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Lala Kent recalled “hav[ing] it out” with Brittany Cartwright in a recent phone call after Lala expressed support for her estranged husband Jax Taylor – after he revealed his alcohol and cocaine addiction. The Vanderpump Rules alum then shared where she and Brittany stand.
Though Lala has publicly defended Brittany amid her divorce from Jax, the 34-year-old recently praised Jax for opening up about his decades-long cocaine addiction. Throughout the years, Lala has been open about her own sobriety from alcohol. Brittany, however, doesn’t believe that Jax has really changed, despite his sobriety.
On her “Give Them Lala” podcast, Lala addressed her initial response to Jax’s sobriety.
“I said on [Amazon Live] that I’m extremely proud of him. Of course that’s what everyone picked up and it did throw Brittany off. I got a phone call shortly after and she was not happy with me,” recalled Lala, via Us Weekly. “If back in the day she said that about my ex [Randall Emmett], I would feel nothing but rage … So I just want to somewhat try to explain myself a bit.”
“And this is not an excuse because she had a very valid point. I would have had someone’s head on a platter if the roles were reversed,” continued Lala, who reflected on her own sobriety journey of six years. “I’m now somewhat on the other side of this experience. I try to tell people when they’re in it, ‘This is not your forever. This too shall pass.’ I would be lying if I said you come out of a situation like this a completely different person. But you do come out of it much stronger and the bad stuff doesn’t affect you as much as it did in the moment.”
“If I could go back and tell myself when I was in that situation one thing, I would have told myself to handle situations a little bit differently than I did. But you can’t deny emotions that you’re feeling in a moment,” she said.
According to Lala, her intention is to lift Jax up in his journey to improve himself.
“I was trying to explain that to Brittany and we’re all good. The thing that I love about my friendship with Brittany is that it is nothing but honesty. We have had it out with each other but we always come back around and at the end of our conversation she said, ‘I’m sorry that I called and reacted this way. I just had to say something,’” shared Lala. “I said, ‘We do not have a true friendship if you cannot call me and talk about how you’re feeling — even if it’s explosive. Call me and explode and talk to me about the problem. Don’t call somebody else and start talking behind my back.’”
Lala suggested she’s still Team Brittany.
“I know what Jax has done to Brittany. I know firsthand [even though] it is not my story to share — that is Brittany’s story to share. I blocked that man for a reason,” she said. “I know that a lot of things will come out on The Valley.”
