In a recent podcast episode, Lala Kent discussed Kyle Richards’ breakup with Mauricio Umansky and revealed that she had previously heard rumors about him maybe cheating.
In addition to admitting that she thought the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast members’ marriages were “goals,” the Vanderpump Rules star, 33, also discussed the allegations against Mauricio, 53, and her reaction to his hand-holding outing with Dancing With the Stars partner Emma Slater, 34. Lala also discussed her current relationship status with co-stars Tom Sandoval, 40, and Tom Schwartz, 40.
“You guys will see this coming season, I’m in a bit of a different place,” she revealed during an interview with Entertainment Tonight at BravoCon. “I’m really trying to go through my healing process and understand what I went through and ‘Scandoval‘ ran kind of parallel to my own situation, which was extremely triggering.”
Pump Rules viewers will remember that in October 2021, a few months after welcoming their daughter Ocean Kent, who is now two years old, Lala and her ex fiancé Randall Emmett, 52, had a tumultuous breakup.
“So, I’m just attempting to put the other shoe on the other foot and practice compassion and forgiveness.” I’m not sure if I’m always good at it, but I want to discover my tender side so my daughter can see it,” Lala said.
According to Lala, season 11 will see the cast embarking on “a lot of self-reflecting.”
“For the first time, everyone has had to focus on themselves, which you think we’ve been doing that this whole time. But you know, we’ve all kind of been a dog in someone else’s fight,” she noted. “And for a lot of my cast members, I’m like, ‘Oh wow, you’re not being the people pleaser we usually see you as.’ Like, ‘You don’t give a damn.’ We’re all kind of like, ‘If this is what I wanna do, you can kick rocks.”
Also during the interview, Lala joked that “one can only hope” that she’d leave BravoCon with Captain Jason Chambers.
“I think I will get lucky in Vegas. I don’t know in what form … Money or a man or a man with money. Even better!” she added.
Meanwhile, during the November 1 episode of her podcast, Lala commented on the marriage drama between Kyle and Mauricio.
“Kyle and Mauricio were, like, goals … And yes, I live in L.A. I’ve heard rumblings for a while about Mauricio and now I know where there’s smoke, there’s fire. But there are crazy people who just make sh*t up and Mauricio is very hot, so I could see people making up that they hooked up with him,” Lala shared on Give Them Lala.
In addition to not buying the rumors, Lala said she also felt Mauricio’s hand-holding with Emma was all for show.
“I don’t think it’s real; I think it’s for publicity,” she said. They haven’t, in my opinion, shared any romantic behind-the-scenes moments where they dance, touch each other’s bodies, or do salsa together. It just doesn’t seem possible to say, “You’re the one for me.”
Lala then discussed a recent RHOBH episode, stating that Kyle appeared to have “checked out.”
“I believe the reason Kyle was so hot this episode is that she was sort of staring at him like, ‘I don’t f*cking need you.'” It’s the self-assurance, she continued. “I just love the attitude; she looks sad and he looks sad.”
Vanderpump Rules season 11 is set to premiere on Bravo in January 2024.