Amanda Batula’s “very remorseful” behavior at the In The City Season 1 reunion left host Andy Cohen with one major question about her previous apology to Ciara Miller.
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During Part 2 of the In The City reunion, Amanda “deeply” apologized to castmate Danielle Olivera for how she handled their heated argument on the show. She’d barely finished saying she was sorry when Andy called out the contrast between Amanda’s mea culpa to Danielle and the one that she’d issued Ciara during the Summer House Season 10 reunion.
“Forgive me, but as I sit here, I’m reflecting back on sitting with you a few months ago at the Summer House reunion,” he told Amanda. “Your apology to Danielle was clear, sincere, taking ownership, very remorseful. And it was kind of, I think, a lot of what would’ve gone a long way to Ciara on that day.”
Andy went on to ask, “How do you have that clarity with Danielle, when the betrayal was stronger and the friendship was stronger [with Ciara]?”
Amanda Batula explains her apology to Ciara Miller
Amanda began by telling Andy that she felt “terrified” going into the Summer House reunion. “I knew the pain that I had caused,” she elaborated. “I’m not making excuses. I don’t know how to say this without sounding bad, but I couldn’t get a word in. And it felt like every time I wanted to try to say something, I would get cut off or get interrupted or whatever it was.”
Amanda continued, “It got to the point where I was frustrated and I couldn’t speak with calmness or sincerity or [be] apologetic, because I got defensive instead. Especially going in, the first thing I said was that I was sorry to Kyle [Cooke] and Ciara, and it was… I knew what the temperature was gonna be from thereon out, and… I shut down.”
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Amanda’s statement led the Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen host to further question if she had ever considered reaching out to Ciara privately. “I did,” Amanda revealed. “I actually had written a text at one point, but I learned that I was blocked, and there was no point in sending it.”
Amanda Batula defends her lunch date with Ciara Miller and West Wilson on In The City
Later, Andy also brought up how Amanda had gotten together with Ciara and West Wilson during Episode 3 of In The City. At the time of the trio’s meetup, which was filmed in October 2025, Ciara and West had not only rekindled a post-breakup friendship, but the two were also apparently exploring their romantic connection again. Fast-forward to late March 2026, and Amanda and West confirmed they were dating via a joint statement on social media.
“The scene where Amanda had lunch with West and Ciara landed differently, knowing what we know now,” Andy remarked, before opening up the floor to the cast to weigh in on whether or not they thought that Amanda actually had “feelings for West in that moment.”
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“I think that they had a very weird friendship,” Danielle, for one opined. “It seemed like West definitely had his eyes set, and you are so checked out, you were receiving it like…” Before Danielle could complete her thought, Kyle interjected to say that Amanda actually seemed “giddy and excited” throughout her get-together with Ciara and West.
“I was holding their hands because I had Ciara and West together because they had just become friends,” Amanda responded. “How diabolical would it have been for me to invite two of my friends while I’m…” Right then, Danielle cut her off to add, “That’s what we were all thinking when we saw that: diabolical.”
Before putting a button on the subject, Andy asked if Amanda knew that West and Ciara “were hooking up a little bit at that time,” to which she simply replied, “No.”
Now that In The City‘s inaugural season has officially ended, take a rare look at Amanda’s life today.
