The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member shared that it's been "really helpful" to have her friend living with her amid their separations.
Kyle Richards and Teddi Mellencamp are officially roommates.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member shed light on their unorthodox living situation on a new episode of Bravo's Hot Mic Podcast, jokingly telling host Alex Baskin, "I have shared custody with Teddi Mellencamp. She lives with me on Tuesdays and Wednesdays."
Teddi is currently separated from husband Edwin Arroyave, with whom she shares three children, Slate, Cruz, and Dove. (Teddi is also stepmom to Edwin's daughter Bella.) However, to maintain a sense of normalcy for the kids, Teddi and Edwin have opted to rotate the days that they're living in their once-shared home so their kids don't have to go from one place to another.
As Teddi searched for a new place to serve as her basecamp, she asked Kyle if she could crash for a night or two at the Umansky family's Encino home, to which Kyle said, "Why wouldn't you just stay here? Why would you go spend the money? I mean, I have a big house, I have a guest house. That's silly. So that's how that started."
Though Kyle has plenty of rooms for Teddi to pick from, the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member is staying in what Kyle jokingly called "the divorce room," where Kyle herself once slept when she and Mauricio initiated their separation.
"It was supposed to be like, one day there's gonna be babies up there," Kyle told Baskin. "We're like, no, it's the divorce room."
Kyle Richards talks Teddi Mellencamp living situation
While Kyle is almost an empty nester now that her daughters are all grown up, she's found herself taking on a nurturing role for Teddi in recent months, revealing on Hot Mic that Teddi once called her crying at night and then crawled into bed with her. Kyle teased, "I'm sorry to share that Teddi, but she literally sounded like a little girl crying."
Kyle noted that Teddi was rightfully emotional, sharing that "it was the night that the winds were so scary and the fires were starting."
But Kyle also thinks "everything" was overwhelming Teddi in that moment, adding, "It was her marriage, the fires [were] going on, being on edge of the evacuations."
They couldn't help but laugh at the "absurdity of the situation," though.
"We literally sat there and we could not stop laughing. I mean, if people could see us in our like, our little basically footsie pajamas," Kyle told Baskin.
The laughter only increased when Teddi and Kyle realized that their recent attempts to get a lip flip using Botox left them without the ability to pucker their lips. This wouldn't be a big deal normally, but made it slightly difficult to do small tasks like blowing out a candle.
"We were crying, laughing, and we were trying to whistle and I was like, whistling is not an option anymore!" she laughed. "We were just up laughing all night and you know, just to have those moments when we're going through what we're going through right now is just, you know, it really is helpful," Kyle continued.
Teddi is just one of a handful of people that has stuck by Kyle as she navigates her separation from Mauricio Umansky and lifestyle changes. "I joke that my circle's gotten so small it's a dot now," she said.
Kyle added that she hasn't lost friendships for any dramatic reason, nor has anyone "felt like, 'oh, I have to choose a side'" in the separation. Rather, Kyle said that it's been a matter of choosing the friendships that will be a source of comfort as she goes through this time of transition.
"When you're struggling, you know, I'm like, I'm not good company. I'm not gonna go out tonight," she explained. "Plus, you do start, you know, certain people you start trusting a little less; I don't wanna share as much with them. I don't know. You do definitely become a little less trusting of people."
To find out what else Kyle had to say, watch the video edition of Bravo's Hot Mic Podcast at BravoTV.com/podcast or listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
