“I feel like I was stabbed in the back—on a live mic” – Amanda Batula blindsided as Kyle Cooke tries to rebrand cheating scandal as mere “relationship stress” during shocking podcast appearance - suong

Kyle Cooke once told Amanda Batula that nothing could ever break the trust between them. But that trust had been cracking for a long time—not with a fight or a suspicious text, but with silence. Silence when Kyle cheated, silence when the video leaked, and now, once again, when he appeared on a podcast and chose to retell the story in his own version.

In a recently released podcast episode, Kyle showed up seemingly calm and unusually well-prepared. He didn’t deny what had happened in the past, but instead of calling it what it was—cheating—he delicately wrapped it up as “relationship stress.” He framed the incident as a sad consequence of a strained, exhausting, and unstable relationship at the time. According to him, he “slipped” into a bad decision, and it wasn’t about betrayal—it was about loneliness.

What Kyle didn’t mention on the podcast was that Amanda found out about everything not through a heartfelt confession, but from an anonymous Instagram DM—a link to a blurry clip of him, drunk in a nightclub, his arms around an unfamiliar woman. She wasn’t told, she wasn’t warned. And just like that first time, Amanda was once again the last to know the truth when Kyle chose to rewrite the entire story under a new script—this time, broadcasted live.

A close friend of Amanda revealed that she was completely blindsided by the podcast. She wasn’t informed that Kyle would be bringing up the past again. The friend said Amanda told her, through tears: “I feel like I was stabbed in the back—on a live mic. I forgave him, but I won’t let him rewrite the story to make it look like I shared the blame.”

According to multiple sources within Bravo, this isn’t the first time Kyle has tried to shape his public image after the scandal. After receiving harsh backlash for cheating, he began appearing at charity events, posting about “a man learning from his mistakes,” and even consulting Loverboy’s new PR team about how to rebuild his personal brand. But it seems this latest move may have crossed a line for Amanda.

She didn’t repost the podcast. She didn’t share a supportive caption. No familiar couple photo appeared to smooth things over. Instead, Amanda quietly archived some old pictures, declined to attend a Loverboy media event, and according to a friend, “has started setting boundaries—for real this time, and silently but firmly.”

Perhaps the most painful part isn’t the cheating—it’s when someone decides to retell a mistake in the version that suits them best, without caring how it feels for the person who had to survive it. Kyle says he was weak, but the truly vulnerable one was Amanda—the one who chose silence instead of revenge, who was hurt twice: once by betrayal, and once by being erased from the story as if she were merely the backdrop to a neatly edited redemption arc.

No one knows whether Amanda will forgive him again. But one thing is certain: this time, she won’t wait for someone else to tell the truth on her behalf.