Lisa Rinna Says She 'Could Not Be Happier' with Life Post-RHOBH: 'I Get to Express Myself' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Lisa Rinna.Photo:Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

Lisa Rinnais in a sweet spot in life.

The actress, 61, gave PEOPLE an update on her life at the InStyle Imagemaker Awards in Los Angeles on Oct. 24 nearly two years after she announcedher departurefromThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Joking that she got to “wear Balenciaga to the InStyle party,” Rinna said there isn’t much to complain about.

“I’m happy,” she shared. “I get to express myself in ways that, like, no one’s stopping me. Nobody’s telling me I’m bad for doing it, and if they are, I don’t care. It’s so much fun, our girls [Amelia Gray and Delilah Belle] are thriving,Harry [Hamlin]’s thriving. I could not be happier. Life is good.”

Lisa Rinna.Momodu Mansaray/FilmMagic

Momodu Mansaray/FilmMagic

Hamlin recently sat down withAndy Cohenon his SiriusXM radio show where hegushed over his wife’s success. He explained thatleavingThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hillswas a good decision for her, sharing that she is now “living her best life.”

“I absolutely love it,” Cohen said.

Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin.Stefanie Keenan/Gett

Stefanie Keenan/Gett

Rinna left the reality show in early 2023,announcing her exit in a simple emailthat read: “I will not be renewing my contract and I will not be coming back toRHOBH. Thank you so much for 8 years!!!! All the best, Lisa.”

She went on to return to her roots doing scripted projects, recently starring in the Lifetime horror movieMommy Meanest.

“I had been talking to Lifetime right after I leftHousewives about doing a movie,” she told PEOPLE in May. “We had a meeting and they asked me what kind of a movie I wanted to do. And I said, ‘I’d love to play either a murderer or somebody really, really crazy,’ and they were like, ‘Oh my God. We love it. We think we have something for you.’”

“So they had sent me an idea first that was truly a murder story and I loved it,” she added.

Lisa Rinna.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

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Shortly after, the writers’ and actors’ strike happened and that film fell through, which led her toMommy Meanest. The film is based on a true story about a mother who sends her own daughter hundreds of bullying, anonymous text messages.

“Lifetime came back to me and they said, ‘We have another idea. What do you think of this?’” she recalled. “It hadn’t even been written yet. And I was like, ‘Oh, I love it. I love it. Let’s do it.’”

In the movie, Rinna plays the “crazy” mother, but she said she still hopes she will get to portray a killer one day.

“I still need to play a murderer,” she said. “ I just want to play different things that I’ve never gotten to play before. That’s not happened yet, so that’ll be next maybe.”

source: people.com