Kyle Cooke confronted his estranged wife, Amanda Batula, about a potential “emotional” affair with her now-boyfriend, West Wilson, on Tuesday’s premiere of their Summer House spinoff, In the City.
As Amanda, 34, told Lindsay Hubbard, 39, that Kyle, 43, had charged her $117,000 in “back rent,” and Lindsay alleged that Danielle Olivera, 37, had given her former fiancé, Carl Radke, 41, a hand job after their split, Kyle and Amanda were seen discussing the end of their marriage at his apartment.
“Are you eating? You’re looking skinny … I’m worried about you,” Kyle began.
“I’m worried about me too,” Amanda replied.
“I want to be there for you, but I also want to take an opportunity to, like, clear things up. Because I look back at the summer and you looked like you’re done with me,” Kyle continued.
But, according to Amanda, she “gave [their] relationship everything [she] had.”
“I wanted the relationship to work so badly, and the idea of not existing with you in my life was so impossible for me to wrap my head around and it’s what made it so hard to like call it quits, which is why it got so f*cking messy, because I was so afraid that once we ended things, like, we would just be out of each other’s lives forever, and like I couldn’t handle that,” she explained. “I was done to an extent. I was tired. I had nothing left in me to fight, but I was still trying to give it everything I had.”
At that point, Kyle asked Amanda if she could “honestly say” that she and West hadn’t struck up a romance by Thanksgiving, even if it was only “an emotional affair.”
“Nothing was happening,” Amanda insisted as Kyle noted that he had “[heard] things.”
“I was so committed to you throughout the whole thing, and all I wanted was for it to make it work, and for you to even question my, like, faithfulness in any capacity, just like really f*cking hurts because that’s not the type of person that I am. Like, I would step out on you or cheat? Like, I’ve been cheated on by you,” Amanda fired back as Kyle clarified that he had a “one-night stand.”
“Kyle, you made out with someone when we were married. There’s a video,” Amanda went on, adding, “My point is, I would never do that to someone else.”
As Amanda continued to defend herself, Kyle told her, “I know you’re not a bad person.”
He then said, “I think you were reckless and thoughtless if I’m being honest. But in all of this, I’m still trying to be a good friend to you,” he concluded. “I worry about you, I worry about your mental health.”
“Just know that, like, everything that happens here forward is because I care about you. And it’s not because I’m like, ‘Oh, maybe we rekindle things.’ It’s because I care,” he added.
Elsewhere, Lindsay met up with friends and discussed the complications between her castmates.
“I feel so bad for Amanda and Kyle. Like, it’s not good. They have very separate lives. Amanda didn’t pay rent for the last three years, so then he tallied it all up and charged her last week. I sh*t you not. Charged her last week so then she had to pay him,” she shared.
Then, during a scene with Amanda in which it was confirmed that she owed Kyle $117,000 in “back rent,” Amanda told Lindsay, “He has a spreadsheet of all this money that I owed him, so now it’s paying him in like, lump sums. I already paid it. No sweat off my back. We’re all good.”
Also on the episode, Lindsay shared a list she began in 2019 in which she mentioned the issues she had with Danielle.
Titled “Past Issues with Danielle,” the list accused Danielle of giving Carl a handjob in the backseat of an Uber amid season four — “less than one week after [they] broke up.”
“The week before (on camera), I balled my eyes out to Danielle [in] the kitchen about us ending things,” Lindsay recalled, adding that she “never talked about it publicly to protect her.”
Lindsay went on to share a season seven tiff with Danielle.
“Danielle had an absolute diabolical meltdown that Carl and I didn’t involve her in the planning of the proposal (that I knew nothing about). We were not close that summer because she was a b*tch to me that whole summer, ganged up on me with all the girls in the house,” she wrote, in part.
During Danielle’s scene with her boyfriend, Eoin Heavey, she admitted to wishing she and Lindsay were closer.
“She doesn’t even know about you, and that’s so weird,” Danielle told him. “Like, I would love to be able to share that with her. I mean, I met her baby, Gemma, like right at the beginning, and then I feel like she just kind of ghosted on our friendship. It just sucks that we have, like, such big things going on in, like, our worlds, and I hate that it’s awkward now.”
In another scene, Lindsay said she planned to “avoid” her one-time friend.
“I can’t give any more passes. I don’t f*cking need negative, competitive energy in my life,” she explained.
In The City season one airs on Tuesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.