The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills newcomer Amanda Frances he wasted no time in confronting costar Dorit Kemsley when he joined season 15.
The female empowerment coach who wrote the best-selling book Rich as F*ckmade his debut on the Bravo reality show as part of a cast overhaul, which also saw a newcomer Natalie Swanston Fuller join as a “friend” of housewives after Garcelle Beauvais‘ dramatic exit after the Season 14 reunion.
Bozoma Sant Joan almost immediately called Amanda’s professional credentials into question, even suggesting that her co-star might be adept at “conning” during an appearance in January 2026. Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.
“What I’m doing (professionally) is nothing new,” Amanda exclusively said Us Weekly‘s Be real with the housewives in January 2026. “I don’t know why (the cast) are pretending they can’t wrap their heads around it. Some people might be confused, some people are completely oblivious when I talk about it, and some people are faking it.”
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Viewers also got to see a vulnerable side of Amanda as she opened up about her and her fiance Eddie Tsivislavsky lost her son Zion five days after his birth in 2022.
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Amanda Frances and fiance Eddie Tsivislavsky’s newborn son died in 2022
Many of the most moving scenes The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 15 has revolved around Amanda Frances and her fiance, Eddie Tsivislavsky, discussing the loss of their newborn son Zion in 2022.
“Three years ago, I had twins, Canaan and Zion,” Amanda told viewers on the Jan. 22, 2026, episode. “It was an emergency c-section, in the middle of the night, born 11 weeks early.”
Amanda explained that “Zion’s placenta was defective,” which meant her son was “having a bad time in the womb” throughout his pregnancy.
“Canaan was in the NICU for 68 days. Unfortunately, Zion died in my arms the first time I held him,” Amanda tearfully recalled.
As the third anniversary of Zion’s death approached, Eddie confided in Amanda that he still felt his son’s presence. In this same episode, Amanda asked a tarot card reader a Rachel Zoeat dinner if some presence on the other side was trying to contact her.
“Do you feel anything from me now?” Amanda asked, with the tarot card reader admitting, “I can’t get anything right now. Sorry.”
Amanda broke down in tears as she shared, “My 3-year-old son’s twin died three years ago today, so I thought this might be a time where I would have passed a little bit.”
“Eddie has had these moments where he just feels Zion around him and feels like Zion is stopping by to say hello,” he explained in a confessional interview. “I don’t have them the same way Eddie does. I really want to find my version.”
Amanda and Eddie also share a daughter, Delilah, as well as their two children, son Liam and daughter Shoshana, from a previous relationship.
Amanda Frances and Dorit Kemsley had a dramatic dinner clash
The climax of January 22, 2026 RHOBA episode focused on Amanda Frances attending a dinner party at her co-star Rachel Zoe’s house. The event coincided with the third anniversary of Sion’s death, although the rest of the cast did not know this.
Amanda immediately made waves wondering why Dorit Kemsley needed a ghostwriter for her next book. Unburdened: A Memoir.
“I sat down and wrote,” Amanda boasted with a laugh.
RHOBA cut to Erika JayneThe obscure line in a confessional: “I’m so glad you wrote your book on your own. I didn’t. Dorit definitely won’t because it’ll never come out!”
Before everyone sat down to dinner, Sutton Stracke revealed that Amanda had expressed concern that Dorit might be complicating their divorce PK Kemsley airing their complaints on the show. The revelation created an extremely awkward confrontation at dinner when Dorit asked why Amanda was talking behind her back.
“Can I be really, really honest? Zion died three years ago today and I’m hanging on by a thread,” Amanda admitted, with a confused Kathy Hilton asking, “Is that your dog?”
“My son,” Amanda corrected Kathy.
RHOBA it was reduced to confessional interviews where each housewife insisted that they had no idea about the anniversary of the death. (Viewers saw Amanda tell her classmates about Zion’s death in an earlier episode, but she apparently didn’t mention the birthday date.)
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Amanda excused herself from dinner, but not before telling Kathy and Kyle Richards that he felt Dorit owed him an apology. Dorit tried to make amends, though Amanda physically rebuffed Dorit’s attempt to wipe a tear from her eye.
talking exclusively to Us Weekly after the episode aired, Amanda confirmed that things were still difficult with Dorit months after filming the tense dinner.
“We don’t recover,” he said we. “And the thing is, we might have.”
Amanda insisted the chilling scene “could have been bonding” for her and Dorit if they had managed to quickly squash the beef.
“Viewers will see me in future episodes making a big effort to sit down with her and work it out,” Amanda hinted. “The woman was very engaged and took the time to talk to me only if it could be some kind of noisy dinner show.”
Amanda Frances is an advocate for female empowerment
The RHOBA The rookie describes herself as a “world-renowned thought leader on women’s financial empowerment.” your website bio. Apart from writing the best selling book Rich as F*ckAmanda Frances teaches online courses on financial planning and hosts the “And She Rises” podcast.
Amanda, who has clarified that she is not a licensed financial advisor, offered some guidance to Dorit Kemsley about her impending divorce from PK Kemsley on RHOBA season 15
“I think you have to decide what you want, what you’re creating, and who you’re going to be,” Amanda encouraged Dorit. “I know it’s, like, a big general question, but who do you want to be as a provider? Who do you want to be as a woman who earns? . . . Who are you going to be no matter what I do?”
partner RHOBA cast member Bozoma Saint John was not impressed with Amanda’s advice to Dorit.
Sutton Stracke, Rachel Zoe, Bozoma Saint John, Erika Jayne, Dorit Kemsley, Kyle Richards and Amanda Frances.
Phylicia JL Munn/Bravo“What is this frou-frou mess we’re talking about?” Boz complained in a confessional interview. “I was looking for one plus one equals two. Intentions? What kind of provider does it want to be? What does that mean? This is not financial advice. Math is not math.”
talking with Us Weekly in January 2026, Amanda tried to set the record straight about her coaching business.
“There are a lot of online businesses out there. I create digital courses and online education, and that’s been my world,” Amanda exclusively said. we‘ Be real with the housewives in January 2026. “Self-help has always been around and personal development has always been around, and there have always been people applying mindset principles to a lot of business.”
Amanda Frances says she was in a cult
The Real Housewives of Beverly HillsOn January 29, 2026, the episode featured an explosive revelation during Dorit Kemsley’s conversation with Kyle Richards and Bozoma Saint John. Dorit found out a blog from 2015 where Amanda Frances referenced escaping a cult and was later shown reciting passages from the blog in her confessional interview.
Amanda talked about her past experience in a cult during a January 2026 interview with Us Weekly.
“I have two Bible school degrees. I have a ministerial training degree, and then my high school degree is also from a religious college,” Amanda explained. “Between ministerial training school and high school, I was, for two years, very involved in a church that I consider a cult.”
He continued: “It fits all the criteria for a cult. It fits all the criteria for religious abuse. That’s what it was for me. That was the experience I had.”
Amanda was baffled by the way he interpreted her background as shocking value to her RHOBA cost
“It was never a secret. I have written, as of now, four blogs on the subject, in addition to other articles. The cult story is not a secret. Everyone in my audience, in my community, the women in my courses, have known this story forever,” he insisted. “So when he pulls it like it’s dirt, it makes me really weird. Because it’s not dirt.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 15 airs Thursdays on Bravo at 8pm ET. Episodes are available to stream on Peacock the following day.
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