Vanderpump Rules' Lala Kent Shares Where She Stands With Katie Maloney After "Demise" of Friendship

   

Vanderpump Rules alum Lala Kent spoke out about her past friendship with Katie Maloney after the two had a falling out.

Lala Kent and Katie Maloney's friendship appears to be as over as 2024.

The Vanderpump Rules alum ended the year by SUR-ving the tea on her rift with her longtime costar.

"She was like, my everything," Lala said on the Dec. 31 episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, adding, "Katie and I have two very different viewpoints on what happened and the demise of our friendship."

Lala isn't, however, ruling out the possibility of reconciling their friendship.

"We may be able to rebuild at some point or we may never see each other again," the 34-year-old said. "Who the f--k knows, right? But I do want her to be happy in her life. She deserves that."

Lala said she and Katie have not been in contact since the May 2024 reunion show for Vanderpump Rules' 11th season, the last to feature the two and other longtime cast members of the Bravo show, which is set to undergo a reboot.

Back in August, Lala explained how she felt about the status of their friendship.

"Katie and I were very close," she said on her own podcast, Give Them Lala. "I don't think now we have anything in common, and that's OK. I don't even know what we would talk about. We're just in such different places and I think that friendship was meant to be the way it was for the time being and it ran its course."

Weeks before the reunion aired, she unfollowed Katie on Instagram.

"This season I was really being obliterated," Lala said about Vanderpump Rules on Give Them Lala in June. "I'm used to having seasons where I'm not people's favorite, but the amount of hate that I was getting this season that had nothing to do with what was being shown on TV, it was a lot and it really hurt my feelings."

The Bravo star, who filmed season 11 while expecting her second daughter, continued, "So if I needed to delete social media and unfriend a few people on Instagram to keep me where the light is, especially being pregnant, then that's what I'm going to do."

Lala Kent, Katie Maloney, BravoCon 2023David Becker/Bravo via Getty Images

Katie had said she found out from another Instagram post that Lala had unfollowed her.

"Lala and I, over a year ago, went through some stuff and we repaired, I thought," she added in a video interview with Us Weekly last April. "And then this past season, you see on the show, we kind of got into some spats. I felt like we were not seeing eye to eye on a lot of things."

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