Real Housewives of Beverly Hills rehab queen KIM RICHARDS, who starred in Disney flicks way back, will not be joining the other cast when they cluster for a TV show taping.
"She’s not doing Ellen because Bravo aired that she was an alcoholic on the reality show and she didn’t want that to be made public," the source said.
But the problem goes much deeper than that.
"She’s not willing to admit she’s an alcoholic. That’s why she left rehab after one week."
"Her family and friends have tried to help her and she’s not willing to accept the help, leaving everyone in her family in peril because of her stubbornness," said the source.
"Her daughters have been trying to move out of their mom’s house because the drinking is that bad."
It remains uncertain whether Kim will return for season 2 of the hit Bravo show.
POP FYI: When Kim was a child actress she was shot while eating an ice cream cone during a botched gangland slay in John Carpenter’s first feature, the seminal Assault on Precinct 13 after she previously starred in Disney’s Escape From Witch Mountain.
