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Janet Caperna named the most calculated and biggest instigator of The Valley cast during a podcast interview last week.
As she also reacted to Kristen Doute, 43, and Nia Booko, 36, suggesting that she was “performative” on the Bravo reality series and explained what viewers tend to misunderstand about her, Janet targeted her co-stars’ behind-the-scenes antics.
“Kristen [is the most calculated],” Janet revealed on the June 16 episode of After the Edit With Daryn Carp, via Vanderpod Recaps on Instagram. “I feel like she has a lot of conversations off camera that kind of, I don’t know, throw a wrench in things sometimes.”
As for the biggest instigator? Janet said it would “probably” be Zack Wickham, 37.
Regarding Kristen and Nia’s suggestion that she was being inauthentic on the show, Janet pointed out that she and Kristen had a long history.
“Kristen and I had a friendship before the show. A lot of that involved like us having a peace pipe together. Like, she was my friend, like we would hang out at each other’s places often, all of that, so she knew me pre-show,” Janet shared. “Nia was a newer friend in my life.”
According to Janet, she felt that Kristen was simply seeing her at a different stage in her life.
“I think season one, she’s like, ‘You’re acting different.’ I’m like, “Yeah, I’m seven months pregnant. I am ruder than I have ever been. Ask Jason how horrible it’s been,’” she recalled. “When she was saying, ‘You’re being different,’ like, I absolutely was. Performative, I think, is the wrong word
Looking back on her and Jason Caperna‘s decision to join The Valley, Janet said the two of them made an active decision to be themselves.
“We really went in with like, ‘We just have to be ourselves. We have to give 100%. If we agree to show our life, we have to show our life, the good, the bad, the ugly.’ So I, you know, I don’t try to be performative,” she stated. “I don’t think out things I’m going to do, probably sometimes for my own detriment. But I just try to be real and in the moment.”
Also during the interview, Janet shared the biggest misconception people have of her.
“I see a lot that I have like, this manipulative, like that I’m like evil, and I’m like plotting and planning. And while I am a very type A person, I kind of do life on the fly,” she revealed. “My planning and plotting in life is not as evil as people think … I kind of just roll with the punches and the good comes out sometimes, the bad comes out. And I’m not perfect, so I fully accept that … and I love having friends that hold me accountable in those moments.”
