The Hawaii-based star initially needed to go on the present to achieve readability of their relationship, as she felt Vanessa was “cold and hot” about the place they stood. “You are saying you need to be with me, however you are additionally saying that I really feel like a finest pal,” Xander recalled to E!, “and I do not need that.”
That wishy-washy mindset made Vanessa an early villain in the season, with castmates Lexi Goldberg and Yoly Rojas calling her out for allegedly being impolite or scheming.
“Inside really, no edits, inside 10 minutes of assembly me and [partner] Mal, she insinuated her and Mal have been going to be like trial wives collectively,” Yoly instructed E!, recalling that Vanessa’s toast to her personal future with Mal “was so disrespectful.”
And that wasn’t the one drama with Vanessa. “Going ahead, she tries to instigate little issues and do issues for consideration. It was simply not my type of individual,” Yoly shared whereas reflecting on some off-camera moments. “There was no Lexi coercing all of us to not like her.”