Lala Kent and Andy Cohen spoke of a dramatic and “upsetting” confrontation between Ariana Madix and Raquel Leviss on the Vanderpump Rules finale on Wednesday’s Watch What Happens Live.
While also addressing claims of hypocrisy over her own cheating, reacting to Tom Sandoval grabbing Raquel’s butt on the latest episode, and more, Lala revealed if she believes rumors about a kiss between Brock Davies and Raquel and shared if she believes Sandoval and Raquel will last.
“Absolutely not. He’s gonna like now see that it’s real life and he’s gonna be like, ’There isn’t much happening, is there?’” Lala said of Sandoval and Raquel’s future on the April 12 episode of WWHL.
According to Lala, she’s always been triggered by Raquel, although she never knew exactly why.
“She seemed like someone who moved in a way that I didn’t quite understand,” Lala explained. “It seemed a little unfamiliar [to] me and I’m familiar with my situation alright you guys but I also, it’s very nuanced [with] everything that’s happened. It was my mother who said, ‘Be careful with this one. She moves like a snake.’ That was in 2017. And I took her word for it.”
On the latest episode of Pump Rules, Sandoval was seen grabbing Raquel’s butt next to then-girlfriend Ariana and co-star Scheana Shay. But looking back, Lala admitted the incident didn’t raise red flags because no one thought Sandoval would be that bold if something were truly going on between them.
“You never suspect it because you’re like, ‘He wouldn’t do that in front of all of us, would he, if they were sleeping together?’ That group has always been very strange, the dynamics,” she noted. “I [once] caught Sandoval and Raquel under the covers one night at one of the house parties they had and I’m like, ‘And no one thinks that’s weird?'”
As for whether or not she believes Brock and Raquel hooked up, Lala confirmed, “I don’t believe that for a second.”
Later, on the WWHL: After Show, Lala was asked who she’d like to be hooked up with from the Bravo universe.
“Can I tell you, but I think he has a girlfriend and they just had a baby, is [Kairo Whitfield, son of Real Housewives of Atlanta star Sheree Whitfield],” she admitted. “He just is hittin’ different but I’m so happy for him and his family. So cute.”
While Tom Schwartz called for fans to drop their mob mentality and stop with the vitriol during his own appearance on WWHL last week, Lala didn’t agree.
“No, we’re having a heyday. Let us have fun,” she replied.
Although Lala recently suffered a falling out with Schwartz, she confirmed they were in a better place on Wednesday’s show.
“He got a little mad at me for sec and then we made up. He said I was going too hard on him and I said, ‘Because I think you’re better than what you’ve been presenting.’ And he said, ‘Fair enough,’” she revealed.
That said, Schwartz never offered an apology to her for continuing to hang out with Randall Emmett despite their ugly split.
“No he hasn’t but I let it go,” Lala shared.
As for Schwartz’s suggestion that Sandoval and Raquel’s romance had been an “open secret” since January, Lala said she was “grossed out” by the claim.
“If I would’ve been Schwartz, I would’ve said, ‘If you don’t tell her, I’m going to tell her.’ And everybody in the group was shocked,” she noted. “I mean, even though I suspected it, when it’s confirmed, it’s just different. It felt dirty.”
Also on the WWHL: After Show, while playing a game of “Do! You! Trust Them!?,” Lala revealed she doesn’t trust that Raquel was the first time Sandoval’s been unfaithful, that he and Raquel have been honest about their affair, or that Schwartz has been honest about his knowledge of the affair.
She also doesn’t trust that Oliver Saunders was truthful with Raquel about his status with wife Samantha amid their time together in Las Vegas.
Back on the live broadcast, Lala was asked how her cheating with James Kennedy amid her relationship with Randall and his romance with Raquel was different from Sandoval’s affair with Raquel.
“Did someone ask this question? This person’s stupid I’m not gonna school them on life. No,” she replied. “If you don’t understand the difference, I can’t help you.”
She then reacted to someone who wanted to know why she called Raquel a mistress and a wh-re if she hates those words.
“No, I hate when people call me a mistress and a wh-re. [It was] probably [hypocritical] but I was mad,” she explained.
Then, after being questioned about Raquel’s closeness to Ariana amid her months-long affair with Sandoval, Lala teased, “You guys are going to die. There’s one conversation in the finale episode, and … she’s sick.”
“It’s very upsetting,” host Andy Cohen agreed. “I asked Raquel about it during our one-on-one about how she could look in her eyes and have that conversation. You will see it.”
Vanderpump Rules season 10 airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.