When I attended the Real Housewives On Tour event Saturday, the discussion several of us had was not about the “Housewives” we were there to see, nor was it about Russell Armstrong’s suicide. It was Kim Richards.
I was definitely in the minority feeling sorry for her. The others, perhaps because they were younger and had never heard of Kim, were less than sympathetic about her alleged drug/ alcohol problems.
Kim Richards, like Michael Jackson and others have claimed, had no childhood. The number of commercials, movies and television series that she was on between 1964-1985 is simply mind-boggling. Source: IMDB. She worked.
In the process, Kim supported her entire family. As a child, she not no control over the millions she generated for the family: Mother Kathy (Big Kathy) half sister Kathy ( the mother of Paris Hilton) and younger sister Kyle. Indeed, she’s the reason they rose above middle-class mediocrity to meeting and marrying Hiltons.
So, we’ve got this girl who never went to school or had the normal childhood interactions and experiences.
Kyle Richards worked as an actress also, but less often.
As with all child actors, few are able to parlay that into an adult career. Some end tragically, Dana Plato comes to mind. What takes the place of the adulation? Kim got married twice with two children by Davis, one by Brinson, and the youngest by someone she didn’t marry because she couldn’t afford to lose the Davis child support. The youngest is now 16 years old.
Fast forward to today. Kim is a cast member of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, along with her sister Kyle. She hopes to revitalize her acting career, and she may need the money.
I doubt she wanted her issues out for all the world to see, not to mention Kyle snarking about her all the time. Kyle has resentments left over from childhood, when she was the understudy in Big Kathy’s life. She loves rubbing Kim’s nose in it now.
On the upcoming episode, the women meet for a party at Dana Wilkey’s house. Brash newcomer Brandi Glanville calls out Kim’s drug addiction, and Kyle jumps up and screams at Brandi. At least that’s what’s shown on the preview, above.
Poor Kim.
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Kim is not only scary , she scary crazy…. i hope she watches the show and see’s what a bitch she and her sister were before the game night…. Brandi have ever right to say and do what she did…. the talked trash about her from the moment they arrived…. i think the sisters are jealous of brandi… Kim should be in a looney bin and I hope Disney cut’s there strings with her, she a bad bad rolemodel for young kids
I agree with the article. You don’t have to take Kim’s word that she supported her family when she was growing up. You just have to look at imdb and wikipedia. Kyle has hardly any listings. Kim has multiple movies, tv shows from 1969 to like 1983. Her mother, the ulimate money-grubbing, horror of a stage mom, controlled Kim’s every move and finances most of her life. Kim was working like a dog, while Kyle was living in up, Beverly Hills style. Kyle took over her their mother died. I do think Kyle and her husband have been robbing Kim blind. I think her ex-husband’s scammed her out of millions. Kim would be easy pickings for control freaks, and her wanting to avoid conflict allowed their lawyers to scam her and her children out of a decent divorce settlement. She stopped working to raise their children. Poor Kim. There is something Kyle said about their mother on one of the first episodes to make me think their mother may not have just been morally bankrupt in respects to her golden-goose child, but maybe a gold digger. She said she met Tina Louise, Ginger on “Gilligan’s Island.” and Tina said Kyle’s mother was a slut. I still don’t know what to make of it. What did Kyle’s mother do to Tina Louise to make her that upset?