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Lala Kentrung has set the record straight about what went down between him and Jax Taylor during the fourth season of Vanderpump Rules.
Before looking back on the relationship he ended up pursuing romance with Randall Emmett and expressed his concern for his one-year-old daughter, Ocean Kent EmmettLala explains what happened after she and Jax, who married her husband Brittany Cartwright in June 2019, engaged in flirting at a bar.
“No I don’t [hook up with Jax]”Lala confirmed in the January 17 episode of Give them Lala. “I think it was in season four before Brittany came in Vanderpump Rules, there is flirting going on. But nothing ever happened, no kiss, like nothing happened.
In fact, despite asking her friends during her night with Jax, Lala went home with a man she “loved so much.”
“There’s a scene in season four, at the beginning, where I’m going to have a drink with Jax, [Scheana Shay]and [Kristen Doute], and I had my hand on Jax’s leg. And everyone was like, ‘He’s doing something naughty.’ And I don’t. And then I had the person I loved at the time pick me up,” she said.
According to Lala, she was “extravagant” at the time and actually had a sexual relationship with an unnamed man, whom she had been dating since the age of 21 but had never seen. Pump Ruleson the way home.
“It’s great, but I don’t recommend it. I actually had sex with him while he was driving, like in his lap,” I admitted. “One wrong step, we go through the front page.”
After the rendezvous, Lala continued to date the mystery man but in the end decided to break up with him because “the dream of cheating” – and a blooming romance with Randall, her now-ex-fiancé.
“I chose to be with. I was like, ‘You know what? You have really taken my heart on a wild f-cking ride and I just, I can go for security and know that I will be taken care of in the emotional area. He now, and I can’t take a chance on you doing what you’ve been doing all these years,'” he said. “Big mistake. Big, big mistake… But then I don’t have Ocean Kent.
Lala and Randall welcomed daughter Samudra in March 2021, but broke up a few months later after reportedly being caught cheating. Since then, he has been a parent in the middle of a custody battle.
“I’m scared,” Lala said after mentioning how current news stories, such as the Idaho murder, have affected her as a mother. “The biggest thing is social media when you’re young. Phone [and social media] afraid of me.”
As Lala continues to battle with Randall for custody, the filmmakers have found plenty of headlines, especially after her ex-husband, Ambyr Childersasked to restrain him and claimed to have been contacted by the FBI about Randall’s “suspected activity with child exploitation”, which he denied.
Although Lala did not address the claims against Randall directly, she spoke about her personal turmoil.
“I want to get this mic and be like, ‘This is what I’ve been f-cking dealing with for 14 f-cking months. These are the little things I have to do, and I’m sick.’ And to watch a man who constantly tries to say that everyone around him is a liar, but he is the guardian of the truth, others are not crazy and lie, trying to destroy him, it is incomprehensible,” he said.
Still, Lala appreciated the information shared, which her co-host noted even “[scratch] surface” full story.
“People kind of understand why I’m fighting for my son right … I’m doing what I can to prevent this from happening, to protect my children, my son, but it’s too much,” Lala said. “And I’ll say, this weekend, I have time to just … I can break. And I have to sit in my room and put myself back together and say to myself, ‘These guys are not going to hurt me, damn it. I’m going to be damned .’ The full story will come out, and I don’t have to be the one to tell.
“[I’m] living in prayer,” he added. “The only thing that keeps me going every day is where I can get out of bed and walk… You wake up in the morning, and you immediately believe in something bigger than yourself. “
Vanderpump Rules Season 10 premieres Friday, February 8 at 9/8c on Bravo.