Nia Booko know that she had a strong reaction to Jax TaylorIt’s a prank.
ET’s Brice Sander spoke with Nia and her husband, Danny Bookoat the premiere of The valleyand Nia revealed why she started crying after Jax gasped her husband during the show’s premiere.
“I was feeling a lot of hormones the entire postpartum period,” Nia told ET, referencing how she gave birth to twins less than six weeks before filming began.
Meanwhile, Danny thought the prank was “pretty funny,” although he admitted he took precautions in case Jax decided to act up again.
“I’m wearing two pants and four pairs of underwear in case that happens, if Jax sneaks up behind me,” he joked.
The incident happened during the premiere episode of The valley. On Tuesday’s episode, the couple talked after Jax’s prank.
“He doesn’t need to add to what I’m dealing with,” Nia told her husband, before explaining in a confessional, “I don’t know exactly what to label it per se, but all the hormones and heavy emotions I’ve been feeling, it’s been a lot. There are some days where I’m like, ‘Is this my new normal?’ Sometimes, in the moment, it doesn’t feel like it’s going to get better.”
Nia, who has a black belt in taekwondo, was also upset with Jax’s wife Brittany Cartwright‘s, response to his antics.
“I love Brittany, but she was also making all the excuses,” Nia said, before adding of Jax, “I wanted to punch him… I’m not actually going to hit someone, but I wanted to.”
During her interview with ET, Nia told viewers that she was recently postpartum while filming The valley made her have “mom brain” throughout the show. Because of this, Nia said that while she watches the show, she plans to “laugh” at everything that happened.
“We live it. It was real,” she said. “That’s how we were feeling at the time, but it’s been a few months so we just have to laugh about it all.”
“You can’t change that. You can’t take yourself too seriously,” Danny agreed. “… You have to laugh at yourself and the circumstances that are happening. There were a lot of laughs… with a dramatic side.”
The valley airs Tuesdays on Bravo.
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