Alex Corridor and Kayla Cardona appeared to have buried the hatchet in season 3 of Promoting the OC, however it didn’t final lengthy.
“Properly, I assumed we did have a second to begin over, and after we wrapped up filming, she continued to talk badly about me,” Kayla, 33 completely advised Us Weekly forward of the Friday, Could 3, season premiere. “[She] ended up blocking me and some different of my members of the family, which I discovered very odd. However yeah, I already knew that that apology was not real and it confirmed together with her actions.”
Alex, 33, beforehand advised Folks in December 2022 that Kayla wanted a “actuality test and perhaps a psychiatrist” with reference to her pursuit of Tyler Stanaland. (Tyler, 34, had alleged in season 1 that Kayla tried to kiss him a number of instances, regardless of his then-marriage to Brittany Snow. Kayla downplayed the accusations, claiming that Tyler had flirted together with her, too.)
As season 3 picked up filming, the Oppenheim Group brokers mentioned Alex’s Folks interview earlier than it went public and theorized that she had been discussing Kayla, who subsequently confronted Alex. The Netflix star then lied and stated the quote was not about Kayla in any respect. As soon as the total interview was printed, it grew to become obvious that Alex had been discussing Kayla’s psychological well being. Alex later apologized to Kayla for her feedback.
Kayla additional famous to Us that she doesn’t belief Alex anymore nor does she wish to pursue a friendship sooner or later.
Kayla’s connection to Tyler, who left the Oppenheim Group forward of season 3, has been a fixture on the Netflix present because the collection premiere. (Alex had additionally expressed curiosity in Tyler after his divorce and so they shared a kiss on the finish of season 2. They don’t seem to be at the moment collectively.)
“I’m not gonna flirt with somebody if I don’t really feel like I’m getting flirt[ed] with again,” Kayla beforehand advised Us in August 2022. “If I do know that somebody is unquestionably not — I’ve much more confidence in myself than to simply throw myself at somebody for no purpose. I used to be positively feeling the reciprocation again and, you already know, a number of instances. However nothing has ever occurred.”
She continued, “We’re all very sturdy personalities. All of us flirt with one another.”
Tyler, in the meantime, asserted to Us on the time that he by no means flirted with Kayla and likened their relationship to a pair of siblings at “summer time camp.”
Tyler and Brittany, 38, introduced their cut up in September 2022 after two years of marriage. The Pitch Good star has since blamed their divorce on Promoting the OC.
“What occurred for me — and I gained’t discuss this particularly as a result of I feel this goes with plenty of my previous relationships or issues that I inform my mates — which is to really begin realizing and seeing them as actual folks, and never this idealized model of what you thought or what you constructed, however who they’re actually,” Brittany stated throughout a March episode of the “Name Her Daddy” podcast, calling the truth TV present a “neon f–king signal” of a pink flag.
She added, “I used to be not conscious of plenty of issues, and I’ll say that. So, I’ll say, what folks suppose occurred, occurred.”
Promoting the OC season 3 is at the moment streaming on Netflix.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi