{"id":232043,"date":"2026-04-01T21:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/kyle-cooke-defends-ex-wife-amanda-batula-following-affair-reveal-shes-not-well\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T21:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:11:01","slug":"kyle-cooke-defends-ex-wife-amanda-batula-following-affair-reveal-shes-not-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/kyle-cooke-defends-ex-wife-amanda-batula-following-affair-reveal-shes-not-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Cooke Defends Ex-Wife Amanda Batula Following Affair Reveal: &#8216;She&#8217;s Not Well&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After weeks of rumors, we learned on Tuesday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/03\/amanda-batula-west-wilson-confirm-scandalous-summer-house-romance-after-he-dated-her-best-friend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amanda Batula and West Wilson are in a relationship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction to the romance between these <em>Summer House<\/em> stars has been almost as harsh as the response to <em>Vanderpump Rules<\/em>\u2018 Scandoval, which comes as no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>After all, Amanda just ended her marriage to Kyle Cooke a few months ago, and West previously dated her best friend, Ciara Miller.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"681\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/12\/summer-house-season-9-cast-trailer-bravo-photos.webp\" alt=\"The Summer House Season 9 cast.\" class=\"wp-image-515471 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/12\/summer-house-season-9-cast-trailer-bravo-photos.webp 681w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/12\/summer-house-season-9-cast-trailer-bravo-photos-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/12\/summer-house-season-9-cast-trailer-bravo-photos.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ciara Miller, Amanda Batula, Carl Radke, Jesse Solomon, Paige DeSorbo, West Wilson, Kyle Cooke, Lindsay Hubbard, Gabby Prescod, Imrul Hassan, Lexi Wood<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No one cheated, exactly, but it\u2019s a very messy situation.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike the Scandoval, in which everyone wound up pissed off at everyone else, Amanda and West are already receiving support from an unlikely source.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Kyle is speaking out and defending his ex amid a tidal wave of online criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Cooke is pushing back against cyberbullying directed at her following the revelation that she\u2019s gone West.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted to TikTok on Wednesday, Cooke addressed the harassment Batula has faced since she acknowledged her relationship with West.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve talked to her before they put the statement out, she gave me a heads-up, and I talked to her last night,\u201d Cooke said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand people have all sorts of opinions, and I\u2019m not justifying any behavior, but from where I\u2019m standing, she\u2019s kind of getting cyber-bullied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that he wasn\u2019t terribly shocked \u201cevidence started piling up\u201d about Amanda and West quite a while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle added that he\u2019s been \u201ctrying to give everybody the benefit of the doubt,\u201d he admitted that it\u2019s a \u201cmental mindf\u2014 for me because there\u2019s still so much that we\u2019re watching [on season 10] from the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, Kyle isn\u2019t claiming that everything was on the up and up with Amanda and West.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-1024x656.png\" alt=\"Amanda Batula and West Wilson are officially the most controversial couple on Bravo.\" class=\"wp-image-551844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-1024x656.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-2048x1313.png 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-960x615.png 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-1080x692.png 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-1200x769.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-1024x656.png\" alt=\"Amanda Batula and West Wilson are officially the most controversial couple on Bravo.\" class=\"wp-image-551844 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-1024x656.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-2048x1313.png 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-960x615.png 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-1080x692.png 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM-1200x769.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.52.09-PM.png\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Amanda Batula and West Wilson are officially the most controversial couple on Bravo.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Bravo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He says he\u2019s shocked by \u201chow handsy\u201d Wilson was with Batula on <em>Summer House<\/em> Season 10, which filmed while Amanda and Kyle were still married and is currently airing on Bravo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m obviously frustrated. I\u2019m obviously disappointed in her, but just hearing her and how unwell she is, [having] dark thoughts, I just ask people to maybe let off the gas a little bit with the cyberbullying and hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded by saying, \u201cWhat she did was wrong, and she\u2019s trying to come to terms with it, but she is not well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For their part, Amanda and West have remained silent following the backlash to their initial statement. <\/p>\n<p>That might be for the best.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/04\/kyle-cooke-defends-ex-wife-amanda-batula-following-affair-reveal-shes-not-well\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes After weeks of rumors, we learned on Tuesday that Amanda Batula and West Wilson are in a relationship. The reaction to the romance between these Summer House stars has been almost as harsh as the response to Vanderpump Rules\u2018 Scandoval, which comes as no surprise. After all, Amanda just ended her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}