It’s been four years since original “Real Housewives of New York” cast member Alex McCord and her husband, Simon van Kempen, left New York for his native Australia, but “Housewives” fans remain curious about the perplexing pair, who spent four seasons on the hit reality show.

“When we made the move to Australia, we both thought, ‘OK, this is really kind of burning the house down and walking away. What do we want to do? What did we always sort of want to do all our lives that we haven’t done yet?'” McCord recently told Page Six.

Down Under, McCord, 44, found her passion for geriatric neuropsychology, whereas van Kempen, 54, earned an associate’s degree in law, halfway to completing his four-year degree. “I currently practice as a licensed conveyancer, which allows me to act for clients in certain property law matters,” van Kempen explained.

After McCord joined Jill Zarin, Ramona Singer, Bethenny Frankel and Luann de Lesseps as one of the five original cast members in 2007, both McCord and van Kempen were under the impression that the show, which they say was then titled “Manhattan Moms,” would center around societal parents in the city. But after the success of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” in 2006, the concept changed.

“It really took off in a way that no one expected, I don’t even think Bravo expected it to take off as much as it did,” van Kempen said, with McCord adding that Singer, 61, knew “this was going to be a hit.”

Van Kempen infamously drew the ire of Singer during the show’s first season, after accompanying McCord to a dinner party at Zarin’s apartment.

“Alex and I had been told by producers some weeks prior that we were scheduled to attend an on-camera dinner at Jill’s house,” he recalled. “On the day of filming, Alex got a call at work and was advised that she was going to get a call from Bethenny, who would be on camera, and that Bethenny was going to ask Alex to attend a dinner at Jill’s. The producers then advised Alex that she was to ask Bethenny if I could attend, to which Bethenny would agree.”

Mulling things over, McCord phoned van Kempen at work and while the two felt it could be a set-up, they obliged.

“I think everyone except Ramona knew I was coming,” van Kempen said. “Ramona was probably told she was attending a girls’ night dinner at Jill’s.”

A Bravo rep tells us van Kempen’s account is “absolutely not true.”

While Singer wasn’t too happy to see van Kempen, Bravo’s camera crew was. Van Kempen recounted the crew high-fiving one another, “knowing that they had got some great TV on tape,” after Singer left.

After the episode aired, van Kempen and McCord felt a sense of defeat. “When we saw that episode and saw that we had been framed in such a way, that I was a controlling spouse who wouldn’t let Alex go anywhere without me, we were deflated, to say the least,” van Kempen said.

A season later, van Kempen felt he was depicted in a negative light once again, filming a scene for McCord’s birthday. As the pair sat in the back of a limo, it appeared that McCord’s birthday surprise had been ruined, as van Kempen erupted in the back seat. “We learned later that the driver had been instructed to take wrong turns, slow down and generally waste time,” McCord said.

Now, six seasons removed from the show, van Kempen and McCord have adjusted to their new reality away from the cameras.

“If we had our time over again, I don’t know that we’d do it, but at the end of the day, we’ve done it, we can’t undo it,” van Kempen said.

The couple says they are still occasionally recognized despite living in what van Kempen calls a “very, very small village” with “less than a thousand people.”

“I think it’s more relaxing,” van Kempen said. “Filming the show is stressful, then when the show is edited and aired, that’s stressful because you’re freaking out about how the audience is going to react to you this season, are you going to be the good guy or the bad guy or whatever, and we don’t have that anymore.”

The 10th season of “The Real Housewives of New York” premieres Wednesday at 9 p.m.