Leva & Naomie Discuss Paige’s Immaturity, Craig

Leva Bonaparte and Naomie Olindo hope the upcoming Southern Attraction reunion will reply the lingering questions followers have about season eight.

Throughout a joint interview, Leva and Naomie regarded again on the reunion taping earlier than shaming Craig Conover for his “unacceptable” finale habits, concentrating on Paige DeSorbo‘s antics as infantile, sharing their ideas on the potential season 9 solid, and extra.

“That was lots, lots, lots, lots,” Leva mentioned of the reunion on Within the Know‘s We Ought to Discuss. “There was just a few issues that had my jaw on the ground, that I didn’t know. And it’s truly about an individual I’m near. Loads occurred in a short time. And even all through the reunion, I really feel like issues modified between folks.”

“You’ll get a bit context to about numerous issues that I feel viewers have been like, ‘Wait, this looks like extreme’ [or] ‘This doesn’t make sense,’” she continued.

And Naomie agreed, “It was so stunning.”

“It was virtually too uncooked. It was very, very intimate. And issues have been mentioned that… There’s at all times type of a barrier of belongings you don’t speak about. And that barrier was positively damaged on a number of ranges,” she added.

As followers noticed final week, Leva and Craig have been concerned in a blowout struggle in the course of the finale episode, which was shot amid a vacation occasion for his enterprise, Stitching Down South. Nonetheless, as Leva has since defined, the struggle was the results of a end result of issues.

“There have been sure issues that I used to be simply sick of, which is why you see me type of peace out at [certain events] and never go on a gaggle journey as a result of I used to be similar to, ‘These are outdoors of my boundaries of psychological well being,’” Leva admitted. “As a mother… If I’m leaving my husband and baby, I would like it to be comfortable time. I don’t wish to go residence crying or upset or drained.”

As well as, Leva felt that Craig was being “out of pocket” with Naomie and taking issues out on her and others that weren’t her fault.

“[Naomie] doesn’t wish to have interaction. [So] it could be me being like, ‘Cease doing that.’ After which it could get turned on me. And I feel you’ll see a few of that within the finale,” she defined. “[And] if Naomie’s not going to have interaction, that rage turns to someone else. And I didn’t wish to be the receiver of that. And I’ve boundaries.”

Throughout the Southern Attraction finale, Craig screamed at Leva for bad-mouthing him to his enterprise companions, who’re additionally associates of hers, earlier than kicking her out of the occasion.

“I don’t need ladies to see that. It’s not acceptable,” Leva acknowledged. “I’ve my very own relationship with them. And I feel Paige, being an outsider, and sort of being like, ‘Oh, you’re speaking to his staff.’ And I’m like, ‘Are we 12? I do know his staff.’ She didn’t have context of what was taking place.”

Based on Leva, she believed a lot of Craig’s habits was prompted by his romance with Paige.

“He wished to respect Paige’s needs that he retains a serious distance with Naomie. However I feel he couldn’t talk that to Naomie as a result of he was so laborious on her when she was respecting [Metul Shah]’s needs,” she defined.

Following the filming of the finale, Leva mentioned she “blocked” a number of of her castmates, together with Kathryn Dennis, Madison LeCroy, Venita Aspen, Austen Kroll, Craig, and Paige, “as a result of the women, when Craig was going out on the grill, piled on,” despite the fact that she’s been “gracious” to all of them.

“I anticipated Austen to type of like… wrangle him in,” Leva famous.

In the meantime, reflecting on her personal friendship with Leva, Naomie mentioned that her co-star has carried out lots for Craig over time, which makes his habits in the direction of her much more appalling.

“I met Leva eight years in the past or one thing… And after I met [her], she was already serving to Craig then attempt to do one thing with himself, and hooking him up with issues, and doing offers with him, and serving to him tag together with issues,” she revealed. “And so it’s a pile on off issues that so many individuals don’t learn about as a result of Leva shouldn’t be going to go shout it from a mountaintop. It’s numerous actually beneficiant issues that she’s carried out. So to be handled any sort of method aside from with full respect was unacceptable.”

“I used to be like, have you learnt how a lot I’ve carried out for you?” Leva admitted.

Along with her drama with Craig, Naomie was additionally within the highlight on Southern Attraction season eight resulting from her hookup with Whitney Sudler-Smith, which she claims was “sort of blown up on the present.”

“We’re nonetheless nice associates… It was actually vital to us that it doesn’t spoil our friendship, doesn’t have an effect on our friendship in anyway. We’re nonetheless nice with one another. And [I have] nothing however respect for Whitney,” Naomie mentioned.

However the identical can’t be mentioned for Metul, who Naomie cut up from final summer time amid allegations of dishonest.

“He didn’t wish to movie and didn’t wish to be on the present however did need a blue checkmark… It was very complicated,” she mentioned of Metul’s previous refusal to movie — whereas additionally suggesting he secretly wished fame.

When Leva was then requested about why Kathryn and Madison weren’t round for a lot of the second half of the season, Leva suspected that Madison merely didn’t have sufficient ties to the group.

“I feel Madison could have had — you recognize, her connection to the group is de facto Austen. After which I feel Kathryn was going by way of a breakup [from Chleb Ravenell]. After which she wasn’t in one of the best place, I feel, with perhaps all the women,” Leva defined.

“I feel Kathryn is simply not that shut with these folks,” Naomie agreed.

And whereas Leva has made amends with a few of these she unfollowed, together with Madison, she mentioned a future friendship with Venita is out of the query.

“Not for me,” Leva confirmed as Naomie mentioned she’ll “be cordial.”

As for his or her hopes for the season 9 solid, the women mentioned a “extra cohesive” group would result in a greater present after noting that the variety of solid members of season eight appeared to result in enhancing cuts that took away from the general story.

“I feel they most likely realized as soon as they begin enhancing, like, ‘Oh sh-t, there’s too many individuals.’ [So] I’m to see what adjustments are made,” Naomie defined. “I hope that we get a extra cohesive group. And whether or not which means we’re part of it or not, we do not know what’s going to occur. We haven’t even heard of a brand new season but or something. So I hope it’s extra cohesive group. And I feel it would translate higher.”

“When it’s extra cohesive, then we will speak about all our stuff — our actual private stuff,” Leva added. “When it feels disjointed, it’s like, I don’t belief these [people].”

Additionally in the course of the interview, Leva teased her upcoming spinoff sequence.

“It’s tremendous thrilling,” she shared. “It’s only a completely different facet of Charleston that you just guys haven’t seen. And it’s type of youthful, extra coastal. I virtually really feel prefer it’s Laguna Seaside meets [Vanderpump Rules] meets The Hills… And the solid is simply– I like them.”

The 2-part Southern Attraction season eight reunion begins airing on Thursday, October 6, at 9/8c on Bravo.