As is always the case, there are two sides to every story – with Kristy claiming House 2 were more than deserving of the silent treatment. “This one was, in my eyes, a bit of a betrayal,” she explains of their feud.
“If someone burns me, I’m like, I won’t get burned twice. So I was a little bit taken aback from it but in the same breath, I was kind of like, ‘Kristy, you can’t care, you’ve known these people for about two minutes.’”
But Kristy says there was no holding back after Leah’s husband, Ash, decided to “light the fire” at the body corporate meeting.
“I’m very big on, if you start something you finish it. And I had a lot of accusations thrown around in my direction. So I’m like, let’s hash it out. Let’s finish that,” she reveals.
“In typical Ash and Leah fashion, there had to be a camera involved and had to be a whole crew because they clearly love crowds. It definitely could have been a conversation that was in a smaller environment, but hey, each to their own.”
The clash does seem like a sore spot for Leah, though she insists it was “a closed door moment for me”.
“I’m not ready to forgive and forget that,” she tells. “I went from mourning the friendship to actually being like, ‘Oh, thank God I can wash my hands of this friendship now.’ It’s done for me. And I don’t have to second guess it anymore.”
As for Kristy, it’s water off a duck’s back. “We don’t really care. We came in here with one common goal and that’s to build a house and have an experience,” Kristy adds. “Any money that we make along the way is great, but we didn’t come here for friends.”
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