Kimberly Wyatt Explains Departure from Pussycat Dolls

Ex Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt is featured the latest issue of a popular British men’s magazine and, besides showing off her banging body, she’s also opening up about her departure from the popular all-girl band. Things have been bad with her bandmates for quite some time and Kimberly eventually realized that, as cliché as it may sound, money and fame certainly can’t guarantee happiness (story via here).

As fans would know, talk of a rift within the Dolls has been making the rounds for many a month, sparked at first by rumors that the other girls were upset at Nicole Scherzinger always being placed at the forefront, getting the most exposure at their own expense as a band. Eventually, tension got too big to be ignored and the girls split. However, Wyatt is not the first to get out of the PCD, as Carmit Bachar left in March 2008 to pursue a solo career.

“I’ve left the group. I am so thankful for everything the Pussycat Dolls has brought into my life. But I have to say there were just too many variables that I couldn’t agree with and I had to follow my heart. So I decided to kind of push on with my own life,” Wyatt says for Loaded, explaining what it was that finally made her take the decision to leave the best selling PCD group.

“Money and fame can’t buy happiness. Ultimately I think that happiness is the most important thing in life and I think that once I started to get to know myself more and more I was like, ‘You know, I don’t think that my happiness is within this group right now.’ I wish that it was different because I love what we do on stage. I love being a Doll, but as far as the variables off-stage are concerned – I just couldn’t do it anymore,” the singer adds.

Wyatt doesn’t say whether she plans on pursuing a solo career as well, though that’s to be expected. However, if Nicole’s own example is anything to go by (especially in the context in which she’s the most famous member of the band), perhaps the secret to fame is within the Pussycat Dolls and not as a solo artist.