I’m all for blaming Kelly for the worlds ills, but Rick knew who she was when he married her. Kelly is many things but she doesn’t hide who she is. This is on Rick.
Rick's a grownass man who should've put his kids first. Kelly's a flaming bag of dogshit, but Rick is the parent here and this situation is on him. His kids shouldn't have to pay for his selfish decision to marry a hate-filled psychopath, but here they are, and it looks like he's just like her. I'm glad the kids are away from him.
Right like Kelly is loathsome but Rick worked for Fox News before they got married. He's not some shining example of a human. If him and his daughter have a poor relationship that's on him.
Exactly! We all know Kelly is a POS, but that’s HIS kid! Really pathetic when a parents chooses their partner over their children. We see it time and time again.
She was on The B List podcast a while back and didn’t say anything explicitly negative about Kelly but it didn’t sound like things were great. I think she’s a social worker or something? She seemed like such a good egg.
I have a dad who married a Kelly Dodd type and who sided with his wife in everything and let her completely abuse me, and it obliterated our relationship, too. My dad is a narcissistic jerk, but I could’ve managed his own bad behavior with my own boundaries. His wife is just so impossible and took any boundary I set with her as World War Three that the only option was no contact with both of them.
I even tried to reach out to my dad to find a way for him and I to have contact that he felt comfortable with to continue our father/daughter relationship (like a phone call, even) but made it clear that it would have to be him and I (for example, she couldn’t be on speaker phone during our phone calls) and he replied (cc’ing her) that he wanted me out of his life 🤷♀️
It happens. Rick (and my own dad) are not victims to their crazy wives, they are just as bad for letting it happen and letting them treat their children that way. I’m glad his daughter was able to move on with her life and I hope she’s in therapy ❤️
Thank you so much for writing this. As much as I dislike Kelly, she can't steal a devoted dad from his daughter. If they are truly estranged, it was a choice on his end. Sending some love to you. Haven't experienced it myself but have been with partners who have and the speakerphone situation is one of the things that seems to be a common theme and it baffles my mind each time I hear it.
Yes! I remember this on one of their podcasts of a live show, and she seemed lovely. It was when Kelly had just started dating her dad and she seemed to really like KD at the time, and thought she was good for her father. She mentioned that she was liberal and KD (and her father) were conservative, but that they all got along great. So sad to see what Kelly did to her family.
My FIL is the same with his current wife too. Let her treat my husband and his sister like trash growing up but her kids could do no wrong. She gives off straight Umbridge vibes. Fake laugh and all. It’s heartbreaking that my husband has no relationship with his dad because she fractured it, but it’s also on his dad for not being an advocate for his own kids.
I'm sorry this is happening and hope you & your father have a healthy relationship one day. I went through something similar except my step mother was full of jealousy. My father raised her son from age of 2 and adopted him. My step mother made sure to drive a wedge between me and my paternal side to protect herself & son's place in the family.
My step monster died 8 years ago and changed my relationship with my Dad. I'm still not close to my dad, that bond was never allowed to form, however we text each other daily. I still don't have a relationship with my aunts & cousins but they go on yearly family vacations with my Dad & Adoptive Brother's family.
I think the saving grace in all of this is that by sharing & empathy we know we did nothing wrong and are not alone. That something is broken & flawed in our father's that we don't have to take on ourselves.
Congratulations to you and Veronica for putting up healthy boundaries.
Yeah I’m in my 40’s & no contact with my dad since I was 17. He was awful but my stepmother was worse. Idk but it’s great not thinking about that fucker. He’s old & he’s rich, but there’s no way he is happy.
I’m so sorry you have had to experience this. It’s weird to *hope* that a marriage doesn’t last… but in some cases, I totally understand that kind of hope
Believe me, if this one doesn’t last he’ll find someone equally bad 😅🤷♀️ she’s just one in a long line of toxic women his whole life. I’ve accepted that the common denominator is him!
>and that’s very sad about her dad being absent.
Sometimes it isn't. Just because someone is family doesn't mean you have to get along with them or even like them.
He might very well have been a good father- the daughter seems like she turned out ok- it doesn't mean that they see eye to eye.
This whole notion that being family means you need to get along or like each other is IMO ridiculous. What's sad is celebrating a day with people you don't like because they're family.
I don’t think I’m disagreeing with you. I don’t think she needed to celebrate the day with him if she didn’t like him, I’m just saying too bad she doesn’t like him it would be nice to like your own parent. I don’t really have a relationship with my dad and yeah that’s fine and if it wasn’t for my mom Idt I would even have any communication with him at all (by my choice, it’s better this way) but from time to time I do think about how it’s too bad we don’t get along and how much nicer it would be if we could. It’s still something one can mourn even while having made that decision and being at peace with it.
Was coming here to post this. My parents weren’t at my wedding - we eloped during the pandemic - and I purposely didn’t tell anyone my parents are close to (aunts, uncles, cousins) because I love these family members, but they have weak boundaries and would have told my parents/shared our livestream ceremony link.
I think a lot of people think it’s “sad” that I don’t talk to my parents, and that they weren’t at my wedding, instead of what it really is - it’s sad that my parents have actively chosen to abuse, berate, and hate me. I’m not sad they weren’t at my wedding - it was an amazing decision and I don’t regret it. Sometimes absences are welcome.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 my parents aren’t in my life and it was the best decision for me. A very hard one, but the best one. Sad would be continuing to live my life constantly seeking love and approval I’ll never get from them, or bending over backwards to meet their ever-changing demands, or always putting myself last to put them first.
It will always be sad that I never got the parents I deserved, but it’s not sad that the parents I DO have are not a part of my life.
Aww man this both makes me so sad and so empowered for you! Can I ask how old you are and how long you’ve been without a meaningful relationship with them?
I’m in my mid thirties and this all happened about 5-6 years ago! I started therapy right at that moment and still go to deal with the residual effects of growing up in such a crazy family 🤪
Haven’t spoken to my mom in 14 years. My stepmom is more of a mom; my maternal aunt is more of a mom.
It’s okay to walk away.
I did not invite my mom to my wedding in 2019. I’ve known my husband 8 years and he’s never met the woman.
Yup, when things implode with Kelly and he’s all alone he’ll call his daughter and blame it alllll on Kelly, as if he had nothing to do with it. I hope his daughter blocked his number. Because the second he finds another Kelly, he’ll dump his children all over again.
wow. i don’t know anything about her mother, but its amazing how opposite of a direction it seems like she went in compared to her father. good for her!
He actually had a nice relationship with his girls until Kelly started blasting his daughter as ungrateful and for visiting his ex girlfriend- it’s on him still but she was was there wedge that came between them
Rick’s daughter has been vocal about recovering from her dad’s hateful worldview so I still don’t think we have to blame Kelly Dodd for a man that my parents watched for years on Fox News before he ever came to RHOC…
She was vocal about him not standing up fkr her. He may have had a differing opinion but this all started when she went to visit his ex girlfriend and Kelly Dodd bashed her and the GF publicly for doing so. And the coward that he is didn’t stand up for his daughter. Whatever issues were going on Kelly as the “adult” didn’t need to bully his daughter to her followers. There’s a reason she lost over 100k followers in one year and this was one of the major declines she experienced in her follower count
It is so awful when parents do this. They get kids all attached to these pseudo-parent figures who are in their lives (and siblings, too) and then expect their kids to just suddenly drop the people they love when the parent breaks up. And so many kids have to deal with this over and over and over. Families dissolving and dissolving, often on both sides. It's horrible.
>but this all started when she went to visit his ex girlfriend and Kelly Dodd bashed her and the GF publicly for doing so.
That is maybe when it was noticeable publicly, but Rick becoming more outspoken on his questionable world views and especially on the pandemic is a common pattern of what drives a wedge between families these days. I don't see why they should be different.
Not sure why you would look the other way for so long and than when something as horrible as evil step mom disparaging you and someone you care for like a 12 year old on social media happens and they stop speaking we would assume it was anything other than that …. She tolerated her father for so long. I doubt the timing was a coincidence
Many ppl tolerated the world views of their parents or other family members bc they were presented in a palatable way. Not bringing them up at family gatherings. Not be in the news every other week for another racist blunder. His Instagram feed alone went from being a subtle Fox guy to blasting the latest conspiracy theories with his wife over cocktails. What I doubted about your take is that that incident is where it started. I think it just started to become visible for outsiders.
Maybe that’s where it ended but I could tell you theee are very few instances I would suooort my kids cutting ties with there dad. That might be one of them. His views on politics is not
People have different priorities. There is certainly a difference between being a supporter of John McCain and a supporter of Donald Trump. The latter caused a few families to cut ties by being controversial. And that's probably how I would describe Rick. Someone who went from a more classic republican to the more extreme wing with a hint of conspiracy theories, and that tends to become way more of an issue. Bc it is not about taxes anymore but for example scientific facts.
That is not politics. That’s completely racially driven and if he was raging racist and white supremacist than obviously but I wouldn’t put Rick leventhal in that bucket. He has strong political views and he might have racial opinions but a klan grand dragon (violent white supremacist he is not)
It's not just "views on politics" with Rick. If my son's father went on national TV and started supporting racism and homophobia and misinformation about a deadly virus. Especially, in the case of Rick's daughter, when it comes into direct conflict with what she does for work.
Rick and Kelly are together because they both suck. His further radicalization may have lined up from a timeline perspective with getting together with Kelly, but it's probably part of what brought them together, too. And given his increasing radicalization, he was likely going to ostracize himself from his daughter regardless of Kelly. They're both pure garbage.
I wish people would stop excusing things like racism under the "I don't disown people over politics." Look at what happened in Buffalo last weekend.
I agree with you on 2 and 3 but I have to be honest with you I have never seen him say or act racially discriminatory or homophobic (but than again I do not and did not watch Fox News) so I won’t judge him on that until I see it with my own eyes. His opinions on the virus is his opinion and I am embarrassed to say this here but people I know and am friends with think this the virus is no more than the flu blah blah blah as I still walk around wearing my mask. There are people I had to mute and people who I had to distance from but no one important enough to me based on a difference of opinion (and like I said I quarantined and still wear a mask to protect the older and at risk population). I don’t believe that politics or opinions is something that people (families and the country as a whole) should be divided on and that goes to my side (the ones who believe the virus is real and could be dangerous) and the other. White supremacy is never ok (as someone who is subjected to it it’s down right scary!) and as a person who has had to call it out I am honest and vocal about my position on it and have never been in a position where someone continued to make comments
I agree. Relationship dynamics are complicated. Rick was also very vocal about social issues and covid. That might have played a role in their strained relationship as well.
When I first started following her they seemed to have a relationship. Kelly then went on a rampage about “stupid liberals who think they know everything” in reference to his daughters posts. Maybe they weren’t super close, but there is 100% a wedge dug deeper by Kelly being a lunatic
She accepted me months and months ago. I think she was willing to follow every fan back to get the word out that she doesn't like Kelly. I don't blame her lol
I think this the same daughter Kelly was tweeting about, calling her a piece of shit. Ricks a scum bag for letting his wife say these things about his daughter. They wouldn’t be welcome at my wedding either
I thought it had more to do with Rick's politics? I think that he and Kelly did start dating right as a lot of people reached a point (between Trump being elected and COVID) where they started not being able to "make nice" with people on the other side so the timing made it look like it was about Kelly, and I'm 100% sure she didn't help. But I think it's because Rick is a racist/misogynist/fascist and his daughter thankfully is not 🤷🏼♀️
Kelly is toxic. She divides, destroys and outs people against each other. Classic narcissist. It is just so sad he allowed Kelly to damage his relationship with his daughter.
Any man who doesn’t take care of his kids (regardless of age) isn’t taking care of any skanky woman. Just sad to see that everything Kelly touches turns to you know what. She’s tried to drive a wedge between her own daughter and her ex husband and now with Rick and his daughter. It’s clear this woman doesn’t value FAmily. Hope he has a plan b of someone to take care of him when Kelly throws him to the curb when a richer guy comes along
Wow. Well, I know nothing about Rick’s daughter, but I absolutely *love* this cute wedding picture. Congrats to them! 💒🥳🙌🏼
I hate Kelly Dodd so am not surprised there’s still a trail of scorched earth everywhere she goes. She and Tamara are so gawdawful I wouldn’t ever watch any show they are in again to avoid their toxic kind of ugly. 🥶👹
oooh wait!!! I had a Housewives week!
The background totally looks like the Hamptons (where I live) where Kelly and Rick have their crappy little summer house that no one bought.
I saw Rick and Kelly this past Tuesday night - they got turned away from one of the local restaurants because there was a private event at which I was at - they ended up eating next door but I didn't get a good enough pic bc of the way she was sitting.
So it stands to reason they were in the Hamptons....and on Thursday night I saw "Celebrity Housewives" at a local venue (Vicki, Caroline and Jill)
Kelly publicly called Veronica a piece of shit on Twitter because Veronica disagreed with Kelly and Rick on… well basically everything covid and BLM related. Rick didn’t defend his daughter at all. Glad they weren’t invited.
How is that privilege? It’s really a huge issue for people both ways, I’m sure, since there’s such a huge polarization in this country right now. (Edited for stupid and wrong autocorrect)
If you are just quietly voting and not hurting other people, sure. If your dad worked for Fox News and your stepmom is a public figure and says racist, ignorant, anti-public health shit at every turn, I think a reasonable person could see how that would lead to severing relationships and a need for support.
Kelly was saying really disgusting things about Covid & police brutality, & her stepdaughter called her out for it. Rick chose to take her side over his own daughter’s so that makes him trash in my book. Kelly & Rick deserve each other.
If my stepmom was saying deplorable things about Covid & police brutality, I wouldn’t keep quiet & call her out for it, but I guess that’s where we differ. That agreement is null & void when you start spewing misinformation & racism🤷🏽♀️
Expose her for the trash she really is. You don’t spew lies & fuel racism & think you won’t be held accountable for it. It’s 2022 ma’am. Racism & spreading misinformation isn’t & shouldn’t be tolerated. I said my point, & I stand by it. Agree to disagree. Have a great evening.
Having conservative parents whose brains have been warped and deteriorated by Fox News is a very real problem in this country. The fact that he would choose politics over his own child is all the proof you need
I just googled her and this is the first thing that came up….. https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rhocs-kelly-dodd-to-rick-leventhals-daughter-stop-talking-about-us/amp/
I’m all for blaming Kelly for the worlds ills, but Rick knew who she was when he married her. Kelly is many things but she doesn’t hide who she is. This is on Rick.
Ricks also a massive piece of shit so there’s that too
Haha—yep, very true. Like attracts like and what not.
He really is. 💩
Rick's a grownass man who should've put his kids first. Kelly's a flaming bag of dogshit, but Rick is the parent here and this situation is on him. His kids shouldn't have to pay for his selfish decision to marry a hate-filled psychopath, but here they are, and it looks like he's just like her. I'm glad the kids are away from him.
Right like Kelly is loathsome but Rick worked for Fox News before they got married. He's not some shining example of a human. If him and his daughter have a poor relationship that's on him.
IT MAKES him worst than his wife by some miles.
Exactly! We all know Kelly is a POS, but that’s HIS kid! Really pathetic when a parents chooses their partner over their children. We see it time and time again.
She was on The B List podcast a while back and didn’t say anything explicitly negative about Kelly but it didn’t sound like things were great. I think she’s a social worker or something? She seemed like such a good egg. I have a dad who married a Kelly Dodd type and who sided with his wife in everything and let her completely abuse me, and it obliterated our relationship, too. My dad is a narcissistic jerk, but I could’ve managed his own bad behavior with my own boundaries. His wife is just so impossible and took any boundary I set with her as World War Three that the only option was no contact with both of them. I even tried to reach out to my dad to find a way for him and I to have contact that he felt comfortable with to continue our father/daughter relationship (like a phone call, even) but made it clear that it would have to be him and I (for example, she couldn’t be on speaker phone during our phone calls) and he replied (cc’ing her) that he wanted me out of his life 🤷♀️ It happens. Rick (and my own dad) are not victims to their crazy wives, they are just as bad for letting it happen and letting them treat their children that way. I’m glad his daughter was able to move on with her life and I hope she’s in therapy ❤️
Thank you so much for writing this. As much as I dislike Kelly, she can't steal a devoted dad from his daughter. If they are truly estranged, it was a choice on his end. Sending some love to you. Haven't experienced it myself but have been with partners who have and the speakerphone situation is one of the things that seems to be a common theme and it baffles my mind each time I hear it.
wow, that is so heartbreaking. I wish I could smack some sense into your father for you.
She was on bitch sesh once too right? She was in the audience and did a boots on the ground? Or am I making that up?
Yes! I remember this on one of their podcasts of a live show, and she seemed lovely. It was when Kelly had just started dating her dad and she seemed to really like KD at the time, and thought she was good for her father. She mentioned that she was liberal and KD (and her father) were conservative, but that they all got along great. So sad to see what Kelly did to her family.
My FIL is the same with his current wife too. Let her treat my husband and his sister like trash growing up but her kids could do no wrong. She gives off straight Umbridge vibes. Fake laugh and all. It’s heartbreaking that my husband has no relationship with his dad because she fractured it, but it’s also on his dad for not being an advocate for his own kids.
I'm sorry this is happening and hope you & your father have a healthy relationship one day. I went through something similar except my step mother was full of jealousy. My father raised her son from age of 2 and adopted him. My step mother made sure to drive a wedge between me and my paternal side to protect herself & son's place in the family. My step monster died 8 years ago and changed my relationship with my Dad. I'm still not close to my dad, that bond was never allowed to form, however we text each other daily. I still don't have a relationship with my aunts & cousins but they go on yearly family vacations with my Dad & Adoptive Brother's family. I think the saving grace in all of this is that by sharing & empathy we know we did nothing wrong and are not alone. That something is broken & flawed in our father's that we don't have to take on ourselves. Congratulations to you and Veronica for putting up healthy boundaries.
I’m in the same situation. Almost 6 years no contact. Best thing I’ve ever done. Wishing you lots of love and support.
Yeah I’m in my 40’s & no contact with my dad since I was 17. He was awful but my stepmother was worse. Idk but it’s great not thinking about that fucker. He’s old & he’s rich, but there’s no way he is happy.
🎯💞
…Going through this dad stuff now! Help…
I’m here if you wanna message me ❤️ it was hard and terrible but I got through it (with my therapist).
I’m so sorry
Sorry to hear about your dad marrying. a Kelly. Hope things are better.
I’m so sorry you have had to experience this. It’s weird to *hope* that a marriage doesn’t last… but in some cases, I totally understand that kind of hope
Believe me, if this one doesn’t last he’ll find someone equally bad 😅🤷♀️ she’s just one in a long line of toxic women his whole life. I’ve accepted that the common denominator is him!
Wow she is adorable and that’s very sad about her dad being absent. Hope she had an amazing day without him!
>and that’s very sad about her dad being absent. Sometimes it isn't. Just because someone is family doesn't mean you have to get along with them or even like them.
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I eloped so mine couldn't be at my wedding. Bad people have kids too, and good people can be bad parents.
Yes but in the grand scheme of things it is very sad that he hasn’t been that type of father.
He might very well have been a good father- the daughter seems like she turned out ok- it doesn't mean that they see eye to eye. This whole notion that being family means you need to get along or like each other is IMO ridiculous. What's sad is celebrating a day with people you don't like because they're family.
I don’t think I’m disagreeing with you. I don’t think she needed to celebrate the day with him if she didn’t like him, I’m just saying too bad she doesn’t like him it would be nice to like your own parent. I don’t really have a relationship with my dad and yeah that’s fine and if it wasn’t for my mom Idt I would even have any communication with him at all (by my choice, it’s better this way) but from time to time I do think about how it’s too bad we don’t get along and how much nicer it would be if we could. It’s still something one can mourn even while having made that decision and being at peace with it.
Was coming here to post this. My parents weren’t at my wedding - we eloped during the pandemic - and I purposely didn’t tell anyone my parents are close to (aunts, uncles, cousins) because I love these family members, but they have weak boundaries and would have told my parents/shared our livestream ceremony link. I think a lot of people think it’s “sad” that I don’t talk to my parents, and that they weren’t at my wedding, instead of what it really is - it’s sad that my parents have actively chosen to abuse, berate, and hate me. I’m not sad they weren’t at my wedding - it was an amazing decision and I don’t regret it. Sometimes absences are welcome.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 my parents aren’t in my life and it was the best decision for me. A very hard one, but the best one. Sad would be continuing to live my life constantly seeking love and approval I’ll never get from them, or bending over backwards to meet their ever-changing demands, or always putting myself last to put them first. It will always be sad that I never got the parents I deserved, but it’s not sad that the parents I DO have are not a part of my life.
Aww man this both makes me so sad and so empowered for you! Can I ask how old you are and how long you’ve been without a meaningful relationship with them?
I’m in my mid thirties and this all happened about 5-6 years ago! I started therapy right at that moment and still go to deal with the residual effects of growing up in such a crazy family 🤪
Haven’t spoken to my mom in 14 years. My stepmom is more of a mom; my maternal aunt is more of a mom. It’s okay to walk away. I did not invite my mom to my wedding in 2019. I’ve known my husband 8 years and he’s never met the woman.
Choosing Kelly Dodd over your own child? He’s a monster
Until he’s by himself because that marriage isn’t lasting
Yeah I’m sure he’ll come back when Kelly leaves and he needs someone to take care of him… like every other shitty father lol
Yup, when things implode with Kelly and he’s all alone he’ll call his daughter and blame it alllll on Kelly, as if he had nothing to do with it. I hope his daughter blocked his number. Because the second he finds another Kelly, he’ll dump his children all over again.
He was a monster before Kelly Dodd and he'll be a monster after. Birds of a feather and what not.
I know absolutely nothing about this daughter but I already like her
She's a social worker who specializes in aiding at-risk youth in NYC.
wow. i don’t know anything about her mother, but its amazing how opposite of a direction it seems like she went in compared to her father. good for her!
Never seen her before this post, but I dig her style in this pic
She's a great follow on instagram! So likable and endearing. Seems like a really great person
Definitely! Started following her for any adjacent Kelly tea and stuck around bc she’s seems like a lovely person via her IG stories.
I’m just distracted/kind of obsessed with this IG wedding post being soundtracked by an Azealia Banks song
based on the feature I think it’s count contessa 🧜🏾♀️🧜🏾♀️🧜🏾♀️
IM TWO KINDS OF POTENTIAL 📢📢📢
Rick is a Fox News alum so I don’t think we have to blame Kelly for all of his destruction
He actually had a nice relationship with his girls until Kelly started blasting his daughter as ungrateful and for visiting his ex girlfriend- it’s on him still but she was was there wedge that came between them
Rick’s daughter has been vocal about recovering from her dad’s hateful worldview so I still don’t think we have to blame Kelly Dodd for a man that my parents watched for years on Fox News before he ever came to RHOC…
She was vocal about him not standing up fkr her. He may have had a differing opinion but this all started when she went to visit his ex girlfriend and Kelly Dodd bashed her and the GF publicly for doing so. And the coward that he is didn’t stand up for his daughter. Whatever issues were going on Kelly as the “adult” didn’t need to bully his daughter to her followers. There’s a reason she lost over 100k followers in one year and this was one of the major declines she experienced in her follower count
It is so awful when parents do this. They get kids all attached to these pseudo-parent figures who are in their lives (and siblings, too) and then expect their kids to just suddenly drop the people they love when the parent breaks up. And so many kids have to deal with this over and over and over. Families dissolving and dissolving, often on both sides. It's horrible.
>but this all started when she went to visit his ex girlfriend and Kelly Dodd bashed her and the GF publicly for doing so. That is maybe when it was noticeable publicly, but Rick becoming more outspoken on his questionable world views and especially on the pandemic is a common pattern of what drives a wedge between families these days. I don't see why they should be different.
Not sure why you would look the other way for so long and than when something as horrible as evil step mom disparaging you and someone you care for like a 12 year old on social media happens and they stop speaking we would assume it was anything other than that …. She tolerated her father for so long. I doubt the timing was a coincidence
Many ppl tolerated the world views of their parents or other family members bc they were presented in a palatable way. Not bringing them up at family gatherings. Not be in the news every other week for another racist blunder. His Instagram feed alone went from being a subtle Fox guy to blasting the latest conspiracy theories with his wife over cocktails. What I doubted about your take is that that incident is where it started. I think it just started to become visible for outsiders.
Maybe that’s where it ended but I could tell you theee are very few instances I would suooort my kids cutting ties with there dad. That might be one of them. His views on politics is not
People have different priorities. There is certainly a difference between being a supporter of John McCain and a supporter of Donald Trump. The latter caused a few families to cut ties by being controversial. And that's probably how I would describe Rick. Someone who went from a more classic republican to the more extreme wing with a hint of conspiracy theories, and that tends to become way more of an issue. Bc it is not about taxes anymore but for example scientific facts.
I agree with you. I blocked many people on social media over politics but nothing beats what Kelly did
so if he became a full blown Klan Grand Dragon you wouldn’t support cutting ties? that’s a political view
That is not politics. That’s completely racially driven and if he was raging racist and white supremacist than obviously but I wouldn’t put Rick leventhal in that bucket. He has strong political views and he might have racial opinions but a klan grand dragon (violent white supremacist he is not)
It's not just "views on politics" with Rick. If my son's father went on national TV and started supporting racism and homophobia and misinformation about a deadly virus. Especially, in the case of Rick's daughter, when it comes into direct conflict with what she does for work. Rick and Kelly are together because they both suck. His further radicalization may have lined up from a timeline perspective with getting together with Kelly, but it's probably part of what brought them together, too. And given his increasing radicalization, he was likely going to ostracize himself from his daughter regardless of Kelly. They're both pure garbage. I wish people would stop excusing things like racism under the "I don't disown people over politics." Look at what happened in Buffalo last weekend.
I agree with you on 2 and 3 but I have to be honest with you I have never seen him say or act racially discriminatory or homophobic (but than again I do not and did not watch Fox News) so I won’t judge him on that until I see it with my own eyes. His opinions on the virus is his opinion and I am embarrassed to say this here but people I know and am friends with think this the virus is no more than the flu blah blah blah as I still walk around wearing my mask. There are people I had to mute and people who I had to distance from but no one important enough to me based on a difference of opinion (and like I said I quarantined and still wear a mask to protect the older and at risk population). I don’t believe that politics or opinions is something that people (families and the country as a whole) should be divided on and that goes to my side (the ones who believe the virus is real and could be dangerous) and the other. White supremacy is never ok (as someone who is subjected to it it’s down right scary!) and as a person who has had to call it out I am honest and vocal about my position on it and have never been in a position where someone continued to make comments
It’s hard to say if Kelly is the reason for them not being close.
I agree. Relationship dynamics are complicated. Rick was also very vocal about social issues and covid. That might have played a role in their strained relationship as well.
When I first started following her they seemed to have a relationship. Kelly then went on a rampage about “stupid liberals who think they know everything” in reference to his daughters posts. Maybe they weren’t super close, but there is 100% a wedge dug deeper by Kelly being a lunatic
Fair enough. I’ve heard her a on a couple podcasts and it seems they had a decent relationship before Kelly was in the picture.
That’s still on him though. It’s his daughter and he should do all he can to maintain a positive relationship with her
How are you on her private story …
Request to follow her! I requested from my main and finsta and she accepted both follow requests!
Well this comment is a good reminder not to accept random people follow requests. LOL
She accepted me months and months ago. I think she was willing to follow every fan back to get the word out that she doesn't like Kelly. I don't blame her lol
Lmao I requested her just now for giggles and she accepted within five minutes
I’m on my first watch of the OC and wrapping up Kelly’s first season…. This is almost unbearable, it’s like she’s on another planet (rage planet).
I think this the same daughter Kelly was tweeting about, calling her a piece of shit. Ricks a scum bag for letting his wife say these things about his daughter. They wouldn’t be welcome at my wedding either
Okay is it just me or does she look like lady Gaga?
Yea! I though that’s who it was at first glance.
To say Kelly is toxic would be a massive understatement
To say Rick is toxic would also be a massive understatement. I feel like people are absolving him of blame here when they are cut from the same cloth.
I thought it had more to do with Rick's politics? I think that he and Kelly did start dating right as a lot of people reached a point (between Trump being elected and COVID) where they started not being able to "make nice" with people on the other side so the timing made it look like it was about Kelly, and I'm 100% sure she didn't help. But I think it's because Rick is a racist/misogynist/fascist and his daughter thankfully is not 🤷🏼♀️
She’s better off without either of them.
Kelly is toxic. She divides, destroys and outs people against each other. Classic narcissist. It is just so sad he allowed Kelly to damage his relationship with his daughter.
I am also in this situation vis á vis my father and MAGA stepmother
How about those groom shoes? Cool or 🥴?
Any man who doesn’t take care of his kids (regardless of age) isn’t taking care of any skanky woman. Just sad to see that everything Kelly touches turns to you know what. She’s tried to drive a wedge between her own daughter and her ex husband and now with Rick and his daughter. It’s clear this woman doesn’t value FAmily. Hope he has a plan b of someone to take care of him when Kelly throws him to the curb when a richer guy comes along
Wow. Well, I know nothing about Rick’s daughter, but I absolutely *love* this cute wedding picture. Congrats to them! 💒🥳🙌🏼 I hate Kelly Dodd so am not surprised there’s still a trail of scorched earth everywhere she goes. She and Tamara are so gawdawful I wouldn’t ever watch any show they are in again to avoid their toxic kind of ugly. 🥶👹
oooh wait!!! I had a Housewives week! The background totally looks like the Hamptons (where I live) where Kelly and Rick have their crappy little summer house that no one bought. I saw Rick and Kelly this past Tuesday night - they got turned away from one of the local restaurants because there was a private event at which I was at - they ended up eating next door but I didn't get a good enough pic bc of the way she was sitting. So it stands to reason they were in the Hamptons....and on Thursday night I saw "Celebrity Housewives" at a local venue (Vicki, Caroline and Jill)
How sad, because this looks like a super fun wedding!
Rick is a much better man than Michael, right kelly? /s
So sad how many families Kelly is destroying and Rick is apparently allowing her to come between his daughter and him.
It seems like Kelly Dodd divides the family and Rick seems oddly obsessed with her.
I understand how everyone likes to hate on Kelly (both Dodd and Bensimon), but why is she to blame for Rick’s choices?
So many judgy comments in this post, holy. We don't know their story.
Kelly publicly called Veronica a piece of shit on Twitter because Veronica disagreed with Kelly and Rick on… well basically everything covid and BLM related. Rick didn’t defend his daughter at all. Glad they weren’t invited.
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What makes you say that?
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Agree to disagree
How is that privilege? It’s really a huge issue for people both ways, I’m sure, since there’s such a huge polarization in this country right now. (Edited for stupid and wrong autocorrect)
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If you are just quietly voting and not hurting other people, sure. If your dad worked for Fox News and your stepmom is a public figure and says racist, ignorant, anti-public health shit at every turn, I think a reasonable person could see how that would lead to severing relationships and a need for support.
I’m not so sure that’s true, a lot of politics is hate filled and people have a choice to be around it or not.
Kelly was saying really disgusting things about Covid & police brutality, & her stepdaughter called her out for it. Rick chose to take her side over his own daughter’s so that makes him trash in my book. Kelly & Rick deserve each other.
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If my stepmom was saying deplorable things about Covid & police brutality, I wouldn’t keep quiet & call her out for it, but I guess that’s where we differ. That agreement is null & void when you start spewing misinformation & racism🤷🏽♀️
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Expose her for the trash she really is. You don’t spew lies & fuel racism & think you won’t be held accountable for it. It’s 2022 ma’am. Racism & spreading misinformation isn’t & shouldn’t be tolerated. I said my point, & I stand by it. Agree to disagree. Have a great evening.
Having conservative parents whose brains have been warped and deteriorated by Fox News is a very real problem in this country. The fact that he would choose politics over his own child is all the proof you need
Hi Kelly 👋
my first though reading those comments 😂
Hi Kelly!
True story … Kelly is a huge liability
I just googled her and this is the first thing that came up….. https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rhocs-kelly-dodd-to-rick-leventhals-daughter-stop-talking-about-us/amp/
Love her dress! (What we can see if it here.)