Reality TV
Dorit Kemsley’s Ex PK Kemsley Says Their Life Was ‘Good’ Before They Signed on for ‘RHOBH’
PK Kemsley and wife Dorit Kemsley called it quits on their marriage in May 2024, seven years after first appearing on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
While the talent manager, 58, doesn’t blame the show for the couple going their separate ways, he questions whether his marriage would have been a success had they never shared their lives on Bravo.
“I’m not blaming that show [for] my divorce or my relationship or who I think Dorit is now versus who I think she was, or who I am now,” PK (real name: Paul Kemsley) said during the Tuesday, April 28, episode of Paul C. Brunson’s We Need to Talk podcast. “I think the biggest question that I have that will never be answered is that, is Dorit where she was always going to be and always going to end up, or was I responsible for putting her in that world and then that world created what happened now?”
“Because there’s no question that before we did that [show] … If you talk about happy times, I remember living in Tribeca, we had a beautiful apartment, and then we had the baby, and life was pretty f**king good,” he continued.
Before tying the knot in March 2015, the pair welcomed their first child together, son Jagger, in 2014. Daughter Phoenix joined the family in 2016. After moving from New York to Los Angeles, the Kemsleys joined the already-successful reality series during season 7, with their split becoming a major storyline in season 15.
“The show likes to go back and only talk about bad things. They build up this vision of who you are as a person, as a couple, and then you start repeating it, you start believing it, and suddenly you find yourself [saying], ‘What are you talking about? I’m nothing like that guy. I’m nothing like the person they’re showing,’” PK explained. “And I’m looking at my wife and saying, ‘Who are you?’ It’s scary when you look at it.”
The mother of two, 49, filed for divorce in April 2025, citing irreconcilable differences.
“The only real victims are going to be the kids, so I’m going to do all I can to protect them,” PK told Brunson.
