Bethenny Frankel 'Relieved' By The Cancelation Of Her Talk Show: I Felt Diluted, Filtered & Somewhat Constricted
Feb. 24 2014, Published 8:24 p.m. ET
Just a week after her talk show was canceled after one season, Bethenny Frankel released an open letter to explain how she feels about her show being axed, and RadarOnline.com has all the details.
Published Monday on the talk show's webpage, Frankel, 43, titled it "An Open Letter From Me To You" and in which she says she loved "connecting to women" but that parts of the job weren't "authentic to her" and she ultimately felt "a bit diluted, filtered and somewhat constricted."
"People ask me how I feel about this, so I wanted to share it with you straight up," she writes of the show being canceled. "What I love about doing my talk show is connecting to women. I love the opportunity to inspire, to be inspired and to be able to help women to be their best, succeed and feel better about themselves."
Plagued by a season of low ratings, the mother-of-one continued, "In order to have the freedom to create a talk show, there are required elements that the job entails. This is the part that I didn't enjoy so much and that wasn't authentic to me. In addition, I tend to be quite inappropriate which may not be suitable for daytime television or for the suits that run network television nationwide," she wrote.
"Unlike my time on Bravo, I felt a bit diluted, filtered and somewhat constricted. I am a free spirit. My late father (a horse trainer) used to say 'She is a mustang. You need to let her run.' I am more comfortable in my natural surroundings and in a setting where I'm surrounded by crazy, where anything goes and where I can be authentically me.
"When interviewed about the show, I always said that it could only work if I was true to myself and only if it was genuinely a good fit and marriage which it turned out not to be."
Frankel says great talk show hosts like Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey and Wendy Williams make it looks easy and she has a newfound respect for them.
"So to answer how I feel, I am relieved. What I really want right now is to be with my daughter, to do yoga, to focus on Skinnygirl and my writing, and to give myself a break," Frankel wrote.
I have been striving and climbing and white-knuckling for so long that I need a rest from the grind. I'm a little over myself and wouldn't blame anyone else for being over me as well."
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