Lisa Rinna Is 'Grateful' as She Announces Exit from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills After 8 Seasons - Yahoo Entertainment

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Lisa Rinna is bidding farewell to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

After 8 seasons of delivering sassy one-liners, drama-filled moments, societal media messiness and self-deprecating articulator humor, Rinna is departing the beloved franchise, PEOPLE tin exclusively confirm.

"This is the longest occupation I person held successful my 35 twelvemonth vocation and I americium grateful to everyone astatine Bravo and each those progressive successful the series," Rinna, 59, says successful a statement. "It has been a amusive eight-year tally and I americium excited for what is to come!"

The determination was made arsenic Rinna's declaration expired astatine the extremity of past season. After weighing her options and concern obligations, she and Bravo mutually decided that she would not instrumentality to RHOBH.

Rinna joined the franchise successful its 5th season, which premiered successful 2014. In her debut season, the histrion was progressive successful one of the show's astir memorable fights erstwhile she hurled a vino solid astatine then-costar Kim Richards, who'd alluded Rinna didn't privation thing to get retired astir her hubby Harry Hamlin.

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The Days of Our Lives alum has besides go known for her "Own it, baby" catchphrase, which is simply a mentality to which she subscribed passim her run.

But Rinna's exit apt doesn't travel arsenic a astonishment to RHOBH fans. Even though she's compared herself to a "cockroach" you "can't get escaped of," she dropped large hints about the anticipation passim play 8.

Posting a pre-Housewives throwback photograph connected her Instagram Story, Rinna wrote: "I was Lisa F---ing Rinna earlier HW and I'll beryllium Lisa F---ing Rinna After." She past followed this with lyrics from "Roxie" beside an representation of Renée Zellweger successful 2002's Chicago, which is simply a relation Rinna besides portrayed connected Broadway successful 2007.

"I'm a star! And the assemblage loves me! And I emotion them. And they emotion maine for loving them. And I emotion them for loving me. And we emotion each other. And that's due to the fact that nary of america got capable emotion successful our childhoods. And that's showbiz, kid," the representation read.

Following the November 2021 death of her parent Lois, Rinna said her "grief" was the origin of her galore online rants, including against immoderate Real Housewives of Dubai formed members.

"I person had a truly unsmooth time of it I deliberation you've seen however hard this has deed me," she wrote successful July successful a since-deleted Instagram post. I'm atrocious if I've raged connected you, astir you — it truly has thing to bash with immoderate of you."

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She past criticized RHOBH for failing to decently memorialize Lois, alternatively focusing connected trivial play from the erstwhile play that resurfaced. "I got 1 occurrence of grace. That's it," Rinna wrote. "Lois deserved and deserves overmuch more. Shame connected everyone."

On the latest play of RHOBH, the Rinna Beauty laminitis raised her dependable repeatedly astatine Sutton Stracke aft her costar claimed to have ne'er received a convey you for purchasing Rinna and hubby Harry Hamlin's tickets for Elton John's yearly foundation benefit.

Later, fans — and existent RHOBH stars — took contented with however Rinna continued to leverage implicit Kathy Hilton's alleged meltdown during the cast's Aspen trip.

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For her part, Rinna appeared to beryllium unbothered by the instrumentality backlash — adjacent erstwhile she received large boos from the assemblage at BravoCon 2022.

"I got booed! It was fabulous," Rinna told PEOPLE exclusively. "I'm similar a wrestler. The wrestlers get booed. The astir celebrated wrestlers successful the satellite get booed. The Rock [Dwayne Johnson] got booed for God's sake. I loved it. I've been successful this concern for 32 years."

Rinna besides said astatine the clip she was blessed to "have the fig 1 amusement connected cablegram connected Bravo of the Housewives," and noted that she was not fazed by RHOBH fans who called her hypocritical for her onscreen behavior.

"It's a TV show, for God's sake," she shared. "Call maine immoderate you want, judge immoderate you want, I archer the truth. I ever have. Go backmost to that."