James Kennedy Admits He’s Glad Lisa Vanderpump Quit RHOBH, Lance Bass Claims He Tried To Get LVP To “Leave That Show For Years”

James Kennedy fully supports Lisa Vanderpump quitting The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. The Vanderpump Rules star explains why he is glad that his SUR boss walked away from the Bravo hit reality series after nine seasons.

“For me it’s hard to notice those things because when she’s around me it’s really mainly my thing, that we are talking about not necessarily her thing. I’m like I’m a literal kid to her. I’m Max’s best friend still, she looks at me different. But yes, I think a weight must have been lifted, it was a toxic environment for her and she doesn’t deserve any of that,” James told HollywoodLife.

Meanwhile, LVP's friend Lance Bass also sounds off on her controversial exit and admits that he has “been trying to get her to leave that show for years.”

“I kept telling her like, ‘Look, one season these girls are going to take you down. They are going to plan. They are going to meet up’ … and they did. They waited years to bring her down,” said Bass, who added of her castmates, “they went hard at her.”

Bass admitted with a laugh that there was “kind of” an “I told you so text” exchanged between the two.

“But you know, Lisa has such a huge heart and, you know, she’s one of those people also that I say, ‘Don’t read the comments.’ But she’s one of those people that she wants everyone to like her,” Bass told PEOPLE Now. “She wants to prove, ‘No, no, I mean this.’ And you can’t change everyone’s minds.”

He added that “not everyone is going to approve of everything that you do, so you just need to be yourself.”

Bass believes Vanderpump’s costars allegedly brought her down because “they’re jealous, c’mon now.”

“She was the queen, queen bee,” Bass said. “So of course a lot of jealousy comes in, and Lisa has this wicked sense of humor, this British humor that a lot of people don’t get. So she’s always poking, she’s always making fun, which I love.”

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