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Lisa Rinna’s attack on grieving father Patrick Clancy sparks furious backlash

September 3, 2026 | | Print Article

A reality TV star is under fire for blaming Patrick Clancy for the killings of his three children despite his ex-wife Lindsay having already admitted to the crime.

Former “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Lisa Rinna has been running her mouth about Patrick for weeks now, telling her millions of social media followers that he committed the gruesome killings that were, in fact, performed by Lindsay.

Case in point:

“All right, he did it. Patrick did it,” she said in a TikTok video posted on Aug. 17. “Patrick’s the one who did it. Not Lindsay. Patrick did it. Because, you know, I also heard that women typically don’t strangle.”

“I was actually in therapy today, and my therapist and I were talking about it, and she said, I said, well, what do they do? She said, well, they poison or I said, oh, or drown them, like we literally had that conversation today. And she looks at me, and she goes, he did it, I was like, wow, yeah, and now, yeah, yeah,” she added.

After receiving an initial round of backlash, Rinna doubled down in a second social media video, saying, “These are my opinions, this is my page and that’s that. So If you don’t like it, tough f–king sh-t.”

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The backlash has now grown to a fevered pitch, with fellow women like Kirsten Fleming of the New York Post leading the charge.

“Stating that Italian food is better than Chinese food is an opinion. What she said was an outright lie and defamatory,” Fleming wrote in a scathing column published Wednesday.

“This case isn’t a whodunit. Lindsay has admitted to the horrific acts. The jury is now tasked with deciding if she is criminally responsible and, if so, it was murder or manslaughter,” she added.

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Fleming was correct. Lindsay has already admitted to the crime.

“Lindsay Clancy admits to killing her three small children,” CNN notes. “Her own lawyers don’t deny she did it but say she should not be held criminally responsible for her actions, arguing that Lindsay was suffering from postpartum psychosis and extreme mental illness at the time.”

Fleming went on to accuse Rinna of treating the case like something out of a movie versus a real-life horror and tragedy.

“Self-styled sleuths like Rinna treat ongoing cases and trials like movies where the people involved are mere characters to root for or against, rather than real humans living through unimaginable tragedy,” she wrote. “And, thanks to social media platforms, these true-crime obsessives have gone from living in conspiratorial silos to a collective coffee klatch.”

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Fleming concluded her column by suggesting that Rinna’s therapy regimen isn’t working too well.

“Rinna should do some self-reflection. Her aforementioned therapy isn’t working, but she should keep at it,” Fleming wrote. “I just suggest finding a new shrink.”

Others, meanwhile, have some even tougher words for the reality TV star:

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Rinna is also an infamous TDS sufferer.

Case in point:

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