Kim Richards reportedly not returning to 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' as regular cast member

Kim Richards will reportedly not be returning to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for its upcoming sixth season.


According to sources connected to the Bravo reality show, Richards may make appearances on the next edition but she will not be starring as a full-time cast member. Most of the other women are expected to return, E! News reported.

One source told the website it's unlikely Richards, 50, will be on the show at all.

Bravo declined comment on Richards' role on The Real Housewives going forward as well as what's going on with the rest of the Season 6 cast.

Richards has been a regular cast member on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills since its first season debuted back in 2010. She is reportedly in rehab right now to address her substance abuse issues.


"She's doing okay, a lot better than she had been," a source told E! News, adding that Richards has been in a treatment center for a few days.

Richards was arrested in April for allegedly making a drunken scene at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. She was later charged with one count of public intoxication; one count of resisting, obstructing, delaying a peace officer or EMT; and one count of battery upon a peace office.

Richards has set her mind on completing rehab "because she got arrested, she humiliated her kids and she wants to avoid jail," an insider had told People about a month ago.

The reality TV star, who had also checked into a rehab facility in December 2011 for alcoholism, is scheduled to be arraigned for the April hotel incident on June 11 at the Los Angeles Courthouse.

The fifth season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills just wrapped in late April.






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