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Lala Kent and Ariana Madix went head-to-head on the recently-filmed Vanderpump Guidelines reunion.
Following Saturday’s taping in Los Angeles, Lala, 33, appeared on The Discuss, the place she confirmed a report of drama between them earlier than explaining her choice to supply grace to Tom Sandoval, 41, after his affair with Rachel “Raquel” Leviss, 29, and admitting to feeling relieved after what she described as a “purge.”
“I believe the precise tweet was ‘Ariana eviscerated Lala on the reunion and it was friendship-ruining,’” Lala mentioned of a message shared on X, previously referred to as Twitter, on The Discuss. “And solely a kind of issues is true. I’ll let y’all resolve.”
On X over the weekend, Bravo Babe alleged, “Rumor is that Ariana eviscerated Lala on the finish of the reunion. Like friendship over sort of scenario.”
Rumor is that Ariana eviscerated Lala on the finish of the reunion. Like friendship over sort of scenario. #PumpRules
— BravoBabe (@thebravobabe_) March 18, 2024
Whereas it’s laborious to say what it was that went down between them, it could have stemmed from Lala exhibiting compassion to Ariana’s ex-boyfriend. As Pump Guidelines followers will recall, Lala and Sandoval had a heart-to-heart in Lake Tahoe, the place Lala opted out of the continued hate directed at her castmate.
Lala was then seen saying that Ariana, 38, wanted to tug her head out of her a**, which she doubled down on throughout her look on The Discuss.
“I stand by all the pieces that I mentioned final season, even final season’s reunion, and I stand by all the pieces I say this season. I’m in a unique place than I used to be final yr. ‘Scandoval’ ran very parallel with the place I used to be in my heartbreak so I used to be out for blood. I noticed a straight man and I used to be like, ‘I’m ripping you to shreds,’” Lala defined, giving a nod to her messy cut up from Randall Emmett, 52, the daddy of her three-year-old daughter Ocean.
Though Lala definitely spoke her thoughts to Sandoval after he cheated on Ariana, she made it some extent to cool down forward of filming on season 11 as a result of her plans for a second baby.
“I knew I used to be happening this journey to probably deliver one other baby into the world and I simply knew I wanted to be mushy, I wanted to follow compassion. I appreciated when individuals did that for me. I’d admire if somebody did that for my daughter if and when she messes up tremendously,” she revealed.
Lala additionally mentioned the Pump Guidelines reunion on the March 20 episode of Give Them Lala.
“It was very, very, very intense on the very finish. It obtained very intense,” she shared. “After I push issues below the rug, in some unspecified time in the future, I say issues that I can’t come again from and that occurred on the finale of season 11, and that each one is proven. I believe individuals will actually benefit from the reunion. It was simply an intense, some of the intense I believe I’ve ever skilled.”
In keeping with Lala, the season 11 reunion was “completely different” from season 10 as a result of the fourth wall was damaged.
“It’s a uncommon event that the fourth wall is damaged and that occurs, which I believe the viewers actually likes. I do know I take pleasure in it after I watch Housewives,” she famous. “It was intense within the second … however I felt extraordinarily relieved after I left.”
Whereas Lala usually takes it straightforward after reunion tapings, she and a few buddies went mini-golfing after, and he or she had a “good cry.”
“After this reunion, it was emotionally draining within the second and I in all probability obsessed for like, perhaps an hour after it after which simply sheer reduction,” she described. “When you might have a purge like I had after which everybody will get to see it and then you definitely’re requested for those who would change something and also you get to say, ‘I stand by all the pieces I mentioned,’ it’s like, the reality is highly effective.”
“It’s a weight lifted off and I left going ‘I don’t give a f*ck what anybody thinks. I’m free,’” Lala added.
Vanderpump Guidelines season 11 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
