Garcelle Beauvais Defends Kyle Richards “Lesbian” Remark

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills‘ Garcelle Beauvais is addressing a recent RHOBH Season 14 moment.

She caused quite a stir this month after she encouraged Kyle Richards to embrace her sexuality. The moment went down in Season 14, Episode 7, when Garcelle, Kyle, Erika Jayne, and Sutton Stracke began discussing Kyle’s separation from Mauricio Umansky and the speculation swirling around her romantic life. 

“I’m going to be 100 percent blunt. Do whatever the f—k you want to do,” Garcelle told Kyle in the January 14 episode. “Be whoever you want to be. If you want to be a lesbian, be a lesbian.” 

Kyle later revealed she took issue with Garcelle’s “lesbian” remark.  “What was really going through my head was, ‘You’re being an asshole right now,’” Kyle said on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills After Show. “And don’t try to act like, ‘Oopsy daisies,’ you know exactly what you’re doing. I was thinking, ‘If you’re thinking you’re going to get a reaction from me or I’m going to be offended, I’m not.’ It’s nothing I haven’t seen in tabloids and things. So, in that aspect, I don’t care. But what I did care about was, like, what are you getting at?”

Garcelle Beauvais reflects on the comment about Kyle Richards

While Kyle wasn’t pleased with the exchange, Garcelle insisted she had zero regrets about how things went down. 

“I wasn’t saying it to be malicious,” Garcelle recently told TMZ. “It was more about, we’re powerful women,  we can be whatever we want to be. So, it wasn’t a dig. It was just, almost to inspire her to do whatever she wants to do.”

Garcelle went on to address Kyle’s “a—hole” comment, pointing out that Kyle didn’t seem too upset in the moment.

“I heard that. It’s so funny because we laughed about it afterward,” the Black Girl Missing actress explained. “So for her to say that was pretty shady. But, you know… I don’t take it back.”

Garcelle also defended her comment in the aforementioned RHOBH After Show, saying she was simply trying to remind Kyle about the importance of being true to one’s self. 

“Where I was coming from that night when I said it, it was about, ‘We are grown-ass women. We’re people’s mothers. We’re people’s grandmothers. What I was saying is ‘Be whoever you want to be,’” Garcelle said.  “I’m not trying to call her out. Own it. Be authentic. I feel like Kyle cares a lot about what people think and how this is going to look and how that’s going to look and she’s trying to figure it out. If this is who you are, or even if you’re discovering it, discover it and own it.”

To get a full recap of the Kyle and Garcelle exchange, click here.