Katie Maloney has revealed that she and Lala Kent are not on speaking terms. Katie appeared on the Tuesday, July 2 episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast and shared an update on her life since Vanderpump Rules wrapped. Since she and Lala had a falling out during the season 11 reunion, the “Something About Her” co-owner said she hasn’t spoken to her costar.
“I felt like obviously she had been harboring certain feelings and thinking certain things that I didn’t know she had felt,” Katie explained. “And so she was saving them for the reunion, which I didn’t feel like was super authentic. 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,” she continued.
She also noted that she thought she and Lala — who have known each other for nearly 10 years — had resolved their issues in the season finale in San Francisco. When she got to the reunion taping and realized there were things Lala hadn’t brought up to her before, Katie said she felt blindsided.
“Once you violate my trust like that, it’s very hard to come back from,” Katie said. “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, those weren’t the kind of conversations that were meant for the camera.”
Despite being costars on a show, Katie thought she and Lala were friends off the show as well. Joking that Lala expected her to “read my diary” for the public to hear, Katie admitted that she sees Lala differently now.
“I’m allowed to have some kind of privacy and talk about emotions with people,” she said. “Just like I do with my mom, I do with other friends. You [Lala] were one of those people.”
Katie continued to say that she and Lala have had several conversations that she “would never make public just for the sake of the show,” and she expected the same loyalty back.
“I was icked out,” Katie confessed. “It wasn’t shocking because it’s just like, ‘OK, well, you could have also brought this up literally anytime last season. It would have been a hell of a lot more relevant.’”
She later added: “I half expected her to do that but I thought, ‘Maybe she just is being respectful of that being a private conversation.’”
Katie said she felt Lala’s accusations at the reunion was a “tactic” to “make me look bad.”
On the season 11 finale, Lala claimed Katie was “not very honest” about her feelings toward costar Ariana Madix.
“I’m like we’ve had discussions, you and I, Katie, about the group being like bobbleheads, that Ariana and Tom surround themselves with. They both do,” she said. “And now you’ve turned into one. How do I talk to you? How do I f—ing talk to you? While she had said many times that Ariana needed to be out of the house, that there was no reason why she shouldn’t be in that house still. Then when cameras picked up it was like the complete opposite.”
Katie Maloney still doesn’t see herself rekindling her friendship with Vanderpump Rules costar Lala Kent. During the Tuesday, July 2, episode of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, Katie, 37, was asked where she stands with Lala, 33.
“I haven’t spoken to her since the reunion,” Katie revealed about how she “didn’t see” Lala’s digs at the season 11 reunion coming. “I think she thinks when you don’t see it, it didn’t happen. But we resolved [things initially], we talked about things in San Francisco [during the season finale]. We had a moment on the boat that was much longer than what you saw.”
Before season 11 started filming, Katie and Lala had a falling out that they resolved. The drama wasn’t mentioned again until the finale, when Lala came for Katie and claimed there were conversations happening off screen that weren’t addressed on the show.
“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 noted. “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 was asked whether she could forgive Lala for violating her trust.
“No. 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.”
A notable claim Lala made during the reunion was that Katie complained about Ariana Madix. Lala specifically said Katie was going to bring it up on the show but then walked it back.
“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—t,” 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.”
Katie, for her part, pointed out that there was no reason to mention her issues when she had already worked them out privately with Ariana, 39.
“I was icked out. It wasn’t shocking [of Lala to say that] because it’s just like, ‘OK, well, you could have also brought this up literally anytime last season,’” Katie pointed out. “It would have been a hell of a lot more relevant.”
Katie referred to Lala’s behavior at the reunion as a “tactic,” adding, “I felt there were three instances that she brought up in an attempt to make me look bad.”
While reflecting on her past frustrations with Ariana, Katie clarified she was never envious of the opportunities her friend received after her split from Tom Sandoval due to his affair with Rachel “Raquel” Leviss.
“Because I’m genuinely very happy for [my friends]. What’s good for them is good for all of us at the end of the day. But I think admitting that you can be jealous — but also very happy — and have it not negatively affect your opinion or how you’re going to operate in your friendship with them,” Katie shared. “I feel that’s a wasted energy to be jealous of your friends when you could just be championing them.”
Since the recent season came to an end, news broke that Vanderpump Rules wouldn’t be picking cameras up immediately for season 12. According to Katie, there isn’t much to be worried about as the cast awaits more updates about the show’s future at Bravo.
“I’m not going to be concerned until it’s time to be concerned,” she added on Tuesday. “And it doesn’t feel like it’s time to be concerned.”
Vanderpump Rules season 11 is currently streaming on Peacock.
Source: People
