Jesse Solomon called out Lexi Wood for suggesting that he told her West Wilson used Ciara Miller to get famous on Wednesday’s Watch What Happens Live.
As he also looked back on his and Lexi’s whirlwind romance, which came to an end during the latest episode of Summer House, and accused her mom of being “very rude” at a recent event, Jesse, 31, shared if he was guilty of love-bombing, opened up about his friendship with Ciara, 29, and her role in their breakup, and teased the upcoming reunion special.
“Every time [Lexi tells the story] it’s different,” Jesse noted on the May 14 episode of WWHL when asked about her claim regarding West, 30, using Ciara.
Jesse also suggested that he’d experienced contradictory information from Lexi in regard to her mom and sister, who she recently alleged had never liked him.
“They told me they liked me,” he shared. He then looked back at a recent encounter, saying, “[But] it’s not surprising. The mom was very rude to me outside of an event after the season wrapped.”
According to Jesse, Lexi hurt his feelings when she shaded his singing during her appearance on WWHL last week.
“That hurt my feelings a bit, especially [when] she goes, ‘I’ve been around talented people and you are not one of them.’ She was so encouraging over the summer about the music stuff so, whatever,” he reasoned.
As for whether he was pissed at Kyle Cooke, 42, for telling Lexi that Ciara was one of reasons she ended it with him, Jesse denied any such thing, saying, “It’s just classic Kyle. You can’t get mad at the guy.”
Regarding where he stands with Ciara now, Jesse admitted their relationship has only grown.
“We’ve been friends and will continue to be good friends, and I think we’re becoming better friends. Friends,” he clarified. West then noted, “[It] must be nice.”
Then, stating that his relationship with Ciara “clearly” impacted his romance with Lexi, Jesse surmised, “We were not meant to be together.”
Looking back at their last date, Jesse shared how Ciara became a hot topic.
“Lexi sat down at the beginning of dinner, and the first thing she said was, ‘I can’t believe you are back in good graces with Ciara after she was so rude to me,'” he recalled.
Although Ciara seemed to get caught in the middle of Jesse and Lexi, Jesse denied that he and his conversations with their castmates were to blame for Lexi not being close to the ladies on the show.
“Absolutely no, no. The fact that she’s putting that on me is messed up,” he declared. “We’re friends. That’s what guys do. They ask their girlfriends for advice about the girl they’re dating. I wasn’t throwing shade her way by asking.”
Then confessing that, “Yes,” he was a love bomber, Jesse denied getting mad at West for his and Lexi’s alleged flirting.
“Never happened,” he stated.
But Andy Cohen, 56, immediately asked, “What do you mean it never happened? We saw it happen.”
“I was happy that we were one big flirty family … my understanding that I was just drunk and kind of being like, ‘I’m glad you guys were doing the same thing that Ciara and I were doing,'” he explained. “I think I literally said, ‘Everything that you and West were doing was just the same as Ciara and I.’”
Although Jesse insisted that “nothing else” happened, aside from the toe suck, when he was in the room with Imrul Hassan for his threesome, he teased, “You’ll find out at the reunion.”
Either way, Jesse acknowledged that he understood why Lexi lost trust.
“Yeah, in certain ways. I wasn’t a perfect partner in that relationship … [And there was] definitely a little over the top flirting with Ciara after a long night at a party,” he admitted.
Also during the live broadcast, Jesse explained why he went to get a manicure instead of hanging out with Lexi.
“I couldn’t go back to that apartment with her mom and sister again. I tried to get West to come, and he said no,” he explained. “I just was walking home from [Amanda Batula]’s event … It’s New York, manicure places are open late. I just saw the place was open, I bite my nails. I was a little stressed out.”
Then, when West noted that he didn’t think Jesse “wanted to go over there,” Andy agreed, saying, “It sounds like he didn’t.”
Later, on the WWHL: After Show, Jesse was asked if it were true that last week’s WWHL was “awkward” between Lexi and Tinx, 34, because Tinx had previously slid into his DMs.
“I don’t think that’s why it was awkward for them … [But] I don’t think it was kumbaya [between them]. I went on Tinx’s podcast today, actually, and it gets discussed, I think,” he explained, noting that he and Tinx have “been friends for a while.”
Also while looking back on last week’s WWHL, Jesse reacted to Lexi saying she wouldn’t have dated him if it weren’t for the show.
“That was surprising, [her] basically saying that she only dated me for the show, is how I took it, and people hit me up saying that they were surprised too, and then she had no good backup for that comment. She’s like, ‘I don’t even go out and party and meet people,’ and it’s like, ‘What?’” Jesse wondered.
Summer House season nine airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.
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