Kyle Richards by no means heard Sutton Stracke point out her late buddy, dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham, earlier than the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills forged headed to Spain for filming on its 13th season.

Whereas reflecting on the ash-throwing ceremony Sutton, 52, hosted for Merce on the latest episode, Kyle, 55, admitted to having no thought who he was earlier than the journey as Sutton addressed the debacle surrounding her number of white carnations and Crystal Kung-Minkoff, 40, defined why they made her “instantly uncomfortable.”

“Poor Merce. However Merce is trying down and laughing,” Sutton started on the January 31 episode of the RHOBH: After Show.

In keeping with Sutton, she usually misplaced Merce’s ashes, simply as she did with these of her late father.

“[My father] was like, ‘I’m gonna get the hell out of dodge Sutton. I don’t belief you for nothing. You’re gonna lose me repeatedly and once more, however I’m at all times in your coronary heart,’” she recalled.

In the meantime, Sutton added, she saved “misplacing [Merce] in strikes,” though she “would at all times discover him.”

“I feel he was ready for the right place for me to place him. I actually do,” she reasoned. “I used to be getting these books collectively for y’all about Merce, and I appeared within the index as a result of I wrote plenty of grants for Merce, and I simply keep in mind going about Barcelona, Barcelona, and so I appeared it up, and there was Sitges. And it was the very first place he went on his very first European tour. It was meant to be.”

Whereas Sutton and Merce had a years-long friendship, Kyle mentioned she didn’t learn about it till Spain.

“I by no means heard Merce’s identify earlier than this journey,” Kyle said. “However hey, if she desires to make use of this as an excuse to come back to Spain, toss his ashes out, and provides us some flowers…”

Forward of her ceremony for Merce, Sutton introduced flowers to her RHOBH castmates, one in all whom, Crystal, felt uncomfortable in regards to the gesture.

“I believed it was lovely. And also you selected white carnations as a result of that’s the colour of Spain flower?” Garcelle Beauvais, 57, requested.

“Effectively, they’re purple carnations, however I couldn’t discover these in time,” Sutton replied.

Though Crystal famous that she “actually appreciated the sentiment,” the colour of the flowers sparked adverse emotions.

“I felt instantly uncomfortable as a result of they have been white flowers,” she shared.

As a result of she noticed that Crystal “appeared very uncomfortable,” Erika Jayne, 52, intervened.

“I took them off or I mentioned, ’Take that off,’ and everyone was type of taking a look at me. I mentioned, ‘Effectively, In Chinese language tradition, white equals dying.’ So you understand, who’s uneducated now?” Erika requested, signaling Crystal’s alleged suggestion that the RHOBH forged is “uneducated and shallow.”

“Me, as a result of I didn’t know that,” Kyle admitted.

Regardless of what she might or might not have instructed Annemarie Wiley, 40, about her castmates, Crystal applauded Erika for “[knowing] so much” in regards to the matter at hand.

“I simply thought I might go along with it and in some way change it out. I truly did ask if there was purple, however then Sutton mentioned I needed it to be white,” she recalled as Sutton insisted she “didn’t know” what white carnations represented.

“I apologize for that,” Sutton shared.

“[And] you weren’t doing something malicious,” famous Garcelle.

Additionally on the RHOBH: After Present, Sutton and Dorit Kemsley, 47, appeared again on their tiff over Sutton’s flower preparations.

“She type of handed the flower necklace and mentioned, ‘We’re gonna throw it into the ocean.’ I feel I made some feedback like ‘You’re gonna hurt the fish due to the plastic wreath or one thing,’” Dorit recalled. “I feel she was perturbed.”

“I’m like, ‘No, Dorit, that is all biodegradable product. As one of many previous council members of Oceana, I’m a freaking socialite man, and so when you don’t wish to do it, don’t do it and don’t come,’” Sutton defined. “That is vital to me. However first, she has to nitpick it and make enjoyable of me.”

In keeping with Dorit, she was merely teasing Sutton and having enjoyable.

“[But] Sutton can both be within the temper for it or not within the temper it,” she defined. “I feel she was like in her room, she was hysterical. You discover these items out after. If I knew these items, I wouldn’t have ever tried to play or make a joke or say something. However that’s the factor with Sutton: She may be in a delicate house and react otherwise to one thing relying on her moods.”

The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills season 13 airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.