Garcelle Beauvais is no longer on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t crossed paths with her former costars — or their exes.
“I recently went to dinner with a girlfriend, and who did I run into? PK [Kemsley] and Mauricio [Umansky],” Beauvais, 58, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, October 21, while promoting her new Lifetime projects, Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie and Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted 2 Love.
Beauvais recalled having a fun chat with Kemsley, 58, and Umansky, 55, about her Real Housewives exit.
“PK said, ‘Garcelle, on a scale of one to 10, how do you feel after the show?’ I said, ‘30,’ and they started cracking up,” she told Us, noting her time on the Bravo series “was fun” but having “a little privacy is nice.”
Garcelle Beauvais, PK Kemsley, Mauricio Umansky. Getty Images (3)
Beauvais was on RHOBH from 2020 to 2025. She announced her departure in March ahead of the season 14 finale airing. PK, meanwhile, was married to her costar Dorit Kemsley for nine years before they announced their separation in May 2024.
Umansky, for his part, was married to OG RHOBH star Kyle Richards for 27 years. Us confirmed in July 2023 that the pair were taking time apart. In February, Richards, 56, revealed on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills After Show that she and Umansky “still have not filed for divorce,” but they were talking about next steps.
Although Beauvais told Us she does miss her friendships with the other ladies, she revealed that dating has become easier without the cameras following her.
“That was the tricky part for me. My first season, I did have someone in my life, and you know it, not everybody wants to sign up for that,” Beauvais explained. “And the kind of guy I want to be with, I don’t want him to want to be on a reality show. That’s just me.”
Once the cameras stopped rolling, the actress upped her hunt for a man. “I’m dating, and it’s fun,” Beauvais told Us. “I’m finding a good balance, and my heart is open. So, we’ll see what happens.”
Looking back, Beauvais confessed, “It was tough to be in that fishbowl,” but she still loves the fans and how much they supported her on the show.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is firmly in the rearview mirror for Garcelle Beauvais. The actress and producer, who announced her exit from the hit Bravo franchise in March, gave an exciting update on her life post-Housewives while walking the red carpet at the 2025 Emmy Awards. “I am thriving,” she told Entertainment Tonight. […]
“I took a lot away with me from it. But I’m also happy that I get to spend more time with my kids before they go off to college,” she added. “And I get to do all these great creative things that I like to do.”
Beauvais has been keeping herself busy since exiting RHOBH. She is currently promoting two Lifetime movies — Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie and Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted 2 Love — which she said have challenged her as an actress. She is also an executive producer on both films.
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“It’s always been important,” Beauvais told Us of telling the story of Taken at a Truck Stop, which is the third film in Lifetime’s Black Girl Missing franchise. “I think until we no longer have to talk about the disparity of when Black and brown people go missing — we don’t get the same coverage — hopefully we’ll continue to do these movies.”
She explained, “What I really want is to bring awareness and get people talking and hold people accountable that can help find these missing women, boys, everybody.”
Beauvais revealed that in addition to shining a light on these types of stories and crimes, she loved “the family aspect” depicted in Taken at a Truck Stop.
Celebrities are just like Us — even they lose count of their subscriptions. While exclusively chatting with Us Weekly about her new film, Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted by Love, Garcelle Beauvais revealed she once unknowingly spent thousands of dollars on a dating app. “I went on this site, and it was, like, $399 a week. […]
“I love the dynamic between the two sisters and my character and my niece,” she shared. “The fact that there was a family involved in the complex [tale] and complicatedness of just being family. I like that.”
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When it comes to Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted 2 Love, Beauvais will be reprising her role as Ava Denis, who she said is now “being a boss” and “running things.”
“She has a new man in her life that’s her age. And wait till you see who it is,” Beauvais teased of the sequel. “She reconnects with Luke (Vaughn W. Hebron), and he has someone in his life. So it’s really an entanglement of will they, won’t they?”
Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie premieres on Lifetime Sunday, October 25, at 8 p.m. ET. The premiere date for Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted 2 Love has yet to be announced.
