This week’s episode of Summer House was less about Amanda Batula and West Wilson‘s apparent flirting last summer, and more about how badly they screwed over Ciara Miller by starting to date each other.
Last week’s episode ended with Wilson making out with a random girl right in front of Miller, his ex-situationship. But all eyes were on Batula as she jumped in to cockblock Wilson and flirtatiously told him to watch her butt as she walked away from the conversation, leading many (including Summer House star Mia Calabrese) to speculate that their so-called relationship might’ve started as early as last summer.
But in the new episode, which aired tonight, Batula acts as Miller’s biggest champion. She comforts the model in her room, telling her that deserves so much more respect than she gets from Wilson, while later confronting Wilson directly to his face for “disrespecting” her friend.
“What upset me the most is that you’ve been such a good friend to me all summer long,” she tells him. “It bothers you when you see Kyle disrespect me. You’re someone who’s been so supportive of me and looking out for me and standing up for me that to watch you disrespect Ciara in that way, it just puts this weird dynamic in place.”
Batula points out that, because Wilson and Miller still get “super flirty” at night, he owes her an apology. “Don’t go silent. Take accountability,” she says. “Apologize. Then there’s no ands, ifs, or buts.”
At the end of the episode, Miller and Wilson have a long-overdue heart-to-heart, during which he apologizes for the way he handled their breakup (and everything thereafter) and they both emotionally agree to put their muddied past aside and move forward as best friends again.
These conversations, of course, hold different meanings these days. After weeks of online rumors, Batula and Wilson confirmed in a joint statement earlier this month that they were dating. “We’ve shown up for each other as friends over the years, through all the highs and lows, and what’s developed recently was the last thing either of us expected,” they wrote on their Instagram Stories. “Our connection grew out of a genuine, long-standing friendship, which made it especially important for us to approach this with care.”
Because the duo has not shied away from their bar hangouts and Yankees game makeout sessions since coming clean about their relationship, it’s clear that one, Wilson is blatantly going back on the promises he made to Miller last summer, and two, Batula is not the girl’s girl she attempted to portray herself as.
While Miller is likely saving her words for the reunion, she did tell Glamour magazine that it’s been a “major mindfuck” to experience their betrayal on a public stage, while also watching the events of Season 10 play out on television.
Summer House airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock.