Vanderpump Rules alum Lala Kent isn’t holding her breath for a friendship reconciliation with Katie Maloney.
During the Tuesday, December 31, episode of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, Lala, 34, recalled Katie, 37, being her “everything” until they filmed season 11 of the hit Bravo series.
“It was the strangest season that I’ve ever been a part of. It was all very sad,” she said. “And Katie and I have two very different viewpoints on what happened and the demise of our friendship.”
Lala had one specific issue with Katie. “She sees it one way, and I don’t like that I was painted to be someone who pockets information and brings it out at a convenient time,” she noted. “Because that’s not what happened.”
Despite being close to Katie in the past, Lala isn’t interested in rehashing their drama.
“We can go over this all the livelong day, it doesn’t matter. What’s done is done,” she continued. “We may be able to rebuild at some point or we may never see each other again. Who the f— knows, right? But I do want her to be happy in her life. She deserves that.”
Lala subsequently confirmed that “neither” of them “reached out to each other” since the season 11 reunion of Vanderpump Rules. Bravo has since confirmed that the show is coming back with an entirely new cast for season 12.
The former friends were in a good place when filming kicked off — or so fans thought. When Lala questioned Ariana Madix‘s decision not to film with ex Tom Sandoval after his cheating scandal with Rachel “Raquel” Leviss, she also put Katie on blast.
“I think we were at odds because from my point of view, she was not very honest this season. I don’t recognize that Katie [because] the reason why she and I really freaking connect is because we are no bulls—,” Lala explained on a May episode of the Vanderpump Rules After Show. “You may not like what comes out of our mouths, it may be harsh or aggressive, but this is what it is.”
Lala even quoted what Katie allegedly told her about her issues with Ariana, 39.
“She was getting annoyed like, ‘I’m the only one doing things for this sandwich show. Where is she? She’s always late on her half of the rent. She’s dropping the ball,’” Lala claimed. “She was very worried about rocking the boat after she invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into this restaurant and her business partner is Ariana. I can’t say I wouldn’t feel the same way. I probably would. She had opinions. You can have opinions and still have Ariana’s back.”
At the season 11 reunion, Katie slammed Lala’s attempt to resurface the drama when she had already mended her miscommunication with Ariana off screen.
“I felt like obviously she had been harboring certain feelings and thinking certain things that I didn’t know she had felt. And so she was saving them for the reunion, which I didn’t feel like was super authentic,” Katie said on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast in July. “To sit there and be called an inauthentic person or fake. But meanwhile, I’m sitting next to somebody who I thought I knew and knew very well and was open and honest with me but had been feeling a certain way about me for a very long time. That was shocking.”
Katie said she didn’t see how she and Lala could get to a better place.
“Once you violate my trust like that, it’s very hard to come back from. Trust is the most important thing to me. And when you try to manipulate me with that and use it against me and say we talked about these things,” Katie continued. “Those weren’t the kind of conversations that were meant for the camera. Not everything is. … I’m allowed to have some kind of privacy and talk about emotions with people. I do with my mom, I do with other friends.”
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