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Lala Kent took aim at Kristen Doute‘s “completely inappropriate” behavior while discussing their recent falling out after the latest episode of Vanderpump Rules on Tuesday night.
As she and her castmates shared their thoughts on whether Kristen, 41, has evolved since her early days on the show, with some feeling that she has and others disagreeing, Lala, 33, explained why she hasn’t been able to get past her feud with Kristen.
“You’re the same person but you’re also like, in your 40s now so it kind of is worse. Like, there’s no evolution, and you’re also old now,” Lala said of Kristen on the May 28 episode of the Vanderpump Rules: After Show.
“I got a lot of love for Kristen but she definitely didn’t seem like she grew that much when we were filming,” Brittany Cartwright, 35, agreed, then adding, “I hate to say that.”
According to Lala, her friendship with Kristen became strained after she saw a clip of Golnesa “GG” Gharachedaghi, 42, of Shahs of Sunset, shading her parenting, specifically the ill statements she’d made about her 3-year-old daughter Ocean’s father, Randall Emmett, 53.
“From my point of view in this footage, Kristen was leaning back, like snickering at what this girl was saying about me as a mom. And I just could not move past that because I’ve opened up to Kristen about what I deal with with my ex on a real level. Like, not this stuff that I talk about in public. Like, the real sh*t. So I just thought it was completely inappropriate of her to laugh,” she revealed. “I would’ve liked to have her say, ‘Respectively, f**k off. You have no idea what my friend deals with. We’re not talking about Lala as a parent’ because Kristen’s seen me as a parent and if there’s one thing I’m good at in this life, it’s being a f**king mom so I was just very put off by that.”
While Lala has no desire to reconnect with Kristen at the moment, she confirmed she reached out to her after her miscarriage.
“I sent her a short text that just said, ‘I’m really sorry for your loss,’ after she suffered the miscarriage, and then after that, no [contact]. She sent me a big, long text, but I just was not where I am in my life, not saying we’re never going to be homies again because I get over things. Just where I’m at in my life right now, I just really need a positive incubated life,” she explained.
In her own segment, Kristen joked, “Guys, I’m just like Season 1, but I have Botox, better teeth, and I have a makeup artist now — just kidding. I mean, how haven’t I evolved? Most of us I think have changed in really positive ways. And we’ve also learned to sort of dump the baggage that is no longer with us. And I just, I’m older and I have different priorities.”
“I think that’s pretty clear and obvious,” she added.
But Jesse Lally, 43, and Jason Caperna disagreed, with Jesse saying, ”I think she has gotten way worse.”
“If she’s changed for the better, I’m glad I wasn’t around her 10 years ago because I don’t know what that would’ve been like,” Jason noted.
Meanwhile, Jax Taylor, 44, suspected that Kristen was rushing to settle down to be like the rest of the group.
“I think who she is is always gonna be there. She has to work really hard to be the person she’s trying to be, because she can slip back real easy into the old Doute,” he shared. “I think she sees all of us moving on with our lives as far as getting married, having children, and I think Kristen has a hard time with seeing other people move ahead and her not so she kind of ‘Okay, I need to get married, I need to have kids, I need to have dogs. I need to buy a house.’ That’s kind of what she does.”
“[And] she has a talent for making a not-so-great situation bad to worse. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s like the person that backs up and knocks something over that knocks something else over and then burns the whole building down,” Tom Sandoval, 41, added.
But, according to Tom Schwartz, 40, Kristen has “for sure evolved.”
“I’ve definitely seen her grow just in the couple of years we’ve known each other,” added Kristen’s boyfriend, Luke Broderick. “I know that she does go to therapy and she does work on herself but having known some people for years and you see a side of them you’ve never seen before definitely got Kristen off-balance [on The Valley]. She didn’t know how to navigate some things.”
Vanderpump Rules season 12 is expected to begin filming later this year.
