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Lala Kent said she never had “heartbreak” with Randall Emmett because she “wasn’t in love with him,” and she was “happy” to learn of his “betrayal” because she “finally had a reason to leave him.”
In 2021, Lala broke up with her fiancé, Randall, and alleged that he cheated on her. Months earlier, the Vanderpump Rules star gave birth to their daughter, Ocean. Lala now has a podcast with the woman Randall was with when Lala allegedly first started seeing him.
On the Comfort Food Podcast, Lala recalled her split with Randall.
“This sounds so f**ked up. I didn’t have to deal with heartbreak because I wasn’t in love with him,” she said, via @byewighellodrama on Instagram. “So [as for] the betrayal … I was so happy that I finally had a reason to leave him, because I desperately wanted that so badly.”
“I just did not dig anything about him. I mean, I’ll put it very frankly: I hated him,” she said. “And I know people will be shocked because I was riding so hard for him, but it was just high highs and low lows. I wanted nothing more than to get the f**k out of that relationship.”
According to Lala, after her daughter Ocean was born, she could no longer ignore what she’d been feeling.
“Every crack that I had tried to cover up and ignore was showing,” she said. “And I made a vow to myself, the moment my daughter turns 14, is when I’ll leave. [I chose 14] because then they can choose who they live with.”
“[When] things went south [with Randall], I went into mama bear mode and fight mode, and I was heartbroken because I was going to have to share my child,” she explained. “And that was just inevitable. And that’s when I really kicked into … angry. I built a wall up to the sky. No one was getting in. I stopped trusting humanity. I swore off men. … I lost all sense of my feminine side. I became very masculine.”
Lala said she also became “hypersensitive” to any kind of “toxic man.”
“A toxic man knows how to make you become okay with their toxicity. It’s a slow process,” she said. “And I was in that the whole time with my ex. I just didn’t f**king realize it until I had the 30,000-foot view of all the red flags that everyone else saw.”