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Audiobook details
The woman behind the lips finally talks
For decades, Lisa Rinna has been one of the most recognized faces on American television. From the soundstages of Days of Our Lives to the volatile dynamics of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, she built a career on saying what others wouldn't dare. But behind the iconic image, the fights, and the headlines, there was always a side of Lisa that never made it to camera.
In this memoir, she goes back to the beginning and traces the choices, the reinventions, and the moments that shaped her. She talks about raising a daughter with a chronic illness, holding a marriage together under public scrutiny, and grieving her mother Lois in front of an audience that had already turned her into a meme. None of it is glossed over. None of it is explained away.
What makes this audiobook different is that Lisa recorded it herself. You hear her voice crack, her laughter land where she means it to, and her silences carry weight. It is less a performance than a confession, delivered by someone who has finally decided to control her own narrative.
I'll be honest: I went in expecting gossip. RHOBH drama, a few digs at former cast members, some damage control disguised as candor. What I got was something genuinely different, and it caught me off guard.
The book opens with Lisa placing herself in context, not Hollywood context, but a real life one. She talks about where she came from, what she wanted, and the gap between the two that she spent years trying to close. The RHOBH chapters are there, and they deliver, but they're not the point. What anchors the book is the more personal material: her daughter Amelia's health, her mother Lois, the question of what it means to age in an industry that treats you as disposable once the ratings shift.
There's a passage about filming through grief that stopped me. She doesn't ask for sympathy. She just describes what it was like to show up on set while privately falling apart, and the matter-of-fact delivery makes it hit harder than any dramatic reconstruction would. She clearly wrote this the way she talks, fast, unfiltered, and without much interest in being liked.
She also addresses the Bravo fine, the social media meltdowns, and the exit from RHOBH with more self-awareness than I expected. She's not rewriting history. She's contextualizing it, and the difference matters.
On the narration: Lisa recorded this herself, and it shows in the best way. At 6 hours and 50 minutes, the audiobook never drags because she reads it the way she would tell it to a friend. Her timing is natural, her emotional shifts are unforced, and there's something oddly intimate about hearing her voice on the more vulnerable chapters. This is the format the book was made for.
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You Better Believe I'm Gonna Talk About It by Lisa Rinna is a memoir delivered in the author's own voice, literally. She narrated the audiobook herself, which gives the 6 hours and 50 minutes of listening a directness that no professional narrator could replicate. She covers her years on Days of Our Lives, the RHOBH era, her marriage to Harry Hamlin, and the public grief that followed the death of her mother Lois.
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