Speaking atYahoo Finance’s All Markets Summiton Thursday, the Skinnygirl mogulsaid, “That morning I thought I was possibly going to go back.”
“It wasn’t about money,” said Frankel, 48. “If I went back, it was about money, if that makes any sense. When I joinedThe Housewives, everyone told me not to do it and I went with my gut to do it. And when I thought about leaving, everyone told me not to leave. And I went with my gut to leave.”
Frankelannounced in Augustthat she would not be returning to theHousewivesin order to “explore my next chapter.”
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“Leaving theHousewiveswas because I think that I just didn’t want to be at the party where my eyelashes were falling off at two o’clock in the morning, not literally on the show, which that would happen also, but the metaphorical eyelash-hanging-off party,” she said Thursday at the Summit.
“I like to leave when something for me is at its peak and I was talking to Bravo about many different things and I just decided let’s roll, it’s time to go,” she added.
“Most of the shows are around women, business — some are around food,” she said at the event about the unscripted shows, according toYahoo! Finance. “But mostly entrepreneurs and women. But not in a touchy-feely way but in sort of a hardcore way, if that makes any sense.”
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“With #MeToo and with this as such a conversation because of the pay difference, I’m not the person for this conversation because I’ve always been about female empowerment,” she told Yahoo! Finance. “I’ve never even seen gender. I don’t see race, I don’t see religion, I don’t see gender. That doesn’t even occur to me. Just go there and be the best.”
“I’m about telling women, just go get it. Be better. Most people move the papers around the desk metaphorically and think they’re working hard,” she said. “It’s about working hard.”
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At the time of her departure, Frankel said in a statement to PEOPLE: “It’s time to move on and focus on my daughter, my philanthropy and my production partnership with Mark Burnett, producing and starring in shows which represent a shift in the conversation for women.”
“With the changes in modern culture, I want to highlight the strength, confidence and unstoppable power that women have. My experience at Bravo has been an incredibly magical ride,” she continued. “I am so grateful to them for highlighting my entrepreneurialism and allowing me to pave the way for many women to achieve their goals. I am excited for my future. The best is yet to come.”
Her announcement that she wouldn’t be returning toRHONYleft many fans saddened — andalso caught her costars off guard.
Ramona Singer, who started onRHONYalongside Frankel, said she was “only disappointed that Bethenny did not inform her costars that she’s not coming back to the show.”
“When she left in season 4, we found out through the press she was doing her spinoff, Bethenny Getting Married,”Singer said.“She was upset we never congratulated her, but we were upset she never told us! And that’s how we feel now. There is a camaraderie among us as a cast. Love us, hate us, not like us — we are a team. To hear this from the press and not through her is upsetting.“
A premiere date forRHONY‘s return has not yet been announced, but is expected to be next year.
source: people.com
