Kim Richards Rehab, Boyfriend, and House Fuels Offscreen Drama
BEVERLY HILLS (LALATE) – Kim Richards’ rehab treatment for alcohol at the Betty Ford Center, her split from living with boyfriend Ken Blumenfeld, and her reported lack of a home has fueled offscreen drama this week for the Beverly Hills housewife. Kim Richards this season is accused by cast members of avoiding taping scenes with them. But Richards says she skipped scenes because she didn’t like her respective cast members. Of course, if every Housewife got to choose which other Housewife they wanted to avoid during taping, there would never been tensions on the series. But as Richards has been absent from key scenes on RHOBH this season, she has dominated news off-screen for her own personal struggles.
Richards is currently in rehab at the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs for alcohol treatment claims reports. Both Richards’ location and the reason for her treatment have not been confirmed by her family. But Richards has been in rehab more than one before, claims a source.
A source tells PEOPLE “Kim has been to rehab more than once before, but every time is a new time, and everyone just hopes this sticks and that she gets the help she needs. It’s serious.”
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Second, Richards has moved out of the home of boyfriend Ken Blumenfeld. It remains unclear if Richards’ is still dating Ken. “He’s not in the picture. No one really knows what the deal was with them, but Kim doesn’t live with Ken,” the source tells PEOPLE.
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Third, Richards doesn’t allegedly have a stable home now. “She’s basically homeless, staying with various friends. She doesn’t have a home base. It’s not unusual for people to not hear from her for long stretches of time. It’s been that way for years.”
Kyle Richards has remained relatively quiet through Kim’s struggles this holiday season. On the show, Kyle tells viewers that she does not like take the roll of Kim’s mother.
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on December 10th, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Who is paying for Kim Richards to be in rehab? She doesn’t work — how much could the shoe possibly pay her? It is so painfully obvious that she is an alcoholic. All the Bravo Housewives do is drink. It must be he’ll for her.
on December 11th, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Sally Joe
show …. not shoe
hell ….. not he’ll
on December 12th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
The chemical dependency was so obvious: the slurred speech, purposeful isolation, and so forth. I take Topamax for migraines (one of the medications that Kim said she was taking) and it doesn’t make me babble on incoherently about airports and power outages. Bravo is probably picking up the tab for rehab, and Betty Ford isn’t Passages, so it’s not as expensive as people think. Her family may be helping as well. To me, she really didn’t look like a drinker. She looked more like a pill head, which is easier to hide and legitimize.
on December 12th, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Loneliness can drive someone to drink. Kim has been lonely for a long time. And just when she seemed to find someone who made her happy, her family forced her to choose. Kyle never tried to accept Ken. I truly believe Kyle does not care about her sister’s happiness.
on December 21st, 2011 at 3:40 am
I can’t believe they didn’t fire her ar se! She gets paid to not shoot scenes. Nice, not reality.
on December 22nd, 2011 at 9:45 am
Kim is SO unlikeable! The way she acted toward Brandi totally reflects her true personality. When she points her scraggly finger at Brandi and starts skawking she reminds me of an old hateful skinny chicken. I would LOVE to see Brandi slap her down to the floor when no one is around. Ole KIm thinks she is hot stuff and she looks like an old washed up skank. Fire her miserable *!
on December 29th, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Kim is such a sk nk I wish she would quit the show and go live among the other lowlife. She will never learn how to behave like a human cuz she is a freak.