilton. “I am not going to be sitting here, having ‘wife’ on my Instagram bio with him running around with people. Why would I?”
Kyle’s decision came after finding out that Mauricio, 54, was photographed kissing a mystery woman in the Mykonos airport. (Multiple outlets published the photos in July 2024, one year after Kyle and Mauricio announced their separation.)
“In the past, it’s been hard for me to think about taking ‘wife’ off my bio or my married last name, but the picture changed that for me,” Kyle said during her confessional.
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She told Kathy that Mauricio had previously removed “husband and father” from his own Instagram bio at some time following their separation.
“Why am I still going to have [‘wife’] on there after seeing that? I feel stupid to have that on there,” Kyle added. “He clearly did not know that his photo was being taken but it looked like someone was taking that photo intentionally.”
Elsewhere in the scene, Kyle speculated that Mauricio is “freaking out” over the photo being published online.
“I would think that he would text and say something though, I don’t know why,” she added. Kathy responded, “When people are quiet, that tells you a lot.”
For years prior to their separation, there were widespread rumors that Mauricio had cheated on Kyle — all of which they both denied.
“We’ve heard all those rumors about him. It’s embarrassing, it’s humiliating, but really, we’ve never seen a picture,” Kathy said in her confessional. “Nobody’s ever comes out. He’s not in a position financially to pay anybody off.”
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Kyle also noted to Kathy that she doesn’t want to “dig” into the mystery woman’s identity.
“I don’t care who she is. That doesn’t matter,” she continued. “I need to move on. I don’t want to keep talking about her so much. Who cares? It doesn’t even matter.”
Kyle added, “It could be somebody else next week. … I have to move forward.”
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