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Laura Ikeji struggled to blend in on the first season of The Real Housewives of Lagos. Friends turned foes, and boundaries were drawn even before the show fully introduced us to all the housewives. However, Laura revealed that her first experience was not enough to deter her from featuring on the reality TV show again.
The serial entrepreneur disclosed this in an exclusive interview with Netng. She mentioned that accepting to join season two was not an opportunity to change her narrative.
“I did not necessarily want to change my narrative. The thing is, a lot of my family members who watched the first season knew that I wasn’t like that. Every time I left the ladies, I went home, and I was happy and joyous. Every time I came on set, I just felt some type of way, and that’s how people judge me, that’s how people saw me, and I didn’t like it,” she told Netng.
Regardless of the fights and the misunderstanding, she said, “Even if I had a good season, I would still have done Season two. I didn’t intentionally come for Season two to change my narrative. I actually like the show. I’ve watched Real Housewives of virtually every country, and I liked it, and I wanted to be part of it. So I didn’t come here to change my narrative, I came to just have fun.”
However, that did not mean that the last season did not take a toll on her mental health because she had a major fallout with her closest friend and ally, Toyin Lawani-Adebayo, during that time.
“The season was very draining, and one of the reasons why it was draining for me was because I didn’t have an ally. I didn’t have somebody who saw what I was going through because, of course, they all had this whole narrative, and it’s okay. If I had somebody, season one wouldn’t have been so bad for me,” she disclosed.
She believes that the housewives should have shown more grace as she knew that they were choosing to ostracise her from the group because she had individual fights with each of them at different points on the show.
“I would have shown me a bit more grace in season one. In fact, if I wasn’t me, I would have been Team Me in season one. I personally do not like oppression, I do not like gang up, I do not like bullies. In fact, I detest bullies. If I wasn’t me, I would have been team me, I would have stood by me, I would have sat with me, I would have hung out with me, I would have done virtually everything with me because I wouldn’t want one person to be on the show and be by herself,” she said.
During the interview, Chioma Ikokwu interjects as she reminds Laura that she was the troublemaker in season one, a statement Laura did not refute. Despite this, she expected that the women should have still made her feel comfortable when they were all together.
“I never said I didn’t look for trouble, I never said I didn’t start drama, but going to Dubai, I would have chilled with me. I wasn’t even sober in Dubai, I was just lonely. If I had an ally, I wouldn’t have shown that side of me. I just wanted an ally, and the ally I thought I had was Toyin,” she responded to Chioma.
For season two, Laura is committed to keeping herself out of drama. “It’s all love and light this season,” she said. Watch The Real Housewives of Lagos every Friday on Showmax to see if she really keeps to the love and light promise for the season.
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