Lala Kent on Pump Rules Filming Pause, If She Ran Into Raquel

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Lala Kent reacted to Vanderpump Rules being put on pause ahead of season 12 and shared if she ran into Rachel “Raquel” Leviss at Stagecoach on Amazon Live on Wednesday.

In addition to responding to Ariana Madix, 38, suggesting that Scheana Shay, 38, is a better friend to Tom Sandoval, 41, than her, and explaining why she looks up to Stassi Schroeder, 35, Lala, 33, revealed her thoughts about taking a break from filming.

“Has that been officially confirmed?” Lala asked when the topic was mentioned during her May 1 appearance on Amazon Live. “[TMZ] said ‘an insider,’ though. Has anyone come out to say this is true or false?”

While Andy Cohen, 55, hadn’t yet confirmed the news at the time of her appearance, leading Lala to be hesitant to speak on it, she did say that if she and her castmates were put on pause, she wouldn’t mind because it would allow her to better protect her pregnancy.

“If we film this summer, I’m going to have a peaceful pregnancy, because I will not allow it to be any other way. This is my real life. This is gonna be my baby forever, and I will be damned if anybody tries to make it – which, I’m in charge of my own emotions, so if we do film, I will keep zen to protect the peace of my baby in the womb. And if we don’t film this summer, I will be on cloud fifty-nine,” she stated.

Following her attendance at the Stagecoach music festival over the weekend, Lala was asked if she ran into Raquel, 29.

“No, but a few people did,” she shared. “I don’t know what it is about this pregnancy, but it is allowing me to duck and dodge all the things that I want to duck and dodge.”

As for Ariana saying Scheana is a better friend to Sandoval, which she did on Tuesday night’s Watch What Happens Live, Lala said she’s staying out of it.

“I’m letting them just do their thing. I don’t know what Scheana was like in a friendship with Tom, and I don’t really know what she was like in a friendship with Ariana,” she reasoned. “What I do know is she’s been a great friend to me, even though we’ve been through our ups and downs, and we have a very deep-rooted friendship now … Scheana is like family to me now.”

Also during her Amazon Live appearance, Lala was asked if she would ever collaborate with Stassi.

“Stas is someone who I look up to a lot when it comes to what she has built, and the brand that she built, and how she took a show like Vanderpump Rules and did not only rely on Vanderpump Rules, but gave her all to the show, and also used those moments to parlay her name and brand into something amazing,” Lala replied, noting that Stassi is a New York Times best-selling author.

While Lala noted that she and Stassi have a lot of things in common, she confirmed that they would never work together.

“I’ve worked with friends before. It always ends badly. I adore Stassi, and number one, I wouldn’t want us to ever have our friendship affected by business,” she explained. “You can have the strongest friendship in the world with someone, the moment that money comes into play, things get sticky.”

Vanderpump Rules season 11 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.