Luann de Lesseps Is 'So Glad' Bethenny Left 'Housewives'

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Countess Luann de Lesseps is not shedding any tears over Bethenny Frankel.


"I'm so glad she's gone," she tells The Famous. "Oh, yeah. Let her go off with her husband, off into the sunset. God bless her."


Countess says filming Bravo's "Real Housewives of New York" without Frankel is easier on the cast -- especially Kelly Bensimon, whose sometimes bizarre behavior was endlessly mocked by the outspoken Skinnygirl entrepreneur.


"Kelly's been amazing this season, and I think you see the true Kelly," she says. "She got a really bad rap last season. Because, you know, it's hard to battle against Bethenny."


Frankel, a fan favorite and frequent voice of reason on the show, dropped out last year to star in her own spinoff, "Bethenny Ever After." Sans Frankel's spunk, the new season of "RHONY" is no less dramatic: Countess and Alex McCord constantly clash; McCord calls Countess "haughty," "condescending" and "vile" toward the cast.


"People do say that -- and I guess I can come off that way -- but it's not ill meaning or anything like that," says Countess, who calls McCord a "weirdo." "I guess it's just a different way of looking at it, and I'm not going to apologize for the way I am."

Yeah, it's Bethenny's fault Kelly has got such a bad rap, not Kelly's own weird, stupid, bizarre and criminal behavior when Bethenney was nowhere around. It's funny how Team Jill goes out of their way to try and make Kelly look sane, but each lame attempt just doesn't work on the rest of the country who sees Kelly for who she is: crazy. Anyway, if LuAnn thought being a total bitch this season would get her more attention it certainly worked.