Rachel Zoe revealed the final straw in her marriage to Rodger Berman during The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15.
“OK, so … I filed for divorce this morning,” Rachel, 54, revealed during the Bravo show’s new episode, which aired on Thursday, January 29. “Just, typical day.”
Rachel explained that “it’s not one thing” that led her to officially pull the plug, but rather “an absolute myriad of bad decisions that have been made over the last month, the last weeks, the last f***ing hour that would trigger me to move things forward.”
A previously unaired scene filmed at Zoe’s dinner party from last week’s episode showed the fashion designer confiding in Erika Jayne over something Rodger had done.
“So you know that my ex has this girlfriend, right? She’s never met the kids. My kids are leaving, about to get on a plane to camp. Literally, she f***ing appears,” Rachel claimed. “She’s there with him and shows up and says hi to my sons. What the f***.”
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Rachel and Rodger were together for 24 years before they announced in September 2024 that they decided to separate. Rachel filed for divorce in July 2025. (The former couple share two sons, Skyler, 14, and Kaius, 12. Rodger went public with stylist Bree Jacoby in September 2025.)
Thursday’s RHOBH episode also offered an inside look at the day the divorce news went public
“What the actual f***?” Rachel told her assistant after seeing headlines that she had officially filed. “I didn’t know anything about this. It’s f***ing everywhere. Like, it’s everywhere.”
She continued, “I actually thought the whole mediation is so that this is not, like, a huge loud public thing. Thank God the kids are at camp. I mean, can you imagine if the boys were not in camp?”
Rachel was then filmed on a conference call with her team about the news going public, noting that it was “so insane” to see the headlines.
“I do not have a prenup with my ex,” Rachel said in her confessional. “I don’t want to give spousal support and I don’t want to get spousal support. I feel that this is a new beginning and if we are separating, and living separate lives with separate people, I don’t see why I should be paying for that. Or he should be paying for mine.”
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Rachel offered more details on her decision to separate from Rodger earlier on in the season.
“There’s a lot of reasons that our relationship was strained. In hindsight, if I had to say a great regret,” she said during the RHOBH season 15 premiere last month. “My greatest regret would probably be working together.”
Fans watched their marriage and business relationship come together on Bravo’s The Rachel Zoe Project, which ran from 2008 to 2013.
“Lines got crossed. The person that I was with my whole adult life, in many ways, was unrecognizable,” Rachel added. “Ultimately, that person didn’t feel right around me or around my kids.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs on Bravo Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET and streams the next day on Peacock.
