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Michelle Saniei claims her ex-husband, Jesse Lally, has a different set of rules for her when it comes to dating.
As she called Jesse, 46, out for introducing their six-year-old daughter, Isabella, to his current girlfriend, Lacy Nicole, 36, “immediately,” and Jesse defended himself, discussing his own “boundaries” and describing the man he’d like Michelle, 37, to be with, Michelle and her Valley co-star, Janet Caperna, shaded his double standards.
“He was the one that was always, and to this day, like ‘I have such specific rules in what I can and cannot do.’ And he makes the rules, but they don’t apply to him,” Michelle explained on the July 1 episode of The Valley: After Show.
According to Michelle, who has been linked to rapper Dr. Dre, 61, since April, Jesse brought Lacy into Isabella’s life “very fast.”
“They started dating immediately; Isabella already met her, immediately,” she recalled.
As for how she found out, Michelle revealed that her daughter had mentioned Lacy to her mom.
“My mom was in town, and my mom was like, ‘Your hair is beautiful,’ and she’s like, ‘Oh, my daddy’s friend did it,’ and I remember I was furious because we had literally just had that conversation, and I’m like, ‘How could you introduce a woman so quickly and without even giving me the heads up?’ … it hurt me a lot,” she admitted, as Janet pointed out that Lacy had “slept over the night before and braided her hair in the morning.”
“He says that it’s different to introduce a man to Isabella than a woman to Isabella, and that it’s separate, so that she has a different set of rules because she dates men than he does because he dates women,” Janet continued.
Michelle then mentioned a recent FaceTime call she had with her daughter during her time with her dad.
“[Isabella] was at Lacy’s house, and somehow she got Jesse in the FaceTime, and he was in bed shirtless, and then Lacy was right there. To me, I’m like, if I did that, I would be the worst mother in the world. It would be unforgivable if I did something like that,” she noted.
“There’s a big double standard with Jesse,” Janet agreed.
Meanwhile, in his own segment, Jesse explained why he introduced Isabella to Lacy so quickly.
“We’ve known each other for 12 years. She’s a mom of a little girl. She has incredible value and values. Of course, I’m gonna introduce her to Isabella, regardless of whether the girls thought it was too soon,” he stated, admitting to being “so angry” with Michelle for supposedly doing the same with someone she previously dated.
Speaking of his boundaries, Jesse said he doesn’t overstay his welcome when Lacy’s own daughter is at her house.
“When she comes in in the morning, I get up, and I leave because she’s not my daughter, and I’ve never had a conversation with Lacy’s ex-husband about boundaries. But that’s just my thing,” he shared.
As for the kind of man Jesse hoped Michelle would find, he said, “What I would want from Michelle is to be with a man that is somebody that wants to work with me to make Isabella the best version of herself, a guy who calls me up and says, ‘How do you want to parent? How can I help you parent as I’m with Michelle right now?'”
“I want to work strategically with somebody because Isabella, for me, is the only thing that matters,” he added.
The Valley season three airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.