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Kristen Doute believes that Lala Kent‘s comments about Danny Booko are coming from Janet Caperna.
Following a heated moment between Lala, 35, and Danny, 42, on Wednesday’s episode of The Valley, which erupted after Lala inserted herself into a tense moment between Danny and his wife, Nia Booko, 36, Kristen suspected Lala was doing Janet’s dirty work as Lala clapped back, Danny recalled taking “accountability” for his actions, and other members of the cast, including Janet and her husband, Jason Caperna, 42, shared their thoughts on the drama.
“I don’t think forming an opinion about anyone of the weekend in San Diego, away from responsibilities and children, in a drag pageant partying with your friends is a place to say, ‘I clock you, and I know, and I see who you are.’ I don’t think that it’s fair,” Kristen began on the May 20 episode of The Valley: After Show. “I felt like Lala pointing out the things about Daniel was very specifically coming from the Janet bullsh*t of it all, and that’s why I didn’t want to hear it.”
According to Zack Wickham, Kristen has a different view of Danny than other members of the show because they don’t party together.
“She doesn’t see that behavior, so I can understand where she’s just like, ‘Listen, I’m not saying it doesn’t exist. I just haven’t experienced it.’ And I do believe that wholeheartedly because I’ve gone out with him. I go to the bars. It’s different. So she can say that because she doesn’t,” he reasoned.
As for Lala, she felt that Kristen was interpreting her statements against Danny as a way to get the cast to turn on their friend. However, as she noted, “That’s not what anybody is wanting her to do.”
“We just want her to see what the behavior is and acknowledge it, that’s it’s not okay,” Lala explained.
Lala went on to suggest that if the situation involved Janet and Jason, rather than Danny and Nia, it would have been a bigger deal amongst the group.
“There would be very strong opinions about Jason. Because we know Kristen. Kristen is all about holding a man accountable … when it comes to Danny and Nia, I’ve seen very vocal people who stand for similar things that I stand for very much retreat,” she stated.
Regarding whether she was doing Janet’s dirty work, Lala denied it.
“I love Janet, but she does not have that much power, honey. There is not one person who can get in my head, control my thoughts. I am who I am,” she insisted.
Reflecting on past moments between the cast, Lala said that she’d seen Janet apologize for things, only to be told that her apology wasn’t “real,” which she would never do — even with Danny. Still, when it came to Danny’s “I’m sorry,” Lala did have some negative thoughts.
“I don’t know him well enough to know what comes from the heart and what doesn’t. What I do know is when he apologized, and I tried to have an open and honest conversation with him, it felt, to me, that he wanted this conversation done and swept under the rug. ‘Here’s the apology so that we can forget about this and never talk about it again.’ And if that’s how he moves, that’s fine. But I don’t work well like that,” she explained. “I need absolute resolve, and I just don’t feel like I got that.”
In his own segment, Danny recalled hugging it out with Lala.
“I said, ‘I am really sorry. I shouldn’t have ever made light of that situation.’ When that happens, when there’s alcohol involved, when whatever, I always do want to go and check in the next day and just say, ‘Hey, I just want to apologize again, sober, knowing that this is what I feel like.’ I need to take accountability for [it]. And so when I did that, I thought we were in a good place,” he noted.
He then admitted to agreeing with Kristen in regard to Janet potentially fueling Lala’s thoughts.
“For the past year, all Lala has had in her ear is Janet, saying everything publicly, and what she has said about me, I think Lala took it and ran with it,” he suspected.
But, as Lala argued, she saw his behavior with her own eyes.
“I was around for five minutes and saw that side of Danny,” she shared.
Also on The Valley: After Show, Jason shaded the suggestion that Lala was speaking for Kristen.
“Taking Lala’s opinions, just throwing them out like they are worthless opinions. ‘It’s all just Janet,’ it’s like more offensive to Lala than to Janet, honestly,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Janet described the drama as “really exhausting.”
“Every single thing that happens with them is somehow my fault or my influence when I’m not even there for that,” she noted, adding that it was Lala who “felt uncomfortable.”
The Valley season three airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.