What Happened to the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Miracle Cancer Cure Plotline?
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At some point in 2019, producers and camera people loaded their equipment into Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Denise Richards’s car, and filmed Richards and husband Aaron Phypers being chased by a mysterious vehicle. This encounter is later retold at a dinner party, where the two reveal Phypers’s research into “alternative” cancer cures has drawn the ire of Big Pharma because it yields “tremendous results.” The other Housewives are notably confused, their looks of worry and terror deepening when Richards calmly puts her hand up in sworn testimony and says, “If we end up on the side of Mulholland, you know why.” It is never brought up again.
Season 10 of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which will air its finale Wednesday night, has been a strange and melancholy experience. Bravo, in its early episodes, teased the eventual implosion of Denise Richards’s many friendships as if it was an apocalyptic prophecy. Its premiere episode even ends on a cliffhanger, as Kyle Richards reveals that Denise had ceased filming with the cast after her alleged affair with Brandi Glanville was brought up on camera. (By Brandi Glanville, of course.) Viewers, believing the hype, thought the schism would rend the season apart, as headlines in the Daily Mail foretold of doom and destruction for Bravo’s ostensible flagship: “EXCLUSIVE: Denise Richards stops filming RHOBH after her passionate months-long affair with Brandi Glanville was exposed by castmates on a trip to Rome.”