Summer House newcomer Lexi Wood is clearing the air about where she stands with ex-boyfriend Jesse Solomon and their costar Ciara Miller.
“With their relationship, honestly, you’re going to have to ask them because, I think, she’s asked me not to speak good or bad,” Lexi, 27, claimed on the Wednesday, May 7, episode of “The Viall Files” podcast. “I can only speak about how I felt, [and] I didn’t ever see any of it. It was never done in front of my face, so I actually had no opinion.”
While Lexi did not reveal what led to Ciara’s alleged request, the model stressed that she wanted to “respect what [Ciara] wants.” (Ciara, 29, has not publicly addressed Lexi’s accusations. Us Weekly has reached out for comment.)
“I will say, she talked about me last week on Watch What Happens Live,” Lexi claimed. “There was a birthday situation. The entire situation is [that] I put in our group chat that I’m having a birthday party if anyone wants to come. Some of our cast was out of town, so they, obviously, couldn’t. Then, some of our cast showed up, and [she] and Jesse didn’t answer.”
According to Lexi, she didn’t think anything of Ciara’s silence because “she’s never answered a text message from me.”
“Then, Jesse posted that they got lunch the day of my birthday party,” Lexi said. “I have screenshots, and again, it’s what Jesse’s saying. … I will forever blame Jesse for all of that with her and I, but I can’t comment on anything about their relationship ‘cause I don’t know what it is.”
Lexi, who further played coy when asked whether she and Ciara are friendly, dated Jesse, 31, throughout her first season on Bravo’s Summer House.
“I honestly felt like I was in a dryer just getting thrown around all summer,” Lexi recalled. “I was like, ‘What way is up? What is going on? Who am I trusting?’ All of my trust with every single thing was so, like, put to the test all summer. I didn’t trust anything or anyone by the end of it.”
Keep scrolling for a full recap of Lexi’s appearance on “The Viall Files” — and what else she said about Jesse:
“I went into the relationship with Jesse saying, ‘OK, clearly having a relationship in this house is difficult, I don’t want to proceed with you, if we’re not going to be able to end amicably and be OK,’” Lexi said, referring to watching how Ciara and West Wilson had animosity after their own split. “I [didn’t] want to end up like West and Ciara, and we are different people. … He originally said that should be no problem.”
Jesse Was All-In on a Relationship From the Start
Lexi further claimed that Jesse “really, really wanted” to be in a relationship once they met in the house.
“Jesse was acting like a boyfriend, saying all these things, like, he was really in the mindset where he was like, ‘I really want a girlfriend,’” she recalled, also adding that Jesse asked her to meet his parents during their first week of filming.
In turn, Lexi ended up leaning on Jesse while trying to figure out the dynamic inside the house.
“I did think he was being honest,” she said. “[He was like], ‘I’m telling you these things because I was new last year. Everybody is so out of touch with being a newbie here that I’m really giving you good advice.’ Obviously, I trusted him, and with the feelings and everything involved and living together and him sleeping in my bed every single night that was difficult for me to be like, ‘OK, but are you being authentic?’”
The Toe of It AllDuring one weekend when Lexi was away, it was revealed that Jesse had his toe sucked by a woman who costar Imrul Hassan brought home for the night.
“Seeing the toe thing for 37 minutes that weekend was crazy, and then the fact that he slept in my bed after that — and called me after that,” Lexi claimed. “He was like, ‘Oh, we all went out.’ There were a couple of stories that sounded like it could have been the same story. Originally, he told me that he was just with his cousin’s friends and he was standing in the doorway.”
Lexi also revealed that she asked Imrul what happened behind closed doors, but he had Jesse’s back and didn’t divulge details.
“I honestly don’t know, but what I do know is that Jesse walked into a room with three naked people [who] were DTF,” she said. “So, at the very least, it’s bad.”
While Lexi wanted to trust Jesse as her boyfriend, it was beyond repair after the toe situation.
Looking Back on Jesse’s Comments“Jesse’s inappropriate, and I think it’s all bad,” she alleged, referring to his comments about Ciara’s legs. “Even from the first episode,I saw him talking about me behind my back like, ‘Oh, her butt.’ I don’t live that he hyper-sexualizes every female. That’s not somebody that I would have been in a relationship with. That’s not who he showed up to in front of my face.”
According to Lexi, Jesse’s comments about her body also implied that he and their castmates thought she was “ditsy.”
“It did set a tone … and it did take away,” she said. “Actually, I’ve been a businesswoman since I was 11. What were you doing, Jesse, at 17?”
Giving Jesse Dating Advice Moving Forward“I think he needs to get real with himself, do a lot of inner work, that I don’t know if he’s ready to look that far inward,” Lexi said. “Through my experience, I wouldn’t tell my worst enemy to date him right now where he’s at. I would love for him to be honest with himself.”
Despite feeling led on by Jesse and believing that he lied to her throughout their whirlwind relationship, Lexi asserts that she has moved on.
“I think with Jesse, he’s shown on the show that’s not somebody I would ever choose as my friend,” Lexi claimed. “I’m indifferent about him. I think he did what he did. He’s an adult, [and] those are adult decisions that you make. That’s on you. That’s not on me. I moved with grace, I moved with love [and] I moved with forgiveness.”
According to Lexi, she no longer wants to be in a room “alone” with Jesse since the trust has been broken.
