Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kathy Hilton insists she has holds no bitterness towards the Kardashians.
Rumours swirled the 63-year-old socialite was jealous of the famous clan after she was left furious that her co-star Lisa Rinna chose to drink Kendall Jenner’s 818 tequila over her Casa De Sol brand during that infamous trip to Aspen on season 12 of the show.
The 63-year-old described the Kardashian/Jenners as ‘family’ during an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Australia at BravoCon on Friday.
She explained the reason she was so angry about Rinna's actions was because she felt the fellow housewives were not supporting her after she has spent years supporting their own various brands and business ventures.
‘They (the Kardashians) are our family for one,' she said.
'And number two, I have supported those girls on everything they do.'
'When I had the big party for the housewives in the first season I was in I did a gift bag for everyone and this lady sent me beautiful cosmetics and I said “we are not putting it in the bag, call Lisa Rinna and see if she wants to give lipsticks or lip pencils or whatever", because you do the right thing,' she explained.
Kathy said she thought Lisa was trying to provoke and humiliate her by choosing to take a shot of Jenner's tipple instead of hers.
'I show up for everything for everybody and so it was just really hurtful that she would try and embarrass me in front of everybody. I could see what she was pulling. She was digging, she was trying to poke the bear,' she said.
Kathy added she too also supports Jenner’s tequila and has a bottle of it in her own bar at her Bel Air mansion.
‘As I said, at my house I have 818, I have four different tequilas. It is not the point, there is room for everybody. It was just here’s my chance being on the show for two years to promote one little thing and then for everybody to be like “no we don’t want it,”' she added.
Kendall, 26, launched 818 in May 2021. Meanwhile, Kathy and daughter Nicky are investors in Eva Longoria's brand Casa Del Sol, which also launched in 2021.
In the final episode of season 12, which aired in early October, Rinna revealed to the group that Kathy had an epic meltdown back at her sister Kyle Richard’s cabin following a night out with the housewives during their trip to Aspen.
She claimed Kathy told her things off-camera about the other castmates that could 'ruin their lives forever' - and that holding them in was going to make her 'sick.'
She said Kathy screamed at her, threw her glasses, jumped up and down while pounding the walls.
The drama unfolded when Kathy, Lisa and the women were vacationing together in swanky Aspen, Colorado when the drama unfolded.
They were visiting a local hat shop with a full bar setup, which had both 818 and Casa Del Sol stocked and ready to serve.
Speaking to the bartender, Rinna asked for 'a little shot of that 818 Tequila' because she wanted 'to see what that tastes like.'
'I just want to try it because it's my friend Kendall Jenner's tequila. I just haven't tried it,' she explained.
In a confessional, Rinna admitted that she'd seen Kathy's tequila on the shelf but suspected that the mother-of-three had supplied it.
'Of course they have Kathy's tequila and I have a sneaking suspicion that Kathy put it there herself,' she told the camera. 'Kathy made sure that tequila was there and good for her.'
After trying Kendall's tequila for herself, Rinna raved about its 'sweet' taste in front of a visibly irked Hilton.
'I cannot f–king believe what she just said,' Kathy muttered.
Rinna later revealed to Kathy that she'd only chosen 818 because she was 'curious' about it.
This prompted Kathy to sarcastically 'thank' Rinna for her unprovoked explanation.
Although the wife of Harry Hamlin insisted to her pal that she also '[loves]' Casa Del Sol, that did little to comfort an enraged Hilton.
Turning to her sister Kyle Richards, Kathy declared that she was 'ready to just go home.'
'I know. Your whole mood, you have to shake it. Don't let this ruin your whole mood,' said Richards, attempting to calm her older sister.
Filling castmates Sutton Stracke and Garcelle Beauvais in on the drama, Kathy reiterated that she was 'leaving' Aspen and didn't want them to 'say anything' to Rinna.
'Because if she brings that up, that's too f***ing disgusting.'
She later told Stracke and Beauvais that despite being upset with Rinna, she didn't 'want to make it an issue or anything. You know?'
She was also annoyed by Richards' response to Rinna gushing over 818 tequila in front of her.
'Kyle doesn't do a f***ing thing. C'mon, she doesn't say anything and I'm pissed off.'
Kathy also had bone to pick the hat shop's bartender for not serving up Casa Del Sol to her friends.
'That is my tequila, so I would really appreciate it if you'd, like, pour it here so people can see,' expressed a frustrated Hilton. 'I don't like to have to do that myself, but I guess if I don't, nobody else does.'
Kathy was once brushed off by her RHOBH co-stars after she suggested they all 'bottoms up' a shot of Casa Del Sol.
Her sister Richards shutdown the notion by sounding off a buzzing noise before resuming her conversation with Rinna and castmate Erika Jayne at their Aspen cabin.
Kathy's daughter Paris Hilton called her aunt 'so unkind' after getting wind of her antics in the episode.
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