Kim Richards went MIA for about a week after her meltdown at her daughter’s wedding in Mexico about two weeks ago. Reports claimed that Kim was boozing hard, that she missed her scheduled return to rehab and had to be escorted back to LA from Mexico by a security guard hired by her sister, Kyle. Kim eventually checked back into rehab this Monday, a week after she was supposed to. In the interim she is said to have been unreachable by Real Housewives of Beverly Hills execs, who have canned her from the show. We heard this was a possibility, but I’m honestly surprised it’s happened.

“It was decided this morning at a meeting that Kim is not being asked back on the show because of her failure to communicate everything with her bosses,” a well-connected network insider tells Radar.

As Radar previously reported, NBC, which is the parent company to the production company that produces Bravo’s hit show, were undecided about the 50-year-old’s status on RHOBH, due to the fact that she could not seem to maintain sobriety and was considered to be a “liability for the show.”

So when Richards suffered yet another relapse during a week-long alcohol-fueled disappearing act after her daughter Brooke’s Mexican wedding on May 23, the writing was on the wall.

“When Kim went missing in action she refused to answer calls of anyone from the network for the entire time. They had to find out about her entering rehab again from a family member,” the source tells Radar.

“They decided that it was time to let her go because there was a lack of communication, and they are glad to see her go. Finally, they can no longer be held accountable for her misconduct.”

[From Radar Online]

E! has confirmed that Kim is off the show for season six and states that “it’s possible Kim may return for a cameo, or a few appearances, but not as a full-time series regular.”

You have to be SUCH a mess to get fired from a Real Housewives show. They thrive on drama, so one stint in rehab is fine (Kim did her last rehab while on RHOBH, not her first one, in 2011) and a second might have been passable in Kim’s case, but she couldn’t even stick with it for 30 days. Chica has issues.

The hits keep coming for Kim. She was sued for the second time by a victim of her pit bull, Kingsley. Kim’s friend Kay Rozario was awarded an $8,000 judgment for damages last month. (She was seeking a million, so that was a positive outcome for Kim.) Another victim of Kim’s pit bull just filed suit against her for unspecified damaged.