Lisa Rinna shares what it would take to get her back on 'Real Housewives'

Los Angeles — Lisa Rinna said she would instrumentality to the “Real Housewives” franchise, but to get her hubby Harry Hamlin connected board, it would person to impact immoderate large numbers.

“You guys are gonna laughter and deliberation I’m ridiculous, but I was like, ‘I mightiness bash it for $5 million,’” Rinna explained. “He’s like, ‘No 10. $10 million, you tin spell back.’”

The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” (RHOBH) alum wasn’t acrophobic to propulsion shadiness connected a sunny Saturday greeting during her sheet astatine The Times Festival of Books.

The “You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It” writer sat down with The Times elder tv writer Yvonne Villarreal to speech astir Rinna’s travel from soap prima to her emergence connected the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” (RHOBH), and her caller “The Traitors” fame.

As a “Real Housewife,” Rinna was known for her snappy comebacks and for sharing her candid emotions. Her memoir explores Rinna’s acquisition during Season 12 of “RHOBH,” which was filmed soon aft the decease of her mother, Lois Rinna. Rinna explained that her grief manifested into feelings of “rage.”

“Rage was the archetypal emotion that came. I didn’t expect that. You know, you deliberation you’re going to beryllium successful shock, and past you deliberation you’re going to beryllium truly sad? Well, I went instantly into rage, and that’s not truly precise cute,” Rinna said. “But I deliberation my being successful grief triggered the housewives, and it triggered the audience.”

After Rinna’s clip connected “RHOBH,” she joined the formed of Season 4 of “The Traitors.” The amusement — loosely based connected the crippled Mafia — selects celebrities to beryllium faitifuls and traitors, and the faithful indispensable effort to observe the traitors. Wearing outfits similar her viral cheetah-print ensemble, Rinna skyrocketed to fan-favorite presumption during her tenure arsenic a traitor.

“So erstwhile I decided to bash ‘Traitors,’ I was like, ‘Self, listen. You’re gonna spell successful determination and conscionable beryllium you. No Housewives sh—, no, nary of that reactionary stuff, no, you’re gonna conscionable beryllium you,” Rinna said.

She besides joked that being a traitor was the “highlight” of her year: “I could termination people, I could lie, I could deceive, I could backstab. Heaven.”

Rinna compared the objectives of “RHOBH” to “The Traitors” and the antithetic strategies she had to employment connected the franchises.

“Housewives is not a game. Traitors is simply a game,” Rinna explained. “‘Housewives,’ you conscionable tried to virtually support yourself from the play and the toxicity. And it’s adjacent though it’s a tv show, it’s real. I mean, nary 1 is penning a publication for you. You’re dealing with interpersonal relationships and conflict.”