'RHOC' star Kelly Dodd says she was 'blindsided' by exit from show: The ‘woke, broke' people 'love to hate me’

The reality star recently joined SiriusXM’s "Jeff Lewis Live" and opened up about the fact that she felt completely "blindsided" by the news she would not be returning to the popular Bravo series.

Dodd, who starred on the show since 2016, said that it all happened on the "same day." "So, one of the owners of Evolution, the production company, they, they’re the ones who pay us. We really deal with Evolution. We really don’t deal with Bravo at all," she recalled. "And, he called me and he said, ‘I would hate to say this.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh,’ he’s like, ‘But we are not going to ask you back for next season.’ And I said, ‘Well why, was it political?’ And he said, ‘No, Bravo wanted to take a different direction than, than, than you.’ And I said, ‘Okay, well, was my, what was it? Like was it my Q ratings were, were, what was it that…."