- Lisa Rinna said she quit "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" after a vision of her dead mom.
- She told ES Magazine: "I was sleeping and I heard her say to me, 'It's time for you to go.'"
Lisa Rinna has said that the decision to walk away from "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" wasn't her own — it was her late mom's.
In an interview with the Evening Standard's ES Magazine, Rinna said that a vision of her mother, Lois Rinna — who died at the age of 93 in 2021 — appeared to her one night and advised her to call time on the Bravo reality television series.
"She came to me," Rinna said.
"It's so wild because half the world will believe this, half the world will say, 'That's so weird,'" she continued. "I was sleeping and I heard her say to me, 'It's time for you to go.'"
The former "Days of Our Lives" actor said that she consulted a psychic who confirmed her mother's message.
"I told a psychic and she said, 'Oh yeah, she's come to me and told me that. She wants you to be happy and follow your dream, but she says it's time for you to go.' I've never told anybody that, except for the psychic."
"I'm guided by my mom, for sure," she added.
Rinna announced she would not be returning to "RHOBH" in January of this year. At the time, she did not share her reasons for her exit, but said in a statement that appearing on the show had been "the longest job I have held in my 35-year career" and that it "had been a fun eight-year run."
However, while speaking to ES, Rinna shared that she had been partly motivated by the way audiences now interact with the show.
"I think the world itself has gotten so volatile that the response doesn't match what we're doing," she explained. "I didn't want to live like that. I don't think that's healthy. The way the fan base reacts to the show now is not how it was when I first started."
She continued: "I mean, we were getting death threats. Some of the most horrible things I've ever seen in print in my life, and it's a reality show! It's a stupid show! I thought: 'It's time to go.'"
"I'm not sure how much longer that can exist in the zeitgeist, to be honest with you," she added.
She said elsewhere in the interview: "Who wants to leave a job? But I think we all knew it was time. Eight years of that kind of show… What more could I have done, besides generate more memes?"
Rinna began appearing on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" as a guest star during its fourth season before joining the main cast from season five onwards in 2014.