Kyle Richards Wanted to 'Shock' with Comment About Dating Women — but Regrets Putting Spotlight on Morgan Wade

On Tuesday's Amazon Live, Kyle admitted to feeling "a lot of guilt" for thrusting Morgan into the public eye and triggering her "anxiety"

Kyle Richards is setting the record straight on if she'd actually date a woman.

During an "after show" segment on Bravo, the Bravo mainstay, 54, explained the unexpected query she had for her fellow housewives at Annemarie Wiley's birthday lunch in Ojai, California on Wednesday's episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Kyle made jaws drop when she asked the ladies, "Would you ever date a woman?" Nervous giggles ensued when she shrugged and answered with a simple, "Yeah, maybe."

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"You know what, two reasons I said that," she explained. "A, for shock value. B, because I’m at a place in my life where, I don’t know. I have zero judgment. Do you think I would ever get a tattoo before? So I was like, ‘Who am I to say? I don’t know!’ I’m not judging anything. Like, who knows? Whatever!"

The reality star shared her plans to wipe "everything clean" and start from "scratch of my own beliefs."

"And I’m just a lot more open-minded about a lot of things across the board," she added.

Her new mindset hasn't gone unnoticed by those closest in her life. "My girls are saying to me, ‘Mom, I can’t believe you got tattoos. I love this new enlightened, open-minded version of you,'" she gushed.

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Kyle's declaration comes as rumors of a romance with Morgan Wade have been swirling amid her separation from husband Mauricio Umansky.

The two first became friends after connecting on social media and since then, they've spent a lot of time together from joint workouts to vacations with other Housewives stars. In a previous episode of RHOBH, Kyle permanently commemorated their relationship by tattooing her first initial onto Morgan.

On her Amazon Live session on Tuesday, Kyle admitted she's felt guilty about the attention she's thrust onto the country singer.

“She’s an artist, you know? She just wants to make music and all of a sudden she was thrust into this like, world of gossip and tabloids and traveling and having paparazzi take pictures of her,” she explained. “She just doesn’t like any of that."

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According to Kyle, the "Fall In Love With Me" singer hasn't liked being the subject of "attention" or "talked about" in tabloids,

“She just wants to make music and all of a sudden I had a lot of guilt, you know, that I put her in this position,” she continued, sharing how the sudden public interest has triggered her anxiety.

Though Morgan assures the reality star the attention is "not your fault," Kyle confessed she still feels "bad" for the part she's played.

"Of course I feel bad because it gave her anxiety, you know? Seeing these headlines, and like I said, just thrust into the spotlight brought her anxiety," she added. “Like myself, she suffers from anxiety, so I felt terrible to have put her in that position.”

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