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Lisa Rinna’s 7 most jaw-dropping bombshells from her new book
Lisa Rinna didn’t hold back in her bombshell new memoir, dishing on everything from her soap opera “bully” to husband Harry Hamlin’s sexuality and more.
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star’s “You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It” officially hit bookshelves on Tuesday.
“My memoire is officially OUT TODAY 💋,” Rinna, 62, gushed via Instagram at the time. “And yes… I spill ALL the tea.”
Rinna promised her followers that “no topic [was] too controversial, taboo or off-limits.”
In addition to the bombshells revealed in her book, the “Melrose Place” alum continued to make headlines as she promoted the tell-all by divulging even more jaw-dropping tidbits.
Keep scrolling for a breakdown of the most shocking moments from Rinna’s book — and her juicy press tour.
Calling out Andy Cohen
Rinna put Bravo exec Andy Cohen on blast for publishing their private text messages about her 2023 “RHOBH” exit in his own memoir.
The reality star wrote that she was so angry at the “shady” move, she “gleefully” burned “Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up” in her fireplace.
Rinna and Cohen discussed this on “Watch What Happens Live” Wednesday.
When the host, 57, called Rinna “extra,” she gushed, “It was so beautiful to watch your book go up in flames. Andy, really, [consider it] an honor.”
Airing ‘Days of Our Lives’ drama
Looking back on her time on the “Days of Our Lives” set between 1992 and 1995, Rinna put her co-star — and onscreen love interest — Robert Kelker-Kelly on blast as the “biggest bully in Hollywood.”
Describing the actor’s allegedly “horrible,” “unpredictable” and “exhausting” behavior, Rinna wrote, “I’d go so far as to say verbally abusive. He was passive-aggressive, manipulative and played weird mind games.
“I had to work with him every day, often half-naked to do love scenes. If I didn’t do what he wanted, he’d give me the silent treatment,” she continued of the “ticking time bomb.”
Putting gay rumors to rest
Nearly 29 years into her and Hamlin’s marriage, Rinna attempted to “clear [something] up one last time, once and for all.”
She told readers, “Harry’s heterosexual. He is not a gay man in any way, shape or form, not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
Rinna explained that the speculation started with her partner starring in “Making Love” in 1982 as a gay character named Bart McGuire.
“Harry made a brave decision, and it bit him in the ass,” she wrote, noting that the actor was “blacklisted for several years afterward.”
Sharing her mom’s survival story
Three years before Rinna was born, her mom, Lois Rinna, survived a murder attempt by notorious “Trailside Killer” David Carpenter in 1960 — and Lisa described the harrowing story in her book.
Carpenter, Lois’ co-worker, “drove her down a deserted road where he stabbed her and hit her over the head with a hammer multiple times.”
When a policeman “followed” the car because he saw the vehicle “turn off and thought it was odd, Carpenter got out — and was shot in the stomach.”
“My mom had half of her head taken off, but she opened the car door and then her purse spilled,” Lisa wrote. “She was so in shock, all she could do was put the items back in her purse.”
Lois “was in the hospital for three months,” with Carpenter serving seven years for the attack — before going back behind bars for murdering “at least seven more people” between 1970 and 1981.
Hating on Housewives
Lisa took aim at a few of her fellow Housewives in her memoir.
She called Garcelle Beauvais “fake from head to toe” and a “huge disappointment,” labeling her former friend — and Sutton Stracke and Denise Richards — “narcissists.”
Lisa wrote, “They were bad dudes.”
Reps for Beauvais, Stracke and Richards have yet to respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
Exposing her daughters’ A-list suitors
During Lisa’s “WWHL” appearance Wednesday, she called out Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio for trying to “hit up” her daughters — Delilah Belle Hamlin and Amelia Gray Hamlin.
“[It] didn’t happen, but yes [they did],” Lisa confirmed to Cohen. “A lot of [older men] have hit up the girls, as you know.”
She quipped that the attention from DiCaprio, 51, and Maguire, 50, was a “rite of passage.”
Confirming her recent drugging
Days before Lisa’s book release, news broke that the “Traitors” star suspected she had been drugged at a party promoting Season 4 of the Peacock show in January.
Lisa shared more alarming details during her press tour, telling “Good Day New York” viewers Wednesday, “I’m not kidding, I had fentanyl, high levels of amphetamines and other things [in my system]. But I can’t talk a lot about it because we’re still dealing with it.”
The actress, who had been at popular West Hollywood, Calif., hotspot The Abbey at the time, said, “Luckily, my husband was there and able to get me out of there quickly.”
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