Jessica Walter is speaking out about her former employer, Lala Kent.
At the start of her new podcast, The Date My: Podcast, she opened up about her abrupt exit from Lala‘s Give Them Lala podcast and addressed why she stopped working with the former Vanderpump Rules star.
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“First things first, I do want to address who I think are a majority of the people tuning in right now who I’m very grateful for, and that is my, those are my loves, those are my friends who know me from the last podcast I was on,” she started out. “I want to, you know, take this moment to address you guys, because I seemingly disappeared off that last podcast and I made so many great connections and when I was off of that podcast so suddenly, you guys were so supportive and so kind in reaching out to me and you know I miss you guys.”
Jessica went on to explain that she wasn’t “expecting to leave, that wasn’t the plan.”
“If I’m going to be honest, I thought I’d be at that last job forever. I was like ready to be a lifer, maybe not in the role I was in, but I’ll say within the company I was in,” she said. “I invested everything I had professionally in that last job and a lot personally. I was investing in a future that I thought we were all on the same page about.”
Jessica added she spoke up about some things that were being handled and the response she got wasn’t a good one.
“Honestly, I was taken aback. I was heartbroken at, you know, at those responses, so I sort of found myself in a position where I felt like I had no other option than to choose to leave,” she shared. “I think sometimes we invest all of ourselves into a relationship and we give it our all and at the end of the day, maybe we don’t get in return what we feel we deserve, and what we feel we deserve can be as small as you don’t have my back and it can be confusing for people who are like me and frustrating because it’s like all these times I’ve made you feel safe and I’ve had your back and in these moments where I should feel the same I don’t and it’s tough.”
During a recent appearance on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, Lala said that at the end of the day, Jessica was just her employee and “she wanted to go and move on with her life. And I would be like a crazy person to not say, ‘Go and achieve everything you want to achieve.’”
“At the end of the day, she was employed by Lala Kent. You’re no longer employed. I wish you the best. Have a great life,” Lala added. “I’ve learned a lot in many relationships in my life, from my ex-fiancé, to certain friends that I’ve had, to employees that I’ve had. Every single thing that I’ve experienced in the past two to three years, I have learned something from. I don’t regret anything, but I know how to make things different.”
On her own podcast, Lala only offered a short explanation about Jessica‘s absence, noting that she was no longer working for her and won’t be on the podcast, but she said, “I love her more than anything, and I’m so excited to see what she’s going to do in her future.”
If you missed it, while Lala won’t be returning to Vanderpump Rules as the cast is completely being revamped, she is set to appear on the upcoming second season of The Valley!
