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Nia Booko called out Lala Kent for “attacking and antagonizing” her husband, Danny Booko, on their 10-year anniversary and his birthday after Wednesday’s episode of The Valley.
While Lala, 35, likened Nia, 37, to an “offensive lineman,” Danny, 42, admitted to enjoying his wife having his back, and Janet Caperna suggested the Bookos were hiding the “truth,” Nia defended her decision to step in, and Brittany Cartwright, 37, compared Danny to Jax Taylor, 46.
“Leave my man alone. I’m very much a ‘no BS, I don’t have time for you if you’re wasting my time on stupid stuff’ kind of person, and Daniel, after he feels like he’s been attacked over and over and over again, at a certain point, he hits his wall, and he’s like, ‘I’m gonna push back,’” Nia explained on the July 8 episode of The Valley: After Show.
According to Nia, she didn’t understand why Danny was giving Lala the time of day amid their celebration.
“We are on two completely different pages, maybe different books at this point of the night, and I’m like, ‘Why are you even entertaining Lala attacking and antagonizing you?’” she shared. “[Lala] was trying to look around me to like, poke at him … [And] I ain’t got time for that.”
“It takes a lot for me to get to like, the end of my rope. It is his birthday. Technically, it is our 10-year wedding anniversary, and you’re coming at my husband for what?” Nia continued. “I was just done.”
Meanwhile, Lala called out Nia and Danny’s double standards.
“You guys have constantly talked about Janet walking away. [But] I have yet to have a conversation with Danny that he’s not pulled away by his wife,” she noted.
Looking back at their drama, Lala said that after approaching the bar, “Nia f*cking [turned] into an offensive lineman.”
“I never seen anything like it. I don’t know if I should be scared, impressed, [or] confused — maybe all three. And then to look behind her and see Danny standing on a stool to like, get into my line of vision, eating up that his wife, who’s like four months postpartum, is blocking me,” she revealed.
Understandably, Lala went into Danny’s birthday dinner in an emotional state due to what Janet had shared with her about her past sexual assault.
“I felt physically sick, and I felt like anybody who made my friend Janet feel unseen, unheard, or take her back to that moment — I wanted to attack,” she admitted. “But I couldn’t because they’re not responsible for what she went through. They’re strictly bringing up a trigger for her.”
Although Lala didn’t want to take what Janet went through out on Danny, she said she felt the need to have “big d*ck energy” as she reflected on the reason behind her issue with Danny.
“I think just based off of where I grew up in Utah, I saw religion really kind of be the end-all, be-all to many marriages. I get it. She’s a woman of her faith. She has created a beautiful family, and any threat to that, she’s obviously, she’s gonna come for you, and I don’t understand that. I’ve never been in that situation,” she explained.
Then, as Danny said, “I liked that,” as he admitted to feeling unsupported by Nia in the past, Janet said it was becoming a common occurrence for Nia to get in the way of the cast’s efforts to have conversations with Danny.
“I think she was defending her man from saying something that she probably knew wouldn’t go over well and protecting her marriage from exposing the truth,” Janet suspected.
Also on the After Show, after Michelle said that if her husband “wanted to be a fool, [she’d] let him,” Brittany admitted to being “triggered” by the Bookos’ dynamic.
“That triggers me if I see a man acting like that in front of a woman, especially the woman taking up over and over and over because I did that for a long time,” she explained. “It kind of breaks my heart a little.”
The Valley season three airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.