‘Large Brother 24’ Alum Paloma Aguilar Breaks Silence After Exit

Addressing her departure. Paloma Aguilar didn’t maintain again about her choice to depart the Large Brother home early.

“No 750,000 {dollars} was value the price of my psychological well being,” Aguilar, 22, completely instructed Us Weekly in a press release about her exit on Friday, July 22, noting it had nothing to do with fellow houseguest Taylor Hale. “It’s loopy how individuals leap to conclusions with the entire racist bit — Taylor and I are literally good buddies so please maintain hyping her up! She’s a QUEEN.”

In keeping with Paloma, she and Taylor, 27, developed a friendship earlier than the house remodeler’s departure.

“Her and I turned truly very shut in direction of the top — the factor is that they lower the start clips and ran with it,” she claimed. “I instructed her I didn’t wish to hear it within the final episode as a result of I used to be exhausted and I knew our lady effectively sufficient that it didn’t even matter as a result of she’s simply making an attempt to play [the] sport both means.”

The California native famous that not all the pieces between the duo made it on display screen, saying, “Keep in mind that actuality television isn’t all the time actual. I’m all the time rooting for boss babes, by no means going to attempt to tear a robust lady down and I used to be extraordinarily straight up together with her the primary days once we didn’t mesh.”

Paloma added: “She didn’t attempt to ally with any of the ladies and sadly our convo about that wasn’t aired. … Solely love for this lady. I can’t look ahead to her to return out so we will discuss it as two robust girls.”

The previous contestant shocked viewers when she seemingly made the selection to step away from the sport as a consequence of private points. Throughout the first reside eviction episode on July 14, host Julie Chen confirmed Paloma’s departure amid hypothesis.

Forward of her exit, followers questioned Paloma’s future on the CBS competitors collection after she was lacking from the reside feeds earlier than they went down.

Paloma’s time on Large Brother made headlines forward of her departure after viewers accused her of treating Taylor badly on display screen. In an episode, Paloma was heard referring to Taylor as a “mendacity bitch.”

“Bro, I’ve tried to be compassionate towards her. She’s such a bitch to me. She has not talked sport to any of the ladies,” Paloma instructed a number of of her costars, noting that she made makes an attempt to bond with Taylor previously. “Her persona simply rubs individuals the unsuitable means and she or he lacks, most of all, self-awareness.”

She continued: “She generally is a snake within the backyard. She’s going to stab you from the again and make you a turkey membership sandwich, OK? I see it. I’m a ladies’ lady and I like robust girls. We play an analogous sport however I’m enjoying it higher.”

Members from Large Brother 23’s Cookout alliance had been fast to level out the microaggressions directed at Taylor by her houseguests. “The remedy of Taylor in #BB24 is a main instance of why The Cookout was shaped,” season 23 winner Xavier Prather tweeted in July. “Members of the black neighborhood (particularly black girls) and different individuals of colour stand no probability within the Large Brother Home as a consequence of perpetuation of micro-aggressions and unconscious biases which plague our society.”

The truth TV star added: “I acknowledge my shortcomings throughout my time on Large Brother and may’t assist however really feel partially liable for a few of the reprehensible habits I see being exhibited by present houseguests who think about me considered one of their ‘favorites.’ For that, I’d wish to apologize for being an adjunct to any ongoing points.”

Julie, 52, for her half, claimed that there was extra to the story than made the reside feeds.

“I’ll say that microaggressions are actual and so they occur day by day,” she completely instructed Us that very same month. “After they occur, usually the one that is the offender, a number of instances that’s not their intention. I’ll say the Large Brother home is not any totally different. … I feel on the finish of the day, we’re all flawed, and all of us have to observe forgiveness and compassion and mercy and beauty. And I do really feel that when individuals come out of the home and so they see and listen to what they did in the home, if they’ll be taught one thing from it and be humbled by it, then let’s carry one another.”

The CBS persona famous that she was not conscious of each interplay in the home, including, “I’m not obsessive about the reside feeds, so I haven’t seen each single factor that individuals are speaking about. I can say that in case you had been to speak to Taylor, I’m not so certain she would really feel what everyone seems to be saying, as a result of a number of issues have occurred behind her again, which is basic Large Brother.”

CBS didn’t instantly response to Us Weekly‘s request for remark.

Large Brother 24 airs Wednesdays and Sundays at 8 p.m. and Thursdays reside at 9 p.m.

With reporting by Diana Cooper