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Lala Kent don’t think so Nia Booko was genuine in her efforts to put together another meal train Brittany Cartwright after her mom makeover on Wednesday’s episode of The valley.
As she shadowed Nia, 36, for taking steps to see the role in public, and Janet Caperna suggested she wasn’t a true friend to Brittany, 37, Brittany admitted she felt Nia’s behavior seemed “performative” as Nia slammed her co-stars for not giving her more grace after she welcomed her fourth child.
“Nia sent a link to the meal train. It didn’t work because it wasn’t set up,” Lala recalled on the June 10 episode of The Valley: After Show. “(But) it’s not even that the meal train didn’t work … it’s that everything seems to be something that’s in the public eye. You made a big deal about it, and then when it didn’t work, you just didn’t care. And then you didn’t reach out to Brittany at all, but you sent her a comment, in public.”
Although Lala acknowledged that Nia had her hands full with four children and a husband, Danny Booko42, who “seems very difficult”, she pointed out that Brittany wasn’t looking for a “grand gesture.” Instead, she just wanted a check-in from her friend.
And Brittany agreed, saying that while it was a wonderful gesture, “I didn’t need the meal train.”
Lala continued to suspect that it was Nia’s party history that led to her being insincere.
“It’s all about public perception, because I think she’s a really great person and I think her heart is always in the right place. I just think she’s inadvertently missing the mark because of the world she’s been in for so long,” she said.
Meanwhile, Janet said that if Nia was a real friend of Brittany’s, she would have reached out sooner.
“If someone means something to you as a friend, how do you know they’re going to have surgery where they’re like having their stomach cut open and you don’t make it in eight days? It takes two minutes to send a text,” she said as Brittany suggested a “Hey, how are you today?” would have been nice.
“That’s the only reason we’re like, it looks like it’s performative,” Brittany explained.
Elsewhere, Zack Wickham didn’t think a text was necessary.
“It’s not like it’s an operation for, say, cancer. It is an elective surgery”, he noted.
“(But) people die from tummy tucks all the time,” Jasmine Goode38, replied.
Looking back on the drama surrounding her mealtime train connection, Nia said she didn’t realize there was a problem until she heard from Lacy Nicole36, a week later.
“My intent was there. It’s not like I was like, ‘Let me send them a bad meal train.’ It’s not my heart,” she insisted.
As for her failure to reach out to Brittany, Nia said she was “terrible at texting.”
“It feels a little bit overwhelming. I want to give thoughtful and intentional messages and responses to people in texts. And then sometimes it feels overwhelming to do like a whole text, but if I’m mindlessly scrolling after I put my kids to bed and I see something from a friend … and I still haven’t taken the time to send a whole intentional message, but I can just feel like she likes to push something,” she says. explained.
Nia then proposed to her fellow mothers should give her more grace.
“Anyone who’s had a baby who texts three weeks later and they’re like, ‘I’m so sorry,’ I say, ‘Please. We’re both moms. Don’t say sorry. Because I know you could have picked up your phone and then your kid jumped out of the house and then the baby fell over and you saw it for the first time and then it was hungry for the first time. weeks later and you’re like, “Shoot. I never returned to that text,” she reasoned. “I just feel like moms should get it, especially Lala. She has two children. She also has a mother and brother and childcare and all the things, but she, I would imagine, would get it a little more, so when people come at me so hard that I think, ‘Haven’t you been three, four months postpartum yourself? Were you an excellent communicator when you wanted to be but didn’t always have the capacity?’”
The valley season three sent on Wednesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
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