RHOBH's Jennifer Tilly Shares How Divorce Made Her & Ex-Husband Closer Than Ever Before His Death

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Jennifer Tilly shared sweet insight into how her divorce from late ex-husband Sam Simon brought her and The Simpsons co-creator closer than ever before his death.

Jennifer Tilly's bond with her late ex-husband Sam Simon was stronger than a diamond.

In fact, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star shared sweet insight into how her friendship with The Simpsons co-creator flourished for decades after their 1991 breakup.

"We were very close after we got divorced," Tilly revealed in BravoTV's after show following the reality series' Feb. 11 episode. "He was probably my best friend for 30 years. It seemed weird, once I wasn't saddled with being a wife and all the expectations that came along with being a wife, then it seemed like it liberated us to be really close. Because we were there because we wanted to be there."

The Chucky actress was even Simon's caregiver in the last few years of his life before he passed away from cancer in 2015.

"I knew that he loved me, but I don't remember him ever saying it until he was sick," the Oscar nominee confessed. "In the last years of his life and I was taking care of him, then he said it all the time to me. It was really nice. I'm sure he must've said it when we were married, but I don't remember it."

And Tilly continues to feel Simon's love even years after his death.

As she previously revealed, the TV producer and animator treated her to a very hefty divorce settlement.

"I was married to him for seven years and we were together for about 10 years," the 66-year-old shared during the Bravo series' Dec. 3 episode. "And then, when we got divorced, I got a piece of The Simpsons in the divorce settlement, and nobody knew that The Simpsons was going to go on for trillions of years."

Tilly added of the ongoing royalties, "So every day, honestly, every day I'm like, 'Thank you, Sam!'"

And despite owning four homes—one in Las Vegas, a beach house in Malibu and two properties right next door to each other is the uber-pricey Bel-Air neighborhood—Tilly remains down to earth.

"I don't think of myself as rich, but I guess I'm delusional because I do have several properties and a purse apparently that cost $33,000," she told E! News in January. "I thought everybody knew that I had a piece of The Simpsons. It's not a large piece, but even a little piece is something to write home about."

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on Bravo.