Bethenny Frankel is coming clean.
After not being “totally honest” about her recent move to Florida, the former reality star opened up about the role her loneliness played in the last “five or six years.”
“It started with the [COVID-19] pandemic, which gave me license to be the introvert and insular person that everyone is surprised that I am,” the Skinnygirl creator, 54, explained via TikTok Sunday of moving from the Hamptons to the Connecticut suburbs.
Frankel, who was “home for days without leaving the house” and felt “lonely and unhappy,” called Greenwich, Conn., a “cave” where she “never did anything.”
“The only time I would have fun would be when I would go out of town,” she explained, adding that her relationship with Manhattan has become a “transactional” one.
Frankel believes relocating to the Sunshine State, where her childhood friends live, will “reinvigorate [her] relationship with” New York City.
When she’s in Florida, the Bravolebrity gushed, “I walk outside and I go take a walk on the beach and I’m just existing, like, with other human life.”
Frankel revealed her upcoming move to the coast last month — and originally credited “personal and professional” reasons as her motivation.
She went on to describe how her 15-year-old daughter, Bryn, cried and “begged” her to go in a desperate plea.
“She was like, ‘I really want this,’” Frankel claimed in April. “I know my kid and I knew that once this was presented … that she’d want to move. I was just like, ‘F–kng f–k it, OK.’”
The “Just B” podcast host was also “drowning,” she noted at the time.
While Frankel’s property “was beautiful and amazing for a big family with kids and grandparents,” she “spent a lot of time alone” there.
The businesswoman decided to “simplify” but planned to wait until Bryn started college — until a specific “moment” bumped up their timeline.
“The moment it became about her, I was able to be honest with myself about how I felt and it freed both of us,” Frankel recalled. “I think I’ll be lighter and brighter and happier in the coming months.”
Within five weeks of her decision, Frankel “sold [her] home and bought a house in Florida.”
