The SUR and PUMP restaurant owner admitted that she remains emotionally 'hurt' by her fall outs with co-stars.
LVP claims the that the stress of Puppygate drama had not left her "in a good place mentally."
"Unfortunately this season in Housewives it just became too much for me, where I was in my life at the time, personal things I was dealing with I did not cope so well," she revealed.
LVP explains how her dramas on the Bravo hit reality series were not emotionally "fake" and "have never been more real," she said.
"I think if it was scripted it would not hurt so much. Unfortunately when I was filming last year I was not in a good place myself mentally. So I was not as ready to take on maybe what Housewives entailed. I just floundered."
"I opened Tom Tom, I brought that to fruition, I was working hard on this. We were working hard with our philanthropy with our dogs. We are opening a sanctuary in China. We had a lot of things going on."
"I lost my only sibling, I was doing Vanderpump Rules - I am an EP on that. There was a lot going on. And all this stuff I think it was unfair. And it kept coming at me. It just became too much really," she continued. "After 380 episodes sometimes you have got to say okay enough."
"I am not a housewife that created a business... and to me when I signed up to Housewives it was a lot of fun," she told DailyMailTV about balancing her business and reality television work.
She added: "Being a restaurateur, business woman and philanthropist is paramount to me. So I will continue to do that after Housewives because that is what I do."
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