EXCLUSIVE: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna will star opposite her daughter Delilah Hamlin for the first time in the Lifetime movie Mommy Meanest.
Mommy Meanest is set to premiere later this year on the cable channel. Inspired by actual events, the movie tells the story of a teenage girl with a history of emotional trauma who is relentlessly cyber-bullied, only to discover the culprit behind the horrific texts is her very own mother. Yikes.
No doubt to keep peace in the household, Hamlin isn’t playing her mother’s daughter in the movie. She appears as Summer, the friend of the cyber-bullied teen.
Here’s the official logline: The story follows divorced mother Madelyn (Rinna), who’s always had a tight bond with her daughter Mia (played by Briana Skye). But when Mia starts spending more time with her new boyfriend and is on the verge of leaving for college, Madelyn is panicked by her emerging independence. When Mia starts to receive a barrage of degrading texts, as a protective mother, Madelyn is determined to find out who is harassing her daughter and will do anything to help her, bringing them closer together again. As the hundreds of texts become more threatening, Mia begins to wonder if her tormentor is someone closer than she could have ever imagined.
Mommy Meanest is produced for Lifetime by Stalking Productions in association with Johnson Production Group. Rinna and Stacy Mandelberg are executive producers. It’s produced by Navid Soofi. Greg Beeman (Murdaugh Murders: The Movie) directs from a script written by Gregg McBride (Would You Kill for Me? The Mary Bailey Story).
Rinna is repped by Atlas Artist and UTA; Hamlin by UTA; and Skye by Trisko Talent Management and Venture Entertainment Partners.
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