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Kyle Cooke accused West Wilson of “betrayal” and suggested he manipulated the audience in his favor. Meanwhile, the Summer House star also shared more details behind his struggling business.
Earlier this week, Kyle’s wife Amanda Batula confirmed her relationship with West, months after revealing that she and Kyle split. Many fans have criticized her for betraying her friend Ciara Miller, West’s ex.
On the new season, West called out Kyle for insulting Amanda. During filming, Kyle and Amanda were still together. In his confessionals, West has continued to slam Kyle over his treatment of Amanda. At one point, he compared Kyle to the Wolf of Wall Street, because Kyle bought Amanda an expensive watch after insulting her.
In an interview with Adam Glyn on TikTok, Kyle addressed the relationship.
“I’m giving Amanda grace just because I know … from a mental standpoint [that] she’s fragile,” said Kyle.
He was then asked if he thinks they hooked up in the summer. “I’ve seen rumors, I’ve seen blinds, and I’ve had DMs that say it dates back to like June,” he said. “I don’t know what to believe. … There’s a little murkiness as to our separation, and we put the announcement out, that I think we’ll have to address at the reunion.”
Kyle said he’s still in “shock” and “disbelief,” and Andy Cohen hasn’t reached out to him.
“But again, I feel like West kind of positioned himself very conveniently to be this knight in shining armor for women, standing up for Amanda, checking me,” he said. “For him to say what he said in his confessional and then double down on Watch What Happens, I was like, something’s up.”
“I mean, he basically threw his friendship with me away in one swoop,” he added. “Then that’s when, you know, the wheels started turning in terms of … all these rumors. What happened to Bro Code? He compared me to the Wolf of Wall Street [for] buying Amanda a watch. Like, the Wolf of Wall Street buys his wife present when he bangs a hooker. And he goes, ‘I probably made things worse for you with that comment.’ I’m like, ‘Bro, you lit me on fire, you kicked me when I’m down.'”
Kyle said West is “smart” and “strategic” enough to know the “audience” of the show, and he “clearly [knows] what to say to women to win them over.”
“A lot of people don’t understand how close [West and I] were,” he said. “We traveled to Toronto, we traveled to the Ozarks, I was at his parents’ house, riding horses in his dad’s ranch, like, there’s some wild betrayal there.”
According to Kyle, West is capable of “manipulating any female, my wife included.”
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Around the same time, Kyle addressed his business in an Instagram video – after sharing his struggles with LoverBoy in the latest episode.
“I have no control as to what happened this week. But I did open up to Carl about the financial stress I’m under running Loverboy on this week’s episode of Summer House,” he said. “So my original plan was to kind of start touching on those challenges.”
“Most of my days I’m just behind the computer, 10, 12 hour work days, not prioritizing content, and I’ve relied a little too heavily on the show to give you guys a glimpse into entrepreneurship and running a small brand and some of the challenges that we face in big alcohol,” he added. “But obviously a lot has changed this week.”
“When I talked about that $500,000 investment, it’s to literally cover payroll to keep [my employees] in their seats and to stop them from going to a competitor,” he said. “I don’t take a salary, as we’ve talked about. … I’m gonna turn this thing around. We’re still up against the clock. We’re still running out of cash. We’re still looking for an operational partner. I thought by now all that would be solved.”