Jennifer Tilly boasts she got ‘Simpsons’ money in divorce from co-creator Sam Simon

Jennifer Tilly is opening up about her divorce.

On the Tuesday episode of “The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills,” the actress received candid on her cut up from ex-husband Sam Simon whereas the opposite girls mentioned their very own separations from their former spouses.

“It takes a extremely very long time to recover from a divorce,” Tilly, 66, stated. “My ex-husband was Sam Simon, who [co-created] ‘The Simpsons.’ I used to be married to him for seven years. We have been collectively for about 10 years, after which once we received divorced, I received a bit of ‘The Simpsons’ within the divorce settlement.”

“No person knew that ‘The Simpsons’ was going to go on for trillions of years,” she teased with amusing. “Actually, daily, I’m like, ‘Thanks Sam!’ “

Tilly and Simon have been married from 1984 to 1991 with “The Simpsons” debuting on Fox in 1989. Simon died in 2015 from colon most cancers at 59.

Tilly joined the franchise as “a pal of” for Season 14 alongside Bozoma “Boz” Saint John.

The “Chucky ” alum spoke to Vulture forward of the season premiere, telling the outlet that she had “at all times been a superfan” of the truth present and was wanting ahead to getting into her new function.

However Tilly additionally admitted it isn’t as glamorous as she thought it might be. As for what stunned the star essentially the most?

“I bear in mind I used to be like, ‘I stay in Beverly Hills, and it’d be sort of enjoyable to see Beverly Hills by the lens of actually wealthy individuals,’ ” Tilly defined. “I believed that I used to be going to see lots of people procuring on Rodeo Drive, however lots of the filming that they do is within the Valley, in locations the place it’s simpler to get permits. So it’s not such as you’re on the fanciest locations in Beverly Hills, arguing.”

“They’re often arguing at some sort of non-Beverly Hills place as a result of the actually fancy, elite locations don’t need Housewives screaming at one another of their eating room,” she added.

Tilly revealed that she had turned down the chance to be on the sequence in previous years, however this time she determined to tackle the “problem.”

“To me, it’s like working with Martin Scorsese,” she stated. “My boyfriend at all times says if he received $40 million, he needs to enter area and expertise zero gravity. To me, being on ‘Housewives’ is experiencing zero gravity. I used to be extra excited to fulfill Kyle Richards and Erika Jayne and the opposite girls than I used to be once I met Elizabeth Taylor.”

And Tilly’s longtime pal Sutton Stracke shared some sound recommendation for her bestie after having been on “RHOBH” in Season 10.

“I’m so joyful I get to spend extra time with Sutton as a result of in the previous few years, since she’s been on ‘Housewives,’ now I perceive it’s so intensive and I didn’t get to see as a lot of her as I like,” Tilly informed Individuals in August.

“She’s nice as a result of she’s sort of exhibiting me the ropes as a result of it’s just a little intimidating,” she added. “She’s a stellar Housewife. … [She’s] very forthright, like, ‘You might want to do that or you might want to try this.’ ”

Stracke, who was standing beside Tilly in the course of the interview, chimed in: “No, it’s humorous as a result of I did Jennifer’s sequence ‘Chucky.’ I by no means had performed something like that in my life, in order that was new for me. Seeing [her] come on with us, I’m like, ‘No, no, no, we don’t reduce. We don’t say motion as a result of it’s not scripted — you really simply discuss.’ ”