Garcelle Beauvais Knew She Would Be In the Hot Seat at the ‘RHOBH’ Season 14 Reunion
"Everybody's gonna be in the hot seat at one point or another, some more than others."

Updated April 16 2025, 10:11 a.m. ET

Season 14 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills was definitely one for the books. The season showed Garcelle Beauvais involved in many feuds with several of her co-stars to no resolve. Before she decided to leave RHOBH after five seasons, Garcelle remained at odds with Erika Jayne, Dorit Kemsley, Kyle Richards, and Bozoma St. John, which exploded at the RHOBH Season 14 reunion.
The three-part special, hosted by Andy Cohen, featured Garcelle seemingly plotting to depart the show weeks before officially making her announcement via Instagram. At one point in the taping, the actor stormed off stage, sparking fans to point the blame at her co-stars for seemingly bullying her off the show.
In the final installment of the RHOBH Season 14 reunion, fans saw what led to Garcelle's departure after her historic run as the series' first Black housewife. Here's what went down.

Why did Garcelle Beauvais walk out of the 'RHOBH' reunion?
Garcelle joined her fellow co-stars Kyle, Boz, Dorit, Erika, Sutton Stracke, and friends Jennifer Tilly and Kathy Hilton, on the reunion stage in New York City. A trailer from the reunion showed that, unsurprisingly, the "Kumbaya" vibes didn't last long, if they were ever there at all. At one point, Garcelle stormed off the reunion after cursing out her co-stars onstage.
"I am just so f---ing sick of it," she said.
The camera panned to Garcelle backstage, seemingly alluding to her exiting the show. As Andy Cohen and the cast looked shocked at what some of the ladies deemed an "unprofessional" exit, Garcelle brushed off the comments and walked into her dressing room, where she told producers she had had enough.
"Guys, I'm not doing this anymore," she said. "I don't want cameras here," she told production as she began changing out of her reunion dress. "And I never say I don't want cameras. I'm always a team player. But this — there's no team."
Garcelle added that she felt she was "on an island by myself" and that no one, not even her BFF on the show, Sutton Stracke, defended her on the stage. During the special, Sutton shared she was just as confused as the rest of the ladies by her friend's actions.
"They're all f---ing a--h---s," she proclaimed. "No one said, 'Oh, I understand what you're saying.' No one said anything and the fact that I owned how I felt about [Dorit Kemsley's] situation with [her home invasion]."
In her final scene at the reunion, Garcelle confirmed she was done with RHOBH and was ready to move on from the drama and how she felt her castmates were mistreating her.
"I'm done," she said. "It's been an amazing ride, I'm so grateful for the opportunity, but I'm done,"
Garcelle's exit from the reunion came after she defended some of the drama during the season, including discussing a rumor that Dorit and her estranged husband, PK Kemsley, staged their 2021 home invasion.
"Was I the only one that felt that way?" The Jamie Foxx Show alum asked, with Dorit quipping, "You tell me who else? Your four other people from Twitter?"
Garcelle's hot seat moment was something she possibly saw coming. Ahead of the reunion, she told Bravo's The Daily Dish she felt she was going to be in the hot seat during the event, but felt she wouldn't be the only one, as many of her co-stars, including Kyle whose relationship with Morgan Wade has been questioned by fans since she and Mauricio Umansky separated.
"Everybody's gonna be in the hot seat at one point or another, some more than others," she told the outlet. "But, it's a stressful day."
Why is Garcelle Beauvais leaving 'RHOBH?'
Garcelle announced her decision to exit The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on March 25, 2025, the same day as the show's Season 14 finale and reunion trailer reveal.
However, she didn't address the reunion during her exit announcement, opting instead to tell her fans she was moving on to work on more creative projects and to be more present for her sons, Oliver Saunders and Jaid and Jax Nilon, noting her youngest twins were entering "their last year of high school is next year and I want to be a part of that. And Jaid is starting a new career and I want to be a part of that too."
"I have some news: I've decided to leave Beverly Hills," Garcelle said in her Instagram video. "It's been a wild ride — I mean, some amazing things have happened, and some hard things have also happened — but it's been a ride nevertheless."
"Secondly, I have the most exciting projects that I am developing, producing, and acting in," she added. "I can't tell you anything right now, but you'll know soon. "It's not goodbye, it's see you later. So, see you later."
While Garcelle kept it cute in her exit announcement, it appears her final RHOBH reunion was anything but.
Catch new episodes of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. EST on Bravo.