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Kathy Griffin thinks the public is barking up the wrong tree when it comes to startling rumors about Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin.
“There was an episode of [Real Housewives of] Beverly Hills where Lisa took a glass and was so pissed at Kim Richards she freaking broke it and was going to twist it in her neck, which is my kind of bitch,” Griffin, 64, recalled during the February 11 episode of the “Trash Tuesday” podcast. “There was a rumor about Harry. I’ve never heard a single rumor about Harry in my life, and he’s been around forever.”
Griffin was referring to the infamous season 5 episode of RHOBH, featuring the cast’s trip to Amsterdam when Rinna nearly strangled Richards for making a comment about Hamlin. During the podcast episode, Griffin recalled asking Rinna about that moment.
“I go, ‘So what was the rumor that pissed you off so much?’ And she’s like, ‘First of all, I blacked out in that moment — I was about to kill someone,’” Griffin recalled, noting that she also asked Hamlin the same question. (Rinna and Hamlin recently discussed the same RHOBH scene on an episode of the “Let’s Not Talk About the Husband” podcast.)
“There’s this pause and, he’s such a quiet spoken intellectual guy, and he goes, ‘They said I f—ed a dog,” the comedian continued. “I lost it laughing.”
Griffin added, “I just thought that was the funniest thing. Of all the rumors, how did even one person be like, ‘Hmm, that is possible.’ I thought the rumor was just that he was having an affair with somebody — maybe an affair with, like, someone on the show.”
Griffin told Hamlin: “Let it ride and just go with it because that s— is funny.”
Rinna and Hamlin, for their part, reacted to Griffin’s story in a statement to Us Weekly on Wednesday, February 19.
“Thank you to Kathy for clearing this up,” the couple’s reps shared. “It’s been really RUFF on the family.”
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Griffin shared a similar sentiment during the same podcast.
“Harry Hamlin is not a dog f—er, stop it,” she added. “Stop it.”
Griffin further explained that she has known Rinna “for decades,” and has really gotten to know the pair over the years.
“She is a sweetheart. She’s a ride or die. She’s super cool,” the comedian gushed. “Harry is a dream. He went to Yale. He’s so smart, he can talk about anything.”
