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Nia Booko defended her marriage to her husband, Danny Booko, after last week’s episode of The Valley.
As Lala Kent, 35, suggested that no one would want to be in a marriage like the Bookos’, Kristen Doute, 43, revealed she looked up to the couple, and Luke Broderick, 35, weighed in, Nia, 36, explained how she and Danny, 42, navigate their hard times, and Danny insisted he knew how to be a supportive husband.
“One thing with me and Daniel, in our relationship in general, yes, we have tense moments; yes, we can be short with each other. We do resets often enough,” Nia shared on the most recent episode of The Valley: After Show. “A few months ago, we had a big reset, and even just a few days ago. We both, like, sat down in a room. We had a babysitter, so we could, like, step away together for the few moments we have together without kids crawling on us, and we both went, like, ‘This is hard again. Like, this is not easy right now, and, like, what can we do to come back to, like, feeling that, like, in-love feeling, and what can we do to reset our relationship?'”
According to Nia, she and Danny go through “beautiful [seasons],” when everything is “really good,” as well as difficult seasons where it’s not.
“What people will see through this, like, window of time is, like, there were so many tense moments, and we were short with each other and had short fuses a lot. And that doesn’t mean that we have a bad relationship. It just means that we were having hard moments. And we’ll keep working on it,” she explained. “We’re in it for the long run. And we’ve been together for a long time. And we know that those moments don’t define our entire relationship.”
Reflecting on a discussion she had with Danny in which she expressed the emotional and physical hardships she was facing after welcoming their fourth child, during which Danny joked about having sex, Nia clarified that there was much more to the conversation than what viewers saw.
“It was a 45-minute conversation where he was extremely supportive, as he always is when I’m having postpartum struggles … he made a joke at the end, and everybody’s like, ‘All he wants to talk about is sex,’” she shared. “That’s always been our dynamic … He kind of jokes.”
Speaking of the same chat, Danny insisted he “listened” and was “supportive.”
“An hour later, we were both joking around, and I started making those types of jokes … But I’m like, come on, guys, seriously? You’re gonna read that much into it? This is number four. You think I haven’t done this three other times? I know exactly how to support my wife,” he declared.
But Lala didn’t seem convinced.
“I don’t know anybody could look at that marriage … and that dynamic and go, ‘That’s what I f*cking want,'” she stated.
Although Lala acknowledged that Danny was “a good guy” and could be reasoned with, she proceeded to suggest that his drinking wasn’t what was causing him to act out.
“It doesn’t even matter if you say, ‘Well, I haven’t been around them when Danny’s drunk,’” she noted. “It’s like, well, from what I’ve seen so far, Danny and Nia at home, where he seems like he’s got his wits about him, it’s like, my jaw’s on the f*cking floor.”
“She is a mother who’s holding the weight of the world, her family, on her shoulders. Like, just talking about it, I have a lump in my throat,” she added.
Then, after Lala recalled that Kristen was “very fucking strong and vocal” in her defense of Danny, Kristen explained her support.
“Luke and I looked up to [Danny and Nia] as not only a married couple, but parents … so anyone talking sh*t about Danny and Nia, you have to go through me first,” she shared. “It really makes me sad. As much as I appreciate support from postpartum moms … I have my own feelings about it, [and] those are my feelings to be had. And really, all it does is make me be defensive for him … He is a really great dad, and he is supportive in that way.”
As for Luke, he assured Danny, “People that are commenting on this are basing your entire relationship on a two-minute clip. So there’s no reason to get worked up on it.”
The Valley season three airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.