A little more than a week after it was announced that the television show, Bethenny, was going to be cancelled after one season, Bethenny Frankel decided to discuss her feelings.
Frankel has been going through a rough patch that she described on Nightline as “a brutal, brutal time.” Despite being divorce from ex-husband Jason Hoppy, the two are in the middle of a custody battle over their 3-year-old daughter, Bryn.
Upon her show Bethenny’s cancellation, ABC reported that Frankel took to her blog to discuss her true feelings.
“I am relieved,” she posted on her blog. “What I really want right now is to be with my daughter, to do yoga, to focus on Skinnygirl and my writing, and to give myself a break.”
Frankel admitted that taking on the talk show host gig may not have been her best decision, as she compared it to the time she had on Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York.
“Unlike my time on Bravo, I felt a bit diluted, filtered and somewhat constricted. I am a free spirit,” she had posted. “I am more comfortable in my natural surroundings and in a setting where I’m surrounded by crazy, where anything goes and where I can be authentically me. When interviewed about the show, I always said that it could only work if I was true to myself and only if it was genuinely a good fit and marriage which it turned out not to be.”
She praises other well-known talk show hosts such as Ellen, Oprah, Wendy Williams, Rachel Ray, and Steve Harvey because they made the role look easy. When, in fact, Frankel calls it “one of the hardest jobs” she’s ever taken on.
Before ending her blog post, Frankel repeated that she needed a break.
“I have been striving and climbing and white-knuckling for so long that I need a rest from the grind. I’m a little over myself and wouldn’t blame anyone else for being over me as well.”
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