Not holding back. Kelly Dodd got honest about how her exit from Real Housewives of Orange County played out — and it was definitely not how she expected things to go.“I had no idea. …I was blindsided,” Dodd, 45, revealed during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Live with her husband, Rick Leventhal, on Monday, June 28.Dodd, who originally joined the Bravo series in 2016, admitted that she asked whether her exit was stemmed from her political views, but was told that the network simply wanted “to take a different direction.” Earlier this month, Bravo decided not to renew Braunwyn Windham-Burke, Dodd and Elizabeth Lyn Vargas‘ contracts. Heather Dubrow, who was on the show from 2012 to 2016, was brought back in their place.Leventhal, 61,
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