Lisa Rinna has claimed that her former Days of Our Lives co-star Robert Kelker-Kelly made her life “a living hell” on set. In her new memoir, You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It, the 62-year-old actress alleges that Kelker-Kelly was verbally abusive, manipulative, and played “weird mind games.”
Rinna, who played Billie Reed on the soap opera in the 1990s, recalled winning the Newcomer of the Year award at the Soap Opera Digest Awards and thanking Kelker-Kelly on stage, “even though behind the scenes we hated each other.” She wrote: “There’s a very fine line between love and hate, and our disgust for each other made for fiery chemistry on-screen.”
The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star described Kelker-Kelly as “passive-aggressive” and claimed he gave her the “silent treatment” if she did not do what he wanted. She theorised that he was attracted to her and “when I wasn’t available to him, it made him snap.” Rinna added that she regretted not standing up to him because she was “too young” and unwilling to make waves at her new job.
Rinna also claimed that her co-star Kristian Alfonso was given a security detail after Kelker-Kelly suddenly left the show. “Suddenly one day he disappeared from the Days set and next thing I knew Kristian and I had our own full-time security detail,” she wrote. “We had rent-a-cops parked outside our houses and trailers for three weeks.” Both Rinna and Kelker-Kelly left the soap in 1995, though Rinna has returned multiple times. Kelker-Kelly did not respond to requests for comment.
