On Monday’s podcast edition, Lala Kent discussed whether she is still in talks to appear in season two of The Valley and addressed the filming delay of Vanderpump Rules.

She also defended her lack of a plot in Pump Rules season 11, criticized 37-year-old Katie Maloney for being reserved around 38-year-old Ariana Madix, and reflected on a regret from the show. Lala, 33, acknowledged whether or not she is negotiating for a part on The Valley and that she was happy that Pump Rules had been put on hold.

“I have not had any conversation about entering The Valley. I have had no thought about going on The Valley. I bought a house in the Valley because I could not afford a home that was large enough for my family with a yard in the flats of Beverly Hills. When you’re ready to be a homeowner, and you make what me or my friends make, you move to the Valley. That’s just what you do. There was nothing behind it except, this is what we can afford, and it’s a beautiful space for my family,” Lala explained on the June 3 episode of Give Them Lala.

Lala stated that she is not going to move on to her own series and that she does not have any firm intentions to join The Valley.

She clarified, “I have never pitched a spinoff about my life.”

Lala said she’s glad to be getting a vacation ahead of filming on Pump Rules season 12, which is anticipated to go into production later this year, even though she usually films in the summer.

“I feel like I need a break. I feel like the rest of my cast needs a break,” she admitted. “As much as I love filming the show, it can become very volatile. I’m hyper-sensitive and emotional, especially being pregnant. To be honest, when I heard we were paused, it was like an elephant lifted off my chest because it was like, I get to create a very peaceful environment for this new 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 that I’m bringing into the world and I just feel like it’s meant to be.”

Lala was asked what her season 11 plot was while fielding fan inquiries, because she had previously claimed that Ariana was adding “nothing” to the program.

“This was a really challenging season. Really, none of us could really have a plot. “We needed to discuss this,” she shot back, nodding to “Scandoval.” There was no division within the organization. The group had been destroyed by this. I’m not sure how to respond to that question because many of us tried so hard to avoid talking about it and were unable to do so. We were unable to.

According to Lala, she was trying to conceive her second child and recovering from her messy split from three-year-old daughter Ocean’s father, Randall Emmett, 53, during season 11.

“I was going down a path of healing and sinking into what my reality is, trying to let go of a lot of anger and I think you saw at the beginning of the season, where I lose it on [Tom Sandoval] on the boat and I have to catch myself,” she explained. “The triggers for me run very, very deep, and if I don’t stop checking myself, I’m gonna end up in a really bad spot, so I don’t know what people want me to say as far as my storyline was. I showed up. I was willing to talk about anything and everything. Unfortunately, something that Tom Sandoval did destroyed the dynamic of the group, and unfortunately and fortunately, we film a television show based on this group. There was no avoiding the conversation. Many of us wanted to move on. We tried to move the needle. It was hard.”

While Lala has been accused of riding for Sandoval, she denied doing so on her podcast.

“I didn’t ride for him so hard, at all. I didn’t show up to any of his events that he invited me to. I simply practiced compassion and acknowledged that a human being was a human being. And it’s wild that I was actually lit on fire,” she stated. “I did not jump on the Tom Sandoval train in any way, shape, or form. I acknowledged where I wanted to be in my life, mentally and emotionally, knowing that I was going to bring a child into the world and I wanted to be in a healthy space. I did that for me. This was my journey of healing.”

As for her drama with Katie, Lala said she found herself frustrated by Katie’s refusal to discuss her sandwich shop, Something About Her, with Ariana.

“We’re filming a show. Something About Her was conceived on Vanderpump Rules. These were the same types of conversations that Tom Sandoval and Tom Schwartz had to have about Schwartz & Sandy’s. So I felt like what she had said to production and myself, and then decided last-minute that she didn’t want to do any of that because she was worried about her business, I didn’t feel like anything she was saying would destroy the business. They were completely valid things that she was saying. It didn’t make sense to me,” she explained. “I just didn’t understand why she couldn’t have conversations that I’ve watched the Toms have many times and they opened a very successful bar. And we’re filming a TV show. I just didn’t understand how the game had changed.”

Also on the podcast, Lala looked back on season 10, admitting that she “came off very angry.”

“I think season 10, I came off very angry … This season I’m acting the way everyone wanted me to act season 10. The problem is I was dealing with a lot of trauma [during] season 10,” she explained.