Overhearing the way Danny Booko was speaking to his wife, Nia Sanchez Booko, on The Valley “triggered” Lala Kent, by her description, during the cast trip to San Diego. So, Lala decided to intervene, but her stepping in ultimately sparked major drama with Danny.
On The Valley After Show for Season 3, Episode 8, Lala and Danny shed new light on the conflict that took a turn when he “mocked” her show of concern. First, Lala insisted that, prior to calling Danny out, she “made sure” that he wasn’t “in character” and just joking with Nia as the former Miss USA helped him get ready for the cast’s drag pageant.
“I’ve been working on this new version of myself where I’m not so much of a reactor,” Lala explained. “When I continued hearing it, and I continued to hear Nia asking him to please stop talking to her that way is when I went in. She’s hanging on by a thread, and she still is getting you ready to dress up like a woman, OK? Just say thank you.”
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Lala continued, “Here’s the thing: Danny can say it was a joke all day long, but when I left the room, and he thought he was being unseen and unheard, he continued to talk that way. It was not a joke, because if it was a joke, your wife would be laughing.”
“I was extremely triggered by just his tone of voice, what he was saying. I just didn’t like it,” she added. “And you’re at my house where I’m staying, and you’re in a common area, so that means that I can insert myself wherever I damn well feel like it.”
Lala Kent reacted to Danny Booko “mocking” her use of the word “triggered”
Danny, meanwhile, did not appreciate Lala getting in the middle of his marital conflict with Nia. Even after she explained to him that what she’d witnessed had “triggered” her, he “mocked” Lala, in her words, for using that specific term. Danny even suggested to Nia that he change his drag name to “Miss Triggered,” after using the same moniker to describe Lala.
“Even now, my heart is pounding because I have never had anybody mock [what I went through],” Lala remarked on the After Show. “For us to have that interaction, I was shocked. I felt a little disoriented by it, because being triggered by something means that it is taking back to a place that is very familiar and it’s dark and it’s traumatic for you.”
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Lala went on to describe herself as the type of person who simply can’t help but to say something when she sees something.
“I’m actively telling myself to shut the f–k up. I can’t; it’s in my DNA,” she quipped. “But I still, to this day, do not regret stepping in. Nia thanked me. Whether she meant that or not, I don’t know. But come on, dog, at some point you gotta look in the mirror and say, like, we have to fix something.”
Danny Booko admitted he “was in the wrong” amid his clash with Lala Kent
Danny, for his part, explained on The Valley After Show why he had become “frustrated” with Nia in that particular moment. “I was trying to get ready for this drag queen pageant, and I felt Nia had just thrown some things in a bag and was also dealing with the judges,” he said. “The combination of all that kind of got me in a little bit of a mood.”
Either way, Danny took accountability for his part in the conflict with Nia, at least. “I was in the wrong for this and should have never spoken to her in that tone, whether it was joking, whether it was a combination of multiple things,” he shared. “I always want to love, honor, and respect my wife, and I wasn’t doing that in that moment.”
That said, Danny still denied that his interactions with Nia had escalated to a level that would have prompted a need for Lala’s intervention.
“That fact that nobody else, you know, felt the need to come in and step in or whatever, it didn’t get too crazy enough for that,” Danny recalled. “I think she saw a chance to insert herself into something and then threw that word out.”
As for him blasting Lala for using the term “triggered,” Danny concluded, “I never should’ve continued to do that. Obviously, I was just upset. I felt like she was coming in with an ulterior motive to stir the pot, and so I, then, wanted to say something back that, you know, was hurtful, or, you know, attack back.”
As the drama continues to play out, get exclusive details on how Danny defended his earlier behavior toward Nia on The Valley.
