The drama began when Lala spoke out on her Give Them Lala podcast, alleging that Mauricio had asked her to grab a coffee after she mentioned his separation from Kyle Richards.
“I don’t even know if I should be sharing this,” she shared. “It happened so long ago. I have to say, when I was doing the podcast with [Easton Burningham] and my old assistant, [Jessica Walter], I got the weirdest DM,” she recalled. “And I was talking about Kyle and Mau at this time, and this was like at the height of them not really knowing what they were doing. But I got a DM of him saying something along the lines of, you know, I talk about him on my podcast, and he would like to grab a coffee.”
Lala noted she decided not to answer him.
“I just never opened it or responded,” she claimed. “Like, there’s not a chance.”
TMZ obtained the direct message he sent her on February 24, 2024, and it read the following: “Hey Lala, how are you? Hey I am wondering since you seem to have an opinion and speculations about me as to whether I am a player or not I would like to talk to you.”
“Let me know if you are up for that. By phone or happy to get a coffee?” he added.
On May 12, TMZ caught up with Mauricio, and he spoke about the situation with Lala.
“Oh man, she’s such a f*cking liar, it’s not even funny, dude. Like, really? I was thinking about actually posting the post. But I’m gonna tell you, she’s a liar,” he said.
“I did message her because she was talking sh*t and I said, ‘Hey, you wanna talk sh*t about me, I’ll f*cking talk to you.’ And she said in the podcast she never opened the text,” he continued. “The last word on my text, and it’s a long text, says, ‘Let’s have coffee.’ And in her podcast, she says, ‘I invited you to have coffee.’ The only way that she knew that I invited her to have a coffee is if she would’ve opened the f*cking text.”
When speaking to TMZ, Mauricio said he wasn’t sure he would end up sharing the message publicly but may “decide to post it.”
“I don’t want to talk s*it about her, but that’s f*cking bullsh*t, man,” he added.
