‘RHOBH’ Bombshell: All The Brandi Glanville/Denise Richards Hook-Up Details We’ve Been Waiting For

Well, it’s the moment this season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has been building to, and now it’s here. Brandi Glanville showed up and dropped a big ol’ bombshell about Denise Richards — so big that it left Kyle Richards and Teddi Mellencamp nearly speechless. So yeah, pretty big!

Rumors swirled at the end of last year that Denise and Brandi had hooked up and some of the central drama this season would revolve around the women finding out and confronting Denise about it. Tonight we heard from Brandi, and once the ladies get to their big trip to Rome, we’ll certainly hear from Denise.

So how did it all go down? The episode picks up at Kyle’s charity event, where Brandi confessed she was nervous — which should’ve been an immediate red flag. I, for one, was unaware that Brandi Glanville even knew about the concept of being nervous, let alone ever felt it before. So to transition to a new feeling, or maybe simply a severe numbness, Brandi got behind the bar, started pouring shots and chugging full glasses of alcohol, before proposing that she join Denise and her husband Aaron in a throuple. Now, the Academy should be taking notes as well because the entire time Denise is as cool as a cucumber and clearly a better actress than anyone has ever given her credit for.

“She’s not gonna wake up tomorrow feeling good at all,” Denise says in her interview in regards to watching Brandi pour back the drinks, but the same is probably true for Denise this week.

We also get to witness Brandi apologizing to Adrienne Maloof for comments she made years earlier, which likely had viewers wondering if we’d ever see her apologizing for the comments she’ll make later in the episode but all signs point to: nope!

So Brandi slurs about wanting to be a throuple, Aaron gives Denise the “We gotta go” look, and in her interview, Denise asks wtf a throuple even is. Later that night, Brandi dances until she falls down — more than once.

And so the episode continues: Denise tries to “clear the air with Erika” who is way more excited about a giant shoe-shaped cake at her Shoedazzle event, Garcelle asks Sutton a series of incredible questions including where’d you get your money from and who took your virginity (NOTE: WE ARE NOT GETTING ENOUGH OF GARCELLE’S BRILLIANCE THIS SEASON), and Kyle’s daughter Alexia is helping Lisa’s daughter Amelia find an apartment in LA that most of us are too poor to even hear about.

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But later in the episode, Kyle and Teddi are half planning a baby shower and half planning for Rome, when Kim Richards stops by and casually reveals Brandi is in the car in the driveway waiting for her to go to dinner. Kyle says to invite her in, and luckily Brandi is already in full hair and makeup and mic’d — how convenient!

Once the ladies are sitting around gabbing, the conversation quickly turns to Denise, and Brandi says, “We have a whole… I don’t even want to get into it right now.” But leave it to Kim to pipe up, saying, “She did something to Brandi which I just think is…” but she’s cut off by a death stare from Brandi. “I won’t, it’s your thing,” she assures her friend.

But are Brandi and Denise friends? “We are friends, I don’t know what we are,” Brandi tells them. “I just think you guys need to be careful with her because she’s not who she pretends to be.” Brandi then pretends she doesn’t “want to go totally into it” and then…she goes totally into it.

She then proceeds to tell Teddi that Denise “Doesn’t like you at all,” and that she’s “said horrible things about you,” including “you’re obnoxious, you’ll do anything to be in this group because you’ve lived under your dad’s shadow your whole life.” And that’s not all. “Apparently she doesn’t like anyone, she doesn’t like Rinna either,” and according to Brandi, Denise even called Erika “a cold bitch.”

Why exactly would Denise be telling Brandi all these things? “She feels like she can tell me things because she has something on me,” Brandi tells the group and requesting water before she can possibly divulge any more.

“I’ve never seen Brandi so nervous,” Kyle observes in her interview. “Normally if she’s upset it just comes spilling out of her mouth.”

“I feel like no one has anything on you, you’re such an open book,” Kyle tells Brandi, and then the pages just start flipping.

Brandi reveals that the last time she had seen Denise before Kyle’s charity event was in April, and that “some shit went down over those nine months that was really fucked up,” as Kim nods knowingly. She goes on to address how the cheating in her marriage to Eddie Cibrian caused her to be “broken for so long” that she swore she would “never ever ever do that to someone else,” until, allegedly, she unknowingly did.

According to her, Denise and Aaron “have an understanding she can be with girls if she wanted to as long as it wasn’t with a guy.” And so the first night that Denise and Brandi went out to dinner, they ended up making out in the bathroom, though she says this is before Denise was with Aaron. “I was not expecting it but I was like alright, I’ll go with it, I’m wasted, you’re pretty, let’s do this,” Brandi recalls in her interview.

Then, she says last April Denise was away filming but invited Brandi to visit so they could record her podcast. Brandi planned to get her own room but ended up staying in Denise’s, thinking she’d crash on a rollaway bed. But despite the fact that Denise’s daughter was staying downstairs in a room with a door, Denise and Brandi still ended up sharing a bed, which was fine for the first night, but the next night, they got drunk.

“We just like, we kind of hooked up, we hooked up,” Brandi says.

“Who’s we?” Kyle whispers.

“Denise and I,” Brandi confirms.

“Like, kiss?” innocent Teddi asks.

“Like, everything,” Brandi tells the shocked faces in the room. “I don’t want you guys to judge me,” she tells them, but it’s not judgment, it’s the blank expressions of two women trying to process the unexpected information they’ve just been told. “I’m bisexual, everyone knows that,” Brandi continues, but again, news to Teddi and Kyle.

Brandi tells them that Denise told her, “No matter what you do, you can’t tell Aaron” about their hookup and that “He will kill me,” as her voice continues to break. She explains her extreme guilt considering she’s built an entire career including books and her podcast and her overall brand (not to mention her involvement in the casting of Vanderpump Rules) on being vehemently against cheating, and says, “I would’ve never slept with Denise if I thought that Aaron was not okay with it. He knew I was going out of town with her, he knew we made out before, there was no question in my mind that Aaron was okay with all of this.”

Afterwards, she said of her friendship with Denise, “It was kind of like I never really existed but she would text me to stay in touch and make sure everything was kosher. I never wanted to see her in that way again. She made me believe I did something wrong.” She also claims she had a breakdown over it and that’s when she confided in Kim. For her part, Kim tells the group she’s taking Brandi to a meditation sound bath for her birthday. That should make everything better!

Kyle sums up the entire interaction best in her interview when she says, “Brandi can be a lot of things. She can be mean, she can be a bitch, but I honestly don’t believe she’s a liar,” and also adds, “I think I’m just realizing that I don’t think any of us really know Denise at all.”

“I know that was hard to talk about but I also feel like they needed to know who they’re dealing with,” Kim tells Brandi as they leave and go to dinner, though they’ve surely missed their reservation at this point, no?

Then comes the best part: when Kyle and Teddi can react to all of this. But you know it was a major bomb when those two are nearly speechless. “I don’t know what to say right now,” Kyle says with the same stunned look on her face.

“Now I have to look at this chick that blatantly hates me,” Teddi actually says out loud. But again, Kyle brings the realness when she assures her, “That’s like the least of the worries right now.”

It’s everything we kind of already knew, but to see Brandi appear this shaken was…well, something new. There’s not enough wine, pasta, or fancy shoes in all of Italy to make this go away for Denise so her reaction in upcoming episodes will certainly be something to see.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Wednesday at 9pm ET/PT on Bravo. 

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