The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills‘ Dorit Kemsley is combating divorce-related financial worries by beginning a new chapter in her career.
Dorit explained during Season 15, Episode 6, that when she separated from Paul “PK” Kemsley, their professional relationship ended as well, since her estranged husband was also her manager. While meeting with her new management team, she insisted that she was more than ready to start raking in more cash on her own.
“You guys, I need to work. I need to earn money,” Dorit told the duo over lunch. “I don’t want to have worries. I want to be able to buy myself whatever I want, do whatever I want for the kids. I’ve got goals.”
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That’s when one of the managers brought up Dorit’s book deal, which she discussed further on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills After Show.
“I always had financial independence,” Dorit said. “However, my life was so intertwined with PK. So, I feel liberated, and I have the freedom to now go pursue things, whereas before, I didn’t.”
The RHOBH went on to say that she “would have never expected” PK to handle their post-split finances the way that she said he had been.
“I never expected him to be so capable of, like, this ice-cold cut,” she elaborated. “It’s more of a game than anything. … I don’t think he even wants the divorce.”
Details on Dorit Kemsley’s memoir, Unburdened
Dorit opened up about her decision to pen her memoir, Unburdened, which is currently slated to hit shelves in April 2026, during RHOBH‘s Jan. 22 episode.
“Writing a book is going to really give me the opportunity to not only go through the journey of processing everything that I’m going through, but thinking about everything that’s led me to where I am today — the good, the bad, the ugly,” she shared in a confessional. “It’s gonna be a cathartic experience to put pen to paper and then really feel like I’m moving into a new chapter in my life.”
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As Dorit put it to her managers, “I want people to be able to pick up my book, finish my book, and know that they understand me so much better.”
She later clarified on the RHOBH After Show that her book will not solely focus on the negatives of her divorce, however.
“Even though I’m opening up a lot to the group about the woes, there’s also some really great things,” Dorit added. “The flip side to the sad and depressing things are that there are a lot of great things on the horizon, you know, workwise. Signing the book deal was definitely a highlight.”
Dorit Kemsley addressed the “ghostwriter” drama with Amanda Frances
At Rachel Zoe’s psychic dinner party during Episode 6, Dorit announced that she’d just signed her book deal, and the ladies enthusiastically supported her exciting career news, even starting a collective “book deal” chant in her honor.
The celebratory mood abruptly shifted, however, when Amanda Frances asked if Dorit was using a “ghostwriter,” before pointing out that she had written her self-published book all on her own.
Dorit, meanwhile, explained to Amanda that she’d tapped a mother-daughter duo as her co-authors, due to time constraints, before telling a producer, “For someone who claims to be an author, she sure doesn’t know how to read the room.”
She echoed those comments on the RHOBH After Show, adding, “For me to be able to do it with the deadline while being a single parent… It would be something that would take me three, four, five years.” Dorit also referred to her castmate’s remarks as “unflattering.”
Amanda, for her part, insisted separately on the After Show that she “didn’t mean to be shady” to Dorit at Rachel’s dinner, however.
“I was confused because I didn’t know what a co-author was,” she explained. “It was just a new concept to me.”
In the meantime, get even more details on Dorit’s forthcoming memoir.
