Hi everyone!
I hope you’re all having a great week! I’d like to start with something light, like how I noticed the turtles on the wall. I’ve been to my sister’s home a million times, and I had never noticed the TURTLES before! I was surprised to see them, and I had no idea that my girlfriend Tiffany had gifted them to her. What can I say. . .TURTLES! I love Tiffany. I love turtles! Yay!
Let’s talk about how Kyle and I ended up at Taylor’s! When Taylor called my home the night of my party, which from what I understand Taylor said she didn’t feel it was important to show up to a nose party. Which I agree. A nose party? What she didn’t know is, this wasn’t just a nose party. This is the first place I’ve had to call home in so long I can’t even remember. I have been working on putting my home together, all along keeping in mind the day when I would have my special friends together. I’ve been working on decorating my house and putting my garden together. I wanted to include all my friends — from childhood on up — and I have been working on this since the day I moved in. It was a perfect summer night to get all my friends together and this was a chance to celebrate the life changes I’ve made, and for them to see my home, and an opportunity for them to see how I live, AND for them to see my new nose. It was a little bit of everything, but it was very important to me. And that’s what Taylor didn’t know.
I was surprised by the sound of her voice on the phone, and that she was with a man we really didn’t know! When she didn’t know Kennedy’s whereabouts, we all were very concerned. It wasn’t that we were concerned about Kennedy’s safety, Kennedy was here with us. I was more concerned with Taylor’s state of mind.
Believe me, I know I am no Dr. Drew. Many would say it’s the pot calling the kettle black, and I totally understand that. My intent was not to be judgmental or hypocritical, but to reach out as a friend, as others have done for me in the past. Taylor and I have discussed this before. I felt scared, as I don’t want her to end up where I did! I’ve been really, really scared for Taylor. And we’ve discussed that between Taylor and I. Being an alcoholic in recovery I recognize some of Taylor’s behavior as a red flag! As a friend I would like to help! We called Taylor and headed over to see her. I was so nervous and I told my sister on the way there that I didn’t know exactly what to say, but I know I have to say something! When I sat down with Taylor, I wanted to cry because my heart went out to her. I understand where she’s at and what she’s going through. I opened up and told her how it affected me and my children and family. I was so relieved when she reacted the way she did and she was responsive! I was very glad we did it and I was just so relieved! You walk out the door to today I took the biggest sighhhh! I said to my sister on the way home, “Did I do that the right way???” I hope Taylor’s OK with me because I care for her and Kennedy so much!
So I get a call. . .do you want to go to Paris? Well naturally, I’m a little hesitant to go on a trip with the girls!?! But then I thought YES! So exciting! This is the first trip I’ve been on in awhile where I’m together. I’m sober. I got a passport and driver’s license! Aha!
So I started packing. . .I packed until 3 am! I was too afraid to go to sleep and miss the plane. The car picked me up and it was off to the airport! It was nice being on-time at the airport and being prepared with my passport and my driver’s license in hand! It was also really nice sitting with my sister and being able to discuss with her some of the issues and things I used to do when I was drinking. It was such a relief for both of us. It feels so good not to have to keep secrets from each other any longer! As time goes on and things come out, the air gets lighter and lighter, and things get easier.
I felt so bad when Marisa called and we got the news. Such a tragedy and my condolences go to her and her family! Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
The flight to Paris was long (15 hours!) but they gave us pajamas, and we played some games to pass the time. I tried to sleep as much as I could, but didn’t have much luck.
Everybody decided to meet down in Brandi’s room for fireworks. I came out on the deck at Brandi’s room that night, I was exhausted. I just didn’t feel like myself. When Kyle called my room I told her I would be right up. I didn’t feel so good. My stomach was hurting and I felt nauseous. I didn’t know why. I barely slept the night before we left L.A. It had a been a long day of travelling. Still something felt wrong. I just wasn’ myself and I had trouble focusing and staying alert. I was on 24 hours of no sleep.
What you didn’t see is the morning after our first day, I called a doctor to come check on me. It turns out I had brought the wrong medication with me on the trip!! I had been taking it since I left L.A. Throughout the entire stay in Paris, I just didn’t look or feel right. I wasn’t my spunky self and my personality just wasn’t me. It wasn’t until I returned home that I was aware of this.
When I got back home after our trip, I slept for two whole days. Looking back on the trip, I felt lethargic and I really hadn’t been myself. Every day I take more steps in my recovery, and I’m in such a better place. Looking back on this really frightened me, and watching this makes me realize how much I value my sobriety today. It makes me much more cautious, and it’s not something to take lightly.
I really put a lot of thought into this blog. I take my recovery very seriously, and I just want to be very clear about this. This is my life and I love it. I am sober and it’s unfortunate the way it looked, but I am proud of who I am today. And I am very grateful to all whom I have inspired, as you have been an inspiration to me.
Thank you!
Love,
Kim
Good thing she has a housekeeper or whoever to take careof the useless dog Kingsley while she slept for 2 days.Hermeds made her loopy trip.She came in riding attire like for a horse race and way too much luggage for the trip.Thank God she had a driver to pick her up or she would have neber bee there on time.She is a pill popper and a waste on the show.Kim needs to go.
It’s so easy to be an alcoholic. But much harder to not be one for some people. I wish you well on the journey to stay sober. You have come a long way. Your kids must be proud of you.
I agree cc. Kim’s battle hasn’t been an easy one. The road to recovery has been a long one for Kim. She may have to be on certain meds. for awhile; depending on the medication it may be for a very long time?
I’ve struggled with insomnia all of my life. I’ve gone two days w/o any sleep w/o missing work. It sucks! I can be exhausted all day; hit the pillow at night, and be unable to shut my thoughts down. I’ve been like that since grade school – nothing I can do about it. I’ve had to go to work – on No sleep and sleep deprivation is just awful!! If it’s hard on someone like me…it’s got to be even worse for someone in recovery – like Kim.
JMO but I think being anxious about the trip to Paris after her past/last experience probably caused a lot of anxiety. The medication mistake should not have happened, but she owned up to it, and learned from the experience.
She’s come a looong way and I cut her some slack on this one. Praying for Kim.
Saying you are sober from alcohol but hooked on prescription drugs is not good.Heavily medicated and sleeping for 2 days is not something to brag about.Shows she has no responsibilities or places/job she needs to report to.Kim should not even be in charge of taking care of a goldfish let alone the aggressive dog.She looks sleepy all the time.She is riding the paycheck for all long as Bravo is crazy enough to keep paying her.
Agreed.
Her blog reads like a 12 year old wrote it. That woman has not passed her tween years, emotionally. She remembered her passport and drivers license – big woo. BUT, she packed the WRONG medicationS! What sort of meds was Dim-Kim on? She kept telling Kyle that she didn’t need anything. Obviously, she’s still spinning it for her self denial privileges.
Kim was taking the wrong medication the whole trip and was not aware of it. That really makes no sense what so ever.
Kim’s sloppy and wacky in Paris. In her own words, “It wasn’t until I returned home that I was aware of this”. She’s not quite got a handle on what sobriety is supposed to feel like. She should never have been on this trip, you Bravo assholes. And, thank you Kyle for your sisterly love, you bitch.
Judge Judy says…”If it doesnt make sense, its not true”. I very much doubt Kim would go out of the country without all possible meds she needs. Thats one thing an addict doesnt forget. Maybe a drivers license or a passport…but not meds.
My first thought too Cyn… I would NEVER take a medication consistently unless I knew what it looked like and what it was called. Ridiculous….
Kim taking the wrong medicine… Give me a break, I know the kind of pills I take, shape and color of them… She has so many excuses for everything she does.. Kind of like someone that is on something… If she is not drinking, she’s doing something.. She is not in her right mind… Most people with a drinking problem tries to avoid all drugs that give them a buzz… They know its the beginning of using again..she’s not clean… She talks like she is always loaded… It annoys me.. Oh my husband says hello to all of you… (He’s teasing me again). I will give him the attention he needs, before the trial starts!
What really doesn’t make sense…she had a Dr. come see her the next morning and realized she had the wrong meds…..then she says she didn’t realize until she got home. What is wrong with this dingdong?
Wrong medication, Really? I think Kim knows alot more about medication than she pretends. She had never heard of meth either. Please Bravo let her find her way without the camera’s she avoids.
I agree! She claimed that she was packing until 3am. It’s difficult to fathom that she would not read the medication labels. Her demeanor did not seem tired (as she claimed). Rather, she seemed very UPbeat and HIGH as a kite. Her story sounds as believable as, “the dog ate my nose.”… or whatever.
How does one aquire “wrong” meds?
Good question and how come the Paris doctor didnt clue her in on that when she called him to come check on her.
Yes..that’s just one more bit in her blog that’s goofy and non-linear.
I have at least 3 bottles of “wrong” meds in my home that I need to dispose of at the pharmacist. These are medications that were prescribed and filled that I cannot take for a number of reasons. A lot of “fun” pills. Perhaps Kim didn’t dispose of those med bottles and swiped those for the Paris trip? Just speculating.
Don’t prescription drugs have to be labeled to go through customs?
https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/67/~/traveling-with-medications-and-medical-devices,-such-as-needles-or-oxygen-tanks
How do you call in a doctor while on the trip, and he doesn’t tell you that your meds are wrong???? More lies
LOL
maybe they were the left over meds from her Ken days…..
It seems like drug seeking behavior to me. concerned about calling that doctor but not concerned enough to get to the bottom of why she felt so “weird.” That Parisian doctor musta gave her a script for a humdinger for her to come home and sleep for two days.
That was odd of her. Usually I think “Why do I feel so weird?” when my medications are not jiving. I have found common threads in drug classes, color of pills, etc.
Yes I think she prolly got her some new “wrong” drugs from the Paris doctor.
please Kim, get yourself a sponsor and go to at least one meeting per day. If you want to inspire people, please show what an alcoholic is supposed to do. Like working the 10 steps. Not twelve stepping Taylor when you have no idea what you are doing. If you cared about Taylor, you would have brought your sponsor with you to talk with her. You are too early in recovery to be advising anyone. And..another thing that is most important is HONESTY. Admit your shortcomings. Alcoholism is a disease, so don’t feel like you have to lie about your slip. As long as you are sober today, that is what matters. Remember one day at a tijme.
Exactly! My best friend is in recovery (so proud of her) and we talk honestly about her past and hopes for the future. She does go to a meeting every morning (night is available also), and she is not dating until she has a year sobriety under her belt. One can tell by looking and talking with her that she is completely sober. Kim is not sober and may not even be trying that hard.
People going through recovery often need Meds I wouldnt blame kim entirely her DR should be monitoring her closely These drug are very powerful and alter your brain chemestry dosnt mean she is addicted or abusing them.
She fell off the wagon. Kim is still playing games. Such nonsense. She really is deeply troubled and do her teenagers live with her? She is still being dishonest with herself and making excuses.
I can’t help but think that without RHWBH, Kim could have some drinks, live her life and be pretty OK. Being in the Bravo shitstorm of a spotlight and having Kyle and Maury strut their stuff and show off the house they stole from her is making me drink, too.
It’s not RHBH that messed her up, it’s the industry!! No child should ever be a so-called “star”. The show clearly did not help. Neither did Vyle, the worst sister ever?
Blah blah blah Kim, seems like a load of BS and excuses like good (not so) old at all times. Help Traylor? Why dont you help yourself first, ha? Yes, it’s pot and kettle, hundreds of people have called you that, and still will.
I can see a person that has acquired numerous prescriptions and not disposed of them bringing the wrong medication. I can also see Kim not being the type to take her meds correctly (i.e. splitting pills that should not be split).
I don’t know if Kim’s behavior is of sobriety or not. I know I am meticulous with my medications, and there are days I will just plain forget to refill my “as needed” medication in the pill box.
The whole thing about her patting herself on the back for packing herself, waking up on time, bringing the correct travel documents is so juvenile in tone. Then we’re supposed to accept that she “packed the wrong meds”? Geez-uz. It tests our patience. That fool is pushing 50 and still can’t get it together without assistance? Aaarrggghhhhh!
Kim’s body language towards Mau(vais)rice (sorry, this pun is for french speaking people!! It’s not very good, you’re not missing out!) clearly show she HATES that guy. And I think she’s right to feel so. He seems to have benefited from the sisters strained relationship and capitalized on it. Gained a house in the process, haven’t you, Momo? Despicable excuse for a man.
I’ve noticed this too! She is so awkward when she attempts to be nice to him. She’s better off just trying to ignore him as usual.
Don’t blame her one bit either. Once again we end up hearing a comment about Kim being a second wife (although this time it was from Maurice in a joking manner). You know those two have probably said that about her many a time.
I noticed that too On the balcony you could tell she really didn’t want to cheek kiss him and did it once quickly and moved away. She really hates his smug ass.
Clearly, She needs major help getting in the right track.
Btw! her house is beautiful. That bravo check must be nice.
This girl.
She thinks it’s okay to have elective surgery (while admitting she had never really considered it much before) shortly after getting sober and then suffers a re-injury to her nose soon thereafter. Now she heads abroad and on day two already has the doctor on speed dial and up to her room for a visit ( and likely a script). I’m with the poster above who said that packing her meds properly would have been the thing she paid the most attention to. And just how many meds is she on that she confuses them while travelling abroad? This blog is so full of obvious excuses and lies. If she’s going to put herself out there as an inspiration for those in recovery, she shouldn’t be surprised when she gets called out by that same group. They can spot the deception a mile away.
That said, I wish her success on her journey to find sobriety. It is a difficult and crooked road.
Oh, and someone needs to remove the exclamation point from her keyboard.
I took pills that made me sleep or made me feel bad but I kept taking them. She did not appear sleepy, she appeared high. Everyone looked at her like they knew she was high.
Right?! At the beginning of this sad blog, I could tell that the “I was exhausted!” excuse was looming, and my head was already calling bullshit as I continued to read. She didn’t even look sleepy, and she wasn’t acting under the influence of even a sleeping pill (thought she was going to use that excuse for a minute). She looked like she was “enjoying herself” much like last year – high. She was loopy, silly, not making sense, not finishing sentences etc. Any person who can recall being a college student and being up during finals for 5 days straight, surviving on cereal and ramen, knows that is not how sleep deprivation looks.
I agree about the exclamation points….for a moment I wondered if Paris had written this for Aunt Kim.
If Kim is sober, then I am the queen of England. I think her “wrong medication” is code word for cocaine or maybe even meth. She didn’t seem like she was sleep deprived or jet lagged, she seemed high. And I don’t know how long they were gone, but how does someone take the wrong medication and not realize it the whole trip? I have taken my meds incorrectly, but not for days at a time without realizing it. Usually it is forgetting I took it and taking it twice. She sounds full of excuses, it reminds me of my ex, who was an alochol and drug addict. He was full of them. One of my favorites was the vodka bottles he had hidden in random places was for cleaning the radiator.
you know that is kinda junkie behavior. 1st thing she does upon arrival is call a dr. who has no knowledge of her past history to score some feel good meds.
Just sad. Flip it ronnie’s comment, “Can I have your house” was hilarious. So over all of the women. I knew Kim had no shot at being sober. I could tell she was just going through the motions, but she is still filled with resentments. I feel sorry for her. Let’s just hope she doesn’t go on celebrity rehab. Dr. Drew’s patients are dropping like flies.
I agree with everyone else on here who says Kim is not clean. No Way! And she does always sound loaded/high. It’s like she can’t put a complete thought together, let alone a full sentence.
Kim has been to Kyle’s house a million times?? Which house – the new one, the stolen one or a fictional one we don’t know about? I don’t know what kind of “program” Kim is participating in or even if she has the ability to truly recover from all the years of abuse by drugs and alcohol. She sometimes slips into her childhood acting days, which make her appear all the more pathetic and her words of wisdom are sad to hear. What really bothered me the most was her intervention – Taylor kept herself together but it was apparent that she didn’t want to set the fruitcake off. RHBH is not a vehicle for Kim Richards and I wish she would go away and privately handle her demons.
i hate watching her, some people I don’t mind watching spiral downward, ie., Trailor, Tree, hopefully one day Vyle … but something about seeing Kim go through this just makes me sad, almost like watching Anna Nicole and just knowing in your gut that she’s not going to make it.
I seem to remember a conversation in season 1 between Vyle and Kim where Kim stated she had been spraying Febreze in her mouth, for weeks, thinking it was breath freshener… Does anyone remember that? Anywho, Kim is NOT sober/clean. She has replaced one addiction for another. Her behavior on the balcony was wild eyed and crazy. Uppers, downers, she’s on it! Her blog makes no sense, just excuses, which is classic junkie behavior. The more she tries to present herself as clean and in recovery, the worse she looks. I no longer feel sorry for her. She has had many opportunities to get help, stay clean, and yet she chooses not to. I wish her well, but also wish she would remove herself from the show and fight her demons in private.
ITA. That is also why Dim-Kim has no right to preach to Traylor-Park about being a lush.
When Dim-Kim explained that her party was not just for the nose unveiling, but to celebrate her new home, i had to wonder how any one would know that? In 3 seasons, she’s moved. Each time, she claimed that it was her new “home”. This “place” seemed no different than her previous shacks. (The front yard has a nice view of electrical wires along the street.) I don’t like Traylor-Park, but I don’t blame her for skipping another plaster surgery / housewarming party. Shana should have said that she couldn’t make it because “the dog bit my ankle”…
She was on the wrong medication? By that reasoning the right medication was back in the USA and the USA medication only works in Europe. The wrong medication only works in the USA. I would have called home and asked someone to overnight the right medication and told the producers I had the runs and go to bed. Wrong medication…what a crock…
OR – since the hotel doctor told her that her meds were wrong, HE could have written a new prescription for the RIGHT meds. There are 24 hour pharmacies in Paris. Her “story” doesn’t make sense under any scenario.
ITA!
Kim was high as a kite and has been forever.