The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills newcomer Amanda Frances wasted no time in clashing with costar Dorit Kemsley when she joined season 15.
The feminine empowerment coach, who wrote bestselling guide Wealthy as F*ck, made her debut on the Bravo actuality present as a part of a solid overhaul, which additionally noticed newcomer Natalie Swanston Fuller be a part of as a “pal” of the Housewives within the wake of Garcelle Beauvais’ dramatic exit following the season 14 reunion.
Bozoma Saint John virtually instantly known as Amanda’s skilled credentials into query — and even prompt that her costar is likely to be expert at “scamming” throughout a January 2026 look on Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen.
“What I’m doing [professionally] isn’t new in any respect,” Amanda solely instructed Us Weekly’s Getting Actual With the Housewives in January 2026. “I don’t know why [the cast] are pretending they will’t wrap their head round it. Some folks could also be confused, some are completely not paying consideration after I speak about it and a few persons are pretending.”
Viewers additionally bought to see a susceptible aspect to Amanda as she opened up about her and fiancé Eddie Tsivislavsky dropping their child son Zion 5 days after his start in 2022.
Maintain scrolling for extra details about Amanda’s tension-filled first season on The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills, plus extra about her backstory.
Amanda Frances and Fiance Eddie Tsivislavsky’s New child Son Died in 2022
Most of the most poignant scenes on The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 have revolved round Amanda Frances and her fiancé, Eddie Tsivislavsky, opening up about dropping their new child son Zion in 2022.
“Three years in the past, I had twins, Canaan and Zion,” Amanda instructed viewers within the January 22, 2026, episode. “[It was] an emergency C-section, nighttime, born 11 weeks early.”
Amanda defined that “Zion’s placenta was defective,” which meant that her son was “having a tough time within the womb” all through her being pregnant.
“Canaan was within the NICU for 68 days. Zion, sadly, died in my arms the primary time I ever held him,” Amanda tearfully recalled.

Because the third anniversary of Zion’s dying approached, Eddie confided in Amanda that he nonetheless felt their son’s presence. In that very same episode, Amanda requested a tarot card reader at Rachel Zoe’s ceremonial dinner whether or not any presence from the opposite aspect was making an attempt to contact her.
“Do you are feeling something from me proper now?” Amanda requested, with the tarot card reader admitting: “I can’t get something proper now. I’m sorry.”
Amanda broke down in tears as she shared, “My 3-year-old’s twin died three years in the past right now, so I believed this is likely to be a second the place he’d come via somewhat bit.”
“Eddie’s had these moments the place he simply feels Zion round him and he appears like Zion is stopping by to say hello,” she defined in a confessional interview. “I don’t have them the identical approach Eddie does. I’m actually wanting to seek out my model of that.”
Amanda and Eddie additionally share a daughter, Delilah, in addition to his two kids, son Liam and daughter Shoshana, from a earlier relationship.
Amanda Frances and Dorit Kemsley Had a Dramatic Dinner Celebration Conflict
The climax of the January 22, 2026, RHOBH episode centered round Amanda Frances attending a cocktail party at costar Rachel Zoe’s house. The occasion coincided with the third anniversary of Zion’s dying, although the remainder of the solid had been unaware.
Amanda instantly made waves by questioning why Dorit Kemsley wanted a ghostwriter for her upcoming guide, Unburdened: A Memoir.
“I simply sat down and wrote,” Amanda boasted with amusing.
RHOBH lower to Erika Jayne’s shady retort in a confessional: “I’m actually glad you wrote your guide all by your self. I didn’t. Dorit undoubtedly won’t as a result of it’s going to by no means come out!”
Earlier than everybody sat down for dinner, Sutton Stracke revealed that Amanda had expressed concern that Dorit could also be complicating her divorce from PK Kemsley by airing their grievances on the present. The revelation arrange an especially awkward confrontation at dinner when Dorit requested why Amanda was speaking behind her again.
“Can I be actually, actually trustworthy? Zion died three years in the past right now and I’m holding on by a thread,” Amanda admitted, with a confused Kathy Hilton asking, “Is that your canine?”
“My son,” Amanda corrected Kathy.
RHOBH lower away to confessional interviews the place every Housewife insisted they’d no concept in regards to the dying anniversary. (Viewers noticed Amanda telling her costars about Zion’s dying in a earlier episode, however she seemingly didn’t point out the anniversary date.)
Amanda excused herself from the dinner, however not earlier than telling Kathy and Kyle Richards that she felt Dorit owed her an apology. Dorit tried to make amends, although Amanda bodily rejected Dorit’s try to brush a tear from her eye.
Talking solely to Us Weekly after the episode aired, Amanda confirmed that issues had been nonetheless rocky with Dorit months after they filmed the tense ceremonial dinner.
“We don’t recuperate,” she instructed Us. “And the factor is, we might have.”
Amanda insisted that the cringeworthy scene “might have been bonding” for herself and Dorit in the event that they’d managed to rapidly squash the meat.
“Viewers will see me in future episodes strive very laborious to only sit down together with her and work it out,” Amanda hinted. “The lady was very dedicated and dedicated to solely speaking to me if it might be a loud dinner desk spectacle sort of factor.”
Amanda Frances Is a Feminine-Empowerment Advocate
The RHOBH beginner describes herself as a “world-renowned thought chief on monetary empowerment for ladies” in her web site bio. Except for writing the bestselling guide Wealthy as F*ck, Amanda Frances teaches on-line programs about monetary planning and hosts the “And She Rises” podcast.
Amanda — who has clarified that she isn’t a licensed monetary advisor — supplied some steering to Dorit Kemsley about her impending divorce from PK Kemsley on RHOBH season 15.
“I believe you must resolve what you need, what you’re creating and who you will be,” Amanda inspired Dorit. “I do know that’s, like, a giant overarching query, however who do you wish to be as a supplier? Who do you wish to be as a girl who earns? … Who’re you going to be it doesn’t matter what he does?”
Fellow RHOBH solid member Bozoma Saint John was not impressed with Amanda’s recommendation to Dorit.

Sutton Stracke, Rachel Zoe, Bozoma Saint John, Erika Jayne, Dorit Kemsley, Kyle Richards, and Amanda Frances. Phylicia J. L. Munn/Bravo
“What is that this frou-frou mess we’re speaking about?” Boz complained in a confessional interview. “I used to be on the lookout for one plus one equals two. Intentions? What sort of supplier does she wish to be? What does that even imply? This isn’t monetary recommendation. The mathematics ain’t mathing.”
Talking to Us Weekly in January 2026, Amanda tried to set the file straight about her teaching enterprise.
“There’s a whole lot of on-line companies. I create digital programs and on-line schooling, and that’s been my world,” Amanda solely instructed Us’ Getting Actual With the Housewives in January 2026. “Self-help has all the time been round and private improvement has all the time been round, and there’s all the time been folks making use of mindset ideas to many in enterprise.”
Amanda Frances Says She Was in a Cult
The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills’ January 29, 2026, episode included a bombshell revelation throughout Dorit Kemsley’s dialog with Kyle Richards and Bozoma Saint John. Dorit found a 2015 weblog the place Amanda Frances referenced escaping from a cult and was later proven reciting passages from the weblog in her confessional interview.
Amanda opened up about her previous expertise in a cult throughout a January 2026 interview with Us Weekly.
“I’ve two bible faculty levels. I’ve a ministry coaching diploma, after which my bachelor’s diploma can be from a spiritual college,” Amanda defined. “Between ministry coaching faculty and bachelor’s, I used to be, for 2 years, very extremely concerned in a church that I take into account to be a cult.”
She continued, “It suits all the factors for a cult. It suits all the factors for non secular abuse. That was what it was for me. That was the expertise I had.”
Amanda took exception to the way in which her background was performed for shock worth by her RHOBH costars.
“It was by no means a secret. I’ve written, like, 4 blogs on the subject, along with different articles. The cult story isn’t a secret. Everybody in my viewers, in my group, girls in my programs, have recognized this story endlessly,” she insisted. “So, when she’s pulling it up prefer it’s grime, it’s very bizarre to me. As a result of it’s not grime.”
The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 airs on Bravo Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET. Episodes can be found to stream on Peacock the following day.
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