‘Real Housewives’ Saved Dorinda Medley After Her Husband’s Death

PageSix.com:

Dorinda Medley says reality TV saved her life after the 2011 death of her husband, Richard.

“I think reality TV saved my life because after Richard died and [daughter] Hannah went to college, I was lost,” she told Page Six. “I lost all my identity — I was no longer a wife, a mother . . . I was like, ‘Really? This is what 50 looks like?’ ”

But joining the “Real Housewives of New York City” cast “took me away from the grieving . . . It made me get out and focus on something completely different.”

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