These are some of the hardest days for her.
Lisa Rinna has called her former co-star Robert Kelker-Kelly “Hollywood’s biggest bully,” describing her time on “Days of Our Lives” as a “living hell,” which is the focus of her new memoir.
Kelker-Kelly played Beau Brady, the romantic interest of Rinna’s character, Billy Reid. But behind the scenes, it seems the cast members had a lot of animosity towards one another.
In her book, titled “You’d Better Believe I’m Going to Talk About It,” Rinna, now 62, shared that Kelker-Kelly, now 61, “did horrible things” to her.
“He even used abusive language,” she stated. “He was passive-aggressive and manipulative, always playing strange mind games.”
Rinna mentioned that she had to work with him daily—sometimes in revealing outfits for love scenes. “If I didn’t do what he wanted, he’d give me the silent treatment,” she added.
She described him as a “ticking time bomb,” saying, “Every morning on set, I never knew which Robert Kelker-Kelly I would get: the sweet one or the dark one. It was exhausting.”
When her on-screen partner was absent from the set one day, co-star Christian Alfonso received a “dedicated security guard,” which caught Rinna somewhat off guard. “I wasn’t concerned about physical harm, but still, NBC felt it needed to ensure safety. For three weeks, we had officers parked at their homes and in trailers, driving them to and from set,” she explained.
Eventually, Kelker-Kelly was replaced by Peter Reckell, who had previously portrayed Brady.
Rinna left the show three years later, in 1995.
So far, NBC hasn’t commented on these allegations.
In a different part of her memoir, Rinna criticized Bravo executive Andy Cohen for sharing personal experiences in his own 2023 book, “The Daddy Diaries: The Years I Grew Up.” She expressed her irritation by burning his book, enjoying the act as she watched it go up in flames.
The actress also took a moment to clarify her husband Harry Hamlin’s sexuality, stating, “He’s definitely not gay in any way, not that there’s anything wrong with that.” She pointed out that it’s common for people to question the sexuality of attractive, stylish men in Hollywood. Rinna and Hamlin have been married since 1997 and share two daughters, Delilah Bell, 27, and Amelia Gray, 24.
