It was the bombshell that rocked the Bravo satellite erstwhile it was reported that The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards and her hubby Mauricio Umanksy had divided aft 27 years of marriage.

But fans didn't person to hold until the RHOBH premiere to get a presumption update connected the couple, who are parents to daughters Farrah, Alexia, Sophia and Portia.

"Any claims regarding america divorcing are untrue," the brace said successful a associated connection shared to Instagram connected July 3. "However, yes, we person had a unsmooth year, the astir challenging 1 of our marriage. But we some emotion and respect each different tremendously. There has been nary wrongdoing connected anyone's part."

The brace past asked "to beryllium capable to enactment done our issues privately" contempt their world TV history.

"While it whitethorn beryllium entertaining to speculate," they wrote, "please bash not make mendacious stories to acceptable a further salacious narrative."

But soon aft Kyle and Mauricio issued their associated statement, fans, did, so statesman to speculate astir Kyle's relationship with Morgan Wade, noting the state singer's prominence successful the Halloween Ends star's Instagram posts since their April 2022 meeting.

Kyle addressed the rumors head-on erstwhile asked by photographers astir her transportation to Morgan.

“We are precise bully friends,” she told told paparazzi successful West Hollywood, Calif.

And, erstwhile asked if her narration with the instrumentalist was “just a rumor,” she responded bluntly with a “yes.”

As for their matching tattoos, Kyle noted she besides has coordinating assemblage creation with bestie Teddi Mellencamp. 

Amid ongoing rumors astir their relationship, Kyle posted a slew of pictures from a household abrogation to Aspen, including a radical changeable of herself, Mauricio and their 4 daughters. And she was ready to clap backmost astatine 1 suspicious commenter. 

After 1 idiosyncratic wrote, "We emotion 'damage control' Kyle," she responded, "If y'all similar to work into each small crumb, work into this [middle digit emoji]."

Days aft mounting the grounds consecutive astir their friendship, Morgan dropped the euphony video for her azygous "Fall successful Love With Me," which starred Kyle arsenic her emotion involvement and featured the 2 women striking up a steamy romance.

In an associated Instagram video, the brace shared the backstory for their sexy collaboration.

"I've done respective euphony videos and each clip there's idiosyncratic successful it they ever presume we're dating oregon something's going on," Morgan explained. "If you spell connected the Internet, you'll spot radical are obsessed with america being friends.

"In response, Kyle joked back, "Excuse me, they privation to cognize wherefore I'm friends with you."

While Morgan noted, "We thought it would benignant of beryllium a bully thought to benignant of poke amusive astatine that and troll the trolls a small bit," Kyle admitted, "Well, if they're gonna talk, you mightiness arsenic good springiness them thing to speech about." 

One idiosyncratic who liked the video was Mauricio, whp commented 3 occurrence emojis connected Morgan and Kyle's associated station astir the project, adding, "So good."

The mates and their children went connected a household travel to Italy, some sharing snaps from their getaway.

Mauricio posted a August 20 drawback of the full household astatine nighttime aboard a boat, which helium captioned, "Summer Vacay 2023 connected point," portion Kyle uploaded a saccharine drawback with her daughters. The Halloween Kills star captioned the post, "That's amore," alongside reddish hearts and the Italian emblem emoji, 

Despite their seemingly hunky-dory Italian getaway, Kyle shared that she had been "dealing with a batch of worldly lately" portion answering instrumentality queries during an Amazon Live session.

"That's a precise loaded question," Kyle responded aft a instrumentality asked astir her and Mauricio's relationship. "You know, this has been precise hard to bash [because it's] playing retired with truthful galore radical having eyes connected america and being successful the nationalist eye, but evidently we attraction astir each different a lot."

Kyle was speedy to clarify chatter surrounding the "fun girls' trip" she went connected to Paris with Morgan and 1 of her puerility friends during different Amazon Live discussion.

“I mean, there’s conscionable truthful galore things retired determination online," Kyle said. "I’m like, 'Why bash radical conscionable marque things up, invent things astir the trip?'"

Kyle explained that the brace went overseas to seizure footage for an upcoming documentary astir Morgan, which the Bravolebrity is producing.

"They spot that there’s a camera there, and they wholly disregard that there’s a camera there, enactment similar we were conscionable similar – I don’t adjacent cognize what,” she continued.

Kyle past emphasized that “there were cameras there,” squashing rumors  that they were connected a romanticist getaway. 

"Can you guys get your enactment together?” she stressed. “But yes, it was a large shoot.” 

When Mauricio made his debut connected Dancing With the Stars, Kyle was successful the ballroom to enactment him and his partner Emma Slater arsenic they performed a jive.

And Kyle took her enactment a quick-step further, detailing however to ballot for Mauricio connected her Instagram Story.

After the DWTS premiere, Mauricio offered a presumption update connected their marriage.

"We were dealing with our ain things, benignant of, ace softly and internally, conscionable our ain issues," helium explained connected the Sept. 28 occurrence of The Agency's Red Mic podcast. "I mean, certainly, we're not separated. We're not divorced astatine this point. We are not immoderate of that stuff. We're inactive dealing with our marriage."

The 53-year-old noted he's grateful they went astir 3 decades without ever encountering matrimony troubles.

"It's been an astonishing 26 years and it's been a hard 1 year," helium said. "Kyle and I are blessed, wherever we really had 26 years that we did not person a atrocious year, and I cognize astir marriages person atrocious months, atrocious weeks, atrocious years."

Mauricio past addressed rumors that helium and Kyle staged their separation to garner publicity. 

"I americium not going to destruct my beingness to enactment a works successful the quality truthful radical tin get much entertainment," helium stated, insisting that he's "not that astute oregon that conniving."

In the play 13 trailer for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, it's confirmed that Morgan got a "K" tattoo, which Kyle inked ontoher body. In 1 scene, Kyle introduced Morgan to a tattoo artist, with Morgan joking that they met because, “She stalked me.”

And, similar the public, Kyle's co-stars had questions astir her relationship with the singer.

"You enactment the archetypal missive of your sanction connected her body?" Dorit Kemsley asked her longtime person successful notation to the tattoo. "What is going on, Kyle?"

But it was a tense speech betwixt Kyle and Mauricio that truly had the Internet buzzing arsenic the mates seemed to gag astir the infidelity rumors surrounding them, with the existent property mogul telling his wife, "I'm conscionable gladsome it's you retired determination having an affair." Kyle past quipped back, "For erstwhile it's me."

After Mauricio was spotted connected a meal day with histrion Leslie Bega successful L.A., the existent property cause denied determination was thing romantic going connected betwixt them. As it turned out, they are really co-workers.

"There's conscionable thing there," helium told E! News. "This full communicative is truthful crazy. There's thing to speech astir there."

Just days aft dedicating a DWTS performance to his wife, who helium called his "rock," Mauricio was photographed holding hands with his spouse Emma, sparking rumors of a romance disconnected the creation floor.

Kyle admitted she was "taken aback" by the photos connected Watch What Happens Live. "That was precise hard to see," she told Andy Cohen. "It wounded my feelings."

While she couldn't corroborate if determination truly is simply a budding romance betwixt the pair, she did stock her position connected the pairing.

"I don't cognize if thing has happened yet," she noted, "But evidently there's thing determination and listen, I emotion him precise much—and we are amicable—but that truly did wounded me."

So overmuch so, that she admitted she deleted a caller Instagram station successful enactment of their tally on DWTS.

However, she added, "I besides voted for them."

The attraction astir their breakup deed a tipping constituent during BravoCon 2023 erstwhile Kyle broke down successful tears discussing the extremity of their marriage.

"A batch of radical think, 'What are you doing? Just propulsion it together, hole everything,'" she said onstage during a panel. "Obviously, that's what I would want. This is not my thought of my fairytale, clearly."

However, Kyle noted, "We emotion each different precise overmuch and we are household nary substance what happens and person a precise beardown household unit."

Despite their ongoing separation, Kyle revealed whether oregon not she would beryllium getting her estranged hubby immoderate presents for Christmas and Hanukkah.

"I decidedly volition beryllium giving him a acquisition if we're spending Christmas together," Kyle told E! News Dec. 7. "I conscionable person to fig retired with that acquisition would be."

As for however they celebrated, Kyle teased astatine the time, "We emotion to beryllium successful the snowfall and skiing. Just laying debased and playing games by the fire. Watching movies, that's our favourite happening to bash this clip of year."

Kyle and Mauricio's marriage cracks were clearer than ever during RHOBH's Feb. 14 episode.

Tearfully recounting their connection issues and attempts to get backmost connected the aforesaid leafage successful couple's therapy, Kyle admitted successful a confessional, "I sometimes conscionable get frustrated that I don't consciousness similar I'm being heard. I'm not gonna enactment successful a concern that I'm not blessed in. The things that I wouldn't privation my daughters to accept, I'm not going to judge for myself."

During RHOBH's play 13 reunion, Kyle defended kissing Morgan successful her 2023 euphony video for "Fall successful Love With Me."

"I said yes for a reason," she shared connected the March 13 episode, "and, you cognize what? She's hot. What tin I say."

As for whether oregon not she sees a romanticist aboriginal with the singer?

"I don't know," she admitted. "I'm evolving, I'm changing. I'm intelligibly going done immoderate improvement of my ain and I don't cognize what the aboriginal holds."

Mauricio insisted successful March that, contempt being single, helium was not yet acceptable to mingle.

"I'm spending a batch of clip by myself and benignant of getting to larn myself and bask myself," helium told E! News. "I've been enjoying that process. I'm not successful a unreserved to bash thing astatine the moment. Not successful a rush—period. I americium enjoying the travel and I'm learning from myself."

He added, "I'm conscionable taking it a time astatine a time."

During play 2 of Netflix's Buying Beverly Hills, Mauricio addressed the dating rumors swirling astir Kyle and Morgan Wade.

And The Agency laminitis noted helium was 100 percent good with not knowing if they are much than conscionable friends.

"They decidedly person immoderate benignant of a transportation together," helium continued. "You know, there's nary question astir that. I mean, they walk a batch of clip together. What that transportation is, I person nary idea."

Umansky nary more.

Kyle officially dropped her joined past name from her Instagram profile, though her bio inactive reads "wife."

Kyle and Mauricio's breakup up got adjacent much existent erstwhile he moved retired of their L.A. home successful May 2024.

"That was weird," the Halloween Ends histrion admitted connected the May 14 occurrence of the Bitch Bible podcast. "I ever knew erstwhile that time came it would consciousness strange, precise real. I'm a ma of four, I person a engaged household."