Lacey and Yana’s friendship began to unravel after Yana’s ex-boyfriend, Kye, entered the Love Island Australia villa, and Lacey chose to explore a connection with him. While Lacey was dumped from the villa shortly after hooking up with Kye, Yana has since called her out in an interview for prioritising her fling over their friendship and her feelings.
The drama began when Lacey went on the Love Island Australia podcast, Officially Unpacked after her elimination, and implied her friendship with Yana wasn’t that strong when Kye entered the villa.
“Her basic thing was, I love Yana, but we were only in there for four days. And, hey, what are you gonna do? It’s Love Island!” Officially Unpacked host Eoghan McDermott explained of Lacey’s explanation about hooking up with Kye in a follow-up interview.
Yana told Eoghan that she was “disappointed in the way that [Lacey] answered that”, and stressed that they had a strong friendship prior to Kye’s arrival.
“Look, I don’t want to bag anyone out, but I was quite taken aback by that, because by day four, just before Kye came in, it felt like we had been in there for a month. The days go so slowly because you don’t have any distractions. All you’re doing is getting to know the people you’re around. You don’t have a phone to pick up, you’re always just talking.
“And so Lace and I, I think we were the youngest at this stage, and we were so close. Like, we really were very close. I felt like she was my girl in there. And as much as she’ll dumb it down that we weren’t that close, we were. Even coming out of the villa, she’s tried to reach out to me and be like, ‘I miss you so much,’ and all this.
“And I just think it’s a bit rude that she comes on here and says we weren’t really that close, when we really were. The cameras didn’t show it as much, but we were so solid.”
Yana thinks Lacey could have handled the Kye situation better
When Kye entered the Love Island Australia villa, Lacey made it clear that he was her type and didn’t seem particularly concerned about Yana, who was obviously upset by his arrival.
Looking back, Yana told Eoghan that she thinks Lacey could have been more considerate of her feelings while exploring a connection with Kye.
“There’s definitely some [different] ways she could have gone about it,” she said.
“[She could have] just made sure that I was okay, because she clearly saw that I was distressed. I think there was a better way she could have gone about it, obviously, than going and kissing him straight away. Like, as much as she’ll say she wasn’t the first one to kiss him…
“She could have been a bit more there for me, considering we were so close. And I’m sure if the roles were reversed, it’d be World War Seven.”
Love Island Australia airs Monday – Thursday on 9Now.
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