isa Vanderpump revealed that producers once went to great lengths to stop her from quitting “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” In an April 2025 interview with Us Weekly, the veteran Bravo star talked about her attempts at trying to quit the reality show before she actually did so in 2019.
“I wanted to leave Housewives once,” Vanderpump recalled to the outlet. “I said, ‘It’s done, I’m leaving’ — how many times I said that!”
She continued, “I had a convertible, and the producers jumped in! I drove home and said, ‘OK, you! Out of the car!’ And one climbed my security gates, ran down my driveway, chasing me. I went back.”
Vanderpump, who quit the show after nine seasons amid the infamous “Puppygate” storyline, added that there was no way she would consider a return to the show unless major changes were made. “That’s a hard no, unless it was a group of different women I really liked,” she said.
Lisa Vanderpump Said Andy Cohen Admitted She Should Have Been Given a Year Off
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Vanderpump’s final season on RHOBH was extremely difficult for her. She began filming for Season 9 not long after the sudden death of her only sibling, Mark, in April 2018. She ultimately stopped filming with her co-stars and skipped the reunion taping.
Vanderpump later revealed on the RHOBH After Show that her brother’s death, and the way her co-stars treated her that season, caused her to rethink her role on the show.
“I’ve always said I’m not just a Housewife; I didn’t make a career out of being a Housewife,” she said. “’Housewives’ has documented my life. I don’t have time for bull [expletive] negative minutiae, I don’t.”
Vanderpump also admitted that she knew deep down she shouldn’t have filmed the show that season. “I said to Andy [Cohen], “I shouldn’t do [Housewives]. I would cry if I opened the fridge,” she told Us Weekly. “It’s the only time in my life I’ve taken antidepressants. Andy said, ‘We should have given you that year off.’”
